skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a bit of broken telephone here. A few specific buildings, like the Ise Grand Shrine, are rebuilt every couple decades as a cultural practice (or imperial edict) specific to those sites. It definitely does help maintain active practice of traditional construction techniques.

Others, like the Nara Todaiji temple, are very old structures and preserved as best as possible, being repaired and rebuilt only when necessary eg. due to fire or structural damage.

The practice of frequently renovating or rebuilding residential houses is quite unrelated, and more of a postwar trend.
I don't think the Pakistan Army needs "help" getting prime ministers out of office.
My favourite syntax error message produced by the Glockenspiel C++ compiler (a cfront derived piece of junk that I used in a training company in the early 90s) was simply "core dumped". This was slightly tricky to explain to people already struggling with C++, and who had paid us money for the course.
In my experience it's generally because Python developers make functions with an insane number of keyword arguments, and then wrap those functions. They don't want to type them all out again so they use kwargs.

subprocess.run() is an example of that. Also check out the functions in manim.

The inability to properly static type kwargs using TypedDict is probably the biggest flaw in Python's type hint system (after the fact that hardly anyone uses it of course).
The real answer is likely that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon. In reality there is no mystical magic that makes us special. There is no one right answer for "the best way to cheat death" because it's all about satisfying a moving target of how comfortable you are with the fact that there is nothing intrinsically special about consciousness. Saving the brain is at least a concrete thing that satisfies most interpretations of identity.
Offline maps. Browsers tend to delete PWA data without asking the user first, which can be as threat to life and limb in this case.
If you struggle with 2MB payload, how do you expect to stream video, which is usually hundreds of megabytes?

You’re right about 2MB being a large payload in some network configurations, but I think it isn’t that big in Youtube’s context.
Would you prefer having no app at all or a Cordova/PWA app? Because those are often the only realistic options for one-man/small teams.
I've been many times. It's far less nefarious than it seems.

Ever been to a corporate Christmas party? It's basically that with a lot more money.

There are some very interesting talks, but its mostly pretty vanilla. There are also some very, very interesting people, especially outside the gates of the main congress center.

But most of it is pretty much exactly what it sounds like; boring old people and their staff jockeying for status and bragging rights of who met with who, who got into what event, etc.

No one is in charge, there are no adults in the room and there are no sinister plots. Nothing really gets done or gets decided, other than an annual update of the ultra rich leaderboard, which is even scarier than the alternative if you think about it.
My friends house sat for the chair of my university's Computer Science department. This was in Arkansas, and he lived a fair drive away from the university. He had a data cap of 15GB a month.
The clang executable on my machine is 18kb.
Can you get into more details on why do you think Codable is performance hostile?
Yes, I am already excited to go back to the office and sit in an open office and listen to Zoom meetings happening on speaker
I remember a colleague attaching a screenshot of the text of a JIRA ticket to a ticket, and setting the ticket text to "read the text in the screenshot". Turns out JIRA crashed when he tried to save a ticket with a long text, with the text box deactivated so he couldn't copy it. His solution was to screenshot the text and use it instead of risk losing it.
Wish Grindr's relatively new CEO was reading your comment. The company was remote-first/friendly since day 1 years ago, and along comes this guy, and gives a RTO ultimatum to all employees. That was couple of weeks ago. 3/4 (no joke) of engineering dept took severance. Other departments lost more than a half too. The company lost more than 60% of employees in 2 weeks.

There are lawsuits now because 2 weeks before RTO ultimatum, a employee union was formed so a lot of people think that RTO ultimatum was a Unfair Labour Practice or a union busting move.

The move was so boneheaded and uncomprehensible that a lot of people suspect that the CEO simply wanted to destroy the union even if that takes sinks the company.
From the age of 11 to mid 30s I found it very difficult to sleep without being able to listen to something to distract myself for the same reason. Being in a dark silent room with my eyes shut was the worst thing ever.

A few things really helped me. The first was meditation because it allows you to become mindful of your feelings and recognize what you’re feeling. This mindfulness makes it much easier to practice emotional regulation, which is essential for self soothing. And finally ER allowed me to learn to love myself and separate myself from my bad past experiences and mistakes.

Journaling about your demons and past cringe or dramatic or bad experiences in extreme detail also helps a lot. Bonus for journaling in a way that is compassionate to yourself
Ask HN: Possible to self teach CS/programming using only books/hobby projects?
Is it really possible to learn computer science and related math on your own with the help of books and building projects on your own? Assuming you have rudimentary programming knowledge in any imperative language like Python or C, etc.

