skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing just this, around 2001 or so, provided a teenaged me with my first skills in IT.

I would take castoffs being thrown out by the school, or stuff other kids had gotten from family members who upgraded, fix them up, upgrade them if I could, and put on a suitable OS with any customizations and streamlining I could do to make them run the best they could. I think I even worked on a 486 once which was pretty old. But it could do word processing!

I still miss that! When I see an old PC sitting around I yearn for an excuse to do that again. Sadly I don’t think I could find anyone who would want them.
> I refuse to believe there are people this petty.

There's a lot of us who aren't petty, but uhhh, certainly childish. The name is a problem.
> It is hard to overcome the fact that vi clones have been around for a bazillion years, will almost certainly outlive all of us, and will always be in every repo.

Vi's ubiquity & longevity are good reasons to learn vi as at least a backup.

But, I don't think it'd be worth limiting yourself to plugin-less, unimproved vi just because there are some circumstances you won't be able to use your personalised setup. -- Since you'll be using your own configuration 99% of the time, I don't see the above as all that relevant for using something like kakoune.
Two notes: When I search for oz and ml nothing comes up. Also there should be a button to swap units like you have on xe.com (ability to swap currencies).

Many cooking utensils I have at home are either in ml or oz but not both.
Agile can be this, but it requires finding a company that trusts it's SWE people. Once you have that trust, the rest of it just flows from there. But - it requires everyone to actually be willing to work this way.

I work in a company/team that has this, and while we use Jira[0], it's effectively there to remember what we need to do for a given task/bug and ensure that two people don't work on the same thing. The use of Epics lets management & stakeholders see what is happening with a given feature without bugging us.

We don't have estimations, retros, or any of the other usual rituals, and it's amazing. If there's a mismatch of expectations or we need to hash something out there's Slack and Zoom. Someone volunteers to write up a card, and we're done.

The corollary is that we've had a couple of hires come and go who just did not have the skills and/or interest in being part of those conversations, and they did not last. I'm in two minds if this is the damage inflicted on them by years of managerial Taylorism, or that they just could not keep up with the rest of the team. I expect (but hope to be wrong) that once we expand enough to have actual juniors we might have to embrace some of the more ritual parts of agile.

[0] We use Jira in Kanban mode with a couple of text templates for the different card types (epic, story, bug), and none of the usual rules about what can be moved in and out of what column.

EDIT: complete->couple
Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI – Lex Fridman [video]
Sure but is it better than HBO max or Netflix or Hulu? Oh, sorry HBO Max just stopped working, so whatever app HBO is now. (Can’t be any worse)
I really don’t understand your argument.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shoot-me-kangaroo-down-spo...
The “toe socks inside regular socks” is the secret to me never getting blisters on marathons (once I started doing that)!
A prominent Kakoune contributor wrote up a great blog post exploring that question here: https://phaazon.net/blog/more-hindsight-vim-helix-kakoune
The title of the bill is AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SEAFORD RELATING TO THE CITY'S ABILITY TO AUTHORIZE ARTIFICIAL ENTITIES, LIMITED LIABILITY CORPORATIONS' PARTNERSHIPS AND TRUSTS TO VOTE IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS HELD IN SEAFORD. What's wrong with specificity?
I switched from Kakoune to Helix after using Kakoune for a few years. Helix, to me, is everything i loved about Kakoune but with better defaults. It being in a language i love also is fun, as i almost immediately forked it and changed a few things - handy when they're still figuring out plugins.
I, too, am a toe-sock hoe. Thank you for these points! I'll be sure to refer to them next time I'm asked about my foot-fitting choices.
https://archive.is/EHsgY
Yes it’s worse than what came before. But I see it as a continuation of both addictive games with pay to win IAP who prey on similar whales, and streaming in general with “pay to be noticed”.

It’s not necessarily game-changing, from the perspective of $$ extraction, but definitely a very significant advancement.
You obviously have never worked in Aerospace or Safety critical systems
The Internet afaik is a breakthrough in technology that is potentially powerful enough to break new grounds

Instead, people use it as a ignorance amplifier.

Now AI can be used to benefit humanity, but I can only trust humanity to use it to pollute the internet with ego and selfish manipulation.

Is human nature seriously that wretched?
Ask HN: To Langchain or not to Langchain
Hey HN,

I'm building a startup that leverages AI to build and improve software requirements, and I have only recently discovered Langchain.

