skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That nap is not performative if you're snoring ;)

In my opinion, that cultural napping aspect comes from the fact that it used to be too hot to concentrate around that time of the day. And the tradition has not adapted to aircons yet.
Israel’s treatment of Palestine is pretty similar if not worse and Saudi Arabia’s perpetration of the war in Yemen with direct US support has led to over 100,000 deaths from famine, the largest famine of the 21st century. Both countries are close allies with direct US military support. We could argue about this or that distinction but the point is we do not care about morals this is about maintaining what our aging cold-war era politicians perceive as US interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_Israeli_attacks_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016%E2%80%93...
Wayland, MA?

A fun little puzzle for those of us who don't already know this bit of trivia.
The mean annual wage is $130,840 according to the BLS. That's two times the national mean of $61,900. There are very few occupations where the mean can compete with Air Traffic Control in terms of take home pay.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes532021.htm
We're the good guys because our concentration camps are smaller?

In other words, if China had camps the size of US ones it would be ok?
I don't understand. The only source I find in what you link is an AnandTech article which literally contains this:

"Remember that the figures presented here are for a drive that has already passed its endurance rating, so for new drives the data retention is considerably higher, typically over ten years for MLC NAND based SSDs."

It is kinda obvious that if you pass the numbers considered safe then bad things shall happen.

But a SSD sitting on a shelf starting to lose bits after three months seems incredibly low.

People don't know about that and they'd be screaming by now.

I don't think it's that bad.
"The average employee has enough resources to do one of two things.

1. Be productive

2. Lie about how much is being accomplished.

All smart employees will direct all effort away from number 1 and towards number 2." - Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle
Completely true. I think the main point of your comment is about "presenting that information contextually to customers". You often have to make choices when you decide to bill your customers, and those choices have to be crystal-clear to your end users. When I was working for a neo-bank, 50% of the complains was about billing not being clear, and timezones was one of the top reasons.
I started studying Lisp recently and it blew my mind it can do rational fractions, also virtually infinite length integers, OOTB. I used and programmed computers since 286s and have never seen this before. Now I don't even understand why do people still use calculators (including calculator apps) when we have Lisp which is easier and more powerful.
I don't see it:

% curl -gsSIw'foo %{time_total}\n' -- https://t.co/4fs609qwWt https://t.co/iigzas6QBx | grep '^\(HTTP/\)\|\(location: \)\|\(foo \)'
HTTP/2 301
location: https://nyti.ms/453cLzc
foo 0.119295
HTTP/2 301
location: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-acknowledges-acts-of-genocide- committed-by-daesh-against-yazidis
foo 0.037376
Is it just Asia though?
From my experience, if things work in Chrome, they will likely work with Firefox too, excluding very new apis, it isn't much of maitenance burden. With Safari every project I work o I discover new Safari quirk or bug. If you can make it work in Safari you can make it Firefox too.
Most people forget that Russia gave NATO an ultimatum[1] in December 2021, at a time when military build up was already evident and hence, the obvious consequence of refusing to negotiate would be military action.

The only surprise was that they actually went ahead with what they were clearly threatening to do for months (the attack only came months after that ultimatum, in late February 2022).

We keep forgetting that in the past, people also didn't go to war just because they had nothing else to do, it usually occurred because of completely irreconcilable differences. The only way this won't happen in the future is if we avoid getting to that point in the first place: there is always a point where "fight" is the only way forward, unfortunately.

But with both Ukraine and Russia almost completely unwilling to back out of their respective positions, the very disagreement that started the war is going to continue and they will remain in "fight" mode... with both saying "nope" to any negotiations until one of their militaries is almost entirely obliterated and it's plain as glass that the fight cannot continue and they are forced to accept the other's conditions without restrictions. Most wars end with something in the middle - as both sides eventually realize that full victory is just not going to happen... they eventually come to a compromise! But in this case, for both sides to get to that position is likely to require huge destruction first, which we are already seeing and getting "numb" about, which is horrible of course (yes, humanity is still the same old killing machine, incapable of sorting its disagreements without shooting at each other).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin%27s_December_20...
"Or is schizophrenia a spectrum very much alike as autism?"

It is exactly that. There are a lot of people with pcychosis-related symptoms who go about their lives without treatment.

They experience attacks once in a blue moon, but that is just about it. A few calming words or moments alone help.
That's fairly silly because if the US economy goes down so does the Chinese. This is the source of a good chunk of the problems for China, the fact that due to the Russian invasion into Ukraine and the aftereffects of COVID global spending is down considerably and inflation and interest rates are up. That combined effect can absolutely create a problem for Xi and company, who looked very good when the rising tide was lifting all boats but who look exceedingly panicked now that the free lunch is over. China's internal economy is huge but not large enough to sustain all of the industry that it has and nobody wants to sit on a mountain of unsold inventory. Insiders talk of very high unemployment rates for the 20-30 bracket and a lack of motivation for the generation after that because of the reduced job prospects.

