skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm surprised that Java and modern C++ are not more popular. I know for large web applications, Java is popular in "enterprise" environments.

Java scales both up (Spring Boot, with it's many integrations) and down (Dropwizard, a bunch of popular packages, nice for simpler projects) pretty well, has a great runtime and the language itself is okay.

Also there's .NET, where everything seems to revolve more around ASP.NET and EF, but as a consequence feels less fragmented than things on the Java side. Performance is also nice (especially on Linux with Kestrel) and the tooling is nice.

Honestly, both seem a viable option for something with more typing and language guarantees, as well as on average having a bit better performance than some of the highly dynamic languages (at the expense of iteration speed early on in development).

That said, Go is probably also worth a look, the deployment situation there is way simpler.
Insomniac is incredible. I have great appreciation for studios willing to maintain their own engine and consistently push technological boundaries. Same with Remedy.
> There's a reason for this, how we raise girls is tailored to making good girlfriend/wife material. You don't see the incredible amount of effort that is spent over a lifetime to this end because we're used to it.

No, you're mistaking pressure to conform for pressure to be attractive. Women are constantly pressured not to stray too far away from society's defaults, and they're judged much more strictly for non-conformism than men are.

But the things which mainstream society encourages for women in the name of conformity have a huge overlap with what men consider attractive anyway (a quick example which comes to mind is the pressure to stay thin). Whereas men still gain social status by being attractive, but are given much more leeway to deviate in their lifestyles.

> ...being the kind of guy that women find attractive hurts your social status among men. Pretty boy is used as an insult but you will find no shortage of women throwing themselves at them.

No, being attractive is still a boost for a man's social status. Being tall, or rich, or strong won't get you insulted at all. "Pretty boy" is an exception, but I could compare it to "bimbo" for women.
The second part seemed pretty weak to me, too, but I think there's a potentially bigger shift which could be steel-manned out of the battery idea. e-waste is getting a lot of attention, as are right to repair laws, and general realization that we can't keep generating waste on a 20th century scale.

Apple might have an interesting angle for embracing that because unlike their competitors they profit from the whole stack, have a robust service portfolio, and retail presence near a large portion of their customers. Turning device longevity into a competitive point really puts pressure on anyone who can't easily switch from Qualcomm's blink-and-you-miss-it support period or negotiate some kind of revenue sharing agreement between themselves, Microsoft/Google, and services like Spotify or Netflix, and unlike most other attempts to make it harder to compete with them this would actually be seen as a general good by almost everyone other than their direct competitors.
Yes, and this is exactly when you have ineffective PMs, and senior leadership isn't paying attention.

With a good product and design team, I have been part of engineering teams that have 5 engineers than can do the work of 20, without working overtime, consistently deliver, and rarely, have to implement anything twice.

The difference between effective product and not is absolutely night and day. The best analogy is driving a modern car, vs driving a modern car without vehicle stability, anti-skid, power steering, automatic transmission, or AC. Sure you absolutely can drive it, but after a while you will need way more breaks than those who have all the nice features, and won't roll over in bad situations.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/great-wealth-transfer-isn-t-1...
Article gives examples of the cube mapping interiors https://forum.unity.com/threads/interior-mapping.424676/#pos...

You’re right about the new one though, they’ve apparently gone to raytracing for Spider-Man 2’s windows. I wonder if they’ll stick to raytracing always enabled if they do a PC port of this one.
Perhaps I’m just getting crap doctors but I’ve had so many bad experiences even with specialists that it seems nearly impossible to get help with anything past super basic issues. Over a year ago I had a dive related injury to my ear and I can’t get any help past “everything looks great” from any ENT. For context I can barely stand to be in many social situations without earplugs in one ear because I’m hearing some frequencies extremely loud and distorted and in my head instead of from their source.
I mean, there’s a reason we have the notion of pastiche vs. influence. Some works are derivative or unoriginal in a way that damages their artistry. Twin Peaks was wildly influential, but not everything it inspired does the same kind of cut-and-paste stuff that Alan Wake does. Control is, in fact, a better example of this - it’s thoroughly Lynchian without regurgitating so much of the specifics.
Htmx + Python + some managed db solution
I wonder if using this makes the most sense from a "security by obscurity" standpoint. It doesn't seem likely that blackhats would spend a lot of time hacking into such a marginally used OS.
Why is Fly apparently so unstable? I like many love the idea, but get a little scared by the many many anecdotes of issues.

What are they doing that makes it unstable? Lots of new locations spinning up that shake bugs loose? Cost-reducing refactorings that reduce stability?
This is DOI

https://www.doi.org/

Because, I just learned about it.
Genetics experiments are quite commonplace these days, for example in vaccine development, plant engineering, and many other applications
So it’s not up to Elon but is instead the US gov?
Oh, no I'm not referring to the temporary limited used cards. I'm talking about full on plastic card backed by an account.

