skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a script I use on an e-commerce site where hundreds of products are added in largely random order throughout the day. The product SKUs just happen to be in data-* HTML attributes, so I chuck them into an array that gets stored in localStorage. On each subsequent refresh, any product with a SKU that wasn’t seen previously gets a CSS background applied to its container, and is moved to the top of the listing. The new items’ SKUs are merged back into the locslStorage array, ready for the next refresh.

There are also category listings on the side of this page that include a count of the items in each category, so I store those values in localStorage as well, and compute the delta on each refresh. The category is then highlighted with a pale green or pale red background if the count increased or decreased, respectively. Finally, I append the delta amount to the element’s text. “Widgets and Frambulators (17)” turns into “Widgets and Frambulators (17) (+5)” if five new items are in that category since the last page load.

Thankfully, this site uses CSS Grids for this particular product listing, so moving a container to the top is as simple as setting its order property to 1.
You would think, but people will call you a paranoiac for saying it. Right now, somebody at google is trying to figure out how to sneakily use ChatGPT with confidential data and not get caught.
https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/archives/index.html

The first issue was on 2013-06-07, just over ten years ago.
I have also had this experience. It wasn't even about a crime, it was a "wellness check" because I had fallen asleep after work and my long distance partner at the time couldn't get ahold of me.
Well, if you run a tailor shop in downtown Los Angeles and you decide to burn your rival's tailor shop down, the only victim there is the other company. So I suppose you couldn't be charged with arson in this framework.
Meta's already launched channels for Whatsapp and planning on doing a similar rollout for Insta. Definitely going to shake things up

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/15/instagram-is-rolling-out-i...
I don't like learning new things.

Unironically.

I like learning good/useful/effective things.

Not "new" things.

Most "new" things are less capable variations of existing things that are better and more mature.
GPT? Normal humans don't seem to be this verbose (except when writing essays or monetized articles, I guess)
Actually, the Fed sets the Federal Funds Rate, which is the rate at which commercial banks borrow and lend their extra reserves to one another overnight. Increasing the Federal Funds Rate increases borrowing costs across the board, which subsequently will tend to decrease the money supply.

I believe that U.S. bonds are priced at the market.
Couple years ago I took my friend's XR600 out for a trip. It had been sitting for a year or year and a half. Two kicks and it started. Didn't leak at all.
The library is one of the last places where you can exist without the expectation of buying something. I’m not some anti-capitalist at all, but I do recognize the role in which public facilities like the library play. Ideally, they provide a space essential for free and open access, within in a local community, free at the point of delivery.
In spez's AMA, he said "old reddit is not going anywhere"

Years ago, when announcing the new website, he said "the API is not going anywhere"

old reddit is 100% on the chopping block
> The societies that drank liquor clearly dominated for this to be the case.

Wasn't LSD banned in the US because it got super popular and became a great "poster child" for the war on drugs? Not because it was not popular enough.

AFAIK caffeine, nicotine and alcohol are legal at this point mainly because they've been normalized. As in, people generally perceive them to have minimal risk, so there's not a lot of opposition.

Yes the risk is not actually minimal for any of those three. Even caffeine can be dependence-forming. But most people either don't know this or don't care.
> have inadvertently blocked federation

I assume the Enterprise is on its way to resolve the issue diplomatically
if the navy is so good at building reactors, can't we just have them build some on land for us? start with military use first and expand outward from there? could be a much better use for enlisted forces, train more people to be engineers, etc.
It wasn't that they knew about individual instances of piracy (otherwise, Dropbox, Google and Microsoft's execs would be sitting in the same jail cell, since they all run similar file sharing services, and all those services have been used for piracy at scale).

The legal problem was that the prosecutors had proof that Megaupload employees were encouraging piracy. If Megaupload were in the US, they'd probably also be in trouble for violating the DMCA takedown process rules, but that law doesn't apply in NZ.
I quit /r/pics long time ago because 90% of the images were political. Instead there is /r/nocontextpics/ (which is also currently in restricted mode) which is what /r/pics used to be a long time ago.
I mean, I’d consider 70% to be the vast majority, and I also suspect there’s more than 4.8 million cocaine users in the US in the last year.

