skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've use sequence diagrams a few times. I find any kind of diagram tooling to be a tedious time sink. The resulting output is a talking point at best. Some window dressing for a presentation or internal document. Fluff you add to impress some easily impressed managers or clients. I always feel slightly dirty doing stuff like this. I have UML distilled on my shelf. A signed copy even. Haven't opened it in over two decades. It's obsolete.

Diagrams are communication and marketing assets at best. They are not creative tools. You create them for other people; not for yourself. And it takes a lot of effort to create them. If you measure the value of your time in dollars per hour (as your clients/employer should be doing), a good diagram can be several hours of work. So, it's expensive. A few hundred dollars is nothing.

Next time you see a diagram, ask yourself the question "would I pay 300$ for this thing?". In my case, the answer predictably is "hell no" 100% of the time. Asking the question is kind of answering it. Diagrams are rarely helpful. Either they are way to simple to add much value or way to detailed and hard to understand. There seems no middle ground here. So, you have three or four things with some arrows and labels. Well, yay! Tell me something I didn't know already.

Diagrams are low value window dressing. A literal waste of time and money. I do them rarely, reluctantly, and only when people really insist on them (and I'll push back a little). I find tools in this space tedious and frustratingly slow to use. I have more interesting things to do typically. If I do them at all, they are going to be a quick and dirty job.

It's not just me. Objectively, diagrams are very uncommon in software development these days. They are not part of regular software development processes, clients don't ask for them anymore, the vast majority of projects (and close to 100% of OSS projects) don't have them, etc.
I'm torn on this, on the one hand I would love to be able to hack on iPhone hardware.

However, we have Epic. No matter how deep the option is buried, they will try to get people to enable it so they can install their games without going through the app store.
I wish I could agree with you, but the bad actors here are large corporations who are incentivised to make even those who want to be safe, unsafe.
AFAIK you have to be 18 years old to apply to Apple's iOS developer program. This is a huge problem within teaching. Please do tell me if there are legal ways around this.
I still don't understand how we went from the Manifesto's "individuals and interactions over processes and tools" to... Jira.
I stopped updating Firefox on version 89.0 because I got tired of having to unfuck it after every update.
Ok this is crude and really you would be better of learning to use screen or tmux, but you could always do the following.

login on your first virtual console and then run the following (feel free to replace bash with your preferred shell):

bash | tee /tmp/scrollback

Then login on your second virtual console and run:

less +F /tmp/scrollback

Now switch back to your first virtual console and start debugging. When you hit a point you want to scroll back then hop over to your second virtual console hit <CTRL>+C to interrupt less from following your file and you can then scroll back through your output. When you've done scrolling back through your history press <SHIFT>+F (i.e. an uppercase F) in less and it'll go back to following the /tmp/scrollback file

It's not how I would work, but there were times where I've had minimal resources to work with on a physical server and this did the job - albeit in a total impractical way. :)
Why does anyone need any wisdom? To be prepared for all areas of life that parallel one another. The Art of War is a book of life.
> are able to wield technology to make themselves 10x better like we're doing with programming

lmfao
Why dafuq would I care about a bug related to a streaming service I've never even heard of when all I do is play locally stored music files?

Incidentally, I still have not come across a suitable replacement for Winamp all these years later. They all have crappy UIs or bring features that I do not want and get in my way.
It's on the web, so you can send links the regular way.

Either right-click a post, copy link, paste into brother-in-law chat.

Or open a post, copy the browser's address bar, paste into brother-in-law chat.

E.g. https://beehaw.org/post/529329
> Except pretty much everyone thinks the CCS2 connector sucks

They don't, it doesn't, it works, and it's deployed internationally on all cars and chargers.

No point making up a false narrative.
Short answer: no. Except maybe for picking up a word here and there. Reading Latin is somewhat easier, except for poetry, where the word order is completely hopeless. Source: I am Italian.

Edit: most Italians study Latin in high school, but the curriculum is focused on grammar and literary works, not casual conversation, and very little of writing down your own essays, or God forbid speaking it.

At the end of high school, you can almost - I mean almost - read Caesar's texts fluently, and then it quickly fades away due to lack of practice. The only remaining use is to read some historical plaques in city centers, and even that is quite difficult since they often contain strange abbreviations, made-up grammar from the middle ages, or missing pieces.
> "Uh... they're both from the UN."

'the UN guy' is the secretary-general of the United Nations, the chief administrative officer of the United Nations.

'the fuel industry guy' is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Al_Jaber and he is described as "the Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates, managing director and group CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC Group), chairman of Masdar (the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company), and the United Arab Emirates' special envoy for climate change. He is the President-Designate of the upcoming COP28 climate talks."