We added GPT3 back in December, but all the prompts, AI comms, and tooling is hand-rolled. After playing with Langchain on some hobby projects, I see its power, perhaps more so as complexity rises (multi model, agent-like tooling etc) - so atm I'm debating whether I should do a partial re-write and leverage Langchain.

I was curious to hear others thoughts, and how ubiquitous Langchain is in the AI tooling/dev scene, or whether other roll-your-own interfaces are working great and I'm overthinking it :)
Where does culture come from?
Well, I tried it after reading the article, and currently it is very intuitive to cancel your Prime membership:

- Clicked the "Hello, Your Account & Lists" button on the home page

- Clicked the "Prime" button

- There is a big link that says "Update, cancel, and more..." there

The article says that they changed the UI in April. Maybe it was worse before.
I'd argue there was to some extent. I mean psych has always had issues, but it seems from the late 1800's to the mid 1970's would characterize the golden age. During this time science that produced results and was verifiable and reproducible experienced a huge boom. In part because during this time period almost every nation on earth got involved at some point in a life or death struggle which turns to do a pretty good job at cutting through science that doesn't hold water when it's the difference between your country winning and your countrymen being slaughtered.

As proof of this most of the open question in fundamental physics are the same ones that were open at the time of Einstein's death.
> Isn't perjury the act of swearing to something that isn't true?

Perjury is lying under oath. The statement must be made under oath to be eligible for perjury. And making a statement under oath is a formal process, dictated by court or law.

You cannot make yourself be under oath. Swearing something to be true doesn't count, unless there is a legal context that makes it true. Swearing in a witness in court makes that happen. Some laws (like DMCA) make statements in certain documents oathful. But it is the law, not the document, that decides that.
I have a C2D laptop that I upgraded to a C2Q that’s perfectly competent even running modern Windows and even better with a lighter OS. Even managed to get WiFi 6 and BT 5.0 bolted on without any external dongles.

It’s fine capped at 8GB but if it could swing 16GB it’d be somewhere between decent and great for anything but gaming.
> there will be less than a few hundred thousand users next year

A few hundred thousand users with a massive amount of disposable income.
If the paralegal works for a lawyer, yes.
Hope so. Just started the process and noticed this new section after going there to copy some information for my attorney.

After months of unsuccessful cold emailing and filling out every form I could find, this is my last resort. Probably should have done it earlier.

It's sad that this is apparently the only way to get somebody to take a look.
For those of you that use VS Code, there is a plugin[1] that follow a lot of the Kakoune grammar but doesn't try to emulate fully, opting instead for better integration with vscode. I have been using it for a few years after using Kakoune for a few and then trying and failing to make my own Kakoune emulation mode for vscode.

[1]: https://github.com/71/dance
The temporal dynamics of group interactions in higher-order social networks
> and if they don't, you can sue them for damages caused by the takedown.

You can counter-sue them regardless of whether or not they sue you. They have made a claim that you are in violation of the law. You are allowed to go to court first to get a "declaratory judgment" that you are not. https://youtu.be/-7H8SZMwz24?t=1320 (30 seconds to watch relevant part)
I hope you’re using lead-free solder if you’re holding it with your mouth. The fumes aren’t great at that distance either
> Sometimes I think there’s a ton of theatre in modern medicine.

It's a free market, baby!
Row v wade had largely been eroded by the time it was overturned. It was obviously a very big deal politically, but the operative case law was Casey v planned parenthood, which allowed for a significant amount of restrictions. Casey paved the way for the mass whittling away of abortion rights in many states before roe was officially overturned.

The roe precedent was not on nearly as firm of ground.

Though your overall point is still obviously correct, at the end of the day the court is a political institution ruled over by 9 unelected individuals.
https://xkcd.com/1118/
Remove the "corporation" part and it kinda gets reasonable again. Would you vote for a group of people to be your representative? I might.
https://archive.is/IlxyP
Also, I doubt there’s a public API for getting the battery temperature.
I am sure I'm preaching to the choir here, but the DMCA is just such an egregiously bad law. Its main use cases are this kind of consequence-free fraudulent terrorism and the much worse draconian de facto state enforcement of extremely customer-hostile business models. It needs to be nuked from orbit
Are they paid to actually destroy them? Or just to dispose of them how they see fit? A massive amount of those get bought by the pallet, and after they have their drives wiped/replaced get sold on Ebay.
You Believe the Things You Do
Many of us learned development by using a computer to program apps that then ran on that same computer.

As far as I’m aware you can’t do that with iOS devices (potentially including the AR ones).
But google earth is gone. That was seriously one of the best apps on the device :(
Wow, that’s a blast from the past. Those code examples look exactly like the var to let changes in ES2015…
> The slice in Go is more or less equivalent to &[] in Rust or std::span in C++.

