skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to Japan with some friends for 3 weeks, and we just couldn't figure out how these stores are stocked, we didn't see any familymart, 7 eleven or lawson trucks. At some point we just kinda assumed everything was stored frozen in the back, but the article's line: "Lunch is a busy time at the konbini. Konbinis have large scale operations that deliver fresh bentos (lunch boxes) to stores" refutes that assumption.

I guess maybe the trucks they use just aren't branded? Maybe we just were never in the right place at the right time?
Yeah, i just checked it out of curiosity and while some of the subreddits i usually skim aren’t present, there was still a lot of interesting content.

If those subreddits were to die off definitively I’d probably still go on reddit.
his party seems the less dangerous because all the others have trained in the last 20 years to mimic it, while trying to seem different.

his party symbolise and perfectly represent the modern core of what is rotten in italian politic..and in the way - most - italian thinks
Offers made in the businesslike spirit of unrefusability.
They even made a fun flash game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb4M0wHmWm8
Ask HN: What are you using for Continuous Deployment (CD)?
We are currently working on supporting continuous deployments, but it seems that no suitable tools are available. We don't have particularly outlandish requirements, we want something that:

- Can be triggered via a webhook or from a GitHub PR/comment
- Can queue up multiple releases (of the same or different services) and deploy them in series
- Flexibility (works not only with Kubernetes)

So far we've looked at Tekton, Buildbot, and GoCD. It seems none of them support our use cases: GoCD and Tekton don't support queuing of releases and Buildbot requires so much customization that we might as well continue building our own solution.

What do other modern medium-sized software companies use to make continuous deployment a reality?
So, this is Juggling Lab GIF Server or this is Juggling Lab GIF Server?

Siteswap patters are fun to toy and fuzz http://jugglinglab.org/anim?pattern=%3C339P|333P%3E
Not all. Last I looked it was >50% of the top 200 (and like 3000 total)
This is an interesting application of the blue/white collar terminology. I would have expected it to be used the other way around, white collar requiring more education, and blue collar being more pragmatic.
I am a software engineer and earn more than 95% of income earners according to HMRC statistics. So how is this relevant? If nobody worked those other 95% of jobs life would collapse.
> That must be nice

> The only thing worse than no documentation is wrong documentation

Yeah, that was the exact problem. One was a startup and when I joined it was all mostly up-to-date so it was great! But by the time I left (after 2 major migrations) most of it was out of date and a nightmare to find anything updated, any script that could still be run, etc.
No no no. The problem was that talking about a lab leak in any way was considered deplorable. So much so that the only people who still dared to speak about the lab leak in public were outcasts, lunatics, and people who didn't have a reputation that could be destroyed.

In times of crisis a large fraction of the population will latch on to authoritarianism. This is universally true, and there are many historical and contemporary examples. The world is messy and complicated and people desperately want simple answers. People will cheer on the collapse of hard-won civil rights and the advent of military rule if they believe it's necessary for the greater good. Thankfully it didn't come to this during covid. But not because there was an invisible line in the sand that nobody dared to cross. People were not held in check by their principles, covid just didn't "necessitate" an even harsher response.

This is why many people are so upset about the censorship surrounding the lab leak theory. They got a rude awakening. One, that fundamental rights like free speech can curbed very effectively, and two, that it's the citizenry itself that demands their rights be taken away. It's scary to be suddenly robbed of naïve notions about rights and process and governance.
I can vouch for the fact that Australian law enforcement view the usage of privacy software as suspicious internet activity.
I'd be curious on the exact veracity. For example, limo tint to which he refers is usually restricted to the rear seats. My European brand SUV also has tinted windows in the rear but not the front.

