skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the first time I see a post here about how terrible Goodreads is. I, for my part have always found it doing exactly its job. I am not an avid reader - around one book a month - and I use it to manage my bookshelves, review the comments before acquiring a book, share my reading progress with some of my friends who also use it, which gives me motivation to start the next book every once in a while. I leave comments from time to time too, mostly for professional books, not fiction.

I don't understand what is missing? Old-school UI? Come on, this is not Twitter, you are not supposed to be hooked to it 24/7. I spend 10-15 minutes on this website once a month, I can live with old-school. Ratings not realistic? This is a joke compared to Amazon. There are authors on the website? All the better, I can connect with the author (actually sounds amazing to me!). Lack of content moderation, although I didn't encounter any serious issues myself, is a problem I agree with if this is the case.

Anyway, maybe the fact that there is no popular alternative speaks for itself. I know there are some alternatives but nothing as known as Goodreads as far as I can tell.
related but beef is one of main causes of climate change
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-45792942/c...
Global hydrocarbon consumption is down on a per capita basis. And that's despite the fact that renewable energy and electric vehicles had a negligible share. It's only the last year or two that renewable energy's share has become non-negligible. The EV transition is lagging the renewable energy transition, but it's happening too. EV's now have a non-negligible share of new vehicle sales, but since it takes ~20 years to turn over the global vehicle fleet, they still have a negligible share of the entire fleet. But that's changing, very slowly.
Not bad! What city is that?

In Berkeley, California the share of EVs on the road is only about 5% today.
Other things I've had to deal with: in Myanmar people usually don't have a concept of first and last name, just two (females) or three (males) words that form their "name" (as far as I can remember).

Also, often names in Sri Lanka look like this: Rajapaksha Mudiyanselage Siril Ariyaratna. Two family names and one or two given names. Regardless of the number of fields used, displaying long names like that needs some special considerations.
I'd say the SQLlite code is readable and almost pedagogical

https://sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/README.md
Don’t confuse consumption with production, they consumed closer to 60% nuclear electricity though this varied by year.

It’s telling when they recently shut 26 of 56 nuclear plants for weeks and still had enough electricity.
Shape Up: Stop running in circles and ship work that matters
You seem to be acting with a malicious intent here, trying to attribute the success of Indian immigrants to them exploiting others in India?

In your flagged comment, you mention "migrants are almost all Brahmin elite who amassed their riches thanks to the deeply exploitative Indian caste system". By your logic, the migrants path would've been a EB-5 investor visa.

Yet, if you look at most successful indian immigrants, they usually work their way up to top grad schools in the US, worked their way up in companies, or at some point depart the company to start their our company, and in almost all cases with American capital and investment.
I discover new books by looking at the websites of publishers of books I already like or by word of mouth. Goodreads seems like a place that doesn't make anyone's life better.
I spend a lot of time on Discord, write bots, etc. Maybe it’s just the communities I hang out in, but I’ve seldom seen a less tech-savvy user base.
The machines can force a loss, but they can't force a win. If you're unlucky you're unlucky and the machine will make it up by not forcing losses later with someone with more luck and skill. Statistics give enough opportunity to not need to rig every game, and they only need to achieve a ratio over a long run, usually millions of plays ('we' always ran to 3 million plays as our statistical target, but that was fruit machines, aka slots).
This won’t happen, that would not be a market equilibrium. What will happen is that the sun of fee and immigrant salary will match the non-immigrant salary.
This. This would save me days of time filtering mail.
I can't speak for at&t but tmobile prepaid does not get an autopay discount at all so they are technically not affected.
I'm not trying to fix it, just engaging in a dialog, and I said it "sounds like", because your first thought when reading about people using their tools effectively is that they're "obsessing" about it. A lot of people care greatly about efficiency (me), and having someone who can't actually type fast or seem to care about efficiency then tells you you're obsessing about it seems like the hallmark "I cant do X thing so I will criticize it instead"

Are you at least over 60 WPM? I think I said in another comment that I think 60 WPM is probably the lowest I can imagine not constantly breaking your focus while trying to hold ideas in your mind, especially if you do data engineering and youre going multiple layers deep.
Also on producthunt now if anyone uses that https://www.producthunt.com/products/mu
"Goodwill is incredibly hard to build up and very easy to destroy. This change tells developers that we do not support apps that are “finished” and never updated. It tells our users their apps they’re looking for may suddenly stop being available for them to install."

Correct on all counts. There is no goodwill. Tank is empty. May Google burn.
Passing coding interviews is a skill that's different from the skills you need to be successful at (most) programming jobs, but if you've got the skills to be good at most programming jobs, you can get good at passing coding interviews if you put the time in. So yeah, it's a somewhat arbitrary filter, but one that should be surmountable if you put the time and effort in to it.

