skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget Yohualtepuztli - The Axe of Night! Another great "Dude Without Head" monster.

At night you might hear the sound of someone chopping at the root of a tree - CHUD CHUD CHUD - but if you seek it out, you'll see this black monster of Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror. A massive human form, with a neck cut off like a stump, and in his chest and trunk are two enormous doors, swinging back and forth as he moves through the forest. As they slam shut they make their sound - CHUD CHUD CHUD. Within the doors you can glimpse Yohualtepuztli's beating heart, and, according to tradition, if you are fast and lucky you can reach in and take it, and Tezcatlipoca will grant you favors.

Of course, he might just kill you for funsies, because Tezcatlipoca. Aztec gods, man. They make Yahweh look nice.
That’s a bug in the allocator. Realloc should not grab a lock the entire time.
Mushroom.gg – leaked databases and 28M users exposed
Is this better from a safety standpoint? All I remember from sodium in its normal metal form in school was that it had to be kept in a bottle of oil because as soon as it gets into contact with oxygen it spontaneously combusts.. Which is exactly the problem with lithium cells too.
It probably is not the same people having that discussion in every thread. Also, people may have views that can change overtime.
The $41B Plan for Tokyo
Back in the day the web designer did everything including the artistic parts of building a website.

Nowadays, most companies building websites have split the responsibilities into multiple roles.

Frontend Engineers aren’t called “web designers” because that’s not what they do. A UX Designer and graphic designer decided how a button should look and feel, and the frontend engineer is the one who implements the functionality in code. They literally are not designers.

The article acknowledges the splitting of the roles but doesn’t explain why this is supposed to be a bad thing. It’s pretty obvious why the split took place: because websites are more complex and standards are higher (unless you think the space jam website is the pinnacle of web design).
They aren't. This article is a basket of contempt against different targets (men, SDEs, the weather) and makes little sense. The reason why stand-alone web designers "ceased to exist" (they haven't) is because of the proliferation of out-of-the-box front-end frameworks that allow anyone to build a reasonably good site using polished building blocks.

edit: typo
It doesn't get any better. I was too annoyed with how many times in such a short article she managed to blame men for everything to do a thorough reading, but I was at least expecting to see some summary of great design elements we are all missing out on because of the focus on "frontend" over "web design".
I think what you’re looking for is an older used Nissan leaf
I can't help but feel like this is a disingenuous criticism. The average American spends about 10pct of their waking life driving[0], nevermind the millions of people spending their professional output driving trucks and cabs. Please note that society has found the status quo preferable to public transit, as much as you (or I) might disagree.

[0]A 45 minute commute two ways + errands out of 16 waking hours. I for one would like that 10 percent of my life back.
Feel free to take it up with the scientists who study and discuss radiative forcing in units of watts/m^2
Plenty of people see more than one doctor, and they (doctors) are not great at unifying their notes.
I do have to mention that out of all their appliances, I do love their washing machines. I have owned a couple over the last 10 years ant they just keep working.
New scripting language which claims to be fast and includes LuaJIT as a comparison in the benchmarks? That is a real test.

To do a surface level bikeshed: not a huge fan of whitespace or braces. Needless flexibility in the language when they could just pick one. If there is an eventual code formatter, I assume the decision will be made then.
> That's exactly the way sharing worked for many years, until Ventura.

I don’t mean that the burden of proof is to show that they could or even should work the same way. I mean the burden of proof is to demonstrate the same principle applies to copying a link as applies to sharing it.

> And when you talk about another "recipient", it's important to clarify that sharing is between apps on your own system. Sharing between people may or may not occur as a result of that, which is another reason why I liken it to copy and paste.

This is a fair point! Particularly because the “share” functionality is overloaded for things which it conceptually shouldn’t be.

> The point is that privacy is the default. It doesn't need to be justified. As Apple says repeatedly and vehemently, "We believe privacy is a fundamental human right."

