skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only. At least I'd only have to master Gradle's batshit insane logic. But no, between the Android Gradle Plugin which is clearly the work of a tortured soul, various tools like aapt, the Android API changes (lol MediaStore, lol version & extension checks), some tools in Android Studio which have been terrible for a while, there's a lot of bad stuff coming from Google.

But then again none of this is as painful as using Xcode so I can't really complain.
I often wonder, since we are in a climate emergency, and we are still increasing our GHG emissions, and we need to electrify so much as quickly as possible. And we have these lithium ion batteries which work pretty well for that, but the production capabilities are limited, so you would think we would put them where we’d get the most use our of them, but alas, most we get is a bunch of Tesla SUVs and maybe a Hummer EV.
Well, that's rather obvious, isn't it? I prefer working in smaller organizations. Growth there is a factor of personal growth and the company succeeding strongly enough that you have something bigger to grow into. It's not enough for me to work for $x for 2 years, have the company go under, and then go work somewhere else for $x for another 2 years, rinse and repeat with some number of coasters killing off firms.

I want what I got: company goes through hyper-growth and my own personal growth has some meaty problems to latch onto so I can apply myself. You can put my Ducati on a frozen lake and it's not going anywhere. Powerful engine wasted on frictionless surface. What I got when I was young was that if I applied myself I got better. And the company got better around me. And that meant I got bigger responsibilities which I could actually do.

Plus the obvious factor that I want my peer group as bought in as I am. My morale is high. Every idea I bounce off gets improved. Mistakes I'd make are caught. I am improved tenfold.
In addition to income, there are also correlations to race, education, gender, marital status, religion, gun ownership, etc. According to your source, support of Democrats goes up with the amount of education; from 36% of voters who never went to college, to 57% of voters who have an advanced degree. That's a bigger spread shown than the rich/poor divide that you're focused on.
I don't care about Karma at all, I really was just trying to ask a question. I'm interested in learning HTML and CSS. I'm also interested in creating PDFS. My question was since this looks like it's for making PDFs using C# code, and you can preview it while you work, I was wondering if that is available for other programming languages. Besides HTML and CSS, someday I want to learn C and FORTH. I thought this would be a practical way to get familiar with programming languages.
> (b) Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter however reproduced, or sound recording that contains any matter defined in s. 847.001, explicit and detailed verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual excitement, or sexual conduct and that is harmful to minors.

That's ambiguous as hell. Give that it's Florida, I'd expect them to have a biased view of what's "harmful" as well. That also rules out several of the best books I read as a child (probably, who knows).
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p27...

If you ctrl-f "rust" in this PDF, there are zero hits.
They don't share private GitHub data with copilot. Teams data is default private.

Teams has 270 million monthly users (you can Google it, I'm looking at a geekwire post) and Google has 2 billion monthly g suite users (business insider)
assuming i was willing to ever interact with a SOAP api in my life which i sure as hell am not

^^^ this killed me. i'm sure everyone who has ever interacted with a SOAP api feels the same. god bless this tiny kitten/person/hacktivist, the world needs more of this energy.
I have yet to see Raspberry Pis in stock anywhere for over a year. Will they even be able to deliver product?
Somethings that helped me.

1. I realised the hard way that you can't focus on too many things at the same time.

2. Ruthlessly cutting down pursuits to one thing helps drive results.

3. Focus on areas you have circle of competence in.

4. I struggle with abstract ideas, and jump to projects without thinking the details, scoping abstract ideas and writing down concrete POA helps in completing things.

5. Working hard on staying loyal to my resolutions. I took a resolution last month to write a book on rust for beginners. I constantly hold this thought every day in my head. It helps a lot in making progress and saying no to distractions.
>No one cares enough about someone like me to keep a public archive of everything I've ever posted anywhere.

Caches and archiving sites do exactly this.
Are you complaining because it's not on some latin keyboards, or for some other reason? A lot of other characters are already taken either by shell or by the nix expression language.
Apple started it's recent strong of successes with the iPod. That was a device built around a cutting edge hard drive. Apple did well at choosing features, but iPod software was all contracted out. The hard drive was it's most important feature and Apple locked that on by buying all of the units Toshiba could produce before most had even heard about it.
Pull Request: Replace Create React App Recommendation with Vite #5487
First, it's right to expect a mix of new dev with support/maintenance tasks, and you're not alone. Second, if you're overwhelmed by support work, then I'd ask why?

We run scrum with 2 week sprint cadence and mix new dev with support/maintenance. The allocation differs based on season and events. Any support tickets we do don't count towards velocity and are mixed in with story point tasks and other maintenance/debt tasks. We track velocity as points delivered to a client, which helps with estimation for delivery of products / features to clients. This velocity is an average, and that's when the numbers work in your favor as "all estimates are wrong."

