skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transition and toolchain freeze (https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#transi...), where certain critical packages (https://release.debian.org/testing/essential-and-build-essen...) are frozen and updates are discouraged (not blocked) unless that the update would be too onerous to bugtest.
Be sure to do the math. A lot of programs use negligible power. If you spend an hour more writing your program, with your computer on during that time, you may find it can take you literally years to recover that. In fact it's not hard for it to take centuries or worse.

Programming spans a lot of orders of magnitude. If you're writing code for a multi-hundred system cluster, then by all means consider energy consumption. But it's also easy to spend hours, days, weeks to save a net total of several milligrams of CO2, because your program won't even spend as long in its total life time executing as you spent writing it, in which case the costs of execution are actually less that the development.
> you're totally free to switch between personas

This happens subsconsciously and gradually, not as a result of deliberate choice. You adapt to your environment by changing personas. You can even assume different personas while talking with different people. You can be one "persona" while writing, and another - while speaking. Who is the "real you" then? I can argue that even the "inner dialogue" with yourself might involve a different persona or even a couple of them. Those, too, might be "roles". Can it be that depression is at least partially attributed to unhealthy "roles" we play while talking to ourselves?
Hm, that is true. Good point. I suppose this is just a nice thing then :). Maybe OP wasn't aware that you could do this without steam complaining.
Isn't the battery life going to be much less than those phones with a Librem 5?
I never said there were any
There are 4 freezes[1]... the soft freeze (the current one) basically freezes which packages will be in the release and the hard freeze (the next one) gets everything stabilized.

[1] https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html
Open source ecosystem is really interesting. There are those who are able to reach a much smaller user base and somehow make money. and there are those who cannot reach a huge scale and earn money like this project. I have no idea what to do as an alternative, but it's really sad.
People won’t increase their standard of living by making labor more expensive. This is simply going to accelerate economic momentum towards automatization. And silly efforts to try to tax “each” robot as a human, to provide for those displaced also won’t work. We are about to see a generation or two where social stratification will deepen and we won’t have the tools to mitigate it on time. But after that, we’ll reach a new equilibrium, either doing complementary jobs to machines, or moving to a new type of economy, and everything will be ok for future generations. Or the robots will take over, kill us, and carry the torch, which is also okay.
Is scrolling broken on this page? On mobile it seems to jump around a little.
Far-right extremism is surprisingly common in the German-speaking world if you look beyond Western Germany and Berlin.

Eastern Germany (excluding Berlin) is one big racist hellscape where refugee homes get firebombed and Putin is worshipped as the second coming of Jesus.

Switzerland and Austria are not that bad yet but judging by social media trends they both have a significant far-right problem.
Okay, but Linux is an operating system (kernel), Firefox is a web browser. That's two completely different things with different expectations and threat models.
Your answer is hiding in your comment. You wrote a Manifest v3 extension instead of a v2. If Firefox, an underdog, wants to maintain compatibility, they're going to have to adopt v3. However, they don't want to adopt v3 with the blocking choices Google has made. So they had to do this, unless they wanted Firefox to fade into further irrelevance through extension developers refusing to support it.

Also, technically, Firefox is supporting both 2 and 3, their solution here isn't magical wizardry. It's just maintaining those specific features (blocking Web Requests) on top of adopting 3.
Disinflation, very confusingly, refers to a negative value of the second derivative of price with respect to time.

It is not a negative value for the first derivative of price, that’s deflation.

The speaker is making comparisons of quantities with different units, which is confusing, and the verb indicating transformation is inappropriate, but if you squint what they said is true:

The second derivative was going up, which heightened the salience of inflation, it’s now negative.

Without anchoring the statement with something like “while disinflation is happening, we’re still seeing modest inflation” would certainly have been clearer, I don’t think they’re quite wrong.
That's not in the featured article, so why isn't a more informative article linked instead?
Maybe we have a culture have decided that we no longer value creativity in writers, artists, etc. We praise the chatgpt's et al of the world and laud their creators and evangelists, but it's pretty rare I see much about advocating for better salaries and opportunities that allow new Dahl's to exist. They're too busy being told as kids that they need to learn python.

..."oh but the market"
The problem is that 'yes, and' mentality is not reality. Every country and company has limited budget, you can just say 'yes' to everything.

In terms of research, sure, research a whole bunch of stuff, that's good.

At some point however you have to rationally look at the problem and come up with a comprehensive solution. At that point the 'yes, and' mentality hurts as much as it helps.

French historical example is interesting here. When they did their nuclear program in the 70/80s they didn't say 'yes, and' they picked basically 1 type of reactor and simply mass produced it. Within 20 years the mostly solved the green electricity problem (without even trying). Its the opposite of 'yes, and', its analyzing the problem, creating a plan and executing that plan.