From the interviewer side, I've definitely encountered candidates who don't seem to know how to write software, so yeah, you have to filter with _something_.

I'm not sure there are any great solutions that work for both sides of the table, but at least if you know how the game is played, you can optimize your performance for it.
How much of the corporate virtue signaling was in response to a jobseeker-oriented market? Now, with all the layoffs, employers have their pick of white collar workers.
You're right. I had already got bad vibes from the interview by this point and started acting up a bit.

I was initially really interested in the company and made it clear early on that I really liked what they were doing and how I thought I could add value, but they started shooting me down assuring me the role I was applying for wasn't that interesting and that I'd mostly be a code monkey (obviously not in those exact words).

By the time they started asking about my agile experience and what I thought of scum I figured I didn't have much to lose being honest with them. It would have been in neither of our interest for me to pretend I might have been a good fit.

But yeah, generally I'll try to be mostly positive while finding something minor to be constructively critical about. I think that tends to strike the right balance between showing you can think for yourself without coming across as the type of person who will cause problems. Sounds like you've noticed the same thing.
Workers stage Japan's first strike in decades over department store sale
I feel like the col is just an excuse for people that don't really want them anyway. Throughout history people have had children with very little material possessions. Talk to someone who went through the great depression about how you don't have enough money etc. to have kids.

I think we've just brainwashed ourselves into believing you need to be ultra wealthy to give kids a good childhood. If you literally cannot afford to put a roof over their heads or feed them that's one thing. If you can't get the latest iphone or go buy a new Tesla and maybe have to sacrifice your yearly vacation to The Hamptons... well then you're just making up excuses. Kids can be very very happy with very little and sometimes it's even good for them to not be raised in a household where they believe everything just comes free and easy because that results in a lot of entitlement.
Have you considered reading articles that you would enjoy?
That is the most sane way to consume YouTube content. I’m doing the same on reeder. I have all the channels I care about in a folder and that’s it. Only thing that bothers me is that the RSS feed has both videos and shorts mixed together and I really dislike shorts.
What I find extraordinary is that Microsoft paid $8 billion for Skype only to let that brand wither and die. (I still support a Skype for Business system so I know it's not gone but it's faded from most people's consciousness).

Then the pandemic happened and they allowed (or couldn't stop) Zoom from becoming synonymous with video calls during that period. Skype could (should?) have been the verb that everyone used.

And despite all this Teams (which isn't even particularly good) is still looking like it'll crush the competition in most enterprise environments.
I'd think that one thing praise books for is the ability to immerse yourself in other worlds, or to nurture a curious mind.

Here, the reviewer is praising the book for (seemingly) mapping some historical trial to present day politics, which he has some righteous feelings about (& doesn't indicate the book changed his mind about anything).

I guess it's a form of escape, but doesn't really tickle my curiosity all that much.
This is a thread about T1D. Your comment is not relevant.
What is the significance of each element being found?
discord is actually really good in a lot of stuff

just not at looking appealing to companies

I mean they have:

- good chat

- new okayish forum feature

- pretty good video calls (better then Teams AFIK)

- many of the same misc features

- good probably better moderation features then slack

- a nice balance between convenience and security wrt. their login

- ways to ad good code highlighting for a lot of programming languages

- somewhat okayish (AFIK better then modern slack) accessibility features

it's just that all of this features are tweaked with small to mid sized hobby communities in mind instead of companies
More like StackOverflow I suppose.
As a language model I can't help you with that.
When I discovered Goodreads, I wasn’t a proponent of plain text yet. And it was great for discovering books and authors. I barely used the social aspect, treating it as a database of books instead.
I think the bottom up approach to combat climate change is doomed to fail. We need to start top down. The most powerful institutions and people need to lower their living standards and resource extraction. Start with eliminating private jets for instance.
Programming can also be a creative hobby like painting or writing.
Cool to see some Perl in a new repo. The thing I find most appealing about Perl is their backticks for going out to the shell. I know Ruby supports it too. I understand that this can be a security issue but I find the quick shelling out so powerful for a script that also needs to do some text processing or real programming logic that the shell just isn't great for.
Hah, everyone was towards that direction even before Microsoft did Game Pass. Wall St wants fiefdoms, every company is forced to turn everything into a subscription model.

Sony didn't help as they are notoriously buying exclusivity with every single game they could (which has worked in their favor)
The issue is that the spread of actual cost of requests is usually extreme and opaque, and system load/capacity information is often very different between nodes.

And there is no standard way I’m aware of to usefully report back or communicate this data to the LB.

So what else are you going to do?
> You've lost me here.

That is disappointing.
Librarything has more features, better recommendations, better admins, and a better community overall. It's good for books. I have no idea why you'd use Goodreads at this point.

