skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If history is an indication, any part of the JavaScript ecosystem that is not part of a formal standard, no matter how widely used or deeply integrated into the industry, is prone to getting replaced or obsoleted. There was a time when front-end development without jQuery was unthinkable. We now seem to be slowly coming out of any era when front-end development without reactive component based SPAs (React, Angular etc.) was unthinkable. I suspect that in the long run, compile-to-JS type systems will go the same way. Perhaps the alternative is a set of optional run-time validation capabilities built into ECMAScript (syntactic sugar over `typeof`?), whatever that may be.
I believe it’s still possible to have that experience but you have to go down the personal site + email route.

There you’ll still find people willing to have thoughtful conversations.

At least, that’s my experience.
you can't do that much trig without knowing basic algebra.
Climate change, environmental remediation, therapeutics solving for cancer and similar maladies.
Hahaha, perfect! Edit: Wow, I love that this does specifically that, too.
UNIX shell is good like that, that you can combine thing in shell scripts and command-line you can make such a combined program, if you are using programs that are designed to support that (unfortunately, too many modern programs don't, although some do).

However, is there a race condition with writing to the files? Since it is append mode, I would expect that would prevent other processes overwriting the file, although would it prevent other processes writing in the middle of a line if it gets interrupted? Actually, I don't know.

I had made a simple two user chat system with logging using ts, tee, and nc; using a shell script with only a single line of code. This produces two log files, one for sending and one for receiving; however, I can then use cat and sort to interleave the logs into a single log file.
Privacy, longevity, nutrition science, trust, deep space exploration.
No my oldest’s school didn’t require that. I don’t recall that either, but I was in 4th grade in the mid-80s so my recollection may be off.

They do a fair bit of writing, but not as rigorous as what I had in 5th grade. We had to write legit 5-paragraph essays and reports (I remember this because I struggled with it), and my son’s longest compositions were only required to be 1- or 2-paragraph blurbs in a composition book.

It seems like they took the bottom 40% of learners as the baseline for their implementation of Common Core. If anything they should have at least taken the middle 40%, since that brackets the mean in a normal distribution.

But what do I know. I just have a PhD in physics and have forgotten more math and statistics than they ever learned, and don’t make use of those ridiculous algorithmic tricks they teach and force kids to use, instead of fundamentals.
I'm not the op but posted about my own text system. In short, I never used images in my notes even when adding them was easy, so I saved myself the trouble of having to deal with rich document formats. With the goal of portability and tool agnosticism in mind, I believe a plain text file is better for me. Everything can break or be replaced, yet I'll be able to continue my work habits using nothing more than notepad or even EDIT.EXE. I'm reasonably confident markdown or html will be readable for a long time, but I value ultra simplicity here. I think ultimately it's a matter of personal taste.

When I produce images, it's nearly always in the context of a project, which has a wiki or other system. But that's outside of what I'd personally call "notes".
Real-life 'Tarzan' who lived in the jungle for decades dies of cancer (2021)
Honestly, I'm pretty sure that some good shows are already around LLM levels of focus/creativity. I love Bleach, but there are several plot lines where there's a great story that ends abruptly, never to be revived again. The story just happily meanders along like an LLM trying it's best to give you exactly what you want =)
> Code smell is usually used to describe code that is suspicious or uses practices that are known to be highly unreliable (e.g. regex)

I think this sentence illustrates very well the root of our disagreement.

Saying "are well known to be highly unreliable" without any backing _facts_ is the sad state of affairs in IT industry.

I am keen to see a research done with scientific rigour that would show that regex is highly unreliable.
Perl didn't replace anything. It was replaced by PHP for CGI programming (which says a lot!) and botched itself by the second worst version migration of all times.
Rolling resistance is a function of tyre and road surface, not weight.

