skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I don’t know anything about his personal life, so I wasn’t alluding to that.

I think at some point in the last year he posted about his explorations with a new server-side language, maybe something to do with database drivers. Unfortunately I can’t find it.
+1 to this, I can think of a few places id order for but i couldnt figure out how. Did i miss the link? Looks like it refers to "custom orders" but i wasnt sure how that works.
> Terms of sale include zero liability. Done, solved.

Dude, if I sell contaminated goods to person B, person B can sign a release that they won't sue me... but they can't promise that person C or government D won't.

Even if they indemnify me, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm off the hook.
I don't think it is OK--in fact, I'm kind of assuming most people would think that that is not OK and leaning into that for my analogy: that isn't OK... and so neither should we consider public/discoverable Twitter account mirrors on Mastodon to be OK--so hopefully we are actually in agreement! ;P
The people who hate the paywall above all aren't customers, and frankly, being more concerned about that than whether the content behind it is worthwhile at all seems mixed up. I cant blame him for not prioritizing those things - I personally care way more about whether or not clicking a medium link is likely to lead me to something relevant, the rest can be negotiated.
Sounds like turbo links
The west is not the only party that would have to welcome a new russian leader - the russian oligarchs, as well as people interested in making money selling to the west, needs to be on board.

Putin can remove the temptation to overthrow him, and restoring normal relations with the EU (gas pipes included), by blowing it up - something that is currently not being used and serves to short to medium term value for putin. However, blowing it up, but hiding who did it, can sow mistrust in the NATO alliance. He might be betting that the germans would think the americans did it (or at least be suspicious). And if he was found out, russia can claim that they're within their rights to blow up a pipeline that belongs to them (aka, no real bad consequences).
Also Kessler syndrome.
Agreed, but the security incidents last year were enough to get us to switch. Our customers started asking about it w/r/t SOC2.

The developer ergonomics of heroku we didn't like were running lots of background tasks and long-running jobs. Heroku's way to do that has a 24 hour time limit and you have lots of limitations to run on for hardware. So a lot of data processing was a no-go.

If you have a 12 factor app that's not in a highly regulated industry and doesn't require a ton of background data processing, or you have invested in database architecture where you can run those tasks totally offline, i still think heroku is currently the best option.
Imo people (including the author of TFA) overestimate browser stickiness. Back in 2001 it looked like Microsoft’s dual monopolies over web serving with IIS and browsing with IE were severely entrenched but within a matter of a couple of years they were completely eclipsed in both arenas. If 80-90% of web users can transition from IE to chrome they can transition from chrome to the next big thing whatever that ends up being. There just needs to be a compelling reason to do that.

I think browser stickiness is even less now because the experience is so lacking in differentiation. Back then if (as I did) you used Mozilla or another minority browser there were huge swathes of the web that simply didn’t work at all because they depended on IE-only plugins or worked extremely poorly due to compatibility bugs etc. Now while chrome is definitely the best-supported browser among devs, due to the importance of mobile, sites have been forced to support webkit etc and that generally means that cross-compatibility is ok. I don’t often come across sites that are straight-up broken on Firefox for instance, just sometimes some features or layout are a bit wonky.

For that reason I don’t think chrome’s dominance of the browser landscape represents a advantage for Google that will persist.
IIRC it involved sacrificing one AA tank and using another to kill the plane.
Seems like a good idea, but with the risk that if you say you're choosing to stay "for the company" then the company can insist that actually it's better for them if you go to the new role. If you say it's about your family situation, then it's harder for them to insist.
> It was kind of like shooting the hostage. ... It’s all Europe’s fault for making themselves energy dependents on a dictator.

You should not be chopping off the hands of an addict to prevent him from injecting himself with drugs.
> It’s important to take his actual course and not just do the breathing exercise by itself.

Is there published information on what the course entails, beyond just the breathing? E.g. a manual.
I've seen 11 PMs come into a new role and some being pushed out.

Edit: PM is a cheaper scrum master
Specific instances in the decline in power of particular organised criminal enterprises is much more believable than "crime", I'll grant that much.
I don’t think pirating software should be a crime. That’s my point. I’m consistent on my principle and you aren’t. I don’t decide to support IP when it would benefit me, I’m against it always. Adobe can protect their sources by limiting source access and mandating NDAs for their employees.

I’m not stealing anything from you by copying your art or pirating your software. You still have it. If me and you haven’t signed a contract, I don’t owe you shit. Simple as that.
Which park is it?
This seems to be talking almost exclusively about faking intellectualism, but I believe there's a bigger cultural issue going on. Nevermind that intellectualism requires humility and the ability to be wrong and in fact feel stupid from time to time. Something which is poorly taught. But I digress...

We all have just splintered into so many little groups, pods, and sadly solos, that to fit in anywhere requires a serious bit of "faking it". Unfortunately, this spills over into the workplace, even when much of the work is technical and answer oriented.

