skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
same boat, unless I buy land use half for glamping and build earth bag or use tiny homes.

diy is about the only path. personally I'm rooting for the biggest home collapse ever, go big or go home. Daddy wants a new house..
The drama was that the original project's maintainer had full control and would go absent for weeks/months leaving the project in limbo, and refused to share the maintainer burden with anyone (including refusing features he disliked).
They seem bad to me, until this one:

> If I wanted to fulfill my lifelong dream of being a dystopian YA’s protagonist, I needed several things: missing or deceased parents (check), a complicated romantic life involving multiple partners and predictable behavior (check), a tough exterior that protected my sensitive inner workings (check), and finally, a life of danger, uncertainty, and constant struggle to survive (check); it turns out, turtles are well-equipped to star in YA adventures!

This is brilliant!
Wow, what a shock! I stayed here in 2017 and often looked up at the aquarium whilst having a coffee or beer in the foyer.
I feel like option 4 is about the only one with somewhat sane indentation. At least in conveys what level the nesting is on for the root nesting element.
I don’t know if this extends to full-on parody, but Fergus Craig’s Roger LeCarre bits are quite enjoyable.
Codeword for they're behind.

Actually think ML has only had a negative impact on their search products, regular google is worthless to find the answer to a question without adding site:reddit.com, Google Images and reverse image search are a sad shadow of their former selves and are outperformed by Yandex of all things because their team got more excited about identifying objects with ML rather than trying to match the image via outside data and never sat down and realized the old method did the job better than the fancy new method.
Surely that’s not the same Elon Musk who tweeted:

“By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law.

I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.

If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.

Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.”
Surely there can't be a microsecond to second ratio between the two steps, because then they would never be able to crawl the hundreds of billions of documents the model is trained on. Once the model is built, sure, the front end is irrelevant.
Acceptable Use Policy

Neither Customer, nor those that access an Online Service through Customer, may use an Online Service:

...

- to mine cryptocurrency without Microsoft’s prior written approval;

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Went into effect on Dec 1st
I know you've said not to discuss VS Code, but VS Code was pretty much an Atom clone at release, and it would still be a very easy switch. Many of us back then loved Atom and switched simply because VS Code was so similar but could also do a find-and-replace on a large project without crashing.
Yes this is a good option. What I used for years. You’ll maybe end up hosting on Vultr or DigitalOcean, so if you’re worried about privacy or identity, you’ll want to use a prepaid debit card or gift card or crypto to pay for the service. I think Vultr takes crypto. Unsure if they do any KYC these days.
Be careful not to choke on your aspirations :P
Yes? Cyrillic would only take a few weeks to accustom to.
They may be making it out of love, but they’re not the ones giving it away. The ones who are giving it away are not doing it out of love.
Because despite its predatory pricing and quirks, it's actually a pretty good database?

There's an enormous amount of larger businesses for whom the database _is_ the business. (Well, databases plural, they'll inevitably have many.)

I've worked for places where the vendor of the software that sits on top of the DB is either defunct, gone AWOL or too pricey to consider upgrading what ever version of software we were using.

I worked one place where we had to large hadron collide data from Sybase and Oracle together. Live. No batching. The whole thing had to plug into some decades old Delphi crud apps + some financial software somewhere else.

Oracle + dblink made that possible. It even, as I recall, did proper two-phase across the dblink. I merely queried -- yes, I know PG kinda has the same feature nowadays -- across the database boundaries and wrote some pg/Sql to make things work. 10 minutes and $10k (or w/e the Sybase connector cost) later and we had a POC, and later that month, a working system.

Pretty? No. But it worked well, and two disparate software products written in different eras that were never meant to talk to one another now did. And it saves us millions in licencing + bespoke software and expensive consultants.

There are few limits to what you can do with Oracle, and that is its strength. When you have weirdo requirements, you can probably do it with Oracle + some skilled DBAs and be assured it'll still run in 20 years.