This kind of combination has the power to make serious trouble for the rulers. If there is one thing Asian leaders fear then it is that the mob one day wakes up and realizes they are in power. Tianmen Square was close, the next time it could well be the real thing and I'm fairly sure that Xi et al would prefer an outside uniting force or enemy over having to deal with a revolution which they certainly would not survive. China has been long overdue for one, and even though the typical sentiment as long as the economy is good is that they should get a pass changing conditions could well flip that on its head and unleash something that won't be that easy to contain. Time will tell. Hong Kong was pretty ugly, but mainland China saw it as a strong move, they may have seen that as a possible try-out for what the West would do if they start to bully Taiwan for real.
I would prefer if Debian also had alphabetic release names. With Buster, Bullseye and Bookwork I just can't memorize the order and age of those versions.
Is there a breakdown of effort Twitter spent doing the mastodon-level service (serving a feed of the accounts you are subscribed to) vs everything else like ads, algorithmic feed, moderation, fighting spam, copyright claims, localization, GR, PR, safety, etc?
Think of "performative" as "putting on a performance". Then it makes sense.

(Interesting that English has no words to distinguish the meaning of "stage performance" from "performance metric".)
The GPL doesn't allow you to charge for access to the source code. Redhat will remove your right to future updates of the code if you exercise your GPL rights and share the source code from a release. The code you share will still be GPL'd, but you get kicked out of the club. Inb4 that is functionally the same as charging for code. No, it is holding future code hostage based on not exercising your rights. This goes against the spirit of the GPL, and we should fork it and just do something else after getting kicked out of corporate propaganda network, aka Redhat. Corporatists, all of em. They aren't doing GPL really. They will end up pulling out of the GPL in a future release anyway. Might as well cut our losses. Too much hand wringing about it, just say the truth about them.
Just because you can do something in a spreadsheet, does not mean you should.
It's a decline in hiring standards due to other factors than how high you score on the tests being considered.
what is that otpauth:// part about?

$oathtool --totp - -b
<enter 16digit code>
6digit result for MSFT-Github

that works daily CLI; oathtool is packaged as part of OpenStack on GNU-Debian-Ubuntu
If you're going to bother creating a throwaway, you should make a more impactful/meaningful statement...
They do make good money, and there's no evidence to support the claim that training or acceptance standards have been diminished at all.
Certainly feels like a better use of time than a lot of meetings we have in western companies.
Asteroid ZTm0038 with a >3% impact probability
Pretty sure the purpose of their army is to be an army, like pretty much every army.
FWIW, I don't have kids. And given what I've seen in the data, don't intend to.
The introduction book and link to code is at "book1.html"
"Temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066680 6 days ago, 358 comments
1) when the blog was released, TGI didn’t support paged attention, 2) many people don’t even know about TGI to reduce inference costs.
> If Russia really suffered over 250k casualties there must be several millions of people whose family members or close friends were killed during the war yet nobody seems to care that much.

The internal attacks on military and recruiting facilities before and especially since the mobilization order last year suggest some people care very much.
The Irrational Planning Process
Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves
Pick one or several:

* Air traffic controller scabs during Reagan years are all retiring.

* Difficulty attracting and training new air traffic controllers, which takes years to do the training and is a high burnout job.

* Widespread effects of a virus that often causes cognitive damage, fatigue, and/or outright disability in many that's been circulating for almost 4 years.
LastPass should not even be mentioned.
Richard Feynman – BBC Archives
> [...] But if you use pkg, and the new point release added a syscall, you will have problems installing new packages (or upgrading) once the package builders update; I don't quite remember the timeline, but it's usually a few months after the point release. [...]

The previous release in the branch gets dropped after ~3 months, probably aligned to the end of the month that its EOL lands in; then pkg builders switch to the newer release in the branch.
Have you tried doing this with distributed computing? It's not very feasible...
I don't think it is either. Performative work to me is the compulsive self-debasing activity I engage in when there is line of sight to a superior member of the business hierarchy.
And then erase all intermediate steps and just publish the end result - which no one will understand (including yourself a couple of years later), but that's OK /s
Well, as mentioned in the post Instagram literally just built and released their own barebones Twitter clone this year, and it took them 25 person years. They were also able to leverage all their existing infrastructure powering similar products.

