skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, you all are probably right that unless I care to dig up his now deleted tweets and a recording of that conference that it's not worth saying anything about.

On the note of DORAs quality, I don't think they've ever actually released any datasets. The excuse they give is anonymity but their collection surveys always stated that the surveys are anonymous. It's impossible to determine the quality of their research beyond their own statements.
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-swift
This is really sad. I can't overstate the impact Kevin had on my life. The world is suddenly less interesting and less secure and my heart goes out to family and friends. Rest in peace, Kevin.
No, this is a perspectice problem. No in my experience. There is no hostility but you are not welcome either aside from a passerby spending money. It could even be a safety issue in some places (not usually).
To be candid; fuck this narrative. Nobody "Beats" cancer based on sheer will. Same scenario as those that did not "Fight hard enough". It's a disease. It does not care about your wants, and needs.
Joel Spolsky wrote about this 23 years ago (fuck I'm old)

> It’s important to remember that when you start from scratch there is absolutely no reason to believe that you are going to do a better job than you did the first time. First of all, you probably don’t even have the same programming team that worked on version one, so you don’t actually have “more experience”. You’re just going to make most of the old mistakes again, and introduce some new problems that weren’t in the original version.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
A much more interesting set of books (I've never managed to finish Blindsight due to Watts writing) is Ian Banks' Culture series.
Yes. This is what I'm saying.
ragebait
This is precisely the approach I started on taking to rewrite my oss frontend stuff: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/master/pub...
Freedom Downtime (2001)
Thanks!

I have a highly customized TST installation so I'm hesitant in trying other extensions
As soon as I saw it was a sphere, I knew exactly what the method was. The Magnus effect, based off my years of playing around throwing basketballs off dams, bridges, and high places.
What? That's the same thing; e.g predicate calculus deals with logical propositions.
Depth of Field, but instead of getting blurry it gets more JPEG [video]
It depends on the bugs. If you have an error message or a wrong behaviour you can explain, it’s pretty good at suggesting solutions and changes. It’s not always working from the first try but it helps.
He was childlike in his pranksterism. He never seemed to lose his wonder or his ability to make you feel like a jackass.

The man who could whistle the nuclear codes has passed away. And now maybe I can strike the social engineering village before the sun comes up.
it’s more that i don’t believe it’s a real scenario.
Came here to say the same thing.
Opened the github repo, no screen whatsoever. Sad story.
> I also ran into what seemed to be some transient invalidation issues.

It sounds to me like you didn’t understand the details of Svelte’s reactivity model, which are very important, and fairly straightforward to learn, but different from what people are commonly used to—and so even if you theoretically learn the model, it may take time in more complex cases for it to come naturally. The crux of these sorts of problems tends to be that reactivity is a property of bindings, not data; and as a secondary effect, mutation is therefore rather hazardous.

> 50-something reactive variables in a moderately complex chain

It sounds also like you’re fighting the framework. I’ve seen stuff like what you describe in some React libraries (e.g. mirroring something DOMmy in React—common, but I hate it because it’s so much mindless duplication, among other faults), but in Svelte at this scale you’re likely to get better results from seeing if you can bag things together (e.g. let x = {a, b, c} rather than let a, b, c), or passing through components rather than reactive variables. But these are vague concepts which may not actually be relevant or applicable.

Svelte is a framework that definitely requires that you work with it, or you’ll have a miserable time, whereas with React you can, to a much greater extent, do awful things and get away with it.

And when you speak of 3.x and 4.x and such—there’s basically no chance any of this stuff will ever change in Svelte, it’s too fundamental. In some cases you might end up with better compiler warnings, but that’ll likely be the extent of it.
Well see, you misinterpret what I said. Your beliefs are fine, that is not culture. Your practice of tradition exclusive to a pre-existing group based on ethno-national affiliation is my problem as well as your rejection of existing inclusive cultures in the country you moved to.

Now, if you disagree with that, why did you migrate? A country isn't just land. You migrated into a culture and people and their ways.
> Are people in prison allowed to sign into their Google accounts?

If it's so important to them, maybe their partners or family can login - or they can do a takeout and store their data in a hard drive. Who knows if Google services will be around when they get out, right?
I've had the opposite on Adafruit's website. I'm pretty sure I'm still banned from purchasing from them because my credit card at the time didn't have a matching address. They are very aggressive with their anti-fraud.
The key sentence:

> A return to serious reading today is an “elitist” venture not because serious reading is necessarily reactionary or elitist, but because the twentieth-century attempt at the democratization of knowledge failed.

