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In the "good old days", the Mastodon read-only timeline worked perfectly with plain HTML, no JavaScript was required. Unfortunately this decision was eventually reversed.
gh cli interface still works fine
At one point in the video, he appears to splash clear water into the filled maze. You can see the non-moving parts lighten their colour compared to the active path.
I think this is a very rare situation in the US and depends heavily on either luck or targeted buying to land the right neighborhood at the right time.

I grew up in a wonderful neighborhood in a nice suburban area, but I was the youngest kid by about four years so I never walked to a friend’s house.

I also never realized I was missing anything until I moved to a non-US city in my twenties and found out how different life could be in a human-scale environment.
One of the few who retained his sanity during the Dockernetes military takeover of the devops world.
The first take-away of the article is:

> Anyone who has a foolproof software engineering methodology to sell you is a charlatan, especially if the methodology has a neat backronym.

Some of the others (there's more take-away than content, perhaps) are also note-worthy, except that I don't believe in correctness. Some functions may be well tested, but most be assumed partially faulty. It just isn't feasible to make them all correct. The article is jumping between these two stances, so this is not a great take-away.
Stop Treating AI Models Like People
In what world would that make any sense? Like, seriously, how did you get from "Microsoft is pushing ads into the OS they own so they earn more" to "That means that they are spending money to rebuild their OS on top of another OS they don't own" ?
yep. came here to say the last paragraph. There are shit products that sell and great products that don't. gauging user interest is super important before investing time into building something.

(there was a post yesterday about tripAdvisor adding a broken link to pages to gauge interest before they invest in building the page, seems fitting here)
Yeah but... the law is already weaponised against the underclass. I'd like to think that A.I. could change this but somehow I doubt it.

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
It is laughable talk about "Don't Repeat Yourself principle" on a strongly biased towards Golang article. A language that took 13 years to add a simple method (Index) that helped the programmer to find an element in an array (slice). Before that you had to write a for loop every time you wanted something from an array. Talk about "DRY" ... That is everything but "simple" as described in the article.
Hmmmmmm I know nothing about this but… guy who spends a bunch of money on thing to sell says others shouldn’t do it.

Sounds sus

Sorry I know this adds little to the conversation
Indeed, its a statistical inevitability.

For a childhood friendship to survive locality, their parents must not move, both you and the friend must not go to college anywhere, both you and the friend must not move anywhere else for a job, you must both live in the same part of the city and/or take jobs in the same part of the city, and for the entire duration up to the present, economic and family matters must not move both of you.

I imagine most people can list off their childhood friendships and see how each one eventually succumbs to something above. By the time you are middle-aged, your old friends (and many times family) will be split up all over the country or even the world. Most people I know that maintain a close-knit friend group are very much in the group that are born and raised in some tiny rural town and never leave or they have transitioned to long-distance e-friendships.
And you’re glad it was the Soviets?? Didn’t turn out so well for East Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, etc.

No, China hasn’t set foot in Taiwan. If it does, by murdering thousands, then yes Apple would be rightfully seen as collaborators. As would you for supporting indifference to a murderous bloody invasion.
Ask HN: Is there a list of companies that don’t ask leetcode?
I’m looking for a list of companies which don’t ask for leetcode questions
1870 to 1920 is compared to the last 50 years yet internal combustion, planes, electricity, vaccines, fertilizers, radio, telephone etc. hadn't really achieved much by 1920, not compared with what they grew into.

Model T Ford's are remembered as the car that kicked off the century of the car, not its peak.

Carbon fibre, solar power or one of a million other technologies that have started to catch on in the last few decades could revolutionise the world. It's a bit silly trying to predict them in advance. What did the future look like in 1920? Zeppelin's?

Though if I was going to predict one, solar power (renewables more generally) seems a very effective counter to all his complaints. Something that was pushed forward by centralised beaurocracy and government regulation at every turn and is providing the cheapest, most abundant energy in history.
I used ThisIsWin11, found on github by builtbybel.
The problem with the advice: 'expand your comfort zone' is that while it is useful advice for most people, I think it is overdone in certain subcultures. (mostly intelligent people in competitive business fields). Lots of people already live an uncomfortable, unhealthy life because of chasing money and success. I think being out of your comfort zone too much is an important contributor to burnout and sometimes even counterproductive as it might prevent you from becoming really good in the thing that you love. It is obvious that you need to mix the 2 behaviours: being in the flow (do what you love), and being out of comfort zone: The question is which audience needs encouragement for which? I am not sure that the HN audience needs much encouragement for expanding their comfort zone.
Does it cause your friendships to stall, man ? ;)
High Speed Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design Guidelines (2022)
Yes re 27th letter, hence me writing that we want the word et (also known as ‘and’) not the letter. The author says the opposite in the part I quoted:

> The letter I, similarly, would be “I per se I” to differentiate it from the pronoun I

We want the word and/et in this case - we are saying 'John and Jane' not 'John (letter et) Jane'. So the author's logic is not consistent.

