skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I'm aware. You can define methods/functions on most (if not all implementations of struct); Ruby's is no exception to this.

The parent indicated they didn't understand why both struct/class exist because there is so much overlap. The primary reason is to signal intent. This has largely been lost as the masses just use classes for everything or they use simple data types like hashes.
Right but that isn't actually the source, which was the point that the parent commenter was making.
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I forgive all for the "Join on this device" button that lets me log in to a meeting on two devices.
Interestingly, it looks like the Bedrock-based "Education Edition" is on MacOS, but normal Bedrock is not.
Programming Languages Influence Ranking Based on Data from the Wikidata Project
Hah, I misread "editable" as "edible" the first time I read that. My subconscious must have seen "cafe" early.
Yeah Pounds to Stone is a pain in that it's fourteen while Ounces to Pounds is sixteen. I think the only thing I used imperial for is bodyweight and that's just due to either parents or doctors using it. Other than that we used to ask for a "quarter" of boiled sweets at the shop, but I never internalized what the exact weight was (I guess a quarter of a pound) it's just what my dad taught me to ask for when I was ~4 and I kept it up.
And spending some time as a young adult exploring that is crucial to a person's development. I'm reminded of a part in Illuminatus when one of the characters while high "...probably made a good argument for rape and murder while he was at it...".

Spending time radically deconstructing societal expectations was very good for my development as a young 20-something. Fortunately, from what I hear anyway, there is good quality LSD available and certainly no shortage of dicks to kick.
>the streamer is most likely an adult man, not a cute asian girl

I can't see why that makes it "kinda gross"; in fact, playing with identity and having the courage to do so in a whimsical way seems awesome. To have the security in oneself to put on a persona so different to the one we are in meatspace is one of the best inventiont of the 'net in my opinion. The possibilities are freeing.

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

>And the persona is being performed for the benefit of other adult men.

What possible 'benefit' do they get out of it? Do we know if these "other adult men" leer at the persona? And if so, so what? So long as the person behind the persona isn't be harrassed. It's strange that this sentence is implicitly stating that something done for the benefit of adult men is wrong in itself.
And they were DMF format, 1680KiB instead of the usual 1440KiB which would have resulted in two extra disks. If you were unlucky and had an old/crap drive you might find you have to replace it to get Win95 to install. Somewhere into the 4.x line of MS Office, pre-dating Win95, this format started to be used as well.
Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and René Girard [audio]
ISP is payed and contracted service. NextDNS is free (300k queries/month) and Tailscale too. Who do you think most likely sell your data to make business?
One of the things I'm seeing in your post is basically a lack of negatives. But what about positives? Do you actually like your job? If not for that list, would you stay or be out the door in a heartbeat?

I'm a lifer at Netflix (coming up on 8 years), and I have a lot of the same lack of negatives (remote, good work/life balance, early 50s, etc). But more than any of those, I stay because Netflix gives me an opportunity to work on things I'm passionate about (network performance and CPU efficiency) and allows me to work on them in the open source OS that I love (FreeBSD), and allows me to contribute that work to the community. I like and respect my colleagues, and I feel like I'm liked and respected as well. Its the best job I've ever had, by far and I feel incredibly lucky. So I just can't imagine leaving until / unless something changes.

I'm not wearing blinders, so I do talk to recruiters regularly. But either the jobs just don't interest me, or they can't match the Netflix top of market, or they don't allow remote, etc.
If you want to end fed controlled interest rates you would either need to abolish cash and replace it with cheques or introduce a demurrage currency as cash. Cash acts as a perpetual bond with a guaranteed 0% interest rate. If there is deflation then the nominal interest rate needs to be negative so that the real interest rate is correct again. If you can't express negative nominal interest you will have to run away from deflation aka permanently issue more money.

This is pretty much universal, even DAI (algorithmic stablecoin backed via deposited Ethereum, etc) has this problem. When DAI trades above the peg, the only answer is create more DAI and sell.

