skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They haven't even adopted bech32

What? They’ve been supporting segwit addresses for years
Really? HN is one of the most anti-vax and COVID conspiratorial sites I browse regularly, it's pretty right-wing.
It won't help unless AI abides to the rules like most web crawlers do.

Even then someone may take your "all rights reserved" essay from your website and paste is elsewhere (illegally) and then a crawler gobbles it up to train with.
Show HN: A Node.js library for batching Google APIs requests
At the moment, the Google APIs Node.js client does not support batching multiple requests together. Yet, each individual API (Calendar, Gmail, Drive etc..) offers a way to batch multiple requests in 1 large HTTP request. The documentation clearly lays out how to do it using a multipart/mixed request/response format.

I wrote this library to make it easy for everyone to batch Google APIs requests together, without compromising on the developer experience of using the official Google APIs Node.js client.

Comments, improvements, suggestions welcomed!
You're porting one functioning api from one language to another.

How high up there is this on your list of things that you would like to be doing today? I'm guessing it's not very high. It would be pretty low on my list.

Start fiddling with ChatGPT and get it to convert it for you.

You're bored, not brain dead.
It's printing the result of the comparison (1 or 0), not the original values.
Like you, I don't. And I think most people don't, but you never hear about that because people like us don't have blogs. =)

That said, I do have a website, and I occasionally write about things I find interesting on it, but it's not a blog, and I only update it once or twice a year. I think in 2020 I updated it a whopping four times (Maybe you can guess why).

Twitter? Nah. I have an account, but I only use it for contacting companies when the usual channels don't work. LinkedIn? There's an account, but again it's almost entirely disused.

I've never had a company ask me to do anything with my own personal social media accounts, aside from a general, "Hey we're launching this new thing, if anyone wants to like and share, that would be cool."
I started to notice somewhat similar earlier in my life, around being 37 years old. I am 51 years old now.

I have an advice: walk daily as much as you can, but no more than two hours, ruminating what is bothering and/or factinates you in your work. Thinking around the exercise time can be very helpful. And walking allows you to think while doing some exercise, which is even more benefitial.

More than two hours of walking may result in more than 12 km of walk, which can be taxing. 5-6 km of walk is OK.

Personally, I also do resistance training and intermittent fasting, but my primary tool is walking and was for a long time.

Right now I am closing the bug that was introduced more than 10 years ago into the system I work with. I have more than four thousands of lines in changeset in more than four hundreds of files, in two unrelated repositories. So I think I am not all that bad at figuring things out.

PS
And sleep well! ;)
> other studies / doctors state that breakfast is the most important meal

Cereal companies say that.
Charles Simonyi said:

"It’s probably just that aging changes your mode of thinking. Right now, I have to really concentrate and I might even get a headache just trying to imagine something clearly and distinctly with twenty or thirty components. When I was young, I could imagine a castle with twenty rooms with each room having ten different objects in it. I would have no problem. I can’t do that anymore. Now I think more in terms of earlier experiences. I see a network of inchoate clouds, instead of the picture-postcard clearness. But I do write better programs."[0]

I can believe the part about better programs. Can you imagine working with somebody who can clearly visualize software with 200 sub-components in it? I once worked with software written by someone who had similar powers. He was a hardware designer. His software had very little organization; he wrote imperatively and remembered where everything was. Six months after he handed a program off to me, I spoke with him and told him I was currently trying to figure out where a particular component was initialized, and he told me exactly where, in what part of what file. IIRC, some hardware registers were being initialized in a procedure that was allocating working space for a numerical part of the program, because that's here he happened to open the log file for the first time, and he wanted the logging from the hardware registers to be the first thing in the log file, before he logged the fact that the memory had been allocated successfully. He remembered this with no hesitation, more than six months after he last touched the code, possibly two years after he made the decision to initialize the hardware in that spot.

Someone with less mental horsepower, like me, has to organize their code into modules with clear names and responsibilities.

[0] https://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/programmers-at-work-...
Maybe, but schools don't teach essay writing, of tutorial writing, they teach an ugly form of mechanical writing.
This happens to me when I’m trying to force myself to do something I do not want to do.

Maybe I’m making myself subconciously incapable of doing it.
John Oliver does a decent job at this while also embracing the US/UK shared history of messing up.
>CME isn't just "corn commodities";

Yes, I understand that and I wasn't dismissing CME as a simple platform. I used to work across the street from the CME and saw the traders walking around in their yellow jackets every day. The "corn" was only one example to tie it to a bank services scenario.

>, and a minter of new derivative products like S&P futures

I think Coinbase recently offered something similar: https://www.google.com/search?q=Coinbase+launches+Derivative...

Somehow, the wordsmithing in my comment got misconstrued as being dismissive of CME as being too simple and praising Coinbase as being complex.
Does said argument have it's origins on here? I went to college with this guy (Assuming it's the same Nick Tietz) and thought it was satire, but I have no idea how people change over the years.