> "You can disagree with who the UN chooses"

OK but I wasn't doing that. Such defensiveness did catch my interest though, and I see there is a whole section on his wiki page including "A further Guardian investigation revealed in June 2023 that a large number of fake Twitter and Medium accounts, using stock or AI-generated profile images, have been either promoting and defending the hosting of the UN climate summit by the United Arab Emirates, including reposting UAE government tweets and trying to rebut criticism of Al Jaber's presidency."
I’d even say that the scholarly consensus on Revelation goes a bit further: that it was written as a type of political commentary on current events.

Also interesting to note that Revelation was nearly rejected for canonization because it depicts Christians in heaven continually feasting, while asceticism and a life of poverty were hallmarks of Christianity at the time. Wild to compare those values to the “prosperity” gospel of today.

If you’re interested in the history and development of Revelation, I’d recommend Bart Ehrman’s Great Courses lecture[1], or his Podcast episodes on the topic[2].

[1] https://archive.org/details/BartEhrman-TheHistoryOfTheBibleT...

[2] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-book-of-revelation...
The phrasing has elements of elitism, but zooming out I don't think the idea itself is inherently elitist.

One of the issues with reddit's redesign is that they made it more 'friendly' by introducing more media inline. If you have a site that allows for discussion of any topic like reddit, but optimizes for gigantic pictures and animations and by default your feed is filled with content that is more suited for that (eg, things like cat pictures), then you're absolutely going to attract a different audience than a utilitarian pure text site. People who just want to scroll through a feed of cat pictures are going to spend their time on a site optimized for it.

Of course, there is overlap in interests and you'll find a lot of people who'd prefer a utilitarian site to also occasionally like scrolling through cat pictures, but it seems clear to me that the shape of the ui will cause a divergence and overall different culture on a given site. A better example for this than reddit is probably imgur -- you're almost certainly not going there for intellectual discussion, right?

I think the contention here is the word friendly being a proxy for less information density and for a larger number of images / video.
I think you’re right. The more I think about it the more I feel like Reddit to me is the comment section for thinks that either don’t have a comment section or have a bad comment section.
Especially conservative people looking for any reason not to believe something, like climate change, vaccines, masks, ...
I'd normally say "good for him, he dodged a bullet, he's not going to be hurt by fallout once the company gets so rotten inside it collapses on itself". Unfortunately, this is not an isolated trend; if it keeps up, we'll see a whole generation of people with minds filled with hate, and I'm not sure the society can survive it undamaged.
>> I didn't say they weren't the tastes of my childhood, I said they weren't the tastes of my childhood, with that emphasis.

https://xkcd.com/169/

>> Why you choose to live in a country you're so convinced is a shithole is a mystery to me, but next time I see you whinging about it on hn I'll know to walk on by.

It's like I say in another comment: great food, beautiful weather, wonderful people.
I love when people say that and apparently think it's admirable/amazing that a device would still work 6 years after its release.

But most devices used to work a lifetime. My motorcycle was made in 2009 (14 years ago) and is in pristine condition. The previous one was over 25 years old when it got stolen (by someone, presumably, who thought it was worth the risk). Blenders from the 40s still work. Not to mention non-electrical tools like hammers and such, which last for generations.

Parts of my home desktop computer are over 15 years old; the case itself was made in the 1990s.

It's one thing to get newer devices that do new things, and quite another to have to throw away old ones that should still be working fine.

Phones have no moving parts, there's no good reason they should become obsolete.
Do you care if your email provider happens to give accounts to Nazis or communists or religious nuts, if you never happen to exchange emails with them? Do you care if your web host happens to host their websites?

Why should a "federated Reddit replacement" have to be any different? If you subscribe to subs X and Y and Z, and none of that stuff is in those subs, does it matter to you if the instance (or other instances it federates with) contains other subs–which you never visit–that do have it?
The $0.07/kWh is for recently completed plants. The industry estimates they publish for new plants are more like $0.03/kWh.

You appear to be employing rhetoric a lot more than hard numbers. If you want a productive discussion I recommend sticking to the latter.
Exposure Notifications was a great try by Google and Apple. If it weren't a thing, most big government would develop more privacy invasive contact tracing app. It seems that it wasn't worked well, but still a great try.
I believe it's 60 days that you have to wait, not 6 months.
I liked kbin.social a lot. It's a little rough around the edges, and doesn't have a ton of users, but I found that that's actually very ok. It reminds me of Reddit 10 years ago. Nowadays every thread in Reddit is either stupid memes and the same predictable jokes over and over, or some fanatical social wars stuff. Kbin looks like a place where you can actually have a conversation again, without being banned or destroyed for disagreeing even if done rationally and politely.
I hope it survives its technical challenges.
The referenced "Moderator Code of Conduct", apparently effective as of 8 September 2022:

