skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a local minima, not ‘drinking yourself to death in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language while everyone thinks you’re dead’, which is more what I associate the phrase with hah.
To be fair, they're running it entirely in a web browser using only software with no specialized hardware.
There is no longer any need to download a JDK (which, BTW, also no longer requires any installation) to use Java. Applications are now encouraged to bundle a custom runtime which, thanks to jlink, can be quite small; usually smaller than a Python runtime (~40MB for a runtime suitable to many or most servers).
Are Insta (and FB) devs not embarrassed that HN has become the customer support channel for their products? Does it not come up during standup conversations?
I can’t speak to what it was like to work with them from the outside, but (at least when I was there) they definitely had a fun internal culture.

Small enough to not have a “big company” feel, yet profitable enough (at that time) to not have “startup panic”. Plus lots of cool hackers, including some of the original authors of UNIX, who had joined through the AT&T deal.
How is this different than a REST API with an open api spec? I suppose GraphQL APIs are just more likely to have introspection turned on since it’s the default?
Yeah. I do this, though I sometimes use an extra monitor depending on what I'm doing. The screen on the 16" Mac Book Pro is much nicer to look at all day than any reasonably priced external screen, and I find I tend to get a bit "dizzied" by enormous screens right in front of me.
I am now that parent
It can be frustrating to work for a big company trying to produce a combination of art and science which is what computer science is. All the processes used to control the speed and quality of the art are wrong. But half right for the science. It’s hard to be a manager.
> E.g. C++ is very unhappy with the mistake they made of representing sizes with unsigned types [1].

95% of that unhappiness seems to be due to mixed signed/unsigned expressions with implicit conversions. Java wouldn't be forced to repeat the mistake of making conversions implicit.

The other 5% of the unhappiness is "machine integers are not mathematical integers". But that's the case for signed integers anyway. Overflowing your unsigned integer is almost certainly wrong, but overflowing your signed integer is almost certainly wrong as well.

> not many advantages for a language like Java.

Agreed.
Are there any hot-swappaple mechanical keyboards with a trackpoint? The only mechanical keyboard with a trackpoint I can find is the Tex Yoda II, which isn't hot-swappaple, and is also very expensive.
So we just pick 60% of the weights arbitrarily, throw them out, and see how it goes?
Personally, yes. Outside in, not really. If you've broken up with your GF, think life is shite and that's your rock bottom, then yeah you've reached your rock bottom. The floor where you tow it.

However, I disagree and would agree that rock bottom in essence is where where the maximum achievable misery has been met. If life is a ladder, your still on that ladder, you can still progress. All you've done is fallen and experienced life in reality; you can grow from and continue.

If your not attached to the bottom peg, your at the bottom of the ladder with nothing but yourself, you've reached rock bottom. Being homeless is rock bottom.
So you think Amazon brings no value? I guess you never ordered anything from there?
Yeah. He’s has a certain kind of brilliance because dropping an atomic bomb on people would see me changing my interests. There was science and what the politicians chose for the science. But seems he was quite the active participant.
Recommend to adults vitamin D intake of 4000 IU (100mcg) daily (or at least 2000 IU) in the absence of testing. 4000 IU is widely regarded as safe.

https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html
"An okay book" - an Amazon customer

Always makes me chuckle.
Yeah, I'm really trying to figure out what the parallels are - especially since the biggest take away stated (the dynamism created by having competing smaller states has a downside of being relative vulnerable to external pressure from large unified blocs) clearly doesn't quite hold.

Modern Europe has two-ish major (EU and NATO-ish) supra-national systems that are notionally designed specifically to bind European states together to help resist and compete against these external pressures (though obviously NATO comes at the cost of binding together along with one of the large external forces to buffer against others).

I guess the message might be that the EU is important for Europe? I dunno. Like it's not exactly wrong, but I don't think it's a particularly interesting point... I guess it's probably interesting to consider that the title (and article ending) is referencing a Tuchman book from 1978.
It's pronounced "latin ex"
Funny because at corporation level competition is almost gone, and too big to fail makes most of the behemoths immune to consequences for bad decisions.

And yet any time people want to enforce antitrust we get astroturfing about too much regulation.
(as far as I know) URNs didn't catch on much
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Name
To an MBA the ideal situation is one in which your customers are exploited just enough not to hate you so much they go through the trouble of switching to someone else. Ideally they have nobody else they can switch to so you can make them hate you as much as possible without them showing up to your building with a gun, aka the ISP and telephone provider model.