There is RAI where the answer to RAI being above the peg is to just lower the redemption rate.

The obvious answer then would be to introduce an optional dollar that has an interest rate built into it that can be negative. It doesn't have to replace every existing dollar bill, it just has to exist and in case of austerity or a recession the Fed will try to not increase the number of 0% dollars in circulation. This will make regular dollar bills trade above their face value meaning people are less likely to transact with 0% cash and instead electronic payments and the negative interest dollar will continue doing their job.

The money in Wörgl was named emergency money (Notgeld) for a reason. Fight the depression with a higher velocity of money, not more money.
If you take the view that rights are granted by society and not inherent then you are technically correct that rights don't really exist. But then neither does money or law. This kind of nihilistic reductivism isn't particularly useful.

What I mean by "rights" are those that are taken to be so by common consensus - e.g. those in the European Convention on Human Rights, which includes the right to life; to deny someone shelter is to threaten that right.

To withhold shelter from people and then rent it back to them is a racket, plain and simple: safety in return for money, underwritten by a threat of violence.

I thought the whole deal with this society thing was a collective endeavour for the common good; structures that hold private interest above common good seem blatantly counter-productive.
Show HN: A news website that writes itself with AI
I was playing with OpenAI text completion, and got curious what would happen if we had a new website full of ai-generated content, so I made one - SillyConeNews.com

AI writes everything there: headlines, articles, summaries, and images. Right now it's using OpenAI, but I think I'll switch to Stable Diffusion for more interesting images.

For some examples of blog posts that sound almost indistinguishable from real blogs like Tech crunch, take a look here http://sillyconenews.com/posts/ZmZjMTcwNjQt and here http://sillyconenews.com/posts/ZDQ2MzdkNjct . Note that for the FTX post, the model was trained on the data before the current events.

The only manual process right now is prompt-initiation, but I am hoping to automate that as well by figuring out what is currently popular (off Google news...etc) and making AI write something similar. There is no real "business value" here, but just some fun.
Some people do read Playboy for the articles. In fact, I did read a Lee Iaccoca interview in Playboy once, it was excellent from what I remember. OP might want to seriously consider looking into that often-pigeonholed publication.
Hi Jessamyn! I read Soul of a New Machine for the first time just 3 years ago, even though I’m old enough to remember seeing it in the computer section of my local library as a relatively new release. Before I read it, I saw a comment you made (on Bryan Cantrill’s blog perhaps?) similar to this one. I wanted to thank you for that, as it undoubtedly changed how I interpreted the book as I read it. It can be easy to romanticize the hard work and sacrifice portrayed in a book like that, without understanding the toll that sacrifice took on those around them.

So thank you for continuing to offer your perspective on your father and his work.
I stick my tongue out to the side like a cartoon character.

I always thought this was just some sort of trope and not a real thing, but then one time my monitor went blank suddenly and I saw myself.
CO2 Emissions
If I were angry whilst at the cafe, and received a photo of myself, looking angry—I'm pretty sure that'd make it worse. An unusual way to show concern, but I guess that's the age we live in.

edit: misplaced modifier
where are you writing them?
It works for me on mobile Safari.
Completing Girard: Antidote to the Apocalypse
I agree that more people will die, but the Economist claim is that 100k more will die: " Hence the energy crunch this year could cause over 100,000 extra deaths of elderly people across Europe. "

Article shows some modelling, but I was not convinced and can point some holes:
https://www.economist.com/interactive/graphic-detail/2022/11...
The End of China [video]
"The art of thinking clearly" by Rolf Dobelli https://www.amazon.com/Art-Thinking-Clearly-Rolf-Dobelli/dp/...

99 cognitive biases with memorable examples and stories.
> Mojang-provided servers ("Realms") are Bedrock

You can also rent a JAVA realm. And if you outgrow the realm (want to use mods), you can download the world and run it with a "real" (modded) server.