I'm not fresh enough to feel like I'm faking it (I never really did), but I haven't been around long enough to be used to the feeling of being left behind (I hope I never do).

I am resentful for how things have changed out from underneath me. And I'm regretful for the people I didn't foster better relationships with.
> metrics have shown over and over again that people didn't use XUL addons (even if you add the people disabling telemetry)

How do you know?
These do indeed suck. Maybe curate past your first attempt?
It’s interesting because there’s no real evidence that the US was intentionally using that strategy.
I love eclipse back in its day.
It worked great for me until everybody started using Maven.

Eclipse tried to use the same approach for maven and wrote their own parser/processor to inject the Maven build file. This failed miserably.
As low as $30 and as high as $3000.
The article is a bit lightweight, and the title should be changed to just "Microft vs Google".

But anyhow, a good opportunity to discuss the super interesting situation around the new AI wars. IMHO the most interesting situation in tech since the dotcom area.

Are there any authors out ther (preferable in podcast or other audio form) who discuss the situation in depth?

What I currently wonder is where Apple stands. Every device (heck, every software!) will need a state of the art LLM to interact with its users. Will Apple develop their own, or will they be at the mercy of finding a supplier like Microsoft, OpenAI or Google who lets them use their LLM?
ah yes, another fork of BirdSiteLive. Every one seems to make their own fork of that thing. And none of them (that I've found) set a user agent when delivering messages to other AP servers.

You can see where bird.makeup sets the headers here[0] (with a distinct lack of user agent) and an issue I filed against the upstream[1] asking them to please set a user agent.

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/tree/master/item/src...

[1] https://github.com/NicolasConstant/BirdsiteLive/issues/188
"Our approach features the possibility to animate exploded views, to incorporate ease functions into these animations and to display the explosion path of components via arrows."
Thank you for a comment that has nothing to do with the article and contributes nothing to the discussion. Go back to Reddit if you're going to do that.
So what do you classify poker as?

Gambling? There's no house in poker (cept for the fees for the dealer, which i would assume is fixed).
It's a corporate thing. I'm guessing your company paid some consultants hundreds of thousands of dollars to help them with their efficiency or innovation.

The consultants to prove their worth have to give some BS suggestions and one of those was probably a rigid interruption of scrum and the requirement for your company to hire scrum masters.

Coming from the startup world it never ceases to amaze me how inefficient the average corporation is with development teams, especially given how much they like to restructure and discuss the "corporate structure". BS roles literally everywhere. Typically only about 3 people in any team of 10 seems to do anything productive.
Not sure what you mean by "config for your config", seems this is what you want to obtain with an SQLite: someone would still have to manage those databases. The way I use deon for inheritance is with one directory per project, with one file to be read at startup.

file tree:

environment/
.env.base.deon
.env.local.deon
.env.production.deon

.env.local.deon file:

import base from ./.env.base.deon

{
...#base
NEW_VALUE foo
OVERWRITING_VALUE boo
}

Then the node process will be started with:

deon environment ./environment/.env.base.deon -- node build/index.js

If you want to take it a step further you could import values from a URL, even using a token from an environment variable for authentication, such as:

import values from ./.env.base.deon
import overwrites from https://deon-data.example with #$DEON_TOKEN

{
...#values
...#overwrites
}

Not sure what's the problem with several developers on the same codebase. Aren't they using their own, individual machines? Each developer can have their own environment file as they wish, or their own environment DEON_TOKEN.

If the static data changes with the environment then it's not that static, or I don't know what you mean. If I were using deon, I would split the .base file into two or more, and import accordingly.

Not sure what you mean by "including parsing quotes and handling filepaths in a uniform fashion". Have you found a bug in deon?

Anyhow, if your use case is too complex, of course you will need special tooling, deon is more of a research for my own requirements and still needs to be written in a compiled language, now it is only for the JavaScript ecosystem.
Crafting the HTML is embracing the browser, no?
>I can never remember who to be mad at.

Well, maybe don't be mad at anyone. Aside from a small number of true a-holes, the vast majority of people are all stumbling along doing the best they can and trying to make the best decisions they can. Yep, sometimes we humans don't make the best decisions. Sometimes we do dumb things. But at the end of the day, I personally believe most of us are trying to do the right thing. If that wasn't true, our society would rapidly descend into chaos.

