skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure I don't actually understand the details but the way it's been presented before is that, for whatever reasons, criminals and those with severe mental issues are now not kept in jail or institutions but rather left to roam the streets. The mental illness policy has been around for a long time but the idea not to jail criminals is a bit newer.

I think that not jailing criminals is related to bail bond system reform or something. Not an expert but I am guessing that they need a more realistic policy that does not automatically free habitual offenders. They probably need more jails and a much more efficient legal system. And a new mental health policy and massive increase in funding for institutions. As well as a much more effective benefits system to prevent homelessness. And probably much less tolerance for drug sales etc. Also the general economic decline needs to be righted.

I guess considering the severity of all of those problems and the concentration in that area, it's remarkable that businesses can operate at all.
Honestly, for a lot of my personal files and documents I really don't care about the folder structure. Don't get me wrong, I do, but only because on most systems its the only reliable way to actually organize the files. But a directory structure isn't always the optimal way to organize things for a lot of my access patterns.

Like pictures. Maybe I'm wanting to browse by date. Maybe I'm wanting to browse by events and albums. Maybe I'm wanting to browse by photos with these two people in them. Maybe I want to browse by pictures with boats in them. So should I arrange my photos in directories by date, or by album, or by some kind of classification and then date (family/2023/bobs_birthday)? It sucks! Its a terrible process. And by count of files, photos and videos are the vast majority of the files I care to access!

And then its a similar thing with stuff like music, or movies, or all kinds of things. Folder structures are very rigid, things like links are all kinds of fragile and annoying to work with often.

For the most part, the vast majority of my files I'd prefer to have them all in some kind of database with tags and be able to query them based on the context of what I'm doing. Open a photo editor app? Ok, show me photos, probably recent ones first until I put some other search in it. Not just a file browser sitting in a home directory in a folder full of other folders with all kinds of other files that aren't even pictures.

IMO, for personal files, folders are bad. I don't mind a lot of these interfaces that try and hide the underlying file structure, so long as when I need to I can muck about in there as well, if it still exists.
In this particular case the CO2 mineralization is taking place in a wastewater slurry that comes from washing out cement trucks. The carbonated slurry is then re-used as an additive by cement manufacturers.
Yes, the assumption is that writing a "double-headed Python" runtime is far less work than converting the entire ecosystem to a new Python runtime.

I think this is the correct view, because at this moment people are writing various approaches in an attempt at getting rid of the GIL. It's the ecosystem of modules that's the real problem, where you want to basically put in as little effort as possible per module, at least initially.
It will also need update of CA lists, and if any vulnerability will be found in TLS1.3 it will need to update SSL libs to even access anythign
Apollo has repeatedly said they will pay, but the amount being asked way too high. Also, no where near enough time has been given to make a change to a pay model.
Your original comment didn't say that the notes contained insults and planned lies (beyond the dishonest appearance of spontaneity). Is this sample an exaggeration? It certainly looks a lot worse this way.
Wait, so you made your own database? That's the thing I'm not smart enough for. I'd rather just use an existing database.
Yea devs just don't understand that Ruby is strongly typed. In fact, it's the most strongly typed language out there besides Scala. It's just not statically typed.
C64 Demo – Wonderland XIV by Censor Design (2023)
The noise is gone, enjoy your read! :)
They’re not terribly sophisticated markings, or obviously social. Even if brain size correlates exactly with capability, doing these at ~40% brain size seems quite plausible.
> Zero-dependency, build-free framework for the artisanal web.

It's extremely difficult to take anyone seriously when they claim their framework is for the "artisanal web."
Thank you very much for this post. I've got some new reading to do!

Interestingly, to me, is that Ethiopian history and religion has long been revered by Rastafarians. To the extent that Damian Marley added Amharic subtitles to some of his music videos [0].

If you are a scholar you may be interested in the documentary Bible Hunters [1] which I thoroughly enjoyed when it was first released.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=ebfeumBDymc

[1] https://imdb.com/title/tt3552332/
I don't know about the rest of you, but I hope to set it up so my grandchildren and great-grandchildren don't have to carry debt around like millstones and boat anchors chained to their necks.

And while by no means is it certain, hoping I succeed a little earlier and settle that for my children too.

Once those issues are secured, maybe there will be a little extra to buy a few toys.
Why, why, why?
Is this yet again the Google curse? This was a great, high quality and reliable service.
It's not really a question of need. I appreciate interacting with a diverse crowd, and I think most others do, too.
That's not an insurmountable problem.

As long as all the data structures stay the same, all you really need to do is flush out all the non-GIL bytecode and load in (or generate) GIL bytecode.

