skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not hard to convert to HTTPS
and it doesn't cost a lot.

I have to disagree. Certificates are still a pain in the butt.

The reason is that the only free and "easy" solution is Let's Encrypt. And they make it a pain in the butt.

You can get a certificate for domain.com by putting a file into domain.com/.well-known/ - so far so good.

But you cannot get a wildcard certificate for domain.com this way.

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

And I don't want all my subdomains listed in a public directory. So only a wildcard cert makes sense for me.

Which means fiddling with DNS entries every 3 months. Or setting up some complex, brittle scheme to automatically update those every 3 months. Which then depends on the API of some name server provider. Which will work differently for every provider.
I agree that it helps, but with the express intent to develop your playfulness.

This has to be developed in conjunction with going on actual dates or cold approaching people (I prefer approaching women in the day time, a year ago I needed to do it again, it still feels like hell but being alone feels like a special kind of hell, so I know what poison I prefer).

Other than improv classes, I'd suggest to take bachata classes (explicitly bachata, not salsa, not anything else). Do not try to find your girlfriend there, it simply makes you more attractive to be with on the psychological side but also on the "I can dance a bit" side (former more important than the latter).

Final skill I'd suggest: learn how to tell a simple story. No hero's journey required, nothing grand. More on the tune off: I woke up today as usual and went running about as usual, I felt like a well oiled engine today. My mom called, and she was like "how do I turn on the computer?" And I love my mom, I really do, but I just get sooooo tired of her asking that for EVERY SINGLE DAY! It's fine, it's fine. I know it's fine. I guess I am not as well oiled of a machine as I thought, lol.

Or: I saw a cat cross the road really quick. I know cats are like that, but it still took me by surprise.

Basically the key is to express how you emotionally felt about whatever happened. The thing is, I feel things, I just never expressed them. The moment I learned how to do that, I was a lot more relatable to many people, all of a sudden.

Final thing: dare to say you think someone is cute or attractive, without needing anything from her. It should be shared as a "this is simply how I feel, interesting isn't it?" To feel this vibe more I recommend to read non-violent communication. Though, for the purposes of saying this particular thing, that book is way overblown. Still a good book though.

If these ideas seem appealing but you don't know how to implement them, I coach very low-key on the side (1 person at a time, for a few days to 3 months). I call it a hobby job. Feel free to email me.
Heya, you can take inspiration the rules I posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676840 for hiding the second line and the separator. I messed up the last newline, the bottom block is the following two lines:

news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.spacer + tr:not(.athing):remove()
news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.spacer + tr.spacer:remove()

I'll make it a letsblock.it template one day.
Advice from a friend: Never do your PhD in a subject you love, because afterwards you'll hate it.
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I write about my journey with music, electronic music production, and single-sided deafness!
Sure, hence the question
Craftsmen are individual contributors. When you coordinate others, you're no longer an IC, you're a foreman, a boss. Coding with LLMs is about managing the contributions of other ICs. It's no different from coordinating low-level human coders who simply implement the design that was given them.

If that's the kind of 'craftsmanship' you enjoy, great. To me, this new model of 'bionic coding' feels a lot like factory work, where my job is to keep my team from falling behind the assembly line.

BTW, I've worked factory lines as both IC and foreman. In either role, that life sucks.
https://andyjohnson.uk/blog

Posts are randomly distributed in topic/time space.
HA!

I KNEW IT - when I first read that comment, the only thing I could think of re: "how?" was some political shenanigans.

Philippines is so much like that - for example, the Ayala family... corrupt as sin, but have their fingers in every aspect of philippines business and politics.
I've been using it for about 3 years now (the large ARM instance a bit less than that, but since about when it was introduced). There have been two outages about a minute each (seems like a no-no-downtime host migration, but I am not sure). For the cost, I am not complaining.
As HBSC quits and hybrid working stays, is this the end for Canary Wharf?
Sure, I agree. That's part of me finding out if I want to work there.

The unfortunate reality is usually you're given 5-10 mins at the end in a hasty "what would you like to ask me?" so I tend to stick to the more basic type questions. Repeating across interviewers to see what patterns pop up.

That said I'm not shy about pushing back with questions during an interview session itself, and that's where things like you're talking about can get worked in. Of course if they insist on "solve this problem" type sessions, there's less of that. But it's also less likely I want to work there. So it works out for me.
I agree with 5%. That said, I've found rubber duck debugging to be an exceptionally effective use case for ChatGPT. Often it will surprise me by pinpointing the solution outright, but I'll always be making progress by clarifying my own thinking.
No one expects that. Use it or not. But don't demand the final product for free.
> Don't you see the contradiction?

