skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would probably cost them more than 80$
I think we are in a death spiral:

10 Some people buy cheap and/or gimmicky crap

20 This is observed by the industry so even some name brands (like Crescent) make cheap and/or gimmicky crap

30 People notice that even name-brands are making crap, so switch from shopping on brand to shopping on price

40 GOTO 10
Thirty years ago it may have been standard. I'm pretty sure it isn't nowadays.
> Frankly this "housing can't be an investment" stance is ideological.

All stances are ideological. The fact remains. If housing increases in value faster than wages it is by definition becoming less affordable. If it doesn't than it isn't an investment. The only solution to housing affordability is to stop making laws that ensure housing will increase in value faster than wages.
Moving corporate conflict resolution out of the courts looks like a slope that could become quite slippery in the future.
Yep, that has been the difference between companies that grew and the ones that didn't (if you look at Monzo, they needed to hire hundreds of devs overnight...they created an actual HR strategy rather than just posting a listing on Indeed, running bad interviews based around random questions and probing for social cues, and then hiring no-one).

Tech jobs in the UK aren't even particularly high skill, tons of applicants for every role but hiring is run by people who have never hired before, have no business knowledge, and end up rejecting everyone...and then they lobby the govt for easing visa rules...it is all very puzzling.

Btw...there are businesses in the UK that hire almost anyone with a degree, put them through a three-month bootcamp, and then hire them out £70k/year pro-rata rate. According to most tech companies, this should be impossible...yet these guys do it. The skills required aren't even complex, and we are struggling...shocking.
It’s only a big deal because regulators allowed companies like MSGE and Live Nation to buy up all the independent venues. No one would care if a single fascist club owner was terrorizing customers because the free market would punish him.
If you're just hosting a blog or simple informational site, there are better options, for sure.

... except that you can just go click a couple buttons, and be ready to start editing your first blog post, right in your browser, with Wordpress, because there are a bunch of easy-to-use hosting solutions.

If you're doing much more than that with your site, it can be hard to sell a solution other than Wordpress. The plugin ecosystem and 3rd-party service support is pretty damn good. Consider how few other web platform ecosystems exist that can support individuals and even small teams selling commercial plugins—like, full-time, that's your day job.

I think WP's a fucking mess and hate developing for it, but it's hard to advocate for anything else, for a pretty large set of Web use cases.
I hook tons of stuff up to HA and I love it. It's great with Sonoff switches flashed with Tasmota.
This goes for everything:

- Know someone who likes books? Buy them good books!

- Know someone who likes coffee? Buy them specialty coffee!

etc.. I never saw the point in "oh they love painting, I'll get them these super cheap paints" or whatever.
Accountants used to spend an enormous amount of time manually doing arithmetic and balancing spreadsheets. When the first computerized spreadsheets came out, it was a massive improvement in accountant efficiency and you would’ve expected there to be less accountants at the end of the revolution. Instead my understanding is that there are more accountants per capita today than there were 50 years ago.

Similarly, even without chatGPT, most individual programming tasks are easier today than they were 50 years ago. No punchcards is an amazing development. However, there are way more software engineers today then there were 50 years ago.

It’s no guarantee, but often an improvement in efficiency in a resource does not reduce the overall usage of that resource, because it increases demand for that resource. It’s hard to predict what effect a new technology like AI driven programming will have, but it’s a range of outcomes that includes increasing demand for adjacent skills as well as reducing demand.

I doubt a CS masters skills will forever be as highly remunerative as it has been, and the work will be different, but that is different than becoming a less valuable than an HVAC certification.

An AI/ML focus seems especially valuable as an understanding of how these new systems actually work, how to best use them, and what the pitfalls may be is likely going to be a hot skill set for some time.
Presumably you could have a law saying what kinds of things are or aren't sufficient grounds to ban people from places.
Why do you think ChatGPT will effect employment for programmers? If ChatGPT makes a few more major leaps forward it might be able to make me more productive (it is not even close currently for my work), I don’t see how current AI models will ever be able to replace my job.

If it improves an order of magnitude it might be able to make me more productive and I will be able to charge more for my time.

I wouldn’t even begin to know how to ask ChatGPT to help me with some of the more complex problems I am dealing with on a day to day basis. As far as I understand these models don’t build up any understand and even their memory is an illusion, previous conversations is just reevaluated with every new question. I assume this limits the complexity of what it can do, and does not seem scalable to me.

I see it being helpful in generating function names etc, perhaps adding more context to autocompletion tools for better suggestions, better front-end to Google so search becomes more efficient. And hopefully it helps me write the boilerplate in every email.

I honestly hopes it improves a lot, I see only benefits for our jobs. But currently not ready for serious work. Although a very impressive feat of engineering.
On one axis a plug-in hybrid is just objectively better than both ICE cars and EVs, it can use two sources of energy instead of one. But it comes with a bunch of other tradeoffs (which I don't know much about).