That or we're on the bleeding edge of Poe's law.

edit: It's far too early and my eyes skipped over the first sentence in the article.
Very cool, I will bookmark this since I am out on a look for a new backend framework for an api I am building.
I am closer to 50 and didn’t notice much decline yet, however to pre-empt it, I started journaling. I write down what I did per day, tech solutions, how I got to them, links to git repos, what I cooked with ingredients etc. It is fun to be able to say what I cooked Tuesday 3 September if someone asks ‘that Thai dish you made somewhere in December’ or ‘how did you fix that weird nodejs issue’? And it is inspiration for blog posts, tweets etc.

For me it works wonders. Wish I started it when I was 17.
Spectre is essentially intrinsic to any out of order CPU that uses caches and needs to be addressed at the software level if you have information that shouldn't be leaking within a software process.

Meltdown never affected AMD CPUs in the first place.
Here are the linked tools: https://github.com/som-shahlab/psych-nlp
I second GP's recommendations. You stopped working out. Muscles atrophied. A bit more sweat time and you'll be buff again.

"even more advice": Issue is likely mental focus (since you have a finite daily mental, emotional stress budget)

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/breaking-the-chains-finding...

- (let go of) mental re(re)view. "This too shall pass".

+ (embrace) "just do it" && "Don't worry, be happy".

! (remember) chemical dependencies, if any, must be brought under control.
The End of Moore’s Law?
Yesterday's top post linked to this tool: https://www.knotend.com
It's a super fast/light flowchart editor. Might be useful!
I don’t believe you. Will you post a time stamped picture of the front of your passport?
> doesn't mean that other companies own it

Could you clarify what you mean by this? AI models definitely don't own other's IPs.

They may train using other's IPs, the same way I can "train" on Sweet Child O'Mine and I have the ability to reproduce that song (thus potentially infringe copyright).
How Damar Hamlin's collapse fueled anti-vaccine conspiracy theories
And yet again you confuse monetary "value" (more like exchange value) with value as in there is a use for it.
The difficulty here is its not clear that a user (Human or otherwise) has explicitly agreed to a license when they read content, including published code, on the internet.

Even with that in a license file on a public repository on GitHub or elsewhere I don't think it is currently legally binding under the current understanding of the law. We need test cases to go though the courts and potentially amendments to copyright law to make it clear that a license can restrict a user's privet use of content that is on the public internet.

Alternatively it needs to be found under copyright law that a ML model infringers on the content it is trained upon, unless it is licensed for that use case. Again that is not the current understanding of current copyright law.

Point is, a license with that in it probably does nothing to help, currently.
Plane maintenance involves a lot of precise and specially designed tools.
Interesting. The "full-width" characters is a whole other kettle of fish!
Opt out via environment variables (like dotnet requires) is hardly "easy" and it's quite fragile.
The UAE business that went from obscurity to a $240B valuation in 3 years
Sealants are still pretty standard. All my kids have them and most US Dental insurance covers it.
> Not only names like Batch or Functions don’t add much value

overly vague names have the same problems cute names have, and you generally see the same type of people using them (those who think software is "hard to change"–you're thinking of hardware!)

countless codebases have something called "entity" some geezer wrote a million years ago that the only reason it hasn't been deleted is that it's so generic everything depends on it

code that's hard to change or delete is bad code
I've worked for Japanese companies several times in the eighties and nineties and this was definitely a thing. We were an American division and yet we couldn't even get source code or art for the game we were supposed to be making for them. This continued when I worked for a Japanese video card company. They had good programmers but they jealously guarded their code even from other Japanese programmers in the same company and surely they wouldn't give any to us... working at the same freaking company. Another thing about Japanese code that was notable is that in my experience it was always bespoke and custom and quite often spaghetti. It could be brilliant but it had that hand crafted aspect, and was inscrutable outside of the mind who created it. There was no 'computer science' or any attempt to make it engineered - no self conscious thought about how to make software better other than to meet the target and often that target was defined by performance so the end result was no slouch but it wasn't what you would call elegant. This approach becomes very hard to scale. And I believe that is a key element in why Japanese software lagged. Great craftsmen but they did not evolve into engineers but of course I think this is probably changing because my snapshot is old.
As some other pointed out, this is not a good one. Not easy to pronounce. Not easy to remember. If you had workfromhome.com or even wrkfromhome.com, those are much better. Shorter doesn't always mean better. Your domain is not different from wfrmh.com which is all different letters and no pronounciation

You can still list at flippa auctions and try to see what people are offering. But I just bought a domain for $3K and it was much easier to pronounce and remember than this one (even though unrelated). I would personally not pay anything for this domain other than the usual $10-15/Year. My 2 cents.
I’ve been aware of these scam books for years, and had been tempted to write about what their existence says about writing, authorship and the deadening grind technology is making of every aspect of the creative arts, but never got around to the job.

