skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's nice actually. It also works great with JavaScript disabled! Thanks Wikipedia.
Jarred didn't port esbuild, his vision/ambition is far beyond that for bun.
But even as a transpiler, Jarred made different decisions about the compilation process. Also time doesn't really mean the same thing, this brosef works 80hrs/week on this stuff, and he's been doing that for over a year.

He chose Zig because it's a good language for performance sensitive applications and found himself to be very productive in it.
Comic Sans FTW.
A friend of mine raised an interesting question a few years back.

If Jesus was godly and perfect all the time, he'd basically be an unemotional miracle engine who could do no wrong.

If he was human but with access to godly powers... would be interesting to know about his mistakes and failings. Like a time he cured a sick man, and this man turned out to be a crook or something.

This was a pub conversation. I'm no theologian, so apologies if the topic is already dealt with in the religious texts.
Personally, I don't think so.

Decided to reboot my website and blog over the holidays for various reasons though I haven't repointed my domain to it yet. I'm not interested in monetizing. In retrospect, I should maybe have just hosted it somewhere like Lightsail rather than using Wordpress.com. But I can always do so when the hosting I bought needs to be renewed.
I've used this one with great success (and its free): https://github.com/tuespetre/TuesPechkin

its basically a wrapper for wkhtmltopdf but I develop an app that has probably generated a million +/- invoices/statements over the past 5 years with it, and its been rock solid for me. Was a bit of a bear to get it working the first time (not a ton of documentation that I could find at the time), but once working, was easy to add/change new documents/layouts.

As it uses wkhtmltopdf under to covers, it is a HTML->PDF tool, but I prefer that, at least for my use case.

Not sure there is a dotnet-core version, so that might be a problem for some.
flagged as inaccurate, from an air quality standpoint a combustion won't be as clean a humain respiration lot of dangerous particulates from the violent chemical reaction of burning, also the CO2 of humain is mostly biogenic and from a candle it is mostly fossil
no one's irreplaceable life is immediately endangered in the case of a layoff. apples and baseball bats.

if required by the employer to leave immediately, then there is no choice in the matter, rendering OP's question moot. if not, and you ditch your team, then you're (editorial you, not parent poster you) the asshole. do your fellow human a kindness, as opposed to just selfishly passing along the garbage, and you'll make the world a marginally better place.
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This looks awesome! The .NET foundation I hope supports this ASAP - https://old.dotnetfoundation.org/projects/

I don't know if it's due to "partnerships" but I never could understand why Microsoft didn't do better at supporting .NET Word & PDF tooling since .NET Core came out. The older versions I know at least had support for Word docs. Creating documents is a huge foundation of their company.
Of course they do. They are as much proponents of state funded lotteries as anyone else.
The half-bit you actually send means more to the recipient than the 160 bytes you don't.

I'm more unsettled by the automation part. At least the half-bit received came from someone who consciously thought about you enough to send it. Once you emulate that part, all you have is a MITM initiating conversations between strangers.
Hi Simon, thanks so much for taking the time. Been following your excellent work with Django for many years.

We took a look at DS several months ago (I believe it popped up here on HN) but I confess that until I read the linked article I hadn’t fully understood that it was a “hammer”, and a good one at that.

At that time we set it aside in favour of AirTable which for our purposes - to relate this to one of your other comments here - is sort of Access with a web interface plus authentication and (frankly not very granular) authorisation.

The main reason was because it seemed to us that Datasette didn’t have first class support for auth - that it was sort of positioned as a community or internal tool, rather than something we could build out a client interface on. I just had a look at the plugins and noted that there is something for auth, although it too looks rather to be for internal tooling. Is that a fair characterisation, or do we have it wrong? Because we love everything else about DS - open source, built on SQL and SQLite, etc. - and would vastly prefer to use it over AirTable.
layoffs don't necessarily mean a hiring freeze. some of these companies are definitely taking the opportunity to lay off more expensive staff and re-hire cheap new grads
Could you expand on what options exist currently? You say you are in the space, does that mean you have been keeping an eye on it, that you are working on something, or ?
Filing systems, automatic paper handling systems built for A4 won't process US legal. Passport forms include machine read sections such as signature, as do tax returns.

