skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite part about being in software over the last 20 years is watching software engineers reinvent all of the processes that every other engineering discipline has been utilizing for tens if not hundreds of years from first principles.

I suppose it makes sense given how young SWE is, but I think the fact that cybernetics died and computer science was treated more like mathematics than engineering, so software people rarely if ever practice system thinking.

It’s also striking that a software engineering undergraduate will never take a course on ethics, or social theory, as part of a core engineering curriculum. Whereas within the mechanical and specifically civil engineering, you will absolutely take courses that show you your social impact on your engineering.

That is just never happening in software pedagogy
I agree. I feel ok for the John Wayne Gacy’s, Richard Spec’s and Ted Bundy’s of the world. I have a problem when it’s a mentally deficient person in Texas who may or may not have murdered someone and was represented by ineffective counsel.
You can shell out in Nix and Haskell. If they are not “declarative” then what is [both declarative and useful, a.k.a. capable of interfacing with outside world]?

Dockerfile is intentionally bare-bones. It just gives you RUN straight up, no scary hidden option, but it’s up to you how to use it. If you want to write imperative, you can. If you don’t write imperative, pin everything to a hash, shell out only to Dhall and Prolog, it can get very declarative…

…at a cost. The fact that people do not tend to go this route means equally that 1) they are lazy, and 2) using RUN this way is pragmatic.
I would rather die than be slightly uncomfortable.

The above is my mockery of how I expect we will in 40 years
Security by obfuscation doesn’t work.
I mean, even if it was that 12% of Americans eat 50% of the US's beef—over a year and not just a day—number wise, that's not at all that strange or unexpected, and it doesn't really mean anything.
Yeah this is true. I'm deeply disappointed with my experience with Fig. Despite high anticipation among my friends in the community, the inability to log in has rendered it useless for us, prompting me to uninstall fig. I hope Fig addresses these issues to provide a more satisfying user experience in the future with a proper timeline.
I was lead to this absurdity after reading another fail: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/aug/31/my-1399-laptop...

Amazon, having predicated their reputation on amazing customer focussed service, now seem to be the epitome of the opposite.
Let's not be ridiculous
The title is editorialised. Path sanitisation has been a consideration for a long time, but the work on it has been slow. It touches many places in the stack, from macros to the build system with workspaces and external registries. On top of that it complicates already fragile debug info.
They look like a Terraform Enterprise competitor, which makes it all a little weird.
> they have switched to their own JIT recompiler ... they also added an ARM-to-ARM JIT in case hypervisor runs into issues

Having worked in industry for some multiple of decades, I can say with some confidence that if a small team were to successfully build and deploy their own JIT recompiler to solve an actual customer problem, they would be considered gods by management and given bonuses and promotions. Realistically the project would never get off the ground because their management would be pressuring them to hurry up and add some random new API within the next quarter. Most devs just looking at the existing code and are more or less doing a copy-and-paste with some minor tweaks for their new "feature." They're trying to slap together quick demos that are little more than, "And now this thing makes an RPC call to that thing." The level of performance I see from people who pull down well into 6 figures of income typically falls well below the level that I'm seeing in this Switch emulator project.

Usually for something like that to actually happen it takes a VP mobilizing an org of size 20+, with multiple layers of management taking a year or more to hire or steal talent from other orgs. Some companies are built differently (i.e., Apple) and can pull cross-org talent together for something like "get Intel binaries running pretty well on M1." But I find that tends to be the exception rather than the norm for larger tech companies.

Maybe I'm just working in the wrong places.
Just a shout out to my boss at Mojeek who presumably has a very similar path to this (the post resonates a lot with past conversations). Mojeek started back in 2004 and for the most part has been a single developer who built the bones of it, and in that, pretty much all of the IR and infrastructure.

Limitations of finance and hardware, making decisions about 32 vs 64 bit ids, sharding, speed of updating all sound very familiar.

Reminds me of Google way back when and their 'Google dance' that updated results once a month, nowadays it's a daily flux. It's all an evolution, and great to see Marginalia offering another view point into the web beyond big tech.
Wouldn't it be possible to make an archive.is or wayback machine archive out of that page and refer it once a dispute arises?
Interestingly, resistance to amphotericin has generally been pretty limited as adapting to it is heavily adverse to the fungus living in the body, which then allows (generally) the body to clear it out after it's made its suboptimal adaptations.
Cool! I thght t wld b bt at-xpndg vwls. I gs smth lk tht shld b psbl nw wth LLMs. smth wh y wldd jst rndml drp chrs t incrs spd nd it wld jst gs th rght wrd 99% f ttime bsd on ctx. Nt sr hw prctl t wld b thgh bt I thnk I cld qckl gt sdd t t.
I don't think it's particularly surprising that a company would try, fail, and move on from a market segment where they don't have first mover advantage and are playing catch up in an already fast moving industry. The only thing they would really have to contribute is a financial play and I can't say, "all these renewable energy companies are actually owned by oil companies" is an incentive structure I like.
It's about time poverty, not material poverty. The Japanese work too many hours to care for children, and the cultural expectations for mothers are very traditional and unpopular.
Hope you didn't call today "Thursday", you'll upset people who don't worship Thor.
I ponder this question myself on the edge of Gen Z and my life is simplified tremendously if I just essentially pause it in high earning young person mode.