Excluding commonly used drugs like alcohol, weed or tobacco doesn’t seem very useful, but I can see why. Tobacco being included would massively spike the addict numbers, alcohol and weed would drop them.
The societies of North America have totally abandoned the middle class and its ambitions. Instead of staying true to their goals of education, libraries have become daytime homeless shelters driving away their original patrons. So have busses, and trains. Schools have opted out of their obligations to provide the best educations to the public instead tailoring the education to the least capable. Ultimately this will lead to the further hollowing of our civil society as the middle class realizes the bureaucratic core does not have their best interests at heart. But Brutus is an honorable man.
I think it depends on a situation where no problems occur. Often, once a problem arises, we (at least me) begin to reflect on why we didn't follow best practices initially.
That is a bit ironic now isn't it. Now that Morocco has high speed rail, but California doesn't.
yes agree, but let's not be too broad. The way forward includes careful attention to detail, least we miss chances to act or mitigate. A trivial example is that "polar bears are toast" .. no actually, some recent good news about a remote polar bear population came through.. but how could a non-specialist know that? we have to value reliable networks of information. less drama, more reliable, right?

mass-media is not going to be useful for this, and actually counterproductive for emotional health..
Thank you for your suggestion! I am currently using it now & it's fantastic!
Said no one who has ever been a teamlead in desperate need of support.

They are not there for you. They are there for me so I can be there to support you
i love how there's a problem for every solution on this wonderful site.
DNS should have a mechanism for designating failover IPs, so you could e.g. host a static HTML saying "it's down" on some CDN as far as possible topologically from the rest of your network, so it displays when your status page is down too.

However, status pages are first and foremost marketing tools, so I wouldn't expect anyone setting such mechanism up.
Yep!

Tech companies over hired for ~10 years wrt efficiency & sustainability, and few want to do layoffs necessary to get 'good' efficiency numbers, instead just close enough that they can maybe reach non-buzzy norms in a few years, and hope things change in the meanwhile to go back to setting money on fire.

It's natural: market funded inefficient growth for years, and tech people want to feel like they are succeeding, which headcount is a power-tripping and physical metric for, even if wildly inaccurate. Cutting isn't easy either. Losing headcount makes folks want to quit, slows growth, and if as deep as needed for efficiency (which the 'standard' 10-20% cut isn't enough for), loses revenue... Which can cause a death spiral.

We have been growing purely on revenue for awhile now, and we have to remind many of our customers that we need to get paid bc we aren't (currently) doing the VC thing. Many have been trained at this point to not think that way, it's bizarre.
No, we won't: OpenSIL is trying to solve a different problem in that it's still providing for systems that are ultimately booting yet other systems (and therefore have need for interfaces like UEFI, ACPI, etc.) By contrast, we are building a holistic system in which hardware and software are co-designed[0][1] -- we are not seeking to boot arbitrary systems and therefore don't need the abstractions that have been invented for that boundary. We remain strongly supportive of OpenSIL because we believe that this is the kind of innovation that open source platform enablement allows: when the lowest layers of the system are open, we allow for different approaches -- we need not all be confined by PC-era abstractions.

[0] https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...

[1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/holistic-bo...
True. But then why do we almost never hold persons criminally accountable when they do harm through a company they control. Shouldn’t this be reciprocal?
Megaupload coders get light sentences, will testify against Kim Dotcom
I can see an argument for this being semantically correct, but in practice I think it's preferable to have the repo checkout in the closest configuration to correct for new developers who will start contributing.

And, for what it's worth, all developers need to ignore .DS_Store files regardless if Finder creates it or it gets placed in when you unzip something created on a Mac, for instance.

In the best case, you spend extra time needlessly denying PRs and bothering people who already likely don't know git well enough to cleanly fix their commit. In the case of a repo large enough that you're not the only person approving PRs, I'd say it's almost inevitable that they eventually slip through.

Just my 2¢ from experience working in the industry.
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The motion is very slow though. How do I even find alternative subreddits? Most subreddits do not allow cross-advertising anyway and reddit's search tool is total garbage.

I don't think reddit needs to be replaced, but they need to change some things. All subreddits are replaceable, and so are mods so i don't see the point of this protest
If they shut out third party apps from official APIs, that isn't game over. Those apps can still scrape HTML and while the new reddit frontend is modern and can easily combat this, old.reddit is an unmaintained static target.

They presumably know this or if they don't, they soon will. To avoid allowing app devs to run around the API changes they have to either continue maintaining the front end or cut the dead weight. Given their decision making lately, I'm going for the latter.
Declining Quality of Google Is an Opportunity for Reddit and Other Competitors
This is one of those UI conventions that would be good, but is actually unusable and ruined because there's too much other bad UIs that don't even think about time zones.
The iPhone is dead – long live the iPhone
Right, so it seems impossible, currently, to completely understand even the simplest 8 bit CPU's boot-up process.

The difference between the SN7400 and gates on a breadboard seems to be a black-box. At least there is not any published material in the whole world that actually explains this gap, that I could find.

Have you managed to find any yet?

