skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, I think efforts like these are misguided.

We are collectively rewriting desktop apps to run in the browser, where not only it runs 50x slower than on the desktop, but all data has to be downloaded time and again from servers. The amount of waste here is staggering. And yet, desktop apps have so many issues (installation/breakage/crashes) that web apps are the only way to deliver software that just works.

Web developers can, and should, build light and fast websites. But the average person runs spotify, youtube, netflix and other streaming services pretty much 24/7. A slightly faster personal blog isn’t even a drop in the bucket.

And waste from computing, bad as it may be, pales into comparison to the waste of a “quick trip to the store” with a 4 ton truck.

As software engineers the best thing we can do is to write good software that lasts and that solves real problems. Climate guilt really doesn’t come into play here.
Thank you very much, and absolutely! My hope is to convert to a treesitter implementation instead of the SwiftSyntax direct parser. There’s a file filter in there that can be turned off to load any particular file up for viewing, but the analysis stuff won’t work of course.

The tracing is more complicated. SwiftTrace is a bit tangly, and I’m still trying to think of a way for folks to “drop in” something to their code base to produce a structured set of traces. There’s a file-backed array that is is used to read compacted run logs, so as long as I can can get the format right, it should work for most cases. I even experimented with a syntax rewriter to insert logs!

What languages do you use? What would you like to see supported?
I'm not sure how you could've gotten that idea from my comment. If I put it on a line, I'd say (no typing) < (python optional types) < (elixirs structs and pattern matching) < (typescripts types|interfaces) < (real static types from Java etc)
Maybe in the early days of C, but with modern compilers doing stuff like keeping variables in only registers, inlining functions, stack cookies, merging non overlapping variables etc. that seems not really worth it. If you want to avoid accidental huge stack usage you can pass flag to gcc/clang to trigger warning when stack usage of a function goes over the specified limit.
A fork where you diverge from the original is still a fork.

Most long-lived forks that I hear about are things that have developed into their own projects and have no intention of merging back to the original. Contrast with a short-term fork which will only live a few months and then will be hopefully be merged into the original; it will probably be so short-lived that people outside of the project won’t hear about it as a “fork” with its own distinct name.

A “fork” isn’t only making a GitHub fork so that you can make a PR against the original because you found a typo on the readme.
Or perhaps Latin?
No. As far as I'm concerned, nobody should be driving in Manhattan. Private vehicles shouldn't even be allowed here.

Congestion pricing is a compromise.
>The Origins of Covid-19 — Why It Matters (and Why It Doesn’t)

>More than half of the earliest Covid-19 cases were connected to the Huanan market, and epidemiologic mapping revealed that the concentration of cases was centered there. In January 2020, Chinese officials cleared the market without testing live animals, but positive environmental samples, including those from an animal cage and a hair-and-feather–removal machine, indicated the presence of both SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-susceptible animals.5 Recently released findings included raccoon dog DNA, pointing to a possible SARS-CoV-2 progenitor.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMp2305081
I'm not currently working for a larger org... but I could certainly say with my last employer having this explicitly documented up front would be crucial for adoption.
The dive was mostly archived Reddit threads.

https://www.vans.com/en-us/shoes-c00081/sk8-hi-canvas-shoe-p...
This. The state of leadership training in our industry is abysmal. Most managers I've met get little to no training when they transition to leadership roles. It's slightly better in larger companies, but as you say - a stark contract with military
> is there a reason you'd actually want this in a production model?

I think GP agrees with you, and they were being sarcastic to be funny. It's not always easy to tell in a text based medium.
I'm sure someone else has posted this but... rather than a mentally ill screed I'd say it's a pretty lucid diagnosis of the last 30 years:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-ship-o...
I suspect that in fifty million years, when an intelligent species start researching earth layers', they'll find one thick layer of plastics and concrete. Followed by t layers of ash and dead plant matter.
Back in the mid-90s, I accompanied a girlfriend to a county fair, and there was a guy with a booth there who was selling Egyptian jewelry with all sorts of exotic designs. And his specialty was a custom pendant that he would fashion with your name in hieroglyphics. So this seemed exotic and exciting to us both, as we were so very goth at the time, and so I ordered one for her, and she wore it proudly. In fact, even as I moved on to the next girlfriend after her, I promptly ordered exactly the same type of hieroglyphic pendant from the same vendor for the new girl. The second girl found it so amazing and was personally touched by my gesture that she made it a permanent fixture of her wardrobe. In every photo I saw of her, for decades since we broke up, she was still wearing her hieroglyphic pendant.

And, of course, in the tradition of bad tattoos, none of us were never completely sure whether the "spelling" or transliteration or pronunciation was completely accurate or even close. We just reveled in the exotic, personalized objets d'art, regardless of their authenticity (although the vendor did appear to be some sort of Arab who might even be authentically Egyptian himself.)
"No". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
GitHub oauth doesn't have a way to limit scope to specific repos, but the token is stored local to your device and the app's logic is that only repos you explicitly select are synced.