Not really, because they are mutable, they can mutate the underlying memory, and they can re-allocate. They are a weird mix of &mut []/Vec or std::{span,vector}.

In contrast, a Rust &[] can may the underlying storage (if it's an &mut []), but cannot spin out a new storage on its own and start a new life without a backing structure – and I'm not utterly familiar with std::span, but I would wage the semantics are close.

Go slices can, which is why they are always tricky, especially for beginners. Not only does = not really do what is intuitively expected, not only every beginner will be bitten in the ass by forgetting the `x =` in `x = append(x, y)`, but it is impossible, when calling a function expecting a slice, to know if this function only wants a view on some memory or actually expect to modify it; a capital difference that is very clear in Rust or C++ type systems.
But they endanger others who have to go looking or attempt to rescue them.
> i haven't come across a single language that would limit me in how i structure my code

Rust is one of the languages that limits how the code and data can be structured. Often it's either the Rust way, or it's going to be awkward or not even compile (e.g. it doesn't like doubly-linked lists, structs containing a references to their own data, mutable getters, and a few other common patterns). This is often very off-putting to people coming from C who want to do things their way, and end up fighting with the compiler over every line of code.
I haven't heard of a company using Ruby at scale that aren't actively trying to migrate off of it.
Have you considered that skin color is more than just skin color? That a people, a culture, is more than the amount of melanin they have?

The idea that everyone is a blank slate wrapped in different colors of skin seems quite reductive, if not insulting to the beauty of human diversity, given the real science behind genetics.
So, would you pay more to see this, or to see them wrestle nude in gelatin?
If you have to take temperature several times over a week of moderate illness, an approximate measure is enough.

When your baby has 104F temperature in the middle of the night and you are deciding whether to take them to the ER or not, that's when you wish you had forked over for a more expensive and accurate model.
As an employee, I dont think anyone can. I'd make speculation here, but we all know how that ends up being twisted into misunderstanidng. The current kernel source is available on gitlab though (centos-streams) because now centos streams is upstream of rhel kernel.
> As to whether Google has done this before or not is completely irrelevant.

Isn't that the whole issue in discussion? Google never did this before, and as a result they could always claim "we will never, ever, sell your information". This just changed as now they decided to sell that data to Squarespace. So they can't claim that anymore, right?

I understand that Google had no other option. As far as I know, ICANN requires a registrar to transfer domains to another registrar if they are going out of business. So either they support the service forever, or sell their user data to another registrar and remove that statement as they no longer uphold that statement.

They got themselves into that business. No one forced them to sign an agreement with ICANN that could one day force them to transfer that information to someone else, but they did.
If a particularly large set of FAAMG support cases need to be handled by the courts, we’ll need to increase taxes and expand the court systems to accommodate these cases.
If thats the case, its going to look bad parked next to the incumbent trucks. The newest ones seem pretty huge from observing in real life (although I haven't measured tbh).

I just hope the truck is actually strong and robust because people like this guy are going to test it and if its not strong then I just know the Tesla fanboys will go to war

[1]:https://youtu.be/D-CVbAfJP-Y?t=278

The gold standard of trucks the tesla will probably be compared to:
[2]:https://youtu.be/Yl1FNX08HFc?t=414
If you’re on that precipice, you should just be going.
European / Levant maps through the mediaeval period frequently placed east at the top of the map. This is where the sun rose, and "to orient" is "to determine where East lies", and was (for Europeans) the direction toward Jerusalem.

I suspect that north-as-top orientations were strongly influenced by the invention / importation of the magnetic compass.

<https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/58426/why-north-always-m...>
What's the point of refactoring C++ to C? That sounds weird and regressive.
Naughty Boy is a name brand product of black leather school shoes made by the shoe company Bata. Although it is a Czech company, it is probably the biggest shoe brand in India - at least in recognition. I would say that most people in India think that Bata is an Indian brand.

As to why they decided to call their line of school shoes "Naughty Boy", I would guess that it's a reverse psychology marketing thing.
I think there’s a sort of Apple guarantee too. If I’m going to buy a $3500 headset I want it to be made by Apple.

Kinda happy they released the iPhone when I was capable of buying that, and this one now that I’m (potentially) capable of buying this.
Removed it midstream or between releases ?
Because people didn't do what they were told to do, and the government screwed it all up. Some state governors did nothing.