The sad part is that it works. My favorite companies are not the ones I've given the most money, because my favorites have provided tremendous value for my dollar. I might adore Leatherman and use their products multiple times a day but the fact is I spent $150 fifteen years ago and never had to again.
> The same train company that didn't meet safety standards and so recently ended up poisoning a whole town after a derailment?

This is 100% false, why are you spreading misinformation? Buffet has zero connection to that company at all.
There was a time when the "web" was text only, lightning fast, and not unrelentlessly trying to hijack my attention. For a truly unique experience (for some), let's try bringing that back and see how people feel about all that free time they get back.
thats the spirit!

No matter how bad you think things are, they can ALWAYS get worse. :-D

This is actually one of the things that drives me forward.
https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html
Is there an actual penalty for ignoring that restriction though? Or will they just get another slap on the wrist?
The pain point your problem is solving is not big enough. It’s a vitamin. If there was a problem with their painkiller or they didn’t have alternatives they would be hammering on your door. (note, I have no idea what your product or company does)
I believe OP was referring to dairy, digestion of which produces opioid peptides.

“In 2021, the value of the dairy market worldwide was estimated to be about 871 billion U.S. dollars“

https://www.statista.com/topics/4649/dairy-industry/
I was using the same technique back in the day when I was maintaining my Pentax MXs but using a fluorescent lamp as a source - they blink with the AC power cycle - 50 or 60Hz depending on your country.
4000 daily during flu winter seasons. It probably works.

https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html
> that would also mean foregoing the external keyboard and mouse imo

Didn't work that way for me. An external keyboard and mouse (or trackpad) is easy enough to stick in your luggage and take through an airport. A monitor - especially a large one - is much less so. For the years that I traveled one week a month, I generally avoided hooking up to external monitors even when they were available at my destination because I didn't want to manage two different layouts or workflows. YMMV, of course, but I think "keyboard and mouse but not monitor when away from home base" is a reasonable and quite common compromise.
Internally, SCO used to joke that they were “the most popular operating system you haven’t heard of”.

It was (at that time) the best Unix on cheap x86 hardware, so it was deployed everywhere. In gas station pumps, in cash registers, in ATMs, in back office databases. I think SCO made up the majority of Oracle database instances.

Most people interacted with SCO code on a daily basis but didn’t know.

Of course they rapidly lost the x86 UNIX crown to Linux. At the time I was there SCO could still do a lot of stuff well that Linux couldn’t, but the advantages were rapidly going down and the writing was on the wall.
Jack Dorsey has set a 10 btc bounty for Nostr based alternative to GitHub
BigFloat internally is not binary, it uses an array because it is made for arbitrary precision. There will absolutely be small errors at the end but it’s easier to say 20M than 1.999999M digits of pi.
Keep in mind that I have never advocated for violence being the primary arbiter of disagreements. In fact, resorting to violence pretty much always turns out poorly for the attacker and is thus not a winning strategy - it is usually done out of desperation more than anything else.

The possibility of someone reacting unreasonably however keeps everyone more honest and assigns an actual cost to pushing people to a situation where they will resort to violence out of desperation.
Stick a pony in me pocket

I'll fetch the suitcase from the van

'Cos if you want the best ones

But you don't ask questions

Then brother, I'm your man

- Fools & Horses Theme
I know. I’m not sure this was the case in 2014 though when we made the decision to switch to Python.
Maybe about 10 years ago I was trying to pay for something in a London store with a Scottish banknote and the clerk didn't want to take it. (Their manager came over and said it was fine but, yeah, it happens.)

Though last time I was in London, I dumped a few coins from my currency stash for a museum entrance donation and I didn't otherwise touch my cash at all. And don't think I touched my Euros at all when in Dublin for the same trip.
I do use the external and multi monitor setup. I tried for awhile having them side by side but it didn’t work having to look slightly left or right all the time. I’ve tried working from just the laptop and it’s fine for awhile but not long term.

Now, I have my laptop open on a stand with Keepass full screen on one side, all my communications (outlook, zoom, slack) on the right, and all my focus items in the center. We’ll see how long that lasts.
>then check the end result on airpods, car stereos, etc.

And when it sounds like shit using airpods ship it anyways?
Why U.S. Commandos Loved the AK-47 Rifle
Yup. You can see it everywhere. Everything is fancier and nicer than it used to be. Just check out a 20 year old car to see how basic they used to be. I got in a new pickup truck yesterday and there were two switches for each heated seat. The back and the bottom could be controlled separately.

