skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. From a purely secular perspective, having a consistent community to participate in seems to be an innate human need that churches supplied for a long time.

There are plenty of other ways to meet that need nowadays that are especially attractive given the poor example that some Christians set. My hope is that people find satisfaction in life one way or another.
In my experience, Le Monde Diplomatique is a very good newspaper. Because they don't make money from advertising but from subscriptions.
But their bias is a bit too left-wing, and not nuanced enough.
The opinions you categorize as "goofy" are what almost everyone thought until quite recently and the vast majority of people still think today.
Wow, thanks for pointing out the international Spiegel.
It seems much more substantial than the free German counterpart, at least in my first impression.
DDG is very nice -- I was pleasantly surprised, I wanted a few images in a python script a while back.. get the library, run all the searches you want, save images.. haven't looked but I just assume, Google won't let you do it and if you wanted, you'll need to install some Google commandline to your machine and enable it's metered API
a particular era of hipster web and app
development, ~2007-2010. I don't know why
but it's not quite attractive.

That was a really fun era.

~1997-2007 was fun but it was a mess. It seemed like every project was its own bespoke "framework" and everything was a Java or PHP spaghetti monstrosity.

2007-2014 was the era when "majestic monolith" MVC frameworks with a strong emphasis on automated tests really began to coalesce. Rails led the way here, I think. It was a brief island of sanity if you ask me. MVC may not be perfect but it's a fine choice most of the time for anything CRUD.

I suppose there was kind of a "hipster" aesthetic around Ruby/Rails (Ruby devs kind of prided themselves on being quirky or whatever, as opposed to staid corporate Java drones, I guess?) but I did not find it to really be a factor.

2015-present has been a nightmare. Nearly every web application is now two apps: front and back-end. For apps with highly interactive UIs this is an obvious win but for the vast majority of web applications it has been a disaster. User-facing performance of the modern web is awful and I have never felt less productive as a developer. Every developer thinks they need to do things "like Amazon" or "like Facebook" and just.... no. The Javascript community has absolutely lost all connection with sanity and the era of the full-stack developer is over.
How Need for Speed Unbound&#x27;s Radical Art Style Came to Be
If your brain is not operating in the same mode used for hunting animals, are you even in flow?
and works from inside a whale.
In my experience, Le monde diplomatic is a very good newspaper. Because they don't make money from advertising but from subscriptions.
But their bias is a bit too left-wing, and not nuanced enough.
>If only a zygote could hold up a sign saying "my body my choice", maybe then they'd be considered worthy of being allowed to grow up into the person they would have become.

Well, as you said, it is a not person they would theoretically become had the pregnancy continued. It is zygote.

> if somebody googled 'how to end someone's life' do you think that should be noted by anyone? E

In fact, you can google that and no one will be notified. Pregnant women and girls should have same rights as everyone else.
It's important, but I purposely stepped around this to not complicate things.

In truth, the only likely situation from these rules is hand-copying configuration then manually transposing. This isn't likely to happen in really hot code paths.

This is the one place where JS helps us because lazy typers are encouraged to return object literals from factory functions and the return will almost always be one object returned at the bottom of the function.

It also (intentionaly) bypasses manually adding elements to an object directly after the object is instantiated. In truth, doing this consistently and directly after it is created can usually be optimized too, but not necessarily and describing this also complicates things (and varies from one JIT to the next).
Yes, absolutely, I do, and not just when writing code. I used to work on retail self-service kiosks, and I'd sometimes have to work in the hardware lab around the QA engineers, who for some reason at this company tended to be very perky, gregarious extraverts. They'd see me in there chasing down a bug on one of the kiosks, and invariably they'd ask what's wrong or tell me to cheer up or ask if maybe I'd heard something about the latest round of layoffs.

I do it when I play guitar or piano, too. I've had people ask me why I'm angry when I'm playing. My mom did it, too, when she played play piano.