Oyster card, ventra card, charlie card, SUBE, etc.
Considering 30 is pretty much the lower bound for becoming a physician, that stat sounds a little bit like "40% of employee absences happen on Mondays and Fridays". Alarmist and of zero value.
I'm just saying that X% of arch official packages being reproducible isn't a complete statistic when many day to day things are in AUR, most of which are in nixpkgs not NUR.
Sure, that's why we have "engineering mathematics" courses. This is not one of them.
> I want to write some code and have it run and I don't want or need to care about the details of how that happens as long as it works reliably

I'm sorry, this is an incredibly stupid take. You always "need" to care about the abstraction that your infrastructure is providing to you. Vercel also provides a abstraction in terms of serverless functions.

>I want to write some code and have it run and I don't want or need to care about the details of how that happens as long as it works reliably.

Yeah, same. As long as it works, I have no problem. Now add background tasks or streaming responses or a cron job. Oh, guess what, you have to suddenly care about the options your provider is giving you, or go out and buy some stupid cron-as-service or ssh-as-service because you don't have any control over your infrastructure. And now suddenly your infra is way more complicated than mine. I am still one that single dockerfile.

>Being able to ssh into your server is giving you more tools to fix problems, sure, but mostly problems that you created for yourself by having a server in the first place.

How is running a clean-up script anything to do with having a server? That is the most common use-case for ssh-ing into your server. In fact I am wracking my brains right now to come up with anytime I had a problem because of having a server and coming up short. Fly.io (or AWS, or GCP) has problems, for sure, but none of them are because I am running a server.
He thought it was untestable because it was based on a series unique one time unrepeatable events in the distant past.

Parts of the theory like Mendelian genetics are testable but on the whole... Evolution happens so slowly that we can't observe it or test it in a lab.

To me it seems like with Popper inquiry into how species came to be can never fit into science. It's a much narrower view than what we commonly understand as science today.
Using whichever skill you are trying to develop in low stakes situations.

You can flirt with a large variety of people and the social consequences are pretty low. Thinking about how people respond to it is also free. If it's rejection you fear, say hi to strangers. Some of them will ignore you (or maybe even be bothered). That's rejection. It feels like rejection. But the stakes are so low it's safe and you'll become inoculated to a degree or at least comfortable with it. If you want to get better at asking people out, either roleplay with a friend or ask people out that you find interesting, even (especially) if you don't have a crush on them. Bonus: You might get practice at dating, or just find someone you really like.
> I really don’t understand how people can trust platforms like Vercel

It's not an apples to apples choice. The people who use Vercel don't know anything about how to deploy on AWS. That's the whole point of Vercel. Whether or not they can be trusted is really orthogonal to the reason they were selected as a provider. But that said, they're just a layer over AWS so why should they be significantly less trustworthy? I haven't used Vercel in production, but I have used a similar "layer over AWS" service (Aptible). The problem where wasn't to do with QoS or support, but rather that the narrowing of the functionality of the "interface" (which is pretty much the point) ends up causing frustration when you want to integrate with other stuff you're doing in AWS.
Have you tried toggling Vampire Mode?
Ninth Circuit revives petition to give magic mushrooms Schedule II status
In what universe is the difference between $23/mo and some amount less than that incomparable? That's what? Two paid users worth of revenue? $23 per month is a rounding error. It's one T-shirt. It's the cost of a few minutes of your time. If you're running a business and you're worried about saving ones of dollars on hosting, you need to reconsider how you're spending your time and how your business makes money.
Ah I remember Xfire, pretty sure the biggest draw for me was the FPS counter it gave you.

I doubt this is related to the current domain, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfire#Video_game_and_pop_cultu...
Maybe it would be fairer to say that if I turned this thing on, it would be obliged to filter out its own README. If it doesn't, then it (the tool itself) is politically biased. (If it does, then no contradiction arises and no accusation of political bias can be made -- though IMHO some irony does arise.)

I assume it doesn't filter out its own README, but I haven't actually tried doing this, so I could be wrong.
What do you mean by “objectively good?”
I would throw out the option of just choosing your favorite lib for each component of the stack, and using them in conjunction.

I would also point out that the 3 specific points you mentioned have all been basic assumed features of web frameworks since 2012/2013 lol
I think real world stress is something that academic institutions don't prepare you for. Unless you're doing unique research, there is always a solution, always a reasonable way forward. In the real world you'll be tasked with solving some bullshit problem where there is no good solution. What I notice with successful people, especially management, is that they are able to take control of the situation and reframe the problem into something tractable. In school you would be punished for doing something like that. In real life it's often necessary. I think it's a learnable skill, but some people just burn themselves out instead of adapting. Usually a mentor is someone that can help you with that.
> To me, each column represents a different dimension of the basis vector space, so the notion that X, Y, and Z might form independent "column spaces" of their own is unintuitive at best.