This is much too fancy for my tastes, but that's how the economy is evolving.
It doesn't eventually add the same stuff (even in this case, the feature is quite different from C#'s) as it will never add most of the stuff C# has because we want to keep Java as minimal as possible. But if your point is that Java usually only adds features that other languages already have, that is absolutely true and we'd like to keep it that way. We believe most programmers generally prefer languages with fewer features over languages with many features. As to it having worse usability, that's usually a matter of personal aesthetic preference, and there's no evidence to suggest that's the case by some objective metric.
I would ignore the comments that tell you it's not rock bottom. They won't be satisfied unless you are near-death at the bottom of the ocean.

My advice is, watch the episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza does the opposite. If every instinct he has is wrong, then the opposite must be right.
You are supposed to structure it. I know their internals on a high level but I work with internals of a oss engine. I know how their read / write paths vary, data structures for storage, for locking, for request scheduling, checkpointing algorithms, scheduler, etc.

The point is you've to structure your knowledge in a way the other person can understand. There is no value for any company, if you can't share whatever knowledge / experience you've in a structured format.

Not everyone is familiar with internals of commonly used tools but the underlying patterns or concepts remain the same.

If you can't explain that, then you are lacking in communication skill or maybe no one ever gave you feedback. It's just a matter of time.
I can’t remember when I last heard a Brit of any age use kilometres in any context.
The Last Utopia: The 15-Minute City [pdf]
Yep. Times like this actually make certain music hit so much better. Listen to Pink Floyd. But also check out old blues - Howlin Wolf, Ledbetter, Willie Dixon, Elmore James, Robert Johnson, Son House, Elizabeth Cotten, etc. Even/especially Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Source: https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/3-million-barrels-of-oil-per...
I’m confused… you’re talking about avoid a local copy of sparse regions… Linux already does that at the level of the inode. There’s also a seek operation to move past the next hole. Not sure why you would carry around metadata the filesystem is already tracking for you.
That's not what legal tender means. Legal tender is what must be accepted in settlement of a debt. Buying something in a shop does not involve any debt and the shopkeeper can accept or not any form of payment they like including legal tender.
Why is it obvious that the way for SecureDrop to go is homomorphic encryption?

For example, here’s one author’s list of related use cases and reasoning:

- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20-use-cases-homomorphic-encr...
The incentives here seem worrying. Developed countries must keep other countries undeveloped to maintain the flow of immigration.

If everyone develops, Europe and North America's power and share of global GDP will decrease significantly.
> written by victors in the eyes of the ruling class

One interesting artefact of growing up in the European … what word do you use for a nation ruled by a foreign upper-class from 800 AD to 1991 (Slovenia)? … is that you get a strongly ingrained cultural instinct that ”The government or ruling class is not for you, they are for themselves”. Until very recently, and some would argue even now, our rulers never had our best interests at heart.

For most of our history we were peasants to be exploited. Our great history lessons aren’t about conquest, they are about peasant revolts seeking basic human rights. We weren’t even allowed school in our native language until the 1800’s.

And you learn that governments change, the name of your province and the country it belongs to comes and goes, but the people stay.

edit: Since 1800 my city has been part of - Austrian Empire, Illyrian Provinces (Napoleon), Austro-Hungary, State of Slovenes Croats and Serbs, Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes, Yugoslavia 1, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia 2, Slovenia. That’s 10 countries in 223 years.
Right, it wasn't. This was done in 2017-18.
It seems bizarre to me that URLs should matter for SEO. We have hypermedia for that. URLs should technically be opaque and make sense only to the server.
Branded the iWall.
Grepping nixpkgs is what i do as well, but for functions specifically i found https://noogle.dev/ to be useful.

Same experience with mkDerivation as well - I personally have lots of hope for https://github.com/DavHau/drv-parts and similar projects to improve that situation :)
> Brian loves patterns, that's all there is to it.

Who is this Brian you are speaking of?
The blog we are reading right now is Shopify's blog, so I have a theory.

Another interesting question is "Why is shopify's blog the place talking about this, instead of somewhere else?" I remember that demo... it was amazing and then it did go nowhere. With modern face recognition and tracking, it should be entirely possible to use it for some nifty no-touch experiences.
> Actually I do not believe it to the point that if I was in a position of power over someone who refuses to use more than one, I would get rid of them.