So is his car truly pure factory, or any chance it was a dealer or aftermarket mod to tint the front to match the rear.. as this is something people commonly do (I did not).
Somewhat, IMO. For example, did you use spellchecking or autocorrect (where ‘use’ may mean you spent a tiny less time/attention on spelling, trusting your spellchecker to add wiggly lines to words you might misspell, even if you don’t make any typo?)
Supposed you had had cash to invest in early 2013, at what point would you have invested it in equities?
On that side, reinforcement learning bleeds over into control theory, so you're partly right.
It was kinda pro-trumpish to say that before Joe nailed the presidency.
That's cool, is it being generated in real time ? Could have just been statically loaded no?
NewBanking | Full-time | Denmark | Hybrid/Onsite | Relocation

In NewBanking, we're revolutionizing the way businesses conduct transactions. Our cutting-edge platform delivers verified money - KYC with payments - as a service to our enterprise customers, providing them with the security, transparency, and scalability they need to succeed in today's fast-paced world.

- Senior Software Engineer - Backend - Node.js - you can learn more about role here (https://jobs.lever.co/recrue/14eaf754-68f2-44c6-b700-0d86cc1...)

Feel free to reach out to our talent partner if you want to know more (hello@recrue.co)
I'm new, so newbie question

With all of these solutions. The technology is there, but isn't the key difference that OpenAI brings is the huge datasets and servers to run them?

Sure, you can download the code, but you don't have the resources to run it like OpenAI.
I know, I live in Europe. But where I live in Europe we were simply following the pattern from the US; once the lab leak theory was linked to Trump, people supporting it were seen as Trump supporters.
Trump isn't very popular in Europe as you might know, so this was enough to make most people be quiet.
Eh, front end development and site reliability engineering are two different teams for sure.

If the ui code is bugged, the sre team will still get that delivered it to your web browser.
gzip adds its own file header with lots of useless information like a field for a file name.

zip uses a different header for the compression stream, commonly known as the zlib format.

They also use different checksums at the end (CRC32 vs Adler32).
If you only knew how bad things really are. That's, probably, not possible.
It’s hard to say it’s optimal to build a whole hydrogen/ammonia production and distribution network to capture some excess energy.

Those things have serious costs, and that time and money could be better spent on a problem that is more important to solve. Again, that energy doesn’t cost anything to produce.

Don’t confuse optimal with maximal.

> decades of experience.

Yes, and the first rule of safe design is to not use toxic or harmful chemical if you can avoid it. And in this case we can.
I don't think Intel's problem for the last +10 years has been dreaming too much.

It's more to do with a deeply dysfunctional and arrogant organization from top to bottom due to many factors, one of them being having the market "cornered" for the previous ~10 years.
Book Summary: The Self-Taught Programmer
Media narratives in Pax Americana are so strongly driven by the US that most of us non-USA folks are drawn to it unwittingly. I recently had this discussion with a EU resident who was very passionate about certain US issues like Trump's indictment or some events in Florida/SF. It was weird to see them discuss it so passionately as if it's happening in a Berlin Kiez.

> ...soaking in the latest US drama is great for your mental health

Touché.

Might be controversial, but I believe that if you're not part of the USA and can't influence their political choices, it's better to ignore the chatter.
Trump followed the rich tycoon playbook of Berlusconi, I think. He also did work within the framework of existing politics.

Grillo wasn't particularly rich and bootstrapped a new party through his internet reach. Although it is possible that Casaleggio was the real mastermind behind it.
That is bit harsh. Twitter allows posts to promote Nazis. I don't think they are going to quibble over a list of open source AI frameworks.
No arm or x86_64 love?
whoa, you’ve really opened my eyes! i’ve now realized my lived personal experience is invalid

gonna take your advice and cut off the people i’ve met because hospitalJail is skeptical!