I’m still not sure why you’re pointing this out to me here. I was never arguing that this warrants an exception to privacy, by default or otherwise. I was questioning the applicability of privacy to the functionality in question. You’ve given me some reason to reconsider that. Not on the basis that I’ve reevaluated the value of privacy per se, but on the basis that I do better see how it might apply in this case.
Bravo. I am reminded of the “noble savage” concept whenever I read that the people will rise up and support the libre Internet, if they would simply be introduced to it, from pseudo-vanguard tech-literati.

Dialectical virtualism?

The market has spoken, and the market prefers locked-down platforms and subscriptions.
Yup, my mistake
And not just there, also when walking in the city. Little shortcuts are often not on Google maps at all. The only thing where I see Google beat it is live public transport information.

And perhaps traffic but I don't drive so I don't know how good that is.
Asking everyone to publish general results or reports would make it very easy for actors/nations to have a "hit list" of groups to bug/steal from to "keep up" with competing groups/nations.
I can look at my bank statement at the end of the month and give you an average cost per person in my household. But without spending considerable time going through expenses, I can’t tell you what the breakdown is.
Even 30 FPS is perfectly playable in any game. People have truly gone off the deep end with this FPS shit. Back in the day, most (all?) console games ran at 30 FPS, and we somehow managed to play them and have fun. I would love to see the people complaining about "only" 50 FPS try to wrap their brains around that one.
IMO they should have taken the $50,000 dollars someone was willing to pay for it rather than spending $1.1 million in donations to melt it down and turn it into something else. Just seems like lighting a giant pile of money on fire.

source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/07/charlotte...
I went into this hoping that it would go more into how web design sucks now, hopefully with more specific critiques. I understand that the typical "web designer that builds entire websites" role is mostly gone now, but how has that actually affected development? Is it any different from other products, where Product Design and Product Development are also different roles?

I've encountered plenty of UI developers that have very little visual design sense and are mostly fine, and I've encounter plenty of UI designers that don't know the intricacies of the front-end. Sure, sometimes those two have to hash things out, but that hasn't seemed to have been a large blocker in my experience; just part of the process.
Curious take. I mean, I've been building websites since the late 1990s and I agree that there are very few people working today who understand the whole stack but that's because it is more complicated now. But it's a big leap to suggest that that's down to sexism (and I'm not denying that sexism in tech is a real problem). I'm not at all convinced that "front end developer" and "web designer" are the same job. They both still exist as separate roles. Some people can do both, same as some people do frontend and backend web dev. But they're not the same role.
Oh, I get it completely. If you're anything like me, then just getting the license will suck you into it pretty deeply. You should be in a position where you won't mind the lost time.
Yes, it's mine. I definitely think ChatGPT could help you improve at written English. 100%. If I were seriously studying another language or wishing to improve my skills in it, I would indeed request ChatGPT's assistance! Good luck, my friend!
> Then came git.

Not quite. Then came Mercurial, which preceded git. Mercurial has the distributed VCS features of git but with a sane UI. And because it's just a Python program it runs anywhere.

I think Mercurial lost because Linus either didn't know about it or didn't like it and wrote git in response to the Bitkeeper scandal. Then github came along and didn't support Mercurial, and that sealed Mercurial's fate.
Click on the top link to understand what's going on. The point is that ChatGPT purportedly generated that nonsensical answer to a human prompt and Google somehow picked it up as the top search result for that query.
I knew a guy who did this. He lived in a 15,000 square foot mansion.
It does in fact look good on my $1000 card (not even $2000).
You can't get right/left balance metrics with a single pod. Several old metrics are now applied to both feet, so you can compare right to left. EG, if you notice your right leg spring stiffness increasing, but not your left, you know the right leg is getting stronger, which might prompt you to increase the strength in your left leg. That sort of stuff.