It won't fit in binders, envelope, storage boxes or tab folders.

It's asking for trouble, rejection is likely.
Drones. Sure you can buy a $22 mil next gen stealth fighter to secure air superiority but I can buy 200 drones that cost $2k for 1/100th of the price, launch them from much closer to the battlefield and good luck shooting all of them down to establish your air superiority. Or even better you send in your fancy fighter/bomber combo, I'm going to blanket the effected air with drones programed to move in an erratic and choatic manner and suddenly I just cost you $22 million for something that I paid $100 for.

Remember the Panzer was a better tank than the Sherman, but it didn't matter because the Sherman was cheaper to build and faster to make.
I hate modern life.
New York’s Failure to Implement Transit-Oriented Development
A good left-brained friend of mine was dating heavily in the late 2000s as he was in "wife finding mode".

He had a spreadsheet -- called girls.xls -- where he kept track of important details about each woman he went on a date with.

We were sitting around musing about how hard it must be to keep track of the key details given all the dates he was going on, and he let drop that he had a spreadsheet.

He never showed it to anybody and it didn't sound creepy - it was genuinely a tool he used in good faith given the volume of info he was trying to keep track of.

And, he ended up marrying #42.
We debate this in our home all the time. While I wish my kids read as much as we did when we were there age, I've also come to realize that much of this is about how they learn and the media available to them. For example - my son is very interested in history as I was at his age. While I spent hours reading, he has access to video content that simply wasn't available to me. Would it be better if he were reading that content rather than watching videos on YouTube? That's a real debate. Even saying something highbrow like - well, scholars (IE: trusted material) are still writing books, they aren't doing their thesis as video... well, you might be right, but there's so much crap being produced in all forms that it feels like it's more about the source than the medium.
Most other countries, sure. I don't know how their other fraudoffs like fraud protection work.
Burn out not usually presents with the full "i cant work anymore" symptoms from the onset. It usually starts with a "i cant take this main projects stress" anymore.
Better switch to a side-project that is not so stressful.
Something small.

A website.
A framework.
A library.

Something to feel the magic again, of creating, without getting crushed alive.
Fwiw, hmatrix-gsl works trivially and painlessly. Why does a working library need changes?
also need STALE and STILL-WARM
Double slash for stacked fractions was also my first impulse upon reading your post. Currently, it starts a line comment even within math, but that could be changed. We'll consider it!
The `click` library would be a nice replacement to `argparse`
oh! Thanks!
In such a competitive field, with more and more younger devs being integrated -- the world's best and brightest -- it's completely normal to feel that way.

But the reality is that what you're going through is probably more about a need to optimize for boosted cognitive function/ neuroplasticity / mental performance / healing at the cellular level. It's what a lot of us are dealing with as we approach or welcome the big 4-0 age. Me included.

Supplements, lifestyle modifications and behavioral changes are beneficial to help optimize for enhanced cognitive function. Here are some that have worked for me.

-15-30 min of sunlight + going for a walk every morning
-Cold showers (can alternate hot + cold... or even better, 10 min sauna + 1 min cold shower cycles)
-NMN/NAD
-Creatine
-Vitamin D3/K2
-Physical activity/exercise daily -- for me, weekly, it's 3 days of weight training, and 3-4 days of yoga/core work/rebounding/walking/etc.
-Meditation/mindfullness
-Social interaction (in person!)
-Time-restricted eating/intermittent fasting

Hope this helps. It sounds like your programming skills are exactly where they need to be/up to par with industry standards, so focusing on the cognitive/mental performance area should help boost your workflow/output. Good luck! Really enjoyed reading this thread. A lot of gold in here.
Spotlight, as in the underlying search technology and APIs originating from Mac OS X 10.4, is fantastic. Spotlight, as in the search box that appears when hitting Cmd+Space has become obnoxious and commonly thinks I want to know what 1 pascal is in inHg when I type "1pa" instead of thinking I want to open 1Password.