I am aware of guides like teachyourselfCS for someone who is a developer or programmer already. But has anyone really benefited from those guides?

If you were in this kind of a situation which books and or hobby projects have really helped you?
It's extremely common for Python programmers to write code with kwargs of different types. Look at subprocess.run() for example.
this is undoubtedly a direction Facebook is going with Oculus' eye tracking VR headset: serve arbitrary ads or other content, record subconscious saccades, build psychographic profile of unknowing and unwilling victim
But wouldn't some computations be more efficient it they could run on brain-like synapses/clusters or hardware analogs thereof? Pattern recognition, multi-modal perception and such.
Is it possible to learn this power?
This was a great TIL

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottomry
The problem isn't localized to first world countries anymore, the process in all countries has already begun and cannot be stopped. Almost every country on earth has a replacement level or below fertility rate and every single country has a fertility rate significantly lower than 30 years ago. A generation has already grown with the lower fertility rate, which means a generation is already locked in that will age out of the workforce with barely enough young people to replace their productivity. It's done.

There might not be a sustainable solution, besides a brave new world, but I personally would like to preserve human dignity. It appears that steady state population sizes are a rarity in the natural world and that almost all populations are chaotic and fluctuate. https://fractalfoundation.org/OFC/OFC-6-1.html
Also OpenWRT udev itself is tiny:

20.0K Oct 13 2022 /usr/lib/libudev.so.1
8.0K Dec 15 2022 /sbin/udevtrigger
Nice to see we're mostly in agreement, since (as I said in my previous comment) I'm hopeful for Flutter's future. The team writing their own rendering engine is unexpected and I hope to see the same engine used in other projects too.

Rive renderer is very impressive too.
https://twitter.com/gordonphayes/status/1654107954268782595
> picture of a cat

I couldn't find this elusive picture of a cat on archive.org, but I found this dog instead:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030113144310/https://www.amazo...

June 2016 appears to be when Amazon adopted the current error pages with the large dog images.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160612232820/http://www.amazon...
This is why I prefer anonymity for my online activities. You never know when or how your online posts will be used against you. Maybe everything I do now is appropriate and "moral" but in 20 years they would not and some nobody would grab those and slander me. You can never be sure.

Back to the article, I guess one good thing coming out of this is that the guy can apply for political asylum green card now...
It's not that they need "help", it's that the Americans dangled incentives for them. Read the intercept article.
Olive is pre-release so it may be early days regarding educational material. The article includes exercises you can try, and I found the documentation to be decent.

https://microsoft.github.io/Olive/
This sounds easy in theory, but so far only one language has succeeded in completely getting rid of the Chinese characters: Vietnamese. This transition was imposed by the French colonial administration however, to more easily spread European-style civilization by breaking their connection to their native culture. A Vietnamese-speaker would have to tell whether there are any issues with homophones nowadays.

In Korea, Hanja are still actively used for disambiguation of homophones in complex texts. Public debate was divided for a long time, and even though Hanja are slowly being phased out, it is a slow process. It's hard to tell for sure, but even in North Korea the process seems incomplete.
Maybe when you engage is random speculation you should at least try to check your facts?

The stock price was 45.08 when Musk made his offer for twitter and 51.70 when the twitter board accepted it.
Most people don't realize how dangerous automobiles really are. Accidents are one of the leading causes of death in the US until people get to be 45+ and cancer starts overtaking it. Even in 2020-2021 CDC data that probably has less people driving than usual: https://wisqars.cdc.gov/data/lcd/home. One thing I liked about living in a city was being able to walk to work. I'm reluctant to work anywhere I have to commute because the last few years have likely significantly reduced my chance of accidental death purely due to remote work.

In some ranges it's the leading cause, although overdose deaths sometimes win out. It's kind of absurd that this isn't brought up in articles about remote work. Newspapers run articles about gun violence every day despite it being wwaaaayyyy less likely than dying in an automobile accident, but the far greater danger of commuting is almost never discussed.
I disagree, at least on the Android side of things (Apple has long been hostile to PWAs). Installing a PWA from a website is trivially easy on Android, it's just that most users really have separated in their minds (not surprising due to history) that apps come from app stores, and the browser is used for websites.

