skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have been told by teammates that I don't write "Swifty" Swift code, instead writing something more like an "Objective-Swift" style. Oh, and they say that like it's a bad thing

Depending on what they mean by this, I agree that it can be a bad thing.

Years ago, in the days when Swift was still pretty green (around 2.x or 3.x) I knew someone who liked to try to write "Objective-C in Swift" — that is, they'd try to ignore the type system and optionality entirely, with lots of forced casts, forced unwraps, shipping data around in [String:Any] dictionaries, etc… constant fighting with the compiler that made SourceKit very unhappy and crashy and the app we were working on more crash-prone than it would've been had it been written in Objective-C.

On the other hand, if it's just a more verbose style that favors clarity and avoids e.g. unnamed closure arguments and breaks more out into well named variables and functions, I don't see anything wrong with that at all and in fact have been leaning further in that direction as time goes on.
some use freight activity as a measure of economy, atleast "real economy".
(Founder @ Retool here.)

Haha, as an HN reader, agreed that it comes across that way. We haven't (and will not) astroturf. I'm guessing this particular user here is John Hughes (https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-hughes-628713227), who works at a company called The Modern Milkman (https://www.modernmilkman.com/home/). Here's a recent video of him talking about how he uses another Retool product, Retool Workflows: https://youtu.be/a8lVEYiUJdc?t=2681.

John has no financial interest in Retool. But I am glad that he likes the product!
LASERs had the same problem when they were first invented. It took serious cost reductions before they became practical outside of laboratory environments. Now they are everywhere. I think Quantum computing is currently in the same place. The systems just aren't practical yet, but if they survive and iterate a few more times it could be revolutionary.
On the London tube there were self referential ads saying "when you see crypto ads in the tube it is time to buy". /Facepalm
SBF, Bored Ape Yacht Club, and the Hangover After the Art World’s NFT Gold Rush
My bad, I meant waste volume.
This. A remarkable amount of medical intervention is to externally moderate natural bodily processes that, if allowed to run to their conclusion, would disrupt the body to the point of destruction.

There's nothing special and privileged about "natural" processes; if there were we wouldn't need medicine at all.
Sounds like you're drinking their cool-aid.
Pretty sure the Titanic was paid in GBP -- the 1.5M GBP number is correct, the exchange rate was bit different back than.

https://steemit.com/money/@lixtiklipbalm/exchange-rate-of-br...
The thing that always annoyed me with the last 3 characters question is that it assumes everyone knows everything. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/

The noob clearly thought extensions are always 3 characters because that's the only thing they've been exposed to. They didn't know "how do I get the last 3 characters in a filename?" and "how do I get a file extension?" are different questions. It may not have occurred to them to ask how to get the extension, and to take it further, maybe they don't know everything after the . is called an extension.
This article reminds me that I’ve been meaning to buy a microscope to play around with. Any suggestions for an affordable, beginner-friendly microscope setup?
Will Machines Think? (Richard Socher, Jochen Wegner) – DLD 23
Profiling and Optimizing an Interpreter
You're most welcome. Perhaps in second place: John Lithgow looking out the window during a flight and seeing on the wing... I won't spoil it in case you haven't [yet] seen it.
I'd strongly recommend some ancient philosophy.

The History of Philosophy podcast gives a good introduction starting with the Greek / pre-Socratic philosophers.

<https://historyofphilosophy.net/>

There are a few others, including Stephen West's Philosophize This (<https://www.philosophizethis.org/>) and Carneades: (<https://www.carneades.org/>).
People doing "economist things" but with money at stake (i.e. financial analysts) already do that stuff.
Or, better yet, go from 0.5% to 0.6% or 1%.
I'd love to see a debate between your viewpoint and that of MauranKilom in the thread. I think I'm kind of stuck between your two perspectives and I'm not sure I really understand your perspective while I feel like MauranKilom's is my default.
something with gamedev probably
*to Windows 11
I have no trouble finding stuff to buy from companies other than Amazon. For retail, it is not even close to a monopoly.
The current wisdom is that PP is one of the least problematic plastics wrt to leachate contaminating the contents. HDPE is also fairly well regarded. In theory LDPE is also considered 'food safe' but if you can smell the plasticizers evaporating off of LDPE (which I absolutely can) then what's it doing to your food?