Edit: I just checked, and Librarything has a scavenger hunt going on right now to celebrate their anniversary. The founders wrote the clues themselves. Each clue refers to a specific page on the site, and if you go to that page you get a point. They do this a few times a year. How adorable is that? The Goodreads equivalent would probably be an ad for a Kindle.
I went down the rabbithole trying to prototype something like this.

Bluetooth Keyboard -> ESP32 as a keyboard host -> Send keystrokes to USB & File

If you have cash there is a USB/PS2 keyboard logger that will capture data to disk.
It's still just one installation though. Like, in All Programs, there isn't the old Office Teams and the new Office Teams.
Counterpoint: the best engineers I've worked with had beat up, old crappy laptops with low res screens.

I'm thinking of 2-3 guys I really admire, and they had this in common: when asked "but don't you need the latest Mac with a retina screen!?" they looked puzzled. Like, the common answer was, give or take: "yeah, I guess, if there's one to spare, but don't other people need it more? I do most of my thinking away from the screen anyway, and I run my stuff on a server".

The fetishization of hardware is yet another thing that puzzles me. Yeah, better hardware makes our lives easier and nobody will deny that, but (barring some obvious stuff like "this will take 1 hour to run vs 1 week") does it really impact how effective you are at completing tasks in your job? To some degree it does, but programmers tend to overemphasize it because it's easier to obsess about getting better hardware than about solving harder problems ;)
Low-value answer. I'm in my 50s, I've lost track of how many times I've moved and culled books. (About to do that again, cull anyway...) There's also ebooks, library books, etc.

After, oh, ten years, I'm likely to forget whether I even read a book or not. And unlikely to have a physical copy unless I really liked it. So "bookshelf" is a pretty flip and un-useful answer.
This, we recently had to break up our "name" field into first/last name because we work with banks that require first/last name as separate fields. When we reference an account it has to match their records exactly.
Ask HN: Is RESTful style URL against privacy?
I have a question around privacy, want to see your guys thoughts, so the industry has been pushing for RESTful style of URL for maybe a decade now, but isn’t RESTful a bit against privacy? I mean if I use a DNS I cannot trust, then they can simply record every url I visit and based on the url they can figure out a lot about me? A very intuitive example would be say if I click by accident on some NSFW subreddit's link, then the DNS provider can detect that and think I am browsing that on purpose. In that case isn't an obfused URL better?
We also saw that with image synthesis. As you can imagine, if you scrap the internet for content, any model will tend to generate "controversial" images itself.

An example is stable diffusion. Of course there is interest in making it commercially viable or just SFW in general. The 2.0 model version was lobotomized to not create anything "bad". As a result it was pretty useless. There was a successor version 2.1 that did it to a lesser degree, but the old 1.5 model was still more flexible. Many user prefer it even if the training data for 2.0+ had higher resolution images. There are new models were we have to see. But I think the overall tendency to lobotomize AI is pretty negative for its overall development. There should always be an option for the educated user.

Sadly, unlike with LLM, it is harder to circumvent these restriction by changing your input.
https://archive.ph/Uuy3z
This is a weird idea, what someone "deserves" is a concept entirely made up in your head. We can talk about hard data, statistics about various punishments and their effects on factors such as crime deterrence, but there's simply no reasonable discussion to be had about what someone "deserves". I could tell you that I don't believe anyone deserves to be killed, regardless of their actions, and that is one hundred percent true to my internal morality, and that I think it's immoral to kill people to sate your violent sense of justice, but that doesn't advance this discussion in any way either.
My source code root folder name
All of these sites are basically "aggregators" for individual content that can be submitted by official sources or users.

RSS.

Instead of bespoke walled gardens that require some centralized control and teams, why not a standard to aggregate content and just put it in place on an html site.
I want invalid e-mails to be bounced back, period (if you’ll pardon the pun).
In my case, their MDM software of choice doesn't run on Linux.
Taiwanese take more pride in Tatung than they do in TSMC.
There is another consideration:

1. You have an aggressive (i.e. non-treatable) cancer, maybe you feel slightly off, but you go on with your life, until you finally got worse and die. Or you performed screening, focus on treatment, bankrupt your family and ... die anyway,

2. You have a slow growing cancer (e.g. prostate), live your life and die of some other causes. Or you performed screening, got surgery, got tons of problems and die of myocardial infarction (yes, that's one of complications after prostate surgery).

If you read the original JAMA publication you would notice that there is a research on quality of life metric. That metric for breast cancer is higher among non-screened women.
The US immigration system for skilled labor is fundamentally broken.

We give out student visas openly, incentivizing universities to bring on large numbers of international students at full rate vs. discounted local students. We then do not provide immigration visas to these same students, leading to them being deported some years into the professional workforce.

