skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a long time ago. I was a very mediocore software engineer but naturally good at story telling especially when it came to explaining complex things. I first became a systems engineer (SE).

I worked at a large company accompanying sales people. I got the technical close (made our solution work for their problem) and the account executive got the financial close (got them through terms and conditions and signature). I eventually got the opportunity to switch to AE (switched because the comp was 2-3X of an SE). How hard can it be? There was a steep learning curve. My perception as an engineer was that once I got technical close, the deal was done. In most of the sales presentations I did 80% of the talking/convincing. But it turns out this wasn't the case at all. I later learned that the AE would cold call the champion after the preso. That's when they made the sale.

They AE motivates the champion to get the deal through the bureaucracy of their company AS WELL AS your own company. This has nothing to do with rational logic you learn in engineering, it's all soft social communication skills.

The best way I can summarize it is an SE/ENG is paid to know the answers. The AE is paid to ask the right (tough) questions at the right time.
Ah, ok. That's kind of what I meant by upfront design, though. Yeah, mapping this out is gonna suck, but it's better than having it hidden in a bunch of ifs.
Board Changes at Signal
It's open already. Did reddit take over?
The Alignment Problem Is Not New
Despite the content I will say this: It is much faster than the reddit website despite all the animations/gifs/cats everywhere

Just go to show how bloated reddit has become
when was the last time you found a new interesting website over google search? i can’t even remember and i used google daily.
Potentially but like… that’s very very hard rock, so those would be some very effortful doodles.

Maybe they had more boring classes than we do today though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Agree. Imo, alternatives like lemmy just poison the well when they can't handle a tiny fraction of the users of a single subreddit.
Sure, but there's a big difference between leaked code vs. code cleaned up and officially released over 3 years after launch. Who knows what the Quake source looked like on the date they initially shipped. Quake also remained in development for quite a while, with the latest patch released ~March 1997 (original release June 96), and QuakeWorld last released end of 1998.
https://archive.is/bhHFE
Like so many people you underestimate the capacity of modern computers. Stack Overflow is famously hosted on like 6 machines. I personally worked on a system that was running on two machines, one a hot backup, that served highly dynamic content to 400k monthly actives.
Several phrases from that era are still echoing in my head from time to time: Grady Booch, Rational Rose.
If you want to explore fully specified alternatives, there is also the RumbleDB engine (www.rumbledb.org), which implements JSONiq, like Xidel. It can be downloaded as a single jar file, and used with a simple java command: queries can be run as single commands (possibly reading from stdin, like jq), or on the shell, or in Jupyter notebooks.

RumbleDB is free, with no restriction on commercial use, and open source. It is an academic project, the product of now 6 years of work by 20+ ETH Zurich BSc and MSc students in their projects and theses.

You will find a video tutorial given at the Declarative Amsterdam conference last year here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YkLXQVyN2o (link edited, it was wrong)

RumbleDB works with small JSON files but also with several terabytes of JSON. It also works with many other formats; for example, it allows validating data and then storing it in a more efficient binary format (like Parquet).

It works on a laptop by spreading the computations on all the cores, but also in the cloud (it was tested on a cluster of 64 Amazon EMR machines manipulating billions of objects).

It can read and write data to and from a laptop's local drive, but also to and from data lakes (S3, HDFS...).

Feature-wise, JSONiq can do everything SQL can do (projection, selection, grouping, sorting, joins, etc), while also supporting heterogeneous and nested datasets seamlessly (normalization, denormalization, navigation, etc). 95% of it is directly based on a W3C standard including many of its builtin functions.

RumbleDB also has a Machine Learning library.
It's good that I know what htmx is already, because that description is kinda bad it doesn't really describe what htmx actually does to progressively enhance html.
Maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Loads fine for me now. Try again?
Meta/Facebook 1.0 can do that now, but at least I agreed to their terms of service and current privacy settings.

I agreed meta can use my data. I did not agree that every company can do what they want with it.