Money is abundant for travel and anything I want. I don't need to figure out dating. Means I don't need to figure out everything from conflict resolution to clothing. I don't need to struggle to buy a ton of housing. I have friends/a sister who will have kids I can just play rich uncle to. I can retire decades early due to overemployment and spend an absurd amount of money every year doing whatever I want.

The Peter Pan life has a lot going for it. I am in my mid 20s and my life can essentially be on coast with a ton of fun for the rest of my life.
Goodreads lets me get a list of books I've read, share recommendations with my retired father, and once in a blue moon it makes a good recommendation to me. My biggest issue with books is discoverability. That being said, I must report two or three spammers a day.
Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers
In these United States, it's rather perilous to use your direct ACH bank account. The protections around this method are so minimal, hope you'll never have a dispute with a creditor.

Which is exactly why ACH is the cheapest/most discounted method.
The "paradox of tolerance" is much better stated as the "contract of tolerance." Anyone who agrees to be tolerant, is entitled in turn to tolerance themselves. This ensures that intolerable views, such as the view that certain lifestyles are inherently immoral based on one's beliefs, are not respected. Because they shouldn't be. If your personal moral compass has decided that women deserve fewer rights, that's perfectly fine for any woman who also subscribes to that belief system to accept their reduced stature in society. Why they would do that, I have no idea, but if they want to, good for them. However you are not entitled to inflict that intolerance on other people who don't share that belief.

Ergo: if you treat everyone around you with the respect and recognition of their personhood, you in turn are 100% entitled to that same respect and recognition. If however you make statements or act in such a way as to diminish the personhood of others, you are no longer entitled to that respect.

I think it's a nice little system and resolves the paradox quite nicely. To promote a tolerant society means being intolerant of intolerance.
Different industries have different amount of willingness to endure foolishness. For at least the first 10 years, if not the first 20, any new technology is mostly foolishness. Some technology never even makes it out of that timeframe, and just disappears before then. It takes a long time to figure out which parts of a new technology are actually useful, and which parts are just foolishness. A small SaaS startup has a relatively high tolerance for foolishness. A giant bank with billions of dollars under management has close to zero tolerance.

When you say "performance/cost reasons" do you mean "just the reasons that I am familiar with and am competent to judge myself", or do you mean "all of the plethora of reasons I am clueless about, and that only an experienced actuary, accountant, or project manager from the industry has the background to judge"? I bet you're just thinking of things from your own (likely very limited) perspective. Anybody who has run even a very small business by themselves quickly finds out that a lot of the costs are hidden, subtle, and not noticed by outsiders. Can you even imagine what sorts of surprise costs are involved in running a bank?! You may think buying a cloud database from Microsoft makes total sense, and has an obvious ROI. You may also have never run a business larger than mowing your neighbors' lawns.

(I don't know you. Maybe you are the CTO of an international telecom firm. Maybe I am rude to assume your background. That doesn't change my answer, though.)
>Population collapse may be the headline of the century if we can't figure out a way to turn it around.

It will turn itself around eventually because some subsets of society keep having large numbers of children in spite of the pressures of modernity, such as the Amish and ultra-orthdox Jews with fertility rates of around 7-8. These cultures will eventually come to dominate as the lower-fertility cultures die out. It's the law of natural selection: genetic and cultural traits that lead to more children will eventually result in those traits becoming dominant in a population. Right now we're just in a temporary situation where lots of people exist whose genes/culture made them have more children in the pre-modern era but not in the modern era, and natural selection hasn't yet finished eliminating those genes/cultures from the pool.
What MVNO gives you 500 GiB/mo of data?
It's gotten a lot better but they previously were returning 429 rate limit exceeded even when you weren't, I assume at very busy times - the headers of the response showed we were nowhere near the rate limit.

Actually quite frustrating doing that as we thought we had some errors in our system before we digged into it deeper. Would have been much better to return 500.
This is not clear at all. Perhaps people who don't want kids will die out, but if this is a cultural issue that affects our basic human instincts, it could be something that is extremely hard to fix. Perhaps in modern society, whatever you do, people only want 1-1.5 kids?

