skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. What's currently popular is normalizing talking about mental health and wellbeing. Not everyone has the privilege to get a diagnosis, much less, get proper care or treatment. Talking about these issues on social media is an outlet for people to not feel so lonely or isolated.

The article quotes a few people. One of the quotes is, "The accounting team is not happy with me providing this time off, because it’s a liability for the company". Another quote is equating not taking sick days to having a "work ethic".

Read the article. Companies just want to company.
Pi is over overrated. Check out Tau instead: tauday.com
In Japan, it’s not uncommon for companies or governing bodies to announce something _only_ on Twitter.

This can be anything from websites announcing maintenance to a public safety announcement. For example, the district I live has a disaster announcement account on Twitter.

At least for people here, using Twitter only for status updates while not logged in is a very common thing.
"What is interesting to me is the decline in C, from 52% in iPhone OS 1 to 5% in iOS 17."

Take this all with a grain of salt as a lot of C++ code is really just C-With Classes. As well if i remember correctly you can wrap objective-C in C++ or vice versa.

"Consider the Python 3 transition in this light. Python 3 came in 2008 and I don't think it could be said the transition completed prior to 2020"

To be fair, yes Python3 came out but there were still a lot of Python2 libraries that had to be migrated to 3, so for most people it didn't make sense to use 3 when it came out.
Not necessary true. As long as status.slack.com is it's own separate A record, as long as you don't change the DNS Zone for slack.com, they are pretty much separate. Now, if they use a WildCard SSL for *slack.com and that goes down, then yeah. But other than that, having it on a sub domain shouldn't be a major issue. Also, I'd much more trust the status.slack.com subdomain than slackstatus.com, which might be some 3rd party thing.
I am seeing a lot of literature today on small MRI machines that frequently omit the superconducting magnet and in some cases get very high performance in certain respects.
I don’t have a dog in the fight and have been a long time NYT subscriber but I concur with Nate on this one. The NYT coverage here has become even worse in the last few hours. It’s truly bizarre. Here is their latest:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/briefing/gaza-hospital.ht...

The headline is:

Gaza and the Trudeau Problem

It begins with an inexplicable few paragraphs about Canada and India before taking a sharp left back to the Gaza explosion. It then presents “both sides of the issue” straight-faced, in a manner that appears to be asking the reader to decide — but of course one side is “Hamas said so” and the other is significant visual evidence, like the fact that the hospital is still standing, and there is video of a rocket misfiring, and voice recordings of Islamic Jihad admitting it was their rocket.

The article then concludes on a note of “I guess we will never know what happened because we won’t ever see all of the evidence”. It is maddening and just very, very strange.
Came here to say just this - it's probably the first extension I install everywhere and significantly improves usability and control.

For Firefox it's this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scroll_anywhe...
They’ll take what they find
Can We Make Idiot-Proof Infrastructure?
I. e., "We are a gossip rag and not to be trusted for credible journalism."

It is no better a disclaimer than the "Palestinian officials say" clause
> Even the poor families in our part of the world owned their own house and a plot of land. Daily bread was the big issue!

Owning your own land is how you go from being a poor bachelor to being a poor family.

It is definitely not the case in general in the ancient world that poor people are likely to own land.

(Though also: were there no Travelers in rural Ireland?)
No one's calling into question that there was an explosion. The question is over the cause and the extent of casualties, which people who lived next door likely wouldn't be in the best position to evaluate.
There would be two major problems with sum types (especially for results) in Go 1.x:

- There are genuine use cases where returning both a value and an error makes complete sense. My favourite example is doing I/O: some bytes were copied, but there was a problem with the rest.

- It has significant overlap in scope & functionality with interface types. You could have "type Color enum { Named(string); RGB(int, int, int) }", or you could have "type Color interface { RGB() (int, int, int) }; type NamedColor string;" etc and it's not very clear which style you'd be supposed to use, and in what case.

The first problem could be somewhat alleviated by having very special result types that can have both a return value and an error, but these would have to be different from regular "variant" results, so you'd end up either with two ways to do a very similar thing, or yet another layer of abstraction.

The second problem is fundamental to the design of the language, and I would absolutely *hate* to see Go go through the same unholy mess as Python: "old-style" vs "new-style" classes, dataclasses (with third-party "attrs" as a stepping stone), protocols/generic containers, "match"/destructuring, all of these were clumsily grafted on and code that mixes all of these styles can be found all over the place. You do need to make ADTs and pattern matching a first-class citizen in 1.0, otherwise the place you end up in is not pretty at all.

Go? Yeah, we have a lot of SortIntegers([]int) and SortStrings([]string) and SortByName([]Person) in older code, but that's about its biggest sin. As of 1.21, slices.Sort & slices.SortFunc are in std and fixing this older code is pretty much a mechanical task. It's not perfect, but at least it's not worse by trying too hard to be perfect.
Reducing the number of users is not the same as 'endangering' the technology itself.

