skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Context is critical. Unless you're a beginner with the language, surprise in a production codebase is horrifying. The Perl philosophy has never been compatible with lack of surprise. Perl wants to be like natural language, and natural language has limitless surprises.

The problem with Perl (or, I assume, Raku) in production is that the responsible way to read it is like reading every single footnote in an annotated edition of Shakespeare. It sucks the joy out of it, and joy is the point. Production Perl is joyless and therefore pointless, unless you're some kind of prodigy who understands every obscure political reference and every 16th century pun without any help.
I'm sure many of the new problems in the AI era will rhyme with this one. There are vulnerabilities and weaknesses baked into systems that we just don't appreciate because it wasn't practical to exploit them. Now with the speed and scale made possible with AI, there will be thousands of previously unexplored ways to mislead, scam, and waste people's time.
new drives should never crash or lose data, also WD and SanDisk lie through their teeth, there is no integrity.
A redesigned DigitalOcean status page
It took me 4 days on and off to read this, but it was highly rewarding just in terms of its writing and how compactly such a large amount of background and new information was conveyed. Thanks for posting.

I understand the argument that from a balance-of-terror perspective, submarine yields intended for decapitation strikes might dissuade or physically incapacitate (theoretical) cooler heads from (somehow?) de-escalating the conflict once nukes were in the air, but by the same token, I don't quite get it, because submarines are second-strike. One would think that a second-strike decapitation threat is exactly what might give a madman hiding in a bunker second thoughts about launching in the first place.

As far as my own personal preparations for surviving a nuclear holocaust, it probably makes no difference that I now understand the fusion lie, aside from a having a new bit of trivia to amuse myself with while I wait to die. In a way, though, the thought that there is no bunker deep enough to be safe is comforting. If everyone I know is going to die, I would like to think that the people responsible for it will die, too.
A distant descendant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
Civil aviation is not a life-or-death necessity. This is precisely the purpose of sanctions.
Why would you deactivate the brakes, rather than just tell the pilots "don't use the brakes unless it's absolutely necessary, and use thrust reversers instead"?
I'm glad that you behave like this; many don't respect those basic rules, especially with kids.
The internet is a strange place, where ceasing to care about being online occupies a performative space similar to caring about being online. The fact that instances such as Pilgrim's and _why's are referred to as a form of "death" itself is telling. Why even strike such a grave association to begin with?

The idea that these occasions violate some unwritten moral/social contract of the Web is strange to me also. I understand the inconvenience (which is proving to be short-lived with regard to the mirrors that appear afterward), but I greater empathize with the act of revolting against a medium that abstracts the social sciences beyond what humans were prepared for prior to its inception.
You're playing Stardew Valley IRL. Fantastic.
You seem ill-informed in your pet peeve. Miriam Webster defines civilian as "not military not police."
It's actually a bit weird how your name gets auto-tagged (even without your consent!) on Amazon. First noticed this when my name showed up[1] (not fraudulently, in this case); but very strange for an author link/page (especially a living one) to be unilaterally created.

Sadly, Amazon probably doesn't care and actual working authors will have to deal with this constantly.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Meteor-Josh-Robinson/dp/1...
Another, related, issue would be the existence of two authors with the same name who both publish under their birth names. I don't see how they could be a 'trade mark' so to speak unless there was an intent to commit identity theft which would be a separate issue (which appears to be the case here)
>Out of curiosity, how do intellectual property laws handle someone publishing a work under someone else's name? Is that a trademark violation?

I assume in the same way they handle somebody else who actually has the same name publishing books... they do nothing. Unless perhaps they are associating themselves with you "By the author of Such and Such"
You use the generated parser as a platform for experimentation.

If you know the language, and you have a bunch of users, and you are writing a parser for it, by all means, write a parser by hand and give it the best error recovery that you can muster. If you are developing a language and want to do a bunch of experiments, it pays dividends to use a parser generator. And then there is the whole space of DSLs and mini-languages you encounter, where beautiful error messages are a nice-to-have, but you would rather ship a generated parser and move on to more important work.

It’s easy to focus on compilers from the perspective of familiar languages like writing compilers for Rust or for OCaml, but you may end up writing a compiler that gets used by a much smaller number of people, for smaller tasks.
No kidding. Musk isn’t a fun person to work for. So instead of flaming one tiny fun thing you could celebrate it or at least ignore it. Making Tesla more uptight isn’t going to improve working conditions.
The vast majority of West-built planes that are currently being operated in Russia are stolen from their owners (they were leased and then Russia simply didn't return the planes when the lease was ceased due to the war).