So I would not say it's remotely feasible to do this in less than one person-year with any other technology.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/29/meta-th...
The underlying issue is public roles are heavily budget restricted. If the role pays well, administrators often have to reduce headcount as the trade off.
Can we please just go back to using smaller wheels and tires?
I think the mistake is mine, I should have asked if your boss said this before or after Baring's went under.
Endless useEffects is an indication that useEffect is being used incorrectly. In mostly projects you should only see a few instances of useEffect.

This might be helpful https://react.dev/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect
That's true, but wishing a birthday at the right moment depends on the timezone. It's not just about the date itself, it's about the interactions other people have with this date
It's a great time to repeal HIPAA anyway. I suspect that if you surveyed Americans, most would believe that their health information has already been leaked to the point of making HIPAA obsolete anyway.

The Europeans were doing just fine without HIPAA right up until the GDPR anyway. I seriously doubt people would choose HIPAA over the savings they could have if it was to evaporate.
Some of the behind the scene videos (of LTT employees talking about their processes) GN shows are pretty scathing. If this is the stuff they are willing to go on camera and say, imagine what else lurks under the hood.

"I wish we could make better quality videos" - you can, the company just chooses not to.

"There's no videos we've made that I'm really actually proud of" - just ouch.
Who cares. Mastodon was/is destined to fail. Trigger happy mods ban you from a server, then you're banned from a bunch.
Takes a lot of luck to hit something in 3d when both are trying to avoid each other
Mastodon for sure supports fetching individual posts over ActivityPub. For example:

curl -L -H 'accept: application/activity+json' 'https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron/statuses/18614983'

It does have a bunch of stuff that isn't federated though, such as Like counts/collections. And of course it only implements the server-to-server (S2S) part of AP, not the client-to-server (C2S) part.
Saving money can be one consideration.

Not having the amount of expertise or hours on hand to support it can be another. Shadow labour costs can add up pretty quick and some orgs like offsetting that to the vendor to not overload their people.

Another consideration is how much the tech aligns with your core business. Just because you need it doesn’t mean you should build or run a ticketing system.

Too often there is a lot of SharePoint whiplash and problem “solutions” that grew out of control.

Large orgs don’t always behave rationally and pragmatically when there is self preservation or politics at play instead of being effective at your work.
If it's not intentional, why are people observing different behavior (no delay) for other domains, but a delay for NYT, bsky etc then?
How Japan confronts its haunting World War II history
Thanks for that and I wasn't aware it's owned by Avast. I'll switch to the one that you suggested!
> The anaesthetic agent is not a drug that one is supposed to take for the remaining of their life and has no observed side-effects in general.

This is notably untrue. General anaesthesia is associated with higher risks of dementia. Especially the older the person being treated.

While there's some disagreement here - short term cognitive decline is inarguable as a side-effect (called post-operative cognitive decline), and many suspect it's related to long term cognitive issues:

---

From: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/risk-factors-an...

> There is a link between surgery and short-term changes in thinking and memory, called post-operative delirium or post-operative cognitive decline. This condition particularly seems to affect older people. Some studies have also found that these short term changes may be associated with higher risk of dementia later in life but other studies have found no association.
> The main reason the war was "good" for the economy is because of the massive debt funded stimulus

Clarification: massive debt-funded stimulus that went into productive capacity is good for the economy, once you stop blowing up the stuff you produce (as you point out), since the productive capacity is retained.

Massive debt-funded stimulus that doesn't move the needle on production, a la Covid stimulus, isn't so good for the economy.
.. and your entire meatspace life records including payment information is linked to your phone?
i generally water in the mornings about 5am to 9am, the recommended time but with one difference. For fall crops that go in early: like brassicas, I will sometimes water them at noon or afternoon, to help keep them cool on those really hot days. I don't want them to go to seed, so I need to keep them cool.
I liked JSX a lot when I was using React. However, writing business or view logic in templates is a maintainability nightmare. With JSX it's very tempting to do this and I did this often, but it's still a mistake and I regretted it every time I visited my spaghetti JSX months later.

When it comes to comparing React with Vue or Svelte, the templating is not the critical factor.
I understand why the person was downvoted, but not why the person was flagged. It doesn't make sense for someone to flag "AI art is theft."

Downvotes because you didn't back up what you mean.

Flagged because there are AI fanboys that want to sensor speech perhaps?
Humans will still have their advantages to AI. We got different "training".
On point. Many people know that they have this problem and can act before it manifests in reality, through action.
I've spent two days trying to make this work with anything other than gpt2 and I just can't get it to work.

GPT2 doesn't seem to take instruction well. I've tried llama gpt-medium etc etc.

