skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a bit of an uncharitable take on people with different interests. Some people who would find coding boring do instead enjoy things like teaching children, treating patients, putting out fires, making art, evaluating stocks, do research, or the millions of other things that humans do as a job or hobby. It's not just people spending time on TikTok.
If you're the owner of your company, the company won't fire you. You can still harm your company (and thereby yourself) by attacking your biggest customers on social media.
Why are you under the impression that I'm not?

You may need to pay more attention to what you read, the context and the users before writing.
https://liza.io

No particular topic - just random ramblings, sometimes about Go.
This got me thinking about an idea that surely already exists, and I wondered if anyone here could tell me if it does.

The idea is you'd publish some sort of manifest that HTTP servers and reverse proxies can use to determine valid URLs and then flat out to refuse to serve anything else. So you might end up with something for a host like:

/.well-known/*
/static/*
/home
/login
/logout

Basically every valid endpoint either specifically or wildcarded.

I know apps are meant to deal with all of this themselves, but if you can even stop a reverse proxy sending through invalid URLs to a backend app, it seems like you could avoid a variety of problems. Or am I just being naive?
A Wine prefix - the configuration and filesystem for a single Wine Windows installation.
> And it’s not hard to see why; while humans have dedicated neural circuitry for natural language, it would be absurd to suggest there is dedicated neural circuitry for fiddling around with the semantics of pushing around arcane symbol abstractly encoded as electrical potentials over a conductive metal.

Huh? It's certainly the case that people who program have dedicated neural circuitry.

Most of the work is not being done by language centres[0]

[0] https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/12/17/brain-activity-while-reading-...
> I think for most people its smart to adapt to using AI in their workflows to make them better and more efficient

It probably is smart to try out and test everything for a while to see if it is an actual improvement or not.

What I have a serious problem with is the proposal that this now needs to be part of a workflow when it actually doesn't improve anything.

Generative AI in its current form may be helpful in some cases and unhelpful in others. Plenty of examples are mentioned in the context of the other comments.

I agree that the parent statement "then I think you are not a good coder" is a somewhat dangerous overgeneralization.
They searched us without knowledge in the UK.

I went to school 2007-2012 so the laws might have changed since then, or this might have been illegal. In PE class one day, we all got changed and left our clothes and bags in the changing room, then while we were on the field doing sport the deputy headteacher went to the changing room and went through everyone's bags and blazers to find phones and valuables. He took them all and made everyone think they had been stolen.

He revealed it after five minutes of the class noticing things were missing, and said it was supposed to be a lesson about safety. How theft happens and we shouldn't have valuable items on us at school, and if we do then they should be locked away somewhere secure when we leave our bags somewhere.

I doubt that was actually the case, I think he was just trying to get an idea of how many people have smartphones, and who those people were. This was right when they were invented so it was very rare for a kid to have one when I was a first year, but every year more and more kids got them handed down from their parents.
True, but all vehicles operate on the same road system that does have such vehicles and the kinetic energy of any vehicle at highway speeds is most impressive.
Global average temperature is right there in the article:

> On Monday, the global average temperature was the highest it’s ever been. It was even hotter on Tuesday.

Unsure why you tried to be pedantic about something clearly stated in the byline.
Amsterdam fire dept realizes late that Twitter can't reach everyone anymore
You do know it. All empirical evidence from thousands of years of scrutiny points to you ending when your body dies.

You dont treat any other piece of knowledge with the same demand as you do the (lack of) afterlife.
Honestly, this blog post made me think Kagi has no clue what they’re doing. Nobody in 2022 would claim that Google uses raw PageRank and doesn’t do “user personalised queries”.
> You are going to eventually run into the same issue most people trying to use Alpine Linux just because of simplicity and being lightweight run: musl is not a completely ABI-compatible seamless replacement to glibc and might cause issue with statically linked binaries, and other annoying issues you won't foresee.

Well, if all you need is the server to run Docker/Podman, SSH and some other limited amount of packages, it shouldn't be too bad. Of course, there are also horror stories of Alpine resulting in way worse performance in select use cases: https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/509 and there's the fact that Alpine might be popular inside of containers, but way less so outside.

Also, because of the short EOL cycle, I personally ditched Debian on servers (and Alpine in containers) myself for Ubuntu everywhere: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/using-ubuntu-as-the-base-fo... A bit of a polarizing move (though RPM distros aren't much better at the moment), but it seems to have worked out for me in the end.

Doesn't mean that someone can't try, though, maybe their use case is suitable for Alpine.
I'm pretty sure this is provided solely for the benefit of Musk's weird fans, who can now go "see? Dear Leader broke the site as part of the 4D chess!" Normal people probably shouldn't take much notice of it.
Because you get some users on more organic ways than just posting in HN and expecting people to jump in and fill your product with value when there's none for themselves.

