skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recently searching around for a good enterprise search engine and wanted something OSS. I found Apache Lucene and so far I really like it. It's got documentation, a clear release schedule, and I know lots of other people use it. I was happy to hear that it's Apache because it probably means it won't die because one maintainer goes away. Maybe it's silly, but if I find a project is Apache it gives me a good feeling.

Of course some of their projects die. That's OSS. But that's not something you can solve for. Even paid software goes away after awhile.
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It's the same demographic that builds an abandonware single user text editor as a hobby that takes the 400th identical photo of a new england lighthouse.

As a middle aged white guy myself (who codes and makes visual art) I am constantly reminding myself of the context in which my creations exist and reminding myself to actually be creative when doing so.

The millionth photo of something out of the Uffizi with an expensive camera and lens are not things I tend to publish. They're vacation photos, not art.
India puts massive tariffs on phones and other electronics unless you manufacture it there
they did make the sons of witches episode.

they were larping as witches.
AutoGen: Enabling next-generation large language model applications
The Fall of Coding is programming dead in 2023? [video]
As someone who has used a larger number of psychedelics, MDMA, ayahuasca and so on - yes, alcohol at 16 for a few years was absolutely life changing for many of the same reasons: increased sociability and being able to talk to people uninhibitely about many things. I didn't overdo it and haven't drunken alcohol in years.
Thanks for the link. It is not clear to me if the resource is geared towards cell phone batteries or if it also applies to EV batteries, but I wouldn't be surprised if the trends apply to larger batteries as well.

Having said that, this resource does not seem to support the magnitude of the numbers in LeifCarrotson's comment that I was replying to. First, I did not see a relationship between voltage and Depth of Discharge (seems unlikely to be linear, especially given table 4), which is what the page seems to mostly talk about. Second, comparing 4.2V to 4.0V in table 4 suggests a 4x difference in the number of cycles, not a ~10x difference. Figure 6 also seems relevant and suggests maybe a 2x difference.
Dart is honestly so easy to pick up, seen it cop some flack on here but its simplicity is a virtue, have onboarded people with zero experience and they are perfectly productive within a week. There's not many languages like that.
Whatever these may be! Vote for a party that doesn't sufficiently support protecting children? Grounds to take away your right to vote, we must protect the children. Have a compatible kidney and refuse to donate it? Grounds to forcibly seize your kidney, the children are more important than your bodily autonomy. These people are astonishing.
That is almost certainly a retcon - their FAQ used to say otherwise, back in the late 1990s:

> Why the name "Apache"?

> A cute name which stuck. Apache is "A PAtCHy server". It was based on some existing code and a series of "patch files".

https://web.archive.org/web/19970106233141/http://www.apache...
https://keeweb.info/
UBI is a bandaid on top of capitalism. It is saying "we have a system where people die if they don't have money, so we'll give people money." It's not a real fix. A real fix would be replacing the system with one where people don't need money in order to not die.

We're going to keep automating more and more things. I think that much is inevitable. Eventually, we may get to a point where very few jobs are necessary for society to function. This should be a good thing, because it would mean fewer people would have to work and could therefore pursue things that actually interest them, but it would be a catastrophe under the current system.
The story that sticks with me is the lady who had some surgery done. After she woke up was unconvinced anything had happened told a joke and then passed out. Only to wake up a few mins later and repeat that cycle a few times because the drug was messing with her short term memory. It really bends your brain do we have free will or not.
KSP1 is really complete, especially if you are using OKAN and common mods that people install.

I don't understand what they are trying to do with KSP2 to begin with. Skeptical from the start and it somehow turned out worse.
One way to see how different virtual threads are from our old mechanisms is to ask yourself how many IO operations you can have in flight. There are two options: either the operations are blocking, in which case the number will be equal to the (very limited) number of threads in all of your thread pools combined, or the operations are non-blocking, in which case thread context that is so necessary for troubleshooting and JFR profiles is lost (e.g. JFR can't know on behalf of whom is some IO operation performed because the "owner" of some operation -- in the design of the Java platform -- can only be a thread). Virtual threads allow you to have hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of I/O operations in flight (which you need for high throughput as a result of Little's law) while still preserving observable context.

BTW, as for fork-join's `join`, not only is it designed for pure computation only and cannot help with IO, but every `join` increases the depth of the stack, so it is fundamentally limited in how much it can help. FJ is designed for pure computation workloads, so in practice that's not a huge limitation, but virtual threads are designed for IO workloads.

I apologise for not going into more depth here, but as you can imagine, with a user base numbering in the many millions, we can only afford to put in depth explanations in texts and videos that gain a large audience, but once you've familiarised yourself with the material I'll gladly answer specific questions (and perhaps your questions will help us improve our material, too).
I generally share a skeptical take when it comes to employment, but there is also a less devious narrative that fits the available evidence.

