skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple of things to remember. Internet Archive is in the world scale. And you are already using a proprietary format with that book from 10 years ago. The post talks about keeping a tab on all the books available in Internet Archive. Which is a freaking huge number.

Then keep them all up to date available in at least a single format is a problem. Not to mention some books would only be available in epub, some only in pdf and some are just txt files. And users would want books to be available in certain formats too.

Keeping that number of books up to date from a librarian's POV (like internet archive) is really hard. The formats, the software etc. This is why they counter the marketing of publishers that says "digital copies are forever". They are not. There is server, hard disks, then the software of it all and a never ending dependency hell and issues like that. Just add security to the mix and then boom, it's already crazy hard.

Another intersting thought would be, can you try to keep all the digital books you own Into a multiple formats? Everything! The free ones you downloaded like the pdfs, the epubs and all the formats including probably the technical books you own. Try doing that. Then during a sale, you buy books from humble bundle and some books are only in pdfs. Uff. Now you need to make all those pdfs into mobi format so that you can read them in your kindle.

This effort for dealing with this and software needed for that should paint a good picture. Now scale it up to the whole world with multiple languages and bizillion editions and so many more complexities. :D

PS: I am not arguing. Just thought you might have overlooked the context. If I misjudged, my apologies. :)
Writing the umpteenth Javascript framework might be good for your career. It isn't hard, in fact, it is so easy a multitude of javascript-only developers attempt it on a regular basis.

Occasionally one takes off. Really just a function of how many friends the author has, their stature in "the community" and/or their aptitude for creating cute marketable landing pages.

There is a multitude of people capable of jumping in with hot takes explaining why the new framework is superior/inferior, tweets, blog posts, courses, books and conferences abound..

In contrast re-inventing git is hard. Few people can wax poetic about the differences between alternatives. Even fewer can come up with a new one. The audience is far smaller not to mention skeptical. Less profit in it.

Rather the difference between a new age cult/mega-church and the Catholic church.
Look, I sympathize, cool nerd shit rocks and in the right places can be great. Often management doesn't make good choices about tech debt and optimization, too. That said, if engineers are lost in the weeds gold plating far more than is necessary or fighting unsuited tooling, either case is a management failure.

I just don't think twitter from inception to elon, as a now complete product story, is the great success that this thread is trying to paint it as. In the race, you don't get prizes for all the cool shit you do, you win or you fail, and twitter didn't win as it didn't make money and now maybe never will. Worse still, all this cool shit is cool proprietary shit so the best all these cool twitter engineers can do is tell me about it, so, fuck that.
I would take the severance and then try to do something for me for 2 months... Then spend the last month finding another job.
> This is not just "creating jobs." This is making sure another piece of a cornerstone of American technological dominance stays alive so we can continue to maintain the standard of living we have now.

There's something deeply disturbing in this passage. I hope I'm not the only one seeing it. It sounds like you think the global stage is a zero sum game, and the only way to maintain the current standard of living is to assert dominance.

To clarify with an example: in a group stranded on a desert island, without enough food for the whole group, I think a good strategy would be:

* share the available food fairly

* work to get more food

The mindset of the passage I quoted would probably lead people in this situation to, instead, try to get as much food as possible for themselves.
https://archive.ph/Ug8Ln
Not an option.

Rooting the device voids the warranty.

It's not a reasonable thing to ask the average person.
potential risks of AI sounds the opposite of the position of someone who would think technology can solve everything. You're shifting goalposts to protect the initial narrative.
Yeah, good job. Going from white to yellow I can kind of believe because of dirty hands and stuff. Kind of far fetched but I could buy it. But from that to orange to red to black just from dirty hands (especially red you would expect from the blood of your enemies) is just bs.
I didn't say people don't make them. I said they aren't polished. And by that, I don't mean the gameplay!

Rather, I mean that nobody's fabbing GB game carts, printing glossy color manuals for them, putting them in boxes, and shipping them to Kickstarter backers. Nobody's translating these games into 10 languages. Nobody's QA-testing the heck out of them to ensure they don't have any obscure edge-case bugs. Etc. (This was why I brought up Planet X3: it's an example of a modern retro-game that is polished in exactly this sense.)

But a desire to go through all the effort to create polished modern GB games, is the sort of thing that requires market demand — a willingness to spend real money to buy new GB games (whether digitally or physically.) No hobbyist game developer is going to spend a year on "things that aren't programming" to make a nice shippable product out of their game, if that isn't going to result in at least breaking even on their effort.

And a prerequisite for that demand, is public awareness of the fact that modern GB games are being created — and, more importantly, a public "brand" awareness for the people creating them!