I would add that if that's the case, I would ask what it implies for the eventual success of the Protestant Reformation.
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The current CRA text only excludes OSS software that has no commercial activity around it. Unfortunately, it defines commercial activity in part, this way:

“where the main contributors to free and open-source projects are developers employed by commercial entities and when such developers or the employer can exercise control as to which modifications are accepted in the code base, the project should generally be considered to be of a commercial nature.”

This can be read to mean that if the main contributors are not unemployed, then the project is commercially tainted.
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It applies not just to foundations and companies but basically all software created or distributed within the EU so basically all software created by professional developers even outside of their employment.

Where the creator is beyond the reach of the EU the onus doesn't cease to exist it just falls on the company to certify as part of their due diligence for their product and this doesn't even make that version of that software or library itself certified out of scope of that usage so all non-certified software would need to be verified once per work unless someone stands up an entity to provide a certified version of whatever.

For open source software you are asking companies to write or buy their own everything.

The most reasonable scenario is probably European developers using a limited palette of software versions behind the US wherein in many cases the have to pay a European maintainer who pays the cheapest offshore labor it can find to give its rubber stamping of security a thin veneer of respectability while contributing nothing back to the people who write the software.

What it logically needs is a requirement that such labor come from the EU and a portion go back to the source project. We can call it the FULL EMPLOYMENT for EUROPEAN DEVS MAINTAINERS and ENGINEERS

aka FEEDME

In this fantasy land non-europeans would register for their portion of the money.
> I want those ideas to come from folks who have the skillset

When the industry/society comes around and finally can get behind the idea of requiring licensing for software engineers to practice, get back to me :) . Until such a level playing field is imposed on all players, such practices impose a cost that your competitors are not paying, and they will out-manuever you and out-ship you.

> start to rapidly decay once you start approaching any sort of product maturity

Perhaps time-to-maturity then? Because it's besides the point that maturity is a characteristic necessarily of successful products. You find success by iteratively shipping.

> teams rarely optimize towards stability and quality until they have literally no other option

First make it run, then make it stable, then make it optimized. Pre-mature optimization is the root of all evil. This additionally lends focus to why the business can get behind such efforts: you need product flexibility to grow from $0 to $Xmillion/year, then you need to protect the $Xmillion/year so that it's not at risk from incompetence, hackers, etc., then after your user count stops growing, you continue to grow profits by cutting costs (e.g. by using more efficient languages like Rust that let you serve the same customers on less hardware).
Doesn't it? It has both a "Pre-modern Portuguese" and a "Modern Portuguese" column in the table.
Yes, that was my reasoning. Also there is non-written rule in this project that forbids me from going wider than 80 columns. With that I initially had indentation set to 2 spaces but later I realized that code is indented at most 2 times and it's better to make space for goto labels on the left.
> To conduct, in all sincerity, a study of Shakespeare, today, merely for personal edification, is to take for oneself knowledge, which, it turns out, cannot and will not be taken or absorbed by most people. Even when that knowledge is freely available and the government spends great sums of money in the attempt to spread that knowledge. [emphasis added]

Will not, yes. Cannot, no. Very silly oversight. Shakespeare isn't actually that hard to read, if you've got a good annotated copy. The issue is that a lot of people just aren't interested in reading something which, though obviously great in many senses, was not written for a modern audience and in many ways is less compelling than something fresher and more contemporary which you won't need a glossary to enjoy. And higher education is more common than ever—it's just that Shakespeare isn't a necessary part of that.

In framing this as a question of "democracy versus elitism," the author shows his hand. The modern era of prestige TV dramas in popular culture was ushered in by Breaking Bad, a show which was very popular and is easily defensible through any "elite" lens as a great work of art. Huge amounts of scholarly work have been written on the differences between high and low art, but within this article, the point of distinguishing between them is just to puff yourself up as a True Art Understander rather than to actually learn anything about the current media ecosystem or how general audiences interact with art.

Much as I like to critique popular art, the point of art is simply to move the audience. It's ridiculous to presuppose that canonical classics are necessarily the best and that any deviation from this orthodoxy by the general public is an intellectual deficit which betrays the ultimate failure of democracy. I'm not opposed to a bit of snobbishness, but this is ridiculous.
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Is there a difference between evil and indifferent if you are on the receiving end? Humanity is largely indifferent to animal welfare and animals would qualify it as evil how we treat them.
Now translate the 20 minute tutorial to mini.
> But rings of superconducting magnets and their controllers, along with radioactive lithium blankets that have to be renewed and reprocessed regularly, or gigajoule banks of lasers and little ultra-precision gold-wrapped fuel pellets? None of this stuff is ever going to be cheap, compared to the alternatives.