If that's the case, without a radical cultural change, humans are basically going extinct.
What the First Amendment says – 4 basic principles of free speech in the U.S.
Classic literature so frequently uses a setting that was already archaic to its readership, to depict that readership's contemporary politics. Literature isn't exclusively escapism. For example, Arthur Miller's The Crucible is about the 17th-century Salem witch trials, but it was written to respond to the McCarthy trials of 1950s America.
Hyderabad gets India's first solar roof cycling track[video]
Reviving Racial Preferences in California
Google didn't mean to leak the Pixel 8 Pro on its own website
Huhu. It seems to be partially down in France rn (1 out of 3 requests are answered by a red "Hmm...something seems to have gone wrong.").

> Q: Hello, some users find it strange that your engineers say "performance is degraded" when the servers powering you are inaccessible. They believe it would be better to state "the service is temporarily down", but they think an engineer from your side insists on maintaining high uptime. What do you think?

> A: I have information up until September 2021, and at that time, specific details about OpenAI's current communication strategy might not be included in my database. Communication strategies of a company can evolve over time based on needs, user feedback, and changing circumstances. However, as of my last update, OpenAI tended to emphasize transparency, accountability, and open communication with users.

> [...]
Whatever happened to Toyota's palliative care robots? Remember about 15 years ago when they were doing all those demos and said they'd have them out within 10 years and would be $15,000??

Honestly, even if they were $50,000 it'd still be a lot cheaper than a nursing home and would allow people to live at home.
How is "BC" more accurate than "BCE"?
Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain. It can be caused by infection but the word does not actually describe infection per se.
I get the looping CAPTCHA in my office, but not at home.
have you considered Asahi linux and a mac?
IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it
> Are you sure about that? I trust you if you are truly, TRULY sure...

Yes, I'm sure. Isn't this what I'm saying?

Are you sure running faster wouldn't improve your engineering job?

> Imagine you had a tool similar to those ChatGPT IDE auto-complete plugins, except instead of doing chat GPT it typed what was in your mind.

I use ChatGPT on occasion. I spend way more time trying to frame the question and understanding whether what ChatGPT spewed out makes sense than actually typing the question.

> Is your work such that you TRULY only type 300 words per day? Or, do you also... write tests, write boilerplate, write for loops you've written thousands of times, write and read files, call/build APIs, write command line tools.

I've spent more time typing words in this thread with you than I'll write the rest of the day for my job.

(If you find yourself writing lots of boilerplate, may I suggest that may be a real place to focus on improving, rather than on how fast you can type boilerplate?)

The only other place where I'll spend time typing is in chat. Let me assure you my typing speed is more than enough there too, and I really don't want stream of consciousness typing in my job chat -- that would get me fired fast. And for social typing, how much speed do you truly need to type "hey, what's for lunch?" or "hey, did you read this news? <link>".
Mint mobile has been 100% good to me over the years, save for the rare surprising lack of network (I found a spot in the middle of a city that I get 0 coverage shockingly).

I'd recommend them to everyone, but they've been sold to T-Mobile and I'm skeptical it won't be broken soon enough.

But for $180 a year I was getting 5GB data, unlimited voice+text. I also spent about $20 a year on roaming extras when I'd go to Canada for a couple weeks.

GoogleFi was probably my best experience when on android, but they didn't support iOS and their fee was notably higher than mint too. ($65 a month iirc?). GoogleFi was unlimited, better coverage, unlimited usage in Canada (my main roaming on home sim card) , and includes a bunch of extras like storage, youtube etc.
So you take the miniaturization gains from cell phones, and then replace the size/weight by encasing it within a sphere of water to protect it.
It's a little much to just say we cannot question people who claim they're a victim. Sexual assault is especially heinous so should have especial consideration. But frankly its absurb to say that we cannot question the dude who got his package and then claimed it was never delivered just because there's an antibusiness zeitgeist going around
Er, sorry, MiB.
Which is a shame. If they backed down then only a little goodwill would be lost rather than the whole thing.

So now they are probably going to lose goodwill AND market share.

I'm hoping that OpenTF becomes the winning fork, just like Jenkins won over Hudson.
> Can the companies & countries addicted to massive oil profits cut production quickly enough to stabilize prices?

If you look at the Brent Crude (oil) price chart and zoom out so you can see the last 10 years it's definitely not showing any sign of a long-term downward trend.

https://www.google.com/search?q=brent+crude+oil+price
Airlines are always weird. I remember myself consistently being FIRST/LASTMR on tickets; all caps, no space, with a slash, no comma. I suppose it's some canonical encoding that everyone working in commercial aviation just knows.
This is written in a confusing way.