I read something about PE in the environment recently but I can't recall if it said it was the hardest to break down or the easiest. I'm thinking the former though, since I came away from that article feeling better about PP and worse about PE.
And therefore completely ignore the 50% of the global economy that is services.
I found a legal article discussing this as it relates to software. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34444646
I haven't bought anything from Amazon in years and you shouldn't either. Buying things from them supports slave labor, union busting, and low wages.
Don't use Twilio Authy. From https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blues-lab/totp-app-analysi... : "the Twilio Authy app and Zoho OneAuth app each store backups on their own servers. This means that any user of Twilio Authy or Zoho OneAuth who enables cloud backups is unknowingly sending those companies the names of the websites/services they use and the usernames for their accounts on those platforms."

And

"By default, each of Twilio Authy, Yandex.Key, and Salesforce Authenticator also relied solely on SMS OTP to authenticate users during recovery, but did encrypt TOTP backups using a key derived from a password before uploading them to the cloud. To compromise the backup, an attacker who hijacks the phone number will still need to conduct an offline attack to guess the backup password.
If I said, in the US, "Peter Thiel is a woman-hating monster and the country would be better if he and every politician on his payroll was swinging from a lamppost Mussolini style" it would be difficult to make any case that I was doing anything not covered by first amendment protections.

If I'm a visitor to the country and say the same thing having signed an affirmation that I'm not going to advocate for violent overthrow of the US government it's not a first amendment case, it's a lying-on-immigration-forms case and out I do.
If further confirmed, this calls for a new art installation like Lightning Field (1977) https://publicdelivery.org/walter-de-maria-lightning-field/
In light of the large language models from Vaswani et al., I'm curious if anyone could chime in:

1. Does Watson incorporate any deep learning?

2. If not, why? Were disagreements based in business or theory?
https://archive.md/ORxxX
This is just another anti-nuclear blog post. It is as irrelevant as every other anti-nuclear blog post that came before it.

The problem with renewables has always been that it is not a form of dispatchable power, and that it is highly variable depending on location, time, geography, etc. Because of that, it doesn't matter how cheap it is, it can never power a grid by itself. So you will always need something on top of that, such as baseload power like nuclear or a system of energy storage. As a result, the "low cost" claims about renewables simply do not pan out in the real world.
Worse, they invented AMP links.
Hope you can get an Spotify job offer right away
Where is a good place (if there is one) to learn about quantum software engineering concepts?
In the movie “Quicksilver,” Kevin Bacon plays some kind of (commodities) trader who lost an enormous amount of money betting the wrong way and retires from trading to become a bike courier.

He has a friend over at his loft, and while looking at pictures from his finance days, she asks, “What happened to all the money?”

His reply is a classic:

“It’s still there, it’s just in other people’s pockets.”

——

That’s all I see in crypto speculation. It’s a game that involves shuffling money between players, without actually creating new wealth.

(Also, the casino is betting against you and sometimes isn’t satisfied with their rake, so they “rug pull” and leave everyone holding worthless chips. But that is another issue.)

This is very different from, say, selling software that runs a business. Your software is not just transferring money from your customer to you, it’s literally creating new wealth by making your customer more productive.
JavaScript syntax clearly is derived from awk's: the function keyword, regexp literals, for (x in a), optional semicolons, (associative) arrays, ...

Brendan Eich said as much: "JS’s function keyword did come from AWK" [1].

