skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The colors fall into a common trap of looking fine when presented in rainbow order but where distant colors are actually extremely similar so as to be difficult to differentiate. Because the colors are all warm (red-leaning) and pastel (un-intense), the magenta and red have become too same-y for my eyes. If they aren't side-by-side, I can't tell which one is which immediately without effort.
What are we trying to optimize, the number of characters to type or clarity/readbility?
Is this from the Sudoer’s Manifesto?
The biggest thing Google could do is simply change the color. Its not an appealing shade of green.
... and if the users and mods who led the "revolution" had gotten their way, reddit would have become even more reddit than it ever had been. I want a revolution that returns reddit to the way it was ten or so years ago when for the most part you could publish whatever you wanted (or a distributed alternative that was uncensorable), but they want a reddit revolution where nobody could publish _anything_ unless it was groupthink approved.
Rather than focus on the DSL/code-writing aspect of workflow pattern tools, I feel the crucial difference is that most workflow systems are intended for a broad audience of users, many of whom are not devs.

I have similar doubts about how important the difference is between programming as devs do it and these tools. But to me, it's less a language concern and more a question of how tasks/jobs/processes/whatever-you-call-them are managed, if they're managed at all. In programming languages today, devs spawn countless async sub-processes (promises, async tasks, whatever you call them) with abandon. And they're implicit and invisible in almost all systems. An operator or user isn't there introspecting what jobs are outstanding. Or managing the workflow of these subprocesses.

These workflow tools are just a tiny leap over what programmers do: they make computing real. They reify computing into a managed element, make work being done a kind of data that is tracked through the system. Where-as in most programming, we have lots of tools for authoring and finagling subprocesses, but we are so very lacking in tools to manage & expose & let the user control what's happening in the process. The processs is mostly-closed, except what is afforded, and what is afforded is largely custom-craft APIs (with folks like OTel starting to define some more common ways for processes to at least explain themselves, if not manage & interconnect with other processes).

I don't think the languages have to change. I think the languages can stay right where they are, for the most part. But we can and should be building better runtimes, that let us interact with the objects & subprocesses, that let the app be more commanded and turned into an task runner rather than also the command-pallet system, kind of has to happen. It's not super related, but there was a post on Audacity in the browser, where @solardev suggested "headless" WASM apps and then separate UIs, and I can easily see that idea applying here: a workflow pattern tool being the UI, that orchestrates/drives WASM apps (which are practically just libraries).
Sounds like something out of 1984 to me. “We better ban all the news sources that aren’t approved by the state!” That’s going to push the USA into becoming a totalitarian state. I’m against that, I prefer free access to information with all the warts that come with that as well. I don’t want to be tools what the state approved facts are, because that can be warped in the future when China isn’t a threat or another political group uses the law maliciously in the future.

The first amendment is the first one for a reason. Free expression is key to keeping a democracy, IMO.
> I guess that settles everything then. Never mind that you're misquoting him.

I'm not misquoting him - you are free to provide a link to the context in which he said what he said.

The worlds foremost expert in C++, author of dozens of books on C++, disagrees with you. I'm merely agreeing with him.

> Look, if you hadn't written the last two paragraphs, I'd have replied to your points, but they strongly indicate it would fall into deaf ears. You're clearly more interested in entertaining the peanut gallery more than actual discussion.

The fact that you entered a thread about C practices, then got all salty when you tried to go with the "but why not use C++?" argument, then devolved into personal attacks is ... well "classy" is not the word I'd use.

EDIT: You can't respond to those points - those are all well-known footguns that are present in C++ but not in C. What were you going to respond with? "No, C++ doesn't have those!"?
"We take the WTF out of managing work" -nice. I love the animation with this. The UI of the product looks pretty good too. Glad to see you have row grouping on the table view.

Another good open-source Jira alternative is https://plane.so/ . They also have a free cloud plan with unlimited users.
Well, usually you want to free it so you can use it for something else without hitting swap. At least that's my use case
because marble is an expensive luxury and terracotta is not
I believe things are so much better now thanks to technological and social improvements which are orthogonal to, and not caused by, taxation. Your argument seems to be like the pirates and global warming one; correlation is not causation.

A steelman argument might be that tax-funded schools and mandated public education caused these things, but ultimately the root cause there would be greater access to education, not the taxes used to fund them. Improving educational outcomes is not dependent on taxes; we use laws to force people to buy automobile insurance and the same could be done with children’s education without the state in the payment loop. Indeed, private schools are routinely better for educational outcomes than the ones funded by taxes.

By this logic (that taxation is the basis for the progress in society) one should see greater technological and social advances and quality of life with increased taxation and more centralized standardization, but we don’t. Instead we got a forever drone war and the military-industrial complex.

