skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We used to have to do this.

A bunch of us started (truthfully) recording on the tinesheets how long it took us to complete our timesheets every day.

That was enough to stop the experiment after a few months.
I have spent the last 14 years hating Jira. It's terrible software. It makes me angry to use, on a regular basis.

Know what though? I've used almost every other option in the last two years. They're all worse. We currently use GitHub Projects. Holy. Crap. It sucks so bad.

This truly is a Devil You Know problem. I challenge the software industry to make something better. Please. Seriously. There's good money to be had but bug and task track is apparently an unsolvable problem, if the goal is to make software people aren't mad about using.
Is aging a disease?

I think this question is pivotal in how one analyzes the benefits and disadvantages in this space. The article links to a story that covers this a bit. I feel truly undecided on this question.
They show their hosted media first thing now, and hide your media behind some clicks.
I tried this years ago and without the foam, the headphones gave me a headache every time I listened. The headaches went away as soon as I replaced the foam

What’s with the downvotes? Sorry for being one of the only commentators in this thread to have actually tried it, and for saying what happened. There is one other actually, who also says the sound got worse
Maybe the second link i provided has it wrong. You seem to know more so I defer to you.
So WhatsApp end-to-end encryption works therefor Taliban uses it in military and non-military operations. However, because it leaks metadata Facebook is able to identify Taliban users and ban them.
Making Myself Uncomfortable Again
Emotional, yes. Irrational, no. There’s only one legal move the users and mods have to maybe make a difference.
MIT's entire reputation was _made_ by the military. It was a no name school before the contracts of WWII/The Cold War, e.g. the prominent radar lab https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Radiation_Laboratory
Yeah, that makes sense.

I'm not sure that you could go much further than NYC without making private car ownership impossible for most, though.

Maybe that's the point. Despite having a good transport network overall (I live in London), it's just such an integrated part of my life to be able to jump in the car and go and visit friends say 50 miles away that I can't imagine ever wanting to give that up. I'd rather have that than the fancy downtown bars. Am I old? :)
Stay in the field long enough and the number of anecdotes will grow so much that you will notice the pattern, unless your pet rock’s intelligence can surpass your own.

Also, hasn’t there been a link [0] just a couple days ago about how most of the “serious science research” done about software development estimation is based on datasets that are either smaller than the number of anecdotes a typical software developer will easily encounter in five years, or are right away made up? Just what kind of data would you expect, and from whom?

[0] https://shape-of-code.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimat...
I'm afraid that "honor" thing happens one level beneath conscious understanding, so I can't talk myself out of it. I've tried, for years.
the author has forgotten the advice they recieved in school: "Eschew Adjectives"

Is there no legal method for donating one's body to art? Why not?
Unless you have visibility into a niche corner of youtube that nobody else does...

Is there content on YT that could possibly be called porn? Sure. Is there actual porn the way most people understand it? Not more than a vanishingly small amount that would be next to impossible to find without getting directly linked to it.

YT doesn't even allow gratuitous posing, especially lingering rear shots, for try-on hauls. Sex talk (no explicit activity) is allowed, but put behind their "inappropriate" warning. I haven't seen anything that isn't at least dual-use educational or ASMR. I haven't seen anything that's particularly vulgar, even if it didn't descend into problematic fetishes. Plenty of YT channels were banned for suggestive sexual ASMR, even without nudity or explicit roleplay. They don't have as much problem with scantily clad, suggestive dancing in mainstream-approved media content though, but that's not porn either.

The most nudity I've seen allowed on YT was in fringe dance performances and very occasionally in mainstream music videos.
Can you comment on the removal of Belgian Root CA 1 and 2 and the subsequent migration to Digicert.

Also state authority ouside of US.
The GMP library's repository is under attack by a single GitHub user
From their website:
"NEWS 2023-06-16: The GMP server is under attack by several hundred IP addresses owned by Microsoft cooperation. We do not know if this is made with malice, if it is some sort of mistake, or if some of their cloud customer is running the attack. The attack targets the GMP repo, with thousands of identical requests, most of which makes our server compress the data.

We're firewalling off all of Microsoft's IP addresses as an emergency response. This is a blunt response, but it is the only response which solves the problem quickly, allowing legitimate site usage to work again."

"UPDATE 2023-06-18: We got a reply from somebody with an impressive title at Github. This person explains that Microsoft and Github have investigated this, and they blame a Github user and the poor GMP infrastructure. It is very interesting that they have done nothing to stop the traffic; we need to keep defending our server by firewalling off more Microsoft IP ranges as I write this 30 hours after Github's response. It is also curious that they blame the victim. (Our infrastructure is pretty resilient with powerful server-class hardware and great connectivity to the Internet.)"
I think this article glosses over quite a number of different things so the conclusion doesn't always follow.

