skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But isn't that what we've had with Cable TV all these years?

I mean, the remarkable thing about cable, satellite, and many IPTV providers is that it is always the same thing at about the same price. $6 a month gets tacked on to your bill a month for ESPN whether or not you watch sports. You can't get the Discovery channel (say) unless you get crap CNN, Fox, CNBC, MSBNC, etc.

There is no market discipline for the channels to be good, no market discipline to keep the price of the bundle down, so the business plan of that industry for 30 years was "increase the price next year".

You'd think streaming would be good for Disney in that Disney has a strong brand, yet it is expensive for Disney to realize that brand promise. (Look at what Walt spent on his first animated films and to develop Disneyland and Disneyworld.) Disney would rather get their cut of your $80 a month cable bill month after month without a fight rather than have to outspend Netflix, Paramount and everybody else to get a $10 subscription which you could easily stop and switch to another provider. It's like the situation where everybody is standing on their tiptoes to look over the people in front of them.
Use Next.js Image component in posts with Markdown
I had the following problem on my blog: the images I put in my Markdown posts were not using Next.js Image component (which is pretty nice, as it lazy loads images and optimizes dimensions).

I finally found an elegant way to solve this issue, and thought it could save some time to other developers :)
Well if it’s about QED I’m always drawn to the paper : “There’s something rotten about the state of QED” by Oliver Consa (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.02078.pdf). Since I’m in CS, not physics could anyone let me know if the paper above is making stuff up. If not, then it does paint QED in a very bad light and indicates something wrong with that field
Even then you have the right to face your accuser in the US. IANAL but I think that you can't call an AI in for cross, nor a robot. Probably depends heavily on jurisdiction though.
Did it need that investment? Do you believe that such infrastructure did not exist prior to government?

Who do you think funded the first railroads exactly?

Hint: if you think it was the government I suggest you start studying the railroad bubbles of the 1830s and 1840s
But that was not the way it was sold to developers and stakeholders.
I have a ton of admiration for Dutch society and their social safety net. They do a great job culturally of remembering to treat everyone in a very humane manner. I wish America was more like them in that regard.
You could contribute to the OpenStreetMap project:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute

I like to do that when I'm in a new environment and I see missing buildings or missing house numbers, for example.
I didn't say that. From experience dealing with people, I just think that not everybody is equally biased. Just like not everybody is equally good at maths, music or sport.
While wind is nice for new ships, may a first step would be to stop using awful bunker fuel in the ships that already exist.
Nonsense. I've been running RT since the 2080ti (2018) and Metro Exodus (2019) on every game that supports it, rendering 1440p to 4K via DLSS. RT has been "usable" for years.

Granted, at the time I was only targeting 4k60 and now I target 4k120
Unfortunately the gaming hardware prices are also shooting for the top
https://www.pcgamer.com/ultra-enthusiast-hardware-is-strangl...
Peter Moore, then the head of Sega US doesn't even mention piracy as a factor [0]. But then Tony Chen who designed the Xbox 360 security system says it was a major factor [1]. Note that Moore was head of Xbox at that time.

0: https://youtu.be/0ZBR4uHec_k

1: https://youtu.be/U7VwtOrwceo
Same story in the Jetta in the US.
Jetta 1 - 427cm VS (USDM) current Jetta - 466cm
There is only 19cm between the long-lived B6 Passat and the modern US Jetta and no Passat was bigger than the new Jetta until the B5. Cars are huge these days
+1 on this. People forget product development is a collaborative process. If a PM is just chucking work over a fence, they’re not a PM. They can’t be doing their job effectively if they’re not spending as much time with developers as with customers.
Dunno about AI, gave Dall-E the following prompt:

> take this saying "On the Internet, nobody knows you're an AI" and draw an AI at a desktop with a computer on the desk

And it gave me this https://pasteboard.co/iMULQjodCxtY.png

Not quite the same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_know...
Majority of the US is at-will employment, meaning you can be let go or quit at any time with no need to give notice. The only difference is we were conditioned to believe that we as employees to "not burn bridges" must give at least 2 weeks notice, but companies never give notice to you, just wake up one day and you're no longer employed.
With the push to return to office where those offices are over crowded and open, makes me wonder how much these companies are strangling the creativity of their workforce.
Todo lists -- real ones written on paper -- help me tons. Everytime I have a 'I should.../I need to...' thought, it goes on the list. Then, when a gap in work occurs, I can pick something interesting on the list. The physical strikethrough on paper is satisfying in a way an electronic record isn't.

My preferred medium for notes and Todo lists is index cards. When I complete the tasks that fit reasonably on a card, it goes in the trash. Something about not wanting my desk littered with cards encourages me to complete them; software lists just grow and are easily forgotten/filed out of sight, or worse, become their own organizational, hyper-focus rabbit hole.
These days, the WordPress power-users are all doing headless via the API, so there's little push for a better admin UI.
What Mary, Queen of Scots, can teach today’s cybersec royalty
I haven't tried Astro, but I moved my blog from Jekyll to Hugo.