This bill has no restrictions on the usage of data exported from the API.
I use an stm32f103 as an io extender for my esp32-a1s, they cost about 2$ per board and the chip programmer cost about 10$. I use I2C to communicate between the esp32 and the stm32.

I do my development in VSCode using platformio with the Arduino framework and FreeRTOS. It is really convenient to have the same os and framework used for all the MCUs of a project. That's why I use the 2$ stm32 instead of a 1$ stm8.
> A lot of the appeal to “panic on error” IMO is to reduce developer cognitive load.

Cognitive load is one of the main blocks to development. Do not diminish the importance of lowering cognitive load

> This preference might change depending on what I’m writing. For a one-off script that I need to spin up quickly, I don’t really care.

Yes, absolutely. Trade offs
They can't know that for certain! See Lee Berger's announcement video [1] for a discussion. Paraphrasing the slide:

There is no evidence of *homo sapiens* use or presence beyond the light zone of the cavern system
Cultural context: there are *homo nadeli* graves in the cave system with the drawings
Access to the cavern system has not changed and would have been much easier for the smaller *homo nadeli* (Lee Berger had to lose 55 pounds to fit into the caves)
The burials and drawings were made over a long period of time, implying an ongoing settlement
The evidence for *homo nadeli* burials meets or exceeds that accepted for ancient *homo sapiens* burials

That last bit is the most interesting one. Since there are almost no fluvial or geological changes in the cavern system over hundreds of thousands of years, the graves of the homo nadeli are much better preserved than ancient homo sapien graves. By comparing the layers of dirt in the grave and the rest of the cave system, they can determine to a high degree of certainty that it was in fact a purposeful burial instead of a random "body in a hole".

[1] https://youtu.be/fFbgQhY4Yxw?t=1058
> Consciousness is the aggregate of emotional, sensory, and thought formations...

That's one theory among many. Are these identities static or dynamic in nature?

> If it is unclear why consciousness is not a social construct, you can experiment with isolation and introspection. Retreats, meditation, psychedelics, anything that involves observing the movements of your mind without getting tangled up into words and semantics.

I don't find this compelling because it's really difficult to find a person who wasn't born to another person and lived amongst other people in order to run this experiment.

"Observing" myself thinking of a movie while I meditate seems circular and I don't think you can be an observer and be the observed at the same time.
It's an unprivileged VM, so unless you're the type to do binary analysis before running things this is just as safe as any other binary.
Energy Department among ‘several’ federal agencies hit by MOVEit breach
Terrific Ohio Scientific!

I love the old ads lol. Except I also read these mags back in the 80s.
Thanks for keeping us on the straight-and-narrow, Cyber Dildonics.
So sad and so true
The pendulum swung, and now we bias towards action rather than design. But to be honest, the "software architect" era wasn't great either, with people in the role sometimes not qualified, spending months on an architecture behind the curtain, releasing some over-verbose spec document that doesn't match the product needs, cargo-culting the latest fad from Martin Fowler.
Dude.

Cos(x, y) = x . y / ||x|| * ||y||

If x and y are normalized:

Cos(x, y) = x . y
Looks to be restricted. Probably it's set up so people can find the new site.
Mercedes is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system, for some reason
Not sure if it's a good idea to use that domain (startrek.website). It might attract some lawyers if it gets too popular.
I think you.com is close to your first bullet point
Many (though far from all) dictators started out with fairly good intentions: Mao, Gaddafi, Mugabe, Castro, etc. all fought against oppressive regimes and were more or less justified in their fight. Turns out that the required skill sets of "freedom fighter" and "effective democratic leader" don't have a whole lot of overlap, and that people with the right skills for both are relatively rare.

Once you've got absolute power fewer and fewer people will call you out on your bullshit and you quickly become more detached from reality – humans are very good are rationalizing our own actions, even when it's wholly irrational, and if there are never any real consequences ... well ...

