skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably the same way a stolen iPhone is rendered useless without the real owner's account password: software, hardware, and servers that work closely together to disallow unauthorized types of use. Even if you found a way, your identifier will be taken off the whitelist once discovered.
> it has by far the best vertical tab implementation of all browsers (someone please copy this)

TIL. I think it's still far behind TreeStyleTabs (TST) on Firefox. Missing for me:

- No nested groups. I know it's called vertical and not tree, but branches offer more context when navigating deep.

- Groups are standalone containers, while in TST the group is the root tab. This saves space but also allows to close/CTRL-F4 a tab to close the group/branch.

- Open in a new tab adds the tab at the end of the group, loosing context. There might be an extension for that.

- Closing a group and all its tabs requires to open a context menu.

- No automatic collapse behavior when selecting other groups and there are lots of tabs open.

- Open in a new tab doesn't create a group automatically, they must be manually initiated. Killer feature for me: by the time I realize I should have created a group it would be too late to bother assembling one.

- Scroll-wheel up/down doesn't quick switch tabs. Killer feature for me.

- Drag'n'drop zone to create a group VS reorder tab action is very small and hard to hit.

Nice feature though. I'm kind of amazed they bothered to implement this yet flat out refuse to re-enable the vertical taskbar lost with Windows 11.
If you're not using ChatGPT as a developer, soon you'll be outpaced by those who do.
So not than 75% of Chinese think their country comes the closest to a real democracy. Wow.

Either they are very afraid or they have no idea that democracy means that you actually need to have choices to vote for. Not saying our western democracies are perfect. But China just isn't one. I don't understand why one-party states are even pretending. The same with the old "German Democratic Republic". Why the fake democracy if you're so proud of your system?

Not surprised by the other outcomes. India has always had close ties to Russia in particular.
Ionosphere total electron content anomalies before the M7.9 Alaska earthquake
"Let them eat AI models on their devices"
Im not saying it’s right, but California is one is the reasons food has been affordable in Western North America for decades. I can only imagine how much food will cost in Alaska and Hawaii without CA ag

This is like deficit spending. Eventually, the chickens will come to roost.
This.

For the unindoctrinated, this concise Typical Tolerances of Manufacturing Processes reference[1] may be useful towards establishing pragmatic expectations for manual processes.

[1] https://mae.ufl.edu/designlab/Lab%20Assignments/EML2322L-Tol...
People actually trust their crap to Storj?

That blows my mind.
You can put someone whose brain has been lobotomized into the care of the nicest person on the planet, they'll still be in a bad place overall.
If you are going to take the effort to paste into an editor you might as well paste both hashes into same tab, put the cursor on one and let the ide highlight all occurances. Ctrl-c + Ctrl-f for those with less sophisticated editors.

Heck, most editors even come with a “compare selection with clipboard” option.
Don't forget the invoices.
Given what's happening to twitter, is being relevant a good thing now (if it ever was?)

From what I can tell, tumblr users think 'no.'

(I am inclined to agree)
There was a lot of deficit spending (money printing) going on then. The proof that oil shocks don't cause inflation is simple - when the oil prices come back down, there is no corresponding deflation.
Having lived through a lot of different orgs, following all the rigor of textbook scrum is like training wheels for effective agile. Running with true agility and without the ceremonies requires a disciplined team. I've seen some undisciplined, immature and just flat out mediocre teams that will just flounder without the training wheels. I've seen plenty of highly disciplined teams that have really internalized the meaning of agile delivery and don't need to be told all the steps and will actually self-organize. You just have to calibrate your level of rigidity for who your team is.
Such a beautiful UI <3
I dislike the invisible scroll bars, but I don’t think they’re about width, I think they’re about visual clutter. Apple likes simplicity (yes yes you can find examples where they failed) and this seems to be in keeping with simple design.

Still a bad idea though.
"The last question I will inspect here is that, if Ownership is difficult to learn and use for so many
reasons, why do developers choose to use Rust anyway?"

Ownership is not that hard. Borrowing is a bit harder but not that much more so.

I use Rust because of the ownership and borrowing systems, not despite them. They help me design systems and write code which has very few bugs once it compiles. (The last code I had with bugs in it I wrote maybe 2 months ago.)

I hope some useful pedagogical work comes out of the whole project, but I'm really doubtful of the premise.
> The simply fact is, unless you view the bible purely allegorically and massively change the interpretation totally from what anybody who actually wrote the bible might have believed you can't have a modern scientific worldview and be a Christian.

How can you go around telling people what they can and can't believe? What does it mean, in your opinion, to "be a Christian"?

> But at that point you can just base your worldview on Lord of the Rings or whatever you want because its your morals driving the interpretation, not the other way around.

You say this like it's a bad thing, it isn't, but in any case religion doesn't work that way. A Church of Tolkien hasn't been around for hundreds of years to be passed down from generation to generation.