These companies wanted to cut projects and orgs because they didn’t see a future in them. They needed the ability to make clean cuts, which meant taking out some of the meat with the fat. Otherwise the layoffs get drawn out and messy with internal fighting over headcount.

I bet the employees who got laid off then rehired are pretty happy. Some of them even got a 4 month garden leave of sorts, then return to their old company.
‘Hard to know’ if Bruce Willis is aware of dementia condition, wife says
Emma Heming Willis says she has been ‘care partner’ to husband, 68, after actor was diagnosed with frontotemporal degeneration
We need a modern sort of WPA. Even for some of the mentally ill homeless people there is plenty of work in the city for them to do if we bothered designing a jobs program.
The haole plantation owners who seized Hawaii were probably saying the same thing back in 1893.
Employers must provide PPE. Workers must wear it or be let go. This is not hard.
The flipside is that companies don't seem all that interested in this sort of collaboration, though, nor should they be. It doesn't really make sense for a company that believes its edge is its technology to both give up the secret sauce and accept the dillution of that edge that comes from taking code from outside contributors. The modern version of "open source" is a natural evolution of the concept when this is how companies think.
If you're even slightly interested in getting into jailbreaking/hacking of devices, the Kindle is a great place to start.

There's a lot of low-hanging fruit there. Particularly because the device has a USB port and, by design, exposes a user partition that you can read/write to (so you can upload files and documents and ebooks to the device).

There's definitely been an effort by Amazon to lock them down, but just taking your reverse-engineering tool of choice and decompiling their firmware binary will give you tons of readable code to dig through. They use a mix of java, native c, and javascript.

Fun fact, at startup the Kindle looks for certain files in the user partition, with certain naming patterns. You can, for example, disable the screensaver by dropping a file with a special name there. They patched this once, but after doing a grep for the user-partition mount location (to see all the places in their code where they read from user partition files) I was pretty quickly able to find another way to do this. It's fun stuff.
> But will specific parts of Google Cloud continue to exist or increase in cost. Things that have happened to GCloud very recently.

Like what exactly?
Aren’t the same data races possible in async without threads? As soon as you suspend one task and start another, you have the problem that the currently running task can break the invariants of the suspended one, regardless of whether you’re doing a single-threaded event loop or threads running in parallel.
In reality, the cost of hiring/firing an employee would offset any gain one might hope for in hiring an unsafe worker. Plus, this isn't the type of industry that's measuring productivity by percentage points.
What builders talk about when they talk AI
See, for example, KAOS (Killing as an Organized Sport), also known as Killer or Assassin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin_(game)).

It’s a multiplayer game in which players LARP as assassins out to kill targets that they receive secretly at the start of the game.

The game has rules that describe how to simulate various forms of weapons and tactics (e.g. using a rolled-up sheet of paper as a dagger), and the rules are intended to help make it clear to observers that it’s just a game in which no actual crimes are intended, but it still involves people behaving in ways that could be misinterpreted.

I played it some at VCU in the late 1970s. It was fun.
I'm a white US native and I do the exact same. I made sure I had enough gas to get through Alabama (at exactly the speed limit) without stopping because of the stories I've heard, and those aren't even "that bad" when it comes to bad interactions with police.
>I think people mean a more irrational feeling of safety, rather than hard statistics

Also, the generic statistics of the probability of getting in an accident might not accurately apply to me. I might be a particularly good or bad driver. Totally anecdotal, but of my 28 years of driving, both of my small accidents occurred in the first two years.

>They don't want to see or be near those antisocial behaviors when they're taking transportation

I guess I think wanting to avoid seeing antisocial behavior is rational. It almost seems like that is the exact response expected in order to define the behavior as antisocial in the first place. :')

>Old people seem to suffer from this irrational feeling more than younger.

Older people are also more vulnerable. What might come across to me as just annoying or gross could be cause for more legitimate caution to a more vulnerable person. In my mind, when someone is acting particularly antisocially in public, there does seem to be a rise in my expectation (although slightly) that this person could do something violent.
Where's the actual joke? It wasn't structured like a joke, and as someone who enjoys a crass joke, I can confidently say I didn't find it funny.

Meta and Salesforce both gave out severance. Meta's packages were well reported on and were through the end of this year at full pay with healthcare.

> There's a non-zero percent one or more laid off individuals killed themselves due to losing their job. Don't minimize that.

This is gishgallop. You're just bringing in new unrelated things. to muddy the issue. Moreover, do you think wealthy laid off people have higher or lower rates of self harm vs victims of human trafficking?
You could probably use AWS EventBridge and schedule the message to be posted to SQS in 7 days.
yup, this is it. thanks for being the collective memory
ACLU Urges Congress to Strike Down Legislation Threatening to Destroy Privacy
Personally I think the rk requirement is just fine, the long-tail goal of Passkeys is to simply credential management for users and the UX of key wrapping stands in opposition of that.