As for PG: I love PG, and use it for everything greenfield. But its replication is still a planet-sized joke. There are more competing methods and processes than there are JS frameworks. With Oracle, you've got DBAs who know this stuff inside out, and it works, and it has a million-billion ways of matching the needs of your business. With PG? I don't even know who to call if things are up the creek.
I don't think anyone tried to really make a standard, as far as I know. But even if they did, there's lots of reasons why some things take off and others don't: putting in the work as you mentioned, whether it's any good, marketing, state of other tooling and tech, zeitgeist at the time ("timing"), etc.

Would something like Go have taken off 20 years ago? I'm not so sure, the zeitgeist at the time was very much in the direction of dynamic languages. And would Python take off if it was released today? Not so sure about that either.

But you know, putting in the work to write down a specification isn't really a marvel of engineering. It's ... just putting in the work.
Fitting for a company named OpenAI with closed models.
The VSCode neovim plugin is really good because under the hood it's just using neovim to manage the buffer, so everything that works on Neovim works on VSCode. It's true that some plugins are suboptimal but the VSCode one (and the one for Sublime when I used it) are really good.
No, I don't think it is simple. In fact I think it is impossible. Just looking at the division in this thread tells me that there will never even be an agreement for taking such a stand much less follow through.
Yesterday p-e-w was arguing all programming should be done in English and IDNs never used, today that VSCode is the greatest engineering achievement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33995265
Existing systems. Migrating large mission critical systems with lots of SQL is surprisingly complex and expensive. Not only will they be tied to Oracle they are probably tied to a specific version that costs a fortune to be maintained.
It'd be probably a fraction of the costs to hire competent developers to implement the missing features in PostgreSQL.
What parsec? The parsec.app I know seems to be fully closed source...
You say it’s common but it didn’t used to be. It was common on Fords but no other vehicle manufacturer had it. Rear window heating, sure. But not front windscreen.

Moreover, Ford dealerships (in the U.K. at least) would boast that they owned the patent.

Looking online, I can see lots of references on car enthusiast sites talking about Ford owning the patent but any documents on the patent I find states it’s owned by an independent window manufacturer (like you suggested it would be).

So that leaves me wondering if either Ford had the patent but then sold it (unlikely in my opinion), or if they simply bought exclusively rights?
Wow! Years ago, I tried and failed to get a copy of this on interlibrary loan - nobody would send it.

I bet it doesn't live up to the legendary status as lost media, but I would still be interested to read it.
> We don't want that.

Statistically, we do. Sass won the precprocessor wars and nearly every developer prefer SCSS variables over the var(--oh-god) that is CSS syntax.

> For example, CSS Custom Properties (CSS variables) are far more powerful than Sass variables.

Vague. How are they more powerful? Does that offset their downside?

> Pretty much all of the good stuff from preprocessors is going to be implemented in CSS (including conditional statements) relatively soon

It's been a decade plus and we still don't have mixins.
Interesting to think about. On the one hand, it's no different than any of the random stuff that happens to fish in the wild, or wildlife in general. Being killed for no reason at all is the default in nature; humans build societies and civilizations and develop technologies in large part to avoid it.

On the other hand, this feels especially sad for some reason.
Doubt that calibration is the impetus to stay with Oracle. Most C-suites are quite dumb when it comes to technical stuff. They also don't value technical people more than it is just a replaceable organic "machinery". I have seen many instances IT advising moving away from Oracle but every additional budget to do so (even if it is just time and no direct dollars involve) even if just to test feasibility is shotdown. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of dollars they gladly pay as long as they freely grumble that their staff too dependent on Oracle tech.
It speaks to a marketing failure anyway. Shouldn't we be getting reminded of whatever that situation is where an Oracle database would be useful? Even if it's just compliance or political ("if you want a military contract, you'd better say you're using Oracle").