I did it because I remember having issues with jekyll installation from time to time, like it suddenly broke out of nowhere, and trying to fix it became a pain.

Then I looked for alternatives and found Hugo, changed the template and installed in all my systems (Windows, Linux, macOS) and it has worked like a charm. Also, the speed boost was super noticeable, like, several times faster.

So if I were to choose again between Jekyll and Hugo, I'd go with Hugo.
Are you sure about that? Did you take the picture of his brain to confirm?
静者心多妙
Probably the same way you start a blog in 2022, 2021, or 2020.

I know there are ways around it, but does HN have filters for headlines ending in "in <year>"?
> Many people (including me) use static generation with a fancy build process because we find it fun, not to save time or money.

Some people do this and won't admit it!
Lunar gateway is basically a bone the US threw to its partners so they can pretend to do something that matters. While in effect it being a mostly irrelevant legacy thing with no future.

The only reason it exist it because it allies a bunch of different interest in NASA and its partner, those people who believe electric propulsion for Mars, space station people and the micro-gratify biology mafia.

Everybody know that the Gateway and the SLS/Orion are just political buyoffs for congress, so they can funnel money into an actually innovate and revolutionary solution, Starship.

The goal is to get Starship going and then do an end-run around congress and sell them on more Moon/Mars missions, finally killing all these terrible projects like Orion, SLS and Gateway. Since the development money for those projects will have largely been spent by then, the politically usefulness is mostly gone, so they will let them go in exchange for some bullshit new bullshit contracts.
> first widely produced aircraft to feature a pressurized cabin for passengers

"While the first experimental pressurization systems saw use during the 1920s and 1930s, it was not until 1940 that a commercial aircraft would enter service with a pressurized cabin, when the Boeing 307 Stratoliner ..." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressurization

> What aircraft started travelling such lengths of time that a toilet is necessary?

For airplanes, looks like the Vickers Vimy Commercial in 1919. https://archive.org/details/airliners0000wall_v8m6/page/56/m... says "The fuselage of the standard Vimy had been completely rebuilt to give an enclosed cabin with seating for 10 passengers and a lavatory. Company records appear to have been unusually discreet about mentioning this last very necessary facility, but the Vimy appears to hold the record for the first airborne toilet."

Since that the term "aircraft" includes airships, I'll offer LZ 10 Schwaben (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_10_Schwaben), as a likely earlier example. DELAG ("the world's first airline to use an aircraft in revenue service" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DELAG) started flying it in 1911.
Climate change is redrawing the coffee growing map
Economics in Nouns and Verbs
No no no, I've been told many times that creation happens during lunch break at the water cooler! And hard problems are solved by gathering around The Architect at The Whiteboard. /s
There are many other vendors who offer JDK. We have been using Amazon Corretto JDK in production pretty much since the launch. Didn't face any issues.
This is much like the Elm Architecture [1], a pattern that I enjoy using. That structure gives me problems though when I want to speed things up by caching frequent calculations and lookups in the View functions. In Elm, at least, this is only possible by keeping the cache explicitly in the Model and maintaining it in the Update function. So it feels like considerations specific to generating a particular view end up explicitly in the more general update of the application-global Model. And for the Update to avoid doing lots of such view-value computations not needed by the current view, the Update function has to know a lot about view-only state.

[1]: https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/
And it's still their most recent architecture at every price point under $800 so I'd say it's still fairly relevant on the desktop as well.
I want to do the same and integrate it with my existing hobby e-com website. I was thinking of finding something that just turns markdown into HTML and using that. On the other-hand, a wysiwyg editor would be nice. I have no desire to use something heavy like wordpress or anything that requires a database. My little e-com website has no database backend which i'm kind of proud of :)

edit: on the third hand... i need a place to practice and stay in shape with full stack dev as i'm more of a manager/therapist these days. So maybe something from the ground up is in my future
> Do you think there's enough demand out there to have a company that does just technical (e.g. software quality, security) due diligence?

My company (used to, we've grown to do other things) only do Tech DD and we've done really well, so the answer is yes. According to Pitchbook there are about ~3,000 software company acquisitions every year - so that might tell you how much potential business there is.
Writing the GmailFS HOWTO, and fixing a bug in the process, was my first exposure to the power of OSS. Looking back, I'm pretty sure this is what led me to persue software engineering as a career!
There is something missing here I think. Creating a playing field where only car owners can play, is not even subsidising car ownership. It's some kind of gate-keeping. It's subsidising the preference for car accessability for sure, which would be unkempt even if everyone could afford cars.