<https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-code-of-conduct>
My guess is you have a layer of "professional planners" that fiddling with dates and projections is what they do. Agreed it's mostly a waste of time.
I had the same impression as you until I listened to a podcast with Steve Huffmann about the early days of Reddit. For some time, he and Aaron worked quite intensively on the site. From the podcast, it rather appeared that they had different visions about the site. Aaron wanted to build a very different kind of community and experience. When Reddit started to become successful, there was less and less time to work on these „visions“ until he lost interest and basically left the team.
And of course, there's no way to verify the output of an llm without professional experience or training, so what's the point?
As a native German speaker, I have a very similar problem with Japanese. In Japanese it is possible (and popular, I'd say) to describe an object before mentioning what you are describing. For example, I can go on a tangent and have elaborate descriptions of an object ("is painted white, has two floors, a nice garden, a bus stop is close by, ...") but only at the very end of this description I tell the audience what object I'm describing ("a house").
It feels like my brain has to buffer all the adjectives and verbs before I finally know what I can apply them to. Very challenging for me.

Well, I guess the better you get, the earlier you can deduct what this is about and I also guess that my analogy of "buffering" is not how it actually works but it feels like it.
Who is Louis Rossman?
Mercedes Benz integrates ChatGPT in in-car voice control
Randomly scrolled past that announcement, thought I'd share -
Hacker News is written in arc. The first reddit was written in Common Lisp. clisp, specifically, I believe.

Aaron convinced them to do it in his web.py and it was rewritten in a weekend (or so the story went). Later, it was written in Pylons and open sourced. No idea these days.
Don't forget that you alienate all those in poorer parts of the world unless you have regional prices.
Pont-Saint-Esprit Poisoning: Did the CIA Spread LSD?
I'm curious, why you even get subscription in the first place?
Well at least now if Google ever locks my account I won't lose access to all my email aliases.
(Google Talk enters the chat) "Hey guys, what are we talking about?"
The claims that well-off, privileged humans will not survive are not supported by science.
And are they going to take their existing houses and beam them up to the Starship Enterprise? Or are they going to let them rot empty, while paying those same taxes and maintenance on them?

... Or do you think they will let them out for whatever they can get?

Houses aren't a soccer ball, you can't pack them up and leave if you don't like the playing field.

It's weird how whenever houses are the topic of discussion, people seem to think that economics should only work in one direction.
Experience reading articles that try and push a point. They always use the most favourable estimates.
The absolutely do. I'm sure there are feuding subreddits about the same topic. But reddit as a platform allows them both (because it's their business interest), so with one account you can see both.
this chat thread is a perfect Google Chats meme
I thought we were on "hacker" news ...
You overestimate how tech-savvy an average user is (by a huge margin).

No one knows what an API is in real world. And no one is willing to pay just because they sees more than 100 images on r/funny in a short period.

By "no one" I meant that kind of userbase is so small that if you design your site around them you can say goodbye to IPO.
> There are Reddit users waiting in the wings, wringing their hands ready to jump at the 'oppurtunity' to moderate established subreddits and will happily devote their time to custodial duties. (...) There are people who thrive on having power over others even though in this case, subreddit moderation, it is perceived power.

Yes. Those are the very people who should be never ever allowed to become mods, or to be anywhere near any position of power. This is how people seeking status and power self-identify, and if they're given mod power, you can count on their subreddits going to shit rather quickly, and/or them eventually getting bored and quitting, once they realize that being a mod is a hard and thankless job, with people who need you the most hating you the most.

Now sure, the current set of moderators isn't made of saints and purely selfless people either. But it's stable. The worst moderators long ago dropped out, or rode their subreddits down to ground. Reddit ecosystem reached an equilibrium. Now the corporate is shaking everything up, and the platform will have to re-equilibrize again. I expect to watch good subreddits go to shit, some getting forked off, and maybe those forks thriving if there's still enough selfless enough volunteers left after this debacle.
What an amazing world we live in. Pick this giant greedy tech monopoly datagarden or the other one. It's a pseudochoice.

Walled datagardenism needs to STOP.
To a first approximation, no one pays full price for a phone up front. They buy it through a carrier.

Even the low end carriers like Metro give you a “free” iPhone with a contract. Even if that’s not the case, the price of a iPhone SE over two years is not that much higher than an Android.

That’s not even bringing up the refurb market.
I don't necessarily disagree. But maybe the AP headline should have been more like "UN chief loses composure in the face of absurd proposal by oil industry executive in high stakes energy and climate debate."
The New Rubik’s Cube World Record Is Just 3.13 Seconds
Here's the CISA announcement:

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...
Golly. It's just hard to get a grip on anything in it.
Utterly appalling, and sad to hear. Even in a progressive metropolis like Los Angeles, bigots lurk in positions of power undermining values of equality and equity everywhere.

Glad to see them called out publicly, though in my opinion this warrants a thorough internal investigation into the company culture at their former firm, if this kind of behavior was regularly tolerated.
I think he runs a repair shop.