I just figure it's because I'm focusing so hard on what I'm doing that I stop concentrating on my expression.
Reminds me of a (Wodehouse I think) short story where a young man is told by his doctor to smile more and every time he does it anyone who is looking at him thinks that the smiler knows his dark secrets - resulting in all sorts of promotions and other good things, which he attributes to being “nicer”.
Yes! While I'm often suspicious of simplistic models like the Veil of Ignorance, it's really among the best in western philosophy: it's easy to understand, and its implications are compelling and clear.

The concept also carries a kind of common-sense appeal that practically bridges the gap between "is" and "ought." Maybe it bears some relationship to human instincts for social behavior and empathy -- is there any literature that describes such a relationship?
Can relate, even at uni people told me I look unapproachable but it's just the concentration face (I want to believe).
What goofy opinions? The only one I was able to find seemed pretty reasonable:
"Trans women are trans women" and is still the opinion of majority of people. Did she say anything else?
> But with all that, as Joe Armstrong once jeered, no amount of type checking would catch the following bogus code:

It is worth to note that the stated problem, of accessing a file after it is closed was addressed in the Phd thesis by [1] Joe Armstrong in which he suggested a solution for exactly this problem by introducing a new testing & development methodology he named "protocol checkers" (9.1 Protocols, page 195). Relevant quote from the thesis:

> Given a protocol which is specified in a manner similar to the above
it is possible to write a simple “protocol checking” program which can be
placed between any pair of processes.

The protocol is a state machine, which would detect the attempt to write to a file after it was closed.

[1] - https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
This sort of reminds me of a little post I read a while ago: https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/48-i-have-no-capslock.gmi

I guess it's not entirely the same, but it has a similar idea of how text is morphed into near ilegibility by simplifying it so much.
Sadly, both of the major US parties are highly interested in grabbing power, even if it damages the the values of freedom :(
I don't know anything about academia or a typical relationship expected between a PhD candidate and their advisor, but when someone says stuff "You disappointed and hurt me" it's an immediate red flag for me. Supposedly you are in a professional mentorship relationship, and these sorts of statements seem completely inappropriate to me in that context. Also, you are not responsible for your advisor's feelings.

Edit: I don't have concrete advice on how to proceed, but consider that this person's opinions of you and possibly your work are misplaced and psychologically abusive.
a long time ago i made this and i still think i m the only user: https://pinplz.com
What a joke of a question!

I would be very tempted to ask the same of this VP: "What assurances are you going to offer that I won't be laid off, fired, or 'let go' in a few years?"

I'd never accept a job offer that required a multi-year commitment without some kind of contract and a large pay package too!
Unfortunately salaries rot. Like vegetables in the fridge. I've been doing this a long time, I can assure you that most if not almost all companies let your salary go through attrition by itself with inflation, while new hires get paid market rates.

You can observe this as a manager, when you can see the salaries of people and watch the pay inequity get worse and worse to punish people who have been there a while.

I don't know what mechanism causes this, but it's likely related to leverage: when you don't work there, you have leverage to ask for more. Now that you're there, especially if you are loyal, they have the leverage unless another offer comes along.
Non-western publications of possible interest:

https://asiatimes.com/
in english, mostly free

https://www.jeuneafrique.com/
in french, subscription
I wonder if you can cram that and a smartphone battery into a Pi400 relatively easily
Author here.

Thanks for the kind words!
It depends what you're doing.

What would be a better interface for dealing directly with something like IO ports?
I personally worry somewhat about social-censure. Here's [1] a talk that asks (among other things) if Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses would be published or even written today and I think that concern relates a little to our conversation. While its quite easy to see the argument for self/social censure (as usually someone is personally motivated to make it), I worry that the argument against it is much harder to see and has less organic advocates.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0dhrlhm/the-reith-lec...
My favorite part about this is that it captures pandiculation:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21665102/#:~:text=Pandiculat....