No because it's true just not proven. I can't prove to you that doing squats are good for your health as a human being but I know it to be objectively true (specific conditions aside). Medicine strongly suggests that this is the case, but there's no formal proof or tool to measure it at least that I'm aware of. Good architecture roughly follows the same pattern here, but the effects are harder to measure even though the societal repercussions of bad design are profound.

> The truth of the matter is that

Completely agree. I view graffiti as more of an expression of frustration (which is well warranted) than it is art. That's not to say graffiti can't be art or can't be beautiful which is why I called out "urban art" specifically, but it's by far the exception and not the rule.
https://somethingdecent.co.uk

A strange mix of personal blogs, brain dumps, tutorials and whatever else.

No tracking, no sponsored content, just my pure brain waffle
https://mhitza.github.io
I mostly agree with this, but there are some people who very happily run board game stores.

But they’re the kind of people who love the process of running a store, and who also happen to love board games and decided to sell them.

Put another way, I think there’s a common mistake people make that “I love <this>, so I’ll do <this> + business and it’ll be great”, without considering what it takes to do the business part.

But I think the other mistake is assuming that working on something you love will automatically make you hate it. That really depends on your business acumen and mindset about the non-<this> factors involved.
ByteDance is on there? The only thing I know they make is TikTok.
I could not find any good communities on Mastodon. All the communities I found asked me to create a Lemmy account. I don't understand what is the use case of Mastodon app.
This is great! I really enjoyed the interactivity of it all. I’ve been working on building similar, but much simpler, tools to help me blog and seeing this is inspiring.

Good job!
People could be on different wavelengths.

When I read "fired", I don't immediately think of "forgot a WHERE clause when deleting from a production database table". That happens, but I don't think I've actually seen anyone fired for it.

I think of it more like "you just gradually found you couldn't do the job, didn't meet performance standards, etc". In that case, the usually bland stuff about how the position wasn't a good fit but this one is seems to me like the way to go.

And "CV" suggests to me a non-American or an American academic - whereas some people in this thread may be in the SF bay area (although I'm not).
Like mathematical proofs?
> Bro. When corrupt behaviour is so normalised that you don't even see it as corruption, just 'problematic', that's a sign that your corruption calibrators need a good clean. And they really, really do. That's what I'm trying to tell you, but you seem to disagree even when you agree.

This was entirely needless.

I could have said that you sound like a raving paranoid, and that would have been equally needless. But I didn't (well, almost) because I'm trying to assume good intent.

Lets be 100% clear, you don't know me, you have never (probably) met me and yet you are making assumptions on my integrity that are completely beyond the bloody pale.

I'm going to bow out now, as this conversation is unlikely to improve my (or your, presumably) mood.

Have a nice day!
PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails.
https://andyatkinson.com/
I just started, but my hope is to post about nature, photography and computer graphics.
I've only got time to finish one full article so far. It's a low-budget guide to the Montreal GP with some sweet photos I'm proud of: https://manas96.github.io/blog/f1guide/
You seem to be confused about the common meaning of open source. Open Source only means the source code is available. It doesn't mean it's license or TOS is also open. That's why the acronyms FOSS and FLOSS exist as well.
In case someone is wondering how to search local repositories with sourcegraph, see https://docs.sourcegraph.com/admin/external_service/src_serv... and https://docs.sourcegraph.com/admin/deploy/docker-single-cont...

docker run --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway --publish 7080:7080 --publish 127.0.0.1:3370:3370 --rm --volume ~/.sourcegraph/config:/etc/sourcegraph --volume ~/.sourcegraph/data:/var/opt/sourcegraph sourcegraph/server:5.1.2

docker run --rm=true --publish 3434:3434 --volume $PWD:/data/repos:ro sourcegraph/src-cli:latest serve-git /data/repos
This is a misplaced concreteness fallacy.
I agree. While the article is correct that this problem of subtle bias exists, the solution for most cases is to realise that the computer "does what you say, not what you mean".
Does anyone have any experience for how this compares to R's ggplot2?
The Venetian Resort starts testing its giant LED video sphere
https://biggles.games

Not many posts on there just yet, but experimenting with being super open while developing my next game!
A Scientific Breakthrough in Noise Reduction
https://tylerneylon.com/

The most popular article is "Learn Lua in 15 Minutes." I write about code, math, and philosophy; eg, neural networks, permutations, or consciousness.

