skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about this thought that is outside that false dichotomy.

Life is a curse, but maybe I can make something from it.

We were all happier before we existed. Non-existence had no upside but no downside either (practical or existential), we are burdened with existence and the knowledge and uncertainty it brings. But... how can a curious person not want to see how far they can go? The herculean attempt to transcend ones station will probably end in failure, but... maybe it won't, how interesting would that be?

And after all, let's be intellectually humble, as much as we know/think that this is all meaningless, what if we are wrong? What if everything IS meaningful? What if we ARE the meaning? Who can truly say for certain one way or the other? Only the arrogant would claim to know 100%.

Get weird with it, see what silly shit you can do, maybe your consciousness will drive our von neumann probes, maybe fundemental truths will be discovered in our life time (we are in the middle of an unprecedented technology hockey stick after all. )
This maybe a noob question - does Mastodon allow replies? The few profiles referenced in this thread that I visited look like announcement boards, with no way to comment or start a discussion.

I am interested in electronic music and followed several links from fedi.directory. E.g. https://mastodon.art/@merle, https://mastodon.cc/@Sevish, https://sonomu.club/@luka. Is that normal that there are no discussions? Also one of the links led to https://v.basspistol.org/a/setto/video-channels, which looks completely different, like a personal page from the 90s, not a Twitter-like app.

I thought Mastodon was a Twitter replacement, but was surprised by how uninviting and empty the entire recommended directory for electronic music is.
I agree, but that's not exactly actionable advice. Any tips on how to get there?
Ask HN: How can the google.com domain point to different IPs based on location?
Don't "A" DNS records point to a single IP address?
Yes and no. Mastodon has been popular with the alt right because they have been banned from other platforms but these "nazi" servers are probably not part of network you join. I doubt a car enthusiasts server would be following any political server.

Since every server can pick which servers they want to federate with certain groups will not connect with each other. This however doesn't prevent you from having two accounts.
Yes, that is a fair assessment. Unfortunately, I don't know what the solution to this is.
Yes, although this was for COM files only, which were limited to (64k - 0x100) bytes. EXEs didn't have this limitation, but they indeed had a header.
And before that, they were toggled directly into the machine using physical switches!
Douglas Coupland is super polished, the lines just slide straight into your eyes.
>it identifies that the 50mm lens is not the same with modern cameras (which have smaller sensors than 35mm film cameras), and recommends a 35mm lens for these cameras

That's a different thing, which is about the "crop factor".

Modern APS-C digital cameras have smaller sesnors, with a 1.5 crop factor and will need a 35mm lens to get 50mm angle of view. This is not needed for modern full-frame digital cameras, which can use a 50mm to get 50mm angle of view just like old film cameras.

The article in that section just tells people to get a 35mm for modern (APS-C crop factor) cameras, because that's what gives the 50mm effective angle of view on those.

This issue is orthogonal to the parent's suggestion for 40mm.

To put it in different terms, the article in that section is concerned with "what lens you need on a modern crop factor camera to get 50mm effective angle of view - hence the suggestion for a 35mm physical lens).

Whereas the parent is concened with the actual effective angle of view you get, and suggests 40mm effective angle of view is better than 40mm effective angle of view.

To get such 40mm effective a.o.v, you need a 40mm lens on a film camera or a full-frame digital, and a 27mm lens on a APS-C digital (the kind of cameras the article has in mind when it says that "modern cameras have smaller lensors).
> Do you get a single binary for deployment which includes all assets, such as a .war?

I think they mean such as an .exe

> Is there debugger, similar to the one in rails?

What debugger are you using for Rails? In my experience Rails has been significantly lacking in a debugger (it's improved recently with the debug gem.)

(Not an expert.)
That is one fast-loading page, especially for (what looks to be) dynamic data!

Are you doing anything special or just using a good CDN?
I can see why they used poised. Affirmative action is an tool they use to reduce the inequality caused by historic events (jim crow era). Absolute equality helps only people which start line was moved before others.
There are plenty of actual chat apps out there like Signal or Matrix that you should be using for this sort of thing. Neither Twitter or Mastodon are the right tool for this.
Sorry, got my Challenger and Apollo 13 price for failed part confused with each other.

So, yeah, how about building a rocket designed to send three humans to the moon, but failed because of some <$1 part?
That would be as correct as saying that electricity is nazi friendly because nazis can just run their own power generators.
This may seem like a joke reply but the “at least there’s hedonism to fall back on” is not a bad default strategy while searching for greater joy in life.
They recently increased prices to account for an increase for them on electric costs.

Their business model is sound especially for the server auction dedicated servers.

