skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, a source code repository is an essential tool. But if you have a company that has a room (or several rooms) full of developers that work on a product, the expertise (arguably, the whole raison d'être) of that company is in the things that only they do. The tools are necessary, but you don't want every developer to have to devote any more time than is necessary to learning/using a tool.

I'm not arguing against source control, I'm arguing against a tool that so complicated and is obviously so hard to master might work against us as much as it work for us.
I am morally opposed to most IP laws and believe they are categorically illegitimate.
Hi @richieartoul, does warpstream support the standard Kafka Admin API?

We build an admin console / dev tooling for Kafka (https://kpow.io) that supports Kafka 1.0+ including Redpanda due to their fairly strict adherence to those API.

Warpstream seems like a cool idea, I'd like to see what happens if we plug Kpow on top of it, if that's possible.
LOL

I agree. Let's get the church to pay taxes and return public lands and then I'm happy to chat.
I think they missed a detail. ! isn't deleted yet
Newegg is now an amazon-style marketplace, with stuff they sell mixed in to the rest same as how AmazonBasics is mixed in to the rest.
Yeah, I mostly knew these other reasons were a thing. I had not realized they were the only reason. I guess I was thinking of them more like a port of entry between states and assumed taxes were involved.
There are at least 2 samples definitely produced: one in the original videos and another in the video released by Hyun-Tak Kim via nytimes which definitely look different. It is unclear if the sample sent to KENTECH for the analysis is the first sample or a fresh one. Young-Wan Kwon is also known to have his own sample (confirmed in MML 2023 sightings), but it is unclear whether it's distinct from other samples too.

Interviews with Q-Center folks suggest that the yield is high enough to produce a handful but not large number of samples at once, so there are probably much less than 100 samples available, which might be one of the reasons they were initially hesitant to share samples to others. (There are tons of groups want to get samples, if it's unclear.)
It's mostly (all?) static content.

This should be cheap and easy to host behind a CDN like Cloudflare.
Their valuation is far beyond what can be justified by any company that makes and sells cars. IIRC they have (had?) a higher market cap than every other car company combined.

Their valuation is based on being a "tech company" like FAANG, and somehow making more money by offering robo-taxis or something than selling cars.
>More importantly, there is absolutely no shortage of airplane parts in Russia — they’re just delivered in a more “wink-wink” obscure way.

That sounds like a hazard in itself, airlines being forced to buy parts outside of official supply lines makes it much easier for unscrupulous sellers to substitute counterfeit parts.
I blame tech journalism like the verge for this failure.

SSD manufacturers are well aware of what their drives should do. But they are also aware that to get sales they need to win benchmarks, and that to do that they cut corners with data integrity.

A benchmark of a drive should involve a heavy workload with a random drive hard and unplanned poweroff every 30 seconds. The drive should never lose a single fsync'ed byte.

The drive should also be put in hot/cold cycling chambers. And in radiation chambers. And journalists should publish which drives meet their obligations despite all the adverse (yet still in spec) conditions they're put through.

I bet no ssd for sale today could survive all 3 tests above for a month and still get okayish performance without data loss.
I see.

May I be brutally honest with you? I mean this to try of being of some help (how many times I wished people would just tell me what they trully think, I cant count).

I think you are trying to do two things here.

Most developers are mediocre and always will be. They just cant be autonomous like that. Growing and nurturing talented junior devs is a whole problem in itself. It's chaotic. You could but then sell him to the client once you have one that working good with a client. And again, you wont be clearing a backlog, you are recruiting and nurturing a junior dev for a client.

On the other side, there is the clearing the backlog problem for which you can use mediocre programmers. They dont need to be juniors. They just need to be able to clear a task decently well once in a while. This however can scale big. Think about how coding is trending toward AI-generated code. Most of the menial tasks and bugs and unit tests could be done by less than good programmers as long as you have the UX/UI to paliate the fact they arent autonomous. And of course some of them would learn the craft doing just that, get plenty of stars on your platform and then get properly hired for 100k a year.

