skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3 things I'd add (and have used with success):

1. Always have an error specific URL to point at. Changing a document stored outside the system is often significantly easier than redeploying a system (order of magnitude seconds or minutes vs. hours or days in the worst case). There are many benefits to this approach. It's available when your system is not. It's possible to look at metrics and collect NPS scores on the information. It's easy to add pictures, steps, links etc.

2. Try to add an operation specific correlation ID. This allows the user to talk about a specific instance of an error easily when dealing with support and developers to look for specific log info. This is also useful if you provide a 'get support' link on errors that require manual intervention.

3. Add an error specific identifier to help developers map error strings back to source code. Often with error messages that are string interpolated the unique values tend to obscure the non-unique parts of the message. Also messages that are fairly similar can make it more difficult for a developer to find the specific cause.

These are not alternatives, but additions to TFA's suggestions.
Some excerpts:

>Experts who spoke with BBC Worklife also had varying ideas. New York City-based sex therapist Stephen Snyder says, “I usually think of ‘sexless’ as four times a year or less,” unless that couple is “having sex quarterly and they both say it's awesome”. Kimberly Anderson, sex therapist and assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA's School of Medicine, puts the rate of a ‘low-sex’ marriage at fewer than 25 times per year. Others say the definition is purely subjective; if a couple is unhappy with the frequency at which they’re having sex, there’s a problem worth addressing.

>“It’s become a shorter amount of time in which [couples] become sexless,” believes San Francisco-based sex therapist Celeste Hirschman, who’s been seeing clients for about 20 years. Anecdotally, she used to see it take around 10 to 15 years for couples to stop having sex with each other. “Now, it’s maybe taking three to five,” she says.

>In a 2018 study from UK-based counselling network Relate, 61% of people in their 30s reported having less sex than they’d like because “young children are in the way”, with 31% saying they’ve “lost their libido since having children”.
Alternatively, “We’ve found certain genetic markers correlate with these specific quality of life issues, and now we can investigate ways to overcome it.”

We know certain people have genetic dispositions towards sickle cell, skin cancer, Tay Sachs, and so on. If it turns out some group is genetically predisposed to struggle a little more with math, then as a society, we can find a way to help them better overcome that. Burying our heads in the sand won’t benefit anybody.

You’re not going to find a race or subgroup that’s all around better at everything, if that’s the worry. Every animal on earth that’s good at something is not good at something else.
my pet science fiction theory is that passing the event horizon removes half a dimension. so outside the universe you can move freely back and forth in time, but here in the universe it is constrained you can only go forward. when you pass another event horizon one of what we call a physical dimension gets constrained. you can't move toward the wall of the event horizon, that dimension is gone.
At least everywhere I have worked, eng managers code. It is the Scrum Masters who would be out of a job.

Although if businesses cared about productivity, they wouldn’t hire meeting managers to talk ad nauseam.
Physicists/chemists: do you take Stephen Wolframs notions on “A new kind of science” seriously?
But he just gave you another example of just that. So that feature simply isn't unique.
Out of interest, do you get the same sort of results for other numbers that look a little like pi (small irrational number)? Or is this something peculiar to pi?
I agree from the perspective of how most humans could memorize pi. But that's exploiting the fact that humans treat decimal representations as having implicit denominators--3.14 is actually 314/100.

So say you had a computer that didn't treat base 10 as special. Then an apples-to-apples comparison would be that 355/113 (9/7 = 16 binary digits) has the same precision as 3141592/1000000 (22/20 = 40 binary digits). 16 is a lot fewer than 40.
> For all of their high-flown education initiatives (like the "$100 laptop"), they seem bent on providing information consumption devices, not tools that teach creative thinking and technological mastery.

Damn, yeah, my control over my own computer feels endlessly more limited each "cycle"
Because many of UI redesigns I have witnessed with tools and sites I spend a lot of time on were for the worse. Somehow it being done by UX professionals is not a guarantee that I, as a user, would benefit from it. I can't begin to guess what the motivations were, I just know the results.
Interesting, I understand now thanks to your reply and a couple others. I’ve been living in an interpreted echo system for too long (nodejs, python) I suppose, so I was looking through a runtime-focused lense where Docker shines so the word choice seemed radical. This is a cool project, thank you for taking the time to respond!
MIDI Stretch stretches all linked envelopes, not only the three MPE controllers, if you select TIME not notes, as Live differentiates those types of selection.

The status bar in the bottom will say if you have "Time Selection" (Start, End, Length) or "Note Selection" (Time, Pitch, Velocity, Probablity).

Arrangement has a similar distinction between selecting time or Clips.
There is a depressing # of voices here in this discussion which argue that ignorance is better than search for, however imperfect and fractional, knowledge, because humans (always some other humans) aren't capable of handling the truth.