Sure, there might be a stutter when this happens. You will also want a way to either start in GIL mode, or force it to stay in non-GIL mode, throwing errors. But it's a very solvable problem.
I'm not a developer (more like a translator) and love sequence diagrams. They are so useful to explore system and data flow designs.

Also my favorite tool for them: https://sequencediagram.org/
One aspect of maintenance is understanding the mindset of the original designer.
This is pleasant for very well designed machinery. Here's a long description of a Teletype restoration I did a decade ago.[1] Mostly this is about the mechanical processes, but sometimes I wrote about the thinking behind the design.

Teletypes were originally rented, with maintenance included. So they were intended to be reliable and repairable, and capable of a long life with periodic maintenance.
All parts outside the motor are individually replaceable.
Parts were treated against corrosion by Parkerizing, a chemical treatment involving hot caustic baths that leaves a rust-resistant coating. Few parts are unreasonably tiny, so you don't need tweezers and magnifiers. This did result in a bulkier machine than really necessary. Most moving parts are powered in one direction and spring return in the other direction. If something sticks, that doesn't cause further damage. Almost every screw has a lock washer. One of the few exceptions was due to a drafting error, as I mention in my writeup.

Mechanism design balances size, cost, ease of repair, wear, and lubrication requirements.
The number of people really good at that is not large. All the good Teletype machines were
designed by two men, Howard Krum and, later, Ed Klienschmidt. There were some other, inferior designs best forgotten. (The Teletype Model 26 was what happened when management wanted a
cheaper machine than the classic Model 15. Many Model 15 machines are still running; few
Model 26 machines are. And the Model 26 turned out to be no cheaper to make.)

Once you can appreciate this, you'll see good and bad mechanical designs more clearly.
It's clearer in the mechanical realm than the software realm, because failure is more obvious.

[1] http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=43672
> Participating communities went “private” making them unviewable even to members.

Err no that's not how it works.
Video here: https://youtu.be/qBVCv1NN0Ek
I don't think that makes it less important to make fair offers.
As the Reddit war rages on, community trust is the casualty
I'm pretty happy paying for things I like. Solid explorer is a great file manager for Android that I also pay for.
Mod for a medium-ish sub here. We’re burning the sub down and leaving after the announcement today that they will start forcibly removing mods. We haven’t told our community but frankly we don’t care anymore. If Reddit wants control back so badly, they can remember what it was like when we weren’t around. I’m sure they will have backups or something they can restore, I’m not quite as technically-minded as most of HN is, but we’re at least going to make them put in some effort for once.
AMD EPYC Bergamo Launched 128 Cores per Socket and 1024 Threads per 1U
Thanks for the recommendation. Looks like Gandi got bought out recently. Not sure if it’s for better or worse—will do some more research.
This is from Jeri Ellsworth, an interesting person who's name pops up in the AR/VR (and Commodore 64) world now and then.
I don't know what you are talking about. This isn't my experience and I valued human contact some years ago when I was doing iOS development myself. Not my experience. However, I appreciate that my experience may not reflect the experience of another iPhone user.
Wait... this is how adult companies act?

Adult companies do not depend on free labor to provide value. (I'm speaking about moderation in particular, but also the creation of wikis and the community management.)

Personally, I can't imagine a single moderator on Reddit continuing without being paid.
I have a 20 year old laptop. Literally, I bought it for $1700 in 2003. It doesn't run any software better than the $20 raspberri pi I also have. It certainly doesn't run software better than the $1200 desktop I built recently - that one can play games on one monitor while web browsing on another (sometimes I'll kick of a compile on that machine between matches and neither seems to be hurt too bad by both things running, if I tried that on the old laptop I'd probably have to call the fire department).

Of course my desktop machine doesn't actually have a "desktop" (a silly name for a place to hold random icons, a misguided attempt to make computers 'familiar' for folks who didn't quite get it by using a bad metaphor) - it just shows me windows and pops up a pretty menu to choose apps when I press a button. It has 32GB of ram, and even when running games and lots of browser windows and tabs I rarely use more than 16GB of them -- including the fs caches.

When the old laptop was current, I would use it for dev, and send compiles off to a distcc cluster. Using that cluster I could get a linux kernel built in a couple hours from scratch - I can do the same on my single desktop machine today, but in way less time (and there's a lot more code). Similarly, I would rip CDs and queue up the wav for each track so the cluster could pick them up and encode them as flacc and mp3. I'd rip a stack of CDs until my drive was mostly full, and go to bed. In the morning the encoding was almost finished. Last time I had a device that could read CDs a few years ago, the bottleneck was reading the CD, and a whole stack of CDs would finish in less time than just ripping would 20 years ago. I have "slow" internet at home, so saving them to some internet drive might make the whole process take the same amount of time as the ripping process in the past.

