skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not if the developers have basic good practices and understand how to maintain a codebase, which presupposes that they were ever allowed to do maintenance.

I've definitely seen good intentions and supposedly good practices lead to codebases that are hard to maintain. Heck, I've contributed to the problem myself occasionally - and probably everyone has, as that maintenance experience doesn't come out of thin air.

When you look at what the turnover might be at an average org versus how long a system might be used for, it's almost guaranteed that you'll have quite a few cooks in the kitchen, with different opinions in addition to the always changing business requirements and how those might translate to a technical solution.

That said, many of the older languages are actually quite valuable for new codebases as well, because most of the problems that you'll run into have already been solved and the frameworks and libraries are both mature and have proven that they'll most likely be around for the foreseeable future.
Good luck with the RCE. It definitely can get better, but it takes time, and, as you say, that tiny tube of ointment.
Specifically, American web programmers. MDN is the second-most-pinned website.
I fondly remember puzzling over this option in Hyperterminal as a kid in the 90s. The web was smaller then so the features and stock programs of the OS were relatively more interesting and I spent a lot of time with them.
And our goggles to see far away aren't that great. We barely know anything about the surface of these planets.

The main argument in favour of the non-existence of aliens are religious books.
As someone who somewhat works with AI it's good if your data is good and terrible if it's not, my job is literally to clean up AI failures, and due to bad data or dealing with interpretation a lot can be done with data good or bad. My work helps retrain the model, but sometimes because of bad management we have unclear answers on how to interpret the data and this leads to some coworkers training it wrong and you'll see this linger between projects. Now if the people were better trained the data would be too but oh well. Someone wants to cut costs. I think this kind of issue will always exist no matter the model, you can't really make up data you don't have (I mean you certainly can but it all has to be figured out how to fix it when it does just start guessing poorly) and sometimes there are no answers but bad answers in some edge cases.
How can it look like something that is ostensibly invisible? It's not swinging around like a pendulum, so what exactly are you seeing that makes you think it looks like an invisible string?
No, that is an unstable configuration that would lead to the sample being ejected. We see quantum locking here and no coolant. This is the most convincing video I have seen by far.
> They are far from the best chocolate

Lindt? There may be better brands, and I've actually seen someone gag on the 70% dark Lindt that I favour; but "far from the best" seems to me an idiosyncratic view.
I agree with your point that proselytizing is key. That and birth rates.

Slight tangent: Even under the frame of animist religions, there is sometimes the notion that the more worshippers a god has (and the more devout), the more powerful that god becomes. So using this frame, monotheistic religions have a more powerful god to use to "conquer" other gods.
> I tell all my Apple friends to name something their $1000 iPhone does that my $200 Motorola can't.

Privacy?
Erlang not loved. Sad to see.
Most interesting about this article for me was the parts about how he conducts his thinking, which is slowly and allowing space for distractions or re-reading books instead of finding new ones. It sounds contradictory to what would be productive in learning, but it seems to help him in processing concepts.
non crap link:

http://farside.link/twitter.com/andercot/status/168774039669...
Ha. Right. I guess it’s just one more way in which the interview is an anti pattern for the behavior we want in a coworker.

Can I Google this? Sorry no.

ChapGPT? Pretend it’s not available.

Use a library? No no no.

Ask for help? Thanks for coming in.
I don't think that's right. Diamagnetic levitation is one of the ways you can get around Earshaw's theorem.

Funny enough this is a quote taken directly from the wikipedia article that Andercot linked, in the "loopholes" section:

>Earnshaw's theorem has no exceptions for non-moving permanent ferromagnets. However, Earnshaw's theorem does not necessarily apply to moving ferromagnets,[4] certain electromagnetic systems, pseudo-levitation and diamagnetic materials. These can thus seem to be exceptions, though in fact they exploit the constraints of the theorem.

...