It's also a condition of many LLM providers that application end users are authenticated to prevent abuse, so GitHub auth helps with this.
Seems like the lead developer works for the company that rewrote www.vy.no [1] in Elm.

[1] “the largest transport provider in Norway” https://blogg.bekk.no/using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb
It already happens. Tons of houses and apartments don't have garages, I'm living in one lmao
> I've met plenty of engineers who seem to believe that everyone else's non technical role is easy.

In my experience it’s like that (I’m talking about engineers vs eng. managers). Another significant difference is the amount of work, I believe: as an engineer I work 4h/day but those 4h are “hard” hours (fully focused) and my brain ends up a bit exhausted after. But that’s all I do in the day for work. On the other hand, eng. managers do more lightweight work, but work longer hours.

I have to say that in my experience, what my eng. managers were doing all day was: 1:1s, meetings with other managers to decide how to shift around people, interviews, being present at some sprint plannings without saying much, being present at some daily meetings without saying much.
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> Are there any regulations on AI in the US? I’m not aware of any.

I worded that wrongly, but what I meant is that the current concerns with AI and discussions to pause AI development are entirely happening in Western countries. China will regulate its companies to comply with the goals of the CCP, but they don't have the same ethical and moral concerns as the West.

> Fortunately, because it’s an autocracy, there is no way to know if it is the right direction, until it fails.

They can also afford to fail fast. It's the "move fast and break things" approach to government. :)
> In fact, you are more likely to work longer hours, and attend meetings at stupid times because that's the only slot you can get the more senior managers to meet at.

Unless you work with someone internationally and the only time both teams are awake is at ungodly hours for both, so you never get any meetings at normal times.
An evolution sandbox was promised in the early demo, a boring railroaded game was delivered.
how does content moderation occur with a fully decentralized network? Do they have a democratic type system whereby you can vote to have things removed? I'm thinking about some sort of PI being exposed or illicit media.
Ha ha ha! :) If you find that there, it's about nobody but you! Ha ha ha! :)

Ha ha! If that's as far as you want to go, don't blame your lack of adventure on inadequate evidence, own your view! Ha ha! :)

You will find your way back to that curiosity and openness that's your nature. When — is up to you. Ha ha ha! :) Can't help you man! Ha ha ha! :)
https://archive.ph/pIFm7
Toward an Open Weights Definition
UK food prices were (until recently) very low relative to income, because we have about 7 major national supermarket chains.
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Token is basically a number. Embedding is a vector consisting of those numbers (tokens).
I am just hoping, that when that better thing appears, it wont only be better because it makes use of what is available in Python via some FFI thingy, adding another layer of indirection and abstraction and overhead, but actually better from first principles, from the ground up, or at least not going via Python, to get a similarly big ecosystem.
What an even-handed article that acts as essentially a how-to guide on running an OSS product.

I have always held the notion that Open Source Is Not A Business Model; just because you build it does not mean that you are entitled to money, especially if you willingly give it out for free.

Just like any startup, you must find product market fit and generate revenue. It's heartening to see the same philosophy in OSS as well. Treat it like any other commercial product, not as something special.
> As far as I know from studying history, it's impossible to win (= survive as a culture against encroachment from different cultures) without violence.

Have you ever read Jewish history? That's a culture that has survived for millenia, without perpetrating virtually any violence between the time they were exiled from Israel and the time they took over Palestine, while facing constant discrimination and violence against them.

Not to mention that their culture set the foundations of the two biggest religions on Earth today.
Meetings filled with endless bike shedding about trivialities, bickering about specs, push and shove over changes in scope and delivery dates… and then every waking moment outside of those meetings, you’re either following up the above from previous meetings or scheduling new ones. Not a fun time.
To ease your worry, the baked clay will survive a second cook. Your heart will go on!
First time i really want to RTFA but run into the paywall. Reader didnct help. Help very welcome, thanks in advance.
I wonder if all those MK-ULTRA experiments failed in finding ways to make human beings violent and politically disruptive
They are certainly having g a poor track record. Most of the CEOs and managers I talk to think that it is a noble pursuit for them to be profitable because the free market determines what is moral and in the public interest. Its a pretty commonly held belief in the business world - it's very similar to a religious faith. 9ne manager even believed that scientific discovery only occurred to fulfill the objectives of business managers. Most scientific research in the US is publicly funded, so it isn't even funded by business. But, he didn't accept that explanation.

I was half joking when I was talking about nationalizing social media, but we should ask ourselves why we as a society are destroying these tools that we all used and enjoyed using because a bunch of money changed hands. Twitter is undeniably worse off, so is Facebook. Surely we have proved that we can have these things if we wanted to. At the very least, we should have net neutrality.
> There's no reason your CEO or office shouldn't foot part of the bill to transport you into work.