HN is a one/few shot opportunity and you better make a good impression.
It's easy to imagine those marketplaces having huge TAMs /today/. With the benefit of hindsight, it's easy. And it's easy to extrapolate to similar businesses. It wasn't obvious then, not even to the founders. eBay started as a hobby project. Only after it took off did Omidyar realize he might have stumbled onto something important, and started taking it seriously.

TAM itself doesn't tell you anything. Take flying cars. Huge TAM and yet the space is uninvestable. An app that helps students learn a single thing won't get huge. But the educational software space is huge, and it's fine to attack a big market by starting out in a tiny and unprofitable niche. An app that helps students learn a single subject isn't an obviously worse business than helping collectors find their last missing Beanie Baby (which was the big growth driver for eBay back in the day).
Exactly my experience too for 10-ish years.

I will never want more than what Gnome provides and when I want less, I usually go for xfce.
These researchers are using logic and reason to fight against a bill that seeks to amass power and control.

And while I appreciate the level tone... I do wish they'd at least wink at the real reasons this is being put forward. I get why they don't, to maintain respectability and deniability etc.

But look at the sheer hypocrisy on display here. I kinda wish they'd take the gloves off and say, hey - Look at Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jimmy Savile and Gary Glitter, and God Knows how many others.

Look at how those horrifying scumbags walked around free, for decades, as if authorities didn't know full fine well what they were doing. Look at how they were not just ignored, but protected by the establishment that now wants a backdoor on every private communication.
Seems redundant given 'pagan' means either

* not Christian other religions in the Roman Empire, or (more generally)

* not Christian religions.

Easier to say most, if not all, religions have an afterlife story.
Yes, there are. I won't say it's easy, but it's possible to outperform the market without relying on the element of luck over a long term. Often, you don't hear about these folks because they are succeeding at a much smaller scale.

The reason is simple. The market, even rational as it is, gives you chances to make a great deal of money. META was $89 only a few months back. APPL was once trading at P/E of 10. TSLA is now 2.5x from its recent bottom. Of course, the boat has sailed now. Now, you can say investors who made money here were just lucky, or you can see how they ignored the temporary negative sentiment and invested in a company with solid fundamentals.

It's a myth that you can't beat the market. If you know how to seize an opportunity, you perfectly can. My investment philosophy is to keep investing in ETFs, but also keep an eye on bargains.
This. Bottles are preconfigured packages of programs on Wine, while prefixes are just Wine sub-environments.
- UK parliament members who proposed the bill will look like idiots, but get re-elected anyway

Some things never change.
Well that article just sold me on Starmer's plan. Sounds pretty good to be fair, and I don't particularly like Starmer.

Also the opening lines are too funny not to comment on:

"In theory, Britain is the most democratic country in the world. There has never been any limit to what an elected Parliament and a royal signature can do."

In political science the UK system is referred to as an 'elected dictatorship'. That lack of 'limit' to what the representatives do is anti-democratic. They don't need to stick to manifesto policies, they rarely do. They're not held accountable either. The public is quite happy to vote for populist policies, not have any of them acted on, watch a scandal sink the current PM, watch a small group of party 'members' vote a new one in, and carry on.

We need checks and balances, we need a constitution, we need stronger third parties, better voting systems, less inequality between the poor and the rich (migrants included). This actually seems like a sensible step towards that. Not perfect by any means, but there likely isn't a perfect system.

And then to add 'royal signature' to the claim of being the 'most democratic country in the world'. Absolutely mad. Inheriting such power purely by virtue of blood or marriage, that's democracy? This person has drunk the Kool-aid and asked for more.
> Threads are a resource hog.

Not really on any decent operating system, but if they are too heavy, there's still fibers aka green-threads aka stack-switching (which at least on Windows are an operating system primitive - but can be implemented in user code on any system that gives you direct access to the CPU stack and registers).

I doubt that the async-await state machine code transformation which 'slices' sequential function bodies into many small parts which are then jumped in and out frequently is any better for performance than stack-switching (in async/await you still need to switch a 'context pointer' on slice-entry/exit instead of the stack pointer).

One obvious advantage of the state-machine code transformation is that it also works in very limited single-threaded runtime environments without access to the callstack (like WASM).