But yeah. The goal is to get existing Next Gen Stryd customers to purchase a second Next Gen pod as well as a membership. But for older Stryd pod owners like myself, $250 for two Next Gen pods and a membership is a pretty sweet deal.
Analyzing gene therapy startup in layman's terms
> What happened around that time, in 2010 or so, that I mentioned? Well, the area of front-end work, which has been heavily gendered as "feminine" work, was finally being viewed as "serious" or "real" programming* because, to no one's surprise, something that is designed well is good for business.

I disagree, what happened was that javascript got fast and now everyone wanted web apps instead of web pages. Web designers makes web pages, documents with little javascript. Web developers makes web apps with huge amounts of javascript. They are two very different roles, it makes sense to have different job titles for them.
Li Keqiang Index
Definitely.

The idea that you'd "need" to take Viagra or Cialis is an assault on many men's sense of masculinity and virility.
Bootstrap launched, that is what happened.
I’m not sure self driving buses are possible with out something approaching general AI. The bus driver needs to be able to respond in real time to questions like does this bus go to X. They also need to be able to communicate nonverbally with passengers waiting at bus stops.
It also usually takes two or three days for a bag sent from a hotel to reach the airport in particular compared to overnight for other such location pairs in the same urban area. On some Shinkansen trains there are extra luggage seats available that have more storage space for luggage that can be prebooked - I've used these before from and to the airport, with luggage delivery between hotels.
I’d love to decode some radio signals - just to go through the “motions” and try my hand at it.

Is something like an AM radio signal decoding relatively easy to understand? What about FM? And NTSC?

Is the python code clear-ish? Complicated? Full of math I’m not appreciating?

Thanks!

Ok… it’s not exactly trivial: https://pysdr.org/content/rds.html#fm-demodulation
Life is good.

Years later, I moved to the US and decided to make Michigan my new home.

I didn't know much about the area, so I checked Wikipedia, found the entry for Hope College, clicked on alumni and was surprised to see your name. I had no idea Slashdot started in Holland, MI, even though I visited your site every day for over 10 years.

I guess I should have mined bitcoins instead. But in Soviet Russia, bitcoins mine you.
This. 10000+

On a personal note. My partner is doing the same. Sadly this job is not viewed as a real job in most parts of the USA (where I live). It’s a damn shame. If anything it’s looked down upon by large swaths of the society.
Depends really, some people are fussy about the removal of shoes in the home in the UK and some aren't.

I'm sure you can guess by the way I say it which end I'm at.

I wear shoes around my house because if I don't, as a home-worker, I don't wear shoes very often, and then my feet and ankles start to get painful. I try to segregate indoor and outdoor shoes, but am not very successful at this, and have yet to find slippers which are supportive enough.
I used OctoPrint for about six months, switched my printers to Klipper with Fluidd, and switched all my printers the Fluidd UI was much more mobile friendly and I was checking my prints using my phone anyway. I'd probably support those but OctoPrint just struck me as clunky and slow compared to other options.
Limewash (2005) [pdf]
45 FPS is not "sputtering". It's perfectly acceptable.
I just came out of reading the article surprised at how little it had to do with gender. The point is there, and reasonably made IMO, but the article is mainly about the culture of front end dev.

Honestly, I ponder whether reacting to the mention of gender as harshly as this is remotely healthy or even logical.
Tesla’s move to open up and sell their charging network and devices has been a great idea. It clearly it benefiting them and seems to be befitting the general EV ecosystem as well.
> A meet-cute

OK. That's the second time now. I feel like in the last 48 hours, "meet-cute" or "meetcute" has been introduced as a New Word and everyone got the memo but me.
http://www.h-online.com/security/features/Skype-s-ominous-li...
i have read other posts by you here which has the same usage and are similarly unpleasant - hence my question.
> featuring the same Biologist
>please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Failure to understand a post does not give you a pass to be rude.
Why not move the statue to a museum instead of melting it down? If that isn't agreeable then why not sell it at auction? Maybe the city could use the resulting funds to build a new statue.