I clearly dont have your experience on the subject, Im just sharing my 2cs based on my experience. My instinct would tell me to focus on the client need to clear the backlog, without adding more human management.
But only you know what it's worth.
The other examples involve things like running out of memory and time, the impossibility of real numbers, precision of giant numbers. While the actual problem begins very close to 1+1.

Forget everything else, I need to pay my bills, this involves money.

I didn't say anything else because it is hard not to make sarcastic jokes and devolve into a rant.

You break down a problem to it's smallest parts then you solve those small problems. It seems very basic.

The smallest problem is c = a + b NOT a + b

One can do c = 2.03 , there is no problem storing the number.

One can also do 103 + 100 like c = ((a100) + (b100))/100

This looks even more hideous than c = asfdsADD(a,b) but at least you don't need to hurl around a big num lib to do 1+1.

If things get ever so slightly more complicated than 1+1, what should be a bunch of nice looking formulas looks horrible. Heaven forbid one wants a percentage of something. I would have to think how to accomplish that without the lib.

I have a very slow brain with very little memory and many threads, I'd much rather spend cpu cycles.
And then burning out when too many of them turn out to be nothing and deciding no progress ever gets made.
High Altitude Water Cherenkov Experiment
MSU physicists were part of an international collaboration that has discovered the highest-energy light coming from the sun

Aug. 3, 2023

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2023/surprising-sun-discovery

In the 1990s, scientists predicted that the sun could produce gamma rays when high-energy cosmic rays — particles accelerated by a cosmic powerhouse like a black hole or supernova — smash into protons in the sun.

But, based on what was known about cosmic rays and the sun, the researchers also hypothesized it would be rare to see these gamma rays reach Earth.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13...
Cool it down until you DO see a SC transition far below room temperature.
Why else would it be?
Then nag you and auto update you to the latest version without a perpetual license.
Original source along with some of their other git content: (Nitter search sometimes returns no results, so just refresh if that happens)

- https://nitter.net/search?f=tweets&q=from:@NikkiSiapno+git&f...

- https://nitter.net/search?f=tweets&q=from:@ChrisStaud+git&f-...

For folks who enjoy visual guides, here are a few more I'm aware of:

- http://marklodato.github.io/visual-git-guide/index-en.html

- https://mukulrathi.com/git-beginner-cheatsheet/
I resolved it by asking my partner to use something for the meeting other than Firefox.

Worked.
> then got caught and settled for an "undisclosed" sum (rumoured to be quite large)

The sum wasn't insubstantial, but it was much less than the pay that would have been received in a free market.
This is overly broad generalization that does not hold up to scrutiny.

Konami vs Kojima and any of the DieselGate companies come to mind.
That's awesome! I would love to buy one if there are any available.
Supply has to be in the desired location, and it has to be brought into the market if empty. If property taxes are too low such that many can afford to have multiple houses, then that will result in in insufficient supply in the market, even though it exists.
Small local businesses, like homebrew shops. Seed companies like Rare Seeds, Gurney, etc. Mushroom places like The Cultured Mushroom, Liquid Fungi.
Do you have any other code examples or resources that speak more to this?
Yeah, I vaguely remembered that, but couldn't find the details in a quick search. So, sadly assumed I may have imagined it. :D
Our kafka protocol support is still incomplete. We’ve documented our progress here: https://docs.warpstream.com/warpstream/reference/kafka-proto...

That said we’d be stoked to get this working as an additional tool for people. Do you want to shoot me an email or join our slack so we can discuss further? I can probably prioritize whatever protocol features were missing to get it working.

founders@warpstreamlabs.com
Your mileage may definitely vary. In 20+ years, I’ve had four incidents of receiving obviously counterfeit goods; no idea if it has happened more often than that and I was just unaware.
> An aircraft that can't land safely with just brakes would not be certified to fly.