On a flat course, weight only affects acceleration (which the motor helps with). Once you’re at a constant speed, weight is a non factor and it’s all wind resistance.
It’s “data science” only in name. (Btw I hate the term data science; most practitioners of this profession practice pseudoscientific bullshit or worse.) From TFA:

> The core issue of the CMF’s “data science” section is that it claims to be discussing data science while it is actually discussing data literacy.

> ...

> The CMF is replete with statements like “high-school data-science class students can learn to clean data sets – removing any data that is incorrect, corrupted, incorrectly formatted, duplicated, or incorrect in some other way [...] High school students can also learn to download and upload data, and develop the more sophisticated “data moves” that are important to learn if students are tackling real data sets.''

It’s more of an Excel class with some basic math sprinkled in.
I love this advice! I know it works. Just as George Santos.
The part nobody seems to pick up on, is that the airline also made him clean it up, even though he is not staff on that plane, and the blood/feces was not his. They did provide him with rubber gloves, but really he should have been completely apart from it.

This story is really messed up, but merely "finding" the floor soaked in blood is only the beginning of the story. It was blood and feces, from a prior passenger that seemed to have exploded in the seat.

Who knows what danger they put this passenger in by making him clean it up.
High interest rates
It's painfully obvious you've never been on either end of this problem.

In big orgs, if you have time to set up baby fences (or had them from the start) you have enough free time to build the feature yourself.

No one who hosts an away team is prepared to do so
Watch your backlight level, which auto adjusts to the room light level.

"When comparing battery life, remember that screen brightness makes a huge difference!

On an M1 MacBook Air sitting idle on the KDE desktop, you will get around 7 hours of runtime at 100% brightness, and 23 hours of runtime at the minimum (not zero) brightness.

Even keyboard brightness matters! Those numbers are with the keyboard backlight turned off. If you turn it on at max, even with the screen left at minimum, your runtime goes from 23 hours down to just 14 hours.

So please don't ask us what battery lifetime to expect while doing a certain task and expect a single answer!"

https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux/110548137464042...
There are decent proxies, eg divorce rate, which should provide good clues about the effects of lock downs. Another one would be domestic violence arrests and convictions. You can probably think of more. I would like to see someone try to do an honest look at this.
Exactly: we would use a screwdriver.

That was my first reaction.

Second reaction to this was "Nah, this is brute-forcing like running through all permutations that's not possible I'm not worthy."

My third reaction was https://xkcd.com/538/
The animals and ecosystems wide scale extinction seems to be a major threat I think. It’s something people don’t seem to notice much as it isn’t in the news constantly, but 60% of wild life disappearing in the last 70 years seems like a disaster snowball that is growing fast.

I think this is the threat that will be largely ignored, and because it is purposely ignored it will keep growing in the background until it takes us all down as a storm of natural disasters.
The UN has identified 17 sustainable development goals (https://sdgs.un.org/goals) and the AI for good Global Summit https://aiforgood.itu.int/ (which was held last week) focused on exactly that.

If you check the recordings, some sessions were directly focused on connecting problem experts, data access, computing resources and people with skills or idea or passion. The opportunities span from students or researchers, up to what will take innovative companies or bigtech to solve, or government and international organizations.

It was also the place were a lot of discussions about AI regulation took place. The discussions and the decisions that will follow from that meeting will shape the world to come IMHO.
Amazing to see, that even after the shock of trump election and brexit, people continue to dismiss and downplay the “other side” as full of idiots/uneducated/manipulated by russian trolls/etc.
Great article! Though the author despises phrases like Woke Math, his description of the failings of the California Math Framework is exactly what critics are referring to when using phrases like Woke Math.
For a lot if what I do, the CPU on an older laptop is just fine. So, I too use really old laptops.

That said, I am upgrading laptops that sold with 2 - 4 GB of RAM to 16 GB, or at least 8 GB. Often I am replacing on old HDD ( maybe as slow as 5400 RPM ) with a faster SSD. That SSD also juices the battery life. So, what I am using is a lot nicer than what the original owner had to deal with.