No technology was 'endangered' by WW2.

In fact, it enabled many new technologies.
Off topic but White House also screw up big time with the Delta Force with Biden photo op by not blurring their faces.
My personal experience with a room full of very smart introverts is that they do not communicate near enough information, or simplify it to the proper level. I assume it is because their expectation of "common knowledge" is much higher.
Marketing my book to 1000 sales
"- Why is architecture important?
- A murder on the street is not the same as a murder inside a building."
Maybe you can build a better workflow with BetterTouchTool (https://docs.folivora.ai/docs/1003_did_open_url.html) or Choosy (https://choosy.app/)?
Providing your password to a technician under any circumstances is a terrible idea to start with. Depending on how careless you are[1] they might gain access to your email, social media, bank accounts and all kinds of personal, legal and financial documents. Pictures are the least of your concerns.

The only safe way to do this is to 1) be present during service if it’s a software issue, 2) backup your data somewhere else, and wipe the device clean before handing it in.

[1] safe to assume that people who take their laptops to service shops know _nothing_ about security
I am yet to do any development in WSL2.
Article implies that free public transport lead to increases in car traffic. But we have to wonder, would it have been even worse without free public transport?
For those that haven't seen it he backed the lab leak theory very publicly some time back

https://youtu.be/sSfejgwbDQ8?si=4XnKhOYu5mUiBZBs&t=172
It seems like a fun idea, though I can't see any situation where it'd be useful to me, whatever it is. But then you add on the marketing, and it just seems like a sketchy startup. The TM mark on kernel (and reusing the term kernel in the first place) immediately raises red flags.
There was somewhere a joke program that "compressed" data by saving its offset in the digits of pi.
My solution to both of these has been to create separate .desktop entries for each profile and give each a theme and a custom icon. That way I can know from the window manager which profiles I have open and which one I'm looking at according to the theme. You can then launch a specific profile through the icon, with Super->"ffwork", or with the right-click->open new window if you have it open already.

The main problem is that I have completely forgotten how to do this multiple times across different machines and I never remember which combo of FF flags and .desktop values necessary to get instances identifying themselves to the dwm as a separate program. I think this is correct though https://askubuntu.com/questions/1209434/how-to-display-two-d...
I use https://color.firefox.com/ to differentiate. It's a solid theming system that they built a few years ago, promoted for about a week and then never mentioned again. Probably because they'd rather promote their braindead self-destructing themes (sorry, 'Colorways drops')
People should seriously stop being surprised that the objective of corporations under a capitalistic world order is to maximize shareholder wealth and not to dismantle oppressive authoritarian regimes.
I wasn't sure what to make of that article.

Most of the examples were blue collar and it's not hard to see why there might have been more sick days the past few years.

On the other hand with more flexible working arrangements for some workers, it's also not hard to see why someone not feeling well might literally phone it in for a couple hours rather than taking a formal sick day.

Without a lot more data I'm not inclined to conclude a lot from a few numbers.
It might not have been a rocket either: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/20/2200511/-CAR-BOM...
I think a large part of that is probably because the needs for doing that kind of host to host thing aren't well understood yet for the general cases. Right now I think that's being fleshed out in the market using the whole DPU model still. I think sadly you're going to be right about how it turns out for a while and it won't be until something like CXL 6.0 or whatever comes after it that starts to really address that.

I'm wondering when we'll see the first CXL DPU style device that uses some of the fancy new 800Gbps or even 1.6Tbps networking stuff that's being developed right now. That'd be enough bandwidth to put things on the other end of a data-center with very little other than the latency penalty.
Apple remains committed to China, says Tim Cook; announces development donation
A friend has owned one of these vehicles. It stopped working while driving on the freeway (twice).
I actually think Nate is wrong on this, especially on how he states the wrong-ness of the two parts of the story. It seems very likely to me that initial death counts were overstated. But the probability that it was an Israeli bomb that went off in the parking lot carries a lot more uncertainty and I think there's still a decent chance that it's true. There's still a lot of investigation to be done but, if when all is said and done, it turns out the bomb likely was from Israel, will Nate stick to his own standards of retraction?
It’s an LLM. Just check their website from before the re-branding (os2.ai). I linked the wayback machine version elsewhere in the comments.
You can have a look at Choosy (https://choosy.app/) if a paid solution works for you. (Not affiliated at all, just a happy user).
Hackernews being mainstream.
To answer GP's (presumed) followup questions:

No, that is not a typo.

Yes, it's exactly as stupid as it sounds.
From a quick skim - the article only has n=1 data on 1st-party repair. So it's difficult to draw any "you can trust 1st-party repair" conclusions.

