skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This feels like either hyperbole or extremely rare/almost impossible

Why's that? Aren't these basic knowledge items almost always able to be left unspoken? "Here is what we are trying to accomplish, and you must use a map in your implementation" never seems pertinent. There is faith in the people I work with that they will understand how to best implement something.

Furthermore, if there were some reason to bring up, say, a list then I could fumble around with some other ideas to get the group there. "I'm blanking on the term, but you know, the thing you can build with square brackets.", "Oh, you mean a list?", "Yeah, that!" But that doesn't satisfy the question posed here which specifically asked for the structure by name. In normal situations you don't need that kind of thing at your beck and call like you do when you are playing with a trivia master.

> I believe it to be a core competency.

And, to be fair, if I were knowingly about to enter a developer interview I'd probably brush up on the language ahead of time knowing that it is likely that an interview very well might want to talk about the trivial basic building blocks to weed out those who have never programmed before. But I personally haven't interviewed for a job in 20-some-odd years, so again, not something in the forefront of my mind before this discussion happened.

However, of note, the interview in question was for a people-based job, not a technical role. Who is going to think to study the technical language ahead of time in that situation? It wasn't pertinent to the job. The interviewer just went there because it was noticed the person once was a developer in a past life.
*clap beautiful, this is exactly what's happening
At least with some services/apps, screen recording only captures a black box around the video you want.
That’s my point. Apple sells luxury consumer electronics and they make spectacular profits. They aren’t a public service. We can debate the ethics of that, I’m just stating the economic reality to refute the idea that some conspiracy is at work.

Try getting a Louis Vuitton bag repaired. Same thing. Self-repair doesn’t intersect their market.
They were questioning the story, not the intelligence of the farmers.
You're right, I misremembered. Thanks for pointing it out.
When you see that people are going to get thrown under the bus, it is prudent to not be in the vicinity. You can't stop managers from doing it, but you can stop volunteering to be one of them.
Yeah, I went this year and regret it; it's been getting worse but Covid really killed everything good about it.
So where do you draw the line? No cloud instances, no cloud SQL like Snowflake, no Teams or Office 365, no S3/blob storage? Run everything on-prem like 10 years ago?

It's only going to get more impossible. All that VC money going in at 100x revenue needs a return and they aren't going leave money on the table with full-featured open-source or CentOS type alternatives.

All those data engineering startups, database providers with 'open-source' + cloud hosting, the 'open-source' is going to be just 'open' enough to claim there is some fallback for someone else to pick up the mantle using the community version, if the cloud version gets enshittified beyond reason.

You're not going to even be able to run the full-featured software version on-prem because the economics of cloud are so much better.

Unless you are writing and compiling your own code you are going to be out of luck if your privacy standard is that high. That war has been lost. And Web3 sure ain't gonna save you either.
It's a cult.
Did you read the article? The author linked many examples of situations where the actions of environmental groups have been aimed at preventing clean energy projects that benefit the environment. It's perfectly legitimate to point out that environmental groups are acting against their stated goals.

The stuff about oil and gas is besides the point. I don't think anyone in this conversation disagrees with you about subsidies.
In case anyone comes back to this. I noticed I get redirected to the archive.is domain and that's when I wind up in a captcha loop.

When I get captcha'd, the archive.is resolves to 198.23.187.186

I cleared my DNS server cache and got new IPs for archive.today and archive.ph but the same address for archive.is. I tried the OPs link, got redirected to .is and got captchas.

I cleared DNS server cache again and got 89.253.237.217 for .is (along with more new IPs for .ph and .today). No captchas.
I agree with you about trying to control for neighborhood changes, I dont think that is done here. There is gentrification and that admittedly makes the numbers harder to compare.

That said, I would totally disagree that the real apples-to-apples comparison would be to find an equivalent home further away. That literally proves my original argument -- that the current generation has to work the same for less. That our parents could live in the city while we commute from the exurbs.
Programmers should make what the market will offer, I'm not sure why you think otherwise. If there's easy money floating around on dumb projects, good on labor for capturing as much of that as possible, instead of it going towards another yacht.
Again, read this Mastodon thread by Hector Martin, who forgot more than most right-to-repair advocates know about how Apple devices work internally, about this issue:

https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110803356645502548

Unlike every other laptop vendor, Apple actually gives a shit about the security of their systems, and does much, much more to harden a MacBook against firmware-level exploits than anyone else in the industry. That includes moving the controller, firmware, and configuration/calibration data on-die to the M2 and having signed, verified firmware.