As an aside, this surprised me, there's not a record of anyone, prior to this conversation, even raising the question, across all the major search engines, academic libraries, published books, etc...
I literally can't even sign up for Lemmy.world. The button after entering a new username/pw just spins indefinitely, forever.
Exactly this. Lemmy looks like too much work if I'm being honest and none of the communities look that enticing. The reason reddit is popular is because it's easily accessible to the majority of people. I can't see a path to mass adoption here without a centralized source. I don't want to hunt for data, I want data presented to me.
Much like how I'm not sure when we decided decades of widely ccepted and intuitive access to those same functions is a "mediocre middle ground".

If overloading scrollbars with bloat was a good idea, someone would have done it already.
We used to be able to trust people to behave themselves. I wonder what changed people's behavior.
Or... you could just switch lights on in your room and brightness of your monitor compared to the rest of your environment won't be that dramatical.
I think if this were really a threat to Reddit’s bottom line they wouldn’t allow subreddits to exist entirely for the purpose of coordinating the protest.
That seems doubtful. The knives are already out, with moderators lower down the list requesting to become the new top mod, so they can reopen popular subreddits. Eg. https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/149z2nd/requ...
This feels largely like a post-hoc justification for what is clearly more of a hobby.

That is, the miles you have put into a car "at speed" is almost certainly far greater than what you put your motorcycle through. For reasons of the car giving much more utility of use. And the fact that you still have a motorcycle is clearly a choice. One that you have to put effort into keeping up. That you would also choose to see something special about that choice is not at all surprising.
That presentation was pretty cool, thanks for posting.
It became super popular in a subculture that wasn't popular enough.
I think winning a warrantless search case involves either being politically connected (to get the charges dropped), or having a pricy lawyer.

I'd definitely vote guilty on "emotional distress", "warrantless search" and "criminal negligence" if I was on the jury though.
eyeblech was on the front page r/popular a few weeks ago, although I suspect getting there then highlighted it enough to get it put on the front page blocklist

There are several other watchpeopledie-like subreddits that are popular enough to be mentioned in public occasionally.
I remember being surprised at it going very well at the time. I don't know if that was accurate, but I can imagine not having the public markets constantly pressuring to be a big benefit.
Well, I guess the difference it that it didn't write it for you, it wrote it for me. And it was exactly what I needed to hear. And exactly not what humans that I talked about the situation to were providing, who tended to be all about "here's how I fixed the (supposedly) similar situation with my own dog". (which is unhelpful, given that I've had other dogs and this one is very, very different) For whatever reason, I guess they didn't think it was important to say that it is a heartbreaking situation, they didn't say "It's a tough situation, but your compassion and consideration for your dog's well-being is commendable." They didn't say "As much as we'd like to, we can't change the innate behaviors and instincts of certain breeds." They just skipped that part, like it didn't need to be said.

But that's what I needed to hear. I didn't need whatever "human spark" that you imagine (but that I personally doubt you can actually demonstrate).

So on that note, why don't you show me what you'd write, if you were trying to be helpful to someone in that situation? I'm genuinely interested in seeing if you can write something that isn't formulaic, that has that human spark you speak of, and that is otherwise better than the response that a machine gave me.

I get it if that's too much time and effort to do, but really, it shouldn't take a lot of time at all. At least, not if you are suggesting that a doctor in an ER should take a break from saving lives to do such a thing. So please, just write a paragraph or two that shows what you'd say if a friend came to you looking for empathy in such a situation.

"it's a sadly bland example of what some people consider meaningful."

Again, let's hear what you think is better, the ball is in your court. As it stands, based solely on my interaction with you as well as my above interaction with ChatGPT, it looks like machines do empathy better than humans. But I am open minded to the idea that you can actually do better than the machine. Let's hear it.
Here's my perspective. I've been a technical writer (TW) for ~10 years. 3 at an IoT startup, 7 at Google.

> The strengths of this process are also its weaknesses. A developer is, by definition, someone who spends the majority of their time doing development, which is to say writing code. Updating the documentation becomes a task that must be completed so that the code one has written can get committed so that one can move on to the next project and write some more code.

I may be misinterpreting, but I get the sense that the author feels that there is some kind of more optimal way to split up docs duties. IMO there is not. At least, not for reference docs. As the author said, the people implementing the code are in the best position to keep the reference information up-to-date.