It might be logically consistent to mock one religion or another in this manner, but it isn't kind, and it certainly isn't going to change people's minds.

For many religious people, family is the most important aspect of their lives, and for better or worse religion has woven its way into the fabric of family bonds.

I appreciate the deep and sincere regard for rationality and science that atheist viewpoints bring to the table, but I think the more evangelistic expressions fail to appreciate the wildly interesting tapestry of traditions that are the religions of the world.

People will believe whatever they want, that's never going to change. Others might feel they don't have that freedom. Why waste time trying to change minds about something as immutable as religion, of all things? Better to build up than to tear down. We're all stuck on the same planet, might as well make some friends while we're here.
They do. The client paid a load of money to hear what the consultant said, there’s a lot of incentive to act on it otherwise you’re the exec that hired a load of consultants only to ignore them.
My point is that people other than management influence your career. From interviews to mentorship to peer feedback there's lots of places where discrimination can creep in.
I agree with you that's worse. Hopefully these are not our only two options.
Anyway in the first signs of a true depression (which we are nowhere near at as unemployment is at a historic low) the Fed will likely lower interest rates.
But I agree things are difficult. There's a huge amount of debt in the system, the highest its ever been, and growth is low and inflation is rather high.
Seems like every generation insists on leaving the young with higher debt and worse off ecological ecosystem. We'll likely do the same to our kids until something truly collapses.
It's the same logic of letting a machine do a gym exercise vs doing it yourself, you're missing the point of it, because otherwise the gym exercise is mostly useless.
Oh this is interesting! Thanks for sharing. To be clear: it’s not that I think it would necessarily degrade the quality of the training, but that the biases of training on other AI output need to be taken into account.
Where did you do your learning? Why are you using the word communism? Socialist and Socialism are well defined. Capitalist is a sillier word when used for avg citizens who are exploited and oppressed.

Russia was dirt poor in 1917. They became a super power in 30-40 years moving an enormous amount of people out of poverty and lack of modern niceties.

China changed in 78 enough already. How do Cuba or Vietnam survive? How did they survive when heavily sanctioned and attacked by capitalist westerners? We have yet to see a capitalist country do that.
> Out of curiosity has anyone here spent any of the last 3 years getting healthier?

I'm running a 5k 2 out of 3 days now and lost about 15#.

Quitting my job really helped give me the bandwidth for building new habits.
Correct. Look at the specifics for Burt Rutan's Voyager world-record non-stop heavier-than-air circumnavigation. They specified the need to cross the equator twice in order to avoid such shenanigans, perhaps with a few more constraints.
While we're at it, let's talk about what Technical Debt really means. A mess is not technical debt.

Ward Cunningham explains Debt Metaphor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE

transcript at http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor
I'd prefer a 0-day workweek but anyway.. unfortunately I'm not there yet.
Non-paywalled version, although the links have been stripped: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/china...
I got a call from one of them recently. It went like this.

Him: Hello Sean, have you got 5 mins? I’m from X and we are the world’s first company to offer penetration testing as a service…

Me: If I can just stop you there, penetration testing already is a service.

Him: … err … no well the thing is we offer the ability to…

Me: Instead of running the pen test for the company you have a web dashboard which allows the company to run it for itself?

Him: … err … yes.

Me: I can see how that’s convenient for you. Well if you were running it for me that would in fact be a service, yes?

Him: … err …. <long pause> … yes

Me: So your “Penetration testing as a service” is in fact less of a service than all the other penetration testing companies are offering.

Him: … err … perhaps you’re not our target customer.

Me: No
> One of the under-appreciated greats of history. The White Rose movement was truly incredible, and in large part is responsible for the near-century of peace in Western Europe.

White Rose was useless and didn't produced any positive outcomes. All it accomplished was getting some kids dead. And if it was so intellectual, why they didn't tough about making it a bit harder to catch all core members in on swoop?

BTW. any non-violent movement can be easily ignored if alternatively there is no threat of violence. "You can talk with us or alternatively with people willing to put bombs into your car. The choice is yours. You can try neither, but there is non zero possibility that one day bomb in your car will be missed and your successor will be more willing to have a talk."
The sky is bright against the landscape if you're far enough away from civilization. In an urban environment, the night sky is black with some stars at best, blue or pink at worst, and spots of artificial light overpower it here and there.

Even really far away, in complete darkness, with the sky literally covered by a million stars, the sky mostly remains pitch black to the naked eye, with very faint bits of color from planets like Mars, some stars, and some nebulae. It's as black as the line of the forest that obscures it, which you only vcan see by the way it covers the stars.

Unfortunately, all these beautiful colors from the article are mostly invisible to a naked human eye. Long-exposure shots are the best chance to register these colors, telescopes help, but only for a tiny bit if the sky.
Whom they couldn't move out of poverty, they just killed.