I can't help but feel a treatment of linear algebra that assumes all matrices are invertible by default isn't a very good treatment at all. Column spaces are exactly how you harness your (very useful!) intuition that the columns of a matrix are where the basis goes. I agree that it should be defined before use, but it is- in the textbook proper. The preface is for the author to express themselves!

Now row spaces are an abomination, but that's because I'm not really a computation guy. I'm sure they're great if you get to know them.
at the bare minimum, we have graveyards all over the place with our language, names, number system, religious symbology, etc etc carved into stone
Yes, the controls were quite clunky and unfortunately the remastered edition did little to fix them.
Obviously this isn't true but gosh I wish this were a larger-than-life example of the trope of the military conducting a secret investigation of a crashed alien spacecraft buried within Antarctica. This trope appears over and over again, including in The Thing, Alien vs Predator, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and lots of other fiction. My favorite instance of this trope is in the amazing final book of the trilogy The Perfect Run by Maxime J. Durand.
Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2023
I don't see anything "kinda weird" about that.
All of this - all of this - is because Telsa has failed so far at service and repair.

They have optimized their factories for assembly, but service, spare parts, and repair parts are overwhelmed. They have also been hesitant to develop 3rd party repair options, so the situation is similar to apple phone/computer 3rd party repair.

Give it 10 years, and a little willpower.
You are talking from a fixed, assembly line perspective of having to deliver fixed value at fixed intervals. This is just not how I think of myself - as a cog in a machine. If you have to think of people this way because this is the only way your job functions in a huge corporation then do it but the ideal world doesn't work that way and therefore I don't want to work that way. I'm never going to be happy in a job where a PM isn't enabling me to do whatever I think is right for the product. Because just like you I happen to think that my ideas are good, so it would be a waste to just sit in a job like a soulless cog and work off an issue list every week with zero thought or input. Expecting people to be like this is probably why you get people like this.
>But that's not a hardware driver.

It is still a kernel module.

>That would benefit the people who are doing the wrong thing, at the expense of people who are doing the right thing.

People are going to make out of tree kernel modules regardless. It is only the wrong way because there is not a stable ABI for doing it.
> “Letting go" is suspiciously close to "be a doormat for others"

What I’m referring to is nothing like that whatsoever, and I’m not talking about/advocating CBT, or anything that involves adopting meekness.
In my experience, one of the devil details is continuously keeping such a database updated. Without a set of common standards among the various governments, they can capriciously change URLs, formatting, and other details that may make it somebody's fulltime job to keep it accurate and always up to date. Of course, not all use cases will require that, but many will.
Minor nitpick: there won't be economic profit but there will be accounting profit.
Oldest Brewery (2018)
Certain online games use dark designs to collect player data
Coed team sports are a great way to avoid this, since there’s necessarily a rough gender balance. Join your local ultimate frisbee summer league or whatever.
I agree. Real world job performance often rewards you for bending the rules or reframing the problems you face, whereas academia rewards you for following a path set for you.
>If you are a reader, you probably have more books than the entire corpus of ancient Greek writing.

I'm sorry but this is just not true
Recently like in the last hundred years?
There is! It’s called the [Pile of Law](https://huggingface.co/datasets/pile-of-law/pile-of-law), and it’s actually what inspired this project. The only caveat is that it doesn’t appear to be regularly updated, and so is more of a snapshot of US law rather than a semi-live copy. Also I’m not entirely sure how comprehensive it is (ie, whether there’s anything missing). For those interested in building a true US equivalent of my corpus, I think it could be a great starting point, particularly since they published the code they used to build it.
Yes. It’s easily googled. And they look like a normal healthy weight for the early 20th century[1]. Mama there has a healthy belly. Where are you seeing concentration camp victims?

[1] https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/media/sharecropper-family...
This is objectively false. In fact, it's the opposite of true. Lambda forces you to have a single entry point to your code that passes the details of a request to your application in a structured way. Wrap that in the http server of your choice in about fifty lines of code and you're done.

Or, you use something like Express inside Lambda with Serverless and adapting it to a long running server is literally just deleting the fifty lines of code that export your lambda handler. It couldn't be more simple.

Which is to say, you'll almost always have more trouble going from something else to Lambda and not the other way.
The new vacuum tubes for audio will be amazing
'Neat, but useless' is how you know it's a cyberdeck.
I've heard that Remedy has used[1] the D programming language in the past. Is it used on Alan Wake 2?

1. https://ubm-twvideo01.s3.amazonaws.com/o1/vault/gdceurope201...
I've been both an IC and a manager at FANG.