In a scenario where velocity is constantly decreased by support/maintenance/bugs, that tells a story, either of quality of work done previously, impatient management, or lack of discipline by the team. If you can't go a sprint without having to put out fires, that's indicative of a system that should be mitigated on a larger scale than continually applying bandaids, otherwise you'll constantly be bit.

In my mind, your choices are: change your cadence/strategy, change your values/philosophy, change management style, change your budget/velocity, invest heavily now to replace troubled systems, invest in man power to put out fires, or simply stay the course with a shift in perspective.

Only you can choose.
> OpenAI wants to be perceived as an open, academic, capped-profit for a noble reason collective.

Does anybody actually believe this? Their name has been a running joke for years already.
This is absurd. Houses are so much more complex than in the 1970s, and so much larger. In 1972 central AC was not common, now it's basically required. Square footage is way higher. Number of electrical outlets and switches per room. Moulding and trim are expected in many houses. Porches, decks, patios are much more ornate. Today's average house ia closer to the house of a millionaire in the 1970s than the average house from that time.
People use Nix on desktop a ton, but the GUI tools in the ecosystem are still largely marginal and incomplete. The screenshots here would just be images of text, which is probably why there aren't any.
I agree, it is very tiring when people suggest that medicine was invented and manufactured by the Chinese so that specifically Americans would abuse it. "Grey zone warfare".

This is a wild conspiracy theory. It's on par with the Chinese conspiracy theory that COVID was an American bioweapon.
That assumes nuclear families raising children under capitalism - that's a culturally specific western view of the past maybe 200 years. There's many other modalities over the entire globe and 250,000 years. The premise and the conclusion of your statement is unsupported unless you can demonstrate those assumptions consistently holding in most societies over a quarter million years.
All of the above.

NixOS is actually fairly well suited to a full desktop OS. They package-up basically everything you would expect. You can even pull in Steam its proton environment without much hassle.

It is also perfectly workable as simple server OS running on bare metal or a VM.

One can use it on other OSes as a way to create fully deterministic environments for developing. (Like the python virtualenv concept, but for any language, pulling any arbitary tools you might need). Almost like a docker container, but without isolating the filesystem.

Using just nix tool not as part of NixOS, can be an underwhelming experience, as the default does not quite give the fully declarative environment setup you might want. For example, under the default you can imperatively request packages to be added to the nix store. But if you chose to use the "correct" versions of commands, you can get the intended result. Alternatively, using it in conjunction with tools like direnv (which enables you to configure your shell to ask nix for a specific environment when you cd into it, or alternatively when you run a specific command within it). This environment can have exactly the set of tools you need for developing the project that lives in this folder, even if the rest of your OS has a different and incompatible version of the compilers installed, or whatever.
"Liberals aren't ignoring climate change enough and it's harming children" is certainly one take...
Mechanics of Nail Clipper
Side note but every year Spotify's app gets worse and worse as they remove features and try to 'simplify' the UI. Has anyone been able to use the home screen where recommendations are offered successfully? They want people to listen to podcasts but can't even build a useable interface for browsing podcasts. All the Spotify playlists have the same songs over and over. Their proprietary shuffle algorithim is stupid because it doesn't actually shuffle. Why can't they offer a true random and also their shuffle algorithim? Music discovery is falling off as they are forced to promote record labels point of view.
Nostr partially addresses this in a few ways:

* Media itself is not stored, only links to media.

* Relays are free to limit usage, charge a fee or require proof of work.

* There are many kinds of messages with different storage standards i.e ephemeral messages are not stored at all.
Ask HN: Examples of AI efforts adopting Google's mission?
Google's corporate mission is “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
Hi HN,

Kam here. We open sourced Linen back in October here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33248488 and been thrilled by the responses from communities. We're doing a 1.0 release right now after we've shipped a lot of quality of life and core chat/community features. It has been a lot of work but we're excited with what Linen has be come and what is yet to come.

We plan on releasing a desktop client in the coming months with Tauri/Rust along with better thread manage and async communication tooling. We're constantly looking for feedback so feel free to pop in to our community at Linen.dev/s/linen to say hello
This article very much has rose-colored glasses, a gauzy overlay, and is quite light on actual facts about her reporting.

For another viewpoint, see Richard Rushfield's summary:

https://theankler.com/p/rushfield-nikki-finke-rip

In his telling, she found a way to use the attention economy against a tired set of trade publications, and built a brand on top of that:

> So in theory she was taking on some powerful people, but it was always with the protection and support of even more powerful people.

Unlike OP, his article actually has insight into how this works.
They have no moat and people don't like to wait for results.

People like ad subsidized things, that is why they have ads rather than people paying for things.
There are certainly industry-specific constraints which include legal burdens. Just a subset of ones I'm personally familiar with:

* Security clearances.

* Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) in finance.

* HIPAA in healthcare.
Sure, it's the methodology that's important, of making invalid states unrepresentable.
Seems like the logical endgame is Netflix buying up and aggregating these legacy content producer/channels, possibly piecemeal. There are too many walled gardens right now and they will likely into 3 or 4 key players (say Netflix, HBO and Disney) with everyone else getting gobbled up.

Then everyone has 3 channels on their TVs and we start the explode/aggregate cycle again, just like what happens to banks and telcos.
Anyone stuck in the Hell that is a driven commute in Silicon Valley would
disagree that it does anything to positively stimulate the brain.

I wouldn't argue that getting out is a good thing. Do it off drive-time
peaks. Go to the park. Visit some small stores.
The main thing I have noticed now after traffic has returned is it is clear that people are not paying attention to their driving. They are doing things like drifting around in lanes, making their intentions particularly difficult to guess, since no one uses turn signals here effectively.
I am sure Google have been holding back a lot of their true potential waiting for real competition.

This article confirms just that, Google sees openAi (or should I say closedAi’s) work as true competitor.
TikTok’s Go-Viral Button
Caffeine isn't heroin: tolerance plateaus after a few weeks of drinking coffee daily.

> nasty side-effects like heart racing and insomnia

I've been drinking coffee daily for two decades now and haven't ever experienced heart racing, nor insomnia if I limit my consumption to the A.M.

People do process caffeine wildly differently through. I apparently have genes that make me not very sensitive to caffeine at all, but I know this isn't true for everyone.
The big builders like DR Horton and Lennar target build times of 100 days per home that meets minimum code requirements, which is pretty good productivity. A community of 100 homes can be up and running in 2 years.
What does opinionated mean is this case? I read through a bit and didn't see any strong opinions.
For that case since all it’s doing is removing things typically I’d use uBO filters instead.
There is enough actual stuff so that each integer core is, in fact, a separate, distinct core. The issue is that there was only technically one FPU core per two integer cores. AMD paid out $12 million because they called these individual cores, and the case was decided against AMD because of the single FPU per core module:

https://www.theregister.com/2019/08/27/amd_chip_compensation...
Except for every licensed profession from skilled trades like electricians and plumbers to healthcare workers like nurses and EMTs.
In Japan, houses were treated as capital expenses. Other countries treat housing as capital assets. Things may have changed in Japan in the past two decades, but that's how things worked up into the late 90s/early 00s when I stopped studying all things Japanese. This financial treatment was why so many smaller/rural communities were turning into ghost towns.
> Makes sense they are being more selective ahead of layoffs though.

Nah the interviewer has full discretion at Amazon to pick the questions. You just found someone who thought Hard was the correct bar to set.
Octonauts would like to have a word
Why are you expecting everyone to follow Florida politics and news as closely as you and have the same calibration of what is expected to happen there or not?
$65B for payment processing is a lot. $65B to be magically inserted into the checkout flow of like every small to medium independent online retailer out there (exaggeration, I know) starts to look like a much better deal.
Your first question ignores the crux of the matter: from scratch rewrites of software that is actually worth rewriting are always failures in the making. While the rewrite is ongoing, the original must undergo continued maintenance and this (a) doubles the workload of the team and (b) presents an ever moving target for the rewrite. This means that the effort that goes into piecemeal improvement is the minimal effort possible that can succeed.

Successful piecemeal rewrites will result in gradual improvement, so if you don't see that gradual improvement over time, something is very wrong with the project.
Well they’re owned by Epic now, so that may not be up to them anymore.
> I'm really curious why there aren't more enterprise-grade, production ready kernels at this point.... Projects in C/C++ seem to be making much faster progress eg. SerenityOS than the Rust community.

I'm not sure you can take anyone (read: any troll) seriously who thinks SerenityOS is an enterprise-grade, production ready kernel.

Should we be writing new kernels for enterprise-y workloads? Why? World has kinda proven it likes things like binary compatibility. It likes for its software to work as it has, and for all the rest of the system to be predictable.

Should we be rewriting such kernels in Rust? Maybe. Where it is justified.

There are quite a few production ready Rust kernels for non-enterprise-y workloads: TockOS, Hubris, etc.
It will take 10 years for folks to realize the layoffs/unemployment are AI, 20-30 years for a coherent political movement to show up that lays out a post-AI-labour society.

