skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking for a job right now, not limited to any specific language, and I see Ruby mentioned plenty of times. Based on that, it seems the reports of Ruby's decline are not as bad as sometimes claimed.

If you look at PostgreSQL then a lot of dev work comes from EnterpriseDB and a handful of companies too.

The thing with Rails is that it doesn't scale terrible well to "Twitter scale" (if I'm not mistaken Twitter has dropped all usage of Rails) so there aren't that many well-known companies running it, but the overwhelming majority of companies are not "Twitter scale" and it's not really an issue for them. There's a long list of smaller outfits that are not in the "top 50" using Rails quite happily.

People focus too much on "What is {Twitter,Facebook,Google,Amazon,Netflix,...} doing?" Who cares? You're never going to have the same problems they have. And whatever they are doing is not necessarily representative for the entire industry.
You need an energy storage solution for nuclear too, unless you want to heavily overbuild, which raises it from too expensive to stupid expensive.

And once you have that storage, a mix of renewables is cheaper.
Considering that men are taking credit for their work, maybe some over-correction is understandable.
A New National Purpose: AI Promises a World-Leading Future of Britain is a joint report by Tony Blair and William Hague.

All sorts of cool stuff here on reforming government advisory mechanisms, boosting comptute capacity, and AI safety research
And horror stories like berenice by the great edgar allan poe.
You are absolutely right! I'm not even engaging. That's because you're 29, and I have the illusion that I know a few things you don't, which can be got into your head (if they can at all - some people are born fools) only by experience, not by argument.
They could have a tiered system where at least things that have deployments in the billions get a special treatment. Holidays can be cancelled, releases rescheduled over a bad enough vulnerability in a sufficiently common software. Miscoring a vulnerability makes a thing that is supposed to be good, by promoting a more secure ecosystem, end up being actually bad, wasting resources that could have been spent on solving actual issue. Not even speaking about the lowered trust in NVD...
TV in the '70s (1979)
The weight of the cable is problematic in earth gravity. See e.g. space elevators.
It's extremely insulting to call friends and allies vassals.
And the SEC is also saying "you don't get to ignore the rules just because you don't like them". Whatever the rules should be, it's clear Coinbase is on the wrong side of what they are now.
There are benefits, such as increased insolation and decreased ecological impact under installed panels.

Obviously there are a bunch of downsides, because space.
FTC Sues to Block Activision Deal (Again)
Just spotted this hilarious article:

https://books.google.com/books?id=DE0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46&lpg=P...
Their paper was the first time I heard the term.
I think it's fine if you want to make yourself feel something, that's rational self-interest, no harm done to anyone. I would think less of it if it was just to impress others, in that case you harm yourself (do something you don't like) to make others feel something.

Or perhaps it's more complex, there may be secondary effects that are beneficial to you, perhaps some form of status. Regardless, it feels disingenuous.
to be clear, I was referring to use of percentages rather than "Astronomical Unit" vs AU

I could understand wanting to explain what AU stands for, and what an Astronomical Unit represents, it just seemed weird to then convert everything into percentages as well
Or worse, some local saying "... then turn right where the old Stevenson barn used to be... "
Thank you for explaining why markets can't be self-regulating simply through competition and why they need external regulations.
1. Find a place with a growing population and restrictive zoning

2. Corner the housing market

3. The population keeps growing but the restrictive zoning means more housing doesn't get built

4. More people competing for the same housing stock means prices increase

Whether they keep the housing forever or not isn't what they're thinking about, they can decide later.
I am seeing many more of the "sorry, we can't service your request right now" messages since the Great Blackout 2023™.
The last physical game I purchased (~2 years ago now; can't even remember the game) didn't even have a disk in the case. The case just had a card with a code for the Xbox Store on it. Decided I was done buying "physical" games at that point.
Music albums are the greater offenders. Lots of old catalogs from 20th century rock bands are only available in some remaster format.
I'm sure they would have dozens of (law-violating) suggestions on how to improve their access to firearm acquisition patterns and online activity to enable them to prevent more school shootings.
You are cherry picking quotes. This is from the abstract:

"Our results indicate that nearly all the observed increase in BA is due to anthropogenic climate change as historical model simulations accounting for anthropogenic forcing yield 172% (range 84 to 310%) more area burned than simulations with natural forcing only. We detect the signal of combined historical forcing on the observed BA emerging in 2001 with no detectable influence of the natural forcing alone. In addition, even when considering fuel limitations from fire-fuel feedbacks, a 3 to 52% increase in BA relative to the last decades is expected in the next decades (2031 to 2050), highlighting the need for proactive adaptations." - "BA" is "burned area"

This is from the conclusion:

"These findings strongly indicate that the observed increase in BA was primarily due to increased fuel aridity and not due to simultaneous variations in nonclimate factors such as human effects on ignitions, fire suppression, or by altering land cover (similarly to the conclusions by refs. 1 and 42). Our results suggest that changes in human environmental factors, including changes in biomass and fire management practices during the period of record, did not significantly affect the stability of the climate-fire relationship at the scales analyzed here."