Are you proposing to permit sending parts to repair stolen planes?
Recently read Derk Sauers autobiography on his 30 years of living and doing business in Russia.

Russians are... different from us. The vodka stereotype is real and combine that with melancholy and religion they are all kamikaze.
Laws exist to create a civil society. You shouldn't get an exemption because you have an imaginary friend.
There are actually three volumes: https://developer.arm.com/en/dev2/Gaming%20Graphics%20and%20...

(Why are there several websites…)
> You can see it with your own eyes - just go work somewhere that has a union for at least one group of it's employees.

I gladly had ~500 AFGE employees under me as CTO two jobs ago. I worked regularly with the Union representatives and we had multiple high stakes situations that I was glad to have them there for (I was not covered by the Union because I was too high rank).

What has been your first hand experience with unions such that you can make such claims?

I suggest you be more open to those who may be less capable, if you are so capable as to be in such high demand. Think about others.
Unlike copyright, (registered) trademarks don't exist by default, they have to be registered, defended vigorously and regularly renewed. So you would first have to explicitly register your name as a trademark, and that's going to be quite challenging if you have a common name like "Jane Friedman".

That said, a quick poke at TESS shows a bunch of trademarks containing Friedman, including some personal names (Alan, Rivka, Angela).

Update: Yes, common law (unregistered) trademarks are a thing in some countries including the US, but they offer much less protection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unregistered_trademark
Lawrence Lessig was at the least a fellow traveller of the people who care about general purpose computing (Creative Commons, FSF, EFF, etc etc). He pivoted to campaign finance reform, because he thought that was even more fundamental. Get corporate money out of politics, and much of the pressure on software/hardware freedom disappears.

Me, I'd go one step further and say electoral reform is what's needed (in the UK and US, at least). At least then, if we vote for crooks I'll be confident we deserve what we get.
I don't have anything codified, but I'm 90% sure that if anything happened to me, my brother would go through my stuff and retrieve every drive from my devices. What happens after that, I've no clue.

I've never talked to him about this, but I ought to do it the next time I see him in person. At some point I plan on handing him a drive containing my backups just in case, but I'm unsure about whether to encrypt it or not, nor have I considered how he could access my password manager for my active accounts if anything goes wrong.

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If you'll excuse the self-promotion I very recently wrote a blog post about how backing up old files has suddenly felt melancholic, and I briefly mention some offhand thoughts about data after death.

https://callmeo.live/blog/the-melancholy-of-file-backups
Might as well go to aliexpress and buy from the original source for a 50% discount.
It is perhaps a sign of how pervasive the assumption that a subscriber is an asset rather than a stakeholder that they have thought it is reasonable for a commercial communication service to claim copyright on private communications of their subscribers.

Can you imagine the response to telephone company saying they can use your voicemail messages for their own purposes.
>and then got caught and settled for an "undisclosed" sum (rumoured to be quite large). But in the end they won because there is no VFX union

What prevented them from trying again? I doubt the settlement had a clause that said "you can't start a union".
That is an explicit share. That link does not exist until you click the share button. With Phind, the URL to the chat is the share link. It's like every google doc having 'People with the link can view' turned on by default. If you create a random string and add it to their URL scheme and happen on a chat, you can view it regardless of if it's been intentionally shared by the creator, you don't even have to be logged into Phind.
Ah, good point - I neglected the BTRFS involvement/need to find kernels... that one would ideally include with these snapshots, of course
I'm confused why these "how to game Amazon e-books" e-books chose to impersonate a real person at all, and particularly someone very likely to notice and complain. This feels very on-the-nose.
unafraid of change ≠ happy with any particular change

It's very much possible to be unafraid of change and still have strong preferences.
Would be a fun experiment to return different content to that user agent for a trusted well ranking website and see whether results make it into the next version.
It's interesting as a lifetime low socioeconomic person, for whom (almost) the entire modern paradigm of social media and major web corporations are, and always have been, both socially and financially unaffordable.

I watch on from the outside, researching, reading and watching as I please (and yes, that means I am some kind of perma-pirate, I guess*), and all this kind of crap - waves hand in general direction of FAANG and co, and all the shit they've evolved society into, over the past 20 years - is Someone Else's Problem.

That Someone, being mainstream society, apparently. Well, some people say "vote with your wallet" - I say, vote with your lifestyle.