I also run a weekly machine learning / AI newsletter:

https://learnandburn.ai/
A web page which integrates ads from external ad networks is just as intrusive though. There's actually nothing wrong with curated self-hosted ads (which would be similar to traditional print magazine ads), but just opening up a part of your webpage to let a 3rd-party run potentially malicious code on my device is borderline criminal. From that perspective, an ad-blocker should be pretty much mandatory for security reasons and should be a standard feature of every browser, just like popup blockers are now expected.
https://gavinhoward.com/

This is a personal blog; I write whatever I want. This means I write personal things as well as tech things.

If you don't want to read the non-tech things, go to https://gavinhoward.com/categories/ and click on the categories you care about.

Each one also has its own Atom feed, so you can completely avoid the other stuff if you so desire.
Im surprised there hasnt been more efforts to hack these things MaxHeadroom style and do subversive propaganda...

I cant wait until someone hacks on of these screens and does deepfakes on them - either some politicians doing crazy things, or celebrities doing crazy things, or more subtle ads that seem real, but are taking the piss.
I have a hard time believing such researchers. It's just way too politically convenient that they can pull such explanations and numbers out. It always feels as though that these policy advisors can support any position and if it eventually goes wrong then nobody will blame them anyway.

I personally think phones definitely shouldn't be used in a classroom. I don't even see what benefit you would get from it, but it definitely shouldn't be legislated over. If a teacher or school wants to ban it then they should be able to.
they do if they don't want a user's ISP to inject ads or modify content in transit.

this does happen
Gnu cp --reflink.

>When --reflink[=always] is specified, perform a lightweight copy, where the data blocks are copied only when modified. If this is not possible the copy fails, or if --reflink=auto is specified, fall back to a standard copy. Use --reflink=never to ensure a standard copy is performed."
Show me one example where a breathless announcement like this contributed to such an improvement
Introducing Kotlin Notebook
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Writing about building software and teams and little projects, with lots of my own photography mixed in.
Author here.

> How can we know he used Mongo properly or not?

You don't. I don't. This is just my story where I'm clearly not a junior but had a ton of problems with mongo.

>Choosing Mongo because you don't know SQL doesn't seem valid

Valid is such a strange word here. People choose technologies based on their current skills all the time. If you've never encountered that kind of decision before then you need more experience.
https://www.databasesandlife.com/

Software, Coding, Databases, etc.

I've been writing the blog for about 20 years now.

- Full article list: https://www.databasesandlife.com/newest/

- List of categories (Java, PostgreSQL, etc.): https://www.databasesandlife.com/categories/

Started life on uboot.com (does anyone remember that?) then migrated to WordPress, and now Hugo.

The only articles which really get any hits any more are those where I've specifically solved problems I was having, i.e. posts which are similar to Stack Overflow answers. I guess people search for the error messages and find my articles, so that's search working as intended I guess.

If I write anything else e.g. my thoughts on software development, it's still a useful exercise to focus the mind, and I can send the article to a few mates and they might read it, but that's it, no hits from Google etc.

Back in the days of Google Reader I used to have some readers via RSS, and I used to follow a number of interesting blogs from various individuals I'd found. Those were nice times, but I guess they're over.
Not necessarily, my grandma can barely work a tablet but can tell her Alexa to play “country music from the 60s”.
Surely letting every alphabet group and Cambridge Analytica grab some of that treasure trove of "oops, our API was poorly scoped" data was prioritized higher than breaking up or otherwise slowing down Facebook.
YouTube will make recommendations based on your immediate session's viewing history, even without an account.

A tremendous advantage to viewing without authenticating is that you can quickly set a strong affinity based on your current interests, and don't have to live with consequences of viewing low-quality content for hours, days, months, years, millennia, etc.

If Invidious and Piped offer(ed) the option to permabam channels as well (to those subscribing directly to those services, or even within a single session), so much the better.
The main reason why is that Meta is a colossal vast data gathering beast, that for example flagrantly fucks around bypassing the GDPR. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36583651

Now, I personally I think it's trying to swim up the waterfall & ultimately worse for everyone, but: Mastadon specifically has had a strong history of being anti-search, anti-scraping. You aren't supposed to be surveiling folks at industrial scale on the fediverse.

There's widespread skepticism about Meta respecting rules of the road. Having a huge giant shark join the pool of lots of little fish seems like a scary proposition. How we can still protect & have sovereignty over our different fedi-sites is a real question when there's a company with so much technical, economic, and popular leverages.
It was very soft language.

Your point must ellude me then, unless by point you just mean you were being ironic, which wouldn't change my reply since it was a little tongue in cheek itself.
>As an interviewee, I refuse to put any effort into gaming the system and hoping to come across as a better candidate.

This is something missing from all the "interview coaching" advise and very few people seem to understand.