All that to say I hear your worry but I’m not worried. Hell I was paying more than double on heroku for MUCH less compute resources. So if they double their prices I’d still be ahead.
Step 0: Understand that “DevOps” is a really bad name for “Industrial Engineering principles applied to IT.”
Agreed. IMO the Mastodon DM system doesn’t need to do much more than to enable: “Here’s my handle on messaging service X, let’s continue there.”
It's really hard for me not to respond with pure snark. But I'm going to do my best.

Since the essence of computing is processes, viewing all programs as processes, it should be really easy to tell if any given process halts. But, it's not.

Math has been around for a long long time, but it turns out there are some really hard problems that took thousands of years to even discover. It took a long time to decide that no internally consistent system can prove that it's internally consistent.

Software, is pretty new. And software got kicked in the teeth right at its inception _because_ process and data are highly context sensitive.

Now, I'd agree, that folks could probably put more thought into organization of data, and deeper thought about what process should operate on that data. But it's not like waving your hand and saying computers are about processing is particularly helpful. I don't need a machine to translate a program into its result. It might take more than my lifetime, but I can work it out with a pencil and paper.

The hard part is building a process that's worth a damn. The thing flips back and forth from being an object, a row of bytes in memory somewhere, to a set of changes over time in a processor. (this could just as easily be brass gears, or punchcards in a loom).

You can choose to look at it however you wish, but it's both. It's really hard to get right.
I‘ve seen a few, not many. I think the Mariott Marquis in New York had them and I just came back from the Hilton La Defense in Paris that had them as well, at least in the recently renovated room we stayed in.

It‘s like cars and airplanes. The change is happening it will take a long time for the existing investment to age out.
I read an article about gardening being a great source of anti depression. Not only the activity, but also the bacterias in the soil, which we are deprived of in our modern society with it's hygiene and antibiotics. These bacterias lived with us for a very long time (thousands of years) and just recently we started to kill them in us. Additionally there are connections between the gut microbiome and the brain which are not fully explored yet.

I was sitting on a small hill in the grass and was feeling depressed like the weeks and months before that. I figured, a little bit of dirt couldn't hurt. I licked my finger, stuck it in the sand, and ate it.

This is of course anecdotally, but I'm certain it helped me.
Building Substack – Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)
I don't agree that this is an accurate characterization of Crichton's perspective.
Are you reading US media? The US was clearly backing the coup, and Bolsonaro.

So you're probably living in a propaganda bubble.
More or less, yes.

Or better, I export the file saying PANTONE.

For the printer, nothing changes.

This plugin exists so that designers don't have to pay $21 per month per seat for effectively nothing. It's not an attempt to shun Pantone entirely.
A house with plenty of air exchange (either mechanical or because of a leaky air barrier) in a cold climate will tend to suffer from too low of humidity (cold air enters, and as it gets heated to room temperature the relative humidity drops).
Lula seems to be winning. Phew.

Anyone know if it's just first past the post for this round? Or is there a threshold?
Having person-to-person messages be unencrypted is irresponsible in 2022, the same way offering a web service for public consumption without TLS is. Encryption should be the default and the user should not have to even consider the threat of their messages being read by unauthorized parties.
It would be much more useful to search using the “people you follow” filter.
Got it 5th time
Lula just passed Bolsonaro a few minutes ago.
Short version was the engines were terrible. They were prone to compressor stalls and blades started failing ahead of specification. The Phoenix missile and associated AWG-9 radar were top of the line in 1972, but were simply obsolete by mid 90s. If you look at the lifespan of the F-14 it was pretty remarkable, and the irony is that the F/A-18 was another design from the same era - it was a beefed up, navalized version of the YF-17 Cobra which lost out the the F-16.
Free and open source software does not discriminate based on political ideology. Unlike Twitter, which is a single instance controlled by a single corporation, Mastodon allows each instance operator to set their own rules. Each Mastodon user can choose the instance (or instances, since most Mastodon clients support multiple accounts) to register their account on.
There’s probably way more going on, but the glymphatic system impairment caused by (proper) sleep deprivation could be one of the big factors. Basically the trash can’t be taken out. Here’s a paper that explores neurological disease as a result of that: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6261373/
Poised means it is about to happen. But I don't think anyone knows which way this case will go. Maybe they will ban it, maybe they will affirm it. No one knows...
Volunteer somewhere where giving even once moment of compassion means the world to someone else. Foster kittens, birds that strike buildings. Talk to the elderly in homes. Give your time to tutor children from rough households. Feed the homeless.

There is no greater impact, no clearer sense of impact, than starting from ones own neighborhood.
Not to be confused with the C# document database built on Postgres.

https://martendb.io/
Regarding different languages and frameworks, I found this informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQPlEnKav48
Biden is a good deal more coherent than Trump ever was, but it's still bizarre how much of a gerontocracy the US is.
Its not an analog interface. On the lens hardware side most lenses today focus by wire, and the EVF is digital, the focus peaking overlay is an edge + contrast-detection filter (which is imperfect due to JPEG sharpness misleading the engine to show an area as high focus when it isn't). Also the in the hardware/optical realm, the plane of focus is never flat in three dimensions, there is always a curvature to it (and this curvature changes based on the focusing distance).