EVs work pretty OK in Norway. Some observations is that most/many choose to install a charger at home (or in the parking underneath their apartment), so the car starts every day fully charged. Another is that the grid is so built out that there is electricity "everywhere". Not necessarily enough for a super charger, but there is something. Most cabins have electricity for example. My hypothesis is that there are much fewer meters of road which is more than a kilometer from a source of electric power (at least in the south where most people live) in Norway compared to the US or Canada (relative to size).
If the pouches had a tamper evident tool-less ripcord to open it in the event of an emergency, I think that would resolve the concerns about a Bataclan scenario.
How Linux package managers handle these newer languages with their own package managers (including rust) is an ongoing pain point. Here’s an article from 2017 about it, and I don’t know if things have improved:

https://lwn.net/Articles/712318/
nit: its "group by country_of_birth". A person's family could be Monaco citizens living in India, where the person was born, and that person too would have to wait decades.
> ..you should buy the cheapest tool you can find and use safely, use it until it wears out, breaks, or your skill surpasses the capability of the tool..

I wholeheartedly agree with this view, with one caveat. You shouldn't cheap out on certain specialty tools where failure can pose a risk of injury or damage, a suspension spring compressor is my usual example. Fortunately, purchasing an expensive one-off tool isn't your only option! They're often available for rent from local auto parts stores, to keep with my example.

But yeah, besides that caveat, you'll often be better served by going with a reasonably priced tool. If you use it enough to wear it out, or break it, kudos! Time to upgrade.
The UX is terrible. Separate file for types is just inconvenient. I wish it was something like Python's optional typing
>The value of formal university CS education done well, at both BS and MS levels, is learning skills in a context that integrates those skills into a knowledge framework that transcends any particular technology and hopefully outlasts several trend changes.

While I don't disagree with your main point re the value of a CS degree, this is the same argument verbatim given by every English, History, and Underwater basket weaving professor.
This reminds me of the NYTimes article showing that cumulative stock returns from 1993-2018 were flat if you only looked at daytime trading hours. Most of the stock gains actually occurred when markets were closed, and the alpha is sucked up by extended hours traders (mostly non-retail):

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/your-money/stock-market-a...
It's also based on straw-manning the entire culture. "Artists are all men, and they all portray women as docile." This is pure BS, based on even a brief reflection on the matter.
Tangent: HN needs a "relevant links" comment category, for all the people that post these (helpful?) alternate links, or links to past HN discussions, etc
Something is happening, it's described by quantum mechanics. What is "really happening" is a moot question, because you're assuming that QM is in invalid description because it doesn't satisfy how you want the world to work.

Sorry, physics doesn't care that you find some descriptions of the world troubling. Some might find the magnetic field troubling since the divergence of the magnetic field is zero. Some might find the fact that mass and energy are equivalent as troubling.
It’s a general shift economy wise from the post WW2/wartime ‘build it simple, build it tough’ to optimizing to cheaper and cheaper price points (while maximizing profit) while ‘still works’.

Part of it I think is that most tool buyers now (statistically) are urban/suburban homeowners or renters which are not going to use it much, and are often not even capable of wearing out the old style tools. (And are not the proverbial 500 lb gorilla).

Industrial tools are still quite sturdy. They’re also far more expensive than any normal homeowner would (or should) ever consider.

It’s the market delivering what people will pay for, not what people say they want.
This was posted a few days ago[1], I have to say I am interested, as Ghost lost support for SQLite (and I have used that combo happily for years).

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34020786
I feel like someone that had no limbs would still be too heavy to carry around in a basket. What is the weight of a delimbed torso?
Obsidian is by far my favorite note taking app of all time. I always try new ones for specific stuff to see how each can improve my productivity daily, but I always stick with it for all my most important things. This canvas product being opensourced and migrateable is great specially for users that try different things like me.
Syncthing comes to my mind for that specific need.
https://syncthing.net/
Txtai 5.2 released: open-source semantic search
How far away do you think such a thing could be detected? Say someone set off a 100 megaton nuke in space within the Centauri star system. Could we detect it?
The gatekeeping function of elite universities is an incredibly important point to make, and is absolutely the most urgent reason to take this seriously.

No other reason is needed, but "principle" is being violated here. Bad ideas need to be pushed back on. I think that's true whether or not rules achieve "de facto" status, because a society's dysfunction is proportional to the degree it that lets bad rules slide "because they'll never be enforced". In this case these bad rules lay bare an ignorant and bigoted world-view that is fundamentally anti-human. It is teaching students and teachers all the wrong lessons, and ironically is not even helping the people it's claiming to want to help. It is pure and overt thought policing and Stanford, and anyone who cares about the school and its legacy, needs to clean house yesterday.
Someone pointing out a perspective on the topic and then calling that person the classic "hitler" is why you're getting a lot of broad backlash these days.