Indie game jams are great and all; but they don't create brand awareness. App Stores with "studios with most stars" views create brand awareness. Easily one-click accessibility of the games to allow them to be played on a PC (rather than on a portable with no video-capture support), to enable streamers and content-creators to play them on a whim, create brand awareness. Gamedev tooling that expects/requires a "publisher logo card" to be shown on boot, create brand awareness. Etc.

Basically, think of "modern gameboy games" as if they were a thing made by one company, rather than a diffuse community. What would that company be doing to market them? The community can do those things too!
The fall is abrupt, but not at all surprising. Imho, the data isn’t really sufficient to lead to the conclusion that the job market is crashing.

First of all, judging by the overview chart the decline is steep, but it is currently roughly where it was a year ago. Given that we don’t have a huge tech ecosystem in Germany, most people aren’t employed at tech companies, they are at traditional companies. And for them it’s not that uncommon to see less newly opened positions towards the end of the year. Given that you just started scraping a year ago that seasonality hasn’t been captured so far, but I would expect the job portals data to support this.

Beyond that, many companies dramatically increased hiring in the later (post-) Covid area. It would not surprise me if some companies over hired given the currently harsh economic environment. Since laying off people isn’t as easy as it is in the US, you stop hiring to make up for it.

Also, given my limited experience from the hiring side of things, the demand still seems to outpace the supply of reasonably qualified individuals. According to Statista, Germany had 15k CS graduates in 2021 [1] and turnover of experienced employees is usually relatively low. So considering this and the already declined >100k total openings is still not a real reason to worry (at least based on this data)

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/789519/umfrag...
No, I mean for someone living there, what is the meaningful difference between living there on a daily basis and over an extended period of time? In my opinion, unless there a substantial well defined difference, why would people move there?
why are tools that capture personal relationships always (apparently) online-only?

I don't understand why companies keep building social networks and trying to capture this stuff.

to be clear, there's a lot I don't understand, so maybe it makes perfect sense, but I doubt it.
Art is alot more than JPEGs. I don't have JPEGs on my walls, I have paintings and etchings and collages and even a small tapestry. I have some small ceramics, and a handmade charred wooden bowl. I have photographs printed on fibre-based paper, and funny little watercolours.

Art is going to be just fine.
The content of a book is always more important than its form, but we cannot get to its content if not through its form. What I don't like here is the general Microsoft Word-like feeling of the book. What I like is the use of colors and layout that makes it easier to find definitions and other concepts.
This makes sense (ish) but I also think it's not an apples to apples comparison. Reprocessing into newer formats makes the digital copies more useful than physical books, not as useful. Adding metadata makes them more useful, not as useful. Backing up onto newer mediums, and just new drives, sure, but I'd love to know why backing up to something like AWS Glacier wouldn't be viable, and much cheaper than having a huge building and employing lots of people to run it and look after physical books.

(I love physical books, incidentally. Just don't love the comparison here.)
Wow, I took EA to mean try donating using analysis like givewell does.

Judging by the article and comments, it looks as if people are living by a creed to be effectively altruistic.

In general any philosophy where you think there is an optimal answer suffers from the risk that the answer could be wrong.

In the case of givewell, one limitation is that you only support causes that demonstrate impact -- you don't support causes that take risks.

I'm sure there is many other reasons not think that everything can be solved through the application of logic :)
> Again, if it was so awful, the dealerships would abandon the manufacturer

And then the brands would be eaten or fuse in mega-brands, but this will never hap... oh, wait

> I have no idea what your complaint is.

I'm not complaining, I'm explaining. The relationship between maker and dealership is mutualistic. Both benefit of it. Dealerships exist because they are useful. The maker needs them in the correct amount to survive.

Tesla was a different car and a different case, so maybe it works for them, but is a luxury brand and they still don't sell massively. And they aren't [probably, I could be wrong] selling a lot out of the big cities.
That's what backups and RAID arrays are for. We certainly know by now how to build a redundancy that will guaranty the data safety. For most of the libraries it's really a budget problem - they've been given huge expensive buildings with controlled air conditions for storing paper books and that's sort of taken for granted, but then governments take cuts on providing them with proper IT infrastructure and knowledgeable staff for maintaining the digital data copies.
No, just ignore aspects that are prone to spam and bring little value.
I admit that I am a skeptic, but my first try [1] gave an intriguing response, so I will continue playing with it.

[1] https://galactica.org/?prompt=what+is+the+relationship+betwe...
I would argue that we shouldn't care about something in the extremely distant future, and what would be the second worst case scenario (the worst one being human extinction).

There's no way to really plan for it (prepping is a joke) and it slows down progress if we really do it.
Perhaps child workers also feel cheated when the sweatshop they work at is closed down when pressure forces a client to stop using that factory but that isn't a valid reason to keep using child labour.

