skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So NATO is deliberately prolonging the war at the expense of Ukraine to fulfil some masterplan involving a time-delayed demographic-based attack on Russia to weaken it? Nah, I don't buy it.

Assuming it was possible through increased arms sales/lend-leases/donations to tip the balance (it's not) - wouldn't a quick, comprehensive defeat followed by the accession of Ukraine to NATO and the EU be more of a destabilising black-eye for Russia than a slow-burn demographic time-bomb? Given that they've now seen first-hand the difference between being a NATO member and not, why would Ukraine then go on to burn the possibility of joining by then countering with an invasion of Russia?

If it was possible to end this quickly in Ukraine's favour without starting WW3 then NATO countries would have done so. At the very least so the the EU could go back to buying gas and oil from Russia.
at the very least it will be needed to maintain the backend for the rust compilers.
process the directories into an object in one function, make a single database call with multiple statements in another
> if Apple wanted to encourage server-side Swift this would be a way to do it.

Apple wants money. Encouraging/discouraging server-side Swift (by itself) is orthogonal/irrelevant to making money.
a)I want a blog

b)First invent the universe
Ghost is self-hostable, and you should be able to get a VPS matching the system requirements for $5/mo unless you get properly popular so need more hosting umph.

Though Ghost would be overkill for a really simple blog, despite its staring point as intending to be just enough tech to host content well (a reaction to what WordPress has/had become).
uff. I cant even imagine what loosing github would mean to an economy and hope you will be back on track soon.
To an extent this is what the FoundationDB Record Layer does.

https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-record-layer
> One of my favorite transformations: Spectacle Island, which doubled in size after being used as a city dump from the 1920s until 1959, is now a national park.

Nitpick: it's a National Recreation Area, not a (capital) National Park. I suppose in lowercase it carries a different meaning :-)
If you want to start a blog quickly check out Notaku [0], it can create a blog website using Notion to manage content

[0] https://notaku.so/product/blog
The reality is that many people don’t want to talk to anyone else, and ultimately want to be paid to do little or no work at all.

So many folks are completely disconnected from the performance of their group (whatever structure that group takes), that stuff like this starts to sound appealing.

Nobody who wants to get things done (that actually benefit the group) would advocate for not collaborating with other members of the group, but folks who want to maximize extraction with minimal effort would.
I honestly don't blame people who grew up in the shadow of Chernobyl (some literally) who are critical of nuclear.

They're wrong, but I understand completely where their fear comes from.
Hm, I'm not 100% sure about this. If your first buffer is big enough, your next write should be issued before the OS has managed to write it all.
Hey, OP here. This is great! I’d love to get this into the hands of Adrian (that’s the kiddo’s name).

Unfortunately, my hardware assembly skills are next to zero. Is there any chance to get a pre-assembled prototype? I’d happily pay for the BOM and blog about Adrian’s experience with this.
A friend had a 20-yr-old Merc, it was about 1990 model so he had it in 2010. When he gave me a lift in it , it did indeed have a nice smooth ride. Being 20 yrs old, it had the added benefit of not costing a s** ton of money and therefore he didn't have to work for a soul-sucking sweatshop to afford it. ;) It was also still reliable, unlike modern Mercs (if anecdotes are to be believed)
What I found an interesting approach at a company I worked was that I think every quarter everybody has to empty their calendars completely and should schedule meetings not on specific weekdays
Not sure it's that bad. Small, static text with minimal includes might be 300 bytes of overhead. What's the harm in having a few thousand of these?
depends on your physical location. and even if it's a rather unfortunate one you might get away with using tor or similar
Could this be described as being skilled at picking your battles?
Turn off the damned notifications.
We were working exclusively with filenames (and files) that we generated ourselves, moving them around in our own infrastructure, and writing all of our own configs, yes :P

I didn't insinuate that there weren't problems or that I wanted to keep Python 2 - just that it was perfectly normal to use it and not run into problems. I think I only remember a handful of encoding problems with my other python 2 adventures...
There are degrees of everything. At the end of the day, anything can be cut off from the network. But the standards for doing so can differ significantly.
What is the purpose of your comment? Do you have a belief that if the global mean temperature were, for instance, raised 3 degrees celsius that this change would not result in noticeable changes in weather? Weather does not affect or result in global warming but global warming does affect and result in weather change.
You don't need to run and build the site every time. Jekyll crawls to a halt on my website if I build it locally when I write. So, I just write in Obsidian, iAWriter, or Sublime Text. The articles are sometimes un-finished, to-be-edited. I push them and Github does the magic.

Now, replace Jekyll with any SSG and let a tool handle the build (Netlify, Vercel, CloudFlare Pages).