In any case, from the user perspective, async/await should just be language syntax sugar, how it is implemented under the hood ideally shouldn't matter (e.g. it should also be possible to implement it on top of a task scheduler that runs on fibers or threads instead of a state-machine code transformation).
You made this sound like snap is faster than flatpak. It isn't, unless something changed this year. Did something change?
And yet, the SLS has flied one successful mission and put something in lunar orbit without a hitch, while Starship failed in so many ways:

- it destroyed its pad

- it went off course as soon as it left the pad

- 8 out of 33 engines failed - one of which immediately after firing (causing it to go off course)

We'll see what the future brings, but for now its clearly SLS 1 - Starhsip 0. Given the amount of failures in the Starship exepriment, my bet is that we'll see at least 1 more successful SLS launch before the first Starship launch to reach orbit and back.
just run windows
It wasn't a criticism. I just thought it is an interesting detail few people would be aware of
Cgo is not Go ref https://go-proverbs.github.io/
`epoll` was added to Linux in 2002.
I think the strongest edge one can have is to be able to invest independent of any market sentiment. If a stock looks cheap, and according to your research it is cheap, then you need to be able to ignore any market sentiment regarding that stock and buy it anyway.

It is far too easy to get wrapped up into wanting the best possible return by buying at the lowest price, and selling at the highest price. The reality is that's near impossible. However, buying companies that by the numbers indicate a 20% return, even if they night get cheaper in a crash, is a decent way to actually get a 20% return. The problem is those kinds of investments only show up with severe uncertainty and negative sentiment. By the time they feel good to invest in the price has reflected that change in sentiment.

Of course, this all presupposes skill at evaluating these businesses accurately and reliably, so losers don't drag you down when the negative sentiment is actually correct :/.
Nobody is lucky for as long as Berkshire Hathaway has been successfully doing this.
I watched a video by Sebastion Lague where he mentioned the following tools
https://www.manim.community/
and
https://motioncanvas.io/

Manim is a python library, Motion Canvas is Typescript and uses Canvas
Look at it another way: if they can't even get the launch pad not to catastrophically fail and endanger the facility and all of their permits, why should we trust them to do anything else more complex much better?
Like with gambling or startups, out of every 1000, maybe 1 will make it big; out of those, a fraction will choose to become famous / a known name, and that's the survivorship bias that gets thousands more amateur investors to try their hand and get rich quick, turning their life savings into another fraction of a percentage of these top investors' accounts.

For most of us regular people, slow and safe investments are the way to go. Get savings, get some interest on that to at least partially counteract inflation, buy a house, avoid debts, loans and subscriptions as much as you can. And I'm aware that all that sane money management advice isn't even an option for a lot of people.
Did you not read the part where it's the hottest day recorded? That is, by definition, not a normal temperature fluctuation.
I think diversification is a key tenet of value investing. The margin of safety applies to the individual company but that doesn't guarantee success, so a diversified portfolio is one key method of reducing risk.
Telco guy here, similar story. Our standard procedure dictates who is on the crisis call, with increasingly high ranks being sucked in as the incident escalates the severity scale by meeting objective criteria - for the highest levels of outage (think "no more phone service in the whole country" or "ministry of defence lost all its fiber links"), it can theoretically mean waking up the CEO in the middle of the night. Representatives of involved teams may come in and out of the call but usually stay on to maintain liaison.
I don't think so, it would only mislead and hide what's really going on.

Creating a future in Rust does not have any side effects like running the future in background. This is not JS. Creating a future is just creating an object representing future (postponed) computation. There is nothing spawned on the executor. There are no special side effects (unless you code them explicitly). It works exactly as any other function returning a value, hence why should it be syntactically different?

If you called something that returned a future but you forgot to use the returned future - how is that different from e.g. opening a file for write and forgetting to write to it or from creating a User object and discarding it immediately, forgetting to save it to a database? There isn't really a difference, and therefore all those cases are handled by `#[must_use]` warning.

Contrary, an `await` is an effectful operation. It can potentialy do a lot - block execution for arbitrary long time, switch threads, do actual computation or I/O... So I really don't understand why you want to hide this one.

Maybe the naming is confusing - because `await` does not really just `await`. It runs the future till completion. You should think about it more as if it was named `run_until_complete` (although it is still not precise, as some part of that "running" might involve waiting).
A separate 'financial' firefox profile would be more convenient and more secure.
Sure, that's why there are three more items on the list.
I think the biggest problem with this utter nonsense is this:

> In other words, one can assume with 95% certainty that any individual human would be within the last 95% of all the humans ever to be born

"any individual human" really means "a human chosen at random" from all humans who will ever live. Then they go on to assume that this is representative of the humans who have already lived. But clearly there's a problem there. They find a statistic that is true of all past-and-future humans and then assumed it must be equally true of all past humans as well. In fact we've exactly chosen the subset (past humans) as those that are least likely for this statistic to apply. It'd be like deriving some statistic about being 95% sure any given human can run a mile within 10 minutes, and then applying that statistic specifically to those humans with no legs. It's that dumb -- clearly past humans are fundamentally different from past-and-future humans in exactly the property they're sampling.