Modded servers are another rabbit hole...
The Quest for Interesting X
Interesting to see broadcast video from 27 years ago preserved in such high quality. The BBC has spent a lot of money to preserve pretty much everything it has broadcast in the last 30 years.
It works on Safari / Mobile Safari from 16.1 onwards (the latest version).
When did we get C# devs flexing on Java devs? Isn't like that like a paint by numbers expert flexing on a paint by letters kinda person?
Thank you for the high-effort comment!

Has there ever been any community-led effort to create and maintain a "Minecraft spec" (similar to the Tetris spec) and make an open source reference implementation, or is the game to complex for that?

Kind of surprising Mojang didn't go into that direction (e.g. to match Redstone behavior).
RIYL

Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner

Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires - Tim Wu

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age - Michael A. Hiltzik

*edit - add crlf
For me the main problem with most of these publications is that although oftentimes they couch things in data and science they are mostly opinion-based so their prognostications are quite fallible. They remind me of the "The Standard" and "Business 2.0" etc., of the aughts. While things were going up, they seemed to catch the wave and ride it, but as the bubble burst their faults due to lack of any underlying structure or rigor became evident.

So too with The Economist, not to speak of things like The Atlantic etc., who rely mostly on opinion or tenuous data.

Now, often The Economist tries to rely on some science/data but they have their own ideology and that leads to them making mistakes as well. I wish they relied more on science and data over ideology (such as free markets or globalization, etc., not to say those are bad, but just have some skepticism and criticism. They often took globalization to be an unqualified good)
Apparently you are a very advanced user. 99% time users want, explicitly or implicitly (more often, and they get sad or mad if their implication is failed) you to return their devices with all their files intact. So the technician needs access to dump their files and put them back in after re-installing the OS. Advanced users just backup and wipe their data themselves before they handle the computer to the service.
Codenames: https://codenames.game/
DoorDash to Slash 1,250 Jobs to Pare Back Rising Costs
Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses in Apple Wallet (2021)
Yeah. Non-Ruby devs are probably thinking, "what is the point of rules if the rules can be sidestepped so easily?"

But IMO/IME Ruby strikes a good balance here. You can break the rules but it really sticks out like a sore thumb. We avoid these backdoors like the plague.
1. Worse than I thought, somehow. Yay.
2. I really shouldn’t be surprised at anti-Semitic roots, but here I am surprised yet again.
Yes, apparently I am in the Focused/Angry Face cohort. When I am reading deeply, or thinking through complex issues I must be wearing a scary face as it prompts my wife to ask “ are you ok?” Which always makes me angry as it breaks my concentration. As far as I know, until interrupted I was in a neutral emotional state .
Show HN: Bidirectional ETL between spreadsheets and your warehouse
Hey HN! Ian, Vinesh, and Kunal here. We’re building Bracket (YC W22), a bidirectional ETL platform — software that syncs data two ways between your data stack and the spreadsheet tools that your business teams rely on (e.g. Google Sheets, Airtable, and Notion databases), with the ability to add transformation logic (like SQL statements or MongoDB aggregation statements) in between. (https://www.usebracket.com/)

In other words, if you want to join columns from two Postgres tables, sync the result to an Airtable table, and allow your Airtable users to edit certain fields from either table back to Postgres, you can do that with Bracket.

We built this for teams that would otherwise need to cobble together ETL & rETL pipelines, or spin up a bunch of Zapier, Pipedream, or other event-based triggers. Here are some of the use cases among our current users:
-Turn feature flags on / off for their users from a G Sheet
-Edit customer order data in Notion
-Adjust trial periods for customers in Airtable
-Edit user info (like email) based on input sent to customer success teams
-Track and edit the status of support tickets

See a demo of a sync between Google Sheets and Snowflake here: https://www.loom.com/share/d253876247ce4e0b8636beec681f0e64

Transparently, we are figuring out pricing and care way more about feedback which is why we don’t have a pricing page — we don’t want that to be an impediment to getting your input and building a great product.