And makes me wonder whether a simple computer vision algorithm could classify frequency of pandiculation in the work and we could begin making correlations between pandiculation and perception of mood valence.
I never said we had no applicants (that at least passed the resume screen) but simply that we now got a lot more applicants.
not true. they do not have private conversations nor local images
When I was in second grade, which per my timeline, was many years before anyone had access to "a computer" outside of a college lab, I recall doing some kind of arts and crafts thing, or fixing a pen, or something, and I channeled a bit of my dad's energy and got very focused on this task. In second grade, it was before they shuttled me off to the gifted and talented program with other "smart kids" so the other kids sort of looked on me as an unusual weirdo, pretty standard stuff, but anyway, this girl that was watching me do whatever it was said, "you look angry", and I realized that channeling my dad's "let's fix this" energy did specifically include some facial contortion that pretty much looked like anger.

nowadays I'm very often a flaming angry coder but that's real anger. It feels the same as when you get angry to press the fire button really fast in a video game, kind of thing. It's been a major issue for decades now as if there are any other people around, I have to really watch my mannerisms and mumblings because there have been negative outcomes from it.

I've also sprinted with other devs who do the same thing. Plus I think it occurs in other fields, like my old drum teacher when I watch him in videos, when he's going for some dramatic drum thing, his face turns to total anger and it is definitely some kind of visceral animal thing you tap into when trying to succeed in a tight space.
Here's the byline for author from top post on the front page, unclear to me how either of your accusations accurately represents him.

https://quillette.com/author/niranjan/
They don't do residential delivery, they just supply the grocery stores.
>> "Not when applied to the quasi-religious civil morality of the modern left."

You could put this sentence in a museum. A real cultural artifact. It's nonsense, but very much worth preserving as a reflection of the rhetoric of our times.

edit: They can file it in the gallery of things people once considered true.
You stated, "I don't know what BDSM looks like so it looks innocent enough to me". So you're stating that you're not informed about the background context of the imagery. It's really unfortunate that the photographer also did not know, research, or think about the imagery in their photoshoot. And specifically the juxtaposition with children.

At the risk of going close to Godwin's law I would say that a photographer publishing pictures of anti-semitic symbols is going to face negative feedback if they don't understand what they are photographing and present it appropriately. I'm not justifying threats of violence but criticism is definitely valid.

I was trying to talk about the photographer not having shown good judgement and how we should learn from that. If it involves sexuality, race, ethnicity, children, disabilities, or politics then professionals should probably think about whether they are qualified to do it appropriately.
I look angry all the time, they call it "resting bitch face"
DeSantis is more of the same, perhaps even worse, just from a different political perspective. A swing towards tolerance would be nice though.
How secure a Twitter replacement is Mastodon?
The Economist rarely puts names to articles. They're all written from the same "economist" point of view.
Oh I do for sure. I don't know why. Curious to read responses.

- Built with Rage
So like what node.js is to javascript in the browser? For whatever reason I had mistakenly thought that web-assembly was purely a front-end browser thing.
Everybody self censors all the time. We learn to do it as children, as it is a normal part of human psychology. It is so automatic that evidently people have forgotten that they do it.
Embrace search diversity: https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/02/search-choices-enable-freedo... (self-disclosure: Mojeek CEO)
Ye this commit [0] imports a "local repository" with Visual Studio 2010 .sln file.

The original README mentions .NET Framework 4, so C# has progressed a fair amount since.

[0] https://github.com/jgosar/mine-city-2000/commit/f1cbe98601c4...
Thanks for the link. That sounds more like prompt engineering? If I understand that correctly it is providing short journal entries (1K words) and GPT3 is imitating the vibe of that (or whatever it does). But it is not “training” a Modell on all the journal text.
Author here.

