skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago, when I would tag-along with my wife at her church, I got some perspective on how these mega-churches work. (I don't know what the total attendance was at its various locations, but I'm guessing it was in the high four-digits?) At least for this particular church, the draw seemed twofold:

1. They were very oriented to young adults (say, <40 years old): modern music, chic building/space design, coffee-shop feel (especially because people would regularly come in with their lattes), and the amazing perk that they had numerous rooms for kids of different ages. Kids were treated very well and had so much fun in the bouncy houses or whatever, and parents could really focus on whatever the message was that day.

2. Critical mass. Being around more people really gives a feeling of belonging, and I think it's pretty well-established that the big crowds, swelling music, etc., really does elicit an emotional response that some people interpret as the holy spirit while others simply think of it as a warm, wonderful feeling you get going to church. That feeling is definitely self-reinforcing for attendance.
Yes and people still watch TV even though you “haven’t owned one in 10 years”.

Or do you think places are making apps that no one uses?
Yep, and coincidentally related to your username, economy struggles. The main one I worked at was a mansion by University of Tampa that someone bought and we put cameras around it and women/men "worked" in it. They got free room and board and college tuition at UT paid for. This was 20 years ago.

But none of these acts ever thought/expected to become millionaires like what happens on OF. It's wild. It was mostly apposite to dancing and a lot of them were dancers when not in school.
Not exactly true. there is an experimental display driver that does not require xochitl[0]. There hasn't been enough need for replacing the current rm2fb solution yet to drive completing it yet.

0. https://github.com/matteodelabre/waved
Modern age pimp.
Guix builds are sandboxed per package (I'm pretty sure it cannot be turned off at all). The Guix build containers don't have network access.

Guix package definitions include a cryptographic hash of the source, don't autoupdate and have people review when there is an update.

The Guix package definition includes what dependent packages this package needs. These dependencies will be built first and the result made available for the Guix container of the final package build. Nothing else is available in there.
Ukraine has been going through about 10,000 drones a month. This should up the rate of production.

No rear areas. No safe fire bases. No Green Zone. Another major change to war.
TLS 1.3 is IMHO still too new to have stabilised and had all the edge-cases worked out. 1.2 was first released in 2008 and only started becoming a requirement more than ~10 years later. I'm not sure how the situation with 1.2 was but I know there were several draft versions of 1.3, which do not interoperate yet had public implementations. That might be what's happening there.
I would say only the weather and bank apps would be really equal as a PWA.

Maps require complex gestures and advanced graphics and UIs that would never work well as a PWA. Try maps.google.com. Its nothing like the Google Maps app. Plus Android Auto integration.

Tile probably needs pretty deep Bluetooth integration and background processing that the web doesn't provide.

YouTube can do things like PiP that you can't do on the web.
I just got through watching Johnny Mnemonic with my wife (she likes Keanu Reeves movies as far back as "A Walk in the Clouds").

It plays much better today, as retro-futuristic nostalgia, than it did during its run in theaters in 1995.

It triggered a discussion my wife about William Gibson and how his visions play out a lot better on the page than on the screen.

Then she mentioned, without any input from me, that it seems like all the current Metaverse hype comes from people who must have watched and read all this stuff in the 90's and wanted it to be real, but never figured out how to actually make it work.
China's slow-moving economic disaster
Garbage collecting interpreters are (mostly) for wimpy scripting kiddies. The obvious historically documented exceptions are the "Symbolic AI Researchers."

In 1990, SQL (and dBASE and Excel) was a "computer language" for secretaries. Now in 2023, we suffer uneducated halfwits manically typing in endless repugnant "ad tech" and "SEO" with our "Bioinformatics Researcher" hacks inflicting delusions based on Excel #Err cells (look it up) upon an unwitting populace.

Somewhere, we went wrong. We have GREAT and WISE Software Engineering (Prescriptive and Historical) guidance available in the public domain now. Our mercenary "job hoppers) don't seem to be interested in accessing that.

Going forward, some combination of ASM and Forth in Open Source incarnations and with type-checking hints will wring the most computation out of energy resources (CPU cycles).
Russia is far from unique in constantly lying
> 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago (get 2 whole mins for this one)

Three, if you misinterpret it as I did..

3:35
3:34
3:54
> How much do people transfer me data via cable now?

I don't think I've ever plugged my iPhone into my Mac. Data transfer between a computer and a phone is use-case that isn't that common these days (except maybe for video workflows?)

Even Continuity Camera, which I use, I only plug my phone into a power outlet to keep it charged.

Everything else syncs wirelessly.
Materials from the postwar period are completely different. Within a decade we had 100 years of tech develop.