I'm not sure why his appeal to authority should matter for most people.

There are plenty of reasons to leave Reddit.
This is such a tired cliche. How is something owned by 60% of the American market a “status symbol”?
Together Chat and Meet are the replacement for Hangouts. Meet is also the replacement for Duo.
<narrator> It's not about who pays, it's about who controls. </narrator>
I haven't seen such dramatic speedups in my own code for quite a while since I don't tend to start with a worst case version.

With some googling it's easy to find cases like this where switching from a traditional OOP approach of "unique objects in random heap locations" to a DOD approach gains a 173x speedup overall (it's not just the tight memory layout of course, but also all the code simplifications this enables, like tighter loops and then easier integration of multithreading):

https://medium.com/@jasonbooth_86226/intro-to-jobs-burst-dod...

Basically, search for DOD (Data Oriented Design), ECS (Entity Component System), SoA (Structure of Arrays) for similar optimization stories.
Yes, this is a significant reason why I refuse WFH.

I feel pretty bad for the "covid cohort" in universities too.
> code is already formal enough that you don't need a formal visual language

Code can be formal enough but in reality it is almost never formal enough. Many constraints can be expressed imperatively (eg. someone validates the number of related objects in the create view) and in unexpected places (across repositories and libraries and maybe not even in code but in some stored procedure). And then it is all in flux and can go away the moment you change your stack.

I don't know if UML is perfectly flexible (maybe?) but its sure benefit is a source of truth that does not depend on your implementation.
Not a substantive comment, but I hope Caro will be able to finish his book.
That’s exactly right - I want to give another example: Squamates want to develop a legless body. Snakes have emerges, but there are also legless geckos, legless lizards etc, etc.

The thing is that normally the change happens in the speciesation first and then these traits are used for something distinctive - dinosaurs grew feathers first, and then used them for flight. Humans grew intelligence first, and then used it for civilization. The resource has to be already there to be used. The resource will not be developed by evolution. The lungfish already had limbs and joints (while living purely aquatically), thus it could use it to walk outside the water.
We use AWS Lambda as a monolithic "serverless" to run our Django stack since Lambda can now take standard containers[0].

The full environment, costs us US$100/mnth to run production b2b application. Traffic is quite light, but we literally don't pay for non-usage. The most expensive thing of our monthly bill is the postgres RDS+Elasticache. So for our use case it is extremely cost effective, esp for UAT, Staging where there's no traffic and using the smallest machines possible <US$50/mth.

To me this is the "next generation" of serverless. Back to monolith but where we don't manage even CPU time. We get all the benefits of monolithic repo, debugging, deployment and key benefits of serverless namely pricing+CPU management. It's not edge lambda but admittedly that's not a need of ours.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69512271/will-the-cold-s...
The world isn't completely full of vapid morons. There's plenty of intelligent people here, plus there's plenty of intelligent people on various Reddit subs, who are interested in intelligent discourse. There's plenty of popular media that isn't vapid and moronic: just look at Star Trek: it's been a cultural phenomenon for over a half-century and it's rather intellectual for a series aimed at the general public, yet it's rather difficult to find anyone these days who's never heard of it.

There's nothing terribly special about people who are reasonably intelligent and are interested in intelligent discussions about various topics; we're not some vanishingly small minority. Civilization wouldn't have gotten this far if 99% of people were vapid morons. There are a lot of vapid morons out there, as evidenced by the rise of TikTok (and to be fair, not everything there is utter trash), but they're not the overwhelming majority of the population IMO.
> I don't understand why people don't blame the government for government failings.

In the end we get the politicians we deserve. If we're too lazy to find the uncorruptable ones, or even run ourselves if all are corrupt, we get corrupt politicians.
Sure but I honestly disagree that open core compromises the ethics of open sourse.

It's just pragmatic. People are into open source for different reasons. I've been in it for almost two decades and it was always for the the benefits for learning, hackability, transparency, future-proofing, etc etc. All aspects which are perfectly preserved by open core.
They know they need these communities un-privated asap, because as soon as search engines start reindexing their ranking will take a huge hit (therefore guest users, therefore ad revenue). At the same time they have shown no interest in listening to what the community wants. They are Digg-ing their grave.
Most apt use cases imo are not part of the "main loop" of a webapp but instead to supporting functions, like sending an email, resizing an image, any sort of cron, etc. Or, the micro part of microservices.
I think Pony is one of the most interesting languages out there. I love actors, I love capabilities, I love whitelisting of C/C++ usage. Sadly no armv7 support, cross compiling itself is really hard too (never got it to work), the package management support is weird and deviates quite a bit from mainstream (IIRC having multiple versions of the same dependency is a feature ) and it lacks users.

I honestly would love to have a mix between rust and pony.
Odds are exceedingly high that spez is doing the Board's bidding.

The Board is not your savior here.