Answered this elsewhere here: It's the `--cpu-prof` argument with node and the resulting profile is loaded into speedscope.
"Who wrote this disgusting monstrosity?" Looks at the commit from months earlier and sees my own username...
we need more open borders, at least here in North America. we need to bring people in to drive economic growth.
They have a blanket licence agreements with PRS and similar organisations. IIRC is only covers using some number of seconds of any given track, and to use an entire piece (or larger part there-of) separate permission must be requested (and perhaps paid for).
Real life behavior is often downstream of media campaigns. For better or worse, look at the changing attitudes towards many mental health disorders.
How to create your own “inner child” chatbot using GPT-3
Agreed. It's probably the worst when I'm playing Super Smash Bros.
People generally dislike it when they are deceived.

If you don't want to blame her, blame the journalists who reprinted her artwork, as if it were a real photograph.
Tracking macros for a few months is huge lesson about your body's needs and the food supply around you. It clears away all the uncertainty and lets you know what you really like to eat and what is just dead weight.

It also protects you from the food industry marketing departments.

In 6 months I learned:

- Everything sold in packages blows the fat or carb budget;

- I don't really like sodas or icecream;

- I cannot live without bread. I would always make sure there was some carb budget available for bread;

- Tofu, eggs and milk pack a lot of energy compared with their protein content. Careful there!

- Fruits can cause quite a dent in the carb budget;

- Many thing sold as healthy pack an obcene amount of calories;

- (Sugarless) Milk tea is a powerful tool to fend off hunger.

I lost 14kgs in 6 months, and kept that result for 2 years now. Most importantly, I am more satisfied with what I eat.
It still sounds like the reef is healthy in general though right? It’s refreshing to get some good news once in a while.
As someone who has done a lot of "enterprise" Java, I feel your pain.

> The issue is not Java is impossible to have such productivity, it's the mindset, the culture issues from Enterprisey people.

I do think that a lot of it will depend on what sorts of projects people work with, as well as how old the frameworks are. Some design choices made in the development of those will certainly show their age. Consider this article, for some nice arguments in that regard: https://earthly.dev/blog/brown-green-language/ (I'd say this also applies to frameworks, not just languages themselves)

I actually recently used Dropwizard to create a proof of concept system for storing and querying millions of files by their metadata and using Java wasn't too bad in the end: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/1-4-pidgeot-a-system-for-m...

I'd vaguely rank the frameworks and libraries as follows:

- Java/Jakarta EE: pretty dated at this point, you'll mostly see it in legacy projects, generally not a "modern" feeling experience, if you need to configure a separate web server instead of an executable .jar file, you're going to have a bad time
- Spring: if you see plain old spring, you'll have a bad time, it's the definition of "enterprise" code and will waste lots of your time
- Spring Boot: can be good if you start a new project with a recent version, still somewhat enterprise but lots of integrations are just plug & play
- Dropwizard: takes a bunch of idiomatic Java packages and glues them together, comparatively lightweight, you can even get by without dependency injection, most of the cruft that you need to deal with ends up being because of the language itself instead of a framework with bunches of weird dynamic class loading and reflection
- Quarkus/Vert.X/...: new frameworks and libraries that try to build something more modern and performant, generally you can look in the direction of these for many of the modern projects that you want to do, though their lack of maturity might show sometimes (e.g. if you try doing something unsupported, or just run into their learning curve, e.g. how the Vert.X event loop works)

I guess I can sum up my thoughts with:

Is Java as a language inherently a bit more annoying to work with than some of the other web dev languages? Definitely.
Have its frameworks and the language itself gotten better in the past years, especially after newer versions than Java 8 came out? Yes.
Are many out there going to pick it for its decent static type system, good runtime performance (JVM is great) or bunches of stable packages? Sure.
Are some going to be pigeonholed into working with horrible legacy projects that are absolutely demotivating and show off the worst of the language? Sadly, also yes.
Are others going to look in the direction of something like Kotlin, which attempts to solve some of its nuisances, or maybe other languages altogether? Also yes.

