skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The science is settled" is a marketing term put forward by administrations that wish to manipulate the will of it's citizens.

Especially those citizens who follow sheep-like behind a Media Personality who happens to believe that vaccines will make you a magnetic zombie from beyond the stars and give all your chakras autism of the turbo-cancer.
Starting with a claimed 20x speedup seems like proving it's better? https://modelz.ai/blog/pgvecto-rs
I'd go further and say we need to stop passing around names as language primitive strings. Serious work on Name types in the standard library would go a long way towards making life easier for developers, in the same way the Calendar, Date, Time, and Duration types have made dealing with time.
To abuse the metaphor - lisp and lispers are completely tone deaf. There's an enormous number of people writing code that don't care one wit about "elegance" or "power" or "beauty" or whatever weird intangibles lisp has pretensions to. These people (such heretics) in fact don't care about software unto itself at all. They only care about using software to accomplish some goal, finish some task, solve some real (earthly) problem.

> The real issue is that many people don't want to become virtuoso, but just want to learn as little from their tools to make rent.

I would love to be a virtuoso pianist or painter or singer. I can't fathom the desire to be a virtuoso programmer - it would be like being a virtuoso widget assembler. I mean sure our bosses wishes all of us were virtuoso widget assemblers. But me by myself? Nah. And also don't give me that protestant work ethic shpiel about taking pride in your work - I have plenty of other things I can be proud of instead.

> That's fine, but let's not blame the tool, then.

A tool that no one uses isn't some lonely pitiable misunderstood emo child - it's just useless. It's dead simple: if lisp were the key to building fantastically successful software we would all swallow our pride and use the stupid parens language. I don't know how such a clear and obvious argument never gets through to people in language communities. If you have to fight, for decades, to convince people that your tool is superior and still no one is using it, you should reflect deeply on whether you're wrong.
https://great78.archive.org/preservation/
I find people who judge others on how they answer a tech question to be sus highly judgemental and often wrong about their hunches

But I could be wrong
A policy is not meant to be fun. Paying tax and taxes wearing seatbelt are policies geared towards living together as a society
> A visit to the latrine was probably unpleasant and only for the desperate, according to archaeologist Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, author of The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy . She has looked into more Roman lavatories than most. Aside from the total lack of privacy, she notes, they were almost invariably dark, smelly and potentially dangerous. Noxious gases built up in the trench below and sometimes exploded, sending flames shooting up through the toilets.

It can't be worse than festival toilets on day three, after two days of mud and rain. What we don't know is how often the toilets were cleaned which would have made a big difference or if insense was burnt. The Romans were into perfume in a big way.
Mostly about the ocean it would typically fall into in the most common failure shortly after launch scenario.
Unfortunately this is a common thing in Mexico (and extremely likely other 3rd world countries)

For example, in Puebla City there is a river (Atlixcayotl) that is literally where all the local industries and waterparks dump their "runoff" (let's be honest, poop and industrially-produced chemicals)

Which is a shame that this happens (even in 1st world countries). So much taking from land that has been living and forming for millions of years (the dirt is alive) and we dump all the poop/industrially-produced chemicals into the rivers.

Not to mention these rivers flow into oceans and the ocean currents do not respect any borders, the fish that are affected. The rivers that touch the soils that grow food (yes your meal was created from these soils)

Sorry I just meant to make a quick comment and it spurred into an entire mini-rant lmao.
The Atari Character Generator ROM

Missing a word there.
It's been open source for 16 years.
To read with the recent https://cpu.land/
Oh yes, that solves society's problems: only rich people should have kids.
That is something different. There is no deceit or hidden information (well not necessarily). Where as a carrot problem needs there to be deceit and hidden information.
AirBnB is innovative tech?
> Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

This sounds fringe, and it may well have been by that time. But it isn’t all that different from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-century Christian practices that bothered the pagan Roman authorities: holding service in catacombs and holding the bones of the deceased.
> You're merely a tenant without any power.

By that logic, that's what you are on your phone as well, unless you collected the silicon material, diffused and soldered and programmed it yourself.

Even if you assume 'a physical black box, but at least you hold it in your own hands', that is barely making that position stronger since you're still reliant upon networking which requires both a second party and rights to use it, neither of which you control.

Essentially, you will never, ever be some silly idea of a 'self made server owning person' because without mutual agreements and trusts, you get nothing. Not even spare electrons to flip the bits in the CPU registers.

The best we can do is make a balance between our risk appetite and how we want to spend our time. Turns out random phones that will turn into e-waste faster than you can sneeze is what people accept, and thus that is what the suppliers supply.
I was wondering today if I should split my blog into two halves and keep my technical writings separate from my personal musings which are often ranty and miserable. I have a number of subscribers that probably care about the former and not the latter.
> That’s the whole point of science: it’s constantly evolving.

