skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I didn't know Tex users would want those sort of facilities. I've used Word with track changes in enterprise environments and it does the job, I've never had to use patches for it though (and wouldn't).
A Collection of AI-Generated Beautiful Gradients
When my son was born I was working for a company that did grocery deliveries from really good food shops, despite living way out of the area we'd usually deliver to they put together an order made up of things people knew my wife and I enjoyed, then sent a driver out to bring it to us - I was totally blown away, not least because I knew the value of the order itself was in the hundreds of pounds, plus the additional cost of pulling a driver from deliveries for two hours to drive out to my place and back instead.

That sort of thing sadly only seems to happen at small companies where people really know each other. If the CEO says "we're pulling someone off deliveries to send Jon a gift" then it happens, but beyond a certain scale you end up having to go through an approval chain to do so, and someone higher up that chain takes one look at it and says "no, its more profitable for us not to do that, send him an Amazon voucher instead".
For a even larger group of people, Triple-A would refer to games made by/published by big video game publishers.

Or, it's possible to initials (or whatever this is called) can mean multiple things depending on context, and I'm sure people generally can tell when the appropriate one applies :)
I don't know of any official name, but it would be adjacent to the Rachet Effect [0]. Where the Rachet Effect is a steady increase in expectations, rather than a steady decrease, they both derive from the same limited time frame used for comparisons.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_effect
Why didn't fork come up as an answer? That would work right? Or am I missing something?
Embedded programming is like web development
a) These are CDN servers, so they serve CDN stuff. Some do serve cover art, etc sorts of things.

b) Memory bandwidth and PCIe bandwidth. I'm eagerly awaiting Gen5 PCIe NICs and Gen5 PCIe / DDR5 based servers :)

c) Yes, everything in the kernel has been upstreamed. I think there may be some patches to nginx that we have not upstreamed (SO_REUSEPORT_LB patches, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_NUMA patches).
Yeah, but for $115k you can get an entry model Winnebago Class B[1] and not have to sink the time and labor into something that will still have resale value once you get bored of it.

I would never, ever want to buy someone else's "project" RV when they decide to get rid of it. You don't know what corners were cut there. (I know I'm hypocritical here, I know RVs aren't always the best built think in Elkheart (or Forest City), but at least an RV has an expected standard of things you get.)

[1] https://cpq.winnebago.com/solis-pocket/36A/exterior
It sounds like the Nespi case might work for you?

https://retroflag.com/nespi-case-plus.html
The vaccines were tested and approved so scientifically it should have been known before the rollout started that it wouldn’t work. So once the vaccines were approved (December 2020) either we knew all along it wasn’t going to work and the R values theory was just psuedoscientific fraud to get the population to comply, or we didn’t know and the approval process was faulty.

Either way the R values theory was never going to work because there was always going to be a big part of the population (animals, people abroad) that can’t be controlled with lockdowns or vaccine mandates. And that also should have been known.

And lastly, R values theories make for nice, easy to explain pop science, but it’s all statistics with all the downsides: the R value that’s on the news is just a number calculated from limited tests, and those tests can be manipulated. And it’s part of a random process; R>1 doesn’t ‘mean flare ups will occur’. It means the chance is higher that the numbers will go up. But they can also randomly go down.

All interesting for pop science and for making models and reports but a lot less useful for political decisionmaking in the real world.
This just happened:

https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/r...

Please don't try to argue that this was a necessary sacrifice.
The Principality of Sealand
We’ve been using Dgraph in production for a few years now.

The project is fine for hobby projects but it is NOT production ready.

Don’t take my word for it, though… I invite you read through some of the issues reported in their discussion forums and to take a look at their Github contributions over the past year.

There was major turmoil in Dgraph Labs (the project’s maintainers) last year which resulted in the CEO and 95% of the engineers exiting the company. They are currently in a rebuilding phase, with limited staff and runway.

There are several critical bugs, which lead to either data loss, data corruption or cluster instability, which the current maintainers have failed to fix. Additionally, their customer support is often either unresponsive or unhelpful (even for paying customers).

Running a Dgraph cluster is expensive, with heavy memory utilization and favoring vertical scaling. If you need scale, then be prepared to spend big.

The documentation is not great and because very few people use this project in production, help is extremely limited.

Best of luck to you should you choose Dgraph and to anyone currently using it already.
After learning the shocking news of Itaewon Stampede accident that caused 156 death, you might want to know how to keep yourself safe in the same situation.

When in a crowd, what warning signs should you look out for that suggest the area is getting dangerously dense?
I don't think that really deals with beheading videos, incitement to terrorism, campaigns to harass individuals and groups, child porn, and many cases where online communities document or facilitate crimes elsewhere.
I've never understood this, it's just reading: you start at the beginning of tweet, you read it, then go to the next tweet and read it. How is that different from reading paragraphs?
It's easy to demonstrate that the Post's columnists represent a wide range of political views. Here's the list:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/licensing-syndication/columni...

