skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing said in another article that has really stuck with me on documentation is that it helps you scale yourself. You can only have so many meetings and so many discussions everyday. Maybe manage 5-10 people tops.

With good documentation, it can be used to scale yourself beyond what you can personally do everyday, and it works really well when you can convince people to search for answers before asking
Agreed on your last paragraph. One of my mantras to coders, as a tech documentarian, was that "Incorrect documentation is worse than no documentation".
It's a very interesting episode, If you're curious I would advice to listen to it in full. On this topic I perceived 'western' as a proxy for individualistic societies. The argument is indeed that these very collectivistic societies do not consider intent as an important factor. Within those societies shame is also a very important emotion versus the individualistic 'guilt'. One other interesting finding was that self-confidence has no correlation with life satisfaction in those societies.

A country like China would actually be in the middle on that scale, and it was also discussed how it's rapidly becoming more individualistic due to a number of policies, most notably the one-child policy.
> trigger that sort of prosperity in Russia and we'd probably be seeing them just bunkered down waiting for Siberia to thaw through global warming.

Russia during late 2000s and early 2010s has been more prosperous than ever, yet Crimea invasion and annexation, Donbas invasion happened. No, you can't undo imperialism through money. You can make it more powerful with money, though.

> Russia literally dismantled their own empire in 1990.

No, it certainly wasn't "Russia", only some of its ruling class making that decision under pressure. A historical aberration.

Even then there was kicking and screaming, with violent suppression in Baltics. Yeltsin never let go of imperialism either with keeping Moldova and Georgia unstable and talking about unification with Ukraine and Belarus (Russia was too weak to do anything about that, though, so all in friendly manners for now).

> They aren't a top-10 power. They aren't going to reclaim the USSR; they can barely even reclaim the Donbass.

Militarily they of course are. They aren't going to reclaim the USSR, mainly because some of the countries in questions are already off limits as members of NATO. I'm pretty sure that if Baltic States were not members of NATO, they wouldn't be sovereign nations at this point of time.

> They can't plausibly enact any sort of imperialist vision.

Have you watched Russian media recently?

> They could negotiate and end to all this without too much effort.

As usual, where "negotiations" means "surrender".
What is your main goal by starting an engineering blog? For most companies it is just another marketing tool.
They want to intentionally hamper the website to drive mobile app usage for more juicy data. They don't care about those users who fail to migrate as they are generating less revenue. They begrudgingly keep things working just enough to keep some engagement to drive mobile app use.

They don't seem to understand a couple key things, one of which is that if they can't make a website work, I will not install other things they make. They break trust.
> As an aside, I don’t get all the people loudly expressing being depressed about the graphs and whatever. This is in line with predictions. People knew that was going to happen. It’s pretty useless to bemoan things which are unavoidable.

Humans aren't robots. We don't just have feelings connected to surprising events, but also to unsurprising ones. Why should people not have feelings on this topic?
I’ve once held a similar view, but then realised that kind of data really isn’t worth holding on to. I deleted my 15 years worth of posts and account, and felt a massive weight had been lifted. Reddit had a negative effect on me, and freeing myself of that was well worth it.

I should also mention that Reddit archives exist, so those post will live on somewhere.
Desktop Linux Hardening (2022)
Maybe start with punishing Europe then where the trade increased after the war: https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/imports/russia. India and China haven't even agreed to sanction ever.
I am honestly dumbfounded. If this is an application of bitcoin, why wouldn't we use that same excess energy to run a giant tesla coil? At least that makes some pretty arcs while wasting the energy.

Just a thought: You could also store the energy or use it to do actually useful calculations.
In a world where central banks can print in a few months their entire money supply, doubling it, and can then declare inflation "transitory" and refuse to do their job of raising interest rates for an entire year, there's definitely a demand for sound money.

Not sure if Bitcoin will be that, but after the events of last years, nobody can pretend that fiat currency doesn't need competition.
Ask HN: Do you want what I'm making?
At my last job I was often tasked with converting Figma designs to React code. This was tedious and inevitably I would miss some detail like a corner radius. The experience inspired me to work on my own design tool made for handing designs over to developers. Any part of the design can be exported/imported as a component, with props for dynamic content.

I can get carried away with the joy of programming, so I'm forcing myself to take a pause, record a WIP demo video, and ask, does anyone actually want this?

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2a8r4FIX28
> Did you even build this product or just hire cheap labor out of India to build it?

Assuming _only_ cheap labour exists in India is just plain ignorant. Even a discriminatory tone towards some of the outstanding engineers and hackers who live there. Please reconsider your biases, and ask questions in good faith.
The light reflection on the shoulder doesn't make much sense. I think this is less pronounced when soft light is involved. I wonder if sharp light and reflections will take longer to be handled properly. Every frame on the shoulder looks ok on its own, but when animated it feels like it was taken in a different environment than the rest.