For your specific tweet/comment like post, I remember deploying quite a few instances of something called "P2" from WordPress for internal department updates, team updates etc.

WordPress P2: https://wordpress.org/themes/p2/
I've been working off-and-on on a closely related problem: to figure out for a given handspan what the right fingering for a piece is. This is not simple, or, at least, it isn't simple for me.
Read my last post over. I'm no expert, so try and trust it.
Fair enough. The catch, though is that ... I am the guy working on the ERP, in your example ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's just muttering to myself with extra steps. :D
Got the same issue. Found those static site generators somewhat unwieldy to handle, especially for non-tech people. I worked on two different approaches:

* A desktop app for creating static blogs, local preview, generates assets, optional deploy directly to Vercel. [1]

* A cron job which reads the paragraphs of a Notion page. Currently only generates an Atom/RSS feed from each paragraph. Inspired by [2], currently no source available.

[1] https://www.project-daily.com

[2] https://brandur.org/atoms
I was referring to your "only downside" statement (size and mutability of messages). No, that's far from the only downside, and in my experience, not even the most important one.

> In the cases where we use these, the caller is aware (via the interface documentation) that this is a distributed system where sometimes invocations happen really fast and reliably.

This is at odds with

> I have systems where the decision to put the module in the same process or to call it via RPC is done at runtime.

Either it's in the caller's choice (based on the documentation), or it's at runtime, but it can't be both and be equally reliable.
I wish the National Weather Service could develop an app.
Ok, this is a novel approach.

However, it doesn't give us new information, and might be an ad for Netlify (I did not find evidence for that in a cursory whois search, basing on it pushing Netlify twice).
I think that's a reasonable heuristic, but I'd also say you have to take into account the human readability aspect of it. It sometimes does make sense IMO to split solely for that, if it allows you to "reduce" a complicated/confusing operation to a string name, leading to it being easier to understand at a glance.
> nuclear doesn’t require we do business with cobalt slavers

Uranium does not exactly get pooped out by sparkly unicorns either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_p...
Ask HN: Why is Toptal so successful?
They appear to be a fairly normal contracting company- they receive contracts for work for x number of dollars per hour, and they pay contractors y dollars. There are literally millions of companies on Earth that do this exact thing- lots of consultancies, agencies, there are staffing agencies who may be specialized in a particular kind of tech, etc. The industry has an incredibly low barrier to entry.

What specifically is it about Toptal that made them become such a successful consultancy? Is there any kind of secret sauce that distinguishes them from other 'we provide contractors at y rate' companies? If you're in a management role at a tech company you are absolutely inundated with pitches from these firms. Is it just an execution thing on Toptal's end- some % of an industry will do the basics much better than the rest?
Yes; and now we have to keep every version of Perl around in our package managers because they're all used by some code.

That's terrible practice.
Many companies have weekly all-hands. E.g. My previous company had a weekly all-hands for the entire company (150 people).
Introduction to Code Language
I find it is very true that recurring meetings often have low-value content but nevertheless the discussion manages to fill up the time. Given that meetings with an actual agenda are not banned I could see this potentially being an improvement.
Men Without Work (2016)
In lieu of any particular review I’m submitting the Wikipedia page.

I was unemployed for most of the Great Recession and can empathize with much of this book. I also just remember the “tragedy of my twenties” realizing society had basically no interest in me. Despite a math degree and IT/programming experience. Then the myriad people I’ve interacted with in the last decade plus who are in this situation.

Luckily I now have good paying career. But I fear a society that leaves so many cold.
Okay, let's not argue about the extend of the war, I am still not convinced that it could not get a lot worse, but if it already is as bad as it can get, that would - in a certain way - be a good thing as it can not get any worse, at least besides lasting longer.

This leaves the question, is your proposed end acceptable for Putin? In essence your are saying, if I do not misunderstand you, undo the last year, at the very least. What makes you believe that Putin would judge the situation differently this time, i.e. that this situation does not warrant the invasion of Ukraine?
I like fastify more than express due to the great opinions (json schema, hooks etc). I use fastify + the fastify-nextjs plugin. It works great and lets you expose custom request decorations from node.js to next.js.

Maybe this can help you too: https://github.com/fastify/fastify-nextjs

The only drawback is the slow startup time of next.js, which becomes really annoying with huge next.js projects. But for smaller projects, fastify-nextjs is fine.
I don't believe it, its true.

I was on twitter for 7 years. Hundreds of followers, thousands of tweets. Maybe 6 actual replies in that time.

I've been on mastodon for 5 years now. I have people I'd genuinely call friends. A community. Regular meaningful engagement with actual humans about the stuff we make and share with each other.