Many laptops today will not age as well as, in ten years, that soldered on 8 GB is really going to be a bummer.

I use Linux a fair bit which makes a difference. Linux is fantastic on older hardware and the software itself is totally up to date. I use old Mac laptops a fair bit. The version of MacOS they support would be unusable as would the applications that would still run on it. The same is becoming true of Windows.
My Arduino, hardware and Linux blog has been translated in English: https://www.marcelv.net
In vitro gametogenesis (IVG) and artificial wombs.
A lot of a billionaires which:

1. Exist

2. Actively making us not noticing their existance by shitting us with some fake problems like gays, drugs, foreigners, terrorists, etc (different set of fake problems per country).
Plastic pollution
> Smartphones have caused more upheaval than anything I’ve seen in my career.

I don't know if I believe this _totally_. However, I can attest to the fact my relationship has more-or-less been permanently damaged by social media.

I am not a person who really wants to spend a ton of money traveling, extravagant outings, whatever. I will go out for a nice dinner and drinks, etc. I am not a miser. It's just not me to do those things - maybe because I never had them growing up. I much prefer going outdoors. I am not a prolific consumer which is what my wife has suddenly become.

For a decade none of this was ever a problem. Around the time instagram really took the world by storm I was constantly hearing about other relationships. Her friends, etc and how their lives are better than ours. This bled into other aspects of our relationship where it seems like I am constantly being judged against some standard that shifted under my feet. Perhaps it's because we are approaching middle age and it's dawning on her she probably settled - tough break.

A lot of this has stopped after a ton of work but the damage is done. I despise the modern internet because by the transitive property of social media it has damaged my self-esteem.

It is no surprise to me divorces are back on the menu. I don't think anyone can be happy in this environment if they're so deeply connected to the internet. It's a mixture of everything. Tinder, facebook, instagram, etc. "Flight risk" is probably the most succinct way I'd describe the situation. It's an extension of the political situation we face today. Relationships are so atomized along so many different parameters that it's impossible to find your commonalities.
What is the benefit of Euthereum vs using Webauthn/passkeys?
The Beauty of Blackened Teeth in Vietnamese Ancient History
Old Computer Challenge
On my (2020 intel) MBP, SSD IO is VERY power hungry. Usually the culprit is Firefox, but my company is on the MS office suite, so sometimes it’s Outlook or Teams. It’s frustrating.
If not, how would you prevent it? Electrocute the perpetrators? Then how to catch them first?
https://archive.ph/kfeXQ
I think complexity can have multiple interpretations, especially in a fragmented discipline as software engineering.

However, at least for me containers solves 3 main source of problems to shipping code in a current software environment: (1) somewhat consistency around runtime environment between production, development and homologation (2) a portable way to deliver software (just create the image) and (3) packaging between source code and runtime.

I started my career at the late-2000s and at least in my experience the code itself was the least of issues because we needed to develop something in a environment to be delivered at a runtime in another, transfer the files via FTP or replace files with _.old and making sure that it would work in all places.
Wechat itself asks for GPS data upon startup. On Android if you deny the permission the app closes.
I just had a trip back to the small town island we moved from 8 years ago -- most of our cohort is in the "first kid is at the end of highschool/first year of college" sort of age, most have two + kids.

Not many relationships survived, the ones that did are the outliers. And they definitely don't fall into her two categories. Can't say smartphones really caused it, timing isn't really right for covid. There was a lot of historical trauma either childhood or through the relationships, and issues with teenagers not adjusting well to their additional independence.

So, n=small, but I think there are a lot of reasons that relationships fail, and you can't really blame the smartphone for it.
I am just confronting this now. My daughter is 6, and I'm trying to teach her math and reading. She's excelling at reading. The thing about math is, I have to teach her math the way the standards specify. The problem is…

The common core math is just strange. I find it confusing, and I did a full tour at an engineering college.