Appreciate you providing insight into my life
The Ukraine war ones are also some against. I have mixed feelings about that.
That was basically always the goal. If it wasn't, the BS devs would have just made a Mastodon/Misskey/etc competitor on AP directly.
Yeah, once you think of "politics" as an entertainment product, like US-style professional wrestling, a lot becomes clearer. The US style just has heightened emotions: everything is the potential end of the world. The problem is that some of it really does have impacts on real humans, and potentially in non-US countries. US support for European security is pretty important, for example. As are US central bank rates. And if the Republicans ever win their debt ceiling stalemate and get a default, that would immediately blow up the global banking system far worse than 2008.

There is also US "dark money" in UK politics (e.g. Turning Point and the various Tufton Street orgs). And some UK politicians have "made it" in the US market, such as Facebook VP Nick Clegg.
Show HN: Prim+RPC – a bridge between JavaScript environments (open-source)
There are a lot of times when I want to define a function on the server and simply call it from the client without all of the additional setup. I made Prim+RPC to do just that.

It bridges two JavaScript environments where you can't immediately call a function (like those defined on a web server or in a web worker) and makes it available to call from the client, regardless of transport, without compiler magic or additional wrappers, and using your favorite existing tools (as well as being fully typed).
my guess is that 1994 was very different and maybe ecommerce sounded way more exciting
no they are not, unless by mafia you are generalizing the term "organized chrime"
Ha! Great link.

I legitimately think it's possible that a properly managed "for the profit of the investors" social media company will always follow this path.

It's why I think the right future for social media is non-profit. None of this is amazing technology anymore. This would also have the benefit that it would take the question of "how do we avoid doing harm while still making profit off the table." Could write a statement of values and intent that legitimately puts well being of users and society ahead of everything else. (Which no for-profit with externally raised capital is able to do today.)
Tell HN: Stripe treats SEPA bounces as disputes
German Stripe customer here. I really like Stripe, we came from WireCard. Correct me if wrong:

8 months ago Stripe forgot to send the recurring flag with SEPA (Single European Payments) payments [0]. This caused all SEPA payments not only to bounce, but to be marked as disputed. That caused extra trouble for us.

I recently found that Stripe still does not seem to differentiate between disputed and bounced with SEPA payments. This is bad, because disputes cause extra costs and trouble. SEPA, as far as I know supports both business cases.

Stripe support:

> I was able to check and our team member (M…), was able to share your feedback to our support engineers to possibly implement a way to differentiate the SEPA payment that has been bounced and actually disputed.
> K…

Hope this post helps to speed up things a bit :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33123756
It is however GNU's alternative to the zip format.
French style systems are more focused around the "moral right" of the author. Some of the "moral right" rights are inalienable and cannot be sold (e.g. right to be identified as the author).

In fairness, most of this stuff is globally harmonised, such as by the Berne convention.
UK poster. (For a moment I find myself wishing HN had flags :-)

They say that “fish can’t see water” (or words to that effect). I’m glad someone writes an article like this from time to time, just to point out the water. I’m old enough to remember the early 90s Internet in the UK (my company was the one connecting businesses up). I also remember discussions we had about regulation, the law, state (implicitly, the US) influence on those 2 things, and what the future we were building might look like.

Some of us in the UK were what you might call Internet Libertarians, EFF-like (in a time just before the EFF), the other half was warmer to regulation and government hands on “our Internet”. Their argument was that if we didn’t have UK legislators onboard, we’d end up just dancing entirely to US legislators and regulators. That the alternative wasn’t UK state interference or no interference (You weary giants of flesh and steel), it was the Internet according to some retired Admirals at IANA/NIC.

I still think about this from time to time.
> does mean that we don't react well to authoritative control

I find that ironic, because US-ians are the first to throw themselves on the pulpit to their chosen deities. Be it politicians (or political parties), especially wealthy people or their favourite corporations.

I suppose the difference is that nobody really forces you worship any of these people in particular, you might, from a far, notice that they all center across worship of the economic system.

Which is "extract value and externalise cost at all times" with a minor emphasis on equating dollar-worth to intrinsic value to society.

