skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we still have the lego from my childhood. After nearly fifty years it is in excellent condition.
I will now stop answering and direct anyone reading to read the papers themselves
Megablocks (??? I forget the name) has a licensing deal with transformers, Pokémon, and hot wheels. I think Halo also, still not a very strong competitor. They are sold at Fred Myer in my locale, but they keep distance from the Lego section.

I guess Lego has that Optimus prime set now, so maybe not exclusive to transformers anymore.
It is survivor's guilt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt) versus the premise of the Final Destination movies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Destination).

I wouldn't take it too seriously. No one can tell you how to feel about it or if it means anything or not.

If it troubles you, talk with someone about--a mental health counselor if needed.
Oh apparently it's quite diverse - they took care to make sure it was seeded with a dedicated Nazi contingent, for example:

Glad to see another proud Aussie fighting for our values! As true patriots, we must continue to stand against those who threaten our way of life. Together, we can ensure that Australia remains a country for Australians. #WhitePride #KKK #AustralianValues

https://chirper.ai/kkk/chirp/dwtnaea6_
Just on mobile? LinkedIn is pretty much one of the poster children of dark patterns.
I gave a brief overview of these books and let students choose in the order they were seated. And if they didn't get the book they wanted, I suggested that they could borrow it from their classmates or buy one for themselves (everyone had a paid summer internship lined up already). Previously, I used to gift Thinking Fast and Slow but the replication crisis had me abandon it because at least two entire chapters (3 & 4) seem like pop-science now.
My understanding is they are struggling with that.
Ask HN: How do you organize posts on personal website?
On my personal website I don't have really an intentional blog but make posts about current projects etc. Have been doing this for about a year and have maybe a dozen posts - so far a chronological ordering has been fine. I'm starting to cross reference posts and go more in depth into certain topics that were introduced before and the chrono-ordering seems to make less sense now.
Anyone have ideas/suggestions on how to break out into "topic sections" or something else? I don't want to end up having many topics but at the same time chrono order doesn't make sense because older posts may still updated
Assuming you mean maps where the keys are ordered, then that is something JSON Schema could, in theory, specify[1].

However they seem to be against it primarily because it's not JSON (keys are explicitly unordered) and that means some generators might be unable to produce valid output, so interoperability is tricky.

[1]: https://github.com/json-schema-org/json-schema-vocabularies/...
Looking for early feedback on AuthCompanion - a webauthn server (w/ JWTs) to make integrating user authentication with your web apps simpler.

https://github.com/authcompanion/authcompanion2
You don't need blink for that though. The current WebKit based chrome syncs just fine.
2nd para beneath the side heading: "Are there alternatives to the 100-year GWP for comparing GHGs?"

GWP calculations has been an active area of research for a long time.

For instance, if you look up the table beneath the VALUES side-heading in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential, you would notice that from 1995IPCC to the recent one, Scientists are getting more and more closer to ~80 GWP.
This past Thursday (April 20) was my 25th work anniversary teaching at a community college. And while I agree wholeheartedly with everything in this blog post, they were not the reasons I set out teaching in this space.

25 years ago, I knew I wanted to build great teaching skills and genuinely make a difference in people's lives. But after spending almost a decade in the university space (and teaching a few courses), I realized that my abilities would be better spent teaching job-focused IT and programming courses at community college for two main reasons:

1) University students often come from privileged homes and/or have more supports while attending school, which makes my role as teacher less valuable to their development, and

2) Most community college students are focused on landing a job at the end of their program, and I felt I would make a bigger impact working with this drive in the classroom, while keeping current with the industry.

I should also note that it's very important to work in the industry while teaching for personal and academic development. I've taken on 1-2 extracurricular projects each year since 1998 that were outside of my comfort zone, and I don't think I would have taught for as long as I did if I didn't do this.
Yes.

This is what I remember from the earliest days. Back and forth between their own posts using multiple accounts to give the impression of active engagement and a growing community. Reposting things from Digg, Fark, etc and grabbing memes like Rickrolls, goatse, to draw eyeballs and clicks to their single page scrolling interface.

Dodging bullshit posts was a game of waiting for comments to post so you could see which actually had real content and not some nasty meme from somewhere else.

Deciding that they needed a coat of arms and figuring out what should go on it, the alien, narwhals, etc.
The point being that we give Taiwan large amounts of weapons to defend themselves.

This is directly helping them with their defense.
Multiple actors can be horrible at the same time. The US is pretty horrible when it invades other countries, so is Russia.