For every GPS or space shuttle or NIST, there is also an Iraq or Vietnam or Afghanistan.
I would guess it's not that people have "problems with questions", but are downvoting you for one or both of a) using multiple comments to ask the same question, and b) coming across as using a badgering tone, sounding entitled and complaining when you're talking to people who provide a free service to you, and acting like they owe you a comment reply rather than waiting for the change log they've said will be released when they're ready.
It’s about scale. Of course the compute nodes need some storage for when they spill to disk but they compute what is asked of them and then submit their work. So a coordinator can split the work and send it to a worker and that can be replicated on N nodes achieving a parallel speed up and then reconstituted.

As you mention there’s an overhead or a tax to this sure but the overall speed up’s are there.

If you’re talking about one big node with gobs of fast storage and CPUs for compute then that’s more your traditional scale up instead of scale out approach and for many years that was the conventional wisdom in databases: when things got slow just move your DB to a bigger and bigger machine. But that has its limits. So scaling horizontally was the answer and with it came all of its complexity sure but it allowed for much better scaling.
I once worked at a government job and took my computer into the IT department for an issue. I can't remember anything about the original issue.

But I do vividly remember the help desk trying to figure out one last issue. Some process was consuming all my resources.

They never could figure out why "System Idle Process" kept doing that.
Also a free nation.
If you're comparing prices currently you see two prices advertised:

Company A: $100

Company B: $140

Company C: $150

Company D: $155

Currently, when you go to buy from any of these companies they all add the hypothetical 10% taxes you would be required to pay, but company A also adds $60 in "service fees", Company B adds $20, Company C adds $10, and company D becomes the cheapest.

If you remove the bullshit fees the advertised prices are falsely excluding then the advertised prices give you the actual real relative position.

Hence there is value in this law, even if it doesn't force the taxes to be included.

Now your example of hotels is a worthwhile extension to this, where you could say "if the location of the purchase or service is fixed, the listed price must include all applicable taxes", but there's a clear benefit to banning the BS "fees".

This is ignoring the whole tax avoidance/evasion I believe these "fees" are also being used for.
RAM isn't user friendly in Linux. Ubuntu Desktop is the most popular distro by far by Google Trends, but it doesn't even come with RAM compression set up out of the box, so as soon as you run out of memory the UI totally locks up until the task killer kills a process, which always takes minutes in my experience. Pop OS does come with RAM compression set up, which is Ubuntu based, but then you're stuck on xorg instead of Wayland right now, because they decided to make their own DE from scratch in Rust for some strange reason, which isn't available yet. You can set up RAM compression yourself, but when macOS and Windows both have it standard, coming to Linux as a newbie so you install Ubuntu Desktop and your whole system locks up as soon as you run out of physical RAM, it's really odd and unexpected. I'm not even sure who would want to run a desktop distro without RAM compression.
Not really. IANAL but I imagine one could conditionally disincorporate tik tok (unless it complies with X Y or Z). Incorporation is a privilege, not a right, so that's not attainder. It would likely also be administrative , through FTC, so, also not congressional. At that point the owners of tiktok would become legally liable for the things that it does and also I think it would also lose safe harbor provisions. Nobody wants to operate a tiktok in that state.
Everyone seems to believe that all the apps spy on users (such as tracking your location, etc.), but I don't believe the platforms actually permit this unless the user expressly grants the app permission. However, just having a huge database of videos, viewing patterns, and social connections to analyze can be absurdly valuable, but I don't see all of that becoming illegal anytime soon.
Have you actually read the Affero license?

From section 13: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software."

Your statement is incorrect: "You can even have and keep changes (unpublished) for you entire organization without having to contribute back. It is when you distribute it back to public that you have to license the changes under the same license."

Even *HOSTING* a private instance puts you under Affero. Even if the instance isn't public, if you so much as have a contractor remotely accessing an internal deployment of a customized Affero-licensed software then they can ask for this customization.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
I'll stop if I want to.
The issue is that they think they are reaching their system's capacity.
"Have kids and deal with it, don't bother us or the society in general" feels like a good slogan to encourage parenthood.
Inconclusive.

What if they built right-handed defenders AND left-handed defenders towers?
If a single node contains the relevant partition(s) has all the data then it could be that the compute happens there and the result is then sent back no map reduce work needed.
EMPShield investing $1.9B with CHIPS support to build factory in Kansas
EMPShield[1] claims to make products that can protect against events such as lightning strikes and high-altitude nuclear explosions that generate EMPs. As an EE I find the design, theory, and testing[2] extremely questionable. It seems that this company has other skeptics[3]. It's infamous with mechanics who see them in cars, or are asked to install them.