Instead of insulting someone for an opinion, maybe try making a counter point thats on topic and relevant to the comment? I know its tiring to have a conversation on the issue and its easier to attack people but thats how discussion goes.
The Mosh SSH client for intermittent connectivity ( https://mosh.org/ ) has definitely saved me at least 100 hours. Too bad that it's only available for Windows as a Chrome extension, and Chrome will discontinue support for it starting in the new year. Really not looking forward to having to search for an alternative...
v5.2 adds TextToSpeech and Cross-Encoder pipelines. The performance of the embeddings.batchtransform method was significantly improved, enabling a speed up in building semantic graphs. Default configuration is now available for Embeddings, allowing an Embeddings instance to be created with no arguments like Pipelines.
this is not bargain brand, it's more of a gimmick tool (costs more than harbor freight)
I'm guessing you skipped the intro portion of the OP, since that's not the "gaze" this is about.
Red Gate's SQL Prompt for SQL Server Management Studio. Saved countless hours in very small increments: https://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-prompt...
For me, SQLite support makes it less likely that I'd switch to a flat-file site generator over WordPress.
Slack allows users to read links sent in other users' private chats
Yeah I opted not to go, any of my friends didn’t. While it seemed like things were going good for a few years, all my friends are now getting jobs in really cool domains from university hiring pipelines whereas my careers is basically dead now.
An AI would write a better title
They can claim 'Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA.' all they want, but that's some deep Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon theming they got going on there. Impossible to take it seriously, and for sure not something I would send to my family
I can believe that the percentage of people who tried /used drugs occasionally without visible detriments is much higher than those who got their lives destroyed.

I can also believe that the absolute numbers of a victims of using drugs, alcohol, smoking is very high and so are the direct and collateral damage costs to society.
The content format is basically identical. I think claiming that it’s not a rival based on technical implementation details isn’t giving it enough credit.

You can also think about alternatives like Truth Social and Parler essentially cloning the Twitter content format, aren’t they also Twitter rivals? Couldn’t they be seen as different “instances” of Twitter with different moderation standards given that their functionality is basically identical?

In other words, the conversation should move away from “How does this work on a technical level?” and more toward “what value does this have for me?”

The truth is that Mastodon, regardless of instancing, holds the same value proposition as Twitter. It’s a legitimate alternative.
Not free speech, $8/month speech.
We like to call him by his pen name, Cowboy Bebop.
> if you try to force contributors to reproduce exactly your local setup

python -m venv venv
pip install -r requirements.txt

Do you consider that imposing? I assumed that was standard. Don't basically all Python projects in existence use something like it?
Flying machines seem unsafe because the pilot has limited control. Birds can quickly change the shape of their wing more drastically than planes or hang gliders, so there are less unrecoverable situations.
Is that any more ridiculous than thinking it's worthless in spite of public markets pricing it greater than $0?
After visiting amsterdam this summer, most of the city was honestly pretty disgusting. The architecture is beautiful as is taking a river cruise or viewing other cities around NL, however a lot of the central city just smelled like stale beer, was packed with sketchy guys trying to sell me coccaine and other illegal drugs. Prostitutes walking around was far from a "cultural element" it was just an area filled with weird euros looking for favors.

Food was generally really disappointing, however grocery stores / delivery apps were incredibly useful. The most annoying thing to me was how certain neighborhoods flat out do not accept Visa / Mastercard. Basically every other developed nation accepts Visa, I was annoyed and decided to not go back to areas where they literally couldn't take my money. That said, PUBLIC TRANSIT IN NL IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! But I don't for a second believe many ppl don't get TBI's from bike crashes without helmets.
And women use makeup and look good to attract men, and there's no shame in it. I don't think there's any shame in attempting to look attractive, as if it's shallow.

But that's aside the point, being that there's some implication that women don't objectify men via some "gaze" when clearly, they do. The representation of female attraction to men is done in different formats.
Agreed. For me, the issue is that this restriction is upheld at point of entry and not point of sale.

I get it’s a harder problem to restrict who tickets are sold to, but if a venue like that wants to get petty about who can attend their shows then the responsibility is on them to communicate that before the event.

To flip this another way, in any other normal circumstance, when you get banned from a venue you’d get a very clear communication telling you so. There is no ambiguity, you know you’re banned. Yet here the venue is still happy to take peoples money but doesn’t want to admit them. They’re basically having the best of both worlds.
Iterable is an import away, while list is already at my fingers.

There's zero harm in using list in private interfaces: I know I'm the only one passing the value, I know it is always a list.

As an argument type, Iterable is compatible with list, so it's benefits are minimal (with rare exceptions).

Lists are easier to inspect in a debugging session.

Iterable can be useful as return type, because it limits the interface.