Apple is simply built different as a company, and their concern for security and integrity of your personal data is simply UNMATCHED in the industry.
You gotta pump the brakes on on the de Tocqueville worship buddy, I love the guy but he didn't unlock the secret of America, pastoralism was a fad at the time and he was as guilty of it as many others.
(That said, do listen to these excellent radio shows about his time in America! https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/tocqueville-s-america-revisit... )

> New York City is .. a place where elites leverage ethnic conflict to garner votes

This is sort of an hilarious assertion at this moment in time.. I mean, elites didn't pick Eric Adams to be mayor of NYC.. they think he is a buffoon!
I'm not going to respond to every comment by others here that upset me but I wanted you to know that I appreciate what you've spoken up about in this thread. I'm largely of the same spirit though some details may be different.
In case you weren't aware:

Timeshift

> System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.

https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift
Much closer
Hallelujah, was going to post the same thing. This is sad to me, because I see this so overused that it's lost nearly all its important original meaning.

All the time I see "health care is a human right", "shelter is a human right", "food is a human right" - that always drives me a little bonkers, and it's not because I don't support guaranteed assistance in these areas. It's because these things require real cost, time and effort from somebody else to acquire. Saying they're "human rights" implies that you're willing to force other humans to acquire these goods for you, for free. This is very different from things like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, etc. which are the "default" state of things until someone uses violence to try to take them from you.

Similarly, it costs time, effort and money to assemble information in ways so that it can be consumed online. Saying "it's a human right" just means you want it for free.
There is so much innovation going on, it’s amazing. But none of it is for public consumption, as always. Cheers.
> No one wants to take a visit to the solar farm and camp out next to the windmills.

I do! Wind farms in particular are spectacular and preferable to farmland
Somehow this needs to be linked to PsDoom (https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/), perhaps as "multiplayer" mode of some sort?
> What's your evidence that aspartame doesn't cause cancer?

An extensive body of people taking aspartame compared with oncology patients and a mountain of evidence finding no correlation between the two. Not merely an absence of evidence.

> We have zero data, and the problem is long gone.

Then stop saying fraud is rare. If you have zero data it's entirely dishonest to make any claims about the rates of fraud. And the problem is gone? Did Germany expell the asylum seekers? If so that's news to me.

> Should we spend resources, time and money into investigating a phantom problem that probably doesn't exist? 20% say yes.

And that's an entirely valid position for a political party to hold. Remember, there was a time when most people thought climate change was a phantom problem that didn't exist. Not so long ago, the possibility that COVID leaked from a lab was a phantom conspiracy theory.

Here's an alternate theory as to why mainstream parties are so resistant to auditing and investigating asylum claims: they don't want to face repercussions for shoddy policy that did little to verify asylum claims. You seem so confident that fraud is very rare, yet so defensive about validating asylum claims.

> I think it's phenomenal that a party can divert attention from actual, real problems into decoy problems and blow them out of proportion to gain power.

> That's the actual danger to democracy we're talking about.

What's phenomenal and dangerous is how people can convince themselves that banning a political party because they don't share the same concerns is defending democracy. By this logic, Republicans would be defending democracy by banning Democrats. Democrats are diverting attention from real problems into - according to Republicans - phantom problems like climate change.

You don't have any more right to say what is or isn't a relationship problem than an AfD member. Plenty of people probably believe, with the same conviction, that some of your concerns are phantom problems diverting attention from real issues. Understanding that is what preserves democracy.
> Somebody must be benfitting immensely it these gigantic solar and wind farms are built

Yes, the developers and the landowners benefit. The landowners get license fees or sell the land to the developers, then the developers build solar and sell power to the utilities. It's not a conspiracy, that's how infrastructure works.
AEDs are present in a lot of public-space first aid supplied these days: supermarkets, shopping centres, etc. When you turn them on, an automated voice guides you through every step. They're not idiot-proof, but they're pretty close.
Most of published research in the world is mainly funded by taxes (or public funds in general). Most of the private research efforts is R&D work that will not get published. Yes some private funded research will get published (i.e Google research) but this is not the rule.

So I would not focus on the edge cases.
OCaml itself is known for exceptionally quick compilation though. Despite Hindley–Milner with type inference.

GHC for Haskell and rustc for Rust are slower because of the optimization passes that they do. GHC needs to be more aggressive about optimization in order to make lazy code perform well. And rustc in order to deliver on Rust’s promise of zero-cost abstractions.
True, the printer can't but you can get a good one or two hundred prints out of a fading toner cartridge with some percusive maintenance.
I think knowledge is a human right. Free people are able to go outside and start dropping rocks from different heights to start deriving physics. Or study wildlife for biology knowledge.

That's not what this article is talking about though. This article is attempting to conflate the right to knowledge with a right to access publications that another party produced and put behind a pay wall.