I can't speak for grandparent, but when I say "communist" disparagingly, I speak as someone who was born and raised in communist Czechoslovakia, who remembers actual communism.

I remember being in kindergarten, learning how there was a great, kind man Lenin who loved children. And I was already somehow thinking, something is off: this shit shouldn't be taught to kids like us.

So you kids can crumple that up in your woke pipes and smoke it. Pardon me, vape.
More detail about the broken coding-font microsite of CSS tricks:

CSS Tricks had built a coding font microsite. In May 2022, less than two months after CSS Tricks got bought, the CSS Tricks microsite was broken, and someone reported an issue on Github[1]. Chris, who would be in an advisory role according to the Digital Ocean announcement, answered quickly:

> I’m afraid I’m not sure what Digital Ocean plans to do with it. I would, of course, vote for it to be re-hosted right at coding-fonts.css-tricks.com — and would be happy to help put it on Digital Ocean App Platform as well!

It was clear that Chris as an advisor wasn’t given any real access to decision-makers at Digital Ocean to make any difference in such a simple matter. It was such a simple and easy matter to solve that a bystander came forward and hosted the microsite somewhere else, ironically on Netlify [2] — a competitor to Digital Ocean.

[1] Github Issue: https://github.com/CSS-Tricks/coding-fonts/issues/116

[2] https://coding-fonts.netlify.app/
Thanks for this. It’s really odd seeing the empty sections.

I’m alarmed at the state of the roads - what is going on? I thought ours were bad up in Auckland but those ones I just looked at in Christchurch are are terrible.
Battle of Badon
But it's not the issue of the quantity of resources, it's about their quality, and it's a bit puzzling you find these pervasive issues hard to imagine
They'll compare a price in one year with a price in another year and fail to discount the difference by inflation.

> Are you claiming that they never adjust for inflation?

Sigh. If you find it necessary to add adjectives, you've created a strawman. For example, if I say "humans have two legs" and you respond with "not all humans have two legs" that is a strawman.
That brings to mind the other issue I have with fibonacci estimation: it makes improvement impossible.

In any high-performance organization, there is periodic self-reflection and self-improvement. Professional sports teams will, for example, sit down and "watch the tape", reviewing video of their most recent game(s) to see what they've been doing well and what they've been doing poorly, drilling down into specific areas where they need further practice.

Agile pays lip-service to this practice with its end-of-sprint retrospectives, but I've never seen an agile team do anything approaching a ticket-by-ticket breakdown, going over why the estimate was wrong, and what could be done to improve estimation in the future. One of the reasons that teams don't do this is because Fibonacci estimation makes it impossible to do this sort of thing. If I estimate that a task was a "3", and it took me two days to finish, did I estimate correctly? How could I have estimated better? These questions don't even make sense without a common baseline for what these numbers mean.

That's what I find most frustrating about Agile, as it is practiced. It's not the fact that the estimates are wrong. It's the fact that the estimates are so meaningless that they're not-even-wrong, in a way that makes it impossible to find and adjust for biases.
As a manager, I always measured by consistency. I could care less about how much someone worked, frankly.

The engineers would commit and if they met their commitments they were usually good. Sometimes I’d have to nudge them one way or the other, but rarely did I see an issue.

I tended to try to inspire others - aka you can design your own projects, deadlines, etc. My job was to guide, provide cover / funds and ensure success is recognized. My teams were definitely intense at times, but always self-committed and everyone became invested. That’s how to help people grow the most and get the most out of them imo.

That said, most of our deliverables I always pushed publicly (parents, papers, open source, etc). This ensured good future job prospects.
I don't know. Endpoint management systems like Intune and apples MDM API are definitely on a momentum towards declarative management.

It's just a matter of time and Nix will fit right in. It's not a war but more of an evolution.

Not that I use it, but I see the benefit.
Interesting, I was thinking this would be useful for Atlassian Cloud but never thought about enterprise Google Workspace takeout.
You can pump money into the system by buying adspace and just putting up pictures of cats or whatever. Either target them very carefully to always be shown to you, or better yet have them go out far and wide while you keep blocking ads on your devices guilt free.
this is the weirdest forced metaphor
If someone created a PDF of that article and attached it to an email and sent it to a US Government information system, by classification guide standards it is now a classified email.

In fact, this comment would be considered classified, as would yours.

The article you linked to seems to indicate that the emails were considered classified based on the assertions I just made.

The sentence "The United States of America has conducted drone strikes in Pakistan" was, and likely still is, top secret information protected by a special access program and email containing any sentence conveying that information in any form that is not properly marked and handled is a violation of security procedures.

It is impossible to know the context of what they are investigating without seeing the emails, and neither you nor I have seen them.
Cross laminated mass timber is highly processed and I would think they would be able to work around this.
You can graft onto that tree to get other varieties. It surprisingly simple and very satisfying.

