skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even understand your point. Of course I don't plan on going to someone who have some feelings and say "hey you suck loser" or try to shame him somehow.

But if tommorow some friend say to me that he's "in love" with a twitch streamer and plan to give his life savings to them because "such an amazing person" you won't have me entertain the idea his feelings are "valid". I CAN tell they are not valid and he's getting fucked over. I'll probably approach the situation cautiously, and reasonably fall back to letting him do his own mistakes if he doesn't listen to me, but I'll have a talk with him from a position where I do evaluate that he's absolutely misguided.
I think it’s a consequence of the well-intentioned, but foolish idea of “bias toward action” that doing something is good and not doing something is bad or complicit.

When people see something bad-discrimination against disabled- they want to improve the situation but don’t know what to do. So they do something, anything without considering if the action is effective or if the best course is to do nothing.

So making a list of words to use or not use is doing something. There’s no way to measure if it makes things better or worse, but at least it’s something.

If they don’t make a list, and do nothing then that might be confused with not recognizing the problem.

So I think it’s well meaning people who want to help and do something stupid rather than not doing something.

I wonder if just releasing a statement of values is more appropriate for noting that an organization is against all these injustices but not advocating for lots of dumb little changes.

That and I think these lists naturally suffer from collaboritis. Where someone makes a document and circulates it for edits. All the obvious stuff is already on there so people want to help and think up any edge case and add it to the document. It’s hard to argue for parsimony for fear of being called out as a bigot. And it’s hard to suggest removing an item for the same reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoeyDEFOo8g

https://www.zen-buddhism.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/soto...
A large dose of LSD in the wrong setting: bad

Small dose in wrong setting: maybe not great but you'll be fine

Large dose in good setting: good
Network.

Bring people together and increase the chance of "luck" happening. This is extremely exhausting though and a lot of work in the beginning. I know a couple of people who are like that and it just comes natural to them.

In the end, this is being entrepreneurial even if you don't make money from that. You could call it consulting..

Depending on where you are there might be regional groups or (non profit) organizations who specialize in that kind of work. Always worth to check that out.
Perhaps McDonalds menus, IKEA catalogues, and Playboy shots are real photos as well? They just make an extraordinary effort and spend tons of money to make make it look fake.
What a title.

> I’m not here to play victim; no permanent damage was done, and there are worse traumas.

> I’ve taken psychedelics again since that day with positive results and I’ll continue to enjoy them in moderation.

Reading other people's creative writing regarding drug trips is as interesting as hearing someone telling their dreams: amusing sometimes.
The repetition of "this is different from code" strikes me as odd.

The way I see it, it's identical to code, it just involves more moving parts.

> If two experts designed the same system, you would see two different designs, beautiful and aesthetic in their own way and both as “correct” as the other (and with the accompanying justifications to support them).

That is nonsense. Systems can be optimally designed too, just like code. Even if you have two systems that both meet the requirements for features, performance, reliability, and cost, one is usually objectively better by surpassing the requirements more than the other.

Would you like solution A that is identical to solution B in every way, but can be run with half the hardware, or do you want solution B? Of course you would want solution A.
By read-only dependency do you mean that you’re not a developer for those repositories? What if you do develop a library and then want to use it in an application?
We're using submodules to share internal OpenAPI specification files between repositories. These are used for code generation and automated testing of APIs.

It requires some manual checking that branches and commits are up-to-date.

Does anyone have any recommendations on how to do this with a multi-repo setup?
Horrific, were they on drugs when they designed that?
> won't make the world more just

For whom?

Here is a comment of one of the members of roller skating community on the renaming "mohawk" and "choctaw" terms in figure skating.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Rollerskating/comments/jn7ewi/comme...

It's pretty clear this change makes world more just, but not for the majority. Which is kind a whole point.
> However, it does speak sections of thousands of languages (try Egyptian Hieroglyphics

That was actually a test case I've tried. Asked it to write a text in Middle Egyptian. It wrote gibberish.

Asked it to translate it. It admitted that it was just a random hieroglyph salad with no meaning at all.

It's quite bad even at Belarusian, regularly producing impossible word forms, incorrectly using words and so on, mis-recognizing the language as Ukrainian, etc.
It's overkill if you ever only needed to do it once, but should the situation come up again the investment in time and effort will likely pay off.
What is (or was) the benefit of using ContentProviders compared to accessing the database directly? They seem useful for exchanging data between apps, but I can't figure out what their role is when they're internal to the app (not exported).