There are more left-leaning ones than right-leaning ones, but it's a diversity of viewpoints.

Whether they should leave Twitter is, in theory, apolitical (though nothing is apolitical even more). I have no idea if any of the other columnists have an opinion one way or the other.
But unfortunately real people are influenced and impacted by the fiction.

If far right political bullshit would stay online and out of my state’s general assembly that would be such a positive change.
The Many Branches of the Fediverse
I might try running this with Docker just to try it out, but probably this is the type of project to watch and wait for maturity.

I am a big fan of graph databases. Professionally I have used RDF data stores with SPARQL queries and Google’s Knowledge Graph with a pattern matching query mode. I play around with Neo4J, but no one has paid me to use it yet.

I think it very likely that in a year or two AGE will get better Cypher query language support and other changes, and should be a wonderful platform for combining relational and graph data stores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLy9ayz56JI
Common dietary fiber promotes allergy-like immune responses
Runs one week on a charge, I wrote a custom time-tracking app for it that I have been using for years, syncs with google calendar, shows TOTP auth codes, weather and notifications, controls music playback in the house, all without having to take my phone out...
Well, npm uses a cache so it won't re-download every package every time you install it.
Give the user exclusive control over what content they can see. The platform should enforce legal actions against users only, as far as bans are concerned.

Everything else, like being allowed to spam or post too quickly, is a bug, and bugs should be addressed in the open.
The problem with autorestic is its development is pretty slow.
Many PRs are still not merged, and there are very few commits.
Yes really: you can get this experience with Twitter: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
Is there a better name than "rational jail" for the following phenomenon:

We are having a rational, non-controversial, shared-fact based discussion. Suddenly the first party in the conversation goes off on a tangent and starts saying values or emotions based statements instead of facts. The other party then gets angry and or confused. The first party then gets angry and or confused.

The first party did not realize they had broken out of the rational jail that the conversation was taking place in; they thought they were still being rational. The second party detected some idea that did not fit with their rational dataset, and detected a jailbreak, and this upset them.
Domm / Perl / Things I learned at PGConf.EU 2022
I try to join online communities (discord, these days), and be helpful and welcoming to newcomers. This often leads to me offering to pair program or do a zoom call, and provide some perspective on either my career, a specific technology, or just some concrete code advice.

With zoom, it's possible to do this with people all around the globe, which is extremely gratifying.

Since I'm at relative liberty to share parts of what I'm working on, I'll often show what my day to day looks like, which can remove a lot of fear to beginners and junior professionals. There are pages like coding coach, although I don't tend to get that much engagement on there (not that I'm actively trying to) compare to chat rooms.
I know a guy who does this with Apple products. Half monthly salary for a phone for a year sounds extreme to me. Plus all the gimmicks that come with the phone - pad, phones and watch.
"there will be NO relation between the topic of the content and whether you moderate it, because itʻs the specific posting behavior thatʻs a problem"

some interesting thoughts from Yishan, a novel way to look at the problem.
I’m fine with those events if they happen within my contractual work hours. If not? I’m going to choose time with my child 10/10 times.
I love my pebbles. Especially with notification center on Android, I can set complex regex filters for what messages get sent to my watch, vibration patterns etc.
Ill add the better question is what libraries do you have that cleans up all the data before adding the model aka the real heavy lifting ;)
Most plants need a dark period in order to grow well. You don't actually want 24x7.

A lot of northerly greenhouses use sun + supplemental lighting to keep the day length long for maximum growth, however, while not paying to keep the lights on all day.
Both is to raise your social status among your “friends”.
I worked for an SF company as an IC remotely from Toronto. Total comp was $500k USD yearly. I wasn't the only one, either, and the other guy didn't even have a technical education. He was completely self-taught and just steadily made progress by being humble and curious and hard-working.

Look, I don't really care about money after a certain point. So I'm not trying to encourage people to do stuff for money. What I'm trying to say is that there is a world of software development renumeration that is achievable if you keep developing skill and it is far less challenging than dealing with a C++ codebase.
Note, its not open source.
Duplicati is.
There's an app that constantly reminds me to exercise in a similar way: "Your body needs energy! You haven't exercised for 567 days" - at this point it's just funny to see the number go up and up
This is what I think about a lot of the "agile development" advice I see on the web.

Projects are different, clients are different, teams are different.
What works for you may not work for me.
Heck, what worked in my last project may not work in this one!
Still beta right? What fool trusts their backups to beta software? I tried this many years ago and it started failing eventually and I gave up. As expected, it's beta.
I agree that in a lot of cases, moving fast is what causes the mess, and I see that as a tradeoff sometimes.