Also - compare a building from the 19th cent. To earlier 20th. Those same building you say are intricate are not nearly as much as just decades earlier. Carpenters had access to a lot of new tech starting in the late 1800’s.
You can indeed argue it does maintain certain states to help extend its survival. Think of how fire tends to burn wood into charcoal. Now a big wind may blow out the primary flame, yet it actually lives on through the charcoal for a period of time, which when the right conditions are met, are able to reignite the blaze. Think of how fire tends to fragment matter, and send it up in the updraft. Sparks of this nature are able to ignite more fires further than the primary fire could reach on its own, beyond firebreaks even. This is akin to clonal propagation to ensure survival that we see in many species, or the release of many progeny over an area banking on the reality that most will not survive, but some will.

I think if we go further down the logic hole and start questioning that by virtue of it being something you can start yourself with a tinderbox, that fire is not life, we question the entire premise of ideas like abiogenesis which argue life is inevitable when certain chemical conditions being met.
There's nothing "unexpected" about a process that takes 2 years to enforce restrictions and has been communicated and has been in place for years.
I went to one in LA, extended family went for Xmas.
It's weird, super produced. The back wall was a teleprompter and a timer, so they could time this service and start the next.

I don't go to any church, so this was extra over the top.
> What if it worked on the latest version but not others? At what point do you draw the line?

This is a poor excuse. Even if it were a web app, you would still need to test on multiple browsers.

Doing a smoke test on a new release is just basic professionalism.

And having a phase roll out with a rollback is also not a new concept.
While I think I'd agree with your argument for many projects out there (YAGNI), there are some cases where I think it makes sense.

Consider a product or article catalogue with search/filtering/ordering/pagination. This is something that can make sense to do in a SPA while you want it to degrade gracefully and work for clients without JS (including SEO).

Or for that matter, a Discourse/Reddit-like discussion board?
Could you provide a source on the software updates being more frequent, as well as clarify what you mean by rM being bad at updates? rM has been pushing out updates fairly regularly this year, especially if you include their beta channel.
Why would we continue to create the same thing? We had access to steel and glass in a way we never did before. He’ll you couldn't create a decent larger sheet of glass until the 1940s. Nails cost more than wood when blacksmiths made them.
“Avoid the passive voice” is a rule that annoys me. Sometimes, the rule that’s annoying is more important than the person that’s being annoyed.
Let's see if I understand your take:

Men are naturally amoral and violent.

We should force victims to accommodate the perpetrators amongst them and see if that helps.

Many women don't even want hang out with rapists in Antarctica.

---

Damn, and they say we feminists have a negative view of men.

As an alternative to this take, we could hold violent criminals accountable without regard to gender or distance from the equator.
If we have made an area that can't be traversed by humans on either side, doesn't this benefit the defenders the most?
> Everything in the modern world has the oil/energy needed to create it baked into the price.

Ye, and CEO consumes more of everything, so anyone lower income will receive more from re-distrubtion than they wil pay in tax.
This is about accountability. When a person constantly lies you cannot just take their claims at face value. All the things I wrote were official statements from Ukrainian government officials including the Ukrainian MoD.

As such there is currently no data corroborating the claims that the Australian drone is as good as it claims. What we do know so far is that the Geran(Shahed) and the Lancets have shown to be quite deadly for the reasons mentioned above. Although the Geran is not a loitering munition.

It is entirely possible that the Australian drone is performing as well, but as of now there is no such data. The last drone that was seen in the battlefields from the Ukrainian side was the switchblade and it was orders of magnitude more expensive than the Australian one and performed abysmal.

One thing to note here is that the Russians according to most western publications[1] have been quite successful at jamming GPS guided munition, so even if it is as successful as the Ukrainians claim it will probably not be a game changer in this conflict.

[1] https://www.economist.com/special-report/2023/07/03/the-late...
And a 32-bit integer can represent latitude or longitude to an accuracy of around 1 centimeter :D.
> Bill Hybels, a megachurch pastor felled by sexual-misconduct allegations in 2018, was said to parrot Peter Drucker, a management guru: “What does the customer consider value?”

So… basically they are businesses selling a product.
The Amish, sure. But no serious culture has abandon technology.
> The most fascinating thing to me about OF is how it's practically normalized having one.

Onlyfans rose to fame during covid - a lot of people stuck at home with ample time to make or view porn. They were for a time pretty much the only opportunity that allowed the creators to make money (Reddit and Twitter didn't) other than Pornhub, which on top of that was dealing with the GirlsDoPorn fallout and ManyVids which while solid hasn't ever been good at marketing... and content creators loved that OF was the first site that more or less lured the viewers into subscription, resulting in a fixed revenue stream - loads of people forgot that they've subscribed to a couple OF people and no one really bothers with ten bucks on the monthly CC bill.