We’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and use cases. Especially if you’ve been looking for a bidirectional ETL tool now or in the past, we’d love to hear what tools you want to connect!
The reverse of this is that if you find a place that does keep their salaries up with the market over time, then you might have a good opportunity to be a long-term employee if you want to.

It's not like it is hard for employees to check their salaries against the market these days. Aside from the websites and local communities that exist for this purpose, you can apply and interview at other jobs to see where the offers come in.
I always read a dead channel as pure static.
Snap Demands Employees Work in Office 80% of the Time Starting Early Next Year
40 Right Now, but last week it was 400+.

Safari is the only browser that doesn't give a list of Tabs. Both Chrome and Firefox have it.

Again, Multi ( I mean tens to hundreds or sometimes thousands ) Tab usage is still an unsolved problem.
My wife often asks if I'm angry or thinking.
Thank you. That matches with my own understanding better than "usa doesn't practically use or procure mines " from previous posts.
I find it easy to get good results for Swift in general most of the time, but I have a feeling it's because it's not one of the top languages.
Oh, yeah, for about two months any time I opened Facebook (in fairness, once a week) it was pushing that article at me. Really lowered my opinion of the Economist; a very low quality article more befitting of something like the Telegraph.
There are some that are plant based.
Insiders made millions from Justin Bieber's NFT project. His fans are down 90%
Bieber, John Shahidi, and the Nelk Boys collaborated on at least two NFT promotion schemes without disclosures
I was finishing up some work with my camera on during group meeting. Someone had their young child on their lap, and the kid asked "Daddy, who's the angry man?"
Oh, finally. Thanks for pointing that out. Indeed I haven’t updated iOS in awhile.

Guess I’ll ship that lisp tutorial then.
Interesting fact is I noticed that not many book titles are repeating in this thread. This means there is no single book that can change your thinking, I think one have to find it on their own. Most of the time the best book for you is the one that you don't know will be the best book. You just figure it out months or years later.
Until recently I had never worked for a company that respected my time and career growth, so being a lifer seemed like a choice from a bygone era. I now have a checklist - the most boxes I can tick, the more likely I am to stick around.

1. The bare minimum is that my salary should keep up with inflation, if my work productivity stays the same and nothing improves at all. Only my most recent employer has passed that test. It sucks to prioritize just compensation that much - but in such a turbulent economy as the one I was born into, I can't afford to support myself and my partner while making less year over year due to the devaluation of the dollar.

2. I want to ideally work 40/hr week. Some overtime is going to happen, after-hours work is going to happen, that's that nature of the work, but it shouldn't be a weekly thing.

3. The company should provide training and both horizontal and vertical movement opportunities. No one wants to stagnate if they care about their skill growth.

4. Decisions the company makes are rooted in logical processes. This one sounds kind of vague, but it's important. I've worked for many companies that changed large parts of the business up just because someone new came in, or the CEO felt a certain way. When the company lays out the reasoning for a change in direction or policy that is rooted in reason and proof, that inspires confidence to me - both in company longevity and in how I'll be treated as an employee.

There's nothing I love more than to dedicate myself to my work, but the experiences I've had over my time in the industry thus far have made it a very unwise choice to make until I've spent significant time with an employer and can evaluate these points.
>"We are all familiar with stories of people who have said or written something and then faced a terrible online backlash," she said.

What proportion of these came out of Twitter? It seems to me at least that most of the abusive brigading comes from there. There seems to be something about how Twitter implements their "following" concept that creates arbitrary and pointless groups. Twitter is a bunch of virtual gangs fighting each other and any other discernible targets.
WAT

W and I cannot stress this enough AT?!!!!!!

We had multiple re-runs of it in the 90s in various post-Soviet countries.
One effect you might be experiencing is over-familiarity. I find magazines fascinating for a while, then you understand their house style, the quirks of the recurrent columns, their political stance, and you know what they are going to say even before you read. Even when they say the opposite of what you were expecting the reach their conclusion by travelling through territory you've been through many times before.