Destroying art whether it be books, paintings, sculptures, or otherwise is emotionally reactionary at best and totalitarian at worst. It shouldn't matter whether the art is political, religious, or secular. No one should have the right to destroy art barring the creator themselves and even that's debatable.
> I know. This thread was specifically about the web though. Web components?

That is exactly the point. This author compares Web Components to React and Astro. Web Components is a spec. React is a general-purpose XML-based reactive GUI rendering library. Astro and Next are frameworks. Next uses React, and Astro can use React. I think you can use React and ReactDOM to render custom elements on the Web already (or will be able to soon), nothing fundamental prevents it. Either the author is not experienced enough to understand what is what, or he tries to gather engagement by inciting a holy war using false dichotomies.

> If you put React on the web, it is only fair to consider it together with react-dom in all the comparisons.

React-the-library doesn’t cease to exist if you happen to use it with ReactDOM. It also doesn’t automatically become a framework. In addition, the Web exists within the rest of reality. Even if all of the above contenders were also libraries, if one library works independently of particular medium (e.g., can be used in native applications, etc.) then it exists on another level than any Web-centric library.
For quite a while, MAME didn't always emulate sound chips. A number of games early on worked by way of prerecorded sound samples triggered at the appropriate times.
These batteries do not contain metallic sodium. It contains sodium ions, in solution.

Hence the name "sodium ion batteries"
I'm all for naming an asteroid "Acapulco", though.
Yeah pretty much, my wife uses them interchangeably.
They are lucrative in the sense that they divert energy from trains and other public transportation infrastructure, keeping demand for cars high.
This all has me wondering, if I just want to play with stuff in this space as an individual homelabber who earns a tech salary and wants a nicely designed rack-mounted alternative to a mess of unorganized NUCs and cables and whatnot, what are my best options?
Since you mention Rails, have you seen https://www.phoenixframework.org/

Question: what’s the status of WA open sourcing their typed Erlang project?
Nice work, Keith.
SoftIron builds deeply secure servers for careful customers (2021)
Still not easy to skim, flip through e readers. Especially remarkable which is damn slow to turn and render a page.
Roads could be half the size they are now if a schedule could be worked out. Congestion pricing already exists.

And yet, that issue hasn't been solved. Instead, rush hour remains a thing.
This ask HN post surfaces a question I have often wondered but haven't found a logical answer to.

Why do people not share their salary information more openly when it is beneficial for them. Most people know that sharing would help them negotiate better and in some cases take away the extreme amount of leverage the employer has due to comp being secretive.

I will post this as a separate question to see what the hive mind thinks.
China has 25k miles of bullet trains and China accounted for a third of the cars sold in 2022. A third. This is a country that limits imports and even limits the number of drivers in some cities. So it’s silly to suggest public transit can replace cars.

ETA: Replace all cars.

So as long as we will have cars, we might as well make them safer.

> getting self driving cars that are all electric will be a big win.

I will say that this is still far away and the goals are orthogonal. We have electric cars now, the technology is proven. But it will take a generation of cars to replace the existing ICE vehicles. If and when self-driving vehicles are available it will take a generation to replace existing ones.
For the sake of discussion here urban means not dependent on car for majority of errands.
Narita is really far! But cabs are more reasonable of a choice for Haneda depending on where you are, where it will be more like $50 and maybe save you half an hour or so if you’re in the opposite side of the city.
The blame game is exhausting, inflammatory (often intentionally and this case is no exception), and I wish I could say played out but I don't think we are there yet.
Fixed rail is not a perfect solution, either. Nor are millions of mopeds. Same goes for articulated buses, or hang gliders.

But be patient. Let more pieces emerge. Let things evolve. Maybe driverless cars will evolve into passengerless engines. Then people own their own passenger cars that are engineless and just hop from one conga line to another to get to their destination.

