skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks you for the link! Is it cool if I email you with further questions?
I have not cracked the code yet.

I am 99% certain by now, after a decade plus observing it that if one submits a URL one gets into a very competitive race with folks using voting rings or otherwise paid/inauthentic upvoting services.

Luck of the lightning bolt may be a factor too.
Compounding that is the topmost problem endangering lives today; TEXTING WHILE DRIVING.

Until this is made a DUI-level offense with the same penalties, people will keep getting killed.
There's general consensus in the Web PKI world that wildcards in certificates were a mistake. RFC 6125 has an entire section dedicated to security considerations[1].

> For no reason as far as I know. Who owns domain.com but not bla.domain.com?

Many, many services[2]. DNS is fundamentally hierarchical, but not in a way that implies authority or control: the owners/operators of `com.` should not be able to obtain a wildcard certificate for `*.com.` and thereby read the traffic of `google.com`, `facebook.com`, etc.

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6125#section-7.2

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List
It referenced a made up a function I needed (that should probably exist lol) in BrightScript, the letdown after realizing as much was painful.
Do you have a mortgage on the house or is it actually yours?
I don’t know for a fact but I would guess there are multiple reasons and all connected to how complex it is to operate etcd.

1. Most people will need to run 3 nodes of etcd (and can never be an even number), and they have to be set up to replicate data etc

2. IIRC, recovering etcd from a total failure of the cluster is not fun (e.g. if you shut down all nodes). It generally is a manual process that pretty much involves restoring from backup.

3. A lot of people know how to manage Postgres. Much less people know how to manage etcd in production.

4. Tooling for Postgres (to operate it, backup and restore, monitor, etc) is a lot more advanced.

5. Pretty much all cloud providers offer managed Postgres services. I don’t believe any one of them offers managed etcd.
https://separateconcerns.com/

Posting occasionally since 2009.
There may be other equal or better options, but I also recently discovered and built something with Eleventy. I'm a big fan now.
What company is the leader in facial recognition technology at airports? Asking for a stock-investing friend.
>If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States' history.

Whatever your opinion on the wisdom or tyranny of government trying to control "misinformation" on private social media platforms, the above line shows the absolute ignorance of the judge.

Alien and Sedition Acts, Abrams v. United States come to mind.
I wonder what happened to those people who got 5-year "Knowledge Engineering" degrees from Stanford in the 1980s. They were trained on how to write rules for "expert systems", which turned out to not be very useful.

Where are they now?
You are not the only one, but also your experience is not the only experience with the tool.

I have used several of 'the big' SaaS GPTs, and have gotten great use from them.

There is absolutely a use for these tools, but they do take some small amount of skill to get good results.

It all comes down to the context you can provide to steer the answer to what you really need. The better you can describe your current state and what you want from the answer, the better the answer will be.
You can get psuedo-snapshots on XFS with a tool like https://github.com/aravindavk/reflink-snapshot

But, it still has to duplicate metadata which depending on the amount of files may cause inconsistency in the snapshot.
If more and more games are tested and verified on Steam Deck, why less and less games are playable under most recent version of Ubuntu?

Since I upgraded to 23.04, most of Paradox and many others refuse to play.

Is it something that Ubuntu broke, or a different Linux kernel that breaks OpenGL?
https://www.stefanocosta.org/

This is my collection of Friday newsletter and blog post where I list 2-3 suggested readings (occasionally podcasts or videos) on technology/innovation/management and 1 on climate change.
The specific thing that Chinese manufacturer was doing wrong was shipping everybody the same private key, which means Mallory gets given Alice's key.

This trick but for individual devices is fine, even recommended. But of course if the keys are each different that costs more than shipping devices which are identical...
I don't like the term parserless in this context. its not like you can just mmap an lisp source file and cast it to the Ast type from the article.

Parsing something might be trivial but its still parsing
https://thomashunter.name/

Hundreds of posts. Mostly JavaScript, game dev, Node.js.
My impression is that some of the Linux kernel devs are anti-anything that's not GPL-compatible, of any sort, regardless of the particulars.

Linus himself also made remarks about ZFS at one point that were pretty...hostile. [1] [2]

> The fact is, the whole point of the GPL is that you're being "paid" in terms of tit-for-tat: we give source code to you for free, but we want source code improvements back. If you don't do that but instead say "I think this is _legal_, but I'm not going to help you" you certainly don't get any help from us.

> So things that are outside the kernel tree simply do not matter to us. They get absolutely zero attention. We simply don't care. It's that simple.

> And things that don't do that "give back" have no business talking about us being assholes when we don't care about them.

> See?

Note that there's at least one unfixed Linux kernel bug that was found by OpenZFS users, reproducible without using OpenZFS in any way, reported with a patch, and ignored. [3]

So "not giving back" is a dubious claim.