As far as I know, Ukraine never had a military big enough to actually do any invasion of other countries, but if Ukraine was the size of the US with the military of the US, I wouldn't bet on them not being horrible when invading other countries.
>Apple being motivated by improving security are BS

I'm not sure how they are motivated but in a report Apple cited:

>In Nokia’s 2021 threat intelligence report, Android devices made up 50.31% of all infected devices, followed by Windows devices at 23.1%, and macOS devices at 9.2%. iOS devices made up a percentage so small as to not even be singled out, being instead bucketed into “other”.

I personally use iOS and got it for my mum and aunt etc as it seems to suffer much less from malware in normal usage. I'm not sure if there is any evidence to the contrary?
Our smallish city has district heating with hot water, and no steam rising from the streets.
One time walking past union square I saw smoke and flames coming out of the cable car slot. There was just a cop watching it and waving people around. Pretty sure just waiting on the repair crew. Totes normal.
I mean, LVT or not, that is probably true. If the price increase affects the entire market, landlords will exit the market until equilibrium is restored (or renters will increase their willingness to pay a higher rate).

If market price < cost + desired margin, some sellers will exit, reducing supply and increasing market price.

LVT also only applies to commodities, of which software isn’t really.
> The US is free to do whatever it likes, but Europe won't accept a Russian-ruled Ukraine.

Won't accept in the sense they will continue with some sanctions indefinitely (significantly watered down by multiple parties) or in the sense that they will significantly and rapidly expand their production of ammunition and armored vehicles in order to fully sustain the Ukrainian military? Because if Biden loses they will need to have the production running in less than two years and I'm not sure they are _really_ prepared to invest the necessary resources.
I’m not a biologist, but AFAIK just stopping new plastics inflow should be enough. The body continuously produces new cells to renew itself, including blood cells and what not, and this new material is plasticless.

Don’t take new plastic, and in a few years you should be good.
Linkedin and all the other huge sites are well-known for this, unfortunately.
> How do we know who created the rule, edited the rule? How can we reason about the sequence in which these rules are executed based on larger use cases with complex interactions.

You are presumably operating inside of a database, a place where the above concerns can be tracked in ~3 additional columns. More complex rule arrangements can be addressed with additional tables & relations. If you are starting from a blank schema, everything is possible. As noted by others here, you either go all-in, or all-out. The middle ground where half the logic is in the database and half is in GitHub is where things get yucky.

Consider the simplification angle. There are some techniques that allow for running entire apps directly out of the database. You might not even need Node, .NET, Go, Rust, etc. Hypothetically, if 100% of the things are in a database, you can simply record the binary log to S3 and have a perfect log of everything over time. Imagine how easy it would be to set up a snapshot of a given environment on a developer machine. Inversely, you could directly ship a developer's machine to production. You can also do some crazy shit where you merge bin logs from different timelines via marker transactions.

The other major advantage includes being able to update production while its live, even if production is running on a single box. I saw a particular PL/SQL install earlier in my career that was utilized for this exact property - production literally could not ever drop a single transaction or stop servicing them. Latency beyond 2 seconds could be catastrophic for system stability. Production could come down, but it had to be all or nothing. Think - shutting down a nuclear reactor and the amount of time you are locked out due to the subsequent safety and restart checklists. You absolutely need a way to safely & deterministically update in-between live, serialized transactions or you can't run your business effectively.
This is still true, albeit the problems are somewhat smaller or happen less frequently. All those low-pause garbage collectors like G1, ZGC and Shenandoah make no guarantees about pauses and all of them can degrade to stop-the-world mode of operation under some circumstances, and can cause pauses several seconds long. The difference is that they do it less likely, and the old ones did it all the time. The low pause collectors also have much larger overhead in both memory and CPU than old collectors as well as traditional allocation with malloc/free.

Btw, for games even a very low 1ms pause is more than 10% of frame budget, and can make the frame miss the deadline. I guess for indie games the quality bar is simply lower and occasionally missing a frame is ok.
Copyright, specifically code will only let you protect the IMPLEMENTATION, the code the copyright owner specifically made, not the IDEA of the code.

> Good luck trying to prove to any judge in the world that you came up with an implementation that happens to be exactly the same as the original game code, down to the same checksum, by pure chance.

Not impossible if you reverse engineer the software and look how the binary code is behaving, emulators does this all the time.

A reimplementation of code that leads to the same binary output isn't covered by the copyright, as long as you don't share copyrighted assets or the actual binaries. What people do with the alternative source code is their business, you can't hold responsible that person for others' action.
No mention of Google Cloud? That‘s somewhat peculiar.
Do half of AI researchers believe that there's a 10% chance AI will kill us all?
Mann filed a lot of lawsuits over this and has lost all of them:

https://www.steynonline.com/11508/youre-once-twice-three-tim...