They sell a small box that hooks up to your car battery, or your the mains in the breaker panel for your house. There's a few feet of cabling to a small box which they claim can clamp the energy from the EMP. If you try to search youtube for this product you can only find positive reviews from the "prepper" community, and any tear-downs seem to have been removed. The company claims to be active with the military as well.

Their testing consists of legitimate testing for EMP, however they only test the unit itself -- not hooked up to anything. I don't see any evidence that this product actually works when hooked up to a car or house. Am I going crazy here, is this a huge scam or some legitimate technology?

[1] https://www.empshield.com/
[2] http://www.empshield.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/EMP_Shie...
[3] https://www.eevblog.com/forum/news/emp-shield-scam/
This is what I do, and I'm surprised that more people don't. It's trivial to clear text or email notifications when you make the purchase as they usually appear very quickly. Plus it makes it very easy to identify fraud.

Get a notification that your card was used at a gas station when you're in bed at 11pm and last filled up 5 days ago? Probably not legitimate. Plus, if you trust your CC company, it saves you from having to review your charges at statement close.
What regex engines do people use for this task generally? Most regex engines I'm aware of don't support stream/incremental searching.
I'm an advocate for nuclear power but it seems ridiculous that this warning was given 20 years after the initial find.

I understand that nuclear facilities are not like regular buildings and require more logistics for repairs but there's no way it would require 20 years.
> Sieges often didn’t involve much fighting at all, as simply waiting outside the castle till the people inside ran out of water and food was a much easier and less bloody way to win.

Currently reading Plutarch. Twice already he's mentioned sieges where the attackers waited for the besieged to run out of water. The grueling wait is compressed in history.
That doesn't sound right. If the loser can see what the winner bid, they'd just need to bid for $1.01 next time to win. They'll get charged $1.15, but their bid will be $1.01, which means the loser next round will see that that was the winning bid and they'll know to bid for $1.02, and so on.
This is... sort of the point, too. Rolling back is insanely easy - and it's version controlled so even if something obnoxious happened you (should) know the exact commit that broke something as well.

In the very worst case, you update components individually until you find the offending one.

I've used both NixOS and nix-darwin for 2 years professionally now as daily drivers, and have had generally nothing but great success. I'm not fearing an OS update actively breaking my environment (which I can't say the same for macOS, as much as I am a fanboy of Apple).
Time to consult Homer Simpson? His expertise can be had for the low low cost of a few doughnuts.
They are 100% focused on work applications, so devoting developer time to supporting that is not in their roadmap. They say they will not lock it down and will support community modding.

There are also differences in optics. Game headsets tend to have fewer pixels at the edge, and iirc, they want to have optics optimized for work use cases.
I've visited a castle in Germany once, where they had special short swords for defending the staircases. The staircases in that castle were too small to wield a regular sword.
I wonder if modern spiral staircases but also show the 70/30 R/L bias as well?
It's time for journalism to break the cycle of crime reporting
That's just one part of the issue - even after forcefully dropping Linux's caches, WSL has been unable to reclaim the memory back reliably. There has been a recent update that claims to finally fix this.

You might find this package helpful: https://github.com/arkane-systems/wsl-drop-cache
We call them "cent" and "ucent" in D :-)
The way I understood it was inspections have always been done. The original cracks were repaired. New ones did not show up until 2022.
Haven't run into a confused one yet, and D has been around 20 years.
As an Android user for 10ish years, I don't care about what it's called or what their logo and mascot look like. I just want it to work.
Can't wait to try the live preview, great job to the team!
I don't think he's quick to dismiss it. He talks about it several times. Those latencies are when editing files in the hundreds of MB, and only in the worst case non-local edit. How often do you edit I file that big?

Also I expect if that was a real problem you could probably implement a system where you have more than one gap. Does that exist?
The ASF uses CLAs so I beg to disagree.
> what's permissible in legislation is defined by the constitution.

Oh, sweet, summer child.
'This Is a False Advertisement': X Ads Are Being Challenged by Reader Context
Propaganda is widely used on social media. Why focus on TikTok?

Other countries have laws and agencies to protect against propaganda; the US doesn't bother. I doubt the propaganda concern is driving political will.
The problem with the RESTRICT act isn't that it punishes China or bans TikTok, the problem is the harsh penalties (up to $1 million USD and 20 years in prison) for US citizens who try to bypass government censorship.