Math is a “procedure”. That's why programs like MatLab/MathCad can solve equations-- they just have a set of rules that solve problems. Learning math is the process of internalizing these rules.

The common core stuff seems to be the opposite of this. I want to build with my daughter a set of skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square root, exponents etc, eventually moving on to trig, linear algebra and calc) she can build on. But common core hopelessly confuses even simple things like adition.
https://hamsterbase.com
Props to the KDE Team for constantly redefining beauty and usability of Desktop Linux and beyond.
Meh. I wish society could over time better vote & analyze people.

Right now the action is all post by post, has near net no aggregate impact in helping us asses how we view each other. I would love love love to see a real balanced fair view on how society views the different people.

Personally I don't find these negative views bad. I personally think there are enormous negative sapping energies of bad. Oh yes, there is a little Exiting the Vampire Castle that self-owms the various progressive/hopeful fronts. But my word. This is such the small side of things compared to the ur-connected negative regressive anti-societal creeps that so advance.

We don't need to stop the bad people. But there are so many bad people, horrible things advocated. We dont stop; but we need options for self warding. We desperately require anti anti-social networking. We direly need social warding, against so many trash pieces of garbage here to spread rot & bedlam & meanness.

This was always asymmetric, with the bad garbage having endless more time & energy to invest in being garbage. Brandolini's Law strongly implies that discourse against bad shitty shits is impossible; the aggressors of shittiness can stack overflow the entire internet. The only response of reason is socialized defense, is identifying & making know aggressors. We don't block these people, we don't stop them! But we enable society to form some basic social warding to alert & make each other aware of the bad actors, to provide warning.

This phase of no longer endless acquiescing to the worst is building, thankfully, with vigor. The absolutely unhinged & cruel having free reign has worn out so much of the internet, has become completely expected, to such a degree that response is inevitable.

Thankfully Western society still values freedom of speech. Nor could we succeed in self policing - in a State way - the ideas about. Nor would proxy corporations be able to maintain a reasonable society.

Leaving these trust decisions to centralized moderation is obviously idiotic. What we can move to next is to protecting each other & voluntarily opting in: it's not real now, but the possibility is growing exponentially as all other ideas fail to deliver relief & let bad people run amok unchecked forever, & make everything shitty. Checks come. Thank the stars.

And we don't have to kick anyone off. We just can start to see how people are viewed on the net. And decide for ourselves to agree disagree allow or deny based on much much much bigger baselines, at much much lower frequencies of analysis than the post-by-post immediacy horseshit the poor online world has had to suffer under so far. We are going to get better & will get to see how we all view things, and thank the frelling stars. Thank the stars this shitty junk protest against review will be buried. Thank the stars each voice of stupid no longer will enter each new post fully renewed in health points. Some historical view will help us all calibrate, help us assess how to read what everyone says.
These institutions cannot be reformed in a reasonable amount of time. The alternative has to come from elsewhere. People need a viable alternative so they can 'exit' similar to how Uber changed the taxi industry.
Indeed, if there's no limit, you probably want to not document it, lest you tempt someone with too much time on their hands to test if unlimited really means unlimited.
No, I'll make the gamble that people will realize the stupidity of the whole affair before it gets so far entrenched into society. And, you know what? If the rot ever does really spread that far? There's always the coffin for me. I will not live in a cryptocurrency first society, simple as. The loss of privacy and the dedication towards fucking over others is intolerable. I will not be joining your circle jerk parade, I will not be participating in making the world a worse place. Thank you, come again.
Honestly the TC39 is the best case scenario. https://tc39.es/proposal-type-annotations/

Forget runtime type validation, TS is really for preventing bugs at development time as well as IDE integration.
>The problem is that nobody can align the incentives of the tradespeople and the office folks when it comes to integrating into an information system together.

Exactly this. What you describe is basically the same as every ERP and CRM problem. In the end most of them all somewhat converged to SAP or SAP equivalent.