But when people can't even afford cars, it becomes something even weirder than subsidising cars.
Ageing in a collective: impact of ageing individuals on social network structure
Plastics, asphalt, fertilizer, sealants, complex hydrocarbon chemicals. I think everyone kind of underestimates how much of our lives is based on oil. Transport is the largest user, ~50% of each barrel. But the green revolution wouldn't be possible without it. If we stop using oil for fuel it will simply be refined into something else.
It's a nice story, but you're right to say it's not true. If easy-piracy was the cause, you'd expect the attach rate (games-sold-per-console-sold) to be much lower than other contemporary consoles, because pirated games still needed legitimate Dreamcasts to be sold. But it just wasn't [1]. They simply didn't sell enough Dreamcasts for the reasons you say, and others.

[1] https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Software_tie_ratio
And Steamdeck too. It is fascinating.
Inspiring people by not doing very much and spending massive money on bureaucracy and a large monopoly. I'm sure people of Europe are inspired.
I find it much easier to focus at the office than at home with my family.
Well it's sorta true, but the important difference is that the bottom poverty line is higher than in the US, and we do have better social security. Still, the gap is growing. Though recent changes in real-estate legislation are putting a stop to that. Yes, there are the mega rich, entrepreneurs and whatnot. Like it or not, they do participate in society in a way that moves the needle.

Means for the slightly-better-off middle class to exploit the lower class through rent are being thwarted, thankfully. They just allow one half of the population to exploit the other half without providing any tangible benefit in return.

Source: I'm born in, and living in, the Netherlands.
Eh, you can plan to allow some overlap. As long as the manufacturing is in disjoint intervals, you'll get basically the same effect.
I observe something like this in the way people react to what's going on in the news.

Example: compared to most people, I am "better" positioned to understand what's going on in Ukraine - my dad and both inlaws are from there and speak the language. I grew up in former USSR and speak fluent Russian so I can also watch and read things closer to the source.

And yet, I don't claim to understand anything that's going on in Ukraine because ~none~ of the information I see can be considered unbiased. So I can chose to believe one set but not the other set of data or I can say "I am not equipped to understand this."

Meanwhile, tons of people who are objectively less equipped to suss out the situation, don't feel this hesitation to have an opinion. Intellectually, if you ask them 'does propaganda exist, and is it amped up in a war situation' they will say 'of course, every time' and then they'll go and believe what they read (be in in a Western or Russian source, doesn't matter.)

This is not a complaint, it's actually something quite empowering to understand.
You are entitled to have your own opinion on this.
Ghost is also what I always recommend. With WordPress and Jekyll/Hugo, you'll fuck around with site setup way more than actually writing. Ghost is basically only good for actually writing. Pick a theme (plenty of them for ~$50, write. That's it.

Customizing themes is also super simple in my opinion, though I've never tried their shared hosting and am unfamiliar with limitations that come from that.
Yup. Similar event:

A pharmacist relative who works with hospitals told me of a case where they detected excess infections, traced it to a particular operating room, then got stuck for some time before they found the source — a colony of resistant bacteria living on the spout of the antibiotic soap dispenser used by the operating team to wash hands pre-op. Another item added to the checklist.
What it means is that they will do a deal with NASA for seats on Starship. In exchange they will fiance some modules that Starship will deliver on Mars.
Reading these comments has me a bit concerned... since I (a 37 year old relatively healthy person) could barely do the 40 seconds. I did it but it was rough at the end.
More than happy for you to answer as well - I respect your opinion on this topic.

P.S. - don't really appreciate the snarky "you should do some answering"... as a fellow busy professional, I'm answering when I have the time to do so.
Seems, the license allows for copying [1]. Maybe worth rescuing them.

[1] https://css-tricks.com/license/
The general idea is to have a worker/handler which has one or more pure functions to perform some piece of work.

This worker should be stateless. Or if does need state you should put into a centralized location which supports concurrent access (e. g. A DB technically no longer pure).

Your orchestration script takes gives tasks to your workers and collects the result. The key idea is you can horizontally scale the amount of workers because they are stateless.

A simple example of this might be a an orchestrator script that creates a bunch of tasks (e.g. adding two numbers) and pushes it to a input queue. The workers take a task off the queue, and push the result on the result queue. Orchestrator takes the result off and aggregates all the results.

A more complex example is a webserver communicating through RPCs.
I understand what you meant better now, and I agree with your position.
In particular:

> Today it's the artists but tomorrow it could be IT workers. Companies are pyramids and the room at the top is finite. A healthy economy is not a pyramid.

This is why I said perhaps some meaningful social change may come out of this.
If we assume automation will continue to replace jobs higher up the pyramid, at some point it seems the extremes in the range of possible outcomes is "more people competing for a diminishing pool of low skill jobs" on one side, and "we figured out a post-capitalistic (0) society in which how useful you are to the economy (this is basically your skills vs the demand for them) determines things like if you get the house with the nice view or not, but not whether you get access to good health care, can live in a place without the fear of getting evicted or of getting robbed/murdered when you go out, etc.