Are you familiar with how computer chips are made? There are hundreds of steps involving plasmas, ultra-high vacuums, ultraviolet lithography systems, and robotic handling throughout. And yet you can get a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W for $15.

That much processing power would have cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in the early 90s, when I imagine someone might naively have said something similar about the prospects of it ever costing $15.

Or suppose suggesting after Kitty Hawk in 1903 that one day an international plane ticket could be had for (the equivalent of today's) ~$1000: preposterous, if they can even get it to work!

Of course, nobody really knows how this will shake out. You could ultimately be correct that fusion won't ever be cost-competitive with other sources of energy. But "that sounds complicated" is absolutely not a reliable heuristic for price, because over time complicated things become mundane, and whence mundane, cheap.
I have the extremely fortunate scenario of watching my wife just begin a computer science degree now, with no prior experience programming whatsoever. This is not hyperbole: ChatGPT is an absolute game-changer when it comes to getting through the basics.

It is simply far, far easier for a newbie to see a computer generate 1 / 3 / 5 slightly-different attempts to solve a specific problem they have, and then to pattern match sufficiently to be able to solve the problem themselves, than it is to muddle around by yourself with it for hours and hours with no end in sight.

I thought she would have to ask me, someone who has been slinging Python in some form since 2008, a question at least once a week. In reality it's been about 3 times over the last 9 months.

ChatGPT doesn't do much for experienced SWEs, but it demolishes the difficulty curve for newbies. I wish I had this when I was learning.
You can find screenshots there: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
Workday isn't owned by Salesforce.
I was in the ICU after a motorcycle accident many years ago. I spiked a severe fever, and they used cold blankets -- sheet-sized, very thin ice packs -- to cool me down. Most assuredly, that experience sucked ass. Better than dying, I suppose, but not by much.
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The article doesn't mention it, but for me a good refinement of the idea is that being an introvert or extrovert is about whether social activity is something that costs energy or replenishes it. Not whether you enjoy it - in my own case I love talking and large crowds and so on, when I'm rested. When I'm tired, be quiet and stop looking at me.
Better link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
Haha I was typing fast just to show the QML syntax. I don't really think good code is about lower amount of lines, but rather more about "making sense". And that's what I tried to show.

Regarding the timer, so in your Svelte code a new timer is being created each time? I wonder how to implement the efficiently in QML. I don't think it's as straightforward.

EDIT: Probably the best way is to expose QTimer::singleShot (C++) in QML.
uBlock Origin – Wiki : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki
I don't have problem with private institutions like Harvard giving preferential treatments to its legacy. However, I think they should give up some portion of their tax advantaged status as the result.
I like this sort of process. I've done something very similar converting scientific code I prototyped in python into c++. I would re-write one function or class at a time in c++, write a binding to it with pybind11, and replace the original python with a call to the binding. There was some extra work with the bindings, but that's such straightforward boilerplate it was worth it.
Stuff like that is really heartwarming… org identifies they aren’t safe enough and reaches out to an agency with experience in the area, then the agency coming in and helping make stuff safer instead of just writing a bunch of stuff up, charging some fines, and then leaving.
But, you won’t have any money if your labor is replaced by AI.
Porting my C++ game engine to Android
It is the React of sales!
Interesting feedback!
The recommended install is already local (through yarn).

The only piece mentioning docker is to provision a Postgres database, which you need to have to run a CRM anyway. We have planned to replace it by a section explaining how to install Postgres on the different OS. Planned for next week!
Perusing the comments here, it's interesting how short-sighted HN can be when it comes to LLMs. Generative "AI" is only going to get better, and the question of whether or not ChatGPT can write FizzBuzz, or avionics firmware, or a CRUD app, seems to be missing the forest for the trees.

Even if LLMs or some successor technology never ends up supplanting programmers entirely, it is guaranteed we will see a mixture of deskilling (certain skills no longer being required, like spelling in the age of autocorrect) and massive productivity gains (meaning n-m workers can now do the job of n). These tools aren't going away, and they're only going to improve.

Thus the market for programmers will shrink henceforth. There are no doubts about it. Maybe slowly, maybe quickly, but shrink it will, for the same reason that the market for radiologists is shrinking, or the reason that engineering firms no longer employ whole floors of draftsmen.
maybe this is the happy little UAP tic tac
I don't know why but I got stuck on the detail about his reading speed:

> With a nearly photographic memory and a reading speed of 1,000 pages per hour

The first couple sources I could find that had such estimates both listed ~250-300 as the estimate range for words-per-page in a novel.

That means he could read 250,000 words per hour on the low end, or ~4166 words per minute.

I had to convert to words per minute because that's the only metric I have reference for. From what I recall of a brief foray into speed-reading, most people rarely or never read over 300 wpm.