Suppose there is an actual technique that allows you to get a job you otherwise would not get. Say, hypothetically, you used it to become an astronaut. Do you think you perform well as an astronaut even though the selection process would have culled you? I'd imagine you get kicked out anyways so all you gained is a line in a resume. The same advise also insists that having a whole bunch of 0.5-1 year "gigs" in your work history is normal, but is it really? Do people really believe hiring managers don't see the pattern? Does anyone really think that people go: "Oh, we should hire this person, he worked in all of FAANG, one year in each, must be very good!"?
It can also be the case where the interviewer doesn’t really understand the question and are going from prompts. So when you try to get further understanding of their hint from them, they just repeat the hint. I think this reflects poorly on the company culture, that they’re throwing interviewers out there who aren’t ready.
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Our founding team has strong experience in software, machine learning, and biology developed through experience at Google, Verily, Benchling, and the Yale School of Medicine. We are moving with urgency to capitalize on the opportunity ahead of us after raising our $11mm seed round last year. We are backed by leading funds who were early investors in world class companies such as Gilead, Recursion, Insitro, Benchling, and others.

We're looking for talented, ambitious, and creative technical experts to join us in building a machine learning-driven cancer drug development engine. Some of our current open roles include:
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Marketing blog/newsletter for underdogs.
Agreed! That would be a great template to have in letsblock.it's corpus! Contributions are welcome if you have a ruleset to get us kickstarted.
ByteDance (aka TikTok) but not Twitter?
Fry: "So there's an infinite number of parallel universes?"

Farnsworth: "No, just the two."
Someone needs some training data for their model?
Plausible rubbed me the wrong way because of the attitude of their staff, but maybe I was the asshole?

I found a bad bug in their JS which means that on some pages it just silently fails and doesn't log anything, which means your analytics are even more inaccurate than ever (given the browser restrictions). I was totally broke and I wanted to use their paid service for a few months, so I offered them the fix in exchange for a few months free service (maybe $30 credit?). They told me basically "don't worry, we'll find the bug ourselves one day, we don't need your help."
Huh. I'm pretty sure that was largely obsoleted a while back (like, over a decade probably, not too long after this was written) by NetworkManager and ModemManager adding better handling for all the weird quirks that did actually matter with mobile broadband. It might still be possible to use it with the right manual configuration and additional software, but it'd mean dealing with badly documented quirks that are just handled for you by ModemManager.
The links don't really break, as the links are basically s/youtube.com/invidious_domain/
So in near future can it do to basic custom CRUD apps what WordPress did to websites ?
With Structure Pie, you can easily create and send emails.
Our platform has these features: audience segmentation, customizable templates and detailed analytics. With Structure Pie, you can reach your customers in a personalized way and increase open and conversion rates.
Could I ask why you're asking this question, that might help us to answer more specifically e.g. if you're looking for something particular from this list e.g. advice on aspect of blogging yourself.
If they are so Open Source, what is this BS that they are pulling out now that you cannot get the source code unless you are a paying customer, and if you are a paying customer you get terminated if you share the code? Or am I missing something?
I’m a software engineer and I use it everyday. I haven’t gone to StackOverflow in months. I use it like interactive documentation. I don’t even have to leave the terminal to use it as I have a cli tool called shell_gpt.
https://boston.conman.org/

Twenty-four years of back-log, and it's a mix of technical and personal content.
Now make the same argument about proteins and other nutrients in general.

Like, 'The idea that the human body has the formula for living 99% right and it just 'forgot' to make enough of protein X...' and if we just eat enough, often enough...

Our bodies weren't designed to work in this environment. They just came to work well enough in an environment like this. That means that there are issues with them, and that they eventually fail. That doesn't mean that we can't overcome these issues like we have overcome others with the use of technology.

Anti-aging is like any other technology that we use. It modifies us or our environment for a desired purpose. Is any technology flawless? No. Have they revolutionized our lives and made how the average human lives almost inconceivable to humans from 100kya? Totally.

Are we on the cusp of technological developments that will make how we live further unrecognizable. Totally.

IVG, artificial wombs, anti-aging/age-reversal, lab grown organs, automatic limb generation (like a salemander). Are all coming and will irrevocably change the human condition. And some of these things are coming in the next decade.

Maybe you're right, and we can't have an infinite life span, but I bet we could double life/healthspan, and I think that is coming very soon.
https://www.carrozo.com/cascade

No words, just pictures I’ve taken, present — 2015.
It can be a really convenient way to snapshot something if you can arrange some point at which everything is synced to disk. Get to that point, make your new files that start sharing all their blocks, and then let your main db process (or whatever) continue on as normal.
It's probably a matter of tastes but the games I'm interested in are on deep discounts. I only picked up a few because I already have a big backlog. The sales are there but it depends on the game.