I'm not saying fire suppression policies had no impact. I'm saying that they are not the only cause of the fires. Furthermore, I am saying they aren't even the primary cause, and it's not close.
If you’re looking for something similar for macOS, you can get partway to an i3 experience by using yabai and skhd. I’ve incorporated into my own environment and found it to be very useful.
wino
Gimp 2.99.16 marks the end of the GTK+3 port
An occasional State Of The States address by dang could be awesome.
A poor man's Load Balancer
I fail to see how, given the system we currently have is called capitalism and given that this content is contemporary. The behavior is analogous to behaviors that would have potentially been possible under aristocracy, but it's pretty clearly a phenomenon of late capitalism unless you take a completely ahistorical view of existence. Ideas with historicity have history, they aren't fixed idealist definitions...Mr Beast is functioning in a system we call capitalism because of the general rules it follows and taking actions enabled by the flow of wealth in such a system.

Capitalism isn't just some abstract Platonic definition, we are living it, it evolves in time. Just as the feudalism before it was a lived system that evolved in time, that eventually collapsed, giving way to a new mode (capitalism), the same will happen under this economic system.
Yeah I do this too. I like the confirmation that I'm generally headed in the right direction.
> And I did nothing special.

I just took the example app from uvicorn.org:

# main.py
import uvicorn

async def app(scope, receive, send):
assert scope['type'] == 'http'

await send({
'type': 'http.response.start',
'status': 200,
'headers': [
[b'content-type', b'text/plain'],
],
})
await send({
'type': 'http.response.body',
'body': b'Hello, world!',
})

if __name__ == '__main__':
uvicorn.run('main:app', port=5000, log_level="info")

And ran "pyinstaller --onefile main.py" on it. The resulting binary, when executed, just says:

Error loading ASGI app. Could not import module "main".

Please share what exactly did you do that made it work. I already assume it's far from "nothing special"...
It's almost like it's a parody of materialism/consumerism. Let's not pretend like Mr Beast is anywhere close to the genesis of this. Mr Beast is exposing what a lot of us don't like about the broader culture. Change will only start with the individual and the family. Secular values don't have to be the compass direction we drift towards.
I recently needed that backup road atlas. Not because GPS went down, but because I dropped my phone, killed the display and had to make it home 400 miles.
I suspect most serious customers will want dedicated IPs, and then they can send using their own servers. Relying on shared IPs is always going to cause problems, especially for high volume users that can sustain enough traffic for their own clean IP sets.
The Gamestop one seems to have a contrarian/anti-authority tilt to it that the other's don't really have (that I've seen, though I'm not paying much attention). I think some of the people on the Gamestop sub really, truly believe themselves to be in a battle that will determine the future of the financial system (the world?). It's quite unhinged.
Why hasn't there been a GPT/LLM spam/scam wave?
Does it just need more time? Maybe spammers are unable to collect enough user data to target? What about telemarketers using a script with voice as virtual phone agents?

It's been around a few months. I'm just surprised it hasn't happened that we've heard of. Why not?
I was an early user of Moom on MacOS and haven’t looked back from the dialed in window management.

The other app that I can’t use a Mac without is Alfred. There’s other options popping up but Alfred really has a head start on many small things.

I still try to go Linux fill time each year and it’s there for development, but not for becoming an invisible computer like the Mac can become to get into flow so much quicker as long as the nannies and notifications are disabled.

I have held off on a new Mac since my i9 15” mbp but it looks like the m2 max 14” is a good candidate minus the smaller fans
Sure, if you never venture outside Center City
Where did the long tail go? (2022)
I purchased the book a couple years ago - Gaines is a fantastic writer.
This is nothing new. I think I remember seeing an ad for unbelievable cheap 330 MB ESDI drives in Computer Shopper in the early 1990's. But when I called they said they had to shred them instead of selling them.
"OK, securities exchange, you can continue operating as long as you shut down the securities exchange."

I suppose they can keep the office cafeteria open.
An arrogant writer? On lesswrong.com?
Lets say we have a company and I'll make up a name for them: Perizon. Perizon sells you phones and also collects your location whenever your phone is on. Perizon then sells this data to the USG and anybody (ex. journalists) claiming to be bounty hunters.

