skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
social media is drying out and needs to get more growth. gotta flog it.

anecdotally, none of the under-20 folks I know (nephews, neighbors, etc.), touch it. tiktok and insta rule the roost, with FB marketplace taking over for craigslist, and reddit for most other stuff.
You said they beheaded civilians including babies, that’s sensational. There were horrific acts, yes, but any reports of beheading of babies has been refuted by reporters and even the IDF.
This is like saying that pyramids were constructed without modern cranes and bulldozers so obviously it's the right way to build stuff today. It's clearly not true but there are many power-wielding individuals in these projects who prefer to browse the web with lynx or develop in emacs and will impose this on anyone that would like to participate.

This is wrong.
The one that spacex has to listen to.
https://archive.li/Z0j87
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Spoken like someone who has never had to work on a Java application with 22 custom log files, not including stdout, stderr, and two separate syslogs.

Yes, if you want useful data from logs you'll need to log useful data, but this is a case where 12 factor is so successful / dominant today I don't think you even know what it's arguing against anymore.
> I didn't make any claim about how many platforms it runs on, though.

We should probably define terms. You mentioned that HTML + CSS make a terrible design tool. I suppose that's true in the same way that C++ is a terrible design tool. Most designers don't touch CSS, and use Photoshop or Figma or similar and hand it over to a frontend engineer to actually implement it. You might be using the term design tool differently from how i understand it though.
I think it's easier to think of voltage as the speed per thread of a processor and amperage as the max number of threads.

Neither measure the "quality" of the battery.

What DOES have to do with quality, though, is the amount by which voltage falls as the load increases, or in other words, how efficient the battery is.

This is similar to the efficiency of a power supply in a computer.
Everything you've listed is still perfectly legal, nonviolent consensual speech from people acting in what they believe to be theirs and their country's best interests, and party members are perfectly within their rights to break ranks if they want. That isn't the same class of behavior as sedition or espionage.

The only solution I can see is if the parties themselves decided to change their rules, but they have no reason to. Things are only the way they are now because that is what wins votes and concentrates power.
I also use Decimal Time and the French Republican Calendar as my default calendar and time method. The mental math to convert back to "standard" time and date is very easy once you get the hang of it, and I think it's good practice to not take for granted systems we consider "standard" such as time.

For more on the philosophy of this, I highly recommend Jenny Odell's Book, Saving Time. Note that she doesn't talk about the revolutionary calendar in it (to my memory) but touches on a lot of the realities of time and clocks themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
Seems good as a general heuristic but bad as a requirements checklist.
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Those subscriptions in particular - do you ever turn back to them years later and see if they were prescient?

I find much joy in reading old magazines.
What externalities are we exchanging carbon emissions for when we switch to electric vehicles?
One of the first things I did as an intern was write an Excel macro that pulled data from SharePoint and built a monthly "dashboard" in the span of a few minutes.

The previous process involved someone spending the better part of 2 weeks building the monthly report by hand, every single month.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing! And yes, I 100% agree that more data is needed before drawing broad conclusions regarding the effectiveness of RCV (particularly when compared to FPTP).

I found the discussion in the Deseret piece regarding how the result of the Alaska senatorial election seemed "unintuitive" to many voters to be very interesting! When I look at the numbers and results in that election is seems clear that the outcome is exactly what I would hope to see (and seemingly is a text-book case of RCV in action). But alas, when you deploy to production, things rarely go as planned and it is clear that I need to give more weight to the human element in all of this. Even if the results are statistically desirable, that does not mean that voters will actually feel good about the result of the election....
I was very confused by this too and finally realized the mistake. The chain of logic went like this:

> There are 2.4 standard hours in 1 metric hour
> Therefore there are 240 standard minutes in 1 metric hour
> Then divide by 100 to get 2.4 standard minutes per metric minute

Except there aren't 240 standard minutes in 1 metric hour. There's 2.4 * 60 = 144. That the author of the page couldn't keep the conversions straight does not bode well if we were to switch as a society...
Dang. $750 USD is a lot. Do you own one of the products listed on their site? Is the Amiga scene fun?
I think my team looked into that, among good few others. There is a decent number of tools that would work better for dev/product teams, but if you want to have one solution for the whole company, the list is shorter. We're currently living with ClickUp.
In the real world, infinitesimal is zero.
> This means that we're soon able to replace our bodies with robotic ones.

"We have a computer that can play chess, which means we'll soon be able to replace humans by AIs" - someone in 1970

> You could probably keep the brain alive indefinitely.