It takes a very specific and special sets of skills to align and understand both, if not all parties interest.
> to providing equitable outcomes for all people and the planet

The top 10% who hold essentially all the wealth in the world have very little interest in that goal.
On iCloud.com, yeah, but on Mac you can use rules to run arbitrary code on your emails, which is pretty sweet.
Just according to k--plan. A Japanese media conglomerate wanted vertical integration with a global distribution channel, so they went out and got it. They would probably have done it earlier; they just never had a suitable paid platform to acquire before (and possibly tried to build their own unsuccessfully).
Water and water rights.
There's a significant difference between "Your ISP's IP block suggests you are near Stockton,CA" and "Your exact location +/- 5 meters"
It doesn't really work in the private sector though; it leads to destructive and short-sighted juking of the relevant metrics.
Ignore the haters - they're too young to remember.

I remember different CLI tools working differently on SysV and other variants. I remember AIX and HPUX.

Perl meant one thing that just goddamned worked mostly the same way. That and vi and emacs. :-)
don't forget that besides microcode much of the lisp machine logic was implemented with PALs, which were themselves programmed in Lisp. the simple gates, mixers and flip-flops were describe with lisp code, so that the logic could be tested on the lisp machine. I don't know if they built the test tables using the lisp code, or wrote them out manually, but you essentially had multiple sources of truth that could be mutually verified: lisp code, test tables, and the behavior of the specific PAL.
Multi-Tech Analysis of Materials from Blood Falls
Full title is "A Multi-Technique Analysis of Surface Materials From Blood Falls, Antartica". This is the study which has been, uh, "summarized" recently in various popular media.

"Blood Falls" is a glacier with a very blood-colored discharge. The study analyzed it using several different spectral and electron-microsopy methods, focusing on those employed on Mars rovers and orbiters. Much of it was over my head, but clearly showed "it's complicated". It was fascinating to see how the different methods complimented each other, and how the mechanics of sample retrieval and analysis can alter the results. The study concluded with reflections on analysis of Mars samples.
The Postdoc Exodus [video]
I dunno, what counts as honest? Hot off the press: https://iea.org.uk/publications/did-lockdowns-work-the-verdi...

If there is reasonable doubt about the effectiveness of lockdowns then they were a disaster. Mass suspension of basic human rights isn't something that should be done on the basis that it seems like a good idea in the moment.
I find it weird the intensity with which people believe that teachers rather than students are the bottleneck here. If you want to add an incentive it makes much more sense to incent the students to do well.
Words have meanings, and the instruction pipeline consists of electrical signals - and those early CPUs were almost all microcoded or had multiphase clocks or some other implementation abstraction which they did not expose to their architectural state... so yes, they were in a very real sense compilers.
Metadata indexing for Spotlight?

I've had very stubborn runs of the md* indexer (not at laptop can't recall name -- mdimport?) decide that yes, this coffee shop is a great place to crank it up.

A similar one is a large initial indexing by the Dropbox app. I've had my M1 Air on the desktop Thunderbolt dock for the past month so it's gotten way past that initialization stage.
Show HN: Engage, Convert and Capture Leads with Presbot
Photos Show Niagara Falls Without Water, 1969
You might be interested in the work of Steven Hail and Gabrielle Bond. There's an online course they run through Torrens University that covers a lot of this stuff:

https://www.torrens.edu.au/courses/business/economics
> If you don't care about allocations why are you using Rust in the first place?

Because Rust excels on a lot of dimensions other than "systems programming"; Cargo is fantastic, the ecosystem of packages is great, it's one of the only languages that takes cross-platform support (including Windows) seriously, and it's got sum types.

Or, as withoutboats put it: https://twitter.com/withoutboats/status/1658536526043570179
Sorry, you’re correct. I was thinking of the case where older applications receive PHAuthorizationStatus.authorized when the user has selected restricted. There are newer APIs to handle the restricted access changes.