To this day Alfred remains one of the first things I install on a new Mac as a result. Still have access to Spotlight (the indexing service) search, but none of the extra "intelligence" (aka Spotlight the app thinking it knows better than me what I want) unless I explicitly ask for it by explicitly invoking an extra workflow for things like unit conversion, etc.
Functional Classes
I’m not saying it’s okay. It hurts consumers — not ok - and likely hurts amazon too in the longer run.

I was answering a question that someone posed — that people aren’t suing amazon because then ones who care enough to sue are instead getting their money back. What damages would they sue for?

If I’m wrong and at 31 days amazon refuses to give money back for a fraudulent product like this, then perhaps there’d be basis for a lawsuit. But I’ve not heard of that happening, and I’ve read a decent number of articles about this issue.
NASA Issues Award for Greener, More Fuel-Efficient [Truss-Braced Wing] Airliner
> I very, very rarely experience having my MR or issue completely ignored for years with projects which use a web issue/MR tracker, except for with unmaintained single-person hobby projects.

I mean, it might not be "completely ignored", but after the initial triage by a maintainer I have definitely experienced extremely large projects going years ignoring something from the core while occasionally random third parties show up to cry. The worst part is that if people stop actively commenting with "me too"--even if an official developer chastises them for it every time--the issue often gets auto-locked/deleted. (Or, in the case of a pull request, the code will rot to the point where something auto-closes it due to it no longer merging.)
This and some of the other non-profits they donate to is why I won't give them a cent
That wouldn’t scale though. ;)
Honestly, this sounds like the gulf between men’s experience dating and women’s, and neurotypical vs neurodivergent. Some ND people like helpers like this; and, women get so many suitors that a system to help them may be actually beneficial.

Also, journaling is a powerful tool.
Relax man :)

Let's say you want to a small notebook in the browser, JavaScript is nicer there, even with WebAssembly. Or the user is not a scientist, and already knows JS, and it lets them discover ML. It's not taking anything away from those Python projects.
> Given we assume Kantian the framework you just outlined

Do you have an alternate theory, something like a central broadcasting station of reality and the mind is a receiver? I'm open to the idea, but it is pseudo-scientific and therefore incorrect (or so it is regularly implied and perceived, if not outright asserted as fact). [Disclosure: here (and therefore incorrect) I am making a joke.]

> The usual response to this is that if you can't possess omniscient knowledge of reality, how could you possibly make a statement about reality

a) Because absolute knowledge is not a requirement for some knowledge.

b) Statements do not have to be true (in fact, most aren't absolutely true in a JTB sense)

> Imo the way out of this: talk about things being true in the context of logic only...

How do you account for:

a) the unknown?

b) the known delusional nature of the mind?

I'm not saying that it can't be done, but I'm curious how you would go about it.

> the second causality comes into the picture the word "true" means something entirely different.

At runtime yes, but philosophy has gone through this problem with extreme diligence - using logic, epistemology, and a few other techniques, it would be pretty easy to eliminate most flawed arguments and propositions (I bet 5 rules/methods would be enough to eliminate 80%). Eliminating incorrectness or unsoundness does not mean that you will convince everyone to realign their beliefs, but that is not a requirement for arriving at maximally possible correctness....and, "unknown" is a valid and very common form of correctness, that most people are not able to reach on certain topics.

> Trying to reconcile the two is like trying to write a mathematical proof of the existence of God

A whale and a mouse are both mammals, but a whale is not equal to a mouse.

Also: arguments like this (which tend to be extremely persuasive, and often account for a non-trivial amount of arguments) could be easily eliminated with a simple rule.
Exactly. It's more or less common practice for the average gamer to push the card right up to the point of visual artifacts, desktop freezing, etc.

