skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, as a PHP développer, the node's module system impress me A LOT.
I went on several projects that had not kept their dependencies on the "edge version". For some, it was more than a year of work just to be able to move from php7 to php8.

PHP dependencies are so intertwined that for projects that abuse and use more than a reasonable amount (aka their ability to invest time keeping them and the code using it up to date) the update process can become a nightmare of complexity.

Node's module system let you move each dependency at it's own pace. This is such a breath!

The problem is that when you only know of the solution of your ecosystem, it's hard to see the added value you miss out.
Well it’s either ironic or cynical.
Confusingly enough, there is also “red bamba” available in Israel (officially called “sweet bamba” but everyone calls it red bamba) which has no peanuts - only corn and an outer sweet red coating with a berry-ish flavor.

An American friend told me it looks and tastes like captain crunch berries, and it is unfair that American kids have only a few in a serving, and israeli kids can just get bags of them.
We'll be back to the 1990's "software agents" craze take two: Needing AI driven agents that seek out and index and evaluate content on our behalf, and seek to negotiate with each other for recommendations with currency being trust based on how "your" agent evaluated prior results.

I'm hoping to put an AI between me and my e-mail inbox this weekend (I had ChatGPT write most of the code; it's not much); not fully automated, but evaluating and summarising and categorising. I might extend that to e.g. give me an "algorithm" for my Mastodon timeline (despite all of the people insisting on reverse chronological, I'm at a few hundred people I follow and already can't keep up), and a number of other sites I visit. For most of these things latency does not matter, so e.g. putting them through llama.cpp rather than something faster is fine, and precision isn't critical (I won't trust it to automatically reply or automatically reject anything, but prioritisation an categorisation where missteps won't have any critical impact.
Surely this is all dose dependent? Micro-dosing results in perhaps more vivid colour/pattern recognition and observation and injesting a couple of 'tabs' resulting in much more vivid illusions that can be confusing and lead you to mistake what the object is. That's my experience anyway.
> You're biological hardware and software

This is (materialistic) nihilism. Materialism is a philosophy and not a new one, but an exceedingly sterile one, in my view. If you want to take that philosophical position you can, but others are free to reject it (and most people do) because it is only a philosophical position, not a proved description of reality (how can it be?).
Reminds me of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
I get it. Google Sheets costs you Zero money.

BUT you can get a proper SQL managed instance(with much faster query, larger data store, Geo-replication, point-in-time backup etc) for less than $5 a month.

Do your due diligence, identify your needs, compare the price of engineering hours with $5/month and go ahead with whatever suites you the best.
This is an interesting read, but it mostly reminded me how I don't want to invest in a system that forces me to learn a whole new api for doing completely basic and trivial things.

Like defaulting to a value if a response is empty -- everyone already knows how to do that in plain JS, but if you're in the context of an RxJS pipe, you have to know about defaultIfEmpty().

And then consider the actual gotcha from TFA that if you don't use defaultIfEmpty() in the context of a forkJoin(), if any response is empty, then the whole thing silently fails. I would so, so much rather read a few lines of Promise.all, or kick off async requests in a loop and then await to collect responses in a loop, where I can just plainly read and reason about whatever is going on with error handling, timeouts, etc.

And then even moreso all of this when working in a team. Maybe I could even get into this in a personal project, out of curiosity. But I would wouldn't want to ask my team to re-learn how to do all of these mechanics in a new that are already easy enough in the language itself.
Do you think there is some coordinated smear campaign against Microsoft that is holding them to a higher standard than its competitors, and if so, why do you believe this instead of the simpler explanation that people are fed up with a user-hostile OS/browser especially when it is the only upgrade path from a prior, non-user-hostile one (Windows 7)?
Stay in hostels and chat to other travellers. Depends on your time of life though. There's totally a gap for high-end hostels for mid-life people with some money who still want a common area to hang out in, but without staying in a crappy dorm. Hotels just don't have the same vibe.
I'm not suggesting becoming an alcoholic, which I am not. But I have become addicted to other drugs before for similar reasons. But to say that light-to-moderate drinking will seriously worsen your life is a bit hyperbolic. It can very much help if your anxiety is so bad you can't even bring yourself to say hello to someone and if someone does, you disappear up your own a-hole. That used to be me. Alcohol helped me take that initial step of talking to anyone at all, about anything, ever. Once I did, I got more practice and I managed to get more comfortable talking to people even when sober.

One unit of alcohol can be sufficient. No need to get drunk or even be around other people who are drinking.

Drinking is just like anything else. It can be a tool or a crutch. The really hard thing me was it was so bad I couldn't even have a meaningful conversation with a therapist. And meds were a total waste of time for me(though I very much recommend trying if you think they might help).