I suspect depth maps (SD2 already supports them) could be used to achieve that in the future.

I wonder if a diffusion model could accept an "onion skin" noise, so the transitions between frames would be less jarring. Can someone with more knowledge than me explain what's the most promising approach here?
So like Twitter and FB. Maybe it’s time.
I deleted my 12-yr old Reddit account this past weekend. I, too, went through the Digg redesign debacle which prompted my complete shift from Digg to Reddit so many years.

What I have learned is there always is an alternative and clinging to a platform that is headed in the opposite direction you are going is not worth it. I’ll miss Reddit in the short term, but I’m done with it and have moved on.
Clickable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2a8r4FIX28
> in which there were no good choices to vote for: either corrupt Berlusconi or Communists (who were also corrupt).

That's a pretty bad description of the situation in Italy.

First of all we (I am from Italy, I voted in 1994 when Berlusconi bootstrapped his political career) have a large number of parties.

In 1994 there were at least 20 symbols grouped in 2 main coalitions.

Secondly, the communist were already a thing of the past, they dissolved in 3 different groups in 1992, but communists in Italy have a strong tradition and have been the backbone of our democracy.

Last but not least, the left in Italy is divided in an infinite number of movements and parties, communists were historically the largest one but Italy has a Socialist party that is separated from the Communists.

p.s. corruption of the Communists (as a political party) has never been proved anywhere.
Redesigns don't happen for the sake of redesign. I don't know about Typeform, but in other cases - and especially for Facebook, Reddit and Dropbox - redesign always servers to deliver the next level of monetization squeeze/user abuse. The redesign may be most tangible thing to complain about, so it gets the lion share of attention, but in my experience is, when people complain that something about the new redesign is "stupid", they fail to realize it's the opposite - its intentional. It's meant to force a particular way of using the service.

Attention economy makes money by friction. It's like putting water wheels on a river - as long as you don't dam it completely, you can extract just a little more value by stuffing yet another wheel downstream, until the flow is close to stopping dead.
> The niche communities are starting to go back to their own platforms or Discord.

Ugh, hopefully not more Discord. We have already got way too much hinging on Discord.
https://medium.com/@sevebadajoz/exploring-cache-optimization...

Also a lot of their content is not "hot" and "commentable" anymore.
Every few weeks it seems Russia is trying to find allies by having a "free nukes party", considering using them in Ukraine, or telling a large nation about the "grave consequences" for supplying Ukraine with munutions.

The US may have avoided thermonuclear war at one point, but the hazards are very much still alive to this day. Second strike capabilities were invented to cause an extinction scale event in retaliation for a genocidal one.

The beauty of the AI threat model is, in its current incarnation, there's no extinction scale event plausible. But it could be used to cripple critical infrastructure, win wars on developed nations, overthrow regimes, etc if laws are not made, and infrastructure not invented to protect us.
But a complete revamp doesn't necessarily mean bad UI/UX. It just means something different. It can be done in an equally good or better way. In comparison, the Reddit UI was just horrendous. It's barely usable. Without old.reddit or 3rd party apps, I would have probably stopped using Reddit by now due to how horrendous it is to use.
It's true that there can be gotcha's in code which should be documented, but I don't think forcing a template on people is the solution. In fact, I wouldn't expect people to be better at documenting them with that in place.
The graphs tell you what they're about. Temperature this year is at the very top of recent years, probably another hottest year ever, and a full degree above the 1978-2000 average. Wildfires in Canada are just insane right now. Way, way more than previous years this time of the year. North Atlantic temperature is way higher than any previous year. Antarctic sea ice is lower than ever.

All of these are signs that climate change is getting worse and worse. And stuff is likely to get worse in the coming years. And if we don't do anything to dramatically reduce CO2 emissions, it's going to get even worse after that.

We do have the ability to turn this around, but we clearly lack the political will to do so. And the longer we wait, the worse it will get.
Some of your points might have merit, but your tone is very off putting.
> About 3% of mod actions come from third-party apps, and we’ve reached out to communities who moderate almost exclusively using these apps to ensure we address their needs.

I wouldn't be shocked if that's because third party bots are counted in there, and in terms of sheer scale of spam etc that is 80+ of mod actions.

Huffman has a very good reason to use figures in a misleading way to downplay the impact here.
It is a good feature. All bans by users and by entities (subreddits/forums/etc) should be visible for everyone, and also in reverse - "banned by" info should be available. This keeps moderators/admins in check somewhat.