Very big countries like the US and China will have a much more 'yes, and' approach simply because they are so much bigger, with so much more people and so much more demand that they can actually do that.
Ask HN: What are you using ChatGPT for?
I want my fellow person to earn a living wage for a working day, no matter the work and a safety net for when we all fall on bad times.

If that means my burger goes up a dollar, I’m fine with that.
D is a refreshing language in the sea of "alternative to C languages", they didn't reinvent the syntax, so if you come from C, using D will feel very natural and at home! (and you'll be protected from most unsafe/ub quirks of C)

When it comes to metaprogramming, it's excellent, but it is a double edged sword, it can be useful, but if abused it'll tank your build speed, so one must find a proper balance to avoid pain later

One of the few languages that offers its own backend! (LLVM/GCC backends are also available)

I love this level of independence, a real labor of love, one of the best better C, i'd even say this is the evolution C needed
>I know when I've constricted my data enough, it's when I know all the components of all types have been constricted enough.

Do you not see that this is a tautology?

>That's our job, to translate the requirements into code, and the logic is that bit and therefore more prone to human error.

The requirements given are typically ambiguous and it is our job to come up with the complete specification ourself. Our specification may have bugs ignoring the implementation. I am not denying that with enough diligence you can mostly avoid errors in implementing the spec, but I am saying finding the correct specification for what your code should do is too hard to do compared to implementing a wrong spec and then fixing it as bugs come up.

>Those using languages like Haskell don't have the inheritance problem. Everything is sum-types, product-types, or exponential-types (functions) and is therefore composable.

Inheritance is just a different way to create sum types.
Yes, there are a lot of options, though it gets less mainstream pretty quick. Fortran, Ada/Spark, Ocaml, for a few other examples.
Thanks! No, but let me know if you have any questions. You can send me an email at contact@cubetrek.com
On iOS, Chrome is Safari. Apple outright bans competing web browsers on its platform; what they allow is reskinned versions of Safari, which is basically a way to allow Chrome and Firefox to save face and support bookmarks-syncing, but not a genuine alternative browser.
This, at first glance, looks pretty slick.

I've been using rails since 2006, and deployed my first app via capistrano shortly thereafter. I also once deployed an app using deis to run a mini-heroku. I've been using kubernetes at work (since 2018) and on some raspberry pis at home. I'm going to kick the tires on this and see what its like.
I remember working for Appen as a teenager. I saw it as a video game and became really really fast at labeling and quality assurance. Since it's linear work without hard thinking it became this sort of muscle memory thing. I remember some different projects, voice assistant for some car company that gave directions and took commands to change settings in the car, neural net for dog pictures, helpfulness and accuracy of search results, map stuff ,a big excel that I translated last minute to swedish and got like a bonus for doing late at night for them, probably other stuff as well. Wasn't worth it for the time spent getting up to context to work on a task and really low pay but fun to infer company secrets from tasks that I worked on
Even in the US! one of the lesser known programs is the Obamaphone program, where subsidized low cost handsets were provided to low income individuals.
> As someone with a background in Swift, Rust and C#, all of which have the concept of a tuple

They all have tuples, but AFAIK in none of them is a tuple a sequence (well not sure about C# it might be there, but I'd be surprised). Usually a tuple is a form of lightweight, anonymous, structure, so it's addressed by field (even if the fields are positions), you usually can't iterate through tuples, or "index" them using runtime variables (except through reflection).

That it is so in Python is somewhat peculiar, but makes sense within the context of the language (unpacking works on iterables, and thus sequences).
Babel is not actually very useful and gets less useful every year. It's "used by millions" because the JS ecosystem is a shitshow. I would rather pay money to our dependencies that pull in Babel transitively to fully divorce themselves from it.

Also discussed at the time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27114718 - many (including me) think they were not spending the money they did have very effectively.
Quoted by the lwn article:

> "surely no one competent would choose to have a package depend on `which` when a standard POSIX utility can do a better job".

This is one of the most ridiculous takes I've heard and severely out of touch with shell scripts out in the wild, to say nothing of the expectations of Unix users typing at an interactive shell.

First time I used Debian was '99 or 2000. It's been a go-to Linux distro for me for a long time. This is disappointing.
If you are actually interested in this problem why not try interpreting what I'm saying a bit more charitably and not waste your time replying with snark?
> STEP 1: Personhood is the capacity to see and be seen.
> STEP 2: People see LLM as a person.
> STEP 3: ???
> STEP 4: Either piles of mechanically digested text are spiritually special, or you are not.