If I grokked the rest of the article correctly, the author is essentially saying that the engineers have trouble writing and maintaining the other main types of docs [1] --- guides, tutorials, and overviews (explanations). It also sounds like they are having a "too many cooks in the kitchen" problem with pushing through changes to the other docs. I have a simple answer to that: hire some strong technical writers and make it clear to everyone that the TWs are Responsible and Accountable [2] for those docs. Also, make it explicit that the engineers are a Consulted role when it comes to guides / tutorials / overviews. Writing these types of docs is hard, specialized work. As the author said, the engineers have lots of other priorities. Of course, it's a bit self-serving for a TW to say "the solution is to hire TWs" but I get the sense that people don't realize that the easiest way to get good guides / tutorials / overviews is to hire people who have thought long and hard about those specialized tasks. If you want a good database, you don't expect your TWs to do the job. You get a database engineer. If you want good tutorials / guides / overviews, you likewise shouldn't expect your database engineer to do the job. You get TWs.

[1] https://diataxis.fr

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_ma...
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This is a really clear explanation that libraries have drifted from their original purpose and public funds could be better used elsewhere.
I’d think that any harmful interaction with the physical world always affects also persons. In this case it at the least gravely endangers people
> Well seen that the tech exists, they're not just leaving money on the table by not using it (to update card that just expired) but they're also burning money on pointless support, support which wouldn't need to happen in the first place had they updated the month/year of expiration.

To lend a bit of insight as someone who works in the payments industry: This functionality is generally not free.

If most of your customers come and update their expired cards already - or you offer a service which is so essential to your customers that they generally would freely expend the effort to do so if notified, it doesn't make any sense from a financial standpoint to pay the fees to subscribe to card issuer updates.
Zed has copilot support. I’ve been using it, and it works pretty well.
Ah, so they've already had an IPO /s
Those services have some sort of legal bounds that they're not going to use user data for "improving services" while ChatGPT and Bard explicitly state that they're going to use user data for model training. So you need to use a paid subscription plan but why are they going to pay for their competitor's service (Google doesn't have a paid chatbot service yet), which is going to be a PR disaster? Prohibition is a much simpler solution.
Pretty sure the short version is there's a lot more to hosting Reddit than just standing up a server.

It's a slow process that involves building up communities and trust to hit a critical mass.

Pure speculation, but I think Reddit will continue to decline, it'll just be a while longer before everyone migrates from it.
I mean I like Apollo but I’m not going to waste my time getting involved in aimless slacktivism if the overlords of Reddit have decided they no longer want to do something that makes no business sense. I’ll just move on to their official app, I guess.
is it possible to describe important science (or business) elements without using direct religious terms for other purposes? "angels" "bible" "satan" etc?

--posting for a friend
I agree with this take.

The GIL is hiding all kinds of concurrency bugs. If the CPython team default disable it then all hell is going to break loose.

It's better to carve out special concurrency constructs for those that need it.
Careful, there. Modern motorcycles are probably beyond many home mechanics, as well. Similarly, if it is for the hobby, older cars are fine.

And if you don't trust the shop you are taking your vehicle to for rigorous standards, you should probably look into a different shop. :(
Addiction to coffee? Are there a lot of people for whom coffee is harmful yet they keep on drinking it? The only people I know who say coffee is bad for them don't drink it.

Obese people, on the other hand, continue to eat despite knowing it makes them fat and unhealthy. It's an addiction just like cigarettes and should be treated the same.
Is it? The 12-month inflation rate for May 2023 was 4% and the federal funds rate is 5%.
Pharmaceutical ads are much more dystopian I think.

Politically influencing people through advertisements regarding who to vote for is plenty democratic and civilized. Those ads are actually very well curtailed by slander and libel laws. Any/everything said about another candidate is almost definitely true, albeit sensationalized.
> Web devs, you clowns need get your shit together. No, the law doesn't require you to do this.

Your comment is a good reminder that a median HN opinion has no idea what they are talking about.

This reads almost word for word what one of our execs might have expressed at us 6 years ago when we started doing GDPR compliance.
Okay, that tracks. My big question was “is this independent or chains” and it’s sort of answered by them saying one location of a regional chain was doing it. I’d bet that regional chain they mention it’s just that location and the employees are running the scheme.

And it sounds like they’re selling to people seeking recreational drugs, specifically opiates. So test your pills like you would if you were buying them off the street.

Places like Cancun and Puerto Vallarta and Playa Del Carmen are pretty awful. I’d recommend avoiding them anyways.
HN is fine on desktop but I don't really enjoy it on mobile much. Tiny tap targets, font sizes and spacing seem a bit "off", etc, and so I use a third party client.

Have similar feelings about old reddit on mobile.

What it comes down to is that yeah they're better than new reddit, but that's not much of a bar to clear and if I'm going to be spending extended periods of time using a site/service the experience needs to be good not just passable.
I have found though that my kitchen knife is not very good when I have to parry, or when I have to bash my way through a shield.
Consider methods of directing the conversation flow. Like {{guidance}} or nemoguardrails.