Vs. a "don't trust repair, just replace it" conclusion...
"any format" seems to be pretty limited. Epoch time is unsupported.
At this moment there is still a headline up on BBC: Hospital Blast in Gaza City Kills Hundreds - Health Officials.

In addition to the problems Nate mentions with this wording a reasonable person could think that these "health officials" are a disinterested party, rather than what they are, an appendage of the Hamas run government.
Cursed Units [video]
Or at least read the top 1/3 of the page that isn't obscured due to the paywall.
Meta has a moderation bias problem that's suppressing Palestinian voices
Why do I feel like blogs just offered a lot more 10+ years ago... Probably just survivor bias right?
Good on them? Yes, let’s give them a pass for even allowing this car to be shipped as is. It’s a freaking mustang, and they never floored it in any of their tests during development of the car? Nobody ever sat down with pencil and paper and did the math on the extreme conditions on what would happen if the max power was requested? No where in the computer code for throttle control has a software limiter to prevent surge requests like this?

Just seems like shit design process to me, it sure, let’s pat them in the back for doing a mea culpa
I really liked the calculus book by Swokowski. The books starts with a revision of the requirements to start learning derivatives, has sections dedicated to applications of that and then goes on to integrals, analytical geometry and differential equations. It will keep you entertained for months.
Exactly. We could always see a user's own tweets in order by going to their page.

It's made the whole business of status updates completely unusable. If I want to find out why the fire helicopters are out, I can no longer see that on the fire department's Twitter page (even though they do post it!). If I want to find out if my local lake is closed due to algae, I can no longer see it on the park's page (even though they do post it!).

Pretty soon all these organizations are going to realize that their pages are worthless and leave Twitter.
messing with PGP is hard _FOR YOU_. Your inadequacies are not universal.
In Canada copying some of those intimate photos might currently be illegal:

https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/revenge-porn-...
> Besides groceries is just one example of many expenses so I believe that differences get averaged out, and if they don't the two of us don't care about it.

Yes, that is where I was going with my line of questioning. What is the point of all that separating work if you don’t care about it not averaging out?

Obviously, you do you, it’s just funny to me.
Different usage, I think: if people are talking about "language not expressive enough", they're referring to mechanisms for generating C#, or IL, not things further down the toolchain for AOT.

System.Xml.Serialization, for example, relies on generating assemblies at runtime to work. That's "code generation", but of a kind that directly conflicts with the AOT meaning of "code generation".
People who are into loud bikes and cars seem obnoxious to me. This comment especially doesn’t seem to care about performance or speed. Is the appeal really just to be loud and get attention?
Tell them "put 'React' into Google", then beat them with sticks until the MVP is completed.
That's not really true.

Source generation is used at some level to implement expressivity at minimal runtime cost. It's just operating at a different level of abstraction to make different tradeoffs.

Whether you do Foo.Serialize() and it uses reflection to enumerate the properties, carries around tags permanently or it uses some compiletime generated function has nothing much to do with expressiveness.

If you design around a Foo<bar> does it matter if behind the scenes it generates a FooOfBar?

Should a language inherently care specifically about protobufs, flatbuffers, capnproto, etc because expressiveness or should it just have capable source generators for building strongly typed interfaces without the legwork? Are you sure an alternative implementation which is more expressive would be better or would it just be different?
Create a channel in your slack and

/feed https://status.slack.com/feed/rss

Then you have all the updates, and it's great. They're super transparent about any incident they're having.
What is your actual counterposition here? That news outfits shouldn’t publish anything until it’s incontrovertible? This is not a practical position to hold; the NPR’s qualification seems reasonable to me in light of the situation.
Wikipedia mods are eager to remove articles that they claim to be not significant so the least viewed article will probably change a lot
This is great, and there are a lot of past discussions about it (and other articles on the site): https://hn.algolia.com/?q=redblobgames

709 points | 10 years ago | 69 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5809724

462 points | 9 years ago | 39 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941588

368 points | 3 years ago | 74 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25340425

337 points | 5 years ago | 46 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19184412

174 points | 6 years ago | 18 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14627711

174 points | 8 years ago | 15 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9537009
As they say, if you ain't paying, you are the product. And if you are paying, you are a premium product.
I don't think x86 will ever get to the level of power efficiency that ARM has, simply due to the fact the arm cores and instructions are all built and engineered for low power usage. Performance per watt is only part of the picture, power-at-idle is also a substantial contributor to battery life and total consumption. Further to this, the fact that almost all subsystems are on-chip for an arm processor and don't require separate off-die (typically older process node/lower efficiency) chips for this means that the entire system efficiency can be considerably higher even if the per-instruction performance per watt is marginally lower.