I don't want to trivialise your experiences, but you might be unintentionally trivialising my experiences too, though I'm not at all offended :)

Strangely enough, I never even began to approach any risk of addiction with alcohol. It's puzzling to me because I get easily addicted to just about anything else, even weed.
You should elaborate. I just want to read a file, program flow should stop until it is done. sync or awaited async call for this semantically sounds exactly same to me.

I knew Go can do it, so it doesn't "always fail"
For the public, radioactivity is a boolean. Something is either not radioactive, or it's radioactive and will melt your face and/or turn you into a cronenberg.

In practice, almost everything is radioactive to some degree. This is always handy to show people who don't get this: https://xkcd.com/radiation/
I mean, they explain it at the top:

> we track our own GitHub star count along with that of other projects. So when we spotted some new open-source projects suddenly racking up hundreds of stars a week, we were impressed. In some cases, it looked a bit too good to be true, and the patterns seemed off

If their competitor has fake-looking star counts, I'd expect them to be the ones best equipped and most likely to suspect it.
This article doesn't even try to quantify the radioactivity of the water, it's completely, utterly, meaningless outrage bait, sprinkled with technically-true cancer risks for high concentrations and the storage high level dry cask waste in the site as enhancements of the scandalisation rather than as comparatives.

If the water was just tap water, technically it's still slightly tritiated (tritiated water is made naturally and rains out of that atmosphere in minute amounts). And technically it could also be so radioactive that the Hudson ecosystem ends instantly. I'll bet that it's many, many of orders of magnitude closer to the former then the latter.

Possibly Holtec is proposing a technically-legal ecological and health war crime. But you can't tell from this article.
Best? For whom? Or is best (for the company) a not so veiled euphemism for least expensive?

When did we become so desensitized to such newspeak?
I imagine only streets with pedestrian traffic would have to be changed, not inter-city roads and highways.
Well, those people are right. Burger King isn’t a monarch either. It’s a boring complaint, and people are trying to a disabuse you of the idea that it’s not.
It’s possible that was the impetus of the blog post. Maybe they suspect Mage.ai of astroturfing GitHub stars and investigate it as above. They then publish a blog post that:

1. Indicates the astroturfing without actually specifically calling them out
2. Does so in a way where others can verify their work and use it on other repos
3. Uses their product to do so

Seems pretty brilliant to me.
Because frankly in corporate network I want to add rule to proxy to allow access to this and that container registry and nothing else for security reasons.

"Just" docker registry proxy that had torrent support would be fine enough solution for the distribution. But good luck convincing anyone in ivory tower of security that opening some random ports to entire of the internet is a good idea
For any company of Microsoft's age & size, "doesn't need" is completely orthogonal to "corporate executive greed". You probably should "rightsize" your level of respect for MS.
The kelp forest itself sells carbon credits and uses that money for other mitigations ?

(I'm fully aware carbon credits are nonsense).
Sheets has a human-friendly, readily-understood, multi-user capable user interface.

You’re likely correct that $5/mo isn’t the barrier to switching.
"Seems to feed on fear of nuclear. "

If you read the article you will see that they only want Holtec to use a less harmful solution, storing the waste for 24 years.

It is a truth that they are dumping 1 million gallons of radioactive waste in the Hudson. If you are OK with that maybe you should tell them to dump it in your local river.
Internal metrics can be cooked to show anything. I read somewhere that "if you torture the data enough, it will confess". Whatever oxygen wasters are pushing for this crap will cook the data in such a way to push for their idea (as their salary depends on it) while "conveniently" not putting forwards data that shows otherwise.
related but with a more artistic slant:
https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays/2016/a-randomized-approach-to...
I've mentioned a "market of lemons" elsewhere in this thread. One such market is the market for malware and stolen credit card details. One result of the market being broken: serious criminals restrict themselves to very small (company like) social circles and invite only forums. One signal of trust that remained very long: a very short ICQ number. You don't want to burn such a handle with a bad trade, so trust was given upfront.
Wkat about making it an XPRA or RDP terminal to connect to other linux/window host ? I am wondering how reliable it is for accelerated video/audio.
Actually there were only a handful of people updating it daily and it was my job to make all of those somehow give accurate results. The hundred of employees I was talking about were the ones making the sales, no direct access to those sheets, and their performance is going to be evaluated with the data that was recorded within those sheets. Data retrieval is so slow, a month of sales by 300 salesperson is around 30k rows, we have to connect that to their attendance, the day whether it is a weekday, weekend, holiday, rest day. The store they were assigned. The monthly quota they have, etc.