The industry refers to these titles as "low content" books. They're not written by authors and aspiring writers. They're produced by people seeking passive income.

They started popping up about 10 years ago, thanks to 4HWW and low barriers to entry on Amazon and other publishing-on-demand platforms. YouTube accelerated the trend. One major POD provider, Ingram, banned such titles 3 years ago. Note the list includes summaries, journals, and AI-generated content:

Summaries, workbooks, abbreviations, insights, or similar type content without permission from the original author. For example: A Summary of J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Books containing blank pages exceeding 10%, notepads, scratchpads, journals, or similar type content.
Books or content that mirror/mimic popular titles, including without limiting, similar covers, cover design, title, author names, or similar type content.
Books that are misleading or likely to cause confusion by the buyer, including without limiting, inaccurate descriptions and cover art. For example: A book with a cover design that does not match the interior content; a cover that appears to be for a product other than a physical book.
Books listed at prices not reflective of the book’s market value. For example: a blank journal listed at $99.99.
Books scanned from original versions where all or parts contain illegible content to the detriment of the buyer.
Books created using artificial intelligence or automated processes.

Source: https://rogerpacker.com/ingramspark-bans-low-content-journal...
just wanna see how GraalPython will perform when i finish the HPy version
> there is a high penalty for making mistakes

I experienced this working for the US arm of a Japanese company. To report a bug would cause the programmer to lose face, so we had to waste a lot of time going through all kinds of contortions to lead someone to the bug without calling it out. We wrote a lot of "feature requests" that were really bug reports.
Hum, never had contractual sick leave in the uk. Normally whe you are sick, you just call in sick.
It wasn't OpenStack, that was just the attempt to recover.

Rackspace just lost. They failed to grow into a market leader before their industry commoditized. When you're in the early rush, growth is all that matters. But now if you want to compete with AWS, you need to be cheaper to operate than they are, and that's extremely hard if you're not at their scale. GCP and Azure can do it, little companies can't.
Ngrok-go: Ingress network straight from your app
Not true. Nearly all text in Japanese print media, ads, brochures, websites, video games, etc. is left-to-right horizontal. Only books and some magazines are written in vertical columns. Anyway, this again is not an insurmountable technical hurdle that held back Japan's otherwise burgeoning software industry.
piece of cake. Load up copilot and start typing a comment that credits yourself for your work. It will autosuggest somebody else's real name and email address that you can search up and validate.
I used to think I was smart. But I realized I'm just ok in smartness. We need to get smart about not being smart. To me that means having a plan. Then you can become effectively smarter than smart people. For example, I take notes now, I keep a work log and work journal. I read and watch the same articles/videos multiple times. I take my time understanding more before wagering a solution. I ask more questions and get more input from others. I provide value through better emotional intelligence than brute force productivity.
Because automobile manufacturers and oil industry are threatened by it. In the USA we've spent the last 65 years having cars marketed to us as lifestyles. Cars are now the primary status symbol and performative affiliation signal.
> The longer term Google/Meta stories are the rare exception. And that's not always a bad thing by any means.

Seemingly there are two types of companies: "Killers" and "To Be Killed". In order for you to grow like Google/Facebook, you need to "Kill" (acquire) other companies, who will be the ones who die, eventually.

Rackspace went to way of being acquired, so eventually to be killed. Google/Facebook went the way of acquiring other companies.

The only way to win is to not be either. Just a company that provides enough profits to cover the expenses and pay out bonuses whenever, but not acquire others nor be acquired by others.
This helped me: Nobody asks a professional violin player to "just" switch to the cello, because the orchestra is missing one. Yes, there are many musicians who are proficient in multiple instruments, and yes, the underlying music theory is the same and maybe even the playing mechanics might be very similar (e.g. within strings or winds).

A few years ago I made a conscious decision that - at least during my remaining professional career - I will not switch to a new programming language anymore. Instead, I intend to keep specializing in Java. I embrace the fact that in 20 years I will be today's (Assembly|Fortran|C|...)-specialist. I do enjoy reading about other language features. I applaud the people at the cutting edge, experimenting with new stuff, and I am glad that Java is slowly incorporation some of those innovations. Every LTS release (2-3 years), I enjoy learning the curated set that Oracle's language architects decided to add.

This decision helped me tremendously with the fear of missing out on the latest and greatest.
The emergencies you're talking about in seafaring are situations where people might die. Conventions and rules appropriate for that kind of situation are very different than for lower stakes situations, and I don't think the analogy is very illuminating.
the fallout from unscrupulous actors in the industry.

Isn't this kinda the norm rather than the exception?

Is there reason to expect otherwise in a market that is *unregulated*?