>Diamagnetic materials are excepted because they exhibit only repulsion against the magnetic field, whereas the theorem requires materials that have both repulsion and attraction. An example of this is the famous levitating frog (see Diamagnetism).
The linked project website is interesting as well and quite a deep rabbit hole: https://www.kermitproject.org/kermit.html

> Although terminal emulation has been largely supplanted by the Web for online access, Kermit software continues to play a role in other applications such as remote sensing and data collection, management and troubleshooting of networking and telecommunications equipment, back office work, cargo and inventory management, medical insurance claim submission, electronic funds transfer, and online filing of income tax returns. Kermit software is embedded in network routers and switches, in cell-phone towers, in medical diagnostic and monitoring equipment, even in cardiac pacemakers, not to mention the cash registers of quite a few big-name "big box" retailers. In 2002 Kermit flew on the International Space Station, and Kermit software is the communication method used by EM APEX ocean floats (left) supplying realtime data to hurricane researchers and trackers to this day (the hurricane project entered a new expanded phase in 2010 based on a new version of Embedded Kermit).

It contains its own Perl-like scripting language that predates Perl (https://www.kermitproject.org/ckscripts.html#tut), which supports „Prolog-like declarative logic programming“ (https://www.kermitproject.org/ftp/kermit/scripts/socrates), some OOP (https://www.kermitproject.org/ftp/kermit/scripts/oop) and S-expressions (https://www.kermitproject.org/ftp/kermit/scripts/shortest_pa...).

There is a text-to-HTML converter (https://www.kermitproject.org/ftp/kermit/scripts/html). Someone should build a static site generator with that, running on a calculator or embedded system on some buoy.
That makes sense because getting into top uni like SNU is hard enough as it is. I was wondering how a dropout was able to pull it off. Nautral talent plus hardwork and good mentoring was all in there.
Wow ;_; when I see our legends pass like this (you feel like they will live forever), it reminds me how short of a time we have here. Condolences to family and friends, he was truly exceptional in life. :wq
That sounds nice, but effectively impractical
> Controversially, agricultural societies late to industrialization, have more population now

If you pointed the above out 123 years ago, would the British Empire change your mind?

Population is just one metric of success.

>So I doubt humans with AI will replace humans without.

But they might out live them whilst the manmade chemicals that affect health, like (per|poly)fluoroalkyl (PFAS) that took decades for the law to recognise and legislate against, in much the same way understanding dialects of RegEx in conversation becomes more common place in every day conversation, in order to understand the evolving world we live in.

Has survival of the fittest evolved into survival of the intelligent?
Oh dear. This refers to both the Gartner hype cycle _and_ the TIOBE index. Still, the premise is interesting.

However, I doubt that languages have the largest effect on maintainability. It is more likely a bad team setting, tight deadlines, lack of funding, odd customer requirements, and dozens of other factors that turn a codebase into a terrible mess.
This thing needs a (date)
I mean you still can buy discs. You can buy it play the game and resell it on eBay if you don’t like it or are just done with it. If it’s a new game you can basically sell it for close to what you paid for it. I recently got out of a Diablo IV purchase I realized I didn’t like with minimal damage that way.

My brothers’ steam library makes me sad when I see how much money is wasted there in games they don’t play.
I was in the "CLI git only" camp for a long time, because I found many of the points the article addresses were true for other attempted UIs on top of git: they obscured what was going on, tried to impose metaphors that didn't really fit with how git worked and thus made operations potentially dangerous, and were severely limited in what they could do.

Nowadays, lazygit is my main interface to git - it's intuitive, addresses the complexity of git head-on, and doesn't even assume you'll remember its shortcuts constantly (except for ']' for some reason, which isn't shown in the bottom shortcuts row). I found that I had to handle other git porcelain (i.e. UIs) really like porcelain, constantly afraid of breaking something. lazygit in constrast just feels like someone made a visual representation of git's design and allowed you to interact with it.
Open source projects with a divine developer, no deadlines, and no business constraints.