Anecdotally, the operating system also determines, considerably, the system efficiency. Case in point - I installed chromeos (brunch) on my HP ultrabook (originally a windows 10 machine, 8th gen i7 "U" processor) and the battery lasts 12-18 hours vs 6-8 with windows doing essentially the same light workload.
You don't have any idea what introversion means. Introversion doesn't mean withholding information nor being afraid to speak out loud nor being unable to synthetise information.

It does not mean to be shy, nor uncomfortable with people. Introversion does not mean exhibiting symptoms of autism either, which might be what you are talking about with "simplify at the proper level" (?).

Introversion and extroversion have absolutely nothing to do with the quality of a software engineer or its documentation. I just wish this label would just die, given how its misunderstood and misconstrued.
Price point and taxation do not reflect external costs and are being offset by subsidies or tax deductions [0]

[0] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23/Sti...
This argument might even work on people not living next to russia.
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards? [pdf]
Just because a country gets conquered, it doesn't stop being that country. England didn't change borders when the Normans invaded.

You might as well say France only dates from 1945 if we follow your logic.
I wonder what the viewership numbers were?

The Daily Show had a constant buzz, and popped up in my newsfeed every once in a while.

I've never once had his Apple show pop up in my feed!

I haven't seen the show but I wonder if it had the same quality as The Daily Show.
Super cool to find a new way to monitor git performance with OTel, would be interesting to see if you can fill out all the DORA metrics with an OpenTelemetry dashboard.
> The Israeli Defense Forces said that the blast was the result of a misfire from a Hamas rocket, and President Biden, citing Department of Defense evidence, has backed that claim.

These same people claimed to have seen pictures of 40 beheaded babies last week and had to immediately walk that back. The IDF also claimed not to have assassinated journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, but months later admitted to it. This is a well know IDF playbook, they are not a credible source.
Counterpoint: Religion has mechanism which force you to life with depression.

See the notion that suicide is illegal/bad.

Also most old people I know are religios and still are depressed.

Religion overall has very little effect on people. How many are religios and still break all rules. Alone hating on other people, being racists etc.
Fast radio burst took 8B years to reach Earth
Yeah I’m sure that’s part of it. I think he’s also just ridiculously good at programming and knows how to squeeze every ounce of performance out of a WASM app. One thing he has going for him is that the app design was basically done already for him by hundreds of people over 20+ years to design the original Photoshop interface (he’s basically totally stealing all of that from some old version of Photoshop, maybe version 6 from 2000 or so). It’s still an absolutely insane amount of work though.
Sadly ArcaOS isn't so usable nowadays. The biggest issue is that an ancient version of Firefox is the only viable option for a web browser.
DevOps is not a role, but a culture inside an organization

I think we need to give up on fighting this fight. The thousands upon thousands of job postings with that job title clearly indicate otherwise.

Better to accept that the philosophical battle has been lost and that DevOps Engineer is the new name for other titles like "System Administrator", "Infrastructure Engineer", "Operations Engineer", or "Site Reliability Engineer".

e.g. "The person responsible for dealing with making sure there is a way for the software to run somewhere and that it stays running."
good to see opentelemetry adoption at big companies
So France only dates from 1945?
Nonprofit hospitals skimp on charity while CEOs reap millions, report finds
I welcome these but for each of 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 I still feel that the elphant (missing) in the room is a proper sum type. How come I have to write some 100 line monstrosity of a utility class each time i want "Either a result or an error" or similar.
Transparency around sponsored content has become the norm
If you're buying an EV, it seems buying one from traditionally ICE manufacturers is a bad idea. With the exception of Hyundai. They all seem to be quite shit.
You know cement is not used to make the bricks right?
I just tried again.

Turn out it is the correct spell that triggers the warning
Apparently nobody at Apple when they signed Jon Stewart.
Pi and e in Binary (2011)
Unrolling the ROC Curve (With Animation)
Well, finding and then publishing the name of the least viewed wikipedia article would then drive up the view count, nullifying the initial reason for the search!
Seems remarkably similar to when they print a "debate" on taxes that consists of "We need to cut food stamps to balance the budget" on one side and "We need to raise taxes on the upper-middle class, actually" on the other. One of these has clear factual arguments behind it, but the other one is the interest of the company hosting the debate, so who's to say?
No it won't. At least not for me, a not-logged-in user. What's an "active post" anyway? A pinned post is at the top, but what status page constantly pins and unpins their latest post?

When I go to most Twitter pages, now, I see completely random posts from years ago at the top.
I only wish I'd included a disproportionally large amount of erotica. The literotica dump in The Pile preliminary components lives on as a reminder that at one time ML work was not so serious as to be boring.
Abandoned, but still works.
Mine is not present! I look forward to its position being revealed later in my life.
John von Neumann – The Man for Whom Everything Was a Game
Kia ain't doing so bad either.
Awesome, hadn’t seen that. I’m sure there will be a zillion edge cases where it won’t work properly for specific documents because of odd latex quirks.