Even calling it the "TikTok ban" is rather misleading.
What we've been missing is the political will to revoke that status for companies who neglect their obligation to society. Today even those who are a net drain get a pass so long as a very small number of people are making money. Let's see the corporate death penalty get more use and people will start to remember that corporate personhood is a privilege, not a right.
I wonder if this is one of those problems Erlang and the Beam VM solve out of the box. Native clustering, message passing from one node to the other, no need for a separate dependency... That's the same design, isn't it?

Disclaimer: I don't work with any of that tech right now, but I'm looking forward to working with Elixir, which is in the same ecosystem.
Julia is great, but not HPC-friendly.
And isn't it splendid to be able to force labourers to pay those thing for your convenience, since they have no choice but to work to support themselves?
I think the bigger point from the article is that by the time people are fighting hand-to-hand in the tower stairwells, the defenders have already well and truly lost: comeback from such a state was probably impossible (and if the walls were breached the defenders would almost certainly have surrendered rather than fought to the last man). So it wouldn't have really made sense to design things for this possibility.
Yes, I'm an employee of Mozilla Corporation, and I'm involved with Firefox backend services (some of which are also used by Thunderbird).
My TikTok is filled with electrical engineering, various forms of activism, and so on. I've never seen anything like what you describe, and I've used it a lot. When I first started using it, I noticed a lot of dancing and singing (by very talented people), but those types of videos disappeared quite quickly.
Risk, administrative burden.
I am always unconvinced by the argument that one can’t leave social media because their friends are on some site.

No one I know does not check their SMS and email, and doesn’t pick up phone calls.

I’ve not been on social media for about 5 years now, and I have not fallen out of touch with a single friend because of that. For other reasons like moving away physically or not gaming as much anymore, but not for this. Everyone still picks up my calls and reads my messages.
This may be true, but Facebook could disrupt the US significantly more before it starts to affect their business.
> I guess you could ban all Chinese software using trade laws, but that has even bigger ramifications.

I guess you could institute privacy laws and regulations to protect consumers from all software.
The good news is that the yellow card is for not resolving issues with the backup diesel power system, not anything to do with the reactor vessel or primary loop.

This is the right abundance of caution for the NRC to use (after all, that kind of reactor can melt down if power completely fails and cannot be maintained to sink heat), but it should be an easy fix. If anything, the yellow card was given for how long Dominion's been letting itself sit on an easy fix.

(On the other hand, the justifiably-paranoid might ask what else is wrong if they've let a maintenance issue this relatively unimportant slide...)
What is SAP's strategy here? SQL Anywhere is not uncommon and there are more than 10 million seats out there. I wish they hadn't bought Sybase in the first place.
The economics are due to the politics. The current crop of politicians just love coal.
> Text is really small

Tell that to my 10GB JSON files.
Why past tense?
A lot of these historic stories are someone's fancy. In Turkey, they'll make up all these stories about wine flasks in Cappadocia that have this hole in the middle. Supposedly the sun must fall through the hole to bless it or something and I can't find any reference to that anywhere. But I wasn't able to find a historian of Turkey and that region to say it definitely was ahistorical.
"I'd love to meet the team!"
Sure, but if the EU is looking for evidence of Google abusing it's dominant position in ad tech for it's own benefit, the US antitrust case certainly gives them a good place to start looking.
Is that/should that be illegal?
Not a good look for the blog post revealing the new brand to have horrible aliasing on the animation...
> I disagree, quite strongly in fact. But my experience is not with US PhD programs, which is what discussions here often center upon.

Indeed, that is my sole reference point. If I ever leave the US, maybe that will be a better opportunity!

> one option is to become a scientific programmer

I'll look into this. Thanks!
First, it doesn't say that the backup generator did not work. An oil leak doesn't mean the system will not function. It's something to pay attention and repair, but not something critical. If your car has an oil leak you keep driving it and repair it when you have time to do so.

Second, the diesel generator is just one of many backup systems. To use it you have to have the (at least) two independent connections with the grid fail. Even if it does, you don't have one generator, but more than one. Even if the generator fails, passive system will cool down the reactor for a couple of hours, enough for a mobile generator on a truck to arrive and be connected, without any damage.

There were only one case where generators and all external power supplies had failed, that is of course Fukushima. Even in that context, if the passive systems where not damaged by the tzunami, there wouldn't have been any release of radioactivity. And even in that context, considering that the containment had design flaws, the impact on the environment wasn't that huge.

That is, nuclear power plants have multiple systems that can fail, as a complex machine. The fact that one system fails or has some issue doesn't necessary mean that the safety of the whole power plant is compromised.
What is this?

I don't fancy logging into some random website without knowing what it does first.
I.e. people who actually use the app are wrong, and you must be right.
I study Computer Engineering at the moment, any advice?