I'm sorry you're disappointed we don't have flying cars yet, but it's a bit absurdist to claim tech has gotten strictly worse and that the old days were better - because the tech today is literally orders of magnitude better than it was 20 years ago.
He wants to let users vote out mods?

Apart from being a terrible idea in general, has he seen the up-vote ratio of the blackout posts?
Sort of. I don't like the idea of mandating that companies sell replacement parts themselves. That's a new idea without any real precedent and it doesn't make sense.

Imagine if that was the law. Apple could buy all of one kind of Framework's spare parts. Maybe Framework wants to reserve some so they can continue providing service themselves. Are they allowed to do that?

What does the law say about replenishing stock? Is there a time limit or a minimum quantity? Parts are made in huge production runs with long lead times. Are they going to have to pay for a rush order to comply with the law? Can they afford to have only a few thousand made instead of a million? Can they afford a million?

If such a law existed, there would be scalpers because there would be adversarial artificial scarcity. Either there's a steep penalty that's worth exploiting, or it's unenforceable. So no, it hasn't been done.
This CEO sure is hellbent on embarrassing himself. These kinds of comments make me even more skeptical about the company's future.
Thanks for everybody’s advice. I wasn’t expecting to just walk right in to a 6 figure job but just trying to get my foot in the door. I’d even be willing to work for free to prove myself capable. It sounds like building a portfolio on GitHub is a good place to start.
Specializing LLMs on Databricks
This is lazy journalism at its worst. They essentially published a Reddit press release.
I've been debating on and off about getting a system. I think it has a lot of potential.

Is it me, or is the list of games available shorter than it was last year?
I tried preload, it doesn't work as well as with NextJS which, yes, uses client side JS. But critically, the pages still work without JS if one so chooses. It's progressive enhancement which Astro does not yet have.
I like the walled garden because it prevents apps like Facebook from vacuuming up all the data on my phone without my permission. If Apple didn’t have some barrier against bad actors, things would be pretty dire.

And no sandboxing isn’t the solution here. Facebook will just find ways around it. They did some pretty egregious bullshit and had consumers side-loading privacy-violating apps via their corporate account. Apple very publicly revoked their certificate for it. Without the walled garden, Apple would have no leverage to stop bad actors like Facebook.

And avoiding widely used social apps isn’t a good solution either. The network effects effectively removes me from communities that use it.
A single F-35 that represented the pinnacle of US technology, in waters just off the coast of one of our strongest competitors.... of course they're going to pull out all the stops to get it back.

If it was an older helicopter or transport plane with nothing classified on it, I highly doubt such efforts would be made, other that recovering the crew and getting them to medical assistance.

Just imagine kids with their parents old car out on a drive.... I imagine that's the kind of traffic we'd get in this corner of the cosmos. Not the latest in tech.
Reader probably made “sense” too for the axe-wielding CFO, in that I can’t imagine it generated any meaningful revenue. But I also can’t imagine it consumed much in the way of resources either…

I still use Gmail, but that’s it for me among Google’s offerings. (I can’t easily transition away from that due to using my email address for several hundred login credentials, though I suppose I really should begin that project.) But certainly for anything new, I have no confidence in any Google products, paid or unpaid.
Since when is less modularity a good thing?
Right? Came here to say just that.
Look into something Copilot. It can really help with the blank white page problem when getting started on new projects.
It’s a he said she said situation. There is no demonstrable fact so to say.
No taxation without representation?
I think context and nuance is important.

A 40 year old that likes Star Wars or Gundam? I don’t really see anything “wrong” with that.

A 40 year old that likes schoolgirl anime? I don’t know…
Another definition of AE is Applications Engineer, the most commonly known kind being FAE - Field Applications Engineer.

This is a great hybrid engineering / sales role. Depending on the company it can be very technical, while generally reporting up through the VP of Sales it has job perks and responsibilities that are often only available to sales personnel. Things like stock options, bonuses, and higher saleries.

Seriously consider an FAE role if your interested in transitioning to a less desk bound but still technical role.
Dude, Debian 10 goes out of support in a year. Debian 12 already released.

It's 4 years out of date at release, why would you want that for "learning and prototyping", let alone start a OEM device with soon unsupported software versions.
I think you're missing the context of the thread. An open-source project doesn't need to choose a tool that competes with Discord in popularity -- popularity is not important here. The aim is not to attract millions of users, the aim is to provide a valuable and sustainable resource to its community that it can link in the project's README file. A tool like Discourse or Zulip is more sustainable than Discord because they are open source, history is exportable, and the software is trivially self-hostable in case the managed hosting solutions don't pan out.
To stay in touch with friends and family who only use a certain app for communication and social event planning. I don't have the energy to convince them and an entire country to move off said app.