Yes. That doesn't contradict what I wrote.

The thrust reversers also greatly reduce the stress on the tires, another critical and expensive item. There's also the enormous heat generated, which stresses the rest of the landing gear and the bearings.

One of the certification tests is the airliner is landed with flaps up, at max landing weight, and no thrust reversers.

The tires inevitably blow and catch fire, and the airplane literally grinds to a halt, with a raging fire on each truck. The firemen have to wait a specified amount of time before they can put the fire out.

While this is "landing safely", at minimum the landing gear is wrecked, and I suppose some of the fuselage panels.

The thrust reversers are an expensive piece of machinery, with a lot of engineering expended on them. They are not a "would be nice if" piece of equipment. The brakes are a backup system for the thrust reversers, not the other way around.
Have you spent much time using Fossil?

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Scott Ross, founder and former CEO of Digital Domain, spoke for years about this. The issue is there are just a handful of film studios capable of keeping a large VFX facility busy, so they have a lot of leverage when negotiating contracts and setting prices.

Because that part of the film process can run offshore, VFX studios find themselves fighting for these contracts and/or accepting unadvantegeous terms. I remember him saying that film studios can strong arm a VFX facility to open in a place under heavy tax breaks, and they are expected to 'forward' the cost savings.

https://vimeo.com/66487005
Is Cloudflare Tunnel just another overlay network like Tor?
Who's used QNX in automotive for anything other than infotainment? A lot of people seem to think it's being used for vehicle control systems, but I've never been presented with a credible evidence of widespread use in production vehicles.
Ahhh I have an IBM card :sunglasses:
As a loyal firefox user since the 0.5 release which took 30s to start up, Mozilla is a non-entity these days. It exists solely so that Google can avoid legal disputes. In the mean time, a bunch of grifters have taken over Mozilla for their own financial purposes and push some activist causes rather than a solid browser.
I built 2 muskulokeletal humanoid robots with my team. They use tendons to imitate the human muscles. It's also probably the most hugged robot in the world, as we let people hug them at events, which significantly helps dispersing fears of robots. One of them is now a permanent exhibit of the world's largest science museum in Munich. [1] Also university of Oxford has a shoulder using it to grow human tendons.[2]

[1] https://devanthro.com/story/
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-022-00004-9
I made some changes to the site generator today, so when I saw the title I worried that I had really screwed it up and Computers Are Bad was Computers Are Broken.
There's a concept (presented as a contrast to "objective truth" and "subjective truth") called "intersubjective truth", which refers to ideas that are true because (and only to the extent that) a quorum of people believe they are true. Money, contracts and laws are all only words on a piece of paper in objective value. I can generate all of them myself, but unless other people start to treat them as if they are real they'll have all the power of words on paper. On the other hand, if a system arises where people believe those things are true and have value it can be used to build extraordinary things.

Political systems are full of intersubjectivity (they mostly boil down to "groups of people coordinating societal resources, with the consent of enough of the governed"), so of course politics is an arena where "enough people believe this thing" is sufficient to generate truth.
Very disappointing to see that there are almost no benchmark quoted in this thread, only words like "snappy" or hypothetical questions. I have been reading articles to understand if converting some of our JS code to WebAssembly could lead to significant performance improvements and other benefits, and I have yet to come to a conclusion. I have seen dumbed-down examples that don't actually mean anything in the real projects, some anecdotal numbers, and other performance comparisons based on proprietary codebase which don't really help. I would advise that people be cautiously optimistic about WebAssembly -- the benefits may not be worth the effort.
infact just today an old man sped towards me going over the center line in a narrow street. he was looking straight ahead.
Fair, if amusing. Hurd "predates" Linux in name only. And, if anything, this would serve as a strong piece of evidence that microkernels have a hard time getting traction.
Over many years of using the internet, I’ve found that the most viral ideas only have a maximum of one point to them. Additional points or context only add baggage to the points made, and ensure that the idea either doesn’t spread very far or just get left behind in discourse entirely. It’s easier on Reddit and Twitter and HN (to probably a lesser extent) to communicate and upvote “your side” if an idea is as simple and distinguishable from “the other side” as possible.