Twitter isn't designed for engagement between people. its designed to make money by getting you to engage with twitter as a platform.
There was mono.

Can you build Minecraft with this thing? Can you still build Minecraft at all?
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Using "box of punch cards" as REPL, "punch card machine" as 'solo cpu' and "device operator" as handler for everything else.
Lisp just does the punch card box. Scheme does "the box" with access to the "punch card machine" and emacs covers the whole REPL, 'solo cpu', 'device operator' stuff

So, common lisp needs a 'device operator' namespace.
The UK’s PSTN network will switch off in 2025 (2021)
Ex-Facebooker Ex-Googler here. IMHO? Absolutely not. Infrastructure just isn't in FB's DNA.

I've never worked at Amazon but my understanding was that AWS was born from bezos deciding one day that the whole company would adopt a microservices architecture and the basic technology for that became AWS. This is quintessential eat your own dogfood. They were first to market and committed a lot to it so they became dominant.

Google (IMHO) only ever really entered the cloud space because they were afraid of AWS becoming so large that Google would cease to be a price-maker in the hardware space and would be a price-taker. I think I read at one point Google was purchasing 1 in 10 hard disks produced globally. That gives you a lot of power to set prices and secure supply if you're smart. Google didn't want to lose that position to Amazon so Cloud became a means of creating demand for more hardware.

Internally, Google services run on what can only be described as a data center OS (ie Borg). You set resource constraints like how much memory and how many CPUs your processes need and there's a scheduler that makes sure you only share resources on a server with other processes within total constraints. There's more to this like flex resource scheduling but it'll do for this example. IIRC Linux's cgroups, which form the basis of this, were contributed to Linux by Google.

Even so, my understand was that Google Cloud was relatively inefficient through all the networking and cloud VM/resource layers. This was years ago so may no longer be true and I have no idea how this compares to Amazon. But Google is prepared to get through that for other reasons. Still, Google doesn't use Cloud internally (unlike Amazon).

Facebook does some things very well, particularly produce deployment. You really can push a diff to master and it just gets auto-deployed to prod 1-4 hours later. What's more you have a bunch of UI frameworks such that developing a fully-functional UI that fits the FB style is amazingly quick.

But on the infra side, everything I saw was a disaster. There were still different specs of servers and each server AFAIK only runs one thing. There's none of the resource constraining stuff Google has. So how would you deploy Cloud to such infra? The answer is you wouldn't because you'd have to rebuild it from scratch and/or create completely different infra to what the rest of the company uses.

FB's approach has always beeen to build things quickly and not worry about efficiency. That's not the recipe for success in a low-margin business like cloud.
I want to perform some research of my own on which exams chatGPT can and can't do. It's multilingual, so can people from outside the UK (I already know where to get those) point me at some example exams and marking schemes? Any level, not just top.

Currently have Polish school maths: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34205732
It's not the other side of the coin, it's a direct consequence.

They had to push back the EOL because they screwed up.
Just two of many reasons: parallel linting, parallel parsing.
>That said, I wish that YouTube had multiple competitors of similar size, both commercial and decentralized. It makes me nervous that access to so much great content is ultimately controlled by Google.

If you worked in the SEO world after Google acquired YT it was a common hack to use YT videos to rank for hard keywords because it was proven Google gave YT favorable positions, even compared to other video sites. There were dedicated tools for quickly creating spam videos on topics and then linking people to your website.

YT wasn't completely dominant until they were acquired by Google and had their growth boosted via monopoly tactics using Google Search
that analogy is no more applicable than saying my barista enjoys coffee.

alcohol and weed are not directly comparable.

(i would also posit that many servers and bartenders do in fact enjoy the devil's juice on the clock)
According to a GfK Study from April 2021, asking 1001 Germans between 18 and 74, the largest influences on purchasing decisions were:

- personal recommendations from friends (35,5%)

- independent comparison tests (30,5%)

- amazon reviews (23,2%)

- media reports (13,7%)

- corporate information, including advertising (10,0%)
My company has around 3000 people split in to six legal entities and sub divided in to a further 18 operations most people would call "companies"

A 50+ person meeting could be the global team brief (monthly), the regional team brief (weekly), kick off or milestone meeting of any project branching across multiple legal entities, change to global policy such as HR or finance, further meetings for IT to plan and implement these changes.

The list really goes on.....

I tend to mute myself and do some housework. I find i can get 99% of the detail from 5 minutes with the slide deck and the minutes.
There's probably many reasons but one that comes to mind is, if I'm first am I an ambassador for my race now? Probably. The people here might be self selecting in other aspects of their life so they may not actually be around PoC anywhere else.