Example: TeX.
This makes more sense. I dread the 20yr old codebase at work but I still love C#. If not for the amazing tooling there’s no way this codebase could’ve survived this long.
Maybe I am a fun of fuzzy logic, but I find gpt less flaky than most people that I read about, I think it will evolve. I feel gpt will even allow us to create new branch of mathematics applied at psychology.

I can't understand why you compare it with an intern copy paste, it's simply absurd to compare. Looks just a way of reducing the argument and drawing parallelism where there are none. Yes, some people use it to program, No, not everyone uses it for programming
The answer is "no". Even the idea is idiotic, you want an ordinary database, tying yourself to some crypto infrastructure has zero benefit over just using a regular database.
High unemployment means fewer consumption spending, which according to Adam smith is the invisible hand fueling the economy. Remove this hand so to speak, and the economic cycle is at risk of being disrupted. Think of an economy like an ecological environment entangled with interdependence.

I think generally it’s hard to think that modern economics has only really exist for the past couple hundred years. The last major shift that created it? The cotton gin starting the Industrial Revolution. AI is akin to the cotton gin.
Types and Effect Systems (1999) [pdf]
The article is about the UK, but the HN headline has chopped that part out.

In the US, your car is a far bigger impact than your diet. We need to enable ways to live without a car, like legalizing corner stores, legalizing the housing density that allows for good transit, etc.

In the US, people who are trying to avoid climate action focus on diet rather than our true sources of emissions. And the US has the most action to take since we are such ridiculously high emitters.

If you want to change your diet, that's fantastic. But if you are in the US, you have far far bigger concerns to address first.
Xiaomi phones themselves are malware. My EU Redmi 8 was running tcpdump in the background 24/7, capturing the first 50 bytes of every packet and sending the logs to some chinese server twice per day. One would say 50 bytes is not much and most of the traffic is encrypted (HTTPS, etc...) but the IP addresses are still in there, the DNS requests and replies are not encrypted, and having the first 50 bytes of IP packets might be enough to capture an unencrypted IMAP, SMTP or POP3 login.

It's the part of the "recover lost/stolen phone" thing, but it's an overkill for that purpose. It's not documented what they are doing with the data, and this clearly violates the GDPR. Btw. never had this feature enabled.

Flashed a custom ROM the next day after my discovery.
Manage Your Priorities and Energy
It's not a sufficient reason to go vegan. There is no impact an individual can have that would make a different - we need to legislate and mandate that industries change their behavior to reduce climate change.

Not to mention vegan ideology is generally flawed in my experience. They tend to use a strange in-group definition of sentient that implicitly grants personhood to anything with any kind of sense organ.
The thread is horizontally positioned, left to right, not vertically.
I've heard that "joke" more times than I've ever heard vegans announce they're vegan.
Use of HD and DD drives, diskettes (2011)
Misleading, editorialized title.

The real title is:

> Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts
> In the US if you fake data you can become president of Stanford (for a while).

One wonders: is the unearned time as an elite university president worth being humiliated by an 18 year old on the student newspaper and being forced to resign in disgrace?

For me that's an easy no, but others may have different preferences.
The last time I had some perfume bottles just standing around in the same room I woke up with the worst headache in years. I'll pass on this cognitive blessing.
>The main argument in favour of the non-existence of aliens are religious books.

Not in the slightest, that's the worst strawman against it (and for the record, I am an atheist, so drop this line of argument now before I'm forced to counter-insult you.) Try the Rare Earth Hypothesis. There are only 10^11 stars in the Milky Way galaxy, you don't need to stack up many terms in a "Drake equation" to push the result to near zero in the Milky Way. The Rare Earth Hypothesis is consistent with all empirical observations thusfar.