To get permits to certain wilderness areas that require GPS permissions to even apply.

To get on restaurant waitlists before arriving. (Some restaurants insist on your phone-reported GPS location being within a certain radius to get on the list. Welcome to Silicon Valley in 2023)

Lots of reasons.
CEO worth $10 million calling his website's volunteer moderators "landed gentry" sounds about right.
I have the full React framework and ecosystem if I so choose to use it. For example, I could use something like react-three-fiber to add 3D or Framer Motion to add animations yet fall back to not having those when JS is disabled. Sure you could do the same in Lit but those libraries aren't present or as robust as in React.
He'll be counting the votes.
Guessing you're on the younger side? I used to read these voraciously as a 11 year old. Felt like a magic window into the game industry.
So why did you buy it then? There are plenty of other phones which can do this, pretty much any moden Android phone will do. And Samsung phones even have "desktop mode" (DEX) which give a desktop experience.

This is like complaining: "my tractor has 600 HP and yet it cannot even reach 80MPH. Very sad.", or "My Ferrari has 600 HP, why can't it tow that 30 ton trailer. What kind of future is this?"
It already has. There is a reason that GCP has struggled to find their calling.
Oh interesting - I was trying to find that part of their site but could only find them going into depth about how the glasses were AR. That's pretty awesome.
Well he did say "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company". That's not far out of line with how large tech companies tend to operate.
If they wanted to work with third-party apps they could have charged reasonable rates for API access and could have offered a reasonable transition time. They gave them one month to transition their whole business onto a new model to make the costs work. This was entirely bad-faith bargaining on Reddit’s part, and NPR should be ashamed for publishing Reddit’s press release for them.
I didn't care much about that, seemed reasonable what they did.
To be fair to the design patterns people, a lot of them got baked into pieces of infrastructure like web servers and frameworks, while others are part of frequently included libraries.

If I went through and inspected any Node, Rails, Django, etc app I would find many Gang of Four design patterns, but very few of them would be in the project-specific code. They got implemented well, and now programmers can build new things that would have taken too long to do before.

And that was the intent of the Gang of Four book, not to teach you patterns you should copy mindlessly, but to give examples of how to identify and extract useful patterns from the software you've already written and describe them to others. Since that is a lot more difficult than memorization, very few took up that work.
> I work in an industry in which software patents are required to survive

Thanks for the explanation! I wonder what the industry is (maybe finance or law or ??) It seems that in most of the tech industry software patents are primarily used as a war chest for large companies or for non-practicing entities focused on litigation. Usually execution is more important.
I'm not all over the place. You're just exactly the frustrating personality type I'm talking about: one who is hyperfixated on the technology and the decentralized nature who can't see the forest for the trees and is more interested in arguing the minutia.

I'm content in my belief that we won't see a mass adopted Fediverse technology replace Reddit in my lifetime. I think theres a variety of reasons for this but the people involved in the development and advocacy of the products and their inability to listen to any feedback are the biggest one. They think they've got this _allllll_ figured out and it's just humanity that needs to evolve to meet them.

I'll come back here and apologise if I'm wrong. I don't see that happening, though.
I've said it elsewhere, but there must be some point where both parties could have continued operating while reddit made money. Even if it wasn't much, they probably could have covered their costs if they had worked out a pricing plan with the developers.

Based on what I've seen, they went above the standard for API pricing in their industry. Comparatively the pricing offered to the 3rd party app developers was akin to gouging, and was not meant to be realistic.
> So you think that US had to invade Russia to remove Eltsin?!

You should practice reading plain English.

> This is not a "returning to power ... through elections" for sure.

Communists returning to power in Russia was an actual concern for the US foreign policy. For example it is unclear if Yeltsin fairly won against Zyuganov in 1996. Even today the Communist Party of the Russian Federation polls around 20%. They are the largest opposition party. Although it is pretty obvious they are a fake Communist Party
Surely he means "unpaid labor"; elsewise my eyes could not roll further back.
> But also, those are plenty of things to bond over. Watching sports to bond must be one of the most shallow types of bonding.

Honestly, that's all many people are looking for in an office setting. They aren't looking to get into deep discussions about their dreams and fears, they just want to know the people they're working with are friendly and talk about something other than work for a bit.
UML is mostly useless, but thinking ahead, even a bit, has value. I've seen stuff shipped in a sprint that was not used by any actual end users, only to be "redone" in the next sprint.
Reddit gave something to users and now they want to take it away. What did they expect?

There was likely a path to making Apollo a paid product, letting it's popularity wain, and then killing it. Instead Reddit went for the power move and gave the mob a flashpoint to rally around.