My point being: Kim Jong Un may genuinely believe he's doing the right thing.
Didn't google used to show a link to their cached version for every result?
Dead for me?
I think what's unique about the social sciences, is that they went public with their problems earlier. It's probably about as bad in every field that has the same (or similar) set of incentives to publish and disincentives or lack of incentives to check the work of others.
its read only
Htmx kinda is. I don't really know alpine but the GitHub docs remind me a bit of jQuery plugins.
I think you underestimate software engineers. I can bring a 64 core 512 GiB machine to its knees with a trivial program. Imagine what I could do when I'm trying to be productive.
I've been using Mithril since 2017 or so. The answer is: no. To give you a production example, Mithril is used in the video game Guild Wars 2 to render the marketplace in-game and the lead web engineer reported that it was performant enough for their use-case [1]. (I've played Guild Wars 2 and never noticed any issues with it, so good enough for me).

In most cases, your bottleneck won't be Mithril (or React for that matter), but instead what expensive computations you're doing in your components. While React has React.memo, Mithril has the `onbeforeupdate` hook [2] you can use to memoize components if you need it.

[1] https://carlmungazi.github.io/sourcecodeadventures/posts/pat...
[2] https://mithril.js.org/lifecycle-methods.html#avoid-prematur...
>by all accounts the relationship between Tesla and Glencore is quite significant.

Same goes for a long list of other major companies in many sectors. Glencore isn't some minor supplier here, they operate an enormous resource network, which filters into many, many things.
This is a nice angle on bootstrapping Social Capital [1]. There's been much ink spilt on the "decline of social capital" in the developed world in the last few decades [e.g. 2].

One interesting implication of all this is that we seem increasingly complacent with depending on private companies and social welfare to fill in the gaps that were previously filled by our "village", so to speak.

In a densely-connected network with lots of social capital, many companies/programs don't make much sense. The company might be able to provide the service (food prep/delivery, laundry, transportation, home maintenance, health care services) more "efficiently" and at less "cost", but they carry an opportunity cost of failing to accrue of social capital.

From that lens, you can view these companies as a kind of tax on social capital. They accrue wealth at the expense of our networks. And we rejoice, because we save a marginal 10 cents on the dollar, which we reinvest in equity of the same companies that tax our social capital.

I don't intend to apply any morals or draw any conclusions, it's just a thought-provoking way of looking at startups, these days, this theme of "profiting from the eroding fabric of american society".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
To be fair, AMD does offer good long term support for cards, just not with ROCm.
Doesn’t it depend on the domain authority of the back links?

Sites like Reddit are no follow so I don’t understand why a bot reposting links there would bolster its ranking
Mature teams document their code
Very cool that they've hired a full-time developer. Fresh has a great model, it just needs to be polished and elaborated further.
This really seems like late stage capitalism. The partnership between automakers and auto dealers has been celebrated over a 100 years. They are now employing politicians to legislate the business partnership over their shared interest.
I don't use Google, but I certainly want my search engine to return interesting and relevant stuff I don't know about.

I don't keep track of my discoveries, but I found some cool recipes even recently hosted on (sometimes independent) websites I didn't know.
You could try being the kind of person people want favor/approval from by providing some kind of service instead? Organizing some sort of event could be good if you can find a good fit for your interests - you'll be doing a thing that you want or working to accomplish something important to you and it'll naturally provide opportunities for beneficial social interactions.

Or something else - I think you can avoid the antiutility of transparently socializing as a means to an ends by identifying a situation where your purpose is aligned with your intention, and the socialization is a bonus.
As with "big data," the threshold for what qualifies as "hyperscale" increases exponentially with time.

Hyperscale 10 years ago can be served from a few machines at Hetzner today... if you write efficient software. Big data of 10 years ago can be analyzed on a laptop today.

10 years from now you'll probably be able to host today's Twitter from a shelf in your basement if you could get enough bandwidth.