Or I'm missing something.

Alternative, more logical explanation (which may be garbage as it is unreferenced from wikipedia):

> It was also common practice to add the & sign at the end of the alphabet as if it were the 27th letter, pronounced as the Latin et or later in English as and. As a result, the recitation of the alphabet would end in "X, Y, Z, and per se and".
If only a small percentage is enough to tip the scale, the government wasn't extremely popular to start with.
You're overestimating the risks of nuclear waste. Properly processed, it's in the form of a tough ceramic that can't leak and is stable for millions of years. Unless you start grinding it and inhaling it, it's not going to kill anyone.
All my friends have moved to different countries long ago.
> Just have to glue it now !

for extra bonus points, fill the pools with glowing green slime (or lava, depending on the map)
It is every month, something in Github (especially GitHub Actions) goes down. The last time this happened was less than a month ago. [0] [1]

At this point, It is so unreliable that if I was to bet anyone that something in GitHub would go down next month, I will win each time. Guaranteed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35359212

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35325709
Learn to love the problem, helping the customer, identifying and understanding their pain points. You are already strong on the "solution" side of things - but you need to avoid just creating solutions looking for problems.
Hi, I've been trying to expose the llama.cpp as an API, you mentioned that found llamacpphtmld to solve this problem, can you share the link to this project? couldn't find it over github. Thanks!
We introverts have an easy life with ourselves, completely at peace with oneself, never bored. Extroverts dread this, they need external stimulus to feel alive, alone they get bored and depressed quickly. Hand in hand with that go things like imagination, alone you simply have much more time to train it.

As I grew up, I realized how stupid and immature it is to try to blend with the rest of the crowd, where extroverts naturally stick out and introverts feel like they are doing something wrong and should emulate more visible ones. Embrace yourself as you are, focus on aspects you don't like yourself but enjoy the rest, it can be a real strength if you use it well.

Friends and family are one aspect of it, but also how you approach hobbies, traveling etc. Ie my extroverty boss can't simply go to gym, he has to go with some friend. So he goes rarely and he sucks in it. Bunch of friends simply can't travel alone, while I repeatedly explained to them that ie backpacking around the world alone is extremely positive and character-building experience that can't be achieved in any other way. So eventually one of them went, but for 2 weeks only to effin' Singapore and not a step further, to hang out with former colleague for 2 weeks. While having amazing places to keep discovering all around him, or ie jumping on a plane to Bali/Lombok/Gili islands for a week.
> I actually like the OS

Because it allows you to do stuff that MacOS/Linux won't, or do you actually like it as software, in and of itself?

If the former, that's understandable. If the latter, then may God have mercy on your soul.
It was worse before MS took over. But their status page displayed live metrics, it was more transparent, so people were less frustrated. As opposed to now, where the status dashboard is updated by a human.

IMHO, the issue is not the unstability. I'm really concerned that so much of our software infrastructure relies on one single service owned by Microsoft.
FreeDoom has free as in freedom IWADs.
Bumble has a BFF option.
This sounds like a compelling argument to me.

So what could actually be done about the fear porn? To what extent are people aware of the effects of fear-mongering / click-bait media able to make other choices if offered alternatives? Because surely people will actually feel better if they do.

Would neutral-to-hopeful media stories be able to reach enough people? If we let go of the goal of maximizing profits, would it be possible to make such an effort self-sustaining? Would it perhaps require volunteers who want to make a positive impact?

Finally, what is needed to start doing this and reaching people with it, right now?
> BTW, I’m not 100% sure it’ll work: if Heroku updates that zombie dyno’s environment variables, it may still have access to the new credentials :/ (My Redis instance is also a Heroku add-on)

If the configuration only read once during startup, the celery process won't use the new configuration unless it's restarted, right?
> In the past, I would have used Google to find some resources on it, probably find that the relevant standard is called 802.1x, used Google to find the relevant Wikipedia article, skimmed that, etc.

And apparently you didn't quite notice the particular inefficiency there...

> But instead of doing that, I just asked ChatGPT the specific questions I needed the answer to.

Yeah, sure, if you want to vet hallucinations in stead of just getting the facts.

Just go directly to Wikipedia instead.
Brilliant. I don't think I have ever heard of this before. Will definitely check this out.
I no longer work there, but back in the early 10s IBM were allowing a lot of management and a few engineers to move to macs.