In some cases the work is terrible, an example is CloudFront at Amazon. It is a weirdly badly run organization which causes heavy operational stress on the teams that support the service and which is not sufficiently staffed to deal with the load. I don't know how it got into such a large hole.

More commonly, at least in big tech, is that the person has reached their Peter Principle in software (they may have other traits, like being a creator or whatever was in the article that allow them to succeed in other fields) and that is causing them tremendous stress, usually without them knowing the root cause.
Can you deploy 700MB Dockerfiles to Cloudflare, as they mention as a minimum requirement in the article?
My pick without knowing additional details would be something based on FastAPI and MySql: https://blog.balasundar.com/building-a-crud-app-with-fastapi...
So, I completely disagree. I work in tech, and I personally empathize how stress can get to you, but I came from a blue-collar family- as a kid I watched my dad risk his life to drive though an ice storm for some shitty job, eventually it almost cost him his life after a bad wreck. I saw him pick up construction gigs after his divorce, and he would tell me on a regular basis how he had to cover for a friend that shot a nail through his hand or fell off a roof.

My point is, the 99%, or whatever we want to call them see people like us complaining about how our lives are so stressful as weak and embarrassing. Honestly, I have to agree. There are statistics to prove my point. Poor, working class countries have an almost non-existent rate of suicide and psychological issues.

Clearly all the people saying we should be have a higher EQ and be accepting of mental health issues were full of it, and frankly, I’m waiting for them to admit it and society to take a new approach.
Suckmore sounds like a vacuum brand
This person has an argument but confuses so many basic terms that it gets lost. Revenues are not profits and profits don't include expenses. I'd be happy to read a cleaned up version but right now it's just a confusing mess.
Only 65%?
V4 is a massive improvement in lag. The CM4 doubles the camera interface bandwidth, which was the bottle neck.
From one toy to another.
I heard they can also leap 6ft fences, which seems incredible for such a large mammal.
Linear Algebra? I explicitly called it out there. Also, it wasn’t taught by the engineering faculty. I think your dismissive attitude is telling.
> Mathematics can be seen as a logic game. You start with a set of assumptions and you come up with all the logical conclusions you can from that. Then, if someone else finds a situation that fits those assumptions, they can benefit from the pre-discovered logical conclusions. This means that if some conclusions require fewer assumptions, then those conclusions are more generally applicable

This is a really, really nice expression of something my mind's been hovering around for a while.
I had no idea this was a practice, isn't the bonus for some deliverable? How widespread is this practice?
Perhaps a better lesson we all can learn from should be “don’t idolize” rather than “don’t meet your idols”. Learn from the good and the bad and grow from the experience.

Reminds me of the famous quote from The Dark Knight, “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain”. No one, companies included, is perfect. You stick around long enough, you’ll find the bad.
I have been using Vercel for production NextJS apps and have been very satisfied.
Statistical Rethinking 2023 [video]
Well, Wayland+Xwayland would be easy, just pipe the X11 out to a host-side Xwayland
I was very excited when this came out. The idea of "search this textbook and describe ..." or "search through this paper and implement X algorithm" sounded really interesting.

Admittedly, I don't know how the implementation works, but I was expecting it to be able to do a search on the pdf to find the relevant parts and answer requests, but my results have been really bad. It makes up stuff seemingly more when I ask using a pdf than when I ask it without a reference.
Book Review: Going Infinite – LessWrong
Plenty of people end up building vercel-but-worse out of CI pipelines on aws or similar, doesn’t strike me as crazy to keep using it well past the prototype stage for projects that for its constraints.
> "Why not no battery in the device?"

How about a nuclear battery, aka radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG)? This would be sealed in (carefully!) and would last the lifetime of the device, with no need for charging, ever. Would need special steps/handling to ensure safe disposal at end of product life, however.
>There's a long, rich history of low-power chips being used in home servers. It makes a lot of sense because for that type of application you want low power draw and low noise. Both of these are different requirements to the datacenter-based servers you seem more familiar with but nevertheless it is an entirely valid type of server.

I 100% agree with you. I'm not here saying "it's not a server unless it has more than 30 cores rabble rabble rabble." There's a spectrum of server hardware available ranging from stick-it-in-a-closet micro server to full fledge DC grade rack server.

An Atom (C series) is a server (albeit a microserver). I have no issue with this at all. Xeon D chipsets go all the way down to 2 cores, I still recognize it as a (micro)server. Both CPU families are labelled as servers by Intel (that's not to say Intel has the final say in what a server is or is not.)

Celerons lack the feature sets to be called a server from a pure hardware perspective.
Right, but that's less and assumption about basic statistical literacy than it is about a particular distribution that happens to describe the data. Many things in society and nature are not symmetric around their means.