Which is also different than the 3rd discussion of "if it is tax funded, shouldn't it be available to the general public?".
https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/llama-2/
https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-face-endpoints-on-azure

You can of course run Llama2 in Azure, but you can't host OpenAI models in AWS
I don't know. I run 6x cheap SSD's on and old LSI card plugged into my ancient i5. Works fine.
My employment history has been a mess of 6 month gigs since the start of the pandemic. I'd say it was just me due to additional circumstances but I did a poll of my LI network to see if anyone else was feeling it, most everyone said they were. Surprised some on HN aren't but these are additional data points to consider.
Can’t read it due to pay wall. But what is wrong with self-help assuming you are capable?
The “stop drinking Starbucks” is old and nonsensical. That isn’t why people are poor.
This is a good point. Enumerating “human rights” as a concept is very simple. Knowledge obviously is not one, and profit undebatably is one. I’m not sure why anyone would debate facts as universal as the weight of a proton.
Honestly I’m not seeing much point in even living nowadays with prospects so bad. I’ll give it like maybe another month or two but after that I’m out. The amount of suffering being laid off has caused me in my life is just not worth it.
> I can't see FP taking off in C++ until it gets proper modules support

Modules aren't going to help with template instantiations.
I think you misunderstand what ZFSBootMenu does. It doesn't manage any snapshots. It refuses to do anything to any file system that isn't clearly marked as an operating system root. (There are a few well-defined criteria that must be met before ZBM will even attempt to determine if a filesystem has Linux kernels that it will allow you to boot.) Once it identifies one or more file systems that contain bootable Linux kernels, it allows the user to select a kernel from one of those file systems for booting. It also allows the user to enumerate snapshots of those bootable file systems and boot from them via ZFS cloning (with or without promotion) or a send-receive duplicate that avoids interdependencies.

Yes, Nix manages a history of past system instances and NixOS modifies the bootloader to present each of these states as a bootable option. This maps loosely to the ability to elevate ZFS snapshots to boot environments in ZBM, but the functionality is not redundant. In fact, it isn't even a compatible alternative---we haven't found a good way to make ZBM boot NixOS. If you want NixOS, you're booting the NixOS way.

Nix is a very interesting concept that offers several advantages. It also has drawbacks. For example, it can be inordinately complex to manage small deviations from upstream configurations that aren't represented by pre-existing options. (Ever try to add a single line to a PAM configuration file in Nix?)

The Nix way of booting falls apart should you want to have multiple Linux distributions coexisting on a single pool. NixOS works best when you have complete buy-in. ZFSBootMenu doesn't care; if it can find kernels in the `/boot` directory of a ZFS filesystem, it will show you the filesystem and let you boot it.
Entirely possible, I have been trying to find what the middle ground is. I have trouble believing my whole career is suddenly over because of a few short term stints during this pandemic.

Edit: https://layoffs.fyi shows 2023 has been fairly rough as well as late 2022 for confirmation. My troubles started around early 2020 so something to consider. 5 years or so of steady employment and gainful experience before that.
Worth considering: why did the managers ignore the writer’s warning of the apocalypse when the system went live?

One possibility that comes to mind is that they’ve heard dire warnings before from other engineers which have turned out to be exaggerated.

Engineers do have Chicken Little tendencies sometimes, and the long term results can be similar.
Imagine utopia; a world where your basic needs are met (excellent food, water, comfortable shelter, wonderful healthcare), you can pursue life, liberty and happiness, democracy flourishes, where bigotry of all forms has been eliminated.

But there is still a paywall for academic journals, indeed all academic journals are now behind paywalls.

This world, apparently, would be an appalling place, rife with human rights violations.
> US implementation of individual freedom is pretty close to what individual freedom ideology tries to be

I'll agree with that statement when I can practice my religion where I believe that psychedelics are a sacrament!

> being forced to help you

I pay taxes and registered for the draft when I turned 18. That argument doesn't fly.

I think you are justifying being greedy under the guise of "freedom."
This is very useful, I was looking to make a cross platform video calling app a while ago and this would have saved tons of time.
Not sure if you’ve been watching the news this summer, but tens of thousands of acres have burned, thousands of people uprooted from their homes, the skies filled with thick smoke, and numerous people have died. So perhaps the alarmists weren’t effective enough, but the fact that they were sounding the alarm doesn’t seem ridiculous to me.
And if it's a handheld console, the phone screen certainly dwarfs the original console's.
Apple however has far more consequences to consumers in doing so, as it isn't actually a luxury brand, it's nearly half the entire American smartphone market and a significant portion of the laptop market.