Continuing the story, lets say we have a company and I'll make up another name for them: Scroogle. Scroogle operates a popular website and collects your location whenever your phone connects to the website. Scroogle does not sell this data to the USG.

Which company is complicit in the widespread sale of data? Perizon has it's own data ingest system separate from Scroogles. It's always been separate and it's been operating for decades; Scroogle is not complicit in Perizon's decisions.

--

Now, there is certainly an arguement that Scroogle shouldn't collect all the data it does. But lets be calling a Spade a Spade here; Perizon is the company that fits your description.
> That's a problem for most of the world. Not the US.

The US has several problems the rest of the world doesn't. Chronic school shootings, for instance.
I had to check with some experts on this that I know, to make sure that I wasn't talking nonsense.

I wasn't, exactly, but I also wasn't correct in the modern day. Retrieving erased information from hard drives like this was certainly a thing (a thing that I myself have seen done, so I know first-hand).

However, after hard drives moved beyond MFM it stopped really being possible.

So what I was saying isn't wrong, exactly, but certainly isn't relevant to today's hardware.
Check out this talk from Mark Robbins from 2018, he's been leading the industry with interactive email for a long time now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7i7YDPcAcM
Why use SMS 2FA?
Almost every society in the world does literally pay money to mothers in the form of mandatory paid maternity leave.

The only exceptions are the United States, Papua New Guinea, and a few island countries in the Pacific Ocean (namely the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Tonga), every other country in the world, no matter how poor they might be, do pay money to mothers.
They announced extended retention as well recently, up to a year.
Show HN: React/web component for responsive images on steroids
Hey, OP here. This is hopefully interesting, especially for front-end developers. Nowadays images (JPEG, PNG, ...) can contain so-called Image Regions in their metadata [1] like cropping regions or regions of interest. So we've created a React component [2] that responsively displays the "best" cropping region, i.e. the one with the ratio closest to the current `<img>` element size. If you don't use React we have also built a web component. [3] With this approach you no longer have to worry about whether the size of your assets will match the ratio of their containers on all devices. The displayed image will always make sense and you don't need to maintain a bunch of hard crops anymore. Check out our demo [4] to see it in action. Feel free to ask us any questions, provide feedback, or contribute. We hope this will be useful to someone!

[1]: https://iptc.org/std/photometadata/specification/IPTC-PhotoM...

[2]: https://github.com/Frameright/react-image-display-control

[3]: https://github.com/Frameright/image-display-control-web-comp...

[4]: https://react.frameright.io/
This was the CEO that Ryan Cohen hired to implement his vision originally. It is not cleaning house of execs that predate his involvement with GameStop.
Yes, normally I'm a little adverse to abstractions over HTML, but HTML for email is so convoluted and non-standard that I think in this domain it makes a ton of sense. There may be a world of devs specialized in HTML that works in Outlook (bless you folks) but for this dev used to targeting the browser something like mjml is a lifesaver.
Governments agree to draft new treaty to control plastics
How do you explain that some people are not sensitive to social status?
What makes you think it is a satire?
I sorely miss shopping at Software Etc & Babbages back in the 90s. They had such a great/niche selection of PC games and also made bold, customer-friendly moves like importing Playstation and Saturn games from Japan along with the Action Replay carts needed to play some of them. They even sold Magic the Gathering packs at reasonable prices when the product was new and scorching hot. I would literally walk into the two stores (which were close to each other) every day after school just to catch anything new/rare before it sold out.

GameStop is such a far cry from that experience and has been this way (in declining fashion) for 20 years now.

I knew some folks who were in Software Etc & Babbages management both pre and post merger and they were saying back then that all of the problems with the company were top-down and it seems things haven't changed a bit. Their management has run this company completely into the ground.
Websites Similar to News.Y Combinator.com
The last time I re-entered the US, they just had us walk through an area really quickly. I didn't even have to show my passport or any ID. It was kind of nice but also unsettling that they have such a level of confidence in their facial detection.
> The SEC is very much a part of the executive branch.

Not according to the government, and they're the horse's mouth on this.

> SEC commissioners are nominated by POTUS and confirmed by the senate

This is correct, but not really to the point.
> but few … nay, none who could tell me what the properly normalized data model was

I guess we have an entire generation of software engineers who never had to cram the degrees of normal forms for an exam? [0] The term "Boyce-Codd Normal Form" is etched in my neurons.

For anyone who seriously studied relational databases the normal forms are very clearly defined. This is not some "unknown" used to justify arbitrary design.