You can easily see this problem by simply going back in time and applying the same argument at any point in history. At some point, the total number of humans who had ever been born was 1 billion. At that point, we would have been 95% sure that the total number of humans would never exceed 20 billion. Oops! In fact, we would have been 99% sure that the total number of humans would never exceed 100 billion. Double oops!

Go back to when the total number of humans who had ever been born was 1 million. We would have been 99.999% sure the total number of humans would never exceed 100 billion. Triple oops!

It's a nonsense argument.
I hate when people are like that, but I wasn't. I just added a little tidbit of information that most people wouldn't assume to be true. Some may find it interesting, others won't.
Haven't tried KDE lately, but I tried it a couple times on the last 20 years, and every time I couldn't sustain more than a couple hours.

Main complain is that it is noticeably slow and the GUI looks like an experiment to turn all pixels into clickable things. I think there is nice tech under the hood, but that's not what I'm looking for.
UK parliament members who proposed the bill will look like idiots, not getting re-elected

No one will lose re-election over a technical or scientific issue such as this. 99.9% of the public can't understand the position, the discussion, and will only listen to what fluff websites, and the parties tell them.

Now, is any party going to take up a "soft on pedophiles!" position? Because that's how it will be played...
I've been enjoying https://squabbles.io/ as a great reddit alternative
> 1. Temperament [...] My observation of many investors over my 20+ years of professional investing has led me to believe that temperament cannot be learned

I would be interested in whether this is a justified belief or not and whether there is actual research on that topic. Does anyone have any insights on this?
Especially weird because the feature actually originates from C# and was only copied by JS later.

And in C#, you can absolutely combine it with Task.Run if you want it to run be concurrent. This feature made asynchronous operations so much better than all the patterns that came before it - and I think they goes for every language that ended up copying it.
A ‘Rebel’ Without a PhD
Surviving death records from Ancient Rome are far from representative. Contemporary record keepers were mostly interested in heads of households, and not, say, slaves. So this again skews the statistics towards richer and more influential people.

Also, Rome itself (as a city) had never problem supplying its population with food. There was a special office (Cura Annonae) that coordinated import of food from Hispania, Africa and Egypt to Rome so that the city was never threatened with starvation. I just recently visited Ostia Antica, the main port of Ancient Rome; it was absolutely massive. Rome certainly had a lot of problems, but it was fairly secure in food.

Things were different in 11th century Germany or Sweden. Without an extensive network of long-distance trade, if crop failed in your region, there wasn't any way to prevent famine.

Even deep in the 18th century, during the last peacetime famine in Czechia (1770-3 approx., caused by rainy and cold weather), the attempts to alleviate the hunger by importing food from Hungary were only partly successful; even though by that time, the road network was fairly developed and the state capacity was orders of magnitude higher than several centuries ago. As a result, something between 5 and 10 per cent of the population died.
I just made the mistake of reading a few recent DHH blog posts, and I really appreciate the difference between these two people. Both have a large following, but one sits down and does his work, while the other owns a company and seems physically unable to stop opining.
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Apparently there have been cases of sexual intercourse on the ISS, so we could potentially have a human conceived there.
Haw haw the honourable member is AGAINST ONLINE SAFETY. Its a bit like trying to vote against the Patriot Act.
Before I switch off for the day, I jot down a ToDo list for the next day.

The next morning, I pick up that list and get started on it. Doing my damnest to avoid reading HN, the news, etc. That can come as a break later in the day.
For traders maybe, because they pyramid the position on the back of any gains made. But you also don't want to have so much invested in one company that it becomes make or break. A 10% loss on 5% of your portfolio is way more manageable than 10% on 50% of your portfolio.
It wasn’t just a webpage and nor a link page for the months we planned out. We are free too btw and the “competition” you mentioned charge you more and more as you upgrade for basic features we already provide. You have no clue what the product is or the agenda we have, this was a thread to let other people know not to trust Stripe. There is a whole structure and a framework for future implementations and connections with other projects that isn’t available on HEYHEY yet you are lacking the positive approach to even ask about it. Sad
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Not throwing a tantrum on Twitter is much easier than conducting any kind of military operation.
If that's genuinely the basis for this reasoning, it only makes the argument seem even more dubious to me. If the statistical argument is really so sound, it shouldn't have to rely on our understanding of cosmology.

Also, is there no phenomenon here where a sufficiently large N becomes increasingly indistinguishable from infinity?