Also, Google has made in much easier in recent years to submit plain PWAs to the Play Store: https://youtu.be/ddbHp8tGBwQ
Right, but in this case, changing the target API is what broke the app. Since Google won't allow you to release an update with an old target API, you can't just revert the change and increase the build number.
We need regulation to end this and have these devices unlocked so they can be used in third world countries.
I assure you that losing 1% of the CPUs on a production line is a lot less of a disaster than losing 100% of the TVs. In one case, you have something you can do to improve yield, and in the other case you have a complete waste.
Perhaps. I meant it more in the context of the Google Play Store policies as a whole, and they are voluminous, and not just this specific case.
That's one helluva customer acquisition model.
I use the eight dollar extension [1]. Basically it replaces the blue verified tick with a dollar sign for paid accounts. I started using it when there was a still a mix of old verified and new paid accounts, both of which were given the same verified sign by twitter, but I kept it even after because it feels more truthful to reality, as it just informs that one has paid to twitter. I think this should be the default.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/eightdollars/
they have atleast ensured a great many people are dealing with regularly patching crap, and taking care of fallout, from what is arguably one of the most insecure piles of garbage EVER WRITTEN
The Experts (1994)
> Look up the red cross or any other large organisation

American Red Cross - 90% of funds spent on program; 3% on admin/staff

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/530196605

Feeding America - 98% of funds spent on program; 0.3% on admin/staff

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/363673599

United Way Worldwide - 95% of funds spent on program; 2.6% on admin/staff

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/131635294

St. Jude Hospital - 95% of funds spent on program; 3.9% on admin/staff

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/951643325

Charities an both be effective and useful while also paying executive staff handsomely, these are not mutually exclusive. There's no rule that says non-profit/not-for-profit employees have to live as chaste or castigated monks.
https://archive.is/LEaai
Yes, Musk understood (perhaps too late) that he has Teslas to make and sell, and China is the second largest market for them, and CCP would be aware if he owns Twitter. Now he is between rock and hard place because his financial interests don't play well with his public image as "pro free speech". So maybe killing Twitter is even not too bad a deal.

Plus his idea of X as "everything app" means Twitter will not exist as such anyway, ie. at best it'll be killed by quickly transforming into something else. The rumors that it will require ID verification seems to support it. Instead of a single common space it will be balkanized between nations so that he can satisfy everyone by showing different content (ie. if you verify as Chinese you will see only pro-CCP propaganda, same with Arab countries etc).
I didn't go to deep, but I don't immediately see how you add business logic and custom validation.

Not like this varchar can only be these values, but like if this field is X, then field Y can only by these values, and field Z is now required.

Or, if this date has changed, then it must be a week or more in the future.
Good ol' Daily Mail, always living down to my expectations:

> 'Exposure can be significantly reduced if a mask is opened and left to sit for at least 30 min,' the researchers wrote.

> This suggests that the packaging of these masks could play a role in the amount of chemicals they have.

Okay, so maybe it's not the masks?

> However, the study did not measure the effect of people actually wearing the masks.

Okay, so might not be the masks and we don't know if it'd even affect anyone?

> The team acknowledged that the sample size was small and that they did not test several other popular disposable masks like KN95s.

Oh ffs.

Meanwhile they made sure to stir in lots of "masks don't work and are bad, but, umm, okay some people don't agree, but no really they're bad" language for their target audience.

Flag it.
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According to W3techs, WordPress CMS usage & market share have stagnated lately (starting in 2022) and actually began to decline for the first time.

This is a serious milestone, ending their sustained 10% growth streak that they have been riding for years. Inside the company, this must have raised red alarms and made them start looking for new plans.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_ma...
Your optimizing compiler today will actually optimize. LLVM was recently ported to the 6502 (yes, really) [1]. An example:

void outchar (char c) {
c = c | 0x80;
asm volatile ("jsr $fbfd\n" : : "a" (c): "a");
}

void outstr (char* str) {
while (*str != 0)
outchar(*str++);
}

void main () {
outstr("Hello, world!\n");
}

That is compiled to this:

lda #$c8 ; ASCII H | 0x80
jsr $fbfd
lda #$e5 ; ASCII e | 0x80
jsr $fbfd
...

Unrolled loop, over a function applied to a constant string at compile time. An assembler programmer couldn't do better. It is the fastest way to output that string so long as you rely on the ROM routine at $fbfd. (Apple II, for the curious.) Such an optimizing transform is unremarkable today. But stuff like that was cutting edge in the 90s.

[1] https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Welcome
So, Khan Academy is experimenting with providing every student with (what they call) a "personal tutor".

Examples given are: in coding and math, identifying potential mistakes in partial solutions, and suggesting how the student might get unstuck; in literature, an AI impersonates characters in a novel so the student can ask them questions (e.g. "Mr. Gatsby, why do you keep staring at that green light?"); in writing, the AI writes with the student, rather than for students.