So we get “build baby build” and “r/fuckcars” and “microservices vs monoliths” and “OOP vs FP” and all the nuance of the argument gets lost.

I agree with this article that building new housing is only one of many interventions that government will need to handle to bring down the cost of housing. But I don’t think the idea will ever go as “viral” as the supply and demand arguments that you see everywhere.
yes, unfortunate deleted, just tried

BTW. amazing share and work, thanks !
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Hoon is occupying that top-left quandrant as well, as long as you you don't mistake your surprise for horror - https://developers.urbit.org/guides/core/hoon-school . Surprisingly powerful.
Cool that PBS is keeping these old Web 1.0 pages up.
DA won’t do anything, so why would anyone risk their well being for more paperwork?
+1 to this. Some other (sinensis) teas do give me headaches as well, but matcha quite consistently does even when most brewed green teas don't. Strange.
The business's credit card processor marked your transaction as fraudulent? Or your bank rejected it? Or the item was out of stock and their site handles that in an unclean way?

I'm not in a position to speak confidently to why a website rejected a transaction, but if you're going to, you really ought to be able to back it up with something more than "why else would it be?".
Or even better adopt no stance on truth value and rather adopt a stance on whether there is sufficient evidence to expend further effort.

No need to guess at the truth. Just remain agnostic until you know the truth.
Or, the magic volcanoes are talking to the sky.
Believing that Free software will save the world from authoritarian regimes is … how can I put it diplomatically … wishful thinking not matching real world realities. It would be great if it was true of course, but a fist in your face by an authoritarian regime will quickly teach you otherwise.
Lightning CSS
For a long while everybody ignored the Google's cut from the purchases. Google only started enforcing it a couple of years ago.
I am starting to come around to your argument. Having the internal representation in different base than the written representation does produce problems (for example, printing a base-2 float in its shortest base-10 representation is not a trivial problem, with solutions only appearing in the late 90's, see Dragon4 and Grisu3 [1]).

Like with random number generators - computers are so powerful now that it makes sense to make the default PRNG cryptographically secure, to avoid misuse, and leave it up to the experts to swap in a fast (not cryptographically secure) PRNG in the rare cases where the performance is needed (and unpredictability isn't), for example Monte Carlo simulations.

One could argue that for many use cases (most spreadsheets handling money amounts, for example) computers are powerful enough now that "non-integer numbers" should default to some base-10 floating point, so that internal and user representation coincide. Experts that handle applications with "real" numbers can then explicitly switch to "weird float". It is worth a thought.

[1] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.31....

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/florian-loitsch/p...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic#Bina...
This isn't even debatable.

>> Efficiency has been a major design goal for C++ from the beginning, also the principle of “zero overhead” for any feature that is not used in a program. It has been a guiding principle from the earliest days of C++ that “you don’t pay for what you don’t use”.

https://www.stroustrup.com/Performance-TR.pdf
If you cite Korean (or Chinese or Japanese) names, please write them correct. There is no Hyun-Tak Kim, he is called Kim Hyun-Tak. Likewise Kwon Young-Wan.

In Korean it's trivial to detect, in Chinese not so, in Japanese very hard.
Any way to improve email as a standard in a backwards compatible manner?
I'm wondering if there is a way to maybe augment existing email standard to include metadata for at least these purposes. But happy to hear your other wishlist as well.

- Add hashtag? (e.g. '#invoice') This would be very handy for cooperative senders to let receivers better auto sort each emails. (And if we could agree to common tags... it be easier to sort emails across companies)

- Add recommended short response? What about a form? (E.g. "Yes/No" with override if user wants to elaborate). This is similar to how telegram bots works which is very convenient.