If you’re really clever, you may be able to make it grow as a dwarf, or columnar tree.

I haven’t done those things and they might require something being done to the roots.
Fake or not, at least you were told what the deadline was. The agile approach to this dysfunction is for you to be pulled aside at some point and told, "You're not delivering enough points," with the manager remaining extremely vague about how many points is "enough".
Yeah unfortunately that was my impression when I saw the acronym expanded.
at this point it feels like declaring something a cargo cult is a cargo cult
'confused' is not the right word. I think the author might mean something like 'skeptical'.

I was listening to Thomases questions, and I think I agree. He is basically saying that any choice constitutes an opinion.

He brought up a bookstore that had a section for 'reliable' books versus 'unreliable' books.

That leads to other hypotheticals. Like is a bookstore making a recommendation by putting some books at the front of the store, and some at the back? Is a bookstore making an opinion when it decides to organize books by sales instead of alphabetically?

When you start to really analyze it, it starts to seem really ridiculous IMO.

Google says their mission is to organize the world's information. But any sort of organization presents some sort of opinion.

If you go to Google and search for 'shoes' something has to come up in the top slot. Should it be zappos? The Wikipedia article on footwear? An organization with the acronym SHOES?

Finding a "neutral" algorithm is dubious.

I think the plaintiffs are correct that the algorithm, even if 'AI' (they call it that), is a decision. They make the point that whether it was a human deciding what order to show results, or a human choosing an algorithm to order results is the same (I agree).

But then the same could be said for any system. Even reddit style upvotes/downvotes is a decision.

I also think this counters the spirit of section 230. From Wiki:

> In Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc., CompuServe was found not be at fault as, by its stance as allowing all content to go unmoderated, it was a distributor and thus not liable for libelous content posted by users. However, in Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., the court concluded that because Prodigy had taken an editorial role with regard to customer content, it was a publisher and was legally responsible for libel committed by its customers.

Obviously the pithy response by Prodigy would have been 'Well I guess we will not moderate content at all then, if it results in our being liable' and congress did the right thing passing 230 to stop the implications of this ruling.

To believe the plaintiffs we would have to conclude that 230 protects companies who moderate content by removing it, but not who moderate content by sorting or recommending it.

IMO this is counter to the spirit of 230, which is to allow platform owners to exercise moderation without being liable for any mistakes.
Kind of just skimmed the paper, but isn't it weird that researchers from Google would publish a paper that's basically about how Wikipedia hasn't properly adapted to its contents being used for training data sets?
not sure if you're ironically mocking the exact kind of answer you'd get in an "I'm so excited!" style culture.

Or if you're serious... I'm not angry I'm just tired of the doublespeak by people who, for example, say you gotta take a vaccine or you're "anti-science" but then turn around and denying much of the academic information we know about software engineering practice. It's self serving cherry picking.
So you have to find a specific use case that Google sucks at

One of the things that comes to mind is searching for exact error messages or codes, but for that I want something more like grep rather than AI.
India:

Layoffs are happening more in the startups here. A lot of startups in the past few years hired like crazy and salaries also went through the roof. Established companies had tough time retaining people. Service companies are scaling down hiring, reducing the salaries for freshers and delaying onboarding.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
I agree with this, but it misses the thing many teams need and that is a process to reliably hit dates they commit to.
> Also because of massive student-debt loads - the average GP came out with like $250k even a few years ago. Someone's gotta pay that, and ultimately it's the patients.

I doubt that's the reason for high doctor wages. They will keep making a huge buck even if tuition is cut by 80% imo. The reason I'm saying this is that the market doesn't care how much debt you have from school: you can pay Harvard 240K to get an art degree, that's not going to make anyone pay you what doctors are earning. You can become unemployed with big debt as you graduate.
No indication other than the fact that they purchased ZeniMax and then almost immediately cancelled the PlayStation version of Starfield.

They still haven't come out and said definitively that Elder Scrolls 6 will release on Playstation. It will very likely be an Xbox exclusive.

If they intend to continue support for non-Microsoft platforms past 10 years then they should codify that in the contract. It's telling that the deals that they offered Nintendo, Nvidia, and Sony have all been for 10 years.
I agree that AI search is hard to solve and then it needs to be 10x better. But I also think there are many Phind searches that are 10x better than reading documentation or visiting Stack Overflow. Not just because it's adapted to exactly the thing you're looking for, but because you can ask followups and narrow it down.

For example, "how to debug pthread race conditions in c++" is asking for a guide where no single comprehensive source exists. Phind combines information from Stack Overflow and other websites to generate a more comprehensive guide: https://phind.com/search?q=how+to+debug+pthread+race+conditi....

Generating guides that aren't simply addressed by docs or individual Stack Overflow answers are where Phind really shines.