I lasted 3 months only, got tired of the sudden meetings discussing why can't we give fast and accurate results.
I actually dropped buying Samsung after two failed tablets. Making defect goods isn’t a good long term strategy (Yes Samsung you can hire me)
As a strong supporter of the Internet Archive’s primary mission, I am saddened to say that the prosecution appears to have a strong case here. Controlled Digital Lending is a controversial legal theory, not something that has any clear statutory basis. The IA must now hope for some creative judicial interpretation to save them.

It’s doubly frustrating because I think the publishers would have let the IA fly under the radar had they stuck to lending on a strictly one-digital-loan for one-physical-copy basis. The National Emergency Library was a serious lapse of judgement - a moment of madness amongst a backdrop of widespread Covid madness. They poked the hornet’s nest. IMHO they should have immediately apologised, leant into it being an honest mistake during a unique historical event, and come to some minor financial settlement. Instead, they and the EFF are doubling down and risk being flattened with a severe bill for compensation.

I absolutely would support legislation to properly recognize CDL as a lawful function of libraries. Instead, all our hopes are pinned on the judicial branch doing the job of the legislative branch.

P.S. Donate to the IA here: https://archive.org/donate/
I'm using it on Fedora 37 on multiple machines, and so far everything is working just fine. Haven't really noticed any trouble.
Kale is a nutrient rich leafy green food in the same family as broccoli. A lot of people seem to hate the flavor, I don't mind it and I wonder if it's because I ate a lot of broccoli as a kid (didn't have any kale until decades later).

For some reason, in America, there's a cultural association with healthy food (especially if it isn't meat based) and left-wing political progressives. I think that is also playing a part here, as there's an implication that the progressive left-wing NYT would be interested in publishing more healthy food propaganda and otherwise "telling people how to live."
If it is serving just the images you use the harm is minimal vs benefit of resilience.

But yeah, any system where you store blobs of other people that you yourself don't want is potential liability
PSR is intended for framework authors, and I strongly think it was one of the best things that happened to the php ecosystem. The PSR-7 http messages alone have made SO MANY things compatible at once, it’s incredible. And it works so well that most php developers aren’t ever aware that PSR underpinnings power most dependencies they use!
Little UI design rules that make a big impact
> If you are OK with that maybe you should tell them to dump it in your local river.

It is OK with me.

I already have a local powerplant, local cars, and local industry exhausting it into the air a breath.

If I could switch, I happily would accept this type of release into the water over the release into the air.

> ..., storing the waste for 24 years.

Should we as power plants to store the exhaust air for 24 years?
Meaning? Okay, I get the privacy concern, but "never ends well"?
Don’t give them your boss’s name. Give them a coworker’s name. Give them a friend’s name and have them lie for you.

If a company is proactively contacting people you don’t give them contact information for, that’s not requiring references — which is the process I (and the comment I replied to) was talking about. If a company knows where you’ve worked, they can contact them if they want.
I don't understand. Async methods can call sync methods already, how it is not mixed already?

Nope, it is not same in every other implementation. e.g Golang.
20 years, is that the compile time now? ;)
Perhaps the most obvious answer is that it is may not be the appropriate language for that use case? It is like suggesting to use Solidity or Assembly to build the UI for your app.
Depends on when the fake stars were created. If they are early in a projects life cycle, they may be used to get attention on the project, and once they have awareness, fake stars are no longer necessary.
I think you can track pretty well with just the device ID alone, but you combine it with other identities like location information, IP address, cookies, login information and so on. Is that why Windows 11 recently made it impossible to bypass creating an MS account?
…and you can have namespaces for functions and import namespaced functions just fine.
Human/Bear Security Trade-Off (2006)
Yeah but there is NameSilo selling cheaper domain names, almost half the price.
Radiation, PCBs, PFAS, Mercury, BPA, PAHs, Dioxin, Pesticides...all tiny does on their own, harmless.

Wonder what happens when all those separate tiny doses are combined? I mean the Hudson is already a Superfund site so what harm can 1 million gallon of slightly radioactive water do?

Adding from Scientific American:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-radioactive-hy...

"But there is no definitive epidemiological study to assess the true risk of tritium, and animal studies are also lacking."

"Some evidence suggests the kind of radiation emitted by tritium—a so-called beta particle—is actually more effective at causing cancer than the high-energy radiation such as gamma rays, even though skin can block a beta particle. "
You can just use curl to get the csv from the gayest and pipe into SQLite using the .import command.

Not sure what this has on top of that.
This whole thread hinges on your not giving credence to the word "practically" , as in "approximately". No countably infinity needed, and Continuum Hypothesis isn't relevant at all in any way, as it is aboit uncountable infinity. Until you explain what you are trying to say, you aren't saying anything meaningful. The one showing hubris here is you, tossing around technical terms don't admit you don't understand.
I don't doubt this is part of it (I have a friend who lives in Thailand who is happy to get $40/hr tho he's a really good dev) but how many of these devs can there be?