I think the point is actually to get a high degree of epistemic rigor, and when you see science "evolving", it's actually because the epistemic rigor in that field wasn't very good in the first place.

Physics hasn't really "evolved" very much in the way medical "science" has. It's developed, but it's never needed to totally contradict itself. QM and SR are refinements on classical mechanics, not rebuttals.
> Is a planarity testing algorithm explained in the book?

Planar graphs do not embed K5 (the complete graph with five nodes) or K3,3 (the complete bipartite graph with three nodes on each side). You can get a brief overview of planarity testing algorithms here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planarity_testing

> Also, methods to transform any graph into a planar graph with some cost function?

Do you mean an algorithm that finds a planar subgraph while optimizing some cost? Sounds interesting, but it's not something I've ever explored.
I feel like it sneaks up on you. You want your kid to be quiet for a few minutes so you say "10 mins of ipad time won't hurt". It happens slowly in every moment of weakness. Every moment you're too exhausted to take the hard way out. That said, I have no advice other than to just restrict it as often as possible or just limit how many you have at home.
The fact that most people don’t understand how things work is a testament to good design. You shouldn’t have to understand how a car works to use a car. You shouldn’t have to understand how a lightbulb works to switch on the lights. Abstraction allows us to build on prior technologies.

It’s also a practical reality of living in a complex world. Someone using Excel isn’t thinking about how that app was programmed. Most computer programmers don’t have in-depth knowledge of how a CPU works. And they definitely don’t understand the chemistry of a transistor.

The fact is we live in a world too complex to understand it all. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
You might also be interested in the "A Heavily Commented Linux Kernel
Source Code": http://www.oldlinux.org/download/ECLK-5.0-WithCover.pdf
Technically you could manually grow coroutine stacks the same way the kernel does for thread stacks, by mapping on fault and periodically unmapping everything beyond the red zone. But the complexity would be significant and hard to make it efficient without kernel support.
But now you’re talking about a niche enough audience, that existing ways of running a web server on your phone are fine, and they’ll jump over the proverbial hurdle.

This still doesn’t remove the issue with running a server via mobile connectivity. Especially when there’s free options, or inexpensive options that won’t run up your mobile data bills.
The article is poorly written, but all of the examples presented are about effects that Daft Punk made and do not appear in the original works.
It will hurt adoption if people can’t trust the website.

In your photo example, my mom, the first time the website wouldn’t work, would demand I just email her the photos from the trip from then on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift_masters_controver...

For the write up on Taylor Swift's reasons for re-recording her early albums. Interesting read.

... copyright is deeply broken.
> It's very sad that a forum of self-styled hackers can not see the value in a personal website.

I think the name has you confused. The vast majority of people here are not self-styled hackers. Actually most are against hackers and the hacker ethos. Just because north korea calls itself the democratic people's republic of korea doesn't mean it is democratic or a republic. The same applies here.

> Our image of what the web is and should be has been poisoned by 99.999% uptime cloud-hosted tat.

No. It's been poisoned by greed and power.
There is no misconception. The only class of theories that I'm aware of that have MOND as their non-relativistic limit are TeVeS, and these have been ruled out by experiments. If you have something else in mind, please provide a paper reference.
"...Their albums have a variety of musical diversity..."

I like Daft Punk, but I, and they, I'm sure, never described themselves as such. It's worth addressing this sentence, it being an early sentence.
I’m referring to the perceived sounds. They aren’t blended together. I’m fully aware of what vibrato is and what the post is talking about in terms of changing tone, half tones, auditory phantoms, trichords, and the octave illusion. The Wikipedia page details the phenomenon with stepping and alternating but it’s not the end of it. Various intervals have been tested. Us musicians have been playing with this for a while now.
I think you got whooshed by the reply's joke
Scientific American is becoming borderline misinformation machine. You're spot on, don't mind the downvotes and flagging on HN. It's a badge of honor at this point.
> Just a quick test of basic CS knowledge to get the candidate comfortable.

did it work for that purpose?
> I can become an efficient Android developer “in a few days”.

I'll wager that you can't.
Android development is Kotlin nowadays with Jetpack Compose.

Efficient, hardly. Not "in a few days"
Auto-correct fail: “structs”.
Here's the real story:

This is someone in their teenage to twenties, who makes 10 reddit accounts a month, farms karma on them, then sells them to spammers in a couple months for a couple hundred dollars each.
Try 0010000100
If it is a human right to be able to run a web server off of a phone, does this mean that every human has a right to own a phone?
My brother-in-law somehow took great care of his family during this period of time via the non-existent employment of which you speak.
What do you mean by "conclusion of a case"? Obviously a case cannot go to trial with evidence still sealed, and in at least some states the affidavit cannot remain under seal past the defendant's arraignment. Plus, affidavits are not always sealed in the first place—and the warrant that's been published in this case makes no mention of the supporting affidavit being under seal.
Why would someone go to the effort of republishing dependencies?
You have to start somewhere, if you want something to change.
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The 2007 Boston Mooninite Panic
>Can you clarify how this argument doesn't self-reduce to absurdity?