PS: I don't use Bluesky at all, just from previous experience on forums.
I reckon in the coming months we'll see a statement from the CEO 'I take full responsibility' - by which time, it will probably be a bit too late to recover.
Hacker News is a Reddit clone that PG wrote because subreddits didn’t exist yet and he wanted to write an application in Arc.
then why isn't Ars flipping out over Obama's declaration that codifying Roe "was not a priority" even when he wielded a Democrat supermajority?

I mean, if you can live in the past and blame Trump, why not live in the past and blame Obama?

It is easy to codify Roe v Wade and get it past SCOTUS...start asking your elected Democrats why they won't do it
For me the real advantage of awk, and I love me my awk, is that the entire reference manual is 10 pages long.

http://man.openbsd.org/awk

Other than that I agree, awk runs out of steam rather quickly. Shell runs out of steam fast as well(my cutoff for moving out of shell to a better language is the moment I need arrays.) But the killer feature of shell, the thing I wish was in more languages is pipes. The ability to flow one process into another process with a single character. I never did learn perl. but doing the equivalent to a pipe in python is a lot of awkward wrangling with subprocess and manually assigning streams. The way shell can pipe into and out of control flow is magical to me.
Reddit isn't the only forum on the Internet. This one for example. Think about it like this, there are thousands of sites run for free by people who are passionate about certain communities or hobbies. This is what Reddit has tried to compete with, and it seems to be an uphill battle.
Wow, fentanyl for a colonoscopy?

I've had three. They'd usually offer NO2 or diazepam, but only if you have someone to take you home. Which I didn't. So I've never had drugs for a colonoscopy.

It's an unpleasant, uncomfortable experience, makes me groan out loud, but I wouldn't describe it as painful.
Removing 3D Touch was arguably worse than this.
it will be the biggest meme week for us Italians, there are already incredible pearls on telegram
Or numba.
Article says the referral of [REDACTED] was made by Ben Goodger.
Everyone has a different definition of living like to the maximum. For one person, it’s having lots of money and your personal harem like Berlusconi. For another, it’s spending time with kids and grandkids. For another, it’s playing video games all day!
Nope.But there most certainly _should_ be such an expectation.
You just read what you want to read, friend. I don’t particularly dislike Python, in fact I wrote about 50k lines of it a few years ago.

My claim is that the big names don’t really use Python outside of data pipelines. Where I’ve worked (including an org that had had Guido on it for a while) usually had guidance saying “no new Python projects”. You can ask people at Google, Meta, etc when was the last time they wrote production Python code if you don’t believe me.

That’s not mutually exclusive with web devs on Stack Overflow using the language, nor does it take away from its success in academia.
Just FYI, for some reason, the embedded video in this post[0] does not work.

Here it is on YouTube[1].

[0] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/chlorine-trifluori...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4l56AfUTnQ&t=1s
I concur and thanks for the list. Mine would be the Gervais Principle.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Actually a lot of Ruby's features were like: Perl, but with REPL and objects and easy metaprogramming.

I believe Matz intended Ruby to please admins, not only programmers, from the very beginning. Following this, me and few buddies used it mainly for admin tasks for over a decade, doing things somewhat orthogonal to the then-emerging RoR crowd.

Although ofc the author is right about Perl's unbeatable ubiquity..
Carla (and maybe Cabbage?) uses it for control messages but there's the problem that it only works if you've got a big single host running a lot of subject plugins; the idea was supposed to be that your sequencer would send midi to your sampler and your tracker would send control messages to your sampler over OSC and all three of these would be peer programs. There's not a particular technical reason it doesn't work it's just that very few programmers built software to take advantage of it.
Unfortunately, Real Capitalism has never been tried before...

The point is to show the contradictions of market liberalism, how they never fulfill their ideals and by necessity lead to the conditions under which we live. Communism simply says: let's live in a society without money, without a state, without class. Where one fishes in the morning, hunts in the afternoon, and debates in the evening. Where we live, produce, and labor in a social fashion, where people's basic sexual and physical needs are always attended to as the highest priority of the collective. Where each and every person is given the opportunity to pursue the fullest extent of what they can be as a person, to flourish as a human being.

Somewhere in here the Soviet Union fits in: for having the highest degree of sexual freedom, for guaranteed housing and jobs, for fair working hours and a living wage, for gender parity in all aspects of life. All at the expense of a vast police and security complex employed to crush potential dissent, and to use those political prisoners as a free pool of labor in order to compete with western late-capitalist states (which they failed to do).

The Dengists succeeded by simulating market capitalism to generate the industrial conditions necessary to move towards a more fully socialized state--the Soviet Union, on the other hand, was never willing to subject their backwards populations to industrial capitalism, which led to even greater violence in some respects. People wonder how far it will actually take them, we'll see...but the CCP seems to be uninterested in an internationalist movement.