I will try to argue against them from a pragmatic point of view.

The US sure is the top dog in scientific research, but far from the only dog. New competition has arisen, mostly Asian countries that do not care too much about historical Western traumas and sensibilities. The US is no more capable of blocking certain research worldwide that the Pope was, back in the Early Modern Era.

By blocking intelligence research in the US, the US is basically ceding the ground to those competing countries on ideological grounds. As a result, they will get ahead and possibly discover new facts.

(At this point, too many smart readers will wave the suggestion away with a bland "Intelligence is too complicated to be ever really understood." Sorry, I don't believe that. Intelligence is surely complicated, but so was atom splitting. It would be strange if there were never any results in the field, regardless of work spent.)

Which means that a generation or two down the road, strategic adversaries may have tech to alter intelligence and other mental traits, because they will know what to edit and how. Perhaps not that much, but who knows how genetic and epigenetic manipulation in human beings is going to look like in 2070.

Such an ability may prove even more world-changing than the atomic bomb, and the US is shooting itself in the foot by making sure that it won't be able to compete on the field early.
Had to google Sentry, I've been using Raygun for ~10 years. These sort of tools are awesome. The weird errors that users seem to be able to produce but getting a full stack trace and being able to resolve them.

My previous job we used to send exceptions to email until we blew out the gmail account for the day (exceeded the receive amount) and boss switched over to raygun (~10 years ago), because of the global error handling we ended up fixing tons of errors we didn't even know our customers were experiencing. Product became more stable over time with the fixes.
Comments from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21144627
How do you think about yourself in such a way? That you live a limited existence of a bigger mind that experiences more things? Like you'd be living in the "left" brain of a mind and only see the "left brain things?"

If you experience a "shadow", what is the thing/being responsible for the shadow doing?

How does this help you think or rationalize about existence?

I'm asking from a purely curious place. I've come to similar perspectives but I kind of get stuck with "I exist here, and I only experience this reality."

The only thing that has really gone beyond the above line of thinking is when contemplating what the "mind" is. It seems to be the only thing truly beyond "space-time" and limits of "speed of light." Your mind can imagine any point, and travel there one way or another. It's a bit of a logical jump, but it does break the limits of how fast one can travel in some type of definition. So the mind is kind of the "4d/5d being" and everything else is the 3d/4d.
Ok, then you’re memorizing seven additional digits to get four additional digits and error correction…
The Shannon number doesn't exist for a middle management role, which could consist of so many variations from organization to organization. I don't disagree that AI assisted decision making is a thing that's happening, but I think the author is naively understating just how far away we are from 1:1 human to AI replacement.
2 quarters of negative GDP growth is the textbook definition of a recession, and we have had 2
Do you enjoy working like this? Having CP generate things correctly 80% of the time and then having to scrutinize whatever is generated and look for problems?

Genuine question, not being snarky.
Classic Gemini excuse-making. Clearly these kids' problems are caused by $CELESTIAL_BODY being at $PLACE during $TIME; idk why they keep whining like this!

But also: focus isn't distributed bimodally; ADHD is in some respects a matter of degree, not kind. Accordingly, many ADHD treatments also improve the abilities of people without ADHD—to ends both benign (the "secular literature" of productivity porn, which overlaps with behavioral ADHD management) and less-so (widespread stimulant abuse on college campuses). That leaves us with evaluating impairment to a student's quality of life. Is doing that by comparison to their classmates subjective? No—you can still make objective statements about comparative ability—but the ethical question of "do Gemini deserve a 12-month cognitive disadvantage compared to their grade-level peers?" is harder to answer than the medical "would this kid still be diagnosed if they were relatively older?". The article's argument is weaker for eliding it.
You don't just have to talk about the kids, you can talk about other things? One thing I've noticed from the other side is my friends that got kids, it's hard to just visit, hang out and have some lunch even, even if we get it delivered.
EU urged to help pension funds on margin calls stress
Scrum master is a full time job?
Feeding people instructions is actually hard.

On the low end of the job market, being able to follow instructions, especially written instructions, is a skill that not everyone has. I suspect it's more economical to have a human supervisor instead of narrowing your applicant pool to people who can follow written instructions.

(Replacing written instructions with video instructions etc doesn't make things much easier.)

Similarly, common sense judgement is also a skill. It's easier to have a human supervisor embody some of that judgement, then to find a way to distill it all down into formal rules.

In the context of your idea, that also means figuring out who is actually failing and needs to be fired.

That all being said: for decades or even centuries the economy has already been moving in the direction you are suggesting.

You don't need an app for that: just write down the rules on a piece of paper or even a clay tablet.
>Maybe we should not publish openly about human genetic or gender differences for the same reason we do not publish precise schematics for atomic weapons or detailed how-to documents on how to create a doomsday plague with a mail order CRISPR kit. That reason being: some of us will use such knowledge to kill each other.