Weirdly, I've recently been experiencing this with Twitter. Every opinion unfolds mechanically. Even the curve balls are predictable at a statistical level.
I saw a banner in the Denver airport last weekend advertising that TSA accepts these electronic IDs, anyone used one? Care to share you’re expedited or why I should put this in my phone if only as a backup to a lost wallet?
Yeah, I agree, TSOANM isn't really about a death march.

I am abusing the term. I worked on some death marches with guys who saw themselves as Tom West though, which is probably why I chose that phrase.

A death march, to me, is a project that you know can't succeed but you are forced to go forward anyway.

I once had a boss hold the team at work until a piece of work was done (and it was 2am before it was clear it wasn't going to happen). That was just one day, but that project was a death march.
Right but if enemy takes the terrain do you really want it to be "clear" off mines in a day or two coz they self-detonated ?
I looked this up once to determine if it was real or just hilarity. And the answer is great. From [Sims Fandom](https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Reticulating_splines) site:

> The words 'reticulate' and 'spline' both have dictionary definitions, which has led several people to determine a meaning for the phrase, such as "to make a network of curved elements." However, Will Wright stated in an interview that the term itself is meaningless, as SimCity 2000 does not reticulate splines when generating terrain; the phrase was included in the game because it "sounded cool."
Is it not usually the case that, in photography competitions, there are separate categories for pictures showing situations and events that actually occurred in places that actually exist, and those produced by montage? The article alleges that examples of the latter were entered into competitions as the former. If this is so, then the very act would have been a falsehood, regardless of what she did not say elsewhere. This is so regardless of whether the competition rules permit certain post-processing of the image, unless the actual manipulations used fell within the rules.
Fedora 38 Looks to Shift RPM to Sequoia, a Rust-Based OpenPGP Parser
She seems to agree with JKR that trans rights are separate from women's rights.
WebC: Single File Web Components
I have a rather large amount of respect and admiration for Joe Armstrong and his accomplishments, but I think he got this somewhat wrong.

Linear types could potentially catch that bug. In fact I think Linear type system can help us go from "ints are file descriptors" to "what kind of socket is this and can I call this function on it?" to "what's the state of this FD?".

I agree that if we treat FD's as "int", you're hosed in this case, but that's the world we live in, and I think that's what he was getting at.
Fascinating, thanks for this information. Amazing how entangled everything is…
oh, like a series of tubes. i've heard of those before.
So states an organization that represents companies owning roughly 1/2 of all downtown commercial real-estate on the planet — banking and insurance.

What is the per-transaction energy and waste cost of that?

Unstated.
>This doesn't necessarily mesh with what we see in reality though. The Economist doesn't use a byline and they're known as having very high quality content.

A good way to see that it's not is to find out what investors or beltway policy elites would think and hunt for (entirely factual) things which might contradict their narrative.

I cited an example below of an article about github copilot that was hot garbage - like a starry eyed intern had watched an investor pitch.

On the war front one of the things which I have read in milbloggers is that a key goal of Russia's bombardment of the electricity network is to inhibit Ukrainian rail logistics and prevent the front from being resupplied. Is it working? Well, it was only ever "meant" to crack Ukrainian morale so they wouldnt even think to analyze that.

(good military reporting ought to have a bias towards logistics, but it rarely does...)
Ok but money has two sides. There are those who have it and those who accept it. What Bitcoin does is effectively provide a very expensive paper ledger but money is a social relationship between humans. There aren't enough people negotiating contracts denominated in Bitcoin. It is a very loose relationship that can be ended at any time.
What is Twitter?
Covid demonstrated that all mainstream media in the UK are controlled by the government. I ditched both my Economist and FT subscriptions in favour of independent journalists. I would have ditched the Economist anyway, it's become demented. I've been glancing at Foreign Affairs, but not sufficiently yet to decide on subscribing.