Is it just that they're required for using CursorLoader, so that you can easily load things in the background without having to create a custom Loader implementation? And they're basically just a fairly inconvenient database abstraction?
That you have to have at least FPGA to run it?
AI Risk, Again
> they killed the 550 person AV startup

Argo’s website says they had 2000+ employees. So this new subsidiary is 1/4 the size.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230119113422/https://www.argo....
Mobile industry veterans crafting BlackBerry-like alternative, Making debut at Davos, Apostrophy promises data sovereignty.
>Absolutley not true. The law codifies what is already true with respect to rights but the law also fails to codify rights as with womens rights and involuntary servitude, women and black people didn't suddenly gain rights when laws were passed, they've always had those rights

Nope. They got them when those laws were passed.

You might think that they always "should have had" those rights, which is valid, but different from "always had them".

But they absoltely didn't have them, and if they attempted to exercize them as if they had them, they'd be ignored, prevented, beaten up, or worse.

>Yes and if EU wants to do any number unfair or dowright evil things they can, it is that simple. What is your point, did I dispute the simplicity?

Yes, they could. You could perhaps argue morals (based on what? Your take of what's "unfair" and "downright evil"? Because I'm a European and I don't find this law unfair at all), and that could be discussed.

But you didn't discuss morals, you wrote "by what right or authority". Well, they have the right and the authority, so?

>I was talking about what consumers what and what service is being offered by Apple and the inherent unfairness towards one group of consumers and favoritism towards non-american electronic makers and developers.

Sorry, but if you come here to sell something, you better sell it on our terms and under EU laws. If you don't want to do that, you can always opt to not sell it.

Also, you don't know what "consumers want" in general. Did you ask consumers if they want to keep Messages closed?
There's dozens of us!

More seriously, revolutionary Marxist parties exist in all countries with varying degrees of success. Most of us are involved in the labour movement, often organising within unions.
Yeah I think the problem is better understood now than when Java was originally designed.

Modules/Project Jigsaw is arguably an even better step in the right direction. It arguably allows a much saner granularity of visibility and access.
> The precise circumstances in which I took the drug don’t matter.

Absolutely false. Set and setting are crucial.
The onset and return times do not match LSD. The author likely consumed an unknown dose of an unknown LSD-like research chemical.
How ChatGPT was built from the people who made it
> I am French so the wording part did not reach us yet

This is not true at all. The absolute trainwreck that is "écriture inclusive" is spearheading those inclusivity initiatives, and we have also incorporated a lot of the other words mentioned here in the language.
>He joined in 2014, when Windows had a superior shell and remoting system that eliminates the requirement for low-level string parsing tools like sed/awk entirely!

One mans feature is another mans bug.
The difference comes when you interface with other well-typed code and want to convert from any/unknown down to a specific type.

For example:

function handleString(s: string) {
//...
}

declare const a: any;
declare const u: unknown;

handleString(a); // works with zero intervention

handleString(u); // error: Argument of type 'unknown' is not assignable to parameter of type 'string'

handleString(u as string); // works again with explicit re-typing
> I would say "I am hungry" even if I have food in the fridge, I do not need to compare myself to poor starving people and decide to say "I am currently hungry" or "I am in a situation of hunger"

But saying "I'm starving!" when you are just hungry is a bit different. It's fine where there are no starving people around. It's just a exaggeration then. But if one of your friends starved last week while you are still fat and just a bit hungry it might not sound well.
Last week I saw an elderly driver going over the speed limit and the wrong way on a major street in London because there was a bit of traffic on the lane going his direction. Unlike your crazy e-bike kid, he could easily have killed somebody who was travelling normally.

Safety starts with car drivers.
The fact some developers hate them is reason alone to never use them. Using them means you don't care about developer productivity.

You will incur thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in additional costs by using submodules, via wasted developer time.
If it's bitter, it's a spitter.
1. the embryo/fetus inside the mother's body is not the mother's body.

2. it is not the mother's body, but it's completely dependent on it to live.

3. parents have and have to have natural responsibility over their offspring.

4. the society establishment (both secular and religious) are there to protect society's norm.

5. not killing innocent humans is a social norm.

6. the embryo/fetus is a human.

7. saying that someones on "religious grounds" want to subjugate "secular, liberal societies" by opposing to killing innocent humans is no more that projecting USA's domestic radicated bipolar politics to the global level.

8. "religious grounds" are nothing mystical, nothing like "things which only unreasonalbe superstitious are afraid of", but a core attribute of the human nature: just »don't kill humans who are annoying to you even if they don't have social security ID yet, even if they don't pay taxes yet, even if they are your own children«

9. "abortion rights" group also stands on religious grounds, except it worships Moloch.

10. "abortion rights" people often comes from the pre-assumption that they are entitled to enjoy sex without consequences and without any responsibility. gain without pain.

11. "abortion rights" is an other level of productionalization of people. our life is already mostly a product of soulless companies. now they are turning babies into commodity which you can return if you changed your mind or not satisfied with it. wondering how much does it differ from the menacing "slavery".
Not that weird. Factually correct.
It's not just muscle mass. Men have thicker bones and in general are obviously larger. Lia Thomas is 6'1".