Basically "go in MSI Afterburner and crank it up until the machine crashes".
If you're a new grad then presumably you're optimising for experience, not salary. I think it will be harder to find a good job for while, but it shouldn't be impossible to find any old job which will provide some relevant industry experience.

Late 2020 to earlier 2021 was nuts for tech jobs. Companies were hiring people who were massively unqualified just because they needed someone. During that time I was getting calls from recruiters weekly practically begging me to quit my job for some new opportunity they were recruiting for and unable to fill. Imo there are a lot of devs out there right now who only got hired because the market during 2020-2021. I worry a little for those guys because they were punching way above their weight to begin with and I think they'll probably struggle to find something as good should they get laid off.

The other people who might struggle are those looking for jobs specifically in the tech industry or tech startups. As someone looking for work right now I have noticed there are fewer jobs from tech companies out there, but there's still plenty of tech jobs in industries like travel, finance, and retail. Everyone needs tech workers these days so a tech industry slow down isn't necessarily the end of the world for someone with tech skills.
Dude I dont understand your trip. When people get on fucking television and say things like "we should start killing white people" or "white men are mysogonistic pigs" or "white people have no culture" etc how is that not racism?

Obviously white people arent being put in camps, but to say anti white racism is something I made up is patently absurd. This notion that a particular skin color has to be statistically disadvantaged or has to be historically attacked for their ethniticy in order for someome to be racust against them is insane.

Here is what you are literally saying "you can tell the truth about white people but its wrong to tell the truth about jews because it might turn people into anti semites"

Ironically kind of an anti semetic notion.
> bootstrapped businesses that may be took a decade to get to first few million which will be dead in VC terms

Isn't the criticism of the last decade of VC that it backed many of these?
I happily hire ICs that have been successful in the past at Amazon; they tend to have high output, good analytical / soft skills, and are generally pretty happy to not be at Amazon anymore.

the middle management layer is way more mixed, and where a lot of the putative toxicity comes from. Those people often bring the bad part of Amazon culture with them (especially those from more recent vs. earlier years).
That really seems like it should be the purview of the build system (such as cmake), not pkg-config. The flags provided by pkg-config should be as simple and obvious and easy to reason about and as portable as possible (and, worst case, as consistent as possible so you can convert it to some different flag format, as arguably is being done there by cmake). The goal of -isystem has nothing to do with syntax highlighting, even if your text editor may also be reading it (though I am unsure from where, lol)... it has non-trivial effects on things like #include path ordering.
Of course he did.
One of Russia's big issues I've heard is that they command down from above. They do not have a strong force of decision-making NCOs. This seems plausible given their poor and reactive performance in Ukraine.
Not necessarily. If you say starting a company is great because you asked 10 post-exit founders what they thought and they said “lots of work but totally worth it” that’s survivorship bias. Founders that didn’t survive wouldn’t say the same thing. If you’re saying that founding a startup in a down economy is a good idea because of a higher chance of survival that’s not survivorship bias. The non-survivors aren’t ignored, they’re included in the rate calculation.
IIRC the power cable is not permanently attached it's just very strongly attached but removable
headcount between 5-8k before layoffs, so not a massive percentage to lay off.
So that's why the answer is 42 !
I have my grandfathers Rolex. He wore it while trimming
hedges and doing all sorts of yard work. Why not, it was
his only watch and he needed to tell the time!

[...]

These days you see the exact opposite behavior. Everyone
has just become so precious about their goods.

Well... Rolexes were a lot more affordable in previous decades!

https://www.bobswatches.com/rolex-blog/history-of-time/rolex...

In the 1950s a Rolex Submariner cost about $1,500 in inflation-adjusted dollars and were some of the most rugged watches you could buy because they were designed for actual diving use. Today Rolexes start closer to $10,000 and there are obviously far more rugged and functional choices, such a $50 Casio G-Shock.