This is a recipe to create a skilled labor shortage.
Are there commercial FOSS projects that don't have CLAs?
I made something sorta like that specific to recipe videos. Basically converts recipe into an idiomatic format (inlines ingredients, detects and renders timers) and links each step in the recipe to its timestamp in the video for easy indexing while you're busy in the kitchen. (I spent too much time trying to scrub to that one spot where "how it's supposed to look" is shown while busy making it look that way)

See example: https://rexipie.com/watch?v=JiJXdoTjw8M

Just s/youtube/rexipie/ in any recipe video URL.

(full disclosure the step/transcript linking is paid-only as it requires a GPT-4 call, everything else is available to demo on free tier)
Economically this is a problem so it’s not like there are physical limits, it’s a relatively easy problem to solve comparing to hard resource issues like lack of energy/supply of food/wars/pollution
No, it’s not a false analogy. Go look at an old office building and consider whether people really are “in eyesight line” - assuredly they are not.

The unreliable messaging links (internal mail) mean that resilience against missed messages and guards against not making progress must be built into the business process instead of an infrastructure layer.
The main thing I struggle to downsize or make sustainable is my work. As a programmer, I depend on an immense infrastructure of earth-harming systems to get my equipment (both in my possession or leased in the cloud). My employers use a lot of energy. In the scheme of things we aren’t the worst polluters, but it’s undeniably bad.

I’ve dramatically reduced my personal energy usage, I don’t eat animal products, my family has found ways to generate remarkably little garbage, and other “nice” things, but it’s pretty much meaningless. It’s all theatre compared to the damage we do with our car, jobs, community and provincial infrastructure we depend on, etc.

I feel like I’m willing to change my life, and I have already I guess. I’m just not willing to give up my livelihood when it means so little in the bigger picture. I’m no different from someone working on an oil rig or forestry or whatever. What I do looks nicer, but my rationale is no different.
Sorry, I should have added a link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_architecture

And the reason why it doesn't generalize: it is typically implemented in special purpose hardware.
Google for sure. Zoho may be a distant.
It’s the left and the right aggressively pushing for censorship these days. Both sides. It used to be a right wing stereotype but I think it’s more a left wing thing now. Maybe it’s just whoever is on the back foot are the ones who suddenly worry about their free speech while whoever is kn charge starts trying to silence everybody who disagrees with them
“Which Linux distro should I start with?”
For the most part, we get censorship because the majority wants censorship. (Or, at least, thinks they want censorship because they haven't thought all the way through what that actually is going to mean). The only reason we have anything resembling free speech in the United States is because the courts are stuck with the relatively unpopular first amendment - they're going to continue to ignore it as best they can and with a few trivial exceptions, not get much resistence.
I didn’t realize Cubesats could go that far. That’s really great.
A Docker image is basically the cached result of a lucky, nondeterministic imperative build success from a Dockerfile.

In comparison, a Nix file is actually declarative ("I want my result system to have this" as opposed to "Do this to get me towards my result system"), and is actually reproducible.

But notice the sizes of both a Docker image (many megabytes) and a Nix file (a couple of K)...
Co-founder Armon is still the CTO. Maybe his influence isn’t as great any more, or maybe even he went along with this terrible idea…
Have you looked into writing your own? It's actually quite easy
Linux User Experience versus Commercial Operating Systems
The "no free lunch" fallacy is pervasive, but it's quote obviously false. Lots and lots of things are free.

Things normally don't exist in an optimum state where you must necessarily lose one thing to gain another.
Most soundbars, I think, allow you to control this. My Sonos does, at least, and I absolutely employ that feature!
It doesn't matter if you agree, it only matters if there are some decision makers that agree, and I know for a fact that there are. So the damage has already happened.
Thinking about this analogy further, where captive restaurants do exist their prices probably meet the definition of enshittified. Cruise ships, movie theaters, stadiums, concerts, etc.
My theory is that there's (in USA) a pervasive emotional connection to driver seat height that's driven/exacerbated by the arms race to build larger and taller vehicles. Everyone wants their family to be in the safest vehicle possible, and higher driver seat height is a tactile, intuitive way to feel like you're in a larger and ostensibly safer vehicle, than other cars on the road with lower driver seat height.

Around where I am, the Kia Telluride is much more popular than the Carnival, which I think is telling.
Can it? I mean they got an enterprise product out...
An array can be declarative even if it has order. Think of the ordered list of statements in a Dockerfile as syntax sugar for a linked list of (previousLayerPointer, nextLayerDeclaration) tuples. I expanded on this in another comment.
I agree, but perhaps they should've included in the Artemis budget a small item for comms investment/modernization. Or even better spread out the DSN cost in all missions (JWST, Orion...) and also ask partners like ESA and JAXA to help cover the costs.
How do you keep docker compose and leave the rest? Unless you’re talking about Docker alternatives.
What Stephen King –and nearly everyone else– gets wrong abt AI and the Luddites
I wonder if ChatGPT is overloaded due to the influx of students returning to school.