As a result, selling expensive devices and making repairs expensive and wasteful has a much larger overall impact on consumers as a whole than the same for Louis Vuitton bags.

I'm not seeing how this isn't them conspiring to make repair difficult. Even just plainly accepting your reasoning, they perceive themselves as a luxury brand, thus they conspire to make repairs exceptionally difficult because they think that somehow contributes to their luxuriousness.
You know what would be cool? A defragmentation game. It's basically Tetris but in a circular layout, and you get more points the better optimized it is - with frequently used data blocks towards the outer tracks and old/archive file types towards the inner tracks.

I always enjoyed watching graphical defragmenters do their magic back in the day and would unironically love to play a defragging game.
Not Chromium's, but Google Meet's.
I am immediately doubtful of everything out of lesswrong.com So doubtful, in fact, that I won't even read the article. Best of luck to those who choose to do it.
Specifically in the US, for the past 5 years there has been an influx of code schools and boot camps grads entering the workforce.

I want to say that we have an oversupply of non-traditional tech workers that were from these schools that couldn’t or didn’t sustain a job.

Now when companies are trying to find qualified individuals, there’s a challenge weeding out these from actual skilled and experienced individuals.

Combat this with experienced non-US tech workers who are willing to work for lower wages, makes locals finding jobs a challenge.

For companies looking to hire US-only workers, too many people are applying drowning out actual qualified individuals.
It gets much worse. Read up on the Vera scandal, for example.
Sort of the opposite of Breakout.
Why do they say “Linux Containers” if they are using Docker?
Crappy article, but I'm sure there's more than a few board members who also happen to be real estate investors, and they're probably not disclosing that fact when they hype up RTO.

Nevertheless something missing from this conversation is the somewhat complete dismissal of the premise: that RTO might be better for (some? many?) companies. Like it's possible that not every company, team, employee, project is fit for WFH? I've been remote for a long time and even I can admit it's probably not the best choice for most companies from a purely business value point of view. But it's pretty inconvenient to admit.

In my experience, people with very high self drive, teams of dedicated people, in highly parallelizable projects, are successful at remote work. Many are successful in spite of remote work, and would fail without remote work not because of efficiency but because the practitioners wouldn't sign up to the work in the first place if it wasn't remote. But in a whole lot of cases, WFH _is_ a tax on businesses.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

Imagine you're 15 and look at the graph above. What deadline do you set for humanity to fix the issue?
Oof. I tried to make it through the first season and don’t think I’d put “new ideas” near the top of my list of descriptors. But I get that many people are enjoying it.
Erthos is planning to literally pave the ground with panels. It's an interesting idea:

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/utility-scale-sol...
What Is Retirement?
Another challenge, is that toki pona requires a lot of context, not only of previous sentences, but visual and communal. For example, I can say 'soweli lili' and point to a cat, then in all further conversations 'soweli lili' will mean exactly a 'cat' until specified.

I could use sentence that could mean literally hundred thousand of different things, but if I explain it properly once, you are expected to keep it as context.

ChatGPT4 will struggle to keep all context as it will surely accumulate.
> It's because these things require real cost, time and effort from somebody else to acquire.

What you are writing there is a frequent complaint on discussion threads on news-for-nerds sites, but it misses the point: of course those things require real cost, time and effort from somebody else, and that is why there is a longstanding distinction between positive and negative rights.[0] Yes, the prominence of negative rights is a big feature of American culture due to the 18th-century Lockean context that the USA’s Founding Fathers operated in, but a lot of things have happened in the interim, and other views on rights have arisen. And even the USA gave lip service to the positive rights enshrined in the UN’s founding human-rights charter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
Both quotes are an example of the same principle.

The differentiator is indeed, in what the writer’s definition of significance is.
it's not really related in concept, but I feel like playing various puzzles with pentominoes would feel a bit similar to this, as it's spatial reasoning puzzles. I adore pentominoes and spent a large portion of my childhood playing with them, recently rediscovered them as an adult.
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The name of the place? rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated.

(...your phrasing wound up leading into sounding like the B5 intro.)
Slava Ukraine!
Long-awaited Shtetl-Optimized Barbenheimer post
Cool video, interesting. Looks though like a very complicated way of creating and entering the content, compared to just typing in a buffer with some markup language. When I saw the video first I thought it was just textual hyperlinks, sort of what we with clickable text in Emacs. Info and help-mode are Emacs apps that uses it quite heavy. But then I looked up Concordia on Wikipedia, and I see it has same ancestor as texinfo :).

But very interesting to see, I'll watch your other videos when I have more time, it is a bit of history. Thanks for recording them and uploading videos. Is that machine still alive and running, or did you record it on your Linux port?