I think you misunderstood me. My comment about being native is that Linux does not look at your path when handling the shebang. Since POSIX doesn't standardize where env is there is no way to know how to launch env ahead of time. If there is no way to write a generic shebang you might as well just accept that you will need to change it.

>but your sample may be skewed if you think Nix is the only source of these requests.

Fair point. I am also biased from PRs also trying to insert flake.nix into projects. My issue is that nix is doing something nonstandard and it feels like projects are having to accommodate nix's oddities instead of nix being the one to accommodate what already exists.

>makes it somewhat clear that this is a convenience for end users that may want to use (or write) scriptsz

Thanks for sharing this. I always assumed they had it from the beginning.

>Remove it from where

Not all instances of it in build scripts are properly rewritten. Also there would be work in creating a migration plan to not breaking people who currently rely on its existence.
Picking these fights is part of the mission, universal access to all knowledge requires pushing boubdaries and changing the law.
Actually, you can! I always want to clone it either way, so I just do it.
Not that a comic proves anything either way, but if you're going to quote that part, let's include the entire text (copied from https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/743#Transcript):

2003:
[Cueball approaches a bearded fellow.]
Cueball: Did you get my essay?
Bearded Fellow: Yeah, it was good! But it was a .doc; You should really use a more open-
Cueball: Give it a rest already. Maybe we just want to live our lives and use software that works, not get wrapped up in your stupid nerd turf wars.

Bearded Fellow: I just want people to care about the infrastructures we're building and who-
Cueball: No, you just want to feel smugly superior. You have no sense of perspective and are probably autistic.

2010:
Cueball: Oh my God! We handed control of our social world to Facebook and they're DOING EVIL STUFF!

Bearded Fellow: Do you see this?

[Inset, the bearded fellow rubs his index and middle fingers against his thumb.]
Bearded Fellow: It's the world's tiniest open-source violin.
Whatever chopping and sampling Daft Punk does that the author tries to communicate in the article is pretty independent from the original works.
The author prefers "given name," but that does not include one's surname and that may also not be a one's current name.

I'm constantly annoyed when asked for both my legal name and my preferred name that companies choose not to address my by my preferred name. That's why I gave them my preferred name, after all.
Sorry for the delay. I hadn’t thought about that specifically, but I think it’s a good idea. Basically, we can add all kinds of settings and options with the JSON. But I do want to avoid unnecessary bloat, and keep this as simple as possible.
Is it though? The more complex a setup, the more of an attack surface. Even stuff like social engineering, tricking their support into giving access to your server is a possibility.

YouTube channels get hacked so often, even from technical people like Linus Tech Tips.
Post WWII understood how terrible war was. Post 90s those that experienced it in mass were going extinct. We forgot what fascism did to the past and too many are embracing it again.
Not condoning the prices your stealership charges, but consider:
Have you spent thousands of dollars out of your own pocket for the tools you use at your job? Do you have to maintain a commercial brick and mortar location? How much are your services worth?
I can think of two industries that seem to be making some real innovations in video: esports and (of course) adult entertainment.
Probably because there is no oil in space and nobody to sell ads to.
I've actually thought a bit about this over the years, and wrote a whitepaper in ~2002 on such... (sorry that file evaporated a decade+ ago)

Whereby ;

And this was prior to Cloud BTW (and I met with some goog eng friends in 2006 or so about it, but they said it would never be a thing:

I wanted a cloud based desktop, with your personal encrytped access key being your phone, which you would dock, and then grab an instance of your desktop from the cloud... (a while later motorola tried to launch such a device...)

Anyway, here is my current take:

Every phone should be able to have a way to manage your own APIs such that your links to whatever media buckets you have/sub to - you can very easily just create little widgets that will pull your IGs, HNs, whatever and you can just slide the content-boxes around and organize a page very easily...

Add a content-box (we attempted to build a site around this idea in ~2005 - no bueno - as mobile didnt exist as it does today)

the content box will be [text, pics, audio, links, etc] and you can nest one on top of the other...

So add an element - then drop it on top of another to have the link (think tooltip hover to whatever child box on parent)

etc...

Cloudflare the F out of it - and allow for black/whitelists of content within the profile of the user (never link to FB or Twixxxter, whatever)

You get the gist.;
What you're describing seems to be healthy vs unhealthy relationships (marriages). If two people are forced to be around each other and don't like each other you're going to speed up the decline. It wasn't WFH that did it, it was the fate of their relationship the entire time.
The United States needs a million electricians

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/20/us-elect...