Laurel Hubbard (MtF) was on New Zealand's Olympic weightlifting team. An Indigenous Maori girl missed out because of that.

There's countless examples of athletes who were totally uncompetitive as males, suddenly becoming elite-level after transitioning. If that doesn't say male advantage I don't know what does.

But it's not just the competitive aspect. It may be offensive to say, I know, but some women actually feel uncomfortable in a change room with large 6'1" men and their penises.
Your suggestion is akin to the Victorian gentlemen who didn't swear around the ladies and talk about intellectually heavy and upsetting things because they couldn't handle it.

It's the opposite of empowering somebody to speak up and decide on their own what they can and can't handle.

So yes you might get some pushback when you "simply" suggest we change our interactions.
The Cotorreo
This is a good thing for serious, long lasting projects. However, it could be an overkill for something fast and dirty.

One thing I love about typescript that I've never seen in other languages is that you can adjust the type checker exactly for the level of rigidness that project at hand needs. Any is okay for 200 LOC quick prototypes.
I feel like, as with many things, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I’ve had a trip not dissimilar to what is described herein, and while the experience itself was jarring, to say the least, the upshot was that it allowed me to divest myself of an awful lot of the reified bull that we consider to be our world.

For me, being nothing, being everything, being utterly alone, being a barely existent mote in a vast and incomprehensible universe, resonated - for that is what I am - nothing, dust, a brief flickering of matter in a certain organisation against a dark background. Statistically irrelevant noise, indistinguishable from black body radiation at a distance.

For some, ego death is debilitating, for others, liberating - again, I suppose it’s down to the beholder, how invested you are in the false reality that we collectively agree upon, how deep down the rabbit hole you are consciously willing to go, regardless of the psychic pain it inevitably involves as you reassess yourself from “centre of your personal universe” to “statistically non-existent”.

I guess I was at least somewhat primed and prepared when it happened, already being well schooled in the likes of Baudrillard, Dick, and other psychedelically influenced existentialists, and having some context to give me a grasp (as much as one can have a grasp on the slippery fish of reality) on what just happened.

Perhaps… perhaps the bad trip actually came close to freeing him from his personal black iron prison, but upon seeing the vastness of the outside, he decided he preferred the safety and constancy of captivity.
tl;dr, he took acid in a bad setting, lost touch with reality, and ended up crying in bed for a few hours. It then bothered him for months after.

I don't want to be too insensitive but I don't understand how that's getting even a little close to life ruining.

I've had a similar experience before. It was scary, but it didn't bother me at all after. I understood I experienced my brain having it's wires crossed for a while and left it at that.

Not many meaningful conclusions you can draw from it except I should take less next time.
author here (big fan of your blog btw!)

in terms of budget, I'm not going to pretend we had some grand plan, but this is _roughly_ how things played out at each stage:

- Seed: CEO only writing occasional content, micro paid ads experiments (<$500 per campaign)
- Series A: hired a content marketer with SEO expertise and a product marketer (both non-technical), hired paid ads agency ($5k/mo for agency, $Xk/mo ad spend with lots of iterating)
- Series B/post-PMF: started experimenting with content sponsorships, hired technical content marketer, tested non-obvious paid ad channels

> basically only newsletters work

For us, yes. But this may change at scale - plenty of much larger devtool companies than us _seem_ to do a good job with events.
I mean go look at modern digital billboards, a bunch of 'em have cameras built in.
You can use Python or PHP or some other language that doesn't have a build system, and whose performance and security model bests that of server side JS. (Deno, Node, Bun, etc.)

I run one Node/Js server and several Nginx/Php servers.

When Node was released, it had better handling of multiple long-lived connections. Nowadays, support for SSE on Node trails all other servers, and the dream of "Isomorphic" code that doesn't need to be rewritten has not panned out (in JS, at least).

The main reason I could imagine someone choosing Deno now is that it is the tool they know best (such as someone fresh out of college). Which may not be a bad reason, but it is hardly the best tool for the job.
Seems to me a certain small percentage react somewhat to very bad and it’s not advisable for anyone to hype them too much.
Faith in there implicit healing powers led many astray.

I always considered it kind of a fun challenge to use in odd settings but I always had completely certain way to end the trip with me, which can be a source of mental comfort even if not used.
Note: The clicky title says "secret hidden corridor". But the article uses phrases like "a void space shaped like a corridor".

Why? Unused, dead-end void spaces were a regular feature of large pyramids. If you pile rocks into a huge pyramid, with only ancient Egyptian engineering tech, then the weight of the higher layers concentrates in random places lower down - cracking some of the lower layers. Any cracking or ceiling collapses in parts of the pyramid that the pharaoh cared about could be unhealthy for the lead engineers. Well-placed void spaces helped re-distribute the stress, minimizing that risk.
"Modern world" is full of broken people PRECISELY because of the lack of education in many domains (spiritual, financial, emotional, sexual) that parents or schools (which is an actual and better name for education camps) should provide.