Can you put forth an example of a real world situation that we can discuss?
Your comment seemed to be claiming that, at least in the example of email spam, only technology (filtering) addresses it, that there is no role for regulation. I was disagreeing with that.

My understanding of phone spam regulation is there is some that legislates technology, namely forbidding completion of connections of spoofed phone numbers.
many people don't care that it is decentralised, hence gmail, an open protocol is irrelevant. In mastodon's case decentralisation is a hindrance since they want centralisation back.

email isn't a social network and lots people outside of HN don't self host them as such.
I bought an apartment. Living here (ie. red light district) is not for everyone though because the area gets an insane amount of tourists. There is social housing too.
Well you can just not follow him - I don't.
>> Compare the old shows, TNG & DS9 with the new shows - Discovery and Picard.

> I think the reorientation around conflict actually began with Rick Berman after he took over from Roddenberry back 90s or early 2000s or whenever it was.

Well, I watched season 1 of Picard. So I can't do much with the comparison being requested.

But DS9 is completely oriented around military conflict (between the Federation and Cardassia, or between the Federation and the Changelings), and it throws TNG's notion of a communist society with no money out the window. (Jake does once remark that, as a human, he has no money, but whenever Riker shows up he has plenty of it.)
That's not true, the car does prevent it.
I really, really wanted to like Picard (as I'm sure most fans did). But it sucks. It's boring-ass gibberish about... um, I think it's about people who hate androids. Right?

Terrible. Remember how the Phantom Menace's central premise originated with unjust taxation, but didn't show any hardships or physical struggles caused by said taxation? Also shit.
Yeah, wikipedia says the Phoenix weighed about 450kg, three times as much as an AMRAAM. And given that the latest versions, like you mention, have a range very close to the Phoenix, and the AMRAAM has been continually developed (presumably including advances in sensors, electronics and software), whereas Phoenix apparently wasn't developed since the 1986 AIM-54C. So except for a very slight advantage in nominal range, arguably the modern AMRAAM is vastly superior in every respect.
It’s not that clear-cut, in the richest states in the South the pattern is similar to what you see in the US, urban left, rural right.

Also, this election is not typical. Left or centre-left has won 6 ou of the 7 past presidential elections since the end of military rule. Brazil, like most Latin American countries, is predominantly left-leaning. Bolsonaro has been an anomaly and most likely will not be reelected.
I agree with you that you've hit on a major theme! One of Hammond's major flaws is cutting corners and spending too little, and the corrupting effect of money is a big deal in the book. I just don't agree that it's the primary theme.

The problem is that much of the book doesn't revolve around Hammond's cost-saving measures.

The first big chunk of the book is a description of a series of random actions by many different people that combine to cause the dinosaur threat to go unidentified. Midwives across Costa Rica mark reptile deaths as SIDS to avoid getting in trouble. A key reptile researcher is on vacation. The infectious disease specialists use the tentative identification of the reptile as a lizard, which the Costa Rican officials mistakenly interpret as a positive identification. All of these random events combine to cause the threat to go overlooked, and none of them are directly related to money at all. If he were trying to make a point about money, this part of the book would make no sense. The point is to illustrate how unpredictable the real world is in comparison to the idealized version that exists on paper.

And again, the primary antagonist's downfall and death is not driven by cost-saving measures, it's driven by an unexpected weather event. You don't kill off your antagonist in such an arbitrary way unless that arbitrariness is the main point of the story.
Whoever is on top wins
> It’s not realistic because it’s fundamentally either autistic

Say what, now?
this means that centralisation works better?
This is an ASM program with a very standard structure (including the standard printing API: http://spike.scu.edu.au/~barry/interrupts.html#ah09) using a very standard tool (DEBUG.exe, common at the time for quick debugging); I'm confused why this is impressive.
Russia blockades Ukrainian grain vessel bound for famine-stricken Ethiopia
Does it generate pixel art?
only marginally
If this is true, then why are the places with the least crime also not the places with the most police? I'm genuinely asking out of curiosity.
> I would think that sometimes you really do want to have a back and forth conversation in the PR, rather than just a "make this change

I did not intend to imply that back and forth conversations would not happen. Instead, the preference would be to first address the code. Sometimes it's not clear, there are difficulties, different options, all worth a conversation.

My ultimate thesis is that I think commits linking to external sources does not scale well when doing an investigation into code history.

I suppose a person could do links to images in commit messages, I certainly do put links in commit comments. Though, I would agree regarding having images in PR is good. When reviewing UI changes, or making UI changes, the before and after pictures (in a PR) are super helpful.