It says that people who copy stuff without thinking are consumers instead of creators. The implication is that this is wrong when many of us spend most of our time aggregating, not creating. Look at a load of game shows, how many are creative? Not many, most are simply aggregations but done in a way that makes the sum much better than its parts.

However, if you then ignore that and look at what they say about this copying. Again, the tone is that it is wrong to copy without "a bit of skepticism" but you know what? Sometimes I don't care. I need to know how to extract something from a string, I find an example, it works, the need to analyze it might well be a waste of time. Might there be a faster/more efficient way? Probably but that will take even more time to find to save some CPU that is not worth the investigation.

There is also an implication that most of this copying is related to appeal to authority e.g. I will copy this because person X is experience or highly regarded but again, I don't believe that at all. I can't remember the last time in my nearly 30 years in the game that I looked out for a specific person because I believed their authority, most of the time I suspect we try and find the easiest article that meets our needs and perhaps seems a bit up to date.

I don't care that nobody is perfect because anyone worth their chops should know that the code you copy from somewhere else often lacks context and information about trade-offs but we are trusted to make the call as to whether the risk is high enough that we need to go back to first principles.

In most cases, it is more annoying for me for someone to waste time reinventing something than it is for someone to get something a bit less than perfect and maybe having to revisit it later.
Nice try time traveler.
Weird, I’ve never seen or even heard of that before now.
Lately I was introduced to Gene Kim's Phoenix Project, Unicorn Project, and DevOps Handbook. They changed the way I've looked at a my role as a leader of technical people in the organization as well as challenging some pre-concieved notions about techs role in business. You should check them out
See the comment from Ose "Comment #199 April 17th, 2023 at 6:53 am" at the bottom of that blog post...
Here is some more context.

https://lemmy.world/comment/311745

I have an instance running. I really wanted to get kbin running after reading all this myself. I probably will once this fix their installation docs.
Porkbun api is pretty bad
Fascinating! I wonder if this explains ball lightning?
I love my AirPods Max, but the automatic pairing never worked very well for me. I ended up disabling it.
Relative perceived contrast is important in vision. Most displays are backlit LCD and their black is actually a mid to light grey; it only appears moderately black in contrast to bright white. The white of white text on black isn't enough brightness to make the black truly black, reducing effective contrast and making it harder to read.

It's much better on OLED and other non-backlit displays with higher contrast ratios. (CRTs in the days of DOS and terminals were white on black mostly for ergonomic reasons; it is easier to read.)

The lighting in the room is a factor too. I like dark mode in dim lighting and light when it's bright in the room.
The real irony is that in this context they matter and do make a point.
>but thanks to a heroic effort of many people (and not me, really)...

That's funny because when I was reading through this I kept thinking, "Wow, this is a heroic effort."

It was a heroic individual effort that led to a heroic team effort. The team wouldn't have been assembled had the individual not raised the alarm and focused the attention. Then the team was able to handle it through their collective efforts. Doubly inspiring.
my perspective is that my name and copyright were removed from a document i wrote and re-published on the W3C site and that should be fixed. please don't speak for me. thanks.
Jira Server and Data Center: Implement issue locking (2005)
The worst outcome is AI Writing those 800 page laws that no Congress person will read.
Poe.com has free access
In SF, the city leaders are trying to make it impossible to use a SOV.

Yet public transit is unusable except for small swaths of the city. And building new transit is virtually impossible due to corruption (a new 1.9 mile subway spur recently opened after 20 years of construction and $2 billion). Even worse in recent years crime has gotten out of control on transit and drug users are using train cars to smoke fent. So nobody wants to use transit.

The city built a lot of bike lanes but owning a bike is impossible because it will get stolen just about instantly.

so yeah we have the worst of all worlds
Always bet on grit. It's a learnable skill and you never lose it.
> I need to split up my problem into spaces that don't require synchronization/serialisation.

When I first got a dual CPU (before "cores" were a thing) computer, I decided I'd try dipping my feet in some "proper" parallel coding.

I started with something simple, parallelizing a quicksort routine. This seemed quite trivial: instead of recursing, add the spans to be sorted to a list. I then spawned a thread per CPU, which fetched a span from the list, did a single quicksort pass on it and added up to two new spans to the list. Rinse repeat until list was empty.

Since each span was non-overlapping, the threads only had to synchronize while accessing the list of tasks.

When benchmarking it became clear that while there was a good performance win for large arrays, for short arrays the multithreaded code was much slower than the non-multithreaded version. At my hardware the threshold was around 50k items for integer elements and 20k or so for string elements, IIRC.