I've sometimes wondered if the answer to the Fermi Paradox is that the knowledge to destroy the entire population became available to too many individuals in those societies.

For instance, suppose some new physics were discovered and technology developed so that it was possible for an average-intelligence person to build a true earth-destroying doomsday bomb in his basement. It would only take one crazy person to eliminate humanity. Even more likely is the ability to genetically engineer a doomsday virus; just look how bad COVID-19 was. If some angry teenager could make something far worse, we're doomed as a species, or at least as a civilization.
It sort of reminds me of Slack. There's a variety of situations in Slack where Slack will mutate your message prior to storing it & sending it. (I.e., if you edit the message, it will have changed.)

E.g., it will substitute emojis with their short-codes. (And this isn't a valid transformation, and changes some messages, as short codes are not processed inside teletype and code blocks.)

Links also get messed around with, often changing or corrupting the link. Code block begin/ends tend to get (annoyingly) merged with the first/lane lines, which makes editing more difficult.
There's a bunch of really great talks from Johnathan Blow and GameHut (head of Traveller's Tales) about how it's simply impossible to draw a pixel on a screen in any modern computer language.

For all the endless fancy abstractions we have, the core truth of what must happen becomes lost and so people become slaves to the abstraction instead of masters of the truth.
And in that you are correct! :) I 100% agree that there were better ways for Amjad to have handled that.

That being said Radon did copy some Replit internal design choices for Riju, which was completely overlooked because he was able to play off as the weaker individual. I'm sure in most other situations open-sourcing the work of another company, even if its something you designed as an intern, is not ethical in any case. Furthermore, Radon did not make any concession to the incident. He went on with life, after the incident and continues to portray Replit as the villain with references to the blog post and the way it was written to incriminate, not objectively oversee the problem.

In short, he used pathos to play y'all.

Meanwhile Amjad apologized _extensively_ for his actions and allowed Riju to continue, despite using what was previously (not anymore) Replit's internal design.

In the world of OSS people love the underdog and hate "big tech", when there's more gray area that could be explored. Not that this is a defense of Amjad or an attack on Radon, but there's more to this story that needs to be seen in order to get the bigger picture :).
What makes you think workers are any less driven by material rewards than owners?

People by and large like getting paid, and there's no shame in that.
The Problem with Tech Conferences
> so here it is

you posted 3, are there any differences or just different URLs?

and thanks!
> You're missing the point.

You're missing the point. If Cloudflare's issue is with bandwidth, then they should say so and leave it at that, not conjure up this pathetic excuse about .txt files somehow not being "web content". Does wrapping that data in <html><body><pre> </pre></body></html> magically fix the bandwidth issues?
Even if you were to do that, the fact that the research is hidden in the first place is enough alone to say "they are keeping the truth from us" and make our long youtube vids that tell you the Real Truth.
3rd world country here.

$250 for a domain is prohibitively expensive.
I’d only sign an NDA as part of an interview if I’m asking for access to sensitive materials and the role is exec level.
The whole 'increasing the money supply by another name' game while inflation is rampant and interest rates are going up to try and address it is interesting.

Student loan debt forgiveness is about as money supply increasing as it gets. Similar for backstopping margin calls on pension funds in practice.
I wonder how good middle managers can be in retail. I would guess good staff can always turn around a crisis.

And this is why I think AI will either replace all of us or just change the way we work.

Software will and does kill jobs, but only those that are easy to move around anyway. Take generated art for an example: If a simple prompt that you can send to a contractor is enough to satisfy your needs there is a good chance that you are already or will be able to replace artists with AI, but as soon as you want something more, AI alone will not be able to help you. After all an AI will not be able to thrive in an organic human environment, at least for the forseeable future.

The moment the latter is possible, it is a matter of time that AI gives all of us the option to slack off forever.
> And it's not meant for browsers.

It literally is - specifically, for extensions thereof.
I had a hard time understanding what it was FreeSewing did when I visited the site, you should add exactly what you wrote as the headline.
It depends on what you mean by the "inside" of a black hole. If you mean the event horizon, then for supermassive black holes, you wouldn't even notice that you'd passed it, so at that part of the inside, it looks exactly the same as outside. You might notice a difference if you tried to change your ship's direction and head "away", but you'd see that nothing you could do would let you get away. All geodesics point inwards.

The insides of black holes are not infinitely curved, at least not most of the inside. That might be the singularity, but our understanding of that is definitely incomplete due to a lack of a theory of quantum gravity. And it does seem that nature abhors infinities, so the curvature of spacetime at the singularity is most likely not infinite, but we just don't know what it is.
No one is forcing anyone to use this tool, they have every right to send an alert indicating the produce a user is using has been abusing their service.