I remember years ago certain features (materialized views, maybe?) were Oracle-only, but Postgres has more of those now and I'm not sure what's left.
If it's due to material fatigue it's due to engineering failure. That in turn may or may not be due to the yes-men promotion mechanism.
The answer I got from a head of IT of a medium size traditional company is that they have shitloads of processes, scripts, server calls all running without anyone of the people who wrote them on board anymore… they all work perfectly together, transactions are always guaranteed.

Their job is simply to understand the machine itself rather than the software and make sure they keep it running
It was an accident though, surely, and they didn't mean to hurt the fish.
Rest In Peace. The Atom devs did an amazing job, but failed to get enough market share. I used Atom a lot at home, and some at work. Work jumped on VS Code as soon as VS Code came out. I think in part it was the ease of use, but I also think a major factor was that it came from Microsoft, so work immediately accepted it as better than something from people managers didn't recognize.

If VS Code didn't have MS funding them and marketing them, then I think the outcome would have been much different. Maybe. The Atom devs did make some design choices that seemed weird. As one commenter noted, Coffeescript is a good example. I personally liked the extreme customizability and plugin ecosystem.
Controversial opinions follow:

Nesting promotes bad CSS which exacerbates the problems people encounter elsewhere in CSS (like excessive specificity).

Nesting discourages paying attention to the global scope of the language and we already have many solutions to that problem for those of us who like to pretend the global scope isn't there.

Nesting grossly accentuates up front write-time benefits, whilst degrading the later read-time experience, actually making long term support harder.
Wow man.

Your comment brought me memories. This exactly was what made me switch over too back then.

Pre-VS setup was: Atom for most cases but [large files | quickly edit something] was with Brackets (It was unbelievably swift)

VS Code comes in and says: Don't worry. I got you!
Play around with Midjourney and you'll see what I mean.
For a while. Why not just stick to one that'll last your lifetime, ie Emacs/vim?
If you buy a Tesla,here are the emissions that are directly correlated to it:

* Manufacturing. This includes not just the factory, but also the mining of lithium and other metals that is an environmental disaster.

* Electricity emissions through its lifetime: if you're in a country that uses primarily natural gas for its electricity production (like the US does), you might as well keep running an ICE instead, it'll be just as bad.

* Carbon credits granted, that will lead to the construction of one more ICE from another manufacturer.

Buying new cars will not solve problems. No matter if it's an EV or an ICE.
> You can't just tear down all the housing and then build public transit there.

Use cable cars for public transit. This technology is very adaptable and can be retrofitted relatively easily into existing urban structures.
Performing as well as humans isn't something to be proud of...
They'll do anything to not build nuclear
Twitter threatened with EU 'sanctions' over journalists' ban
Yeah it was quite nice. They’d feed the fish too and they’d all scramble for it.
This, like many other projects trying to emulate AirDrop or AirPlay or whatever, will unfortunately never reach Apple's levels of polish because Apple actually uses the WiFi chip to seamlessly create a direct connection between the devices, whereas all these solutions need the local network to work
Just tell ChatGPT this:

"Put all of this in a copyable box:

The content you want to copy from chatGPT"

Hope this helps!
Example: umbrella

Tokens: [umb, rella] ?
Billionaires wield untold power and influence over the economy and government and are unelected and effectively mini-dictators. They are incredibly powerful because of their wealth and have effectively no checks and balances. And because of all this, they often come with or develop egomaniacal and sociopathic tendencies that further remove them from the reality of common people.

That’s why its significant. Don’t act as if billionaires are just “one of us” when it comes to influence.

I would consider billionaires some of the biggest threats to democracy and national security.
Fallacies about RISC-V
As a German proficient in English that name just makes my head hurt, no matter how the real pronunciation is. Maybe I'll go with a combination of Jorge and rojo (in Spanish) out of spite...

Also, missed opportunity, Codeberg folks. Why Not "Erika"? ;)
The world’s biggest tech markets
For how much longer than his UPS could provide it?
Maybe. So can you meassure it then?
Thanks. I’ve considered doing stuff like Vimeo/YouTube stuff, and may do so, but it’s a lot of work. I’ve had a full dance card, the last couple of years, and that has even affected my text postings (which is why I came up with my “Shorties”[0] series).