Another aspect is that I don't have that shared connection or ease of relating to people in the group. The activity has obviously selected for a specific group and there are probably other aspects of their lives that are also different from my own.

Past experience mostly. Trying to make friends where the majority is white was difficult though I was in university and far more awkward then. One on one or in smaller settings, its easier and at work it's relatively straightforward to become friendly with anyone.
I think you misspelled “profit” there. Engagement isn't the driver for the algorithm, profit is. It’s all about showing “fresh” content on every refresh so they have your eyes longer, and therefore more ad revenue.

Masto is chronological, so there’s WAY more chance of natural discovery of content. It’s not buried by the algorithm because it doesn’t align with the hot take of the day, or isn't “trending”.

I’ve personally found Mastodon to be far more engaging than Twitter, but that’s probably not going to be the se for everyone.
They are still pushing FOSS adoption and publish bugfixes regularly. The aim just isn't to have many cheap hosting users directly.

Not speaking for the project here. Just what I understood from conversations with devs.
I'm certainly not making fun! I earnestly mean that. I write consumer apps for a living, which are used by millions of people. GenPop UX is my bread and butter. I don't have the luxury of thinking about how devs will use a product; I have to worry about how your grandmother is going to use it.

Case in point: grandmas use facebook, but they don't use hackernews. Grandmas will use a site that works like facebook, but will not create blogs or do even one extra step other than "sign up" and "write text into a box"/"upload images from their camera".

Social media isn't all journalists and the terminally online. I'm picking on "grandmas", but those dudes that sit in their truck and record political rants on tiktok apply as well. These people need an immediate outlet, and these are the biggest percentage of users (by consumption, rather than content production). MOST people just want to comment. The internet loves a peanut gallery, and god do people love to participate. So comments and realtime interactivity have to be a priority.

Moving on; I'm glad to hear that ads are available via RSS! I genuinely didn't know (though, I suspected they could be snuck in there, if it wasn't 'technically' a feature). I wonder, though, if they're modern enough to be useful? I doubt RSS can do pre-roll video content, or interstitial video ad insertion? If so, that's pretty great! But I think you'd need stuff like that for people who - say - posted webcomics and wanted to monetize that with video ads before and after their "articles". Or news outlets that wanted to share their latest "headline" clip.

As far as the fediverse, I like a lot of what it has done, but my concerns remain there, too. It's close to what we need, as far as decentralization goes, but it isn't seamless, yet, and it's simply NOT being picked up by the general public. My guess on that is because of the extra steps involved (again, grandmas and mirrored-sunglasses-bros). But I don't claim to be an expert there.
We have to break out of this view count trap if we want to be free of the ills of centralized social media.

Maybe instead of views, consider the effect of your words on the outside world. How often does a tweet change your thinking or deeply enlighten you? The rare times something like this sorta happens is in the awkward form of a tweet thread, where it would've been much better as a proper article. Speaking personally, there's blog articles that have vastly changed my view of some part of reality and improved my life.
Sociopathy is the way to attaining power in organizations. "Disagreeable personality" doesn't allow for much manipulation.
Obviously still needs to happen inside a classroom otherwise students could hand copy the ChatGPT output. Could drop the essay and do oral exams.
Pretty sure this is sarcasm, but for general interest I'll mention the Phantom of Heilbronn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn), "responsible" for multiple murders, but really just an employee at the company that made the cotton swabs that got used for DNA collection.
I usually say that microservices are a good concept. Do everything to enable the split of your monolith, then ..don't.
I was just watching Rick Beato's interview with Billy Corgan and one of the things they dwelled on was that while the early band had intonation and feel sorted out, they were a mess with keeping time (i.e. "playing to a tick") and it caused a number of interesting problems for them as their popularity exploded and the production level of their albums increases. They all eventually had to learn to play correctly because it enabled them to bring in other musicians, and layer in other sounds more reliably. It also more or less became a requirement in the post "pro-tools" world that they transitioned into.
Can you explain how exactly Python stalled as a result?
Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy. [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
On the other hand, you don't have to post regularly.
The only reason to ignore that is if you hate the future you that will have to deal with it
So you saying that for example Donbass is populated mostly by Russian citizens rather than Ukrainians? I find that hard to believe. I am sure some "real Russians" were sent in and mess with the situation but do you think that if the main population of Donbass was really against it they would not have resisted the way the rest of Ukraine does now?
It would be a meaningless data point without the necessary calibration, so that's why I left it at x. Some kids can be left alone to play nicely, others require constant supervision, discipline, redirecting of their energy, etc. The folks I talked to already knew my son and had similar kids / challenges of their own.