So, I don't know. I see people wearing their pricey smartwatches for all kinds of adventure stuff. I'm not sure that people are babying their watches these days.
oh! weirder and weirder! Thanks for the link!

edit: that was a good read! Thanks again
You missed the Heraclites reference.
In the 15 years I have been developing in python (and C++ at the same time, daily), I can't remember a single bug I ever had on account of an incorrect type.

I do like the := to save a few lines here and there.

3.10 does seem to run faster but maybe that is my imagination.

I wish more people would focus on writing good python.
I don't know if they subsume/extend/alsoown your copyright - but by dint of publishing on someone else's platform, you're beholden (to some extent) to that other entity
Wikimedia Foundation has around $350M of founds while the website expenses has been estimated around ~$10M per year. It could be run for more than 25 years without any money.

The Wikimedia Foundation manager takes $400k as salary.
Meant to say internal hosting, not internet hosting.
Now just try and feed a bunch of soldiers with authorized funds on an authorized mission. It's actually very difficult under DoD rules and people get nervous, thus so many grey-area work arounds like COM.
4090s?? No way
Study doesn’t need to be intense. I got my current job with about 6 hours of leetcode and no CS degree (although I did take a small handful of CS courses)
I have had a few people I know go on piles of dates, so I could see someone having a use for it if they are rapidly iterating through individuals.
Back in 2009 I had a dedicated server for $89/month

It wasn't the greatest thing in the world, but it was dual-core, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD. I ran a small forum, email server, and a couple buddies used it for shells and running whatever PHP apps they wanted.

An $80 Linode these days only has 16GB and 320GB.
Probably useful for straight girls more than guys tbh:

COUNT(ROWS(person.gender == Male and person.orientation == Straight)) == 0
I've heard of it, but never seen anything that suits my exact needs. If it solves image float problems, it'll be worth it.
They really don’t though. I thought this way for awhile until I became friends with some junior/mid level devs who spent months depressed because they wanted any job.
You can still not pay your taxes if you want to use tax fraud as a method of civil disobedience. The government doesn't just grab a random bank account and take money from it.

Sure, they'll send collections after you and get the money one way or another, but it's not like a bank account is going to make any difference there. They'll force open your door and sell your stuff if you make it hard enough for them, not sure how that's better.
As HN: Is a Hot Dog a Type of Taco?
Please explain your answer.
=)
This is so little money that one can only assume that this is done for morale reasons. The whole damn U.S. military makes only $100 M off this? It isn't worth the revenue at all.
The entire rest of the local economy. If you eat up a significant portion of the local labor poor with very high wages, who is left to do all of the normal local jobs? Working in retail, food production, sanitation, construction, education, etc.

What happens to prices when a significant portion of the workforce suddenly has tons more money? What happens to the people not lucky enough to have the new high paying job? What happens to the local economy when you leave?

When you pay locally crazy high wages you seriously distort the economy for everyone, it doesn’t just magically snap to a new normal where everyone is happy and free, you can very easily create huge wealth disparities that make situations for many people way worse off, and the people who “win” that you don’t employ were generally already winning.

Just pouring money into a highly impoverished place can be very harmful. “Above average” is good, “ridiculously above average” and you have to start considering your effects across the economy.
Since you mention Forth, I might mention that PostScript is another stack-based programming language (different than Forth although there are some similarities), which can be used to make PDF output. Additional PostScript codes could be made which you can load into your file in order to add additional procedures, etc for doing formatting that you will not need to write by yourself.
CRMs work at scale by selling to executives who are not the end users but are in control of budget. They then have their sales managers enforce data fidelity amongst the sales team who, to keep their jobs, are incentivized to make sure data in the CRM are up to date, or whatever the closest approximation to that is.

So for a personal CRM to work, you'd need to sort out, at minimum, the monetization piece and the data fidelity piece. If you open source it, you still need to make sure people keep the data up to date and that's actually pretty hard.