The US's categorical inability to implement the basic functions of a state are not an indictment of those functions
"Clockwise" is the angular direction that the shadow of a northern-hemisphere sundial appears to move.
ChatGPT GPT-4 plays hangman
It's better than when I tried it with GPT-3 where it kept changing the answer word after every guess. GPT-4 worked but it picked a word that didn't exist. I am guessing that's because it never truly picked a word and just tried to make it fit to the best of its abilities.
That sounds like paradise compared to the last couple of companies I worked for.
Extreme Heat and More Storms Threaten an Already Battered Oklahoma
I too would be interested in a good forum for like minded folks to share ideas about AI coding!
That doesn't seem ironic.

Someone writing a book arguing for breaking the rules is exactly who I would expect to break the rules.

Or is the irony here that someone actually took an idea seriously and followed through on it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17_xLsqny9E … 40-second clip demonstrating their tech
Came to post this myself. What I love about Helix is that it just works out of the box. Install your toolchain and LSP and off you go. I absolutely do not want to have to write my own Vim config, or install some tool that configures a ton of stuff I don't understand.
It seems that's his point. The "one size fits all skin shades, weight, and genetics" is rather silly.
The goals before the 4 years were probably based on results claimed, not making a product. Research management is difficult and efficiently running a lab requires some degree of trust that researchers don't lie.

I think the bigger part of management's fault here is that they should have spent some time on verifying the research before dedicating more resources.
Incorrect Quotation
https://github.blog/2023-04-06-building-github-with-ruby-and...
The myth of common infrastructure is a common theme in schools. Our own district “regionalized” across three towns to get those infrastructure savings.

They were non-existent.

The reality, in NJ at least, is that a school’s budget will balloon to the maximum size legally allowed, and expand from there forever. On occasions when stupid BOE’s back themselves into a corner, they rook the residents into a referendum to get a zillion dollar bond.

The common theme in public schools is: mandatory funding via taxation, and no accountability at all.
Yes Quicksilver was very intuitive to work with, wonder why these new tools won't replicate the same behavior?
The article is paywalled so I can't read it, but I don't believe for a second that Mississippi has better educational outcomes than New York. Every single ranking I have seen puts Mississippi in the bottom 3 in terms of educational outcomes, with it usually coming dead last. New York at worst is somewhere in the top half of states, I usually see it in the top 10.
Feels like you're pretending that Amero-Eurocentrism is not a thing, that there is no agenda or bias to be examined or criticized.

If you've ever played Risk, the Amero-Eurocentrism is extreme.

https://cdn.matthewhaeck.com/content/images/2015/02/risk.jpg

https://freeprintableaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/risk-...

North America: 9 territories, larger than Africa.
Europe: 7 territories, as large as Africa.
USA: 3 territories, Canada: 5, Australia: 2
China, India, Brazil which are all very large: 1
Abstract says "mean absolute error of 0.229 °C"
I disagree that outsourcing support what is going on.

This is Meta's way of hammering home the finality of their decision. They want you to realize that there is no hope in pleading, calling, writing, or begging. Take them to court or go away.

Of course, they aren't concerned if they got the decision wrong unless your business happens to be Nike or Coca-Cola.
I can't speak for America, but

> but then you take them off anyways, out of politeness

...as is the Canadian way
I put very little faith in the US public school system pre-pandemic, I really don't think the lost schooling is that important in the long run.

> With the benefit of hindsight, it’s really hard to argue that lockdowns were the right call.

With the benefit of hindsight, the easier judgment to make is that the US has become an anti-social, low-trust society made up of people who are incapable of putting the needs of others ahead of their own interests. If you live in the US, you were never truly under "lockdown".

We also have plenty of evidence from the Spanish Flu pandemic which supports pre-emptive school closures (rather than reactive school closures) as an effective means of slowing spread
The three “Godfathers of AI” are at war over where their technology is taking us
Time to force Delaware out of the United States. We can let Puerto Rico in and Delaware can be their own country or something. Anything to stop their obscene obeisance to corporations from making things worse for the rest of us.
A Tour of the South Pole Station – Part 1
That's my point. You need to really drink the koolaid to believe that for either Amazon or Google.
You may want to get a chest xray to check for aortic calcification at some point.
I know people will talk about how power hungry C2D and C2Qs are compared to modern CPUs, but it really is amazing how well they've aged in terms of usability.

If all I had in front of me was a C2D I could still get the vast majority of my work accomplished with little to no issue, provided the system was running Linux or BSD.
That's a problem with your communication between dev and design - not the tool