> It's probably not too difficult

Why do 1/3rd to half of people above 85 have Alzheimer's/Parkinson's/Dementia then ?

Software developers have very simplistic and optimistic views about these things, we're very far away from anything remotely close to have you're talking about. The human body is infinitely more complex than what your comment hints
Which creates issues when you have signal but don’t have a sub to send that actual message over sms.

Sometimes sms failover creates further problems because when travelling you’re more likely to have intermittent wifi than intermittent sms access.
I heavily agree. I used to work on a LAMP stack where the deployment was just dumping the code into an EC2 instance. All is fine until there's a weird system dependency error that isn't documented because the AMI being used has just been hand built over the last three years. Have fun tracking down that specific PHP system dependency when AL2 goes EOL. I don't want to write code that doesn't have _documented_ dependencies on system packages. Even just a Dockerfile serves as solid documentation on what we're using.
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Any correlation between current models and AGI is, IMO, hype.

GenAI is a remarkably useful tool, but its not one step away from an AGI.
The basic idea is still valid. You might just have to use a more appropriate mechanism when using containers. For example, the explanation of the Config factor explains that a config file can also be used.
https://www.businessinsider.com/idf-says-wont-back-up-behead...

I’m not denying massacres took place or that Hamas has done unforgivable things. Just that baby-beheading specifically is getting thrown around a lot without proof and even Israel is refusing to corroborate the claims.
That's exactly what they've been showing. "Disable your ad blocker or get premium" in essence.
In the real world, we've had six satellite crashes, including at least one with basically the perfect mitigatable scenario; active satellite capable of avoidance, known orbits, large easily trackable objects.
Apparently the worst thing you could do to your child (in terms of paperwork and confusion) is to name them Null.
A network of satellites this large, if used for planetary defense from ICBMs, could prevent the destruction of humanity. It wasn't particularly feasible until Falcon 9 came along, but now, the only question is why not? Getting humans to another planet before we all vaporize ourselves is a stated goal of SpaceX.
Why not? At least one church did just that.
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I don't understand? Is this some sort of jab at the concept of being cautious given that so many things that were promoted as "totally safe" turned out to be "extremely unsafe"?

Do you also find the bans on lead-acetate sweeteners to be silly since the Romans managed to build a big empire while also drinking lots of wines sweetened with it?
> I'm but one data point. I used to buy a lot of magazines, Popular Science, Byte, APC, MacWorld, Motoring, Unique Homes, Architectural Digest,

To speculate a bit, notwithstanding your need for information, were you not also buying a lifestyle with those magazines? and the switch to online - does it make you feel as inherently a part of that lifestyle as you did when you had a magazine for it?

It reminds me of a Calvin & Hobbes running gag, where Calvin subscribes to a magazine for chewing gum enthusiasts. It seemed farcical, and maybe that was the point, but in hindsight, it's nice to have community and some sense of niche knowledge.
JS devs were/are paid the big bucks because !!"false" == !!"true" and so on.
It's pretty bad that, more than a decade after this was released, there are detractors for some of the guidelines but yet nobody is able to point to a singular more modern set of principles. A lot of our advice is now nuanced and spread out all over the internet...
It's good to see it coming up again. I hope there will be a platform among the new PAAS players that is 100% compatible with the 12-factor app principles.
I wonder if this is another manifestation of the mechanism behind phantom limb pain that amputees experience (or one of the proposed mechanisms).

Specifically, if the nerve cells for a certain frequency have gone down, and the brain boosts the gain from that cell as part of its normal AGC (automatic gain control), resulting in a phantom sound.
That's good to know, thanks! Where did you get AppleCare+ registered from?
I don't have enough information to say, but it definitely doesn't pass the smell test.
Actually the bigger q is where is Loom's moat? I've used loom too and I agree that being able take a video and do "mini editing" is useful but I guess I wouldn't pay for it given cmd-optiom-5 on osx. But still the real thing is where is the moat? I ask this because until recently I hadn't given much thought to "having paid users who will feel stupid to move off" was not a big deal but clearly it is?

To play devil's advocate though from a numbers point I think loom has about 20m users so this is $5 per user. But if acq is for a billion then I'd assume their actual revenue is something like 100m. So $5 /user/year. I guess in that sense once a user has paid that low price they are not thinking of moving off for a year so it is plenty of upsell opportunities for atlassian. Ofcourse depending on usage just the video hosting could cost them more than $5/user/ year? Interesting stuff!
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In retrospect, a better name for that section could have been "Separate config from code" as it says in one of the first paragraphs.
To be fair, the person asking the question genuinely is interested in the answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37858345
Thanks for all the work you do! I use libretranslate often and it's irreplacable for me.
"Microsoft.... built a custom XML tool into its word processor in 2007... this was a tool for power users, and was only used by a small percentage of its user base."