They all either pick up a different language, or freeze.

EDIT: I see tons of activity and work in the github issues, so ignore this for now.

Super excited when I'll be able to have this working for myself!
The turn of the century tech was an awkward phase I didn't ever think we'd look back on with nostalgia, but between this and the low-poly video games that have come back around like BattleBits I guess you can long for any time past if it is associated with a carefree time in your life.
The difference between sending cash and a check is that when a check gets stolen, the sender can report that to their sending bank, which will contact the receiving bank, and sort it out. If it is reported and dealt with in a timely manner, this usually results in the funds transfer being reversed.

In this situation, however, the sender is flat out refusing to take the simple step of informing their bank -- most recently about an hour ago.
It’s likely part of their training. Adding personal commentary to comms during a tense situation only increases the likelihood of a bad outcome.
Interesting article. I’m going to play devil’s advocate and come at it from a business perspective. There are huge advantages to sticking with an industry standard. It makes it much easier to hire devs. If you’re a dev it makes it much easier to get work. Having a big ecosystem means less building from scratch. There are huge network effects at play. In order to get serious traction in a market with network effects, the alternative doesn’t need to be a bit better, it needs to be 10x better. React displaced jQuery because it was 10x better. None of these alternatives strike me as being 10x better at this point. Sure they’re a bit easier for devs and a bit faster, but I’ve never had a customer complain that the app took 500ms to load instead of 250ms. There’s other things they care about a lot more. At some point another framework is going to displace React, but I think React still has a huge advantage at this point.
Depending on the climate, Never when the sun is shining too bright, like at noon. Water drops become magnification lenses and leafes die.
What's up with names nowadays? Not only there's already an OpenDream[1] on GitHub, but there's also a Stable Diffusion service also called OpenDream[2]!

1. https://github.com/OpenDreamProject/OpenDream
2. https://opendream.ai/
Funnily enough, I did enjoy C# development once I worked around this sort of thing using package references
So piracy may be involved in training the model, but the rest does not follow.

Art inspired by other art has been the way of things for as long as we've been creating images. There's no such thing as a "clean-room painting."
No, but they are from the first couple sets when production runs were smaller. WotC has made a promise to the community that they will never reprint (tournament legal versions of) some of those early cards which helps keeps them rare and expensive.

You wouldn't really want those cards reprinted anyways. They're very overpowered and seem like amateur design if you look at them through a lens of the rest of MTG design history.

You may be thinking of the different border on cards from the alpha and beta sets as variants. But that's the way every card was printed back then.
Mastodon. o. not a.
if you need to await a setState call, you're prob structuring your logic in a less-than-efficient way. in whatever handler is calling setState, you should compute the next state in the handler, setState(nextState), then use that nextState for whatever comes next.
Yeah. Kevin Murphy just announced on Twitter that this is the final official version of the "Advanced Topics" book.
> this isn't really all that surprising

Of course it isn't surprising, but it is important to note when you combine it with the other news about debt hitting $1T and continuing to go up.
Not exactly universal
This is why we exposed Rama as a Java API rather than Clojure or our internal language (which is defined with Clojure macros, so it's technically also Clojure). Rama's Java dataflow API is effectively a subset of our internal language, with operations like "partitioners" being implemented using continuations.
When I hire juniors it is because I’m placing them on a path to independent decision making and autonomous work, as fast as possible.

They are to become an independent person, taking independent actions, aligned with the current vision and goals.

I don’t want a permanent increase of my own workload which is what working with chatgpt feels like.
Median salary in the US is near $130,000.

Starting pay is in the $43-$65,000 range (before location adjustments). In DC, that range is $57-$86,000.

Top of the range, non-management is $104-$161,000 (before location). In DC, that range is $138-$212,000.

Salary spreadsheet can be found here:
https://www.faa.gov/jobs/working_here/benefits
It's absolutely substantiated. I can easily reproduce the phenomenon myself using curl from the command line. The key is to use a web browser User-Agent (curl -A), because it doesn't happen for curl's own User-Agent. The delay is consistent and only affects certain Musk-hated domains such as the NYT and Threads. Here's an example, try it yourself:

curl -v -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6 Safari/605.1.15' https://t.co/d8KWBqT5v6
Heh. I think you have the absolute opposite viewpoint from Rob Pike, who said of syntax highlighting [1]:

> When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child,
reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish
things.

I'm with you! That sounds awesome. I enjoy not only syntax highlighting but also type annotations and doc references on hover. I'd love to see even richer and more interactive stuff.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/E2mQ...
This page turned into some "your are using an old version of Firefox" spam for me
What Is Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM)?
Mithril wasnt back then what is it now.