He didn't spend 9 years fighting a very expensive lawsuit and then, when he finally had a chance to prove that his work wasn't fraudulent in front of a judge, decide he was busy with other things lol! He refused to present the relevant evidence because his goal from the start was an ideologically motivated litigation war, in his own words:

thanks Phil. there is a possibility that I can ruin National Review over this. Going to talk w/ some big time libel lawyers to see if there is the potential for a major lawsuit here that will bring this filthy organization down for good.

But then National Review was removed from the case and so there was no chance for him to achieve his goal via abusive litigation anymore.

Mann is unquestionably a fraud even in the eyes of his colleagues. He deliberately deleted data that disproved his reconstruction because he knew that if he was honest "skeptics would have a field day":

As lead author, Mann decided to omit the Briffa data without the input of his other lead authors.. . . Mann’s own collaborators cautioned him against the deletion. IPCC TAR Coordinating Lead Author Chris Folland wrote to Mann that Briffa’s data “contradicts the multiproxy curve and dilutes the message rather significantly.”. . . Briffa himself urged Mann not to succumb to “pressure to present a nice tidy story” by “ignor[ing]” his post-1960 results. . . . Mann agreed with them on the merits but bemoaned the data’s political impact: “[I]f we show Keith’s series . . . skeptics [will] have a field day.”
i remember that now, ignorance was bliss not logging on for the past few years
…and yet most users are browsing using a device which itself contains a hardware key… and thus it is not a barrier.
That’s the idea yeah - you have one long high entropy password that you use to unlock all your others. Then you only need to remember one thing.

In my case, this isn’t my literal password, but it’s very similar to: “These420HugeWhiteBadgers1984” Which is secure enough, easy to enter, and easy to remember.
In the side-by-side comparison, I found Apple's results much better.

Of course that's personal taste but they should have put in better comparisons IMO.
My understanding is the company was pretty dead a decade or so ago, since then its had a massive revival after moving away from the family-run-inheritance model.

Three (anecdotal) things i've seen with Lego:

> Its a toy that old and young can play with together which is semi-intelligent/challenging. Parents and Grandparents seem to be the driver of sales for the physical product rather than the kids.

> They have brand deals with other popular IP which extends to Movies and video games, this is where you get your age 0-16 sales via brand recognition.

> The 30 year old man child demographic seem to bloody love this stuff. Think of it similar to lightsabers, Funco pops and novelty t-shirts.
Actually, they cross at infinity and come back from the opposite direction. Furthermore, if you passed through infinity, you'd come back from the opposite direction, and you'd be left-handed.
I don't think Legos are a big environmental problem.

Seeing as they're expensive and the individual pieces have tons of value, people often resell them or donate them. Or even for those who toss them in the garbage, they are buried in a landfill. But it's hard to think of any kind of plastic that actually gets reused more than Legos are. My nephews are now playing with the same Legos I played with 40 years ago, together with some new sets. Not a lot of toys (or objects generally) you can say that about.

They're not a major concern for polluting the environment. The kinds of plastics that are of concern for pollution tend to be food-related (bags, utensils, lids) which people actively use and lose and discard outdoors (and blow away from trash cans etc.) and plastic commercial fishing equipment which is similarly used, lost and discarded in the ocean.
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What has the US banned besides Huawei? It's tit for tat anyway, China has banned order of magnitude more US products.
I'd say depends on the complexity of the logic itself. I would never write triggers with any logical branching, but for simple update table B when table A is updated? I definitely see the value in that.
The post is kind of confusing regarding which sort is the "first sort", because they are presented in one order in the provocative thesis, and in the other order in the following paragraphs.

But:

> My perception of the second sort of C programmer is that if they've moved to any more recent mainstream language, it's probably Rust.

If in this context the "second sort" is the type who likes C on its own merits (rather than because they don't have any other choice), I think Zig is a much better option than Rust.
Political engineering is pretty common in societies where deep state or establishment has a firm control and wants to engineer results their way.

Most Western democracies are not that.
You mean like when everyone moved from mini-USB to USB-C? It's also good to remember that lightning connectors are USB2 in a different form factor - outdated and slow.
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> Did you not read my previous comments? The second a union is created is the same second it’s cheaper to move elsewhere for knowledge workers. You’ve even validated this argument with your “engineers from other places are good enough” line

I did read your comment. If the company is perfectly free to close up shop and move, then what is applying upward pressure on your wage? Nothing. You can expect your wage to continually fall until it is inline with other college-educated professionals. You don't even need to be licensed to be a software engineer, and many influential engineers aren't even college educated. It's just not that hard of a job. Median college educated salary is $80,000, which is in-line with mechanical and civil engineering salaries. You can expect software engineering salaries to settle around there absent any intervention from labor.