I added a threshold detection, where the thread would do a regular recursive quicksort on the span if the length was below the threshold, and this yielded significantly better results.

And with that the harsh reality of multithreading hit me: no free lunch. It was clear the threshold varies not just with element type (slow/complex comparators would reduce the threshold, and vice versa) but with the details of the hardware. So a hardcoded threshold was out of the picture, and it would have to be dynamically determined at runtime.

Was a great learning experience though.
Unless it's specifically trained on something, it's not going to recite it. Even then there's a chance it won't get it exactly right.

My guess is it was trained on A LOT more snippets of the litany than the litany itself. I'm assuming in its training set were a lot more lines referencing a fraction of the whole litany than a complete recitation of the litany.

Also... agents of the butlerian jihad have probably infiltrated ai companies by now.
> A lot of people have a vested interest in shaking up the tech world.

I'd imagine you're one of us, considering you went full-time on your search engine :)

We had Andreas demo his OS / browser [0] at Handmade Cities [1]. These conferences are what I run full-time independently. I'm excited to see a flourishing of audacity, so to speak!

[0] https://vimeo.com/641406697

[1] https://handmadecities.com
Sounds like a rich people trap. You can say anything if you don't show the results. Patents are also not a proof of anything remotely close to working. So for now they have... nothing?
I got another one from an add as well.
Just bought a pair of ATHM50x. Well worth the cost. Been out in the field recording with them and mixing in studio as well. Loving them so far.
What sucks about GitHub projects? Phrased differently, what would a contender you’d like to use do better?
There is a huge piracy community on YT that occasionally includes porn.

Finding it is a bit hard as they move around a lot and Google is getting better at removing them, but they are definitely there.
Is there a guide for knowing what you want?
Same here. I'd love to use Jellyfin, but little things just didn't work. Some videos would not play either for some reason. Plex just works though.
Pleasingly parallel is a far better term than “embarrassingly parallel“ - it was a poor description and I never understood why people liked using a pejorative for an elegant solution.
How many users does your app have? Do you make any revenue?
The big difference is that Musk's skullduggery began once Twitter didn't have to disclose anything to public markets. Reddit OTOH is doing this en route to becoming a public company.
I don't think that's true at all, especially thinking about bicycling (or e-bikes or electric scooters or whatever). Biking can get you long enough distances easily enough that you don't need a city to be super dense or ultra mixed use for biking to be a practical mode of transportation. I live in a fairly suburban fairly mid-sized city and there are tons of destinations within a couple of miles of my house.

The reason my city isn't more bikable isn't zoning or parking or density or whatever, it's that there is literally no safe way to reach many of those destinations by bike because the only route there is on streets with high speed limits designed exclusively for cars. I think this is the case for a lot of mid-sized cities in the US if you really look at the distances involved. In fact my city is slowly improving things by turning sidewalks into mixed use paths that make it much easier to get places without using a car, so it's clearly doable. Sure, a lot of exurban bedroom community type places are never going to be anything but car dependent without totally rebuilding them, but alternatives like biking are definitely not only possible in the densest American cities.
Show HN: BotMaD – an inetd-like bot manager for Slack
BotMadD is an unopinionated bot engine for Slack. It really has only one
opinion... that a bot should be written to handle one conversation, and the bot
manager (BotManD itself here) should manage the lifecycle of these bots,
starting up instances for new conversations and shutting them down once the
conversations are complete.

BotManD bots are simple standalone executables which read input on stdin and
respond on stdout. BotManD starts up your bot based on configured triggers (a
separate instance is launched for each new conversation), and then gets out of
you bot's way.

For people who still remember inetd, think of this as inetd for bots. (Would,
in fact, have named it botnetd but for some unfortunate associations the word
evokes.)

I wrote BotManD because I often need a simple way to run pre-determined
commands on remote machines. I initially used small special-purpose scripts for
these developed using one of the many Slack bot libraries, but each time I
needed to add support something resembling a simple conversation, I ended up
having to write code to manage state and keep track of conversations happening
in multiple threads... a lot of plumbing work not related at all to the task I
was trying to finish. This frustration led to the development of the initial
prototype of BotManD, which I quickly found useful enough to justify
reimplementing with a few more bells and whistles to support different types of
bot interactions.

The thing that sets BotManD apart from other bot toolkits is that it is
designed from the ground up to handle conversations. There are, of course,
other bot development tools which support conversations, like Botkit, but they
all seem to need tool-specific conventions to implement complex logic involving
conditionals or loops. BotManD bots, on the other hand, are simple executables
written in the language of your choice. Assuming your language of choice is
turing-complete, so is your bot. :)

Of course, tools like Botkit do a lot of other things, not least of them being
the ability to talk to a bunch of different messaging platforms. BotManD only
supports Slack right now, though there are plans to support Teams and Discord
some time soon.