[1] - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/linus-torvalds-zfs-s...

[2] - https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpost...

[3] - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212295
To be honest, there have been occasions where I've been failing miserably for some time to come up with solutions to some sysadmin nature problems with my own systems and I've taken my problem straight to GPT-4 with a clear explanation of the issue alongside with any diagnostics I thought would make sense.

To my very surprise, GPT-4 did an astonishing job reasoning on the specifics of my system (aarch64 exotic setup, alpinelinux on asahi) and came back with a very specific on point list of suggestions which included the very solution as #1.

I've had it hold my hand many times while navigating relatively complex and niche systems like android smartphones with custom partitioning schemes booting linux and what have you and yes, it still was still, very reasonable, to say the least.

So to conclude, it has the ability to reason properly for systems and situations that it's not necessary trained in and displays the ability for coherent reasoning on specifics over things which at least for September 2021 were relatively unknown. I'm really wondering how far this thing needs to get in order for some people to admit its more than a model spitting a token next to another, or some type of mentalist doing an excellent job in hypnotising most of us into thinking it already displays incredible intelligence but its smoke and mirrors.
https://shielddigitaldesign.com/

I found my niche in a problem called Signal Integrity - a subset of digital hardware design. My work relies heavily on electromagnetic simulation so I enjoy playing around with that in my spare time as well. I probably only post about twice a year as I'm busy lately with grad school, but it's fun to keep the site going. I also have what is erroneously titled a "wiki" there where I want to accumulate a knowledge base of helpful SI/PI information. Since I just use static hosting, I currently generate the wiki section of the site from a Zim notebook.
It felt like a mix to me. People seeking to enhance their work and the low effort high reward seeking hustle bros.

The latter latches on to the surface level of any new tech but proceeds with swagger befitting a Nobel laureate.
"Given that the API changes and rate limits went into effect on July 1, Reddit is preparing for a new chapter with fewer third-party apps, more focus on its own apps, and an unhappy community."

I predict it all gets worse from here:

* more ads

* third-party apps get blocked; only Reddit official app allowed

* mobile website blocks and redirects to Reddit official app

* more ads

* Official Reddit app wants more permissions: show notifications, track location, etc.

* Desktop website requires ad blockers to be turned off

* more ads

To make more money they must show more ads and collect more user info for targeted advertising.
> This is not an argument in favour of a search engine/browser penalizing HTTP servers.

Why isn't it? By navigating to a domain (or searching for it), the user is arguably making an intent statement ("I want content on $domain"). Ensuring that the user doesn't get spam, malware, etc. instead seems well within the scope of the browser.
I am guessing 8 bit quantization will be a thing for SDXL.

It should be easy(TM) with bitsandbytes, or ML compiler frameworks.
Best gaming device ever. I find it funny that some are complaining about the heat. When I am cold I fire up Dune Spice Wars and now I have a portable heater for 2 hours.
I agree with your sentiment, but with just 5-20 hours of effort one can make an effective Eleventy-based custom site generator which is then deployed on Netlify for free (and edge-available globally).

Edit something, git commit/push, and within 30 seconds your changes are live everywhere. It's pretty awesome, and it requires no "server" hosting.
On that note, here[1] is a resource with some more undocumented HN features.

[1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
https://pikuma.com/blog
I still can't really understand why that 10 billion a year, or whatever it was, couldn't have gone towards building a prototype using some preexisting game engine.

The graphics would have been far better than the demos I saw.

But I guess that's why people like me don't make these kinds of decisions.
I'm not so sure - while I agree, prompt engineering will go away, there's probably a huge market for pre-built integrations in every sector. Bind this AI platform to this industry specific tooling in a polished way, etc.
So i did a masters in engineering(3yrs), worked for 2 years then went into med school (4yrs) and finished residency (3yrs) in the same time a friend of mine did a PHD in engineering…

I was shocked when i found out he had just finished the PHD when i was graduating residency.
Interesting question about complacency. Hard for me to speak objectively on this since I'm too close to it to be unbiased, but I'll try. I actually think the level of acceptable risk is gradually dropping. Each time something goes wrong, we add procedures. It's much easier to add rules than to remove them.

I do think the risk tolerance of individuals on the project does tend to gradually increase with experience, but we have fairly high turnover. It's common for MSL roles to have a year or more of training before certification during which you spend a lot of time focusing on what can go wrong, so new people definitely trend cautious.
These stupid users, can’t control their computers! Let it be us, corporation, who decide what you can run. It is safe and effective.
I think the one place that I used my phone the most in high school was in suspension!

(More broadly: I don't think it's remotely practical to remove students from classrooms like this. To a first approximation, every single student in school has a smartphone.)
It's not mustard gas, but it is really nasty. It produces a mixture of chloramines and hydrazine.
I tend to use it consistently to mean "the thing on the left hand side of this is a name", where in this case it's the name of a program.