The flip side is teachers saving time on lesson planning, grading, etc, all the work that's adjacent to actually teaching.

A lot of this is a feature preview for Khan Academy, and a big part of it is just the ReACT pattern[1] (have people settled on this name?).

To me, even all of the above is just an efficiency increase, which means workloads will increase to fill the available time, and we might see student to teacher ratios in the order of tens of thousands to one. How much of a future teacher's career will be about maintaining their AI systems? How much of learning will be like that too?

[1] https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/python-react-pattern
DeepEval CLI
You can share the business logic between platforms but the UI is what will be platform specific. That’s how I have been doing it for years. Works really well. But I never liked apps that looked like an Android app on iOS or the other way around.
Can you organize the data structures into classes or dataclasses?
Out of interest, what sort of company/industry do you work in where you're able to work on this kind of thing?
Protip: that field takes decimals too. We always go for 99.99999999% so no users get left out accidentally. But it allows you to cancel a rollout like you say
> Fastest loading possible, Secure, Simple and affordable hosting, and so on.

You know that WordPress is actually fast, right? A vanilla install on a crappy $2 a month server will return a response in a few ms.

The problem with WordPress are the plugins and the lack of vetting/rules/oversight. And when they do apply their rules, they apply them in ridiculous ways -- for example, I submitted a plugin that was a wrapper around an open source project, with the project's permission, and was denied because I wasn't the author of the project and the author of the project had no desire to interact with shenanigans like that.

These plugins can do virtually anything and do really "bad" (as in performance and security) things.

If you are doing everything in-house and at least reading/contributing to the plugin code before accepting an external plugin, you can host very performant websites.

I'd even venture to suspect that all these plugins is an indication that people want more functionality than can ever be achieved in a competitor ... but to be clear, there are some pretty solid competitors. These competitors are entirely closed-source, so, choose your poison I guess.

> Why don’t we bring the web back to that?

I know people who host an entire school (very niche skill) online. Their entire thing is built on WordPress. I know of quite a few sites actually running their entire user-facing stack on WordPress (usually with a backend API running Go/C# or something). I even know of some very popular money-management apps where the entire app is just running in WordPress.

The internet isn't just static pages, that ship sailed 3+ decades ago.
The forecast usually only covers waking hours. Morning and late afternoon
A New Ongoing Project: The Satomi/Sammy/Three Star Arrangeball
Dash to Dock. Freon. GTK Title Bar. Netspeed.
> I built some software that ran on a cellphone used by LEO (law enforcement officers) to determine if the person they are quizzing is inebriated or impaired through controlled substances by examining the person's eyes and having them focus on images displayed on the phone screen.

Is this used in the field, and what level of testing and validation was required?

This is coming from a skeptical POV, but I’m genuinely curious to hear about the process. Historically, of course, law enforcement technology has a history of being anything but evidence based. It’s good that there’s finally progress away from pseudoscience like fiber analysis and smoke patterns.

But from your experience is there anything to stop LEOs from adopting new tools and technologies without adequate evaluation and standards, aside from the courts, which have such a poor track record in this space?
Never once did I tell anyone else that’s what they should do, and I clearly communicated that I’m not a recovering alcoholic. You’re the one ascribing assumptions and intentions that clearly aren’t there.
FreeBSD is missing! I know, I could send a PR.
I’d say their price gouging for RAM/Storage is even more egregious since lightning was way better than micro-USB back in the day. But yeah (then again you seem to be blaming Apple both for adopting USB-C and not adopting it at the same time?)
You’re re-stating points from the article, what mea culpa would she need to make?

FTA:

> But judging from the attempt recently made with one of these entities—“Write a Margaret Atwood science-fiction short story about a dystopian future”—anything more complex and convincing is as yet beyond it. The result, quite frankly, was pedestrian in the extreme, and if I actually wrote like that, I would defenestrate myself immediately. The program, so far, does not understand figurative language, let alone irony and allusion, and its flat-footed prose was the opposite of effective storytelling. But who knows what the machines might yet achieve? you may say. I’ll wait and see. Maybe they’ll at least turn out a mediocre murder mystery or two.
> Also, the public transit network is already there and works. Why not invest in that instead while also encouraging active Mobility by walking or cycling instead of more cars?

I have no idea where the nearest bus stop to my house is but I’m guessing it is over a half mile away. According to my Apple Watch it is supposed to be 110 degrees outside today. Does that help clarify why people might want door to door service if they were getting a ride whether public transportation or taxi?
Optimistic to believe the internet, computers, or electric power will still exist in 100 years