It sounds like they failed to grasp the fundamental nature of the marketplace they operate in. Maybe they should have become a bank instead.
Microsoft is looking at OpenAI’s GPT for Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
If an amount of traffic that nobody else even notices brings you to your knees, you're doing something wrong. Go could be far more efficient but pointing at this and calling it a DDoS is silly.
The problem with "no graded homework" (which has to include "no sneaking homework into school"), is that it means that it's impossible to grade anything substantial like a thesis project, so grades only cover trivialities, and have a huge bias for rewarding speed over depth and quality.
Does anybody else have the feeling "Microsoft is back"?

With GitHub and OpenAI the have put their finger on two pretty significant new projects.

What new things has Google come up with over the last 5 years?
LSP only applies to programming languages and specific configuration files, it's useless when you edit files such as JSON/YAML/etc.
Why does this happen? It seems to be self inflicted fatal wounding that businesses would try to avoid.

Is it just principal/agent problem by those who are in a position to extract funds from the company? Do people think "it will be different this time!"?
Why try to keep things in your head? Make notes on a piece of paper, or in a text file as you go.
I find that this helps tremendously with non-trivial tasks.
LN can be used privately if you send to your own wallet, and Coinbase likes to track what people do after their coins leave Coinbase. Brian said they can't list privacy friendly coins like XMR due to regulations.

LN is also unreliable to this day and i frequently get routing issues about 15% of the time using the most popular custodial LN wallets and sending to popular LN payment gateways. I'm guessing it would be even worse if i was transacting with small shops or self-hosted LN users. This would be a massive customer support burden.
"Follow the process" is because this is like the tenth example of engineers and maintenance personnel trying to ignore the instruction booklet and nearly getting hundreds of people killed.

"Read and follow the directions exactly" is a rule that is written in blood.
Well yeah because those things are all specific implementations of services. They need to have unique names for preciseness.

"Oh yeah we've moved our app processes into containers which we manage with our workload scheduler and discovery service."

What is the app? What kind of containers? What kind of scheduler? What kind of discovery service? Guess you just have to know. Verses.

"Oh yeah we moved our frontend Rails processes into Docker containers which we manage with Nomad and Consul."
Most Japanese didn't historically own desktop computers due to the average Japanese home not having enough square feet to easily accommodate them, which is why they adopted smartphones ten years earlier than every other country except Finland. If they had had a couple more decades to play with computers before software took off as a big industry, maybe the culture would have shifted somewhat.
That's a bit like saying:

America still to this day fails at smart phones (see Apple)
You added 5G.

The point is that the ultra wealthy are going to corporatize farmland and the basic building blocks of food generation.

Soon you won't even be able to go to a local farmer to get fresh produce or meat (because meat is murder! /s). You'll only be able to get food on their terms, similar to healthy food deserts in cities that we see directly affect the health of inner city populations.
And if not — definitely when it hit a thousand.
Sure but that's also a bad way of thinking about it, because hula hoops aren't useful infrastructure
thatsthejoke
Goodbye 2022 and Tarrant County: Shit-Kicker Cowtown-Railyard-Airport Backwater
They've already survived two crypto winters as well before this one, so they've already had experience and gotten to see what works and what doesn't, and have structured their company accordingly. I think if any crypto company deserves to survive this crypto winter, they're probably the most deserving.
I went on to try "War, Peace, and Social Order", and was reminded of the Verhoeven version of Starship Troopers. And as to the necessity of serfdom in Russia; with hindsight I know it only lasted a couple of decades past Мёртвые души...

Are there other parts of the essay I should try reading?
Vermeer Technologies still linger in Microsoft 365. I think they were acquired in the 90s and their product became Frontpage, which became SharePoint. A bunch of critical services lives in _vti_bin
> she would constantly blame her lateness on their son

This is incredibly sad.

How can a parent ever use their child to hide their own shortcomings? Instead of owning up to their fault?
Ask GPT for the sources.
Giving things cutesy names is hardly inclusive behaviour, especially for those who don't speak English as a first language.
The definition of TDP has been mangled and it's not even the same between Intel and AMD. For AMD's case you should also look at PPT (Package Power Tracking).
> Cute names have no chance of being useful.

A cute name can be useful if it implies its intent. This usually relies upon some social shared context.

Gopher: mechanism for fetching data

Ask Jeeves: search engine

Alta Vista: i guess literally a lookout point

Web itself is an analogy, and probably so successful that it no longer sounds cute.
Life, Death and the Monster
Isn't there a difference between interpreting Python code with CPython (which I would call "Python") and running compiled C from Python (which I would call "C")?

Then it kind of make sense to talk about " pure Python" (the interpreted one) and "wrapped C", doesn't it?
The downfall of Rackspace started even before the Apollo acquisition. It was obvious back then that the company no longer had anything unique to offer the market.