But at the end of the day, a lot of it comes down to familiarity: if you feel like you'll be more productive in .NET, Node, Ruby, Python or another language, and there aren't external external factors that force your hand in a particular direction, pick whatever fits your needs the best.
This older comment I made a while ago might come in handy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28911253

E: It is basically a somewhat long list of newspapers and periodicals from across the world.
> 10lb of muscle (easily gained by a "newbie" who is eating well) will add about 1,500 calories per day to your baseline metabolic rate

Per month?

https://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/metabolismcon...

It’s still helpful: even 50-70 Calories per day is 18k-25k Calories per year. At 3500 Calories per pound of fat that’s 5-7 pounds offset each year, but it’s not a panacea for someone with 100 pounds of body fat.

You can’t out-lift your fork!
Yeah. "started adding", after 15 years. Technically correct but not what was meant.
Coincidentally, I'm working on something similar now.

It's a 100 page paperback book, with illustrations and text, on facing pages. The pages are yellowed, so it's not an option simply scan to PDF - they'll need to be cleaned up.

I'm undecided about the PDF version, but creating an EPUB is quite interesting:

- Scanned each page with a regular scanner, and cleaned up the illustrations in Gimp

- OCR'd the text using my iPhone (surprisingly quick and easy)

- Identified the typefaces using MyFonts WhatTheFont tool (https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont)

- Created one long HTML page containing all the text, properly formatted with headings, italics, etc.

- Imported the HTML and graphics into Sigil, splitting it into separate pages (https://sigil-ebook.com/sigil/)

- Exported the EPUB from Sigil

Sigil's UI is slightly daunting at first, but it provides total control over the markup. There are commercial alternatives which are easier to use - Jutoh is highly regarded (https://www.jutoh.com/)
I look angry most of the time and concentrating makes it much worse, so yes. That said, I'm a total introvert and very misanthropic in my outlook, so I actively cultivate the pissed look, it keeps people away and that's exactly what I'm trying to accomplish with it.
Doesn't everyone? Coding is frustrating. Comes with the territory.
I went on a somewhat difficult conditioning hike (4000ft elevation gain) long time ago with a group of random people. Usually people tend to have poles, bring food, and look like hikers, etc on these kind of trips, but one guy shows up in jeans, sneakers, and half liter bottle of water for sustenance. My first thought was, "great, we have an unprepared noob, this will take twice as long", but the guy is super fast. Turns out he used to weigh a lot (I don't remember exactly, but I think >300lb), and now that he lost the weight a hike like this is super easy for him, it's like he used to do it with a barbell before ;)
One should not produce photographic art without being at least aware of its history as a representational medium, a context which still strongly surrounds the experience of viewing any photograph today.

The appeal to a "journalist" label (or lack thereof) is a shallow defense that does not stand up to any informed critique.

Artists who use the language of photographic representation to present fictional scenes would do themselves a huge favor by being transparent about it. Whether disclosed in advance or afterward (for example in satire), it's essential to being taken seriously as an artist, and not just an everyday boring faker. There is certainly nothing inherently artistic, interesting, or special about using software to manipulate the objects within the frame of a photo. Anyone can do it, just like anyone can take a snapshot with a camera.

And of course anyone can call themselves an artist and do whatever they want. But it's also true that anyone can critique their work. It's all fair game.
It appears that author does not like HN as this redirects to https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/hn.png

Is that the same wanker that got in a hissy fit over distros including xscreensaver ?
Dry is mature and has additional support for Monads, thread safe containers, schemas. I'm leveraging more than just struct from Dry.
Best thing about WFH is being able to swear out loud every few minutes.
The US committed to the treaty with an exception for its existing use of mines between North and South Korea
Uniper initiates arbitration proceedings against Gazprom
People have told me that my "concentration face" is very forbidding. And I do tend to swear under my breath a lot while I work too.
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