This is how it works in the Netherlands. Transportation to and from work is required to be paid by the employer, and importantly, the employee gets to decide how they commute.

If I want to take the train from the other side of the country everyday, my employer needs to foot the bill. With a subscription, this is around €350/month for a 2nd class ticket. If I want to drive, the company must pay the kilometer rate set by the government.

To help control costs, some employers may offer company cars to employees, but in my experience it is mostly used as an employment benefit and a tax write-off. Both parties save on the tax burden while the employee also gets access to cheap and reliable transportation.

If the US implemented a requirement to reimburse employees for their travel to and from work, the amount of public infrastructure would explode.

The average commute is about 20 miles; 40 x 40 cents = $16/day (there and back). $80/week or $320 per month for an employee that lives, on average, pretty close to where they work.

A unlimited pass for the Dallas TX public transit system is $192/mo. So an employer could save 50% of the transportation costs by encouraging employees to ride the light-rail and the bus.

Unfortunately, we all know that there's a lot more that goes into incentivizing people to use public transportation. Walkable destinations, sidewalks, mixed zoning, etc etc all play into the decision, but if 3000 people are lining up to outside the same bus stop every day, some business is going to open up nearby to take advantage of the increased foot traffic.

To bring this back around, forcing employers to pay for transportation is a good way to incentivize public transit by making the companies goals in line with that of the municipality. If the city has better public transportation infrastructure, everybody wins!
What’s worth mentioning is that IPFS is built on top of a data model named IPLD.

https://ipld.io/

If you are planning on doing your own experiments with Merkle tree and such, I can strongly recommend using IPLD as well. The IPLD project has standard libraries for a bunch of programming languages.

The advantage of using IPLD is that you can use regular IPFS tooling to inspect the data and make backups/restores. Regardless of your desire to share the data over IPFS.
> an opportunity to integrate users' favourite features from the third party apps into the official app.

"A clean and readable layout with no/less annoying ads" is a feature of most apps, except the official one, and I doubt Reddit is willing to have that.
Graduated corporate income tax.

It's real simple. Want a lower tax rate? Do a demerger.
I think a boss I had a long time ago was like that. An anecdote: he originally wrote the code years back. Then, a particularly hairy debug session involving potentially many millions of dollars in damages if the problem was not found, recompiled, fixed and deployed on embedded hardware in the field - a tense situation. The programmers doubling as field techs called in to this boss (original author of the code) who hadn't touched the code in years.

Yet, after som prodding questions directed them to find a certain source file, an "if" at around line so-or-so in a 10k line (spaghetti, in my opinion) source file, make a single change, recompile and test. Of course, it worked.

That anecdote changed my understanding of his code. To me, it was badly written, unstructured and so on. (And it was.) But what use is structure and order if you can keep all of it in your head at the same time?

I lose track after a weekend, I need the order.
I think the detail that he was financially supported by his family while "escaping society" is relevant.

Don't want to be that meme guy who criticizes the person complaining about modern society via an iPhone, but it feel a touch hypocritical to be a genius planning to actively destroy modern society while living on handouts from that society while cosplaying at being an independent self-made man.
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> IME motorcycle drivers are generally among the most respectful about the noise they make, relative to all drivers of all vehicle types.

I don't think we live in similar countries. In the US an astonishing percentage of motorcycles are illegally modified to be louder. In NYC there are four loud vehicles, the Lamborghini Aventador, Nissan GTR, the Dodge Challenger Hellcat, and motorcycles. Of these only GTRs behave more obnoxiously than motorcycles (though Hellcat drivers are in close competition). In NYC they like to coast down the street in groups revving their engines, they especially seem to love triggering car alarms.

On the other hand in Asia I've never seen this behavior from motorcycles.
If the VM operates under the same privileges than a host, all this does is prevent automated attacks - a savvy attacker can still access the disk image of the guest, in some cases, it might actually be more vulnerable (as disk image access is implicitly a privesc in the context of the VM).
In a similar boat and have tried this recently, but I can't say it worked. The only real solution seems to be to go elsewhere.

There is something supremely disgusting in being forced to work on projects ("hey client X needs this Y thing done asap") that you don't care about, know they have a close to zero chance of working to an acceptable degree and also know you'll be blamed for their failure. Over and over and over.
Is Aldi owned by Lidl? We have both here in South Carolina. They seem quite different. I like one and not the other.

Edit: It appears they aren’t related corporations.
Thanks for your comment – it's much appreciated.

Indeed, I've never heard of panspermia, which the CNET article talks about.
I was curious how many sessions, and how long the sessions were. A Guardian article[1] suggests the sessions were 2 hours long, once a week, and the typical total time for participants was 200 hours.