[1]: https://brendaneich.com/2010/07/a-brief-history-of-javascrip...
No, it's really not a helpful exercise. An actual helpful exercise is to determine when an official story doesn't make sense, and to understand that there is probably more to it. In this case, the official story make perfect sense. Doubting it is just creating fairy tales.
Vouching for this. It's off-topic and a little inflammatory but I started that, and it taught me the word kayfabe. Thanks to dang for introducing me to the vouch feature.
We asked ChatGPT to imagine a world under Elon Musk’s rule
A panic there absolutely could bail out to the read call at the root of this kernel stack with an EIO or some such.
Pretty sure that Modest Mouse doesn't belong on a playlist of "Riot Grrl Influenced bands with albums released after 2020." I like this idea though.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5z5loSusnf9p5fRGzCIfk6
Private debt dwarfed public debt until very recently, and it's still significany higher: https://braveneweurope.com/steve-keen-what-is-the-role-of-pu...

Also GDP is a terrible proxy for economic prosperity. A broken window adds to GDP, but subtracts from prosperity. If we had a better proxy for prosperity, it would be easier to see if government debt was actually net negative or net positive effect. As is, all arguments one way or the other are speculation and ideology.
I like it when I want to test something out quickly so setting up a full dev environment isn't worth the effort.
bureaucracy is a form of entropy. it will grow in any organization until it is outcompeted, a catastrophe occurs, or it collapses.
The hour is a way better metric. It already takes into account the capita. It's a work hour.
You are misusing that statistic the average of all employers would include all workers not only those workers that experienced wage theft.

If the US labor US labor force is ~161.2 million workers and had 8B/year in wage theft then the average per 1 million workers is ~50 million. Seeing multiple payouts well over 50 million suggests Amazon could be worse than average here.
Hello,

What are your feelings regarding the end of updates ?

(reference for other readers: https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2017/03/13/dave-smith-ins... )
AWS probably uses XFS because RedHat defaults (defaulted?) to XFS.
One of the best reasons to use Amazon Smile was to reduce and launder affiliate links and ad spam. I can't help but wonder if the real reason they are doing this is because of affiliates and/or advertisers.

(As someone paranoid of targeted advertising, but who doesn't mind normal advertising, the death of Amazon Smile was the final push I needed to move all my Amazon tabs into their own Firefox Container.)
In the typical case and handwaving a bit:

On registration, the server is handed a site/user-specific key pair _encrypted_ with the master key of the authenticator device (your usb key or your phone, etc), together with the plain-text site/user-specific public key.

On authentication, the server sends down that encrypted blurb, which is temporarily decrypted and then used to sign a challenge the server sent.

So basically the server is used as storage. There are exceptions to this (e.g. resident/discoverable credentials on hardware keys)
Thank you! We think that documentation in - code out would be a cool feature as well.
Consistency across all domains is a benefit in itself.
I guess this is the part where you reveal you were "just pretending"
What's the concern with reissued copies? More wear on the negative?
I was told corporations are people, so no.. not really.
What is also very frustrating with AWS is that you can only set up one 2FA method. You have to choose between TOTP OR security key and can't have both at the same time. I wanted to add a yubikey to my account a couple of weeks ago, but had to switch back to TOTP. A lost Yubikey means you're looked out, TOTP secrets can be backed up at least.
I find it frustrating that people still write programs without thinking about secrets rotation. It's kind of understandable that older stuff didn't think about it, since there was certainly a time when people treated secrets, especially things like API keys, as effectively indefinite, but that just doesn't make sense, especially not now. Same for any ephemeral keymatter, or other cryptographic keymatter: there should be a way to have multiple, with at least one "primary" secret and at least one secondary secret. The way I often do this is as simple as having an environment variable/flag/whatever for two separate values and try them in order. Rotating secrets used to salt or encrypt database entries is definitely a bigger pain in the ass, but if it's a big pain in the ass to design a system for it when you're building out a feature, you'd better bet it will be a pain in the ass when you've got a huge security breach and are faced with the task to do it not only in short order, but in concert with many other tasks related to the ongoing fire.