Furthermore, even if there were other intelligence species like us in our Galaxy, they would be incapable of reaching us just as we are incapable of reaching them. To believe these aliens are visiting Earth you need to explain why you can't see them anywhere except ostensibly in deserts above American military facilities and installations for testing secret aircraft.
I hope it is. It will be a perfect toy for little kids, right along the little ball magnets.
Ask HN: How can Kagi not see my queries?
I recently subscribed to Kagi, the privacy-first search engine. I found on the Privacy page (https://kagi.com/privacy) this statement: "Searches are anonymous and private to you. Kagi does not see what you are searching at all."

I'm quite skeptical. How can a search engine not see the queries of a user, and still provide the results to them?
In Memoriam: Tribute to Bram Moolenaar - Luminary of the Open Source Community
Today, we mourn the loss and celebrate the life of Bram Moolenaar, the distinguished creator of Vim, the ubiquitous text editor revered by programmers worldwide. Bram, a figure synonymous with selflessness, ingenuity, and devotion to the open-source community, has left an indelible imprint on our industry and our hearts.

A software developer hailing from the Netherlands, Bram's extraordinary contributions extended beyond Vim. His commitment to Aid Uganda (ICCF Holland), a charity he founded to support children in Uganda, is a testament to his compassionate heart and philanthropic spirit.

Bram revolutionized the way many of us write, debug, and understand code when he created Vim over three decades ago. He conceived an elegant tool, designed with the complexity to handle myriad programming languages yet simple enough for novices to use and learn. His commitment to continual improvement and receptiveness to community feedback set a standard for open-source projects.

Bram, in true open-source spirit, dedicated Vim to the public domain. He used the widespread affection for Vim to raise awareness about the less fortunate, prompting users to consider donating to help children in Uganda, creating a unique synergy between software and philanthropy.

The echo of Bram's Vim, and his larger philosophy towards open-source development, will continue to resonate through the corridors of digital history. His legacy is etched into every line of code crafted in Vim, every developer who found their footing through its use, and every life uplifted through his charitable endeavors.

As we extend our deepest sympathies to Bram's family, friends, and the wider Vim community, we remember him not just as an innovative software engineer, but as a beacon of selflessness in the tech world. The principles Bram embodied – sharing knowledge freely, using our skills for the greater good, and the constant pursuit of improvement – are his enduring gift to us all.

Bram Moolenaar may have departed from our world, but his legacy will continue to inspire and guide generations of developers. Rest in peace, Bram. Your memory will, much like your seminal creation Vim, remain omnipresent and timeless.

In tribute to Bram, let us remember him in our day-to-day work: with each line of code written in Vim, each command executed, Bram's spirit endures, echoing through our keystrokes for eternity.
When Kazakhstan tried to MITM with untrusted certificate, Google quickly blacklisted this certificate. Hopefully it'll do the same for any other government or company, so nobody would even think of it.
Let‘s assume for a moment that AI will replace humans _in the economy_. Then what? Well, either it fully does that, then it won‘t matter. We will allocate resources in a different way or there will be a revolution. Or it does only partially, leaving some (physical) labor. Then these jobs will pay well and people will go there.

For everything else AI will replace nothing. The economy is just a part of life and if AI really takes over it will be an insignificant part.
Thanks for bringing this up! It was a good reminder for me to donate. May he rest in peace.
I think that’s optimistic, China etc also crack down on VPN’s and related technology. You can also subtly discourage such things. Add a few random lag spikes to all encrypted traffic and see how people respond.
Well said. For Macs specifically I just tell people for me it is basically Linux where the hardware always works really well and you don’t have to screw around with drivers.
> since it is generally agreed that the early books weren't the best

They're fine in their own right, but the first two are much more straight parody fantasy epics, and jarringly different from the rest of the series (a few later ones also fall into this category, particularly Eric). I'd say from book 3 on (Equal Rites), though, you're largely into the series proper.
According to this video: https://twitter.com/xmal/status/1300754522218913799 it is possible to have stable levitation using a copper plate below the magnet.