Having a security key handle unlocking your platform authenticator/password manager seems to be the middle ground that's being driven towards, and as somebody with multiple YubiKey's I'm perfectly fine with it.
Not that I disagree with you, but you're allowing the narrative to shift away from "government involvement in private correspondence is a hallmark of totalitarianism" and instead go towards "government involvement in private correspondence may be the most effective way to combat CSAM".

IMO, the correct answer to this question is "do you think it's appropriate to spy on everyone to fight crime?"
I have a low end to play Minecraft, hence I could choose either play or browse fandom (Linux, Firefox) because fandom so much slowed down it. However other sites seem okay. So in this way I'm glad the Minecraft wiki is faster now. Need to check the performance. However the money does not come from the sky. I understand you have to have ads on your site to haven't it funded and I wonder who funds minecraft.wiki
Antisemitism? Was there an edit or did I just not pick up on a dog whistle?
Trump's approach has always been about deflecting blame and causing chaos. His track record of bankruptcies and unfair dealings speaks volumes about his character. A government shutdown may not affect him and his inner circle, but it will certainly hurt everyday Americans and take a long time to recover from. It's clear that he lacks the leadership abilities needed for the role he held, and the disgrace is becoming more evident with time. Encouraging financial shutdowns is unpatriotic and harmful to our country. Some political factions seem willing to prioritize their agendas over the well-being of the nation.
My experiences echo this nearly to a T.

I skipped a few grades in school and became a social outcast. I was hazed out of one school entirely and sort of gave up on understanding people for a while. My first experience on MDMA was like a physical light switch was flicked on inside of my body. I went from only wearing black/white/gray clothes to being the one known to wear loud colors and really putting myself out there visually and socially. I ended up feeling the need to move away from my home town because I felt "too popular." I couldn't go for a run without someone stopping on the side of the street to offer me a ride to wherever. This sort of behavior continued into music festivals where I learned to manage and lead large scale groups of ~strangers in tough environments/confusing mindsets.

I thought these skills wouldn't prove valuable in the work world, but, to my elation and surprise, it was the opposite. A lot of engineers are really smart but a bit weaker on the political and social side of things. I undoubtedly nuked a few brain cells acquiring all these experiences, but hey I can still code just fine and now I love getting in there, talking to people about their feelings and communicating about how I am feeling, and do so with a belief that others are interested in hearing/seeing me.

10/10 would do it all over again.
The performance part is questionable, as is the discoverability: Programs write binary blobs to impossible-to-find keys and, as we see here, there's nothing preventing a severe loss of performance if the program writes too much to the registry. It can only be examined with specialized tools, and, due to the binary values written to it, it might not be meaningfully editable at all.
I'm curious if this was ever repeated but not reported on because the results were much tamer. After all, we wouldn't be discussing this had nothing bad happened, right? If someone tried doing this but the audience was idle the whole time, would we ever know it?
It's for sure a big improvement from Fandom and the fact that they have a commercial interest in running the farm means it should continue to see good support.
I had to read this several times and... this is a great solution.

As taxes, these are a negative incentive for hoarding housing stock and increase gov't revenues to (potentially at least) help to house seniors.
The singularity huh… what do you think, it will run in Kubernetes or Docker?
Thanks Corey! There are always things I want to improve of course :)

I want to be fair to DHL here: The parcels are shipped through the letter network to make the overseas shipping more affordable. It's expected that they take bit longer than the normal DHL packages.
> Employers must provide PPE.

Firing skilled laborers harms both the employer and the employee.

> Workers must wear it or be let go.

Firing skilled laborers harms both the employer and the employee.

> This is not hard.

It seems very hard.
Venturing Through the YouTube Create App: A Flutter Crafted Wonder
I'm very worried constantly. This is the story of the bear, where you just have to be faster than the other guy. For now. The bear is getting faster and faster and it won't be long before it eats all of us.

It feels like we're at the end of history. I don't know where we go from here but what are we useful for once this thing is stuck inside a robot like what Tesla is building? What is the point of humanity?

Even taking a step back, I don't know how I'm going to feed my family in ten years, because my skillset is being rapidly replaced.

And to anyone mentioning UBI, I'm pretty sure they'll just let us starve first.
As a rule of thumb, 50+100*Upvotes visits in the site.
Learn self inquiry and ask these question inwardly.
India’s Tata wants a bigger bite of Apple’s iPhone orders
Why shouldn’t AI have rights? Because us humans have magical biology juice?
My argument is not that any government or no government is better than another, but rather that this form of corruption is unavoidable in democracies.