On top of that came a few celebrities/starlets and media pieces, the rest was watching a meme unfold in real life.
They're generally written in a way where it's not helpful to teach yourself about the topic, but is helpful to refresh yourself if you've previously learned about it elsewhere.
Well, low hanging fruit is sometimes hanging very low, but if you want to move past that and reach higher, it gets exponentially harder and thus more expensive.

Also things like reliability, durability under various extreme conditions, safety for humans involved and so on can escalate times and prices dramatically, but are not massive concerns in existential situation Ukraine currently is in due to russia's war.

US is basically never aiming so low with new tech they want for its military, it wants brilliant solutions above everybody else, and has money to burn on it. And from time to time, when looking back those investments were well worth even with flops included. US global hegemony is not something that US wants to lose due to few hundreds billions not allocated as effectively as possible.
"and its various tentacles" --- in some cases, literally.
Kudos to that user reporting the issue, sometimes when I report issues I am 90% no one read those.

> There's nothing we as developers can do to speed up the reviewal process nor contact Google support in any way. There are no possible workarounds and we just have to wait. Wait until we're excused to put our fixes to production.

A couple years ago, and out of self-learning process, I decided to develop an Android app, never did any smartphone app development, Flutter was new so got excited to try it out, long story short, I submitted the app to play store, and it remained “under review” for 40 days! Just like OP, Next day I was checking the dashboard, silly me thinking the process is smooth, after 3 days I stopped checking and later forgot about it until they sent an email after 40 days, I pulled the app later and decided never to touch anything again with smartphones app development, and that was play store, supposedly the easier one after reading some horror stories of the App store.
Ah, my bad.

Still, that would only be useful in the case of a function that takes both *args and **kwargs, seems pretty limited as a use-case.
This sounds a lot more like a govt bringing up the US bogeyman like Imran Khan did in Pakistan than the U.S. actually doing anything.
I thought water at least was solved with mars. They observed fog, this is enough to support microbial communities on earth.
I still don’t know why the name. For me, x marks the spot, x can be shorten some words, and in a domain name you better go incognito before opening.
Some of the best advice I've ever received is, "Don't overestimate what you can do in a day, but don't underestimate what you can do in a year, never mind a decade," and I think it's relevant to your comment and this article.

We live in a "success now" culture. It's almost anathema to be willing to be bad at something long enough to become good at it. If you haven't demonstrated an aptitude for something, don't touch it.

But the compounding effect of even very slight changes over years can change everything.

You can't double your performance overnight. But if you get 1% better every week for 70 weeks, you can double your performance that way, and you're not even a year and a half in.

So can you start sleeping an hour earlier? Not overnight, no. But can you get 1% better at it per week for a few months by practicing and succeeding at small changes? Yeah, you probably can.
And you have also never had a security vulnerability in one of your dependencies causing you to update your software? A new database version? A new version of whatever runtime you were using?
When I was in Julliard pre-college music school, there was a girl I had a crush on. She was from South Africa and I wanted to impress her. But being 14 years old, I didn’t want to say something cheesy. So I asked my Dutch friends how to say this (it is the same in Afrikaans)…

Beware of the giant chicken! It will eat your hair.
sorry, I thought you were commenting on the original article
One python library WTF I came across recently is the autojunk parameter of the difflib SequenceMatcher class. Despite passing constructing the class with

difflib.SequenceMatcher(isjunk=None, ...

The matcher will start classifying characters as junk once the b parameter is more than 200 characters long. So unless you read the docs carefully, your matcher will start not matching anything longer than a few characters once the input gets longer than a few sentences. The trick is to also set autojunk=False in the constructor.

Its like the original writer of this component wrote the matcher for a specific application (DNA matching?) and left in the heuristic even though it isn't applicable to general use. At some point they added the autojunk parameter to gate this behaviour, but it still defaults to true, to keep backwards compat, and to confuse people.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/difflib.html#difflib.Seque...
not just the exam, you have to do the residency again, most other countries make it far easier for foreign doctors to join - The US pays extremely well so that would be a motivating factor
Hey, know a couple folks working in adult companies including the big one like Pornhub,Xhamsters, xxx.com. They mostly employed through a proxy IT shop that from the first glance has nothing to do with adult technology. Also AFAIK you're not allowed to state in your CV the name of the product you have been working on.
> google stops working correctly because results for products on the front page start leading to blocked links.

Because they're often ads made to look like search results. Pi-hole working as intended.