EDIT: Downvoting me doesn't really prove anything; You might not feel devout to your overlords but you certainly appear that way from the outside. (from a UK/Swedish perspective~)
Maybe that is the other approach. No manager, no product person and no project manager, just a team that is fully responsible for outcomes.
Even if most major websites & apps started in the US this is a problem, because they're thinking is deeply limited, they think small, they think United States, when their reach and audience is fundamentally every country on Earth, instead of one or a small handful.

The number of times, on UK websites or US websites, something is advertised as "Coming in Spring 2024", it baffles me. What months happen to be defined as "Spring" is dependant on which hemisphere of the planet you happen to be on.

It's parochial and wierd.
As I have expected r/ExperiencedDevs did not go dark. Devs just can't figure out things together.
Not sure especially since the Japanese company 7 and i holdings now owns even the American 7-11 brand.

But having lived in Japan, I also missed some of the North American 7-11 food: pizza[1], hot dogs[2], and slurpees are not available at 7-11 in Japan.

[1] They have pizza bread which is fluffy bread with a sprinkling of onions, corn, tomato sauce and mayo which is not great
[2] They have hot dogs but it's fluffy bread with a toothpick-diameter sausage inside. It's a shame because they also sell decent deep-fried on a stick but without the bun
Could you please update the message to "This subreddit is temporarily private as part of a joint protest to Reddit's recent API changes, which breaks third-party apps and moderation tools, effectively forcing users to use the official Reddit app." to raise awareness for the reason you took it private? That would be really helpful!
I spend most of my time on historicbridges.org it's very old internet!

Projectilepoints.net too!
Show HN: My AI Autoblogging Service
I think it looks much nicer than a regular QR-code and there are definitely times when you want a QR-code to blend in rather than stand out.
In this post and the one it is replying to, we see an example of how dichotomization gets in the way of discussing complex issues, and anecdotal dichotomization doubly so.
> where else do you go if you are a TSMC engineer?

What is a "TSMC engineer" ?
Electronics engineers can find work in other companies.
Calpers plans multibillion-dollar push into venture capital
Ah, that could be it. I did not know the history, nothing in the article makes that point, not that it would need to I guess for people who already understand the history of the language.
One of the surprising difficulties of creating a good culture around documentation I found is getting people to actually read and use it. I guess the root cause of this is bad documentation itself, so developers come to not expect to find anything useful in there and just ignore it by default.

I've often seen developers who spend hours fiddling on some detail that was clearly mentioned in the readme of the very same repository containing the code on which they are stuck, or who just failed to read the extensive documentation and proceed to 1) run the code and 2) call me for help. Furthermore, I've actually caught myself doing the same more than once.

This led me to think that for a good documentation culture, the primary question should be: how are developers actually going to use and benefit from the docs? How documentation will get updated is the second question of importance, and writing documentation comes third.
Swift was always subject to a tug of war between the design purists - Chris and his ilk- and the product purists, i.e.Apple employees using Swift and with influence on Swift's design)

The latter has silently won the war and any use of Swift as a systems programming lang/env is left as a "isn't it nice than you can" rather than a P1 design goal for the language (or even P2 for that matter)

After 10 years and exposure to dozens of languages, I find Swift to be utterly delightful to write anything with, and wish that it did have the drive behind it to become a more generalized and cross platform. language, but I'm under no illusions that it will while pre-WWDC and pre-product-unveiling narratives are driving the direction of the language from the back seat of the car.
>Lots of people in this thread are discounting the importance of Pax Americana

I don't think so; what people (not necessarily in this thread) are discounting is the importance of Pax Americana coming to a close.

Like all other empires and world superpowers that came before us, the Age of America will almost certainly end, likely some time this century, whether any of us like it or not. The writing is on the wall for anyone who cares about it, and no it doesn't take a degree in geopolitics or economics to see it.