Their thinkpad business had been spun off, the thinkpad exclusivity contract had run out, and IBM were in a "we already give too much money to MS" mood at the time. No idea how far that went.

They also had a RHEL workstation-based distro you could put on your thinkpad (with a few tens of thousands of users on that IIRC), or if you were particularly adventurous, a 'layer' that could be installed on Ubuntu (that had a few thousand users) or Debian(I was one of 22 people doing that at the time!))
Interestingly enough, modern Hebrew adopted the sign. Even though it is not Latin-based / using the Latin alphabet. Probably as speakers knew it from other languages and the British mandate period
> just open source it?

I won't do that. I have learned my lesson hard way. I have had people cloning my repo and claiming publicly it's their projects.

Recently also happened with this open source project `https://www.restorephotos.io/`, someone cloned it and deployed it on another domain with ads. It went quite public as well with marketing etc.

My initial motivation behind putting paywall at some point is to just cover the cost of the tool :)

About the api keys, I was more thinking of people outside of tech world. But I will explore your point on BYO API KEYS.
I like to read these kinds of prospective acronyms, because sometimes they provide new perspectives or leverage points that other, existing acronyms don't. And they are easier to remember than, say, an essay.

DRY, for example, is instantly transferable to a bunch of other life practices and disciplines; people from dry cleaning to graphic design will hear about it and go "oh my god, I'm not really DRY but I totally could be" so it was really neat to discover.

In the case of CRISP, the "Correct" criterion somehow seems far less tractable to me than the other terms, and even less tractable than "Clean" for some reason.

To me it reads like a hint at subjective, self-contained logic. That's great, insofar it's instrumental to how code either works or doesn't.

But "Correct" is also kind of getting negative connotations these days, for a lot of reasons.

(Imagine also, receiving "your code could be more DRY" feedback, vs. "your code could be more CRISP," wherein you look up the latter and think, "oh right, my code could be more _correct_!")

And then the author even takes the argument in the ad-infinitum direction by referring to e.g. what _else_ isn't correct here? My tests? My purpose? My gut biome? (Ok not the last one). But there's a reason why Correctness is a thing in science, and a big part of that is scope constraint.

Maybe "Cogent" is more fitting in such a case? It has less of an absolutist ring to it. It expresses a bar to measure up to, with more of a qualitative, less-checkboxy feel.

I would also guess that a word like "Contractual" or "Compliant" would provide more leverage toward the same outcome. But those are already used around code in other ways, I guess...

Anyway, it's interesting to think about, because these little acronyms can really help when applied, if they reveal some traction that's been missing.

(This also made me wonder...why is one of the world's most popular crispy rice chocolate bars called a Crunch bar, and not a CRISP bar. Hmm)
That's right and this is why rates of depression, suicide and stuff, is way lower among women than men. Still it leaves an impression of a Ponzi scheme of a sort?
One very prominent use of Key-value tags is the OpenStreetMap database. The datamodel is deceptively simple: nodes, ways, and relations to represent geographical locations, and a list of key-values attached to any of them to define the semantics.
Did you read the article? Tests have been made that show all readers look at individual letters, subconsciously.
Clojure also adopted the Go concurrency model with core.async adding channels to the language.
Maybe CHIP would suit the Americans better
Earlier in the day GitHub actions went down as soon as I had pushed some changes and wanted a deployment to run. Talk about bad timing.

It's a bit strange seeing GitHub having problems again in such short time. But to be fair, GitHub's scale is insanely huge. I'm surprised they can keep everything running fine 99% of the time.
We picked Bitbucket instead of Github many years ago, basically because the person setting up the repos already knew Jira

I’ve been very happy about that past decision lately, Bitbucket is just…boring. It works, rarely gets in the way, and the company doesn’t really partake in politics in the tech scene
Well it's not really AI is it. There aren't any AIs available. It's all machine learning, large language model and different types of algorithms, all branded as Artificial Intelligens. All the "AIs" available falls into the computer science bucket called AI/ML, so it's not completely wrong, but none are truly intelligent.

AI has been diluted to a point where we need to specify artificial general intelligence (AGI) when we want to refer to AI in the classical sense.

To my knowledge, no search engine, or any other tech is powered by an AGI.
> Before that you had to write a for loop every time you wanted something from an array.

How often do you do that? I mean, it comes up - but if you're linearly scanning every time you want to select something from a list, that sounds like a surefire way to write slow code to me. Is there a reason you aren't using a map?
Yes - image generation AIs also take longer to generate higher resolution pictures.