That's my experience anyway. My family network is behind a pi-hole and rarely if ever does an intended website visit break as a result.
There's an amazing (and depressing) blog called Spike Japan that's all about this aesthetic, with a special focus on the Bubble of the 80s and the detritus it left behind:

https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/
That’s a species thing. Different species use either twining stems, tendrils, aerial roots or holdfasts. Roots are probably the ones you are concerned about.
With Burning Man about to happen, LLMs are going to hit new levels
What makes you think it is "thoughtless densification"? To deliver services to a given population, it is easier, faster, & cheaper if they are in more dense metropolitan areas (up to a certain point). Same trend happens in every developed country as the proportion of the labour force required for farming/forestry decreases. Land scarcity in Japan just amplifies the density in urban areas - you cant live outside the city and drive your car in, because you'll end up spending as much on a parking spot as you would on renting a small apartment.
Haha yeah this was the jaw dropping part back when OF (temporarily) suspended porn and claimed they would change course and make OF more about getting private sessions with Gordon Ramsay types.

Like, no, dude. For better or worse, OF has been permanently cemented in the public mind as being about cam girls and porn. No way are mainstream celebrities putting their brand within a hundred miles of that.

This article is just a submarine trying to create the impression that his desired branding has already been accomplished.
Rofl what a bad take. “For a bit of hosting and payment processing”. Isn’t that 99% of the internet?

And the last sentence is so edgy… Doing what in return, Onlyfans literally gave more money to people in porn than ever in history, isn’t that enough?
> This comes far too close, in my opinion, to the view that men just can't help themselves and therefore don't really deserved to be blamed.

A very small percentage of people will not behave unless they’re forced to behave, and held accountable when they don’t.

That doesn’t alleviate them of culpability, but it does mean that we cannot rely solely on individuals’ better judgement to keep people safe and healthy.

> the potential treatments become more numerous (and less onerous) than permanently isolating men and women

Providing single-sex living spaces and intimate facilities substantially reduces harassment and assault — we’ve known and successfully made use of that fact for a very long time.
The management (heavy air quotes) is listed :-)

Given the above I can only say it worked head-first back in the day. You can't """organize""" and not even "promote" when there's no _good stuff_.

Bottom up!
Seems like this issue could be and probably is solved with having more than 1 pastor. The article mentioned a subordinate relationship of pastors. There’s probably more than 1 pastor per church.
Protestantism and capitalism is basically the same idea. Greed is, for lack of a better word, good.
There's a classic 1951 science-fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, "Superiority" about a country that's developing an ultimate weapon, except that specifications and costs keep expanding to the point that only one can be afforded, and that of course comes too late.

Mentioned here on SE:

<https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/237557/science-fic...>

And of course Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_(short_story)>.

ISFDB: <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40897>

It's published in Expedition to Earth (1953): <https://archive.org/details/expeditiontoeart0000arth/page/90...>
"IBM on Tuesday announced generative AI tools to help address that problem, modernizing antique mainframe software for the cloud by refactoring COBOL code to Java."

Anyone else thinking, "Now they have two problems"? :-)
Just a guess here:

(1) It's a lot of work.

(2) You'd get sued anyways and then have to explain to a jury the distinction between your vectorized raster and the original vectors --- I agree that a graphical interpretation of, effectively, a photograph of a curve is not the same thing as that curve, but it's a subtle point.

(3) Most importantly: it just doesn't matter enough. Universally "important" fonts (Helvetica, say) have widely-used liberally-licensed alternatives, but if you want Hoefler Whitney, you want the real Hoefler Whitney, for the same non-pragmatic reason that you'd want a real pair of D&G Daymasters.
Saving Time with Fzf
> The world isn't actually going to end.

The world didn't end after the Black death and it did not end after WW2. And it will not end after a nuclear war.

So we should never do anything because the world is never going to end.
Cheap phones killed laptops.

My sister moved to a new house somewhere around 2018 and didn't bother with a new PC or a laptop, because she found what she does everything from the phone. Nephew still has a proper desktop PC because he is playing games.

My mother, who were adamant on getting the nephew's old PC when he upgraded the last time, doesn't have it booted up in, I think, years.

Occasionally I personally meet people who doesn't have a proper PC (be it a desktop or laptop) at home at all.

People who were born in 2005 are adults now and could have the whole Internet and computer experience through the phones/tablets only.
Tryhackme.com has been the best resource for me.
> Plenty of people have already made the decision to delegate decisions to AI.

That got me thinking.
Yes, that is an issue. My union (mostly non-tech workers) was negotiating for a new contract when the old when had expired 18 months prior and had been negotiated two or three years before that. It was such a long wait that a lot of good people were lost in the process, particularly since inflation has been abnormally high. It sounds like many other unions in my neck of the woods are in a similar situation.
ML is part of the larger field of Artificial Intelligence, which includes all techniques to make a computer do anything we consider as part of intelligence.