As for me, I'm trying not to be mad at anyone. You do you I guess.
Addition: also I’m pretty sure no-one in Google senior leadership can be that surprised by the JWST snafu with Bard. If they were super-confident in Bard they would have just released it for public beta and put it straight into people’s hands like chatGPT. Instead they’ve done a puff tour to get press coverage about how great it is and say that it will be in people’s hands soon.
Google cautions against 'hallucinating' chatbots – report
Can you expand on that? I get irritated by the paywall shit too but its hard to see how it would be reputation damaging in the same way as freeze dried fungible 'content'. The feeling that im getting is that people feel aggrieved and are saying what they think will be most effective in airing that grievance - is there something more substantial there Ive just missed?
This

div {
width:100px;
height:100px;
margin:1fx; // all margins, horizontal and vertical
}

will place div in the middle/center of its container.

a) is significantly easier to understand b) is more flexible than bunch of flexbox props and c) does not break CSS box model and d) has clear physical model, see : https://terrainformatica.com/2018/12/11/10-years-of-flexboxi...

Just try to define same thing using flexbox...
What's wrong with grocery store flour? I don't think that's what they mean by "processed foods", do they?
No, per https://sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/:

> Unlike BirdsiteLive, bird.makeup doesn't use official twitter api, but the undocumented frontend api, just like nitter.net, which doesn't have rate limiting.
> it now seems like the American people are paranoid about spy balloons and having their airspace violated

Only naive people would think so. 9/11 was 21 years ago. Where have you been?

> America is the one who brazenly flies and spies over other countries, that doesn’t happen to us.

Satellites have been used by all major powers since pretty much forever. As for other means, do you have insights of those brazen efforts by the US?

> So now our leaders are trigger happy about shooting down any potential new balloons in order to try and save face while looking tough

Lazy thinking. You don’t know if this latest incident was in response to the event last week or there was something specific that prompted them to shoot it down. They didn’t even say it was Chinese. Strange unknown flying objects are not new of course. They following article discussed something happened in 2019, and was disclosed a year ago:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/video-of-mysterious-dr...
I reiterate; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34497650
I like taking periodic breaks from drinking, but I run into trouble with it (these are similar issues that I've heard a lot of people that quit drinking express).

I like going to bars for live bands and the social experience, but I don't like going and not ordering anything. The bar and staff have expenses, I want to support them - but the non-alcohol options are frequently terrible.

It's also tough when all your friends are drinking and you're not. It's annoying to deal with all the spoken and unspoken questions that come from it, like there's a strange sort of stigma attached to not drinking. Or maybe some people interpret me not drinking as a soft indictment of them. I'm not sure, but sometimes it feels weird. I've had friends and family members apply enormous pressure "oh, come on man, what do you mean? You HAVE to have a beer with me! Wait here, I'll get you one..."

Another thing that's challenging is the ritual aspect of it. At the end of a tough day, sitting on the porch and drinking a beer is relaxing. It helps unwind, and gives me a moment to reflect. For some reason, drinking a seltzer or something just doesn't cut it.

I've found that Kombucha can substitute sometimes, but a lot of the time I just don't want something sweet.

Tea is nice, but (and I know this is lame) it doesn't give the same sort of immediate gratification that just grabbing a beer from the fridge does.

Also, I just like beer. I like the flavor. I don't drink it a lot because I watch calories carefully, but when I want one, I just want one.

Enter: NA beers. They solve a ton of these issues, especially if you pour them into a pint glass so no one sees the bottle. Unfortunately, until recently the market for these has been terrible, at best.

O'Douls, frankly, is undrinkable swill. I have no idea why it's so common for bars to carry it as the only option. It's almost like some sort of subtle passive aggressive punishment for those of us who dare go to a bar and not drink alcohol. I know intellectually that can't be true, but every time a bar offers me that as the only option, I'm thinking it in the back of my head.

I had the opportunity to explore a ton of different options when my wife and I took a two year hiatus from drinking about 10 years ago. At that time, these were the ones I liked the best:

#1 Kaliber. Brewed by Guiness, it was hands-down the winner across the board for me. I could kick back and drink one of these and not miss "real" beer at all. My local bar would stock it for me, and I was a happy guy.

#2 St Pauli NA. A bit more hoppy, clearly tastes like a German beer. Also a great option.

I happen to be on a break now too. Not for any special reason - I got sick in early January and wasn't drinking at all, and just decided not to bother starting again. So that led me to discover:

#3 Heineken 0.0 - Not as good as #2, but still has good flavor and is pretty commonly available in the local bars where I live.

TFA mentions a new brand Athletic that I haven't tried yet, hopefully I'll see it somewhere while I'm out.
baked beans or cauliflower?
Interesting. Just submitted via AirTable. Would love to talk to you.
There is also a whole parking garage downhill from the market. Much bigger than the parking available out front.

It would make a lot of sense to pedestrianize Pike Pl and maybe couple of surrounding streets.
The killer feature would be if framework design their motherboards so that they also happen to fit in the older rock-solid Thinkpads - that'll pretty much bring them all back to being modern machines with full power and unbeatable build quality.
The footage would be cool, but isn't one of the selling points of the F-22 that it can fire missiles from very far away?
An amateur is someone who is doing it (whatever "it" is) without being paid by someone a fee to do it.