I think that the basic propositions of Communism are mostly appealing, its just that people are not sure how to get there. We've had successes, like the Paris Commune, that were ruthlessly crushed by the state--they don't tend to last very long. Is there a way to achieve revolution without strict military disciplinary measures? After all, the hierarchies of an army nearly reproduce the hierarchies of capitalism with marked precision. Short answer, nobody knows, the French almost had a successful revolution in 1968, that failed, they spent many decades theorizing why, alternatives to an armed movement. Foucault, the great French theorist against disciplinarian social organization, became a neoliberal. Many of those who descend from these french thinkers became Neoliberals, like Jonah Peretti (who founded Buzzfeed) or Nick Land. You could also call them accelerationists, who believe that by accelerating the contradictions of capital one can bring down capitalist society faster, as it will end up crushing itself.

Everybody knows the system doesn't work, we're all sick of it, but nobody knows what to do about it. Everything else besides plain and simple labor organizing seems like a lost cause. Anybody who says anything else is usually confused or in someone else's pocket. We had a nearly international, decentralized protest movement only a few years ago that could've toppled multiple governments if the people were angry enough. You don't think the people won't get angry again?
https://docs.modular.com/mojo/why-mojo.html#python-supersets...
Can you continue to elaborate? Does this mean that the octopus may undergo a shift in how its nervous system experiences the world? Does this temperature sensitive RNA editing occur in other organisms?
This kind of defeatist attitude is exactly why we can't have nice things. The overton window is a thing. Pushing back matters.
tl;dr: if you live in the middle of fucking nowhere you're probs ok, otherwise landlord monopoly!
Why use an alternative when you can use the real thing? Reddit was open-source until 2017: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

I think that qualifies at trivial.
Verlet Integration [video]
Lawsuits are not as scary as they should be.
> The less code you need to solve your problem, the better.

Couldn't agree more. I always reject PRs with dead code in them. The author will argue that they added it for some future use case, but in my opinion it is never acceptable to have dead / unreachable code. It's confusing for future readers of your code and you can always add it later if your imaginary use case ever becomes real.
I would say python's stdlib is mostly stable.

Usually when I port shell scripts to python, I create a folder for it and throw in some setup.py / requirements.txt. But lately, I've automated most of the deb package creation process (https://copier.readthedocs.io), and I typically create the whole deb package. Of course, for single use stuff, I don't bother with either.
The only remotely paranormal experience I ever had was when I was in the Pyrenees mountains in France. It was the middle of the night and I sat alone between large rusty metal structures, that had been airlifted down from an old abandoned mine higher up.

It felt historically significant to me and being young and stupid, I decided it might be an interesting experiment to "open my mind" to the material. Not that I had any idea what that entailed. I just sat there and let my mind drift, while consciously disabling anything that felt like a firewall on my thoughts.

Suddenly I got jolted into the far too real experience of a mine elevator cable snapping and men screaming as it went down. In fact, I felt like I was one of them, screaming along with them, fully experiencing the sensation of immediate life threatening panic. It was completely unexpected and quite terrifying. I jumped up and ran out of that field, only calming down when I was far away from that place.

I would not qualify it as an actual trip to the past. More as an example of what kind of things the human brain can create when given free range. But I won't completely dismiss the possibility of material holding on to some form of memory, mostly because of how vivid and unexpectedly intense this experience was.
Futility Closet, an excellent podcast about historical curiosities, had an episode on this. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/03/29/podcast-episode-33...
Greater use of QR is not a good thing, it's an attack vector actually
I live in Western Europe and convenience stores and fast food has become really expensive, except for bread. A 500mL coke and premade salad or other lunch menu can easily set you back €10. McDonalds is almost €15 and even a kebab is usually over €10 now.
Cython at least from my use of it, is very difficult to debug. It's a language inside a language and you easily get lost between all the pyx pyd files. it's not very developer friendly. Mojo/Julia promise a good developer experience
> When Trump came to rise, I felt many aspects were similar: both very rich entrepreneurs, arrogant personalities ....

And you forgot the knee-jerk reactions from the left, which reduced itself to a role of a spectator with the index finger raised and perpetually shouting "no, you can't do that"- applied to just anything he said or did [1]. I have seen the same with Trump. Some part of the population (including me) can't really stand the perpetually scandalised, self-appointed guardians of good manners, and will become disgusted by both sides equally.

1) for example, once he dared to say "it would be better to consult a second doctor before undergoing a risky or debilitating surgical procedure"- that apparently was a scandal, too.
Nah, Rust is way too hip these days. I think a more suitable topic would be eBPF or theorem provers.
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