Iterable is useful if you are actually making use of generators because of memory implications, but in this case you already know to use it, because your interfaces are incompatible with lists.

I can count on fingers of my hands when using Iterable instead of list actually made a difference.
I usually half joke (who can tell ! I can't !) that nobody got fired for buying IBM, Microsoft or Wordpress when asked why we use wordpress @work.
I guess you can install it in WSL?
> I do, actually, unfortunately the time has passed for those painters.

The most famous piece of art is the modern world is the Mona Lisa. Historical art carries much more weight than modern art in almost all cases. Just like we continue to examine and analyze historical events/people/etc, I don't see why we wouldn't also do that with art.
why no paypal?
The embedded nature of SQLite is somewhat offset by the stack still requiring PHP + Apache installed, what's one more dependency (MySQL)? All WordPress hosts already have MySQL installed, while installing WordPress from scratch is still a pain (or requires programs that manage that complexity for you e.g. XAMPP).
Did you muck with the kernel boot option to enable frequency and voltage adjustments? If so, the Arch wiki advice to set the bitmask to 0xffffffff will cause you problems. At some point they added an "async" driver mode that is incredibly glitchy, and it is enabled by one of those bits.

That caused me grief for many months until I figured it out. I updated Arch wiki about a month ago, and provided a command to compute a bit mask that avoids setting unnecessary feature bits.
Brexit wasn't based on actual harm caused by EU treaties. It was caused by bigotry, fear over economic issues being very deliberately misdirected due to propaganda, and a host of outright lies on the part of the Leave campaign.
There's a world of difference between the myisam & innodb storage engines. Not encouraging you to return or anything, just throwing it out there that many/most storage related problems were because of myisam.
My understanding is that's how a lot of small aircraft crashes happen. "Well, the weather's worse than I'd like to fly in... but if we wait until tomorrow we'll miss our reservations (or whatever) and everything will be delayed... eh, it's probably fine, let's go ahead, doesn't seem that bad."
I don't think it's quite right. AI is much better as a helper than as something that does the whole job. It also doesn't actually think, so replacing doctors with it would be a terrible, terrible idea.

I asked it to write a poem and got this: https://imgur.com/DBHjki5

Now, as an assistant, that's amazing. As an actual finished result, it's not good. It needs tweaking and fixing, to make everything work right. Same goes for AI images.

So here's what I think AI will actually endanger: stock photography. If you're writing a blog and need to stick a random illustration on an entry for extra appeal, the AI is perfect. You don't care if it fits in a theme, or if it's quite right. You need a picture of a cute cat, so most any cute cat will do.

Doing actual, specific illustrations with an AI is hard work and you'll find beating your head against it quite frequently, especially if you need more than one, and if you need something that's not quite well covered in the dataset. AI works much better to compliment a human artist that can guide it to generate what's needed, and fix the problems in post.
The US Navy developed program evaluation and review technique (PERT) way back in 1958 specifically to deal with that issue. It isn't perfect but it handles complex dependency chains and skewed variability just fine.

However, PERT hasn't been widely used in software. For most programs the improvement in estimation accuracy doesn't justify the management overhead. Better to do incremental delivery and reduce scope as needed to fit the schedule.
Obviously if people didn't support it then it would be repealed. That doesn't make it a good law. It is directly responsible for the housing affordability crisis in california. That's good for homeowners so they won't repeal it, but it's very bad for the state and everyone else. Which is the whole point here, direct democracy leads to 51% of the population shafting the other 49%.
There are a lot of claims here. Their offical statements are:

1. They don't want their show recorded.

2. They don't want their show "leaking" on the internet ("loss of ticket sells")

3. People using their phones "ruin the experience"

Realistically it's due to:

1. They say libalious things. (Aka Hanable Burris talking about Cosby before formal conversations were had) Also, they say things that upset groups of people who try to "boycott." Aka Louie and the Parkland shooting joke./"Cancelled"

2. They are pissy about bad recordings going up on the internet and being caught behaving badly. (https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/dave-chappelle-fan...)

3. It's there to protect notorious joke stealers from being caught in the act.
Noctilucent clouds are the only natural-occuring ice on the planet that isn't hexagonal, instead having mostly cubic crystals, which are stable in the low temp/low pressure environment. Cubic ice is very similar to hexagonal, unlike some of the more exotic ices that exist in high pressure and/or high temp environments in places like Europa's mantle.
Siri misheard them saying "this person".
Agreed!

If you are a trade professional and regularly have tools crap out on you, that's one thing. But my tools are more likely to need replacing purely out of obsolescence than anything else. And having an overbuilt tool collecting dust is just as much a waste as throwing one away occasionally.
The pure power of ripgrep + emacs to speed up refactoring _probably_ offsets the lots of game time i've spend diddling with my editor.

at least that's what i tell myself.