There are definitely other things to be said about the state of secret tokens and secret management, but this one is honestly not that hard to do significantly better at. Rotating secrets should not involve downtime, it should be something you can do out of precaution...
Skimming over the replies, they range from arithmetic to algebraic geometry and measure theory!

Along the lines of fascicules de résultats, I find talks are a good way to get a coup d'oeil for a field: people giving a talk tend to take a direct approach to what they want to introduce, hitting only the salient points. But that yields enough keywords to then consult any relevant texts.
Ruff: The First 200 Releases
https://qiskit.org/textbook/preface.html
Pym,

Are we going to see a Tempest 2 from DSI?
mpc4000 is so cool. I've always wanted to try one. such a beastly machine.
It feels like every redesign of every major website I've ever seen has been accompanied by an outcry from users who hate the changes -- Reddit, Facebook, Stack Overflow, now Wikipedia...

Sometimes this is because the new design is missing features or capabilities compared to the previous version (reddit for example [EDIT: I have been re-educated on this point; I should have chosen a different example here]), or because it introduced changes that are contrary to how the product used to work (such as when Facebook switched from a chronological feed to The Algorithm). But just as often it feels like users just dislike change. The new thing feels wrong because it's unfamiliar, not because it's objectively worse. The Stack Overflow redesign a couple years back drew so much outrage at the time! I hated it too! But now that we're all used to it, if you go back in the archives and look at the previous design... it was worse. The new design was better, it just took some getting used to.

Maybe it's just because I don't habitually run with my browser set full-screen, so I'm not seeing all the "wasted space" people are complaining about, but I gotta say the new design looks a lot better to me aesthetically, and I like having the sticky sidebar available as I'm reading, updating as I scroll to give context to where I am in the doc. (And I also like how it goes away when I reduce the window size, just as it should.)

Not that I'm saying you shouldn't like what you like. I don't envy what designers are up against, I guess is my point.
This is up there with one of my favorites from Hacker News: The Microhydro Plant

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895582

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075110

https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html
> It's not an either or. Do both is a perfectly valid answer.

Good point. I think my confusion as a non-vegetarian comes from my habit to just not eat meat when I don't feel like eating meat. "Oh I had more meaty meals than I'm comfortable with last week? Okay we mealprep a natively meatless dish this week. Done"

Like, the idea of having meat substitutes doesn't even occur. Because when I want meat, I have meat. And when I don't want meat, I don't.
And the "new wealth" being "created" for your customer comes from... other people's pockets.
I get tired of hearing day after day about billionaires making not just billions, but 10's and 100's of billions without doing much of anything except having impeccable timing... and a lot of money to invest.
SCWO (supercritical water oxidation) is pretty much only used for superfund projects because of the expense of the machinery. It basically burns materials in oxygenated water, turning everything into water, carbon dioxide, and salts/acids.

The salts and acids are a problem that prevents commercial use, because it turns out corrosion, heat, and pressure are the 'pick two' of ceramic materials. Last I read someone was trying to work around this problem by building a heat and pressure optimized vessel and coating it with a corrosion (and?) resistant glazing. I imagine getting the thermal expansion for the two materials to be identical is a right difficult problem.
Funny programming languages
That's truest of the big ones, imo. "Power corrupts" etc., even when that power is a non-profit. I upvoted you since the sentiment is correct.

The nice thing about AmazonSmile is that you could pick from the small ones you know well and trust.

Now, Amazon will donate to the biggest ones without our choice, which is definitely worse.
When I was the most active on Stack Overflow, the recommended link for a description of the XY problem was [1]. This was (is?) commonly used in a comment to tell a poster that their question seems dubious, and might not get high-quality answers.

Now I see that it seems to be a more or less exact copy of the OP, which is kind of confusing. Does anyone know the background/ownership?