Instead they are left to being raised by watching shitty movies / TV shows, having their ignorance and feelings glorified, and then ... they get more broken later by people who have had better education in their upbringing and take advantage of them.

If you want less broken people you need to advocate for strong (but compassionate) and extensive education when they are young. Make them go through difficult (but teaching) situations as you can instead of doing nothing, force them to read instructive books instead of playing stupid smartphone games, make them be creators instead of consumers. The hard way is really the easy way on the long term. And the easy way break people on the long term
> Mark Manson wrote the following [...]

For anyone curious Mark Manson is the author of The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a Fuck [1] which is a pretty entertaining book all things considered. As far as "self help" books go I personally find them all relatively fruitless/pointless, but I also might not be the target audience for them. With that said, I did enjoy his book and his anecdotes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Subtle_Art_of_Not_Giving_a...
Related: I followed a link on PetaPixel at the bottom of TFA and got April fooled: https://petapixel.com/2015/04/01/these-cgi-images-are-so-rea...
It's a real throwback to see a Microsoft fanboy. I hadn't seen one since the early 00s.
I've probably been a computer scientist too long, but this feels like a problem that requires complicated maths or a very simple computer simulation. In this case they end up with equations that can (for the most part) only be solved numerically, so simulation seems just as effective. But then they deduce that in general the amplitude of the path of the rear tyre is always less than that of the front. And while we can demonstrate this with simulation, we can't prove it.
I like the idea of pressing the clutch pedal to go to insert mode, and releasing it to go back to normal mode.
> I didn’t have “flashbacks” (I’m not convinced these are a real phenomenon), but memories of scenes I’d seen while high kept intruding on my thoughts, jolting me awake with an echo of the fear I’d felt on the first playthrough

Kinda contradicting himself here, but I sympathize with the author.
Exactly.

> Suffice to say that I was far from home in an unfamiliar (and public) environment with people I didn’t know very well and had little reason to trust.

Stopped reading after this part -- Taking psychedelics in such circumstances is a horrible idea!
> I don't understand how that's getting even a little close to life ruining.

Probably because "I had a bad few months" isn't as good of a headline as "nearly ruined my life"
There are plenty of muscles that are underutilised in the computer peripheral world. Feet, legs, toes, tongue, anus. Hardware designers are too orthodox and we're all worse off because of it.
The blight in itself of course was not manufactured, however the policies that led up to the total dependency on one type of crop never failing, and the botched emergency reponse; was.

However, this famine is of course, not even a tear in the sea compared to the holocaust, which remains the most horrific act ever, forever; and every other act past or future will only be a tiny fraction of the depth of its importance. History begin and ends with the holocaust the plight of the Jews.
56,806,941 rows...

inner-joined on a table of 15,284,829 rows...

with multiple calls to PERCENTILE_CONT

That's peanut data, why in the world does that cost anything but a few cents in electricity?

Cloud stuff reminds me of the dark-ages of my teenage years when every single SMS would cost money :D
I used this once to convert git submodules to subtrees. Not sure if it still works, though.

cat .gitmodules |while read i
do
if [[ $i == \[submodule* ]]; then
mpath=$(echo $i | cut -d\" -f2)
read i; read i;
murl=$(echo $i|cut -d\ -f3)
mcommit=`eval "git submodule status ${mpath} |cut -d\ -f2"`
mname=$(basename $mpath)
echo -e "$name\t$mpath\t$murl\t$mcommit"
git submodule deinit $mpath
git rm -r --cached $mpath
rm -rf $mpath
git remote add $mname $murl
git fetch $mname
git branch _$mname $mcommit
git read-tree --prefix=$mpath/ -u _$mname
fi
done
git rm .gitmodules
With blackjack and hookers?
It doesn't matter to the story, not that it doesn't matter in general.
I always assumed "flashbacks" were closer to "repeated hallucinations" rather than "intrusive memories of hallucinations"
I consider microservices and submodules to be mainly a solution to organizational problems.
In their own words:

"binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing"

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

or alternatively:

"VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code."

https://vscodium.com/
This is a central practice of Buddhism; consistently taking the time to deliberately stop and observe things gradually teaches you to appreciate things for what they are and helps to ween you off of your preconceived notions of what you think things are.

For example, after my first few months of practice I increasingly got awe struck by everyday things. Even though the bricks of the church are identical in that they were made from the same mold, they are all unique after centuries of erosion and sun exposure. This might be intellectually obvious, but is a whole other thing to realize through subjective experience (as if looking at a masterpiece painting up close).