* don't get me wrong - I am happy to ethically self-justify, in terms of my lifetime holistic net inputs and outputs. And how many of us enjoy, for example, a video game emulation romset? - if so, then you're no different.
I feel like there's way too much VFX in Marvel movies that most of them are unnecessary. If the VFX artists worked reasonable hours and cut down the VFX by half, they'd make movies just as entertaining and profitable.

But if the VFX workers are paid fixed wages and not by profit sharing, half of them would just lose their jobs while the other half work just as hard.

I feel like employees should fight more for shares and control of the companies rather than just marginal wage increases. It seems like the sensible thing to do in the grand scheme of things for all parties, but it's rarely done. Companies default to selling shares to the highest bidders, without considering the cost of mis-aligned incentives.
Because you'll get a lot more hits registering your fake books under JK Rowling or Stephen King.
The Jackson-Kush Plan and the Struggle for Land
It exists in emacs. Blew my mind when I first saw it!
It's missing the killer feature though, which is the compiler warning you when you haven't done an exhaustive match. That is the magic which makes adding new values easy instead of hunting through code to find if you missed the new case anywhere.
Are we reading the same blog post? The words "prosecute" and "punish" are not in the article.

Maybe the confusion is that it is illegal to not do your service (I mean, that's what "obligatory" means) but that's unrelated to where you live, and again, a common rule in most countries with obligatory service that I know of. I don't know how serious a crime that is, except as the blogger points out you can't renew your passport.
>Good grief, I don't miss working in Perl.

Good and grief in the same sentence about the same language ... Perl.

Delighted and horrified?

;-)
Having 𝕏 distract Musk may prove to be a boon for both SpaceX and Tesla.

From the cheap seats, it looks like both have terrific strategies and now need to be left alone to execute.
The city I live in has relatively clean air, but it is a city and has some smog from cars and trucks.

During the height of the lockdowns when traffic nearly vanished as nobody went into the office, the air quality was freakishly good.

The skyscrapers across the harbour from us looked like they were right next to us. There wasn’t that usual haze and it made them look incredibly sharp and detailed, giving an illusion of proximity.

It’s crazy to me that I’ve become so accustomed to constant pollution that it has become an essential part of my depth perception! No pollution looks like an optical illusion and confuses my brain.
It's a bandsaw mill, but I occasionally need to use an Alaskan style mill to square up logs that are too big.

I have small foundry capable of casting aluminum, and I have plans to find a spot to build a proper cupola furnace that enables casting iron.
I extracted all the metrics from the document and put them in a comment downthread. They look pretty reasonable to me. I'm sure every security team in America has some dumb metric about AI somewhere, but AI stuff is like 5% of the whole plan.
Yahoo Email in 2023
Can you actually make real money at this? As it seems trivial to generate tons of books on niche topics if it is.
Yahoo email. Once a popular option for free email, it has gone to the technology graveyard with Myspace and Google Hangouts... or has it?
According to this article, using planes with some of the brakes disabled is OK and generally accepted everywhere, up to 10 days. Of course brakes will be replaced soon, but just the fact that some breaks are not functional does not mean that plane have to be moved to repair immediately. There are some plane defects which are considered acceptable for limited time use and this situation is one of them.
One of the problems here is that C# and F# interop isn't always as easy as the article implies. F# has a lot of types which, when exposed in a public API, are ugly as sin in other .NET languages.
At least they were being honest about the design decision by actually telling you.

Just as a matter of polishing my apps, I usually go through and make sure that pages that might be printed or PDF-copied will print well, that everything selects where someone might want to copy text, and doesn't select where they're clicking any UI element resembling a button. In other words, I try to make all text fields selectable and printable, and everything else act as a graphic (even if it has some text on it).
Oh I see, is this part of Vim's built-in stuff? I had no idea Vim could do that, so I used the vim-gnupg plugin to call out to `gpg` on the command line. It's possible that the plain contents of the file are in RAM while the buffer is being worked on, but I haven't taken a look at memory layouts to see how easy it would be to extract a key or buffer contents.
You’re not operating under the delusion that your reading comprehension is such that you were able to understand what I wrote, are you? (Do you see the unnecessary condescension in your writing? Worse still when you didn’t parse the sentence properly.)

The operative word “should” shows very clearly that I haven’t assumed better wages. I expect better wages, but neither assume it nor guarantee it.