[1]: https://xyproblem.info/
US Supreme Court releases leak investigation report
"[name redacted], Front-End Designer"

idk if i'd call myself a designer with the app looking like that haha. not quite Spotify-level. but congrats on shipping, OP :)
Also `ls` in a big filesystem used to spend all its time allocating tiny chunks of memory- the breakage is pervasive.
The weird thing about awk is that it can be written to look like an ordinary c-inspired scripting language. But it also supports the
terse one-liners that we see so often; and the general perception is that it's a language for wizards. The ordinary scripting language is hiding in plain sight.
They end up in the environment regardless. Where do you put your lint trap material? where does the dryer vent to?
I use it with VS Code since the project I work on takes 5-10 minutes to build if a major header is modified. It shows up as a separate directory, but VS Code will still realize that the directory is a git worktree.

The only thing kind of clunky is that you have to keep track of which branch is open in which directory since you can't checkout the same branch in two different directories.
It was a counterpoint to the common wisdom that "stock returns beat inflation over long-term periods." But I didn't realize the author discarded dividends -- that makes the entire analysis suspect.
The philosophical zombie might be an interesting rabbit hole for you! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
Who do not site their source.
Anyone know how this redesign impacts clients that reference Wikipedia? A lot of times I access it via the Dictionary app on MacOS. I currently see the old design, but can't tell if they're still rolling out the new design slowly.
Most of my experiences with late nights have been due to:
Watching Netflix
Playing video games
Drinking

I find that if I skip those things I can go to bed early enough to get 8 hours and still wake up early enough to get to work first thing in the morning.
Your mileage may vary especially if you have kids
I am doing this comparison based on weight not individual items.

It’s really obvious is you’ve ever washed a full load of new clothes vs old clothes.
90% of Verra rainforest carbon credits are worthless
I'm amazed to think outrageous car debt is "normalized". The idea of a cheaper car is always the first advice I heard about getting one's financial house in order. And I always heard those people taking out 60-96 month financing deals made fun of.
I'm not really a fan of in-browser IDEs. To me, it seems like a good way to constrain tooling environments.

What I would love to see is an extension that runs all of my tests and debugger in a type 1 hypervisor that can simply send a set of instructions to setup the VM, a snapshot of the changeset, and allows a developer to run that exact environment on their machine. Combine that with LiveShare and you have something that closely mimicks the experience of handing a keyboard and mouse back and forth during pairing.
The "MICE" model of understanding behavior like Robert Hanssen, etc has also been extended to RASCLS:

http://dustinkmacdonald.com/recruiting-intelligence-assets-w...

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=RASCLS+in...
The other option is they raise taxes, cut spending and they actually pay those debts off.

All debt comes due eventually, you can choose to go bankrupt or you can choose to pay it.

But if neither option happens in your lifetime, you don't need to care, if you are just trying to optimize for yourself.
I'm in the minority I think. I love Windows 11. It's the biggest refresh since Vista without the stability issues.
I don't know of a "libawk" C library, but my GoAWK interpreter can also be used as a library (Go) library. See reference docs: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/benhoyt/goawk/interp

A project that's using it that way is Benthos, a "stream processor" written in Go. Awk is one of the "processors", the components that filter and transform data: https://www.benthos.dev/docs/components/processors/awk
Banks run the world, IBM mainframes run the banks.
You will be more productive if you get enough sleep. If your compensation is a function of your value you can afford to sleep.
New fluorescent dye can light up the brain
> Adding a new file, for example, requires that the filesystem compare the new item name to the name of every other file in the folder to check for conflicts

Tell me you don't know how data structures work without telling me you don't know how data structures work.
'schema' is more a schema enhanced by python than just a checker. It can convert types, set defaults so after 'Box' I can simple access config with a.b.c.
It may be subtle but it is much more powerful than it looks.

There are many of these things. Maybe some are better but I like this one.
I should add: the above is about the only quibble I can think of, which is impressive. I love love love pandoc! It's a highly dependable and capable swiss army docs tool. I use it constantly, eg to help generate CLI help text and HTML, man, info and plain text manuals from (mostly) markdown sources. Huge congrats and thanks to the developers for their hard work and for this latest release.