The conclusion does not follow from the argument. Yes, (some) humans see the LLM as a person. But it doesn't follow that the LLM sees the human as a person (and how could it, there is no awareness there to see the human as a person). And it also does not follow that you need to be seen (or to have personhood as defined above) to be spiritually special. Yes, some people do "seem to sort of vanish when they are not being seen", but that doesn't mean they do vanish :)

> The ability to arbitrarily slip in and out of personhoods will no longer be limited to skilled actors. We’ll all be able to do it.

We already do this! Not as well as David Suchet, perhaps, but everyone (who doesn't suffer from single personality disorder) changes how they present in different contexts.
Combined with recent public requests for assistance from core-js authors, I think many parts of the open source infrastructure are on the verge of collapse
Ok, now add all the money infused to the economy because of PPP and 0% interest rates, QE (did you know the Fed bought almost as many MBS during COVID as during the GFC?), rent forgiveness, and enhanced unemployment. All that money doesn’t just affect the person that receives it, it increases the monetary supply and flows throughout the entire economy

I’m not saying people weren’t working because of the 3k stimulus or enhanced UE at all. I’m saying that those policies, along with many others, created inflation. When people have more money while the economy produces the same (or less) amount of goods/services you get inflation
Storing the product and packing it up. If you have small volume, then garage might work and can pack yourself. But Amazon and customers have expectations on speedy shipping. For larger volumes, you need warehouse and people to package orders. Doing yourself makes sense if already have own store but otherwise probably easier and cheaper to pay Amazon.

Also, my impressions is that Amazon shipping is cheaper since they have volume discounts, use their planes for long-haul, and use their trucks for cities.
"A man's got to know his limitations." —Harry Calahan
_Magnum Force_ (1973)
This is pretty cool! As a designer I can see the potential but the demo feels a bit simplistic — it might make a more compelling demo if you connected Noya to a higher fidelity design system than basic bootstrap.

Who is your target user? Right now it feels like this could be a superpower for non-designers but a bit limiting for designers.

I remember a medium article (I think?) about the Airbnb team building something similar to transform whiteboard sketches. Were you a part of that work?

Thanks for sharing, hope you don’t mind the feedback — the tech is impressive!
Go-Multierror
> A most formidable female -> A most formidable woman

What is the reasoning for this? Not following what is "wrong" in the original.
The experiment was more or less continued when Rome, the creator of babels new company - spun out from fb and took on a pretty large amount of funding. There is questions on wether or not that is working though.
Sure, but the point is that the Guardian doesn't have the same sort of right-wing-outrage-machine reputation that the Telegraph has, so (1) the tone of the article might be less annoying to those of a leftier bent, and (2) someone inclined to expect that the Telegraph would be outright dishonest on this subject might trust the Guardian more (even if it's citing the Telegraph as a source, one might hope that they've done some fact-checking).
Neither do threads about cryptocurrency, neither do threads about attempts to ban cryptography, neither do threads, for the most part, about so-called AI research.

Most news and news sites in general are not about only things that are practically very new, and most articles around even new technologies are reiterating the same information.

HN isn't robot9000. Not everything needs to be wholely original, nor is that HNs purpose - there's pretty clear guidelines around reposting the same article in the guidelines, so why would multiple takes on the same event not be worthy of discussion, to the point of flagging?
Now THAT is unix philosophy at its best.
Oh, according to LWN, it's Clint Adams' fault. In which case it's my fault, because in 1998, when Clint and I shared an apartment in NJ, I was pushing him backwards in a shopping cart, which overturned. He hit his head. All his decisions thereafter, I submit, are due to that.
Code Complete 2 is still relevant and advocates useful practices like these.
Or you could set up a Raspberry Pi with NetBSD/aarch64eb and just let it take its time.
Why should a child need to work?
Media changes, art is reshaped by new generations. Roald Dahl is dead, the rights to his books have been sold and people are updating them to keep them relevant. This happens to translations (as an example) all the time as the popular lexicon changes. This is how media and art stays relevant. The world changes. The owners of the books have a vested interest in modifying them to continue to be relevant. The tweaks have not impacted the heart of the story, so why do people care? Other than a knee-jerk reaction to 'wokeness'.
ReactJS + ExpressJS + PostgreSQL is my go to.

But I’m also looking at:

React Native + Supabase
It was a blogpost linked in the article. My wording wasn't correct. I edited it to clarify.

As for your question, that's a legitimate request. Maybe dang can change the link?
“So @rackspace have screwed up their mail system – again”
Quite a lot of them are using modern language instead of anachronisms:

> Unsurprisingly given The Witches’ subject matter, many of the edits are to do with depictions of women. “Chambermaid” becomes “cleaner”. “Great flock of ladies” becomes “great group of ladies”. “You must be mad, woman!” becomes “You must be out of your mind!” “The old hag” becomes “the old crow”

There is some removing of fat as insult. There is that too. But pretty much all changes in above paragraph sound better then old ones.
I was a tech lead, I did first round interviews and had a larger amount of input, outside my manager, with respect to whom to hire. Hopefully that clarifies that bit.