Check the GitHub repo for instructions on getting started with BotManD, as well as
a bunch of examples, including a few real-world ones which do some interesting
things using ChatGTP and OpenAI's API.
Starship, AI and now anti-aging - It seems like 2023 is the year of sci-fi tropes. My pet theory is that Haim Eshed was right and there is a secret cabal of people in touch with post scarcity aliens with a cornucopia of fancy tech - but then they (in true sci-fi trope fashion) left the implementation to a committee of popular sci-fi novelists ...

All we need now is for boston dynamics to release their mech-warrior line...
Dudes hero is Elon, _after_ he bought twotter
Where can you even find a machine for $100/hour? The most expensive one on this list is just over $5 and is definitely overkill for running a 40B model. https://www.paperspace.com/gpu-cloud-comparison
I have this theory that every single one of these VPN services is operated by the secret police of some country.
All the audiophile in-ear headphones I’ve ever bought broke in less than a year; but none of my “cheap” headphones ever broke. Except my apple ear buds: those wore out pretty fast too. The cables are really low quality

I use AirPods atm: you don’t have to fiddle with getting a proper seal, you can still hear what’s around you, the open back sound stage feels great in all headphones, there’s less pressure buildup, and it has good software integration. I’m never going back to cords again if I can help it
Several comments on this thread tend to slip into the trap of comparing countries. It's important to remember that population density plays a crucial role in financing public infrastructure.

Consider Argentina's case, for instance. Its size is comparable to India, yet it has a population smaller than Spain, making it a daunting task to fund extensive rail networks.

The same rationale can be applied to the US in comparison to smaller European nations.

Ultimately, promoting driving by making cars more affordable and investing in the highway system may indeed be the most adaptable and practical strategy for larger countries. Just something to ponder over.
This. I live to experience joy. Anything that gets in the way of that is ignored, executed or voted down.
This is no longer about third party apps, if it ever was. It's about mods learning where they fit within the site's power structure, and not being happy about it.
I have Plex running on a Pi 4, with some USB disks attached that spin down when not needed. Seems to also work fine.
Some people like to be embarrassed? It’s that kind of community.
I like the idea. I will call it HackingNews.
Actually it's pretty easy. Whatever energy you put in, that will be used.
Stop drinking cola, eat burgers and more salad.

The whole thing is just willingness. Even there are things like gut bacteria transfer, and so.. still. Even with the wrong bacteria it's a matter of what and how much you eat.
This is exactly the issue. I’m sure most people who installed Plex did it to stream their own self-hosted media, but now Plex by default shoves in a bunch of streaming BS that they want you to watch, while hiding your own media behind a few clicks.

Plex has always had some minor frustrations, but this is probably enough to make me switch.
"... for making a client users actually want, instead of something so basic the average user will install out of necessity, annoyance of the mobile website nagging prompts, or ignorance of other options."
Means you can say "Here's my API key for these private trackers" in one spot instead of 8. "Indexer Manager" is probably a better description.
Converting gas-powered cars to EVs is a booming business
Interest in electric vehicles is at an all-time high, with sales of new EVs up 55% in 2022 compared with the year prior.
A burgeoning industry is breathing new life, and power, into internal combustion vehicles by converting them to electric.
Both the shops and aftermarket community are growing substantially to meet the new demand.
> Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped down after seven years as California's governor on Monday, leaving the state struggling with a fiscal crisis that has pushed it to the brink of bankruptcy.

https://www.france24.com/en/20110104-schwarzenegger-steps-do...
The point that always seems to get lost in these discussions is that it really shouldn't be an either/or thing. There's no reason you can't still have a car for journeys that make sense to drive while having great alternatives so you aren't forced to use a car for every single trip, which would be a huge transportation improvement over what exists now in the vast majority of American cities.
Were these 3x soldiers (heh) in touch with reality though? Or did they just buy a bullshit story?

It seems that the last time when the system wasn't set up to extract from peasants had been maybe before agricultural revolution?
I think it’s still the case that you have to use Cloudflare’s nameservers, is that right? I’m considering moving domains from Gandi but it would be a lot easier if I could just point at the nameservers I’m currently using on Route 53.
I’ve thought about this a few times and I came to the conclusion that when you become a billionaire you become that alien to humanity. You are so far removed from average peoples needs you take on a fully alien mindset
Agreed: removing the foam gave me headaches