That being said all this is predicated on efficient software. Unfortunately I don’t get the impression the fediverse stuff is that efficient. Isn’t at least some of it Ruby, the slowest platform available? If it were Go, Rust, Java, etc it’d probably be handling the load a lot better. Even PHP is faster by far.
Show HN: You can keep a note on top (as a sticky) in macOS from Notes app
Yep! Here is a classic false consensus effect that's very prevalent on the internet: What temperature should you cook a chicken breast to?

If you search "what temperature should I cook a chicken breast to" I'm actually surprised that one of the top 10 results is from The Spruce Eats and gives good advice, but the rest are flooded with sites parroting USDA recommendations. A problem in general I personally face searching for anything food or health related is that top results are all sites regurgitating the same information with nothing new added.

Now search "what temperature should I cook a chicken breast to reddit". First hit has a post with some really good info in the top two comments. Second hit is "Stop Cooking Chicken Breasts to 160°F (71°C)". Excellent advice right in the title.

I'll give examples of other topics I get better info faster on via Reddit:

* Fixing just about anything; troubleshooting appliances, home repair, video card issues, linux laptop compat issues, etc

* Hobby related stuff; RC cars, electronics, etc

* Home improvement/repair related stuff; flooring, HVAC issues, and this could go on the first point but it's really its own world
As it's overwhelmingly code that is hacked, this is nearly lossless:

Proprietary hack

2w/15c
Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
https://archive.is/YCFbt
Checkout thegigabrain.com
There is still a benevolence angle when it comes to things like providing free healthcare, but even here food supply has been a problem.
aka minimum wage employment
The caveat here is that you need to be truly indispensable. This may not always be your piece of the company. As key initiatives change, you either need to change or risk being dispensable. The truth is we are all dispensable at some point.

Your attrition may be regretted, but you can be replaced.
“Being poor is expensive.”
This is called Eroom's Law: "Software bloat increases until it consumes all gains from Moore's Law."
EU moves step closer to strengthened gig workers' rights
Why do you care? Let people do what they want!
The 80/20 Rule: Your Voyage to Amplified Efficiency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve#%22Steep_learni...
This resonates.

I have a really good electrician on my contacts list. He's an individual, not a gang; he's really good, and takes all the annual training and then some; and his client list includes some very classy organisations.

But he can't recommend a builder to me.

Nor a plumber; but I have an OK plumber. It's a firm, not an individual, and I've had people rock up that were rather arrogant. But nobody incompetent has turned up. Oh, and they're pricey.

But they can't recommend a builder to me either.

People have told me to use a service such as TrustaTrader. But I don't trust them; they take payment for listing.
I am curious to know what are these “formalized architectural decision making methodologies” ? Any books that u know of that cover these topics ?
I feel like a simple cache could've saved the day here. The homepage could be canned so at least it loads.
Wait, really?

I still use the basic -websitename to exclude websites when I search.
Yeah but the article describes buying individual pills. That’s not a thing in real pharmacies. It really sounds like they’re just buying from drug dealers that have setup storefronts and I don’t think the overall conclusion of the article is justified by their findings.
just "whatever you want -site:reddit.com"
After so many years I no longer use Google at all, for anything. In particular with search, all those ads showing as organic results at the top drove me away. I switched to DDG and have been in general happy with it.
Counterpoint I just ensured a PHEV Tucson and Ioniq 5 (full ev) for $1800 a year. Pretty reasonable. It’s probably a Tesla specific problem because they are in the luxury segment or maybe it’s their atrocious build quality.
Come on, you still had geeks4geeks! /s
I knew I was getting screwed but wow.

$160 last time I got an oil change at the dealership.

There is usually one bottle that meets spec in retail stores, and it is $80 alone.

I kick myself for the VW diesel pretty consistently, but I still have some time left on the Dieselgate warranty extension.