Once you have driverless solved, you might increase traffic density immensely. Maybe safety goes way up and you can reduce the weight of these vehicles by 500kg. So fuel consumption drops dramatically, road wear drops dramatically, etc. Maybe it allows ambulances to fly down roadways because computers are way better at getting out of the way. Maybe it causes the auto industry to collapse because we go from 3 autos per home, to 0.8 cars per household because you can just summon one whenever you want. Maybe it doesn't do any of this.

The Pony Express was revolutionary, but only lasted 18 months before the telegraph sent it into the history books. Now we have pocket phones. So was the Pony Express a stupid innovation? Or does progress move in zigzag lines?
> The MK4 and XL are barely functional with Octoprint and Prusa has indicated they intend to keep them this way

They have, in fact, stated the opposite, that they are actively working to address the issues:

https://nitter.net/Prusa3D/status/1705151177329959185
It’s not new. It’s been a thing in writing about rom
coms since at least the early 90s, if not earlier.

Edit: Wikipedia cites a first usage in print of 1941, which implies it was already a common trope at the time: The earliest example given by the Oxford English Dictionary is from Anthony Boucher's mystery novel The Case of the Solid Key (1941), in which a character says "We met cute, as they say in story conferences."
Or maybe it came out wrong like she said. People commonly say ever when they mean hardly ever.
I can't see the difference between anything above 20 FPS or so.
> the gendering of design as women's work

WTF? This is the literally first time I've heard someone describe web-design as "women's work."

I find myself worrying that it's the opening move of some sort of "damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't" scenario from the author, e.g.: "Oh, so it's men's work!? How sexist!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broca%27s_Brain
Simply ending exclusive zoning would do wonders for American towns.
Weird that you spent more of your apparently precious time making this comment instead of just scrolling down.
The US could also fund a coup to overthrow the Venezuelan government. Perhaps not the best option, but an option. The CIA likely has a line item for such consulting engagements.
Psycho alert.
Can someone explain the difference between declarative and imperative in this context? My understanding is SQL is declarative.

So is declarative something like “writing high level statements that postgres turns into more specific (imperative?) instructions”? And imperative being writing those specific “do this, then do this” yourself (although probably differently than how postgres does it under the hood).
There's some interesting history around the gendered history of computing: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356

Ballistics computing was obviously done by women as the men were drafted & overseas, but all paid at 'subprofessional rates'. Another good history at https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/sections/research/how-co...

There are definitely some parallels between OP's article and the history of computing.
I dont want to sell because moving is a hassle ... and i couldnt afford another house around here. I dont want to refinance because of rates.
My mortgage specifically says it is non transferable too.
You've got a lot of answers already but ... wow...

Allow me to say first of all that I agree we should have denser cities/towns, better public transport to get around, and we should all use it more.
But some stats (no citation, these are rattling around in my memory, feel free to fact check).
90% of cars are not utilised 90% of the time. That is insane wastage for energy intensively manufactured, expensive pieces of equipment.
1/3 of city centres are dedicated to parking (probably a US stat). Huge amount of valuable land unlocked.

Imagine unlocking that capital and land inefficiency. Then imagine cars halve in size and drive bumper to bumper and twice the speed. That could be a 2 x 2 x 2 improvement in commuting.

Don't get me wrong, even if we grant the pessimists on FSD that it won't be till 2100, that's a huge prize to be aiming at.
Public transit doesn't scale outside of dense urban areas. North America doesn't have the population density to make public transit viable outside specific metros like Chicago, NYC, Boston, DC. And said metros already do have public transit. So cars are the main viable option, and self-driving cars present the opportunity to regain time lost to commuting.

Less discussed, but probably even more important are driverless trucks. There's actually a shortage of truck drivers in the US, since it's a job with pretty bad work life balance and unpredictable hours. Self driving trucks could potentially be huge in terms of improving freight costs.