1. I would say that our listing was accurate other than the fact that we actually worked in 4-5 major languages, not just the one advertised. That was never much of an issue though, we screened for a certain level of adaptability. To me there's a very big integrity difference between lying and applying for a role which you don't meet all the requirements. If you tell me, "I haven't worked on Kubernetes before, but I've worked on distributed systems and have messed with a lot of REST apis." I'd be understanding, no one can have all the right experience at once. Contrast that with someone having Kubernetes all over their resume only to find out they've pushed a button on an automated deploy pipeline and don't know the difference between a Deployment and a StatefulSet. The latter I consider a lie.

2. No, I know that company didn't have a culture of rewarding lies. In order to claim things for promotions you had to have multiple peers back up your claims.

What preempted the lies was probably discovering that we primarily did software development kit work, which most engineers have not done or don't have a ton of experience doing. Mix that in a bowl with the fact that we were easier to get hired at than Google and paid slightly above average (at times) it was fertile ground to attract candidates willing to espouse some aspirational stuff as if it were an accomplishment. This was especially relevant around Senior hiring when we'd ask about leading initiatives. A lot of SWEs have delivered software in a team, but few SWEs have led those initiatives, or only owned a very small part which they worked with (usually) one other engineer to deliver.
yup, see every action scene where the hero subdues the guard standing in front of a biometrically secured door, then uses the knocked-out guard's hand to open the door
To be clear - and there is no easy way to say it - the proposed Iowa law allowing 14 year olds to work in meatpacking plants is not designed to allow the politician's children to work there.

It is 100% designed as a gift to a major industry in the state to avoid fines[0] when they knowingly employee underage immigrants, primarily Hispanics from Central American, who are easily exploited both in pay and safety.

"On top of that, Senate File 167 would also free businesses from civil liability if a teen gets sick, is injured or killed on the job due to the company's negligence or the teen's negligence. The businesses would only be liable for "gross negligence and willful misconduct"—a much more difficult thing to prove in court."[1]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/child-lab...

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/iowa-bill-relaxing-back-child-labor...
You left out the full quote

> She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling

> She went to nineteenth century estates with Jane Austen. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and California with John Steinbeck

Possibly because both Kipling and Conrad wrote books with colonial themes

At the same time, if that tone gets erased (e.g. the way Conrad writes about the Congo), they're erasing the premise of their erasing

Edit: the only way I can somewhat make sense out of their decision is because I've read the authors they omitted
Apple, Google, maybe others charge 15% on up to $1 million or the first $1 million in digital sales. Or less when negotiated. Does Amazon offer reduced rates to small businesses or low volume sellers?
Just 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34757626
Monopoly also means "exclusive or near exclusive access or control of something" for instance "she is monopolizing her time" and in that usage the original poster is using it correctly.

In fact, I think we should retire the term monopsony exactly because its actual usage is a subset of the usage of monopoly and nobody ever cares about the distinction.
With a revenue of $720M in the restaurant business, there is no way you’re going to make $17B from a sale.

Subway has revenue of around $10B and is selling itself for $10B.
Aren't there a few platforms that allow people to post bounties for features on open-source projects?

To me, that's the funding model that might make the most sense for open source. Asking for an eternal subscription might be a hard sell for a lot of people, but throwing a few bucks into a big pot so somebody finally is motivated to dig deep and solve X pain point in your software seems like a more realistic approach.
It’s shocking that Safari is the only browser that seems to aim specifically for not eating battery and not turning your laptop into an oven. With the ever rising importance of mobile platforms you’d think these things would be a bigger priority at Google and Mozilla, especially since Google has not one but two mobile platforms, but instead the focus seems to be on gee-whiz bells and whistles of questionable value.
If it's quid-pro-quo, ala Firefox funding itself via search defaults, I don't see how it's exploitative. I highly doubt Google is paying just to keep themselves in the Apple app store. They would (and could) have made a big fus about it unless they got something in return from Apple.
How do you assess labelling quality? What I’m wondering is, how would the feedback loop work, in the longer term, between quality of AI output and paying/selecting labellers?
>But the Roald Dahl Story Company said “it’s not unusual to review the language” during a new print run and any changes were “small and carefully considered”.

This is the first time I heard of this kind of language 'update'. That's not normal.

Shakespeare is genuinely hard to read and understand but we don't just change random phrases and words to match modern sensibilities. Even modern English translation will keep the original for reference.

>As presented it is just designed to generate outrage,

Because it is outrageous.