We have the discussion on HN about how we need skilled workers. It does make the news

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/05/1142817339/america-needs-carp...
Liberalism against capitalism, equality/freedom are incompatible with capitalism
What I would like to see is devices being able to run at least to some extent purely off of the wall.

My use case: I plug in an old phone into the wall, a 65W Thinkpad charger to be precise. The input for the Thinkpad is USB type C which is the same as my ZTE phone. I connect the USB C cable, attach my spicy pillow of a battery (it is removable), wait until the device powers up, and remove the spicy pillow from the phone. The phone stays on.

What I would like to see instead is some way for phones and laptops to work directly off of the wall, not charging or using the battery at all once it is done charging, without me having to physically remove the battery. I thought this is how laptops used to work but I am not an expert. Phones I am positive do not work like this for some reason. I believe one reason is the camera flash. The camera flash requires more oomph (very technical term) than the wall can deliver. I'm guessing that based on a single anecdote that I once tried to use the flash without a battery and the phone rebooted.

I guess the main gist of this comment is to say I'd like to see better thought go into making battery more durable so you can use a phone, connected to the wall for ten years if you wanted to. I am positive that if we could use the phone off the wall without constantly charging and discharging the battery, we would be able to eliminate most cases of spicy pillow.
Is Anthony Zuppero involved? [0]. He is/was a scientist who wanted to build a rocket that could travel the Solar System [1]

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2009/11/15/zuppero_solar_system/

[1] http://www.neofuel.com/inhabit/inhabit.pdf
Is using Asahi helping Redhat? Or is Redhat helping you use Asahi?
Where I am from, we don't have first and last names. It's usually a name people call you by and your full name. Full name can have multiple parts (usually 2-3 can be more). The cast or family name usually comes at the end. Some cast related names are in the beginning as prefixes.

E.g. First part of my name is Muhammad but no one ever calls me by this in my country (Pakistan). This is one of the most common prefix here. I am usually surprised when some one here in UK correctly calls by my name instead of Muhammad.

Filling official form with Muhammad as my "First Name" is a weird experience knowing that this is what I will be called in communications.
An alternative is metacall. The example in the readme is about calling Python from Javascript, but it also works with other languages, like Ruby, C#, Java, and other languages

https://github.com/metacall/core

List of supported languages here https://github.com/metacall/core/blob/develop/docs/README.md...

In the future, maybe webidl (or extensions of it) will bring interoperability between languages too. At the moment there is https://mozilla.github.io/uniffi-rs/ for interoperability between Rust and a number of languages (basically the ones mozilla needs: Swift, Kotlin, Javascript)
The problem isn't the self hosting a website bit, it is the "oh your phone" bit. Our phone network doesn't have a ton of excess capacity, and building it out is expensive. A personal website has zero reason to run on your phone with you.

It would be way more efficient for the phone companies to simply give a free small VPS to phone customers who want one rather than allow them to host it on their phone.
That comic bit about sending U-Hauls and luggage instead of food comes to mind. It's meant to be funny but there is a small grain of truth. If you live in an area where you cannot grow enough food you need to move. Sand will be sand will be sand.
In 5 years time the most noticeable difference, apart from even more startups based around the idea of AI is that more jobs will have "working with AI tools" as a bullet point, with varying levels of specificity, reasonableness (I expect some "minimum 7y experience working with GPT6") and relevance to the actual job

And HN will still be asking if all jobs will be eliminated in 5 years' time.
Most definitely. I would say here in Germany, the number one thing that is missing is the culture. Everyone here is extremely risk averse and pessimistic. Then of course we don't get any startups and also no startup capital.
One thing the San Francisco Bay Area rediscovered after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 was that ferry services are highly resilient in the aftermath of major seismic events.

The Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge was damaged in the quake, though other crossings: the Golden Gate, Dunbarton, San Mateo, Richmond-San Rafael, Carquinez Strait, and Martinez bridges, all survived intact.

Suspension bridges are also far more resilient than fixed (truss, viaduct) spans, though several of the structures that did survive are fixed designs.
Is this 'Art access' you refer to something you make also? Or are you only referring to 'Art' other people make? The distinction is critical.
That's why I try to ask open-ended questions. Get to a solution. Might not be my solution, but at least get me there.

How do you run candidate interviews?
A bit off-topic, this reminded me about the sewer connections between east and west Berlin, which apparently were shared in places but had grates installed to prevent people escaping from the east. They also had a subway which iirc served the west but went through a couple of east berlin stations without stopping because the route predated the split.
Higher economic growth, better higher paying jobs and more wealth to go around.
Who are 'they'?