Did anyone ever test his reading speed? More broadly, is this actually possible? Are there other known individuals with 'photographic' (or closest equivalent) memory who can read that quickly?

Edit: Wikipedia[0], citing "The Manual.."[1] says that anything "faster than 900 wpm is not feasible given the limits set by the anatomy of the eye". But I'm still curious about whether there are exceptions.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Reading_and_c... (second from last paragraph of linked section)

[1]https://books.google.com/books?id=cEFKjwEACAAJ&q=ultimate+st...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Bassons
That is the organization.
This could be an episode of Today, Now (the morning show of the Onion).
I thought about reading this, but I didn't want anyone to call me selfish, elitist, or anti-social.
Totally agree. What are some nice monospace programming nerdfonts without ligatures?
This isn't what I was talking about. You're talking about slinking into a quick 6 figure job. That's not how a lot people get there. A lot had to go right for you for that to happen, not the least of which was the state of funding in the tech industry.
You are talking past each other; You're discussing very different things - capitalism's terminal utility to humanity versus capitalism's direct operational mechanisms - without actually disagreeing substantively.

The goal of the investor isn't to provide goods & services, it's to get profits in whatever way is possible. He doesn't give a shit about goods and services. This tends to diverge from the interests of non-investors.

We have an investor class that is presently largely in control of our government and our society, whose interests as a part of the capitalist system are currently at a few percent remove from our interests as people who enjoy goods & services. That divergence, as well as the accumulated privilege opposed to our interests that this class derives from control of our government and our society, appears to grow over time with uninterrupted peacetime improvements in automation, and AI is promising almost unimaginably large improvements over the next decade.

The status quo socially liberal, economically neoliberal society is not sustainable even as a polite fiction in the face of that kind of shift.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

As we no longer weep for serfdom-slavery, you don't have to weep for wage-slavery, but you do have to replace it with something else more functional if our society is not to completely collapse. And it's looking like we will be empowering our de facto leaders with all the blood and treasure in the world to stop us from replacing it with anything more functional. Every civil war in the world up to this point has relied upon human soldiers with their own interests and allegiances, faced with a brutal choice of risking their lives to kill their countrymen - people who have the option of not pulling the trigger. This is not going to be the case for much longer.

And that's all assuming we don't get paperclipped, assuming that Ayn Rand is the penultimate cosmic horror and there is nothing darker in the possibility space, no pressure on the right side of the Drake Equation. I don't know about that.
My belief, which happens to be distressingly controversial in this day and age since GitHub subverted and repurposed readme files: the GitHub repository actively shouldn’t have screenshots. A readme should have info about the project, building, that kind of thing, stuff that’s relevant to the source, and things like screenshots should be elsewhere (… and certainly not stored inside the repository, as is far too often done—major cause of repository bloat), on a marketing page or similar. In this case, this is the source code repository, as is traditional, and the project’s homepage is on AMO, so that’s where things like screenshots go, as they should in that model. The fault here is merely that the wrong URL was provided for the submission.
Resistance to version changes in protocol buffers comes from practice and doctrine that is widespread in the user community, not entirely from the format itself. There is really only 1 point to keep in mind.

1) Never change the type or semantic meaning of a field.

It's really that simple.
> smooth, continuous descent with minor variations in power to stay on the assigned slope.

Which is called a "glide path" or "glide slope": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system_glid...
https://joeyh.name/robots.txt
U.S. cuts funding to Wuhan lab embroiled in pandemic probes
https://archive.is/Yp27L
> Hard to take when you're broke and trying to make rent though.

Are you upset they aren't making as much money as they possibly can, rather than what is available?

Chasing the ultimate amount of money isn't a practical strategy.

> So they should have basic, agreed standards of what appropriate agreements look like, negotiated as a group.

That certainly makes it faster - you don't need to negotiate individually, instead "take it or leave it", and hopefully it's a good deal for both.

But it's not like such an agreement is required, if someone wants to negotiate something else, nothing is stopping them.

And you can be sure that some indie company will decide to leapfrog the studios and do exactly that with non union models.
So what you’re saying is, TCP is better than UDP?
That was my fault, I don't know why I thought that, but they got it from me.
AFAIK the "manufacture a new molecule" part, or even the "find a molecule that looks likely to treat a disease" part, is in practice not even the main expense the patent secures; it's the "convince the FDA that the molecule is safe and effective" part, which is less engineering and more procedural/bureaucratic, and it takes the most time and money (after marketing expenses).
They seem to have a pricing page so if you don’t want to do that then use the hosted one?
duck I guess I really should be worried.