Most companies will settle on the lowest level of worker compensation, benefits, security & support that they can get away with. Worker choice is an illusion when most jobs reach these low levels and it is up to governments to raise the level. While the loss of these bad jobs is a short term pain to those affected, the long term effects of working bad jobs is much worse. People aren't working there because they love the low pay, inconsistent hours and lack of security, they're working there because better options aren't available. It is the responsibility of governments to ensure companies provide jobs that pay a livable wage and reasonable benefits.
Neurodiverse women sought for jobs at GCHQ and BAE Systems
Reminds me of the movie "the money pit"..

He jumped on a sinking ship and now he's falling back on the way things work in an manufacturing company.

He wants everyone in the office.. That's where he'd lose me. I get way more done in my home office.
Governments aren't going to be buying GPUs in that quantity. What on earth for? And the crypto mining market is (fortunately) toast in the medium term, which gives time for proof-of-waste to be banned.
“Let’s be very honest, We don’t have a commercially available heavy-lift vehicle. The Falcon 9 Heavy may some day come about. It’s on the drawing board right now. SLS is real.”

If in 2014, when this was said, NASA asked and funded SpaceX to human rate Heavy, they’d have launched already.
Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items
> If AGI has even a 1% chance of happening this century and those donations reduce the risk of it going wrong and killing everyone by 1% that's still money very well spent.

Sure, but there is no reason to think these numbers are true. Maybe AI alignment research increases chances of AI killing everyone.
Here's a thought exercise I would like to put to test sometime. Let's say I would like to make USD 200 000 a year as a contracted sotware engineer. And I would like to try billing 10 hours a week. Take 6 weeks off a year, so this is 46 weeks. And that's 460 hours I will try to bill. To make 200 000, I must bill USD 435 per that hour.

The deal would be: I bill you for 10 hours, and you can be sure I worked hard for those 10 hours. I probably worked 40 hours, but I bill you 10. But that's the going rate.
Zero-Cost Exceptions and Error Interfaces
Elon Musk Delays Introduction of Twitter’s Blue Verification to Nov. 29
yeah; I'm not a Mac fan and I've only begun using it seriously this year, and a lot of what he says is wrong, or easily discoverable if you just look.

I'd love to see the much, much longer list from a Mac person who must now use KDE.
> The huge difference is that digital data doesn't ever "wear out"

it depends.

once a broken copy is out for whatever reason, you have a broken copy.

also most of the formats used today to archive digital media are lossy (mpeg4, h264, jpeg etc)

> but it generally costs a lot less than storing physical books

if we discount the electric bill.

> Both of these problem are relatively easy to solve

not really.

I used to own a huge collection of DVDs

they're as digital data as it gets, but no one owns a DVD player nowadays and many of them degraded to the point that even an high quality reader cannot read them properly.

problem is you don't get a blurry image like with analog media, you just get broken and/or unreadable data, so basically that data is lost forever.
ah, I should've known I was having this discussion with someone who is clairvoyant
Over here in Europe that's now business as usual during soccer matches, and also biathlon, where a car follows the athletes on the billboard while they are skiing up a slope. However those are actual physical LED displays, not virtually inserted.
I don't mind those if it's a good piece about the sponsor and I like the content.

If it's a 10:01 waffle piece with a huge sponsor segment before you get to the good stuff, I won't watch it.

Let's Game It Out is a great example of how to do the sponsor piece. I want to watch him take the piss out of the sponsor as much as the game.
Hashgraph: The Sustainable Alternative to Blockchain
> It's better than wasting $10,000 on, e.g. luxuries for yourself

I'm honestly not sure. Spending your money back into the economy contributes to a system with a proven track record, part of it goes to taxes, the rest pays for jobs, creates value for the owner, who'll pay some more taxes on their income, and then spend the rest elsewhere, etc.

Donating 10k to a charity has many practical flaws, the charity itself isn't incentivized to maximize the use of the 10k, it can be corrupt, or might operate in a corrupt and inefficient environment, etc.
More of an observation than a suggestion, but literally every single organisation (businesses, educational institutions, community groups) that I've been involved with, has had technical stuff that could be improved to help with the core mission. Often, those technical issues aren't front of mind for other people in the org, but someone with your technical skills and an understanding of the organisation will see the issues and be able to improve things. A successful technical fix will quickly have people bringing you new things to work on.

At this stage, I've got a full time job (and I'm pretty burned out, frankly) so don't take on those technical things as I come across them. But, it sure feels like just engaging with them (or not saying "no") could quickly turn in to a sort of technical odd-job-fixer/consultant role.
Tell her that ads are designed to make people buy stuff, and this causes overconsumption which is bad for the planet.
In some cases, yes. Nice try, btw.
It has moral implications, but does not consider then in any way within the system.