Though, again, I view the PR and its content as "for the reviewer" and not for the "bug investigator". Maybe it would be a cool git feature to be able to view images in-situ. Overall, I don't think this one weakness changes the picture of going to an external too for N commits scales very poorly. I feel it is very similar to the movement that combined code and documentation together (very long ago, api docs like javadoc used to be in different places). All that is to say, centrality of information is key IMHO for efficiency when looking at commits at scale

PS: thanks for the pointer on commit search =D
I was not aware of it
I'm barely 30 and already feeling this. I can't imagine how I'll feel in another 30 years.
It depends on what you want, what you like, and what you're good at. If you just want some IT primitives that are common across many COTS products and then become a vendor tentacle, you can definitely do that and make plenty of money. But for plenty of people that's not enough and just makes them sad.
That's not how categories and social constructs work. These categories (age, sex, gender) are words that are subjectively defined by us based on utility and common consensus, but nevertheless refer to hard objective reality. Someone with age 35 cannot say they're age 5, because the definition of that particular construct precludes that. The construct points to the objective reality of time elapsed since birth, which can't be changed by your whims.
I'm not sure if this is the exact curriculum I'd pick but I do think it's one of the easier jobs to 'learn' and get a well paying job doing. If you want to get hired at Google (for example), one thing I think that is overlooked is that the SRE-SE interview is actually a lot more sane than the puzzles you see in the software one in terms of practicality, relationship to actual work, and 'learnability'. To have a pretty solid shot you need to learn a scripting language and be able to do practical things with it -like opening files, regex, string manipulation, sets/maps, etc. Next is trouble shooting and linux internals (what happens when you boot a system or run a command at a relatively low level) - this may require dedicated study or just some brushing up depending on your background and general natural 'computer nerdiness' (i.e what OS are you using right now?). The design question needs a bit of preparation - it'd be helpful to read popular distributed systems white papers from the last couple of decades like the DynamoDB paper and understand some 'modern' primitives like RAFT/PAXOS or LevelDB/RocksDB and practice doing some back-of-the-napkin system sizing if you aren't great with mental math.

So it's definitely a lot but at the end of the day it's just knowledge you can self study. A focused course could probably teach it in 6-8 months and give you a pretty solid chance at landing the job vs the algo-puzzle coding path which has a high false negative rate even for talented software engineers. Plus once you have your foot in the door you can always look into a ladder change if you find you don't enjoy the SRE-style work.
> Which part are you skeptical about?

It's not that I'm skeptical, it is more of an epistemological issue.

For example, I asked you two questions about your facts (I presume?):

>> I enjoyed your story, but I have one question: to what degree is it actually true?

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>> For example, is it actually possible to see the future? Are you sure (and if so: how) that what you're describing is actually that?

... but you didn't answer them. To me, that is a red flag.

In addition to that: there are events happening in Ukraine right now that involve people dying. If ever there was a time to be concerned about what is true (comprehensively, and actually), this seems like a fine candidate. But instead, people seem to insist on dealing in narratives, and dodge (or respond with evasive rhetoric and memes (see sibling comments in this sub-thread)) any questions about truth.

One one hand, you might just dismiss this as "people being people", and there's a lot of truth to it. But when something is presented to them explicitly and directly, repeatedly, and they behave as if they have literally not even seen it....well, at some point I think someone should point out that the emperor has wardrobe problems.
There was an episode of Rocko's Modern Life where they go to a ski resort where everything is $5. What a deal! It turns out it applies to literally everything.
India’s regional inequality could be politically explosive
Do you have access to cold water. sea lake, bath with ice? Get in on a regular basis (with necessary precautions)! Access to a sauna? Get in on a regular basis. Engage in regular exercise, cardio is great. Don't feel like it? Do it anyway, treat it like it's meds because in a very real sense it is. Get your diet in order. Sugar is the devil! Get your sleep in order. Try and get to sleep before midnight and when you wake up in the morning go outside (before 9am) and get some morning light in your eyes. It improved my sleeping pattern immensely.

It may not be a dead cert cure for depression but all of the above has accumulative effects over time and it is more difficult to feel bad mentally when you are feeling really good physically.
Not a lawyer, but my understanding is, whoever gets more votes wins, regardless of the size of the diffference.
Does anyone have any more info on Huawei’s FTTR concept? https://www.huawei.com/en/technology-insights/inspiration-la...

To me it looks like just standard, modern bend insensitive single mode fibre but in a clear jacket.
Based on some comments in this post and the posted article, it seems we are assisting to a power shift, I wonder who will replace the US and how long will it take.
Was wondering what other competitors does C++ has beyond Rust and Zig, thank you for the list and detailed opinion
That's both true and a lie. It's true in that people can't agree on what words mean and slap them on anything, and it's a lie that it is ops/sysadmin, because it's not.