I've written a LOT of ruby over the years, and honestly bugs related to objects being the wrong type were in the minority. Yes, something popping up as nil in a weird place did happen, but not that often and it's usually easy to fix.
Well, I would love to see it, so I hope I’m wrong and you’re right!
But you would be able to have concerns at least
It's also important to recognize consumerism has driven a lot of innovation which has benefited humanity. I venture to say one of the most impactful advancements in human history is providing access to the internet in almost every spot on the globe. That was influenced at least in part by so many people owning smart phones.

A sufficiently technologically advanced human species might be the only thing capable of stopping the next extinction event. Something that will almost certainly occur naturally without any intervention.
But the twitter thread makes it much easier to pivot into talking about his latest startup that's totally unrelated!
New Mac app wants to record everything you do–so you can “rewind” it later
It was a massive stream of tweets, with two long digressions, and several embeds. The only thing that would have made it worse is if every tweet faded in on scroll.

If we're going to pedantically point out rules, why don't we add one that says "No unrolled Twitter threads."?
I use ZFS snapshots and send/replication. This has been the easiest and most reliable backup solution for everything. I especially enjoy taking backup of SQL Server with ZFS with the new snapshot feature in SQL Server 2022 "ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase SET SUSPEND_FOR_SNAPSHOT_BACKUP = ON";
Neutrino: Generate scalable server back ends quickly and export to code
"Beat the style not the man"
> Buttons

This is the killer feature for me and why I still use mine daily. I don't know why nobody else is doing this. With media controls on a shortcut slot I can pause whatever media I'm playing, switch songs, etc without even looking at the screen. No other smartwatch I've used comes close to that convenience.
> My point is that unless something violates the first amendment, I’m ok with it.

Fair enough, not sure that is the point of the XKCD comic though. I believe the point of that comic was "banning racists from twitter is not a first-amendment issue".

I believe the public discourse is affected by much more than the government. To keep that public discourse free enough is important for democracy to function. Hence I fear more than just government trying to repress certain forms of speech.

That doesn't mean I want to legally ban all such repression. I also don't believe democracy would be better off if actual neo-nazi's were unbanned on twitter.
Instead, I think its important we keep track of repression of free-speech, discuss what people consider acceptable, and reach some rough concensus. Based on this, we can then develop either alternative platforms, or make some well-thought out new laws.
Dare I suggest Jevko[0] as yet another alternative?

eth0 [
ip [127.15.34.23]
flags [[BROADCAST][UNICAST]]
mtu [1500]
name ["Gigabit" by Network Interfaces Inc.]
]

This is one of the things it was designed with in mind.

It's even simpler and more flexible than S-expressions.

Handles deeply nested structures perfectly well. Has only 3 characters to escape (brackets and the escape character).

(I am the author)

[0] https://jevko.org/
Adobe and Intel seem to share your thinking with HDR driving this generation of image formats.

https://helpx.adobe.com/si/camera-raw/using/hdr-output.html

JPEG XL has HDR always built-in into its modeling, both SDR and HDR images are modeled exactly the same way and give the exactly same visual quality with the same encoding parameters. Compositing SDR and HDR materials does not need conversions between colorspaces -- everything is in absolute color XYB colorspace.

Other codecs (AVIF, HEVC) need a different set of encoding parameters for obtaining the same visual quality when used for SDR or HDR. Compositing SDR and HDR materials necessarily needs color conversions, since they will have different normalizations. Knowing which HDR quality setting corresponds which SDR setting will become additional cognitive load for the users.
I have spent a lot of time trying out backup solutions and I feel strongly enough to write this to stop others from using this. As other commenters mentioned, Duplicati is pretty unstable. I was never even able to finish the initial backups (less than 2 TB) on my PC over many years. If you pause an ongoing backup it never actually works again.

I'd use restic or duplicacy if you need something that works well both on Linux and Windows.

Duplicati's advantage is that it has a nice web UI but if the core features don't work.. that's not very useful.
JSON is the lazy choice. I particularly dislike quoting keys (variable names). Relaxed JSON, for one, allows unquoted keys http://www.relaxedjson.org
But that's just a small step - I am sure we (the community) could do better.
idk man

Maybe

we could put more

Words in a single

Please visit my new website and subscribe to my podcast

Line so it would be

More readable

random user comment: yes you're right mark that would be better

and much more user friendly

_ insert latest Musk schizophrenic rant_

Ah and I forgot the "sign up to read the rest" pop up that seemingly appears at random interval
see also -

Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...
Agreed, this is the thinnest source for being at the top of hacker news
So are we talking about US companies, because the US has a very very strong right to private property and freedom (and control of) that speech on private property. I don't see this changing anytime soon, nor do I even have an idea of what a legal model of what you're suggesting would look like in the US.