I know it's utopic but I rather be utopic than dystopic, I guess.

A great path towards a better (IMHO) arrangement would be to have very good unemployment benefits, including education/training for jobs that are in demand when you get downsized/automated away.

(0) I use post-capitalistic for lack of a better term, and to make it obvious I don't mean communism. I certainly don't mean that and see societies organized that way closer to dystopia than utopia. My point is, as you say, I believe a pyramid is not a good way to organize an economy (or a society for that matter).

Edit: formatting
So 7 years would have “been to early” (e.g., like Meta did it and we all know how that ended…)? Or 5 years in the case of Google? Or 2 years for Amazon?
I would imagine (purely speculation) that anything of substance coming from chinese research institutions would be kept from western circulation, or at the very least heavily altered or redacted to retain any competitive advantage the research might possibly have.

Given how 'vertically integrated' the government is with the entire economy, it would make sense to see similar behavior from them as you would a corporate entity. The odd whitepaper may surface saying "We have this cool new thing" but technical details necessary to implement that cool new thing will be sparse or missing entirely. Everything is kept under lock and key as trade secrets.
I made a joke.
Blind[1] is a decent community to get a glimpse into what employees truly feel about employers, get referrals and overall tech career advice. It can get rather toxic and troll-ey at times, but you can filter that out to focus on the useful stuff.

[1] - https://www.teamblind.com/
> Certainly not implying it's impossible,

I agree. Never say "never."

But a lot of the time, resistance is simply a matter of tinkering with target of the antibiotic (add a methyl group here and, voila! the antibiotic no longer binds effectively).

Then there are multi-drug efflux pumps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efflux_(microbiology)) that "indiscriminately" toss shit out of the bacterial cell.
what about music?
If that's you, then feel free to return to the office, just don't drag the rest of us who don't work like you to the office because of your family.
Ok now you've made it mostly accurate credit where its due. This is not what you first said.

>grammar as we know it was devised for the Latin language and linguists spend most of the time attempting to fit other languages into neat boxes that the Latin grammar wasn't designed for....Chomsky tried to . All solve this problem with Universal Grammar.

Well first of all, every language has some form of grammar. If there were no rules that made meaning depend on word order, there would be nothing different between what the cat ate and what ate the cat. To claim Grammar is some Latin/Western system being unduly applied is absurd.

You are correct UG was invented as a to explain something about English. Howevert was not an attempt to solve "this problem ("this problem" being conforming to expected systems of Grmmar.) The problem he was interested in solving was about the ability to learn language rapidly despite not having many negative examples of how not to talk. Pay attention here researchers, the lesson maybe extends to you too soon.

UG also isn't a specific enough thing you can check against in a directory. Its a theory, namely a theory that if you study language features you'll eventually discver some things are invaiant. Using it directly and immediately based on nothing but Chomsky's conjecture...all I can focus on passing out at screen goodnightn
> When United placed its order for 60 airplanes, it was only natural for Boeing to fill their order before building more for other U.S. airlines. When Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) was told their order had to wait, they went to Douglas Aircraft Co. and asked Donald Douglas to build an airplane superior to the Model 247.

That evokes something of a bygone era where people just went out and built stuff.
Project of that scale would be major, major flagship missions. ESA could never do them alone. And missions like that would have to be in the Decadal Survey.

There are some Venus mission planned but non with balloons or anything inside of the atmosphere.
OP is specifically talking about tech due diligence which is specific within due diligence in general.

One thing that appear in tech due diligence is quality of the technical architecture and implementation, and security risks associated.
Busy build out a Astro/mdx based one.

I take notes in md anyway so hoping that’ll be reasonably ergonomic
if any interested, I also have a black box ProtoBuf package:

http://2a.pages.dev/rosso
Bear in mind that as each model grows (because each version has to be "better" than the last), new models are inserted at the bottom. In 1990 the Polo 2 was the smallest car VW made (375cm), the Polo 6 has the Up below it (355cm)
Usually, in case of especially consulting companies, estimates come from project managers or sales people.

And many times when developers give honest estimates that are too long, management simply ignore it or ask developers to revise estimates until they get it down to acceptable level.
Based on the title alone, you might think that this is about needing silence to be creative. But as far as I understand, the (very short) post is more about the lack of feedback while creating. "While you’re reading this, creative people are working hard now across the world on the next novel, movie, or song you’ll love, and yet, you don’t know anything about it, and they don’t know if you’ll like it either."

Also, to react to the post itself, yes to some degree, but also no? Most crative processes involve multiple people going back and forth, giving feedback along the way. Editors, teammates, talking to family, brainstorming, etc. Yeah it's not the final audience, but it's similar. A mind on its own is so so much less creative then two minds interacting.