I'd rather have a LLM that thinks a bit longer than a LLM that spits out wrong answers immediately.
Code should be CODE: "Clean, Optimized, Documented, Efficient".
Go does actually embody the DRY principle (Do Repeat Yourself).
Will be sold until the end of time, though swapping the hardware out from under the software is a no-brainer. I wonder what this puppy looks like running on a couple 7,529 pin 120 core Intel Xeons —going to need a bigger monitor to run SHOW PROCESS on!
This is kind of how I felt about the S in single responsibility of SOLID too. I wonder if there are any principles out there which are actually objective/measurable.
So does any non self hosted grammar checker.
It's still some way away from being viable as a daily driver search engine. It's gotten a lot better, but it's still fairly limited from its small index.
Since we’re adding new backronyms every day, I propose SIMPLE.

S - Spaghetti: write tapestry of code like a chef.

I - Interlinked: if the project has modules, they should all depend on each other (we are strongest when we can depend on one another).

M - Micromanaged: if the product owner doesn’t expect reports in the daily stand-up, do they even care?

P - Perplex: diversity for the codebase.

L - Lazy: Bill Gates once said “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it”, for example, without testing, collaborating with team members, or ensuring the feature works with anything else in the codebase.

E - Opinionated: because I believe E should stand for opinionated and everyone else will have to work around this with adapters. But E should mean Opinionated because Uncle Bab said so.
Use a Tox client for Android and F-Droid. Fdroid Classic it's better, it has a grid based layout which is easier to render on old devices.

Install Braid for emergencies too. If some authoritiy ask, tell them you have Braid as a fallback on national disasters, because it works over Bluetooth too.
Brussels/Belgium is full of them.

My favorites are the Clockarium, Museum of the Art Deco Ceramic Clock. (https://www.clockarium.org/ Check out the video, its is magnificent.)

And The Sewer Museum: Experience an authentic sewer, stroll along the Senne and discover the little-known but ever so important profession of a sewage worker.
Descend deep into the bowels of the city for this unique experience!
https://sewermuseum.brussels/
Just a side note from someone who was/still is in your situation: there’s not that much in software/digital marketing, that you can’t learn even better by actually practicing it.

Basically get out there and talk about things you do, get people interested, and take off from there!
Because it is free.
One thought that has occurred to me when using tagging systems is that they ought to have the ability to refactor tags. No matter what the tagging scheme is initially, it will surely mutate over time. It should be possible to rename tags, join tags and divide one tag into multiple tags. And while you are at it, perhaps it could use some kind of sentence embeddings to suggest tags that mean approximately the same thing.
I tried this at one point and it was a bad experience. It was mostly gay men. While I'm not against being friends with anyone who is gay, I very much got the feeling most people on there were looking for something different than I was.
strongly agreed!
Yeah, one year in nearly 40 years of massive nuclear use there was a problem that required maintenance and suddenly Germany's megatons of coal pollution are not a problem. Note that the maintenance is almost completely over (just a few reactors are off), but still.

Also, do you know how many people died in France over 40 years due to a nuclear power accidents? 0.

How many died due to German coal pollution? It's at least in the tens of thousands.
The Firefox Snap: Updates and Upgrades
I prefer calling it WET (We Enjoy Typing)
> The entire act of bringing over a bottle of wine was just to try to get on our good side in case they ever wanted some favor from us.

Weirdly cynical assumption. Sounds like you alienated your neighbors and then retroactively made them the villains.
I've worked with a lot of the same local businesses for nearly 20 years and it's definitely true that the business rises to the level where the owner isn't willing to let go any more, if that makes sense. You have to surround yourself with people you respect and are happy letting do their thing. People are everything. Get rid of people who don't fit.
> more as "a <whatever the startup is about> guy"

I can do that. This is why I enrolled into CS in the first place. I hated programming for 5 years. Now I kind of like it (10 years in). I think after another 5, I can even love it.

I have some skill in completely bending my mind and reshaping my personality from the ground up (what I can't reshape: being curious and having lots of imagination - fortunately, no need to reshape that).
Originally, yes. Though he missed the opportunity to answer the question "Is it any good?" with the obligatory "Yes."
> it is overdone in certain subcultures. (mostly intelligent people in competitive business fields).

Competitive people leaving their comfort zone is likely to involve solitude and charity in humbling settings. I like extreme sports and daring dining. They're challenging. But I wouldn't consider them outside my comfort zone.
It's still completely socially acceptable to drink and drive, at least in "redneck" parts of the country.
It banks on the fact that "GPT" is popular, definitely, but not "GPT-4" (the specific version) in particular.
There’s a reason nuclear exclusion zones end up so large, nuclear waste is hazardous in minute doses.
they were not a thing that commodity hardware, but most importantly the target user, was really prepared to run at the time

same as virtual machines were a thing in the early 70s and client-server in the 80s, but not for the target market despite the industry thought so for some time
All green lights now. :)
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