The commonest case is absolutely the name of a hash key, but it's well worth learning to read it as "is a name of -some- sort" rather than this is a hash because there's a lot of other cases where it's used for different sorts of names, and that's been considered pretty standard for quite a while now.

Examples:

- DBIx::Class column and relationship definitions use it for the name of the thing (and if you generate your DBIx::Class code from the database schema using DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader that's what you're going to get).

- Moo/Moose/Mojo::Base code uses it in has() calls for the name of the attribute, and in before/after/around modifiers for the name of the method being wrapped.

- Mojolicious::Lite and Dancer2 both use it to separate the route name and the route handling subroutine when defining your app's routes.

- Code that can take a method name as the first argument, such as Mojo::Promise, curry.pm, Mojo::Base/Object::Tap's ->tap, and many others, are usually written with the method name followed by => as well.

I could think of more but I think that's quite sufficient to show that it's idiomatic at least in applications perl written using the common greenfield Web Framework(s), Object System(s) and ORM tooling of the time for at least the past 15 years.

I might not put it in production for non-perl-writing -sysadmins- to understand and maintain but for anybody whose job title is developer or who wants to be able to write perl code larger than a single file, I'd much rather teach them how => gets used for names in general since they're almost certainly going to run into it All The Damn Time in documentation, examples, libraries and the application code itself.
I believe Temperature is now a politicized measure, therefore it forever impossible to know it's true value.
I think of the internet more like a public highway and not a library. Things on the road must be maintained as to not be a danger to others.
We rely on both, and I think we've got the mix about right. Text for relatively simple things, when numbers and other identifiers need to be transmitted accurately, voice / video for complex discussions that require screen sharing and / or when there are multiple opinions that might need to be reconciled.
Are you aware of how privileged you are?
European Power Prices Go Below Zero Again as Solar Output Surges
> The fuck is a "check" ? We don't have those here for decades.

What's with the profanity? You obviously know what I'm talking about.

We have them in the US, and it's a wonderful technology that would apparently save
globalreset an hour-long trip to the bank.
For static pages I'm a huge fan of using SSG's (static site generators) like Hugo
> Managing a FOSS project is miserable at the best of times, and I'd rather focus on fixing the issues (e.g. solving UX hell by shipping Element X) than being berated about how shit we are and how much better we could be.

This is not what I mean to do at all. I am sorry if/that it feels like that. I don't want to berate you, I want to contribute to Matrix. We are of course better off with it than without it - that's the whole reason people care to invest the energy to complain. If it wasn't a project worth caring about, they'd just direct their energy somewhere else.

I really want to help out. My hope voicing my pain points was (besides trying to get them prioritized up) to get information on how to work around and help fix them. Maybe I will be more successful in #matrix.

> I am not in a huge rush to talk to someone who is focused on enumerating a whole bunch of complaints at me

Please consider talking to someone who is bursting with excitement to dedicate time and energy to Matrix.

Thank you for staying engaged. Matrix 2.0!
Prometheus Modern UI has a pretty good system/dark/light toggle - and picks the system one first.
(Unintentionally?) ironic, given that "entomology" is the study of bugs...
I click the link but it keeps showing me porn and asks for my Google username and password. That's some weird content to post to hackernews.
Climate change is such a slow-moving massive-scale issue of course there's going to be decades and decades of observational reporting on its myriad effects.

The boy who cried wolf is about telling fibs ruining one's credibility, it's entirely different.

Our news sources shouldn't suppress reporting slow-moving disasters just because humans have a short attention span.
Earth-observing satellites can measure surface temperature with so-called "thermal infrared" bands. I am unsure on the exact process typically used to go from that map to a global average, but that's a likely starting point.
Actually I would argue the reason that every language is inventing their own poor package manager, is because other OS don't have proper package management.

As I said in the previous post, I hardly ever have issues with my system packages. Helping people set up an environment to develop cython code for windows on the other hand is an absolute nightmare.
https://paperless.blog - mostly programming, mostly "here's something neat which might be useful to others".
For me, the biggest takeaway is "never fly under stress" - which can be dangerous even when flying small drones!

The problem is when corporate culture, and be it because of understaffing or penalizing people for calling out, disincentivizes people from following that basic principle.

A side note: The fact that such absurd crew confusion is still possible in 2021 doesn't exactly warm me up to the thought of twin-jets crossing over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
https://archive.is/TQGCj
That makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to answer my curiosity about your Curiosity
Talking about the same thing as the article: hobby/learning languages. If you click the links to the author's projects you can see they have yet to finish a compiler or really even come close. Definitely not talking about sophisticated production-grade languages here; OP is trying to complete their first compiler at all. I think writing compilers is a really neat and useful learning project but you have to be smart about not biting off more than you can chew.