- What about a form? (E.g. Shopping list selection)

What would it take to make it happen? Or are we forced to wait for Google gmail or Microsoft office mail to decide what will happen? (Though Microsoft priority flag is pretty nice)

Or should we just migrate to activitypub?
I only have anecdata, but I have identified two factors: isolation and vulnerability, or rather the sudden change in how isolated or vulnerable we feel. We become accustomed to the sounds of our own neighborhood and city in general, so if you stop all these sounds and introduce new ones, in addition to literally being isolated and unable to read others’ emotions on the situation, our brains generate discomfort via anxiety and stress. The vulnerability aspect is due to the fact that we don’t know what’s out there. When we’re walking around in the darkness, our brains are determining that we are in danger and attempts to signal to us that we need to GTFO. Being in terrifying situations will heighten that response.
WRT the tax point, I've heard this previously, but it doesn't make sense to me yet.

For example, a person who owns multiple properties would be in a better place to absorb tax hikes by simply passing them along to renters. It would be the single family that ends up the most affected by this.

Moreover, I agree with the person who said "property tax is not a sin tax". The income received would not be invested to help the common person. For example, my municipality would most likely spend the additional money on sports teams, which I firmly oppose, but is something supported by rich interests in the city.
Applications are usually written to know that anything sent over the network could be lost. You don't usually do the same for sending to the different devices. Are you expecting retry logic in all places sending to a device?

We /could/ turn all computation into remote procedure calls. There is plenty of precedence that that will not end well. You do it where you have to. Not everywhere.

And fair point on the device learning its "off" position at startup. Though, that really leans into another point I made in another branch. That level of "isolated and can restart" is already largely accomplished by having extra compute on the devices you are connecting to. I really can't see much benefit it doing everything in the RPC paradigm.

I get the promise. I'm not buying the evidence that you can solve this by making it transparent that all things are "servers" and some are remote.
Yeah I very rarely rebase, just autosquash PR commits into one on merge to master (and also delete the source branch to avoid similar headaches) + making sure PRs are fairly small and focused. Regular merges where commits have been cherry picked from one side to another, and then later also unmerged changes have touched those same files tend to result in a lot of spurious merge conflicts.
Ah, I see. You're not familiar with Transferable Objects. Zero-copy transfer. No parse/stringify step.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/transferable-objects-light...
If my Hobson choice was giving up my dog, out sleeping in a bed. I'm sleeping outside with my dog (unless it was freezing) asking (it rather forcing) someone to give up their dog is cruel. Cruel to both the person and the dog.
Yeah, I'd reconsider this too.

If this sounds too opinionated so far, I'll give you a fact. As a Spanish speaker, this is also a little too close to the word for armpit, and I'd not name my project Armpitt.
> the "Quantum Energy Research Centre" website has gone private

In this particular case however, the website repeatedly hit the daily traffic quota before the closure. So I guess it would be no surprise that the hosting provider [1] forced them to close the website.

[1] The website itself was probably hosted by https://imweb.me/ (the parking page also supports this observation---the asset path and the admin page path matches).
Journalists could go even further. Have robustness tests where they drop the drive in salt water, shoot it with a gun, chuck it in a fire etc., And then see how much data can be recovered with data recovery tools.
Preferably, only if it is FOSS and I can disable the telemetry before starting the program for the first time. Especially for local software. If the software requires the internet anyways, it is only acceptable if it is only for internet related functions and only if it connects to the servers that I will specify (e.g. if it is a NNTP client, to be able to specify my own NNTP servers including LAN or localhost if I want to, even when it is not actually connected to the internet).

For knowing how to improve the software, I would like to write public comments to criticize it so that they can improve it from that (and so that others can publicly criticize my public criticism too if desired).
I used to think that.... but actually, in practice, and I've been using them for a long time now, it doesn't make much difference, good tooling will generate the cases and help you find all instances pretty quick (I use Rider).