Outside the US this problem typically gets even worse. For one, why is your country depending on a (generally) US company for its freedom of speech? And two, outside the US freedom of speech laws are typically significantly different than the US model.
16,001 once I manage to repair mine :)
Yes let’s assume everyone is asexual… a fine starting point.
Simplify Ansible Upgrades: Steampunk Spotter 1.1 has been released
i love that, this fucking twitter thread has a commercial break in the middle of it.

edit: it has multiple commercial breaks!
I was saying that Accept Headers or "format negotiation" concepts that are typically used in client-server communications are a bit overkill for command line tools and shell pipelines.

I agree that human-readable text formats should be the default output formats for command line tools, but that easy-to-parse structured text output formats should be easy to specify with either environment variables or command line flags.

If I am writing a script and I am using tools that support a given structured output format and use environment variables or command line flags for output configuration it could work something like this:

#!/bin/env script-interpreter
export PREFERRED_OUTPUT_FORMAT="JSON"
query-cli-tool | filter-cli-tool --output-format=json | combinator-cli-tool --input-format=json | pretty-formatter-tool > output_file

This would mean that the command line tools default to human-readable formats, but can still generate JSON or some other structured text format when configured to do so.
AI Stuff Is Awful
I like the idea, but I still find that I'll need to write a lot of code for the forms.

Here is the example for a text field. Is there a way to reduce this?

<TextField
{...register("title", { required: "Title is required" })}
error={!!errors?.title}
helperText={errors.title?.message}
margin="normal"
required
fullWidth
id="title"
label="Title"
name="title"
defaultValue={" "}
autoFocus
/>
Not sure how one can go about buying a debit card with a fake name. As interesting as it sounds, I'm more inclined to go for cheap programmatic ways of having fun with the trackers at this moment.
Yep. I've got a small number of friends who are regularly harassed on Twitter (and elsewhere). One for their professional work on climate change. One for their professional work on racial history. And one for their transgender status while being professionally associated with a field that attracts an unusual number of alt-right people.

There are occasional repeat harassers. But the usual situation is "somebody posts about one of my friends to their circle and suddenly a gazillion hate messages arrive from a gazillion different people." The only option to prevent this would be "see zero dms or comments on your posts by people you haven't explicitly allowlisted," which works badly if communicating with an ever-shifting professional network is a part of your job.
what is an oxbridge accent?

cambridgeshire and oxfordshire accents are rather different

most of the students attending won't be from either

as someone who did attend: I can count the amount of people I met that spoke RP on one hand
> It seems like this would also select the kind of engineers who aren’t willing to say “no, that’s a dumb approach, we shouldn’t do that, here’s an alternative”?

This is exactly the reason why any big enough company is eventually going to s*hit

And why founding team doesn’t stay long in a successful startup.
They say it was announced through company-wide email so I think pretty easy to be confirmed in around 1 hour by the media.
Scott Alexander's review is worth reading to get a summary of this book: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-why-were-p...
> isn’t it going to be hard to get the devs who are allergic to bullshit

Maybe that’s what they want, namely a self selection of devs who will be happy and okay inside an org that is filled with bullshit.
It depends on what your paying for fuel, propane is shockingly expensive at 3$/gallon right now + delivery fees but let’s use 3$ for 91,452 BTU which works out to 11.2c/kWh before you consider efficiency.

At an optimistic 40% efficiency for a stovetop vs 90% for an induction cooktop the breakeven is 25c/kWh which is well above average US electricity prices. Worse that 40% assumes properly sized cookware in contact with the burner, no pilot light, and ignores the cost of venting air outside.

As to total costs, at full blast a propane burner only costs around 1$/hour but some people do a lot of cooking.
> It's an online bubble of polarised people looking for attention, not a public square and not representative of anything

I find that people who write things like this are expressing a distaste for politics taking place on Twitter. They tend to be expressing how they think things should be, and I can even sympathize, but that has no bearing on how things are.

How things actually are: the vast majority of politicians of any importance in the west (and probably not only) have staff dedicated to maintaining their Twitter presence. Most institutions use Twitter as an important communication channel, including the various institution the make up the EU, the USA and the UN. You can check this for yourself. If you actually talk with journalists, you will understand that Twitter is now central to everything they do, and that trickles down to everyone else.

10% is actually a huge number. The majority of people do not have a public voice nor an interest in actively participating in politics. Politics is made of "polarised people looking for attention". Always has been.

You have to be living under a rock to not be aware of all the major geopolitical incidents that take place on Twitter. It was the main communication channel for Donald Trump. We just recently witnessed the incident between Musk and Zelenskyy. A lot of interactions happened there during Brexit. I could go on, and on, and on.