Canadian prices?
Duct tape? Why so hardcore? Who wants to deal with the leftover glue they leave on whatever you taped?
This is wrong. Plenty of Rust libraries, including std, correctly use unwrap: https://blog.burntsushi.net/unwrap/
I'll assume that is the case, but that says exactly nothing about artillery capability or the damage this can do in just a matter of hours. How many pieces of (often fortified) artillery do you think those 427 places can take out before shelling starts?
Certainly not. See: https://blog.burntsushi.net/unwrap/#why-not-return-an-error-...

But also the rest of the blog post should help clear up the confusion.
>* A search engine that only crawls and searches a whitelist of sites.

Great way to kill neutral, organic web?
Weird to exclude the ultimate form of corporate bullshit: vaccine makers (ie: corporations) are federally protected from any and all civil action against them. And they're one of the few drugs that are effectively mandatory for approximately 76 million children. Every single year. A literal money making machine. Protected by law. For the benefit of corporations.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22#:~:text=....
I like this way of making software, but calling 'Edge' and saying decentralized is confusing. This is a service that hosts my software on their computers. How is this different than AWS or CloudFlare or any of the other cloud providers? I understand their VM tech is different, but what does makes it 'Edge' or 'decentralized'?
Yeah, the boss at the end of episode 1 (e1m7, House of Chthon) was way more interesting than end.bsp, and I remember really blew me away as a kid. Makes sense based on what others were saying about having the best levels up front.
Interesting -- my company had a yearly conference at that hotel, and it was miserable. They finally moved it this year to the Marriott on Mission and it was much more comfortable (especially wandering around to nearby venues).
The EU’s AI Act – what does it mean for us?
Yep. Most of my google queries are prepended with "reddit" or "stackexchange". I particularly like stackexchange, lots of useful information there.
You can create and compile an Android app on an Android phone... I'm surprised you can't do that on an iPhone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui&hl...
http://web.archive.org/web/20230615204308/https://raymii.org...
I once was at a conference with my (former) boss where I got an inside peek at how a professional networker goes about it.

The conference sessions had ended, flowing into the evening program which pretty much was the bar. Just before heading into it, she shared a paper note with me.

It had a list of persons to talk to, for how long, the ice breaker, the excuse to exit the conversation and move to the next one, the importance of each target.

Not knowing anybody at the conference, I just sat at the end of the bar, had some light "conversation by proximity" but mostly watched her execute the networking plan. To the casual and unknowing observer, a cheerful social butterfly "happens" to bump into random characters but I knew more. The only visual clue was her eyes shooting across the room and her watch any time her current conversation partner looked away for a second. Scanning for prey.

I bet that as she returned home, she updated that massive network diagram in her garage to update the weights and other attributes.

Whilst you might just call this clever professional behavior, I found it chilling. Engineered, not genuine, "working" people to get what you need. I wonder if normalizing that bleeds into personal relationships.

Does it work though? Hell yes it does.
Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human
I can see the argument that it's definitionally impossible to enslave someone without dehumanizing them, if you believe that certain inalienable freedoms are part of being human, and thus you cannot take them away from someone without dehumanizing them.

But if by "dehumanization" you really mean "racist," then yes indeed, slavery was originally based more on generic power imbalances (prisoners of war, or offspring of existing slaves) than any racial component. The racist aspect of slavery only became prominent with the emergence of colonialism and exposure of Europeans to "the new world." I'm not sure that race was even an attribute that the ancients felt worthy of mentioning - after all, Rome was an empire spanning many disparate races and cultures. Wikipedia [0] seems to agree ("skin tones did not carry any social implications"). I'd be curious to read more about it though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_in_ancient_Roman_...
They definitely did. I don't know if it's still there, maybe in some (hamburger) menu attached to the results, if any? In any case I think their cache is still readable, but their googlebot is fast and may be quick to get rid of the cache if a page disappears… Recently, I've had bad luck with search engine caches when trying to read a page that does not exist anymore.
But Conde Nast did buy them
Yes, with that attitude, entirely impossible.

People are inverted magnets. Positive attitudes attract positive people. Negative attitudes repel.