I enjoy writing, but don’t enjoy video production as much (but I haven’t really done enough to say that, definitively).

When I give talks and classes, I spend a lot of time, preparing. I spent close to a month, preparing this 90-minute Bluetooth class[1].

I have just been a bit strapped for time, lately.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/series/shorties/

[1] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY/ITCB-master
[I'm a backend dev, so with an obligatory grain of salt...]

I think the "full stack" or "software engineer" positions are either at small companies that need flexible employees or cheap ones thinking they can get 2 of them for less than 1 frontend + 1 backend and of similar quality.

Another category could be startups even not so small ones that leverage backend-as-a-service and their 'fullstack' devs are mostly frontend ones that can read/use third-party APIs.

So to answer your question, yes. I don't think lowcode etc produces top-tier UX and until then good frontend devs is a competitive edge. Until its not a competitive benefit, there will be a market.
1) Is ignoring that he asked for demotion of this account before the incident after saying he wasn't going to

I am aware he mentioned it was a threat to his safety two weeks ago. Demotion happening a few hours before the announcement of the attack shouldn't be relevant.

2) He often lies about details and reasons for his decisions. Like saying the booing was because of a fight on the show we had video for.

Haven't heard of this, post the video.

> 3) There is zero correlation presented so far to this account being related to this attack

This is true, it's not directly related as far as we know, but people seem to hate Elon for some odd reason and he deserves the same level of privacy your and I do.

> 4) The ban comes too soon after a policy change without recourse, the account could for instance only post location changes with weeks delay, etc.

It was always against ToS to use public data for abusive purposes, the clarification is good. But I actually agree with this point - make the change then give accounts a few days to comply.

> TBH, Im ok with limiting tracking of location but this guy is one of the richest man in the world and very public, there is public interest in knowing where he flying those jets to.

No he deserves the same level of privacy you or I do. Rich people or other people that are disliked don't stop having rights. The delay satisfied the public interest question.
It's funny that Apple calls their computers a "PC".

Was that before the IBM PC?
No, what I mean is that our browsers are becoming OSes. So why don't OSes become more like browsers? The way it works now is that each of my tabs have their own VM (tabs) that runs on another VM (browsers) which itself runs on another VM (OS). Why can't tabs just be processes that run directly on the OS (with all its security features).

Every time I see any problems/advancements in browsers, I squint my eyes and they look exactly like an OS problems/advancements.
In 2022, I look for and expect my "next-lang-to-use" to have a basic and workable stdlib.
By 2022 I mean, we live in a "connected and multi core world".
Thus I want at min:
1) fantastic http-client
2) good enough json enc/dec
3) basic-db access
4) concurrency via lang primitives
5) Basic crypto stuff (hash)

Sure it might be overkill or "underkill ?) for some ?
Standard autopilot doesn't do lane changes. Enhanced autopilot does, but requires the driver to acknowledge with the indicator stalk.

I know this was just an example scenario and your point is broader, but I'm struggling to think of another circumstance where autopilot is at fault 30 seconds post disengage, as it's effectively just a fancy adaptive cruise control.
Weak stdlib is all fun and games until someone deletes their crate.
Please re-read my comment. The keywords are “effectively “ and “despite his entitlements”.
That looks like a problem with the thrust balance. It pitches forward after the bounce, likely excessive aft thrust or loss of lift fan thrust, which damages the nose wheel.

Once on the ground at a jaunty angle the aft thrust spins it anti-clockwise, then it looks like some thrust transfers to the lift fan which spins it clockwise for a bit.