Very much in the same way that image host use to change an image for those hotlinking directly to images in the early days of the net.
> It’s not really prison or punishment if I’m comfortable at home

Strong disagree.

As many of us found out during Covid (depending on your country), being restricted from seeing loved ones and not being allowed to leave your house is absolutely punishment. House Arrest is much preferable to actual prison, but is still absolutely punishment. I went to a boarding school, and the strongest punishment you'd get before suspension/expulsion was "gating" - you had to stay in your room except for lessons and meals, and you had to report in to a teacher very regularly. It was a strong deterrent, 'cuz it sucked.

In almost any case where society is mad at someone, rather than scared of someone (re-offending), House Arrest would be cheaper, more humane, but still absolutely a punishment.
Yes, it's heartwarming to see that for all its faults, the political establishment is more pragmatic and rational than voters.

You can see that in the UK as well, where the idea of renationalising the railways always does well in polls, but none of the major political parties has ever made any serious moves in that direction.
Covid’s WFH revolution helped fuel a baby boom – WTOP News
For a humorous, animated video summary of the Pig War, check out the YouTube channel "Oversimplified": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLq6GEiHqR8&ab_channel=OverS...
It's still way more than 3

> different variables are being to fit each one in isolation.

For the big picture, phenomena that get "explained" by dark matter are absolutely being fit by different individual variables.

For example, the ratio of dark matter to baryonic matter is different between clusters and individual galaxies by an order of magnitude. I recall the DMD for CMB is also different but I can't substantiate that memory quickly

In the small, too, there are many galaxies where we have no idea what dynamical situation led them to have the dark matter content they exhibit.
That image has some amount of artifacting around all the stars so I wouldn't advise you to use it. You'll get a lot more quality out of the image just downrezzing and then saving it with a higher jpeg quality setting.

Also I'm not sure why Google would take hours to find a jpeg quality setting. That's a really trivial thing and should only take seconds on a desktop with something like imagemagick.

If you have a faster machine it works no problem to just view it directly: https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01GFNMZESKZKXBMWGER9E0Z19G.png

Downloaded in less than 30 seconds and firefox handled viewing/panning/scaling it without issue. On an M1 Macbook Air.
There's a nice video overview from Dr. Alan Thompson of this paper at https://youtu.be/guLyQ_z4NVk
I remember I was so proud of 'discovering' this ratio when I was a child.

I used an electronic calculator, so I had some superhuman help, and I discovered it several centuries after it was truly discovered.

But this is still a good memory for me, and for this reason I remember the ratio 355/113 better than I remember 22/7.
The company that is actually going to crack cloud gaming, and do so without really trying is valve.

they already have all the games, remote play together, steam link. at some point they will offer cloud machines you can rent to run your games.
Good luck San Francisco (2020)
I used to pay $15 per month for Spreedly. Then they raised the price to $500 per month (plus usage fees) and don't even have published pricing any more. Quite the change. I don't recommend.
The find package set of functions can find metadata and it is a correct way to do it. Same for Meson and pkg config. If you have to do transitive dependency handling by hand, believe me it is nearly impossible without these tools.

There is a lot of CMake hacky code around, but there is also a proper way to do it that works :)

Also, in Meson at least, it is easy to change to compile dependencies from system to subpprojects without touching the build files or even choose selectively which dependencies to use. And it works well transitively.

You can argue that CMake is complex, but the truth is that it adds value.

I say this from a real hate to CMake. But it works.

As for SDL2, as an example, only in Windows you can have it compiled for different runtimes (debug release) in different modes ( static, dynamic), multithreaded and later you have to choose whether to compile SDL statically or dynamically. Now repeat configs for Linux/Mac/clang/gcc. I have done this before. No, it will not scale.

If it is for personal stuff u do not need to release u can do something hardcoded by hand. Otherwise you will be wasting a non-trivial amount of time doing it, wsy more than without a proper build system, no matter how much you hate them...
The work is exchanged for the money. If either party has room to demand more it is because the other is in abundant supply.
You have to have money to do a fair amount of hobbies. Doing hobbies allows you to make social connections and form friendships. Friendships are linked to higher life satisfaction, happiness, longevity, etc.

It’s important for governments and societies to realize that the wealth or money is not the end goal but it opens many many doors.
> Interrupting prioritizes a false sense of efficiency and just seems like weak impulse control or a bad short-term memory. Every interrupter I've ever met is disorganized and unreliable

While I have noticed that ADHD people gravitate towards interrupters, and are more likely to be disorganized and unreliable, generalizing this to all interrupters is absurd.

Everybody in my mom's family is an interpreter, including my mom. You will meet few people more organized and reliable than her.