In the meantime, rocky road.
Yeah I feel you - I think these things come so naturally to mathematicians that it's hard for them to conceive of the idea that people like you and I exist :)
I like the idea of formalizing the computing power of NN by mimicking what we have done with automata theory, but I didn't quite grok how a NN would make use of an "external memory structure."

we showed that models interacting with an external memory structure, such as a stack or a finite tape, can climb the Chomsky hierarchy

I think of a trained NN as containing a set of weights which control the various perceptrons, convolution kernels, etc... as input data passes thru the network. Exactly how does an external memory source (like a stack or Turing tape) come in to play? Are perceptrons augmented with the ability to record information that changes their behavior? What is a simple example of a NN that makes use of an external memory structure?
The "stable grid" argument is well past its sell-by date.

In the future we will need to build out storage. Before there is enough renewable generation to charge storage, building it would be foolish. After, we will need storage, and build it.

And, we will always need liquid fuel. As cost for renewables continues exponentially downward, ammonia synthesized at solar farms in the tropics will undercut NG. In the meantime, shortfalls will be filled by burning an ever-decreasing amount of NG.

We will need a hell of a lot of electric ammonia synthesis in coming decades.
Sorry I should have been more specific. I care less about the actual song content itself than having a synchronized list of the names (i.e. metadata) of all the songs I like/save/listen to.
That doesn't seem reasonable to me : we do not need to preface every statement with "with our current understanding of physics", this goes without saying.

We might never get a "theory of everything", and we shouldn't assume the existence of new physical properties without any other reason to do so, this goes against the principle of parsimony ! (Especially continuous ones, none of which seem to exist for now !)

And if our understanding of physics does change, it could have other dramatic consequences - that Bekenstein bound might not be valid any more for instance...
The acronym is too long and distinctive. Amazon doesn't do that.

Except for this, it's great.
Probably "we hire from anywhere in the world, but for this position because of coverage reasons we would prefer somebody from these time zones". The other regions that are usually used alongside EMEA are LATAM ("the Americas") and APAC (roughly Asia and the Pacific islands).
A good analysis of Apple: capture the news cycle with your whiz bang thingie, and then forget about it.

> I still don't understand what Google's strategy is in almost any space

Not just you. The "strategy" is "ambitious product manager creates a new 'vision', sells it, gets promoted, then quickly moves on to something else."
I seem to remember being able to pop in playstation CDs into CD players and it'd play the game music
Certain environment variables at the time "nix-build" is executed can affect the nix configuration. Nix flakes default to ignoring those environment variables.

Flakes are also the way forward for pinning nixpkgs; it autogenerates a list of revisions used to pin, and allows easy updating. Flakes and niv, to a large degree, are about solving the same problem.
a masters in math doesn't necessarily mean you're good at teaching it, see anyone with a computer science degree.
Exactly like old joke:

There was a problem with machine on factory floor, company tried to do everything already so they called specialist. To cut story short, specialist went around the machine took hammer out and smashed in one place - machine fixed. Invoice for the company $500 - so manager was angry

- "one swing of hammer $500?"
- "swing of hammer was free, knowing where to hit $500"
Yeah, he's working in an intense context-switching environment.
Also, since he's a very senior team member he gets interrupted frequently for escalations or just for short help requests.

The context-switching is what killed me when I did that, and he actually does enjoy it, as crazy as it sounds!
"this() must always be called first in the constructor" is not true! Consider the following example:

Foo(long x) { ... }

Foo(double y) { this(Math.round(y)); }

In the second constructor, the first call is Math.round(), followed by Foo(int). I am talking about evaluation order, not lexical order.

I found myself needing to work around the limitation recently: https://github.com/nayuki/PNG-library/blob/b92cedc23b1fc32d5...
You are never going to clean all the rainwater on earth and almost all freshwater fishing is no longer safe

https://www.su.se/english/news/it-s-raining-pfas-even-in-ant...

https://www.businessinsider.com/rainwater-no-longer-safe-to-...

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_in_US_fish/map/
> And second, the authors describe the curious fact that producers located in more-productive areas do not grow at expected rates. Indeed, rather than construction inputs flowing to areas where they are more productive, the activity share of these areas either stagnates or even falls. The authors suggest that this problem with allocative efficiency may accentuate the aggregate productivity problem for the industry.

This is clearly accurate - people are not buying the cheapest housing in the middle of nowhere. Instead, the most money is spent in cities which are already built up and are more difficult to develop further.
This is the important difference. Scripting languages should default to examining the current directory and then its parent directory etc. to find the resources they need. Python doesn't have this default and probably can't change at this point.
Pretty sure this is the right answer and calling this "worker productivity" seems a bit harsh. A "Pretty Good House" (book that was on the front page last week) includes insulation above and below the foundation slab, vapour barriers, double studs to break thermal bridges, complex window installation (again thermal bridges), air exchangers and heat pumps with ducts (or mini-splits).

New constructions (for cold zone), need to be air tight and that certainly comes at a cost in time as it is work to apply all the layers, run the conduits and whatnot.
older article, same source: https://rh.gatech.edu/news/627220/particles-emitted-consumer...