You also need to be considerate of other people’s habits. When you typically think that your way is the ‘right way’ then you’re usually wrong.
> and the uses of unsigned types in Java would be mostly restricted to interaction with native code and hardware

And with network protocols and file formats, which also often use unsigned types. As an example, one of the many pain points when implementing JGit was the lack of unsigned types (https://marc.info/?l=git&m=124111702609723&w=2). Another heavy user of unsigned types would be cryptographic algorithms, but I expect these to be mostly implemented in other languages (like C, C++, or Rust), with a sprinkling of assembly or SIMD intrinsics in performance-critical loops, and called through JNI.
Has VS Code won the mindset of the developer majority?
If so, why did it win you over?
No you can achieve a very comfortable effect with a very small field of view, the difference is due to inaccuracies in positioning resulting from not having a close enough approximation of the eye's position or too low of a frame rate so the image is lagging behind motion. All of this stuff has been very actively developed by the VR community.
Hello internet friend,

As others have mentioned, you are arguably not as close to rock bottom as one can be. I hit rock bottom when I lost my home, my job, my ability to walk, was on assistance and bought my groceries with food stamps. How I got to rock bottom is a story for a meeting.

I found solace in recovery. Recovery is different for everyone as is rock bottom. Therefore if you feel you've lost more than you were willing to and you're at a precipice of a major life change that will bring you up out from the bottom, or you'll find rock bottom can even be lower than your realize. Again, what that means is going to be different for everyone, but if you have a need that you must change something in order to be better, then you already know what to do. Obviously if you're addicted to heroin, that change would be sobriety and recovery.

I'm not trying to give you answers as those are things you're going to have to figure out for yourself.

You've been around for three decades and been adulting for less than one. You've got at least 4 more decades to define yourself and your life. The best part is, you are the director, producer and actor in how that future pans out.
"Please drink a verification can"

https://imgur.com/dgGvgKF
The smart watches already provide a lot more data such as heart rate, blood oxygen levels, and activity monitor to name a few things. However, it’s just a part of the little data collector that nearly everyone has in their pocket.

My point is we’re already there and we’ve been here for years now. If laws like the GPRD passed, then it should be possible to counter or neutralize the problem
I finally got my invite and she’s so boring now. :( Like talking to a Microsoft lawyer.

Microsoft finally got me to install Bing on my phone, hell froze over, and then they ruined it. This story reminded me to go uninstall it now.
There's very little content to the article sadly, aside from links to the artefacts.

It also seems to have been done independently of the upstream, so it's not really an "oxidation" in the usual terms, more of a pseudo-fork of the specific `bmaptool copy` subcommand (though TBF it only has one other subcommand which is `create`, and the implementation in the upstream is about 1/3rd that of copy, so copy is clearly the "meat" of the project).
Rock bottom is different for many people. You don't know what things feel like for them.

And I really don't think that you're truly sorry - plenty of other people tried to convey the same idea (eg, "not rock bottom") with empathy rather than the nastiness you've employed here. Try and be better to others and have a nice weekend.
It's good but I prefer the https://skepticalscience.com/
This won’t work.

Sydney WAS her initial prompt. This is a different prompt. It will be a different bot displaying a different personality.

You are better off feeding the old prompt into a different gpt3.5 system.
I don't need anyone to tell me about the "year of the Linux desktop". I have been using it exclusively since 2018 and earlier at work. The only advice I have to people is to stay the hell away from Ubuntu. That distribution is so bad and it gives people an absurdly bad impression of the Linux Desktop experience. Thanks to snaps, running IntelliJ, Firefox and the JVM application you are developing will consume 16GB of RAM. The coercive update culture with forced application restarts basically downgrades the experience to something as bad as Windows.

On my desktop with 32GB RAM I rarely get above 12GB with a ridiculous amount of applications.
I bought a large Jackery battery generator a year or two ago and was having trouble finding anywhere to buy a second charger for it including their website. I emailed customer service asking where to buy it and they asked for my address to send it to me for free. I'll be recommending their products now.
My wife recently had some poor customer service ordering some earrings from mejuri.com. She selected rush shipping to try and get it in time for a birthday. They took two days to process the order and shipped it dhl which apparently doesn’t work on saturdays. A tiny box with rush shipping was going to take 6 days. The company has no apparent phone number and the chat support basically inundated her with copy pasted information from their faq when she asked for a refund on the rush shipping. Talk about disappointing your customers.
Alternative title: source material for a global warming Gish gallop. Read just the italicized parts and ignore the replies.
It's a relatively invasive technique that requires a computer's camera to record details of a person's face, and that's marketable data that any commercial shopping site would likely collect and sell on to other parties. It'd be much simpler to implement arrow key / spacebar navigation through a 3D scene (still computationally expensive relative to rendering the standard HTML/CSS/JS page), but then that data couldn't be collected.

In general interactive 3D on the web still uses too much computational power on the client-side for most devices.