Who's going to be up next to bat? Personally I don't know, though odds seem good it's probably China. Whoever it's going to be though, we will be living our own flavor of an interesting time.
It's not only EU/ANZ that's receiving them. I have seen Indians also aware of US cultural jargons like Wokeism, TRAs and what not. This is indeed a weird phase.
I guess 64bit needs some more work still:

> * APIC, SMP, and 64bit support was improved a lot: they now do boot a
complete Debian system, but some bugs remain to be fixed.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2023-06/msg00038...
How AI art killed an indie book cover contest
Because a reasonable person will have a plan. Maybe not the best plan, maybe not a master plan, but a plan. To your specific point:

'person knows what they are doing' does not equal have a 'well-thought-out master plan'
One problem with this approach is that the systems underpinning many of the still-accessible sites are likely still located in the US. CDNs like Cloudflare or Fastly may make them look like they're coming from a local point of presence, but the data is still somewhere else entirely.

Some sites are good about having a split between "www." (static assets, which can go behind a CDN) and "api." (requests which are live and mostly uncacheable), some aren't - so the data is just being proxied.
Yeah, it's very annoying have any sort of discussion about a philosophical topic and someone comes with something like "BUT THE FOUNDING FATHERS"
Was this post sponsored by the hard drive industry?
Yeah this kind of outlook cannot be healthy.
That first video is fabulous. It reminds me of a standard trope in generative art : You generate a whole bunch of prospective images and then pick the nicest ones.

Except in this case we get to see all the prospects (The variations in chestplate, wings etc). And in such a cool style.
I mean.. it does depend on what you mean by "faster than C" of course. Writing the straight forward naive solution in Mojo for some problems can produce code that can run on both CPUs and GPUs and be super fast. Can you get the same performance from C? Probably.. with lots on intrinsics and one code base for GPUs and one for CPUs, where the GPU codebase might even be multiple code bases for different vendors.

I would say "faster than C if you want to keep your sanity and don't have infinite time". It doesn't roll off the tongue though :P
Same here, my Xiaomi did not recognize any of them at any distance.
I think it's more subtle than that: there's an already highly inefficient system in place and then delaying or swaying procedures becomes easier and less traceable. This is where cronyism flourishes; but it's far from a hierarchical direct favour relationship and more akin to a network or web.
It's a horrible thought, but one that I share. Italy is in a better place to have such a destructive and negative influence removed.

He revealed the flaw of the democratic process in that it relies on people who are inherently honest and not there merely to further their goals of power and influence.

A negative force with significant power and influence can effectively become untouchable by law, since they can corrupt the processes which are used to control such behaviour, and use their media influence to whitewash their image.

We saw time and time again a familiar pattern: Berlusconi convicted of a serious crime, only to be acquitted on appeal, then years-later further charges of witness tampering being brought raising questions of a corrupted appeals process.
Quite true. And legal permission to live on St. Kilda or Rockall might be a tad difficult to obtain. South Georgia, OTOH... The UK has political reasons to want a permanent civilian population, and the handful of British Antarctic Survey members on South Georgia might wish to see some fresh faces.
> Never got it for this reason even after spending 1k euro on it.

Really? In order to pass the test you have to pass the theory test which is just about knowing the rules of the road. Yes many experienced drivers wouldn't always pass it first time, especially when it has been a long time they got their license and laws have changed but you get it quite easily by just ready the "rulebook" and do trial tests at your driving schools until you pass tests. It is no different than passing any easy test as a student.

As for the practice, you get something like mandatory 20 to 30hours with an instructor. And most of it is just about applying the rules you already know by having passed the test above. It takes less than a handful of hours to master clutch and gearbox, same for parallel parking, rest is applying the priority rules and showing the instructor...and then the examiner that you apply them and give a quick look in all directions and your blind zone whenever you change lane or direction. It is more about feeling comfortable and confident on the car than learning really.
If anyone likes to check the clarity of his view, I suggest "The abolition of man" -- chapter 3 in particular. I find it so prescient of modern times in so many ways. Astonishing.