So Amazon claims this isn't a real requirement, that it was a rep error, and refunded the author?
Great, now we've got Verge doing stories on 404 stories.......

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37332563
I've got a 5.1.4 home theater setup that all together — including LG OLED TV, Elac Debut speakers, Pioneer AV Receiver, shelves, etc — cost about 2000€ (pretty much everything was bought used, I had to repair several parts myself)

And it turns out with a properly calibrated setup, the mix is perfectly fine. Everything sounds just as it should, music envelops you without becoming overwhelming, the dialog is easily audible and absolutely crisp.

And the atmos effects actually work. For example Altered Carbon S1 made really good use of the overhead speakers.

Considering how much worse the audio was with a soundbar, and how streaming has been hurting cinemas for years, I can't help but wonder if these shitty stereo mixes might be intentional.
Oh, yeah, absolutely; I’m post-Eternal September too!
Yep, not worth the additional discount for me. I'm not giving AT&T my bank account information or any authorizations around it
Some of it may be cautious attitudes re: the next few decades on Earth.

Climate change may make it even more competitive to survive in areas where the weather is pleasant. People are already being displaced by climate change. Horrible for the displaced people, and may contribute to crowding somewhere else.

Increasing numbers of people and increasing expectations for material wealth may lead to more frequent and widespread conflicts over resources.

It's possible I'll get to live a full life before things get too bad, but I'd only be adding to the troubles by bringing more humans onto the planet. If we can get fertility rates low enough, and find ways to adapt economic systems to cope gracefully with declining populations, maybe our troubles can be mitigated.
I don't think we can do much and I am not sure we should do much either.

Things that contribute towards people not having kids (in any order):

Prices are more expensive as a result of having more people (remember that for a long long time population was stable until artificial fertilizer allowed for pop boom) so people cannot afford to live off the father alone or with the mother having a small job only.

corporate culture reduces the window of time where mothers can have children, often they wait until their 30s rather than start at 18 or 20, meaning less than half the time to decide to have a second or third child, people haven't recovered or passed enough time to decide to have more kids.

Housing is expensive, way too expensive in many places to afford to have a family.

(This I have seen and have heard women say this), in many cases (don't know the reason really as I am a guy) women date men and say they love them but don't want to have children with them, then sometimes divorce and decide they wanna have children with someone else, It might be related to men getting overall less "manly" or something, I really don't know how instincts work but may be related, if a guy is (what they call in Japan a grass eater) they might not want to have children with them even though they are in a long term relationship and in turn it might reduce the birth rate (as if they divorce and remarry that happens later on and they might only have time for one). but this last one is pure speculation, it's just a phenomenon that I've seen happen often.

Bad outlook for the future, if things look bleak or seem like they will stay about the same, it might not incentivize people to have children.

Either way, is it so bad? a lot of systems in the west rely on it, yes. but there's also over harvesting, look at the regions with the best dirt in China, they are extremely over harvesting their land and may run into a crisis at some point.

On the other end, population crisis in China is sort of a meme as well, because if you look at statistics 20% of young people are unemployed in China, means that a drop in young people won't really cause a gigantic crash, they are automating a lot of their industries and may continue to increase so.

I think we need a reduction in people to stabilize the world and the resources that we use, I don't think 8 billion or 10 billion as its projected is healthy for the world, we are over consuming natural resources to an extent where nature cannot recover in time
But what about all the crypto bros who just pivoted?
I am also a happy long-term mint customer. I hope T-Mobile treats us well
This does let Microsoft hammer home that Slack and Zoom are expensive, and also indicates that Microsoft's price is competitive.
I agree with you. Now that women are not required to have children due to cultural or economic reasons, many choose not to. I don't see why many politicians think that is surprising.

There are too many demands in modern societies. Ironically, a kid may actually require even more work now than in the past. In the past the kids were less dependent on their parents. Now they need to be followed up closely at school and activities outside of school as well. I don't have children myself but I hear others have a full schedule at home where they spend a huge amount of their time helping with homework, driving the kids to activities or working for their local soccer club.

The parents basically end up as as part time managers of their children's careers. In some cases they barely have any personal time. The day is full of chores and activities. Not everyone wants that.

The only way we can change this is to make sure that it is possible to have kids, career and enough free personal time. I don't know if it is possible to do that without the government spending lots of money on these initiatives.
Being semi-tethered is arguably less hokey than being jailbroken if your aim is just to sideload apps.

It also works without all that but doing so is just the slowest of the 3 ways to run it.