I would absolutely recommend not supporting incremental compilation or error recovery in your first compiler. Just stop everything at the first error. Save that for your second hobby compiler, or better yet, the first commercial compiler that you get paid to work on.
He wasn’t a consultant. He wrote software that made it easy to develop data capture forms on iOS and Android. They had already done the initial contract before I got there.

I was brought in as the dev lead for the next phase, integrations as we acquired companies, migrations, etc.

I don’t know how they original found the software. But it became much more crucial as they expanded and the company I was working for was aiming to go public.
It bears repeating, the carbon dioxide/methane doesn't have any impact on global warming (troposphere warming?) until it reaches sufficient height.

It takes 2-3 years for the methane to reach those heights, and 20+ for the carbon dioxide. The average increase in temperature we have now is caused by 2003's emissions.

Other informations about how all this work (basic, incomplete, but better than what I usually hear):

Greenhouse effect doesn't really work like a greenhouse.

Basically, to be in a balanced system, earth has to re-radiate all the energy it gets from the sun. The energy a body radiate depends on its temperature (plank's law). Earth need to reach 255K (-18 basically) to radiate all it gets from the sun. The nitrogen, dioxygen and argon in the atmosphere do not prevent that radiation, but water (especially) and Co2 do.

This basically make that earth cannot radiate the energy it gets at ground level (that's the greenhouse effect) and has to radiate the energy where the atmosphere is thinner, a few kilometers up, where the concentration of both Co2 and h2o is lower (concentration here as particle per m3). So the earth has to heat all the atmosphere until that altitude (where GHGs do not block radiation anymore) reach 255K.

So, when the Co2 concentration above that point rises, the altitude the radiation occurs rises too. But that altitude is colder, it cannot radiate as much energy as it gets from the sun. So the atmosphere heat up a bit, until that new altitude reach 255k.

Obviously it's a lot more complex, with reflection, absorption spectrum of molecules... There is also more than one GHG, there is stratosphere effect, but this explain way better than 'we live in a big greenhouse'.

Does that make sense? First time I do this in writing and in English?

I'll take every correction that will not make the explanation too hard (unless I'm flatly wrong and lying instead of vulgarising).
No it didn't. C happened to be the most popular language for a long time but that doesn't mean people couldn't have written software without it, or that if it hasn't been so popular a better language wouldn't have arisen.

English is very popular but you wouldn't say "English is what made all those books possible" would you?
https://thomasvilhena.com/

Started as a way to train English writing and try to establish some presence online to bolster my CV. Posts of topics related to work, weekend projects, and personal reflections.

It's interesting to get back to older posts and find out how my skills, perceptions and opinions change as I progress in my career.
Not yet, but let us turn off fsync…
https://nikhilism.com - occasional technical writings, sometimes digging deep into systems internals.
Mastodon's culture of anti-everything is naive. All posts (except "DMs") are public and can be scraped and made searchable at will for anyone mildly motivated to do so.

I'm honestly pretty skeptical about the fediverse aspect of Threads. It suggests that if I open a new fediverse instance and follow their accounts, I can suck in their timeline and do with it whatever I want. In particular, to bypass ads.

Hence, I could make a "best of Threads" fediverse instance without ads. Or maybe put my own ads on it.

Or, I could build my own client on top of the Threads instance.

None of this sounds very Meta to me.
Just wanted to add that some simpler option of buying the license would be sweet, it tends to be much easier to get signed up for something that doesn't require contract and we can just use company credit card. Maybe it could be available while offering something akin to previous Free Enterprise (without new, cutting edge features) license but with higher seat limits? I don't know, just spitballing.

I like paying for things that I use and bring me value, but at the moment Sourcegraph is a hard sell due to high cost compared to small company size and being based outside of Western Europe and US.
"All."

It's explicitly not compatible with GPL, though. It has clauses that are more restrictive than GPL, and IIRC some people who contributed to the OpenZFS project did so explicitly without allowing later CDDL license revisions, which removes Oracle's ability to say CDDL-2 or whatever is GPL-compatible.

So even if someone rolled up dumptrucks of cash and convinced Oracle that everything was great, they don't have all the control needed to do that.
If you have a system that allows you to do that, guess what else you can do with it.

If you don't, how do you fix a listing error?
And don't you dare grab a snack or use the toilet until after the show comes back on.
Is remote in other GMT+9 timezones ok?
That rope article is great. I think my favorite part is the hand-drawn sketches from your notebook.
https://garden.bradwoods.io/
Writing mostly about design & front-end engineering
I went from finishing my PhD straight into consulting and I am happy about the reduced stress and better work hours
Your rock climbing post was not fun to read and scared the crap out of me :-( I'm sorry that it happened to you. I enjoy your writing style!