The overall process sounded a bit like something you see in military basic training, but with the additional wrinkle of the paper they made the Harvard students write beforehand...outlining their core beliefs. Drill instructors in basic training do a sort of less deep version of this. They observe people and try to induce stress with personalized yelling and screaming based on observations and some amount of data on the person (detailed "job" applications, ASVAB tests, etc).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jun/22/features...
In the end it’s all the same problem: capitalism. It all boils down to the requirement of as much profit as possible, no matter how.
The thing is, the site itself while not easy to build or maintain is ultimately a commodity.

Reddit replaced Digg. Some other startup will replace Reddit.

It’s the users and the content they produce that’s irreplaceable.

Maybe sites like this will only be able to function in the long run if there is some profit sharing involved. Every user gets X ads in their feed every month, and for every 5X posts or 50X comments one ad disappears.
I don't know of this is meant to be sarcasm or earnest. In either case, it's wrong. Modern Windows will not run 16-bit DOS applications. But they did run (in various levels of compatibility) until 32-bit Windows was fully sunset (Feb 2020, Win10).
The problem with VMs is games that require anti-cheat, which from what I've read from user experiences try to detect and prevent VM usage (not sure about Valve's anti-cheat though).
This article was hard to follow, if you want to see what the actual website looked like, and how the informant would communicate back to the CIA, scroll about halfway down this Reuters article:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spie...
Wouldn't it be simpler to use a trie over the hashes instead? It seems to me like it would have the properties desired here. I think the parent/child rule described here might actually result in some kind of trie.
If it were only that simple. Often one needs to be at least a team lead to set the technical direction. As an IC, I sometimes found myself being asked to implement a solution in a form that I did not agree with.
Can different style of cow farming be carbon negative? I've seen one YouTube farmer claiming so but I have hard time believing it.

He says bacteria takes carbon from manure and take it back to the soil but that cannot be more than was present in the grass that the cow ate right? It can put some small amount of carbon back but it will be net positive, not negative.
....and then came Star Citizen.
It depends. Is Google's service payed in advance or afterwards?
It’s ok you can then ask GPT to write up the cases^H^H^H^H^H packages.
thanks, i will look into it
>>> management of it deciding to push it in direction different than community wishes

THAT is a fundamental and interesting (almost philosophical) question: should a forum/website/media FOLLOW "community wishes" (democracy-style) or FOLLOW a vision even without traction (benevolent or bureaucratic dictatorship style) ???

BOTH are good AND bad in a way or another...

* FOLLOWING COMMUNITY WISHES will ensure more and more people, but lower average quality (bazaar style) because everybody will talk about what interest him in the end... so hard to keep a focus. Moreover, community wishes is prone to forum "take over" by subgroups (think for example "extreme right" - for whatever that means, or hackers, or...)

* CHARTER will ensure that a forum has a single "topic" (even a niche) but the community won't grow as much, it need strong moderation, people will regularily clash/disagree and leave about the rules... but quality will be higher (more focused and specialized)
>50 years of evolutionary changes separate RaTG13 and BANAL-52 from SARSCoV2

Do you have a source for this?

Also, I'm no biologist, but is comparing the base rate of evolutionary changes still relevant if SARSCoV2 wasn't of natural origins? E.g. through creating chimeras or 'serial passaging' as described in this article? Wouldn't that create an environment where 50 years could pass in a way shorter timeframe?
I found this about US car window tinting rules:

https://windowtintlaws.us/crossing-state-lines-with-tinted-w...

CAN YOU GET PULLED OVER FOR WINDOW TINT IN ANOTHER STATE? The short answer is yes, you can be pulled over by state vehicles or law enforcement for window tint violations that go against state tint laws.
I do all my banking on my iphone. No way I would do banking on a desktop.
Only if you focus on the ephemera and refuse to see the actual issue: The keynote becoming un-keynoted is just the tip of the iceberg. The real problem, that this tip only serves to reveal, is in how it became un-keynoted.

Rust is supposed to be run by a committee or group of some sort, apparently called “Rust Leadership” something. This ostensible Leadership had approved the keynote as such. Then some individual(s?) went behind the committee's back and un-keynoted it. That they did this – that they were even able to do it – shows that they're the actual leaders of the Rust project, not the committee that is claimed to be.

Not being able to see that that's a pretty big deal is... Weird, to say the least. Feels like one would have to work pretty hard at not wanting to see it.
Spore wasn't really a victim of high expectation, but rather a cool ambitious idea that just didn't work as a game. Unlike many others, I think the game they delivered matched very well to what they demoed. The issue was that it just didn't congeal into a game. The sacrifices they did have to make (making it linear and limiting the freeform sandbox aspects) were necessary to make it a game at all. The ambitious "this will make you see the connection between all stages of life" goal isn't achievable if the game you're building isn't going to actually be a good game.

There just wasn't any good gameplay loop in there.