An amateur investor is someone who is investing their own money. A professional investor is an investor who is being paid by somebody else (a fee of some kind) to do the investing on their behalf.

Amateur/professional doesn't refer to the method they invest using. They could be using gold-fish to tell them what to buy, or they could be using sophisticated computer and math models to buy/sell.
Apple should be able to defer integrating directly with an LLM by treating it like an any other application layer feature until they can develop their own. It should be within their reach to develop one in house or through acquisition.
How do you handle gc of deletes?
Whoa! I remembered that so wrong. Sorry ;->
Exactly. Back when voice assistants were the must-have feature they got Siri through acquisition. They could do a similar thing here (and then a Siri interface to it would be an obvious addition).
> [...] people are tweeting that they have installed Bing app or opened Bing.com for the first time...

And many others doing a revisit after X years and surprised with the search results... Anyone else having this impression?

It feels more like Google should be (or was in the early days).
What horizontal scrolling?
The XUL addon system essentially allowed addons and official components alike to monkey patch any aspect implemented in XUL and indeed each other. The potential for interaction between them is therefore unlimited. When you say that its "just a matter of redesign" you are saying that if only infinite resources could be expended to avoid you never having to change anything at all the world could be a grand place. What you are failing to understand is that the browser is being secured first and foremost not against extension developers but against malicious actors. If the entire way the browser interacts is it self subject to monkey patching its infinitely harder and perhaps impossible to properly secure the single most exposed application vs the outside world.

Ideally the functionality once implemented as monkey patching can be provided by a defined interface with the addon system and indeed this is exactly what one sees today with most broadly useful extensions ported.

Incidentally if you want to analogize Firefox vs Linux the interface that is not supposed to break is the interaction with the web itself to the degree that this is possible. Linux actually makes external out of tree addons which touch let alone modify the kernel break/update themselves constantly. Linus would never have been stupid enough to commit to something like XUL for the kernel wherein he himself would be responsible for keeping thousands of monkey patching addons working while trying to evolve the kernel.
You need to find out what (s)he is thinking AND how she got there (who has she been talking to)! You may need to ask her to talk to someone else trustworthy. I'd suggest an older male therapist. Meanwhile you need to probe friends & family to find out what they've been telling her as well. What is the origin story for this wish to be a girl?

I'm absolutely with you about waiting.
Although those surfboards were radically different from the ones now. They were huge, really heavy (200+ lbs) and had no fins. I think they were probably only really good for riding the wave straight in.
People who’ve never seen one still understand that an Olympic-sized swimming pool is “quite big”. Which is the general impression people are trying to get across when they use that phrase.

People in the Olympics are the best athletes in the world. And I bet world class athletes need a big pool to compete in.

That gives you a pretty decent sense of the scale of an Olympic sized swimming pool without ever having seen one.
Maybe not customers, but still part of the audience.
What a weird take. We shouldn’t fix cataracts because it is part of someone’s identity to have blurry vision?
I don't actually use the web interface there at all myself - I use https://elk.zone/ on my laptop and Ivory on my iPhone.
Rob Walling has written and spoken a lot about marketing for developers. Rob published a book in 2010 titled "start small stay small" https://startsmall.com/ . A lot of the specific tricks and tools may be a decade out of date now, but some of the ideas wont -- one of them is not to build a thing that people aren't looking for, but find a niche that people are already looking for (e.g. tapping into search traffic for related keywords and so on) and run experiments to see how much traffic you can get to a landing page / sign up page for a product to serve that niche, to evaluate if there's enough demand for a product, before you invest in building anything.

More recently, see also https://microconf.com

Another aspect to this is -- don't focus on the product/service/technical project, put that aside. What are some interesting niche communities of potential customers? why are these niches of customers interesting, from a business perspective? How hard is it to sell to them? Will there be a lot of competition? Are there enough of them with a similar need or jobs to be done that you have a chance of supporting a business? what methods do you have to communicate with them? if you build a product or service for them, how will they find out about it? If you think a bit about Rob's products and services linked above, it's broadly clear which market niches of potential customers he is selling too.
Having talked with some folks who have been around the block in their career.. it is a pessimistic statement but sadly it is often true.
Super Bowl 1993: Race, rap and the Arizona Super Bowl that never was
I deal with web stuff all day every day at work, so that's definitely not what I would choose for a fun hobby project. It's not your best option if that's what you're trying to get away from.

Someone else mentioned .NET. There's also Delphi and Lazarus. Both are cross-platform and have full-fledged UI systems, without any of the web ecosystem nonsense. It's a totally different experience than web development.
reminds me of this blog on streaming data to Parquet files and running queries on data in the native format.

https://pedram.substack.com/p/streaming-data-pipelines-with-...