I'm definitely confused by that statement and its link, because it implies the relevant tool is the disk format for every Office file, which has been described by an Excel program manager as "complicated enough to reduce a grown programmer to tears." https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...
Would this ever be available for on-prem databases? I love managing extensions with terra form - and I wonder if I could try it locally.
I still haven’t purchased Dropbox. When the choice came up, it seemed important for our backups not to be made in USA.

So, indeed, a very cool replacement was SSH.

I still don’t know anyone who didn’t leave Dropbox after they jacked up the prices. A USB key is much cheaper (and reliable, at the rate at which Dropbox nukes accounts that they deem not compliant with whatever policy).
I don't know if I'd trust this method with Google. Anything you even "weakly" link like a recovery email could be enough for a "suspicious" account termination.
I have always disagreed most with the config advice. Config ends up getting defined by a lot of different parties and quite often by developers and its often best to ship the application with reasonable defaults and then allow overrides from environment specific files and then environment variables. This is the most flexible for most server side applications because you often know what a setup should be and its best source controlled but secrets need to be injected at run time. Configuration needs to have cascading levels to make life easiest in dev, test and production without enormous setup time.
Timelapse of the autonomous drone delivery system, covering an entire country
The 12 factor app that stored config in env vars found it trivial to migrate to ConfigMaps. The LOB apps today that expect complex ConfigMap layouts (at worst case, directly from the k8s API) are going to be hell to migrate to whatever comes after k8s.
Good article in general, but it's odd they didn't mention DXA scans. Those are now the gold standard for body composition measurement and are fairly cheap in most developed countries.
Would be nice to have a simple term for all these absolutist ideas about how to solve a Problem. I nominate the term "The Holy Grail Jail".

I've actually had great success doing the opposite to most of these points.
Seconding Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, it's a great anime and as someone who lived in Kansai for a few years a while ago feels nostalgic.
Maybe an ad-blocking user has negative value.
Regarding space junk, can't we laser them out of existence? Or use laser to ablate their surface and put them into reentry orbit? That, I suppose, requires a orbit based laser.
> Long textx (like an article)

Short ones, too.
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> The federal government is incapable of efficiently allocating resources at scale, it's just the reality.

The US is the Land of Middlemen. Government are capable of doing so (see 'medical care in much of the rest of the world'). That doesn't specifically change that it is generally better for the "common good" that large infrastructure projects are often better in the hands of an entity that is not corporate profit-seeking at all costs.

> That's why we have things like the FCC, FAA and DoD who oversee things like telecommunications and rocket launches

SpaceX is using Tonga as a 'flag of convenience' for these launches, likely because Tonga has a far more lax regulatory oversight system - it's certainly not because of SpaceX's heavy connection to the Pacific island nation.
I'm still sore about google music, let alone reader. Each of those led me to de-google my tech stack a bit. Won't take much more for me to break clean away.
it sort of does very much. defenders need to move a lot to compensate for their smaller numbers, no?
What about people with organizational accounts? For example, if I use ad blocker logged into my work Google account, which my employer presumably pays a per-seat cost for.
Thanks, I've learnt something today.

Just out of curiosity: is it just a joke, or is there an idiocy behind, such as Sovereign Citizen or similar?
This must be a filter bubble thing. My perception of Twitter is similar in that I see far more of the open source content I want to see now than I did in the past.
How are environment variables insecure?
53% of U.S. dog owners hesitant about the rabies vaccine
The latter, ePubs are dumb HTML+CSS+fonts containted in a zip.
The main problem with your argument, is that for many use cases, the real voltage from a battery is not identical to the nominal voltage. As the current through the battery increases, energy loss due to the internal resistance of the battery will cause the external voltage to go down.

This means that actual Wh will depend on how many amperes the battery has to deliver. When the load is very low, this hardly matters, but when you need to power a high wattage engine/appliance with a small battery, this can be quite significant.
Is RWD better in snow/ice in electric cars? I'm from the Northeast US and RWD is pretty much extinct (in favor of AWD/4WD/FWD) with the exception being sports cars. Does the weight distribution eliminate the advantage of FWD?
> It’s also a rare time in history that an individual can make lots of progress. Most of us need to be a part of big groups to do anything worthwhile, in most fields. But in this case lone wolves often have the upper hand over established organizations.