I did however state that I expect fewer workers in the space. This isn’t entirely clear either but I will go on the record to state that I expect it. It’s possible that the GenAI tools will enable such productivity increases that we see a surge in induced demand and a massive influx of content. My expectation is that this won’t happen as I believe we are likely close to a saturation point in content and expect then that the productivity increases will drown out any induced demand yielding fewer workers.
It appears as though you can trademark your own personal name only if you are using it to identify a service or product, not just in association with your artistic creations.

>Similarly, personal names (actual names and pseudonyms) of individuals or groups function as marks only if they identify and distinguish the services recited and not merely the individual or group. In re Mancino, 219 USPQ 1047 (TTAB 1983) (holding that BOOM BOOM would be viewed by the public solely as applicant’s professional boxing nickname and not as an identifier of the service of conducting professional boxing exhibitions); In re Lee Trevino Enters., 182 USPQ 253 (TTAB 1974) (LEE TREVINO used merely to identify a famous professional golfer rather than as a mark to identify and distinguish any services rendered by him); In re Generation Gap Prods., Inc., 170 USPQ 423 (TTAB 1971) (GORDON ROSE used only to identify a particular individual and not as a service mark to identify the services of a singing group).
The name of a character or person is registrable as a service mark if the record shows that it is used in a manner that would be perceived by purchasers as identifying the services in addition to the character or person. In re Fla. Cypress Gardens Inc., 208 USPQ 288 (TTAB 1980) (name CORKY THE CLOWN used on handbills found to function as a mark to identify live performances by a clown, where the mark was used to identify not just the character but also the act or entertainment service performed by the character); In re Carson, 197 USPQ 554 (TTAB 1977) (individual’s name held to function as mark, where specimen showed use of the name in conjunction with a reference to services and information as to the location and times of performances, costs of tickets, and places where tickets could be purchased); In re Ames, 160 USPQ 214 (TTAB 1968) (name of musical group functions as mark, where name was used on advertisements that prominently featured a photograph of the group and gave the name, address, and telephone number of the group’s booking agent); In re Folk, 160 USPQ 213 (TTAB 1968) (THE LOLLIPOP PRINCESS functions as a service mark for entertainment services, namely, telling children’s stories by radio broadcasting and personal appearances).
Many people here are in shock that VFX artists don't get residuals. I'd be extremely surprised if they did - low demand for their services compared to the availability of labor always lead to poor wages and certainly no equity compensation.

I wish things were different, but what makes them different from the vast majority of workers who get no equity at all?

Due to AI, the demand for their labor will go the same way as shoe repair workers. It's sad but it's hard to see any other outcome. We need to invest in retraining these workers in other lines of business to make up for the disruption.
The Art of Subtle Influence
I noted the same thing: the C# was unusually verbose.

I thought about switching to F# a few months back, but as I started working with it, it wasn't enough of a benefit over C#.
[The ability to send out links and having people join the meeting without creating accounts or manually installing clients first is huge in most real-world scenarios ]

this is how it used to be, until HTTPS and cloudflare-like hosting solutions, were guzzled back like electric kool-aid. all you really needed was an IP and perhaps a port number if endpoint was behind NAT.
I was thinking axes of 'readability' and 'expressiveness' would make a nice chart for programming languages.
No. Iron has been smelted in Anatolia since 2500 BC. It was initially believe that this iron must have been meteoric, but isotonic analysis done in the last few decades has shown that much of this early iron is in fact non-meteoric.
>I suspect you'd see fewer people driving if it was 1 in 10

I don't. The cohort of people that make risk assessments with regards to routine every-day things and change their plans accordingly is minuscule, and most places around the world do not have an equivalent form of transportation.

Even with minor/un-needed activities people tend to ignore risk. Every cigarette smoker over a long enough period will develop health problems and eventually die faster than they would have otherwise, but it's still a thing; and it doesn't offer the advantage of actually facilitating getting to work on time and feeding your family.
Possibly if the pads are at extremely low wear, you would only need to replace the pads/shoes when parts are available. But if you tell pilots 'just don't use them', then they will keep using them, and those pads/shoes could wear through and begin damaging other parts of the callipers which would result in more parts requiring replacement?

Not an aircraft mechanic, but just making an assumption based on the similarities in cars
I built an 8' wide spherical display out of an advertising balloon, a hemispherical security mirror, and a conference room projector.

Then I wrote a 3D engine that could render to it and took the whole thing to Burning Man. Worked pretty well, though contrast was crappy.
That's precisely the opposite.
Assuming they dont just have the same name but are intentionally impersonating you - sounds like fraud, false advertising or identity theft [ianal]