OP's video has two stacked metal objects – could the lower one possibly contain copper?
I'm slowly coming around to SML and HOL as the best available tools for stuff like the op. In particular cakeml and candle look suspiciously like a solid foundation for modelling instruction sets.
Useless race. As soon they reach that level, AI learns it too
So a list with all blocked sites is distributed to all browsers. Sounds like a good idea.
As someone who writes both science fiction and fantasy, I find this to be a good high-level review of the differences.

You could do a lot of quibbling and no-true-Scotsman arguments but it’s ultimately a fuzzy line where each work is categorized by preponderance of evidence.
Whataboutism in its most pure form.
This is obviously a step in the right direction, but not a solution.

However, I think Americans would be well served by reflecting on their their thoughts and feelings on the subject of race and introducing class to the conversation. It’s my experience that many Americans simply use race as a proxy for class, often incorrectly.
It's supremely annoying when bookstores put all of their sci-fi and fantasy inventory in one alphabetically sorted "sci-fi/fantasy" section.

(And then 80% of it is fantasy...)
Have you watched other videos of flux pinning? This sure looks like those to me, it's a weird phenomenon.
That’s exactly how revision in science works; incomplete is wildly different from “wrong”, and most of our understanding of science would need to be fully wrong for aliens to do what is claimed they can do, to the point where we would have needed to get impossibly lucky in order to have built the things we have.
Sadly, in the era of non-existent budgets this is what counts for journalism. It might even be that it was just LLM generated and then just touched up.
The only problem is, some users will then be unable to exit, stuck in macro recording mode for eternity.

Just as Bram would want :)
As a newbie user of vim, i have to admit, this is a really sad news for all open-source community !
RIP Bram !
How do I exit this thread?

Thank you Sir Moolenaar for this journey.
Show HN: Fifer. How many 5 letters words can you make?
How many 5 letters words can you make from 25 lettered tiles without using a tile more than once.
Cannot figure out if it is a genuine comment or trolling. Equally silly either way.
This is interesting, do you know where I can look at the numbers for this?

My gut feeling was that the realistic way to handle car emissions will be to migrate the global car pool to electrical, but I don't have any hard number to back this gut feeling with.
Not a patent attorney, but as far as I know: The patent is currently pending (as in, being evaluated to see if it will be granted). Once it is granted in one country it can be expanded to multiple countries within a couple of months, given that the first country is part of the Patent Cooperation Treaty. So if an invention is marked “patent pending”, you know you will have the risk of being sued by said company at some time in the future if you copy the invention.
It is easier to just use `XGetIconSizes` on the `DefaultRootWindow` than try to pull it out of configs or doing some kind of plist parsing. Here is the function GNUstep uses... It should not be difficult to pull the relevant stuff out for use in C.

https://github.com/gnustep/libs-back/blob/master/Source/x11/... (-iconSize)
The idea of those (i.e. like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWojYBhvfjM&vl=en) is that they're an example of equi-potential behavior.

The superconductor can move because it's staying at a consistent height.

The video linked is also pretty good at showing similar behaviors to the sample of LK99 we see claimed in the video: the superconductor can wobble, shake and does return to it's original position (or tries to) - but it's got a lot more mass.
The last thing I bought from a bakery was a $50 dollar cheesecake for a birthday party. And you can bet I looked up reviews from at least 5-10 different bakeries. And also visited their websites. But sure, whatever you think.

You're just doubling down on your own stupid argument and not providing any interesting rebuttals to what I'm saying. The reviewers are wrong, Yelp is wrong, the internet is wrong, bakers CANNOT benefit from using the internet! Go get your birthday cake from the first bakery you see, I don't care. You're not really raising good points. If anything, you're just highlighting how little you know about using the internet to find new businesses. The fact that you've never visited a baker's website just means you either don't care or know about picking high quality products when it matters. It's a you problem, not the baker's problem.
adrenochrome? chrome? metal? you know what else is a metal? lead!

lead apatite? appetite? hunger? hungry for... metal????

i think you've cracked it