There's also nothing natural or inevitable about it, and it doesn't necessarily arise from owning property. There was plenty of private property around long before it was invented. As a matter of simple historical fact it took many years of effort and deliberate refinement to come in to bring.
Look, I got an ebook for free from a publishing company (that wants me to adopt it for my course). Of course, you can't just download it: you have to sign up to their own website, where there is a dreadful reader.

What I mean by dreadful is: the PDF page does not feel my screen, therefore I have to scroll down. This is fine. Except that scrolling down does not show me the next pages, so reading is: scroll down, then click on "next page", then scroll down, then click on "next page", etc. etc.. Each page takes about 2 seconds to load.

In order to understand whether I'm interested in an academic book, I have to flick through it.

I got tired even before going through the front matter.

So for what concerns me, this ebook is already "worn out".
But if you ever try to put any consequentialist theories into practice, at root there will just be a set of deontological heuristics guiding your behavior. Consequentialism is just deontology in drag.
> That's what backups and RAID arrays are for.

the point is exactly that: if you have to rely on very complex setups to keep the data fresh, it means that the data is not safe.

can you imagine an hard disk surviving from the ancient Egypt to us?
If anyone has clips of such horrible placements, please do share.
Perhaps in theory but in reality companies align on the lowest common denominator. so whilst directly not conspiring they begin to provide the same pay mechanisms, benefits & security (or lack of). Many of these companies also entice workers with unrealistic projections, or have changed their pay structure due to a funding squeeze. Most social safety nets don't pay you unemployment if you quit a job, so unless the job market is really good (and it's not as we're all heading for recessions or downturns) it is not easy to change jobs.
Violent protests in Guangzhou put Zero-Covid under strain
I was 14 years old, only ever programmed in Commodore Basic by typing in programs from the manual (in German) without understanding them, didn't understood English much.

I got pirated Turbo Pascal 7 and Turbo Basic with included manuals and I've learned programming from them (in a foreign language, with no internet).

That's how good they were.
The positive effect of walking on creative thinking (2014)
> “If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below,”

> Anyone who did not sign the pledge by 5 p.m. Eastern time Thursday was told they would receive three months of severance pay, the message said.

So he's giving everyone a voluntary redundancy option? I hope a lot of people take it.

> “This will mean working long hours at high intensity,” he said. “Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”

Wow. This is just fascinating to watch from the sidelines. I wonder if he'll push things so far that Twitter completely collapses, or he keeps it running and it will simply be a horrible place to work at.
Nielsen TV ratings accreditation still suspended by Media Rating Council
Yeah, abuse is not speech. There's a difference between voicing your opinion and harassing someone. What's more, harassing someone is often done with the intent to silence them. And even if it's not the intent, it's often the result. Harassers are not defending free speech, they're attacking it.

And even apart from that, I think everybody has a right to choose who they associate with, and that does not have to include harassers. That's more relevant to social media and less to teaching classes of course, which do need to be open to everybody. But if you're choosing to follow a class with the specific purpose to harass someone, there's something deeply wrong with you.
Glad to be useful. If you're putting in 1-2 10Ks/week, you can absolutely train for a half marathon—assuming no existing serious injuries. Also try coming up with your own bespoke plan (including experimenting with diet - keep an informal log) that's based on your unique needs and situation; it can be empowering.
It didn’t reshaped the mobile dev world though.
Of course it's Saudi Arabia. The proceeds of climate change need to be wasted somehow. The obvious lego cranes in the background of the render are a nice touch.

It's also literally a Verne novel from 1895: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propeller_Island
Feels like the existence of cops writing speeding tickets as an income stream is probably proof of this...
Beats macOS ...at what?
Serious, not facetious, question.

The only answer I can think of is "running on non-Apple hardware"
Which sports, specifically? I watch football and rugby and while both have a lot of advertising (in stadia and on jerseys) TV coverage is still very clearly focussed on the sport itself
I'm not so sure about that.

Decision trees are finite set of if-else branches, and work on finite input - much like models. I assume many of the classic arbitrary-size-input algorithms cannot be represented by a decision tree.

Adding two arbitrary-sized numbers comes to mind - how would one model it as a decision tree?

if (a[0] + b[0] == 0) {
c[0] = 0
} else if (a[0] + b[0] == 1) {
c[0] = 1
} else if ...
...
} else if (a[0] + b[0] == 10) {
c[0] = 0
if (a[1] + b[1] == 0) {
c[1] = 1
} else ...
...
}
...

You can see that for arbitrary-sized input, this decision tree would have grow infinitely - which is contradictory to the finite nature of decision trees.

I can't think of a proof that such a computation cannot be represented by a decision tree, and it's possible that my definitions aren't quite correct. But intuitively, I think this is the way it works.

Of course, if I'm wrong, any explanation on why and how would be very welcome.