As for anarchy, yes, you could have more or worse violent action, but the type you cite is directly how the current system works. In the USA, the US and its states have the greatest military strength and therefore set the terms. They also engage in military action on behalf of corporations like United Fruit, Coca-Cola, Exon, etc. The argument that "in the absence of a government the warlords would take over" ignores that the warlords are already in power. Further, I at no point advocated for anarchy. I merely stated that in the absence of government intervention, wealthy is more likely to tend toward the center. In the USA, the wealth gap has widened as government intervention in the market has increased and that is the basis of evidence for my argument. Today, the richest and poorest are further apart that any prior time in US history, and law/regulation is and has been in continuous expansion not retraction.
No, successfully navigate past this version of Covid vacine deniers, 5g conspiracists etc.

In ten years we will enjoy a higher productivity due to AI and a richer society as a result. We have already seen it with protein folding which AI is amazing at[0].

The only reasonable fear of AI is for some jobs and that China gets their first.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02083-2
But what's the end game for KSP2, where KSP1 is today?

Speaking form a software development perspective, I don't see it improving beyond that point, or if that's even possible at all. For all KSP2 promised to improve the physic engines of KSP1, it has seemingly came up with a foundation that is significantly worse, not sure what you can do when your underlying engine has severe limitations.
From my armchair I'll add that throwing away the KSP1 engine and replacing it with, based upon the number of bugs, a new implementation of the same basic idea seems like a terrible idea. My understanding is that most of the original Squad team (i.e. the only people in the world with experience building a successful orbital mechanics game) weren't kept on for KSP2. Take Two should have done everything possible to keep them as core KSP2 developers.

All that said, I don't think the game will be left unfinished. All costs are sunk and Take Two has a (reportedly) somewhat functional, nicer looking copy of KSP1 with, presumably, at least base elements of interstellar travel and colony systems in place. It's probably worthwhile trying to get the project over the last few hurdles, as it's a potential goldmine if they can pull it off.
You're surprised Microsoft doesn't replace the registry with SQLite in Windows?

If so, you might not be aware quite how many millions of entries are in the hierarchical key value database that is the registry, and quite how critical read-write latency is.

sqlite can do clever things like multiple indexes and full text search, but won't beat the windows registry on the performance front at the narrow usecase it was designed for.
> This demo is really underwhelming to me because of the multi-second latency between the query and response, just like every other lame voice assistant.

Yep - it needs to be ready as soon as I'm done talking and I need to be able to interrupt it. If those things can be done then it can also start tentatively talking if I pause and immediately stop if I continue.

I don't want to have to think about how to structure the interaction in terms of explicit call/response chain, nor do I want to have to be super careful to always be talking until I've finished my thought to prevent it from doing its thing at the wrong time.
Regulators and liability lawsuits it is then I suppose. Those will be harmful to businesses and workers as well, but powered by media reporting and the public sphere.
neither does a tuba.

why be mad at a hammer if you hit your thumb with it?
My family has owned many Nissans and Infinitis and they are (in the last 15+ years) universally garbage.

Nissan makes trash that can drive around for a little bit first, that's what this is.

CVTs are kind of crappy to begin with but Nissan CVTs are by far the worst.

I have heard however that their newer leaf is pretty good.
The possibly never-ending quest for the golden owl
Unless they're being paid to, the obvious answer is "this is what they felt like working on"
> Due to delays in finalising designs for the new network, it is now accepted that it will not be completed by January 2024

If they haven't finalized the design, I'd say they've got a ways to go.
Are there good open-source, self-hostable alternatives to 1Password that do this?
Researchers develop standards to eliminate PFAS in firefighting foams
Because that would come at the expense of making human lives better.
Maybe if they had a few more meetings they might have realized that handing over their entire logistics and all that data entails to their biggest competitor and one of the most ruthless businesses in the world was not such a bright idea.

I’m as anti meeting as anyone, and yet Shopify’s worst decisions seem to have coincided with this anti-meeting push, and almost makes me be less militant about my anti-meeting stance.
I don't know, if you employ peoples to do a job with a such a risk to their lives, IMO it's your responsibility to ensure that protection is used not just provided.
It's telling that "white men" has become a byword, but to speak this way in intellectual terms is to subvert the very tradition that has struggled against what made it that way. (Note - I have not read the article.)
Where they'll continue to come up with half measures and platitudes, yes. Because it's a very hard problem to solve and enforce. Glad we agree!
I would pay between 5 and 10k USD depending on how close it was to Iron Man's Jarvis. I'd even pay an annual subscription for updates.

Would need to be about as fast as ChatGPT seems to be for the conversation piece and perhaps utilize some kind of optimistic response while it does things asynchronously