I'm curious why you think this is true? My feeling as a broke individual trying to catch up on ml is that there are some simple demos to do. But scaling up requires a lot of compute and storage for an individual. Acquiring datasets and training are cost prohibitive. I'm only able to play around with some really small stuff because by dumb luck a few years ago I bought a gaming laptop with a nvidia gpu in it. The impressive models that are generating the hype are just a different league. Love to hear to how I am wrong though?
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I don't understand the appeal of pretty alignment of arguments with the last character of the function name in the row above. What's wrong with just using one more standard indentation level, like Black does in Python?
I'll check out it out my desktop later and add more thoughts, but for now, on my phone it's kinda hard to get a feel for it because everything is in desktop-sized videos. Would you consider adding some mobile screenshots of the major features, perhaps?

There are a few bad tabletops out there. This one seems like it actually had a lot of thought put in! But it's hard to tell apart from the others at a glance. The videos aren't really readable on a phone and the paragraphs don't convey how each feature works.
DARPA worried battlefield mixed reality vulnerable to 'cognitive attacks'
the trickle down argument isn't really catching with me, if someone makes a new, helpful, invention, they can proliferate it across the population. how that happens isn't really important. you're also saying benefit might be there, but its definitely there, and people want it. that's why they buy it.

i think a better argument you made was that satellites in general act to interfere with astronomical work on earth. and i hadn't heard of this before (its not my realm) so i looked into it.

the number of satellites in 2022 was ~8k, and about half are active. so the number musk is putting up there is definitely record breaking, and poses new levels of problems. he admits the trouble it might cause to astronomers and is trying to work on solutions such as a paint coating as well as data-level techniques to mitigate the problems. there are also a regulatory body, the ITU, that's looking to limit the frequency/bandwidths of what's used in satellites to help astronomers. none of this is perfect, but its acknowledged and with more technological development will likely come better compromises.

links on where i got this info:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223962-spacexs-starlin...

https://earthsky.org/space/how-satellites-harm-astronomy-wha...

even despite that, i think people gain more from having internet than viewing the stars. and for organizations that seriously study the stars the best way around this seems to be to collect multiple shots when these satellites move. for amateur astronomers in their back yard, its probably not that important but they can use the same techniques.

the rain example is an interesting thought experiment, i don't think most people would disagree that causing this kind of effect is a serious misuse of technology. and surely something like that would run into regulation or agreements? Of which it has. The groups trying to green the sahara receive compensation from the brazilian government to not green the entire sahara. why? because the minerals that blow across the atlantic, from the sahara, help fertilize the amazon rainforest. So there's functional examples of this kind of problem that have already been solved, I haven't lost faith in humanity over this.
If I were to pay, it would more likely be directly to the creators (like Nebula and others).

With YouTube I have zero confidence that the authors get a fair share, and the last thing I want is to give money to the parasites randomly claiming copyright (and stealing the money) over other people's work.
From the other side of the table, the machine learning candidate pool is also a clown show right now.

I did some hiring for a very real machine learning (AI if you want to call it that) initiative that started even before the LLM explosion. The number of candidates applying with claimed ML/AI experience who haven’t done anything more than follow online tutorials is wild. This was at a company that had a good reputation among tech people and paid above average, so we got a lot of candidates hoping to talk their way into ML jobs after completing some basic courses online.

The weirdest trend was all of the people who had done large AI projects on things that didn’t need AI at all. We had people bragging about spending a year or more trying to get an AI model to do simple tasks that were easily solved deterministically with simple math, for example. There was a lot of AI-ification for the sake of using AI.

It feels similar to when everyone with a Raspberry Pi started claiming embedded expertise or when people who worked with analytics started branding themselves as Big Data experts.
The SEC takes enforcement action in about 40 insider trading cases in a typical year. Most result in fines. Less than half of those cases get forwarded to the justice department. Big "egregious cases" of insider trading cases are practically unheard of. And that's not because wall street is especially virtuous.

Remember that agencies like the IRS, FDA, SEC must not leak a single bit of information (investigation/no investigation). Because that single bit is sufficient to profitably trade on. A hedge fund doesn't need to know the specifics or the exact date of an enforcement announcement in order to make out like a bandit. A tiny amount of signal is sufficient. In fact, a tiny amount of signal is preferred. If a firm knows for a fact that MSFT is in trouble with the IRS they can't trade on it. But if a little bit of information leaks from an agency, that's gold.
Drives traffic.