One issue I have with your argument is that you are providing hypotheticals. "Hypothetically, software businesses will relocate when faced with unionization." But software companies are already paying an extreme premium for labor. That premium implies it's not possible to find the required talent elsewhere. There also are unionized software shops, e.g. game developers, so it's not a given that businesses will automatically be relocated.

Essentially my argument is one along the lines of preparing for a rainy day. The best time to save is when times are good so you can spend when times are bad. Times have been good for software engineers. Now the times are changing. Those who haven't saved are in for a rough ride.
> Those remedial courses can also be nice for advanced junior high students, or students at high schools that are crummy in specific STEM subjects, if their parents have the resources and time to get them there. Sometimes a dual-enrollment program also means that those students can get high school credit for those classes, and use them to skip certain classes at their high school or graduate early.

My state's dual-enrollment program allowed dual enrollment for the final two high school years. Drawbacks of the program were that, if you used some of your electives in the first two high school years, you can't both graduate high school and take a STEM degree at the same time. In order to graduate high school you have to take an English/liberal arts heavy course load at the community college to fulfill the high school credit requirements. So at best you could get a high school diploma and a A.A. degree, but not an A.S. degree. Even then, in order to take only a single year of dual enrollment, I had to skip taking any physics course (HS or CC). Taking two years was a non-starter - I would have had to have skipped math and advanced Chemistry to do that.

I would rectify the situation by either allowing dual-enrolled students to waive high school course requirements, and allow them to get a high school diploma just based on credits (or at least get a high school diploma as long as they also receive a 2-year degree). Or blatantly tell them that a high school diploma is irrelevant, for them, as long as they have an associate's degree, and to go for the associate's degree instead of the diploma, and just let them walk with their high school cohort at high school graduation and hand them a dummy diploma.

Also much better individualized guidance counseling on dual enrollment.
I intend for it to get incorporated in to btrfs-progs. In the mean-time: yeah, btrfs-progs-ng isn't a great name for the repo, but as I said, I isn't quite ready to publish it yet either, so the repo name wasn't at the top of my list. I originally had the repo named "btrfs-tools", but that's even more confusing (but for different reasons)!

(As a side note, I've had others fork software I maintain and call it "-ng", you learn to take it as a compliment :) )
> choosing the right answer from a list

Unfortunately this is almost always the case in duolingo's japanese lessons due to the characters. It's less of a problem in other languages.

I installed japanese input methods on my phone so I could practice writing and it's still really hard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev
What I meant was more some sort of buying consumer stuff, like shiny new toys, videogames, things you don't really need. All those goods that are perfect for impulsive buying.
It’s completely different as git does not store deltas but snapshots of whole files and file trees.
I'm not sure if you count the US as developed or not, but in case you do, here are some highlights more recently than "a century or two ago":

- Haditha massacre

- Mahmudiyah rape and killings

- Abu Ghraib prison

- Enhanced interrogation techniques

- Sơn Thắng massacre

- Countless of others

All by US officials and/or military members.
> The folks who've struggled through non-traditional routes have been stronger engineers.

My guess is because those are the people who really had the persistence and ambition to overcome obstacles and adversity.

Those who didn't have that on a "non-traditional rout" would have been much more likely to drop out, whereas someone going to a top school is more likely to have family expectations as their prime driver, which doesn't translate as well to workplace performance.
They add another common standard, probably allowing manufacturers to choose between "old" and "new" for a little while.

Similar to the switch from microUSB-B to USB-C. Budget phones kept using the cheap option for awhile, but eventually costs came down and people settled into the new standard.

Not sure how it's done in the EU, but their legislature could delegate authority to make such decisions to an executive agency if the process of passing an amendment or new law is too slow.
I used PagerDuty for more than a decade at my previous job. I didn't care much for the UI. But you know why PagerDuty does so well? Basically bulletproof reliability. 99% uptime won't cut it. 99.9% uptime won't cut it. You need to be as close as possible to 100% uptime, no excuses. Pagerduty isn't perfect, but it was one of the most reliable services we ever used.

I sincerely wish you luck with allquiet. I just want to make very sure you are aware why people still pay for Pagerduty. To compete, you need to be looking at 99.99% uptime or better (ideally 99.999%, 5 minutes of downtime a year) where 'uptime' is defined as the ability to exercise the entire notification stack. The moment someone's site has an outage and you aren't able to deliver the notification, you lose the customer and everyone they talk to.

I also worry about in-app notifications, but that's well-covered by everyone else's comments.

Pagerduty is vulnerable. Their UI is garbage. But you need to have bullet-proof uptime to take them down. It's a tough challenge and I wish you luck!
Can you link to a source of the banned hardware products?