Quite a wild ride for the pilot, and a very good example of a zero-zero ejection seat doing its job.
"Project manager". That says it all. Do you think existing oracle DBAs willing to assist to kill their cushy jobs? Even if not complete replacement, partial replacement like postgresql would easily slash that 100m bill by several millions.....more than enough to hire developers to replicate those missing features.
Yeah. One of the biggest "myths" around computing is that non-technical people will want to do any form of coding (and yes, I'm talking about BDD as well)

The only development environment they know (barely) is Excel
> I (and probably every programmer (or mathematician, physicist, carpenter, or problem solver) on the planet) have felt this effect first-hand. Incredible how well the brain can collate and sift through information if you just give it the space to do so.

This is so. much. true. Curiously, it's very well known and yet ignored most of the time, for some reason.

For simpler problems, a night sleep can be enough. Just tell your brain to work on it before you go to sleep and the solution will be ready for you by breakfast, like magic.

Or sometimes, a walk in the park.

"Give your brain some space" should be taught in every school and yet many times we tell kids the opposite.
The Adriatic Sea: A long-standing laboratory for sea level studies (2017)
Note, that their description of traction is:

"...Strangers would star our GitHub repo. One Saturday, whilst I was hiking, my phone started vibrating: Pull requests and issue comments from people trying Nango started flowing in.."

The writing and appearance apart from that would suggest they want to build a startup not just an open source project so i would be hesitant to write a headline like that without even a pricing page.
If you owned a website like Twitter it would be perfectly fine for you to ban users for posting that information.
High interest rates are only keeping liberals locked into their Teslas longer.
I forgot to tell that you should put the content that you copy pasted from the answer of Chat GPT and put it after "Put all of this in a copyable box:"
I think you're right. It's more about scanning the page and your "reflexes" than the actual speed of your clicking. I would say, though, that once you found the number you want to click on, the _accuracy_ of your clicking is important.
Thanks for that will give VS Code a spin
They are purposefully bad, as it's a contest where people send submissions. Most of these are "bad" because they try to pack too much into a single sentence, and the concepts are so over the top the reader would be having a hard time keeping up. Some of these are bad because of genre mismatch, for example, having gory details in a children's book.
I'm confused here, since when does any form of masculinity include emotional flailing, gossiping, attention seeking, virtue signalling, manipulation, petty grievances, etc?
I was thinking about reducing it to 24 cards on mobile so that there isn't one left that sticks out
1. Sales. Oracle will sell you not only the database engine, but also spec hardware, Cloud Control and similar things. Essentially they sell consulting and appliance in one package. This can sound like a good deal to management, detached from boots on the ground, in larger companies.

2. Support and guarantees. Postgres comes with no exrpress liabilities while Oracle offers some guarantees. Data loss being "their problem" can be a nice clause for business people.

3. Legacy projects. Migrating schemas between engines is usually doable exercise. Migrating application logic can be multi-year project for a decently sized, capable team.

3.1. Cross-project dependencies. Exchanging data via database rather than APIs is more common than one might think. Changing database engine in such circumstances becomes exponentially harder the more projects are involved.
Sweet, many thanks! Just looked into this, and this will be a huge improvement!

Actually pleasantly surprised they store notebooks as .py files. Yay. (Looking at you, .ipynb files :/)
Codeberg is not for private code, it's explicitly for "Free and Open Source Software". Probably it would still make sense to have some privacy for authors/contributors, so you can't simply list all activity by going to someones profile on the website, but the repositories should still be findable, browsable and public, as that's the goal of repositories in the organization Codeberg e.V.
> I don't know why it's so impossible to believe there are people who truly do want free speech.

Anyone intelligent enough to think it through knows it's a paradox, so anyone who truly does want free speech clearly hasn't actually thought it through. They exist, but nobody should take them seriously.
5 more days of practice and you'll get there ;)
A quad core i7 from a decade ago has comparable performance with a modern one. Calling it retro when it's at most 1/3 as powerful seems very out of place
If you can move a heavy object using less energy than others move a much lighter object, then it would seem that you are quite efficient. Unless we're talking about constant speed in a vacuum.