Likewise anyone who has seriously worked at delivering data at scale in an efficient way has consciously considered the trade-offs between normal and de-normalized data.

Furthermore the reason for Normalization isn't because it's pretty, but because it can drastically reduce the complexity of updates when you have duplicated, but mutable, data as well as reduce overall storage space back in an era when that was a major issue.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization#Normal_...
Ask Dang: Can we have community guidelines around product launch etiquette?
Over the many years I've been here, I've observed a good number of users being so unnecessarily harsh and critical to users launching new products. The feedback may be valid, but it is often delivered very antagonistically.

This is a community of hackers who build stuff. We should thus be receptive and encouraging of those who are taking the leap to create new products, which is a highly messy process fraught with mistakes, inconsistencies, and low-info decisions.
All models are wrong, some are useful.

I don't think this is useful.

Do Americans care twice as much about health as Swedes do, given that they spend twice the amount (% of GDP) on healthcare?

Does random-SV-billionaire care three thousand times as much as I do about time, given that he has spent $300k on an AP watch, and I've spent $100 on a swatch?
In accordance with prophecy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51233
I'm uncertain, but you may be remembering 'code pages'.

From the site below, you can click different code pages to see the changes in extended ascii.

https://www.ascii-codes.com/
The Art of Time-Keeping, Part 4: French Republican Calendar
I liked most of this article and found it interesting. Maybe a bit long-winded, but like many people I've been thinking a lot about the same topic in recent years, struggling to break free of a certain mindset. Hearing the images and language how someone else feels when they describe that "machine" that keeps them captive is interesting -- a very "blind men and the elephant" experience. The cargo cult aspect is a new connection to me and something I'll think about more.

That said, like many tech critiques, I found the conclusion underwhelming. In particular, the idea that how we manage our "upvotes, likes, shares, and retweets" is important strikes me as foolish. These are the master's tools and they won't unmake the master's house. Sites like reddit and twitter have long put their thumbs on the scale to rewrite these metrics. Plus, just like with democracy, institutions and norms that encourage uninformed frivolous voting will drown out the meaningful signal. Not to say these forms of engagement are all bad, but they aren't a solution in and of themselves.

The real commodity to regulate is attention, of which "upvotes" are only a simulacrum. It should never be forgotten that this means often means disengaging from certain sites and systems entirely.

edit: on the note of attention being the real metric -- another thing I thought the author could have done well drawing attention to is the trend of watching/listening at 2x speed. It increases our tolerance for drawn out drivel. Maybe an alternative would be to shun media that we don't think would be worth playing 2x times at normal speed.
As soon as you support inbound email handling we'll definitely give it a go. Mailgun have some critical blockers (and potential security vulnerabilities) that have meant we're looking for an alternative to switch to ASAP.

Ideally by then you'll have migration guides from every big provider and so it will be even easier! Thanks for innovating in this space - it's much needed!
Vector Search in 200 Lines of Rust
First of all, what do you mean by "Rural living"? Living in a town of 20k people? 10k? 500? Or on an acreage/cabin a half mile from neighbors? All of these are pretty distinct experiences.

Let's just say any town <20k people is considered rural. From what I've seen, it is almost unheard of for someone who was not raised in a rural area to successfully live long term in an area like this.

I have plenty of anecdotal evidence of seeing retirees leave the city and try to live full time in a remote cabin on a recreational lake. None of them lasted more than a couple years. A surprising number of divorces. Growing up in a small town I have plenty of similar stories of families moving in from a larger city and leaving shortly after.

I'm not exactly sure how to explain this but generally I think the challenges of rural living (weather, social, economic, isolation, etc.) are very difficult if someone isn't familiar. As you mention, people see the benefits (incredibly serene, peaceful place, etc) but I think many aren't expecting or prepared for the challenges.
See also: Be Wary of Imitating High-Status People Who Can Afford to Countersignal
https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/the-perils-of-imitating-high...
> The fact that the sec let Coinbase last this long is proof the system is over complicated and cannot be maintained efficiently.

I disagree with this assessment, but reasonable people can hold differing opinions on this.
Yeah but are the video game stores to blame at all for this good trick? Or is it just the unfair advantage of big box stores? If the latter this is like the story about grocery store mergers from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36264717 Or how medical bills for something routine wind up in the tens of thousands. And it contains little insight about being a savvy SMB except things are broken.
> Do you volunteer at the soup kitchen to help people? Or to make yourself feel something?

This makes no sense. An altruistic person is precisely someone who feels good about helping other without receiving anything in return.