I don't think the number can be so high where it is all of it.

I think it's just economic uncertainty. People won't hire unless they NEED to, and often the company CAN get by without that extra dev.
Wow, what a story!

What motivated you to transport the car across the sea instead of rent/buy a car in the US?
100% agree, user-friendliness is better in Sheets.
I would use it for something the hardware is very well-designed and optimized for to begin with, and simply apply the OS's and software to leverage that exact hardware in general.

At the least multiple NTFS partitions each containing different Windows versions, both older and newer than when the laptop was originally issued. Including the most recent W11 22H2v1. Along with more than one Linux distro in additional Linux-formatted partitions.

All instantly accessible upon bootup where the underlying Windows multiboot menu may or may not be the default choice, but is naturally included in a master GRUB multiboot menu which is the one the BIOS/UEFI can be configured to display upon powerup.

And apps can be installed to the proper vintage of OS, I would concentrate on things where the portability of the laptop is much more of a focus than average.
Also 1M gallons isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things. An Olympic pool is 660,000 gallons.
Nice write-up here: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse...
I was you until about six months ago. KDE 3 got nearly everything right and instead of continuing to evolve, they pretty much threw it all away and went in a radical new direction, promising to revolutionize the Linux desktop.

Note to aspiring developers: This is not how you keep users.

Continually frustrated by the "opinionated" nature of GNOME, I kept trying KDE 4 and then 5 every few years, always hoping for the best, and already getting disappointed by stability issues, show-stopping usability bugs, or half-working implementations. It's like they just kept adding features but never bothered to test any of them.

That changed recently. I gave one of the newer 5.x releases a try (on debian testing, if it matters) and have been very pleasantly surprised to see that all of my previous issues are just simply gone. I don't know what changed but they are certainly doing something right because the current releases are excellent.

I would suggest giving KDE another try. I also feel like you will get a better experience by staying away from any distros that try to layer on their own tools and customizations like Mint and Kubuntu.
> Should we as power plants to store the exhaust air for 24 years?

Yes.

> If I could switch, I happily would accept this type of release into the water over the release into the air.

Read the article. The solution is to store it on site with the plutonium. Holtec just does not want to pay for it.
Any job that forces me to use a Windows machine for a significant amount of time is a job I will not take. The only way to fight against this bullshit is to make it a downside for the companies that deploy it, and in turn, their supplier (Microsoft).
For now. The history page is a bit depressing.

https://continuum-hypothesis.com/boinc_history.php
Someone should do an accurate figure of compute power usage, including things such as cars, or media centres, and then try to analyse how the existing trend of "wasteful development" affects this.

I bet all the upset over bitcoin power usage, is a tiny thing, compared to (for example) the whole node ecosystem.

Even something such as gmail is massively overengineered. Heck, there are very few improvements over the interface a decade ago, yet I bet it used 5% of the power it does now.

Yet think of how much gmail is used.

And it's not just raw compute. 3d on a page for no reason, massive js binaries for no reason eg ram + bandwidth.

A modern phone could last weeks as a browsing device, if looking at static html.

But all of this means more development skill, less use of fluff and junk, care for size of page loads, and on and on.

Put another way, people concerned about power usage, should realise that using node, means burning more coal/NG. Literally.

Because that's where the excess power comes from.
> If they offered privacy-enhanced ad-blocking Chromium with opt-in MS integration I think they would eat Chrome’s lunch. It’s a strict improvement in every way and I would absolutely love to see it.

I wish Microsoft really paid attention to this. This is the core reason why people jumped to Brave (despite the crypto wallet connection & byzantine ad revenue sharing, which I assume sends some kind of telemetry too). I personally don't like it, but having a feature rich Chromium-based, modular features browser would be nice. This is such a missed opportunity.
> We'll be able to buy HN comments by the thousand -- expertly wordsmithed, lucid AI comments

You're forgetting the millions of additional comments that will be written by humans to trick the AI into promoting their content.

Even worse, currently if you ask Chat GPT to write you some code, it will make up an API endpoint that doesn't exist and then make up a URL that doesn't exist where you can register for an API key. People are already registering these domains, and parking fake sites on them to scam people. ChatGPT is creating a huge market for creating fake companies to match the fake information it's generating.

The biggest risk may not be people using AI-generated comments to promote their own repos, but rather registering new repos to match the fake ones that the AI is already promoting.
only vaguely related - but I've been recently trying out dagster and I'm pretty impressed so far. I've run large scale data-processing from Hadoop onwards and was expecting the usual crumminess whenever you hit and edge case.

Instead I found a system that seems to be thoughtfully designed and, crucially, easy to debug.
The spirit is alive with AI.
Time to rewrite C++ :-)