skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fwiw I got onto cohost a few months ago and have really enjoyed it.

Because it's a smaller community with no "algorithm" intentional discovery actually happens. I use hashtags to find stuff, and other people have found my stuff via hashtags! I only started sharing online this year and so that second bit is huge - it's night and day between twitter and cohost[1].

The site actively tries to avoid the status games that other social networks play. You can't see follower counts or like counts (including your own) and instead get notifications like "several folks liked this" (with a list of who did). There's no easy way to answer "how big is this person's following" when looking at their profile.

I think this adds up to a site that feels more like a community. Comments are typically either nice/encouraging or interesting and folks comment a lot. It's easy to find cool posts. Not having metrics is freeing. Many of the folks that post are there to share the cool things that they do.

It's not a replacement for twitter, but it's easily the site that I'm the most excited to share stuff on - especially early WIP stuff (I shared something fun last night!)

[1]I shared an early version of Flappy Dird[2] on cohost and got some real engagement and it felt great. Flappy Dird ended up doing pretty well on HN; I doubt I would have polished it as much without the early cohost support.

[2] https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-11-flappy-bird-finder/
If it’s the difference between them getting your $50 per month network subscription you bet they will disable your headlights if given the legal leeway to do so.
Don't leave out NOAA/NWS which provides radar and satellite coverage for most of the country and supercomputer modeling to deliver predictictive results unimaginable 100 years ago.
You’re kidding right? That is very much the definition of ‘middle of nowhere’. [https://maps.app.goo.gl/wV1K9HSgnbBN6Ye58?g_st=ic]

Groom Lake and the National Test Site (where the US set off literally hundreds of nuclear bombs) is roughly the same distance from Las Vegas, just in a slightly different direction. [https://maps.app.goo.gl/oKc83mrnptUSPVJ2A?g_st=ic]

That area is about as remote and in hospitable to human life as anyone can find in the lower 48 once you get off the highway. The only way it would get more remote is if someone kept driving and took a turn somewhere along there. I’ve spent plenty of time out in those deserts.

It’s very easy to not show up on someone’s radar ever again [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans].
I wonder what amount of a service like Tumblr's server expenses are strictly related to storing and serving historical content, and what value it really brings to the business.

What would a service like Tumblr look like if things just got deleted after 90 days, or a year? What would your server costs look like then? How much traffic do ancient posts actually garner, in aggregate? Could you monetize permanence (only pro users data is kept for longer than a year)?
Uh you lost me at LMH. She’s the worst.
LOC is far, far from a perfect measure of productivity, but ultimately if you do want to be shipping plenty of customer value (and/or tech debt reduction), it does take plenty of code to do so. Sometimes there’s 10 LOC which huge value, but if over the long term the most productive devs at a company are only shipping on the order of 100 LOC/week, progress is gonna be really slow.

I also think that this:

> There's a level of mature projects where you don't really do new features anymore.

Is fine for a product that’s basically “done”, but who’s paying you to work on those? More common is that the product would benefit a lot from improvements, but the company/dev team has basically lost so much velocity that they can no longer ship them.
Interesting, but paywalled.
Same here, I got a bout of severe RSI almost 15 years ago, for a few months

I changed many habits and it's been gone since then ... It's obviously different for everyone but I found that using a trackball helped a lot. For awhile I had a mouse on the left and trackball on the right, switching back and forth. But I don't need that anymore.

Taking breaks and minding posture is important. Wrist posture in particular -- I don't rest my wrists or arms on anything -- only my fingers make contact with the keyboard.

Much later, I started weight training with kettle bells, and I noticed a pretty nice improvement in strength / circulation.
There are tons, I can name at least 4 in my city alone, all fintech. Elixir really excels, and is heavily used, at payment processing workflows, where genservers and the concurrency model is amazingly useful at handling complex, multi-step transactions involving multiple, often external, actors.

None of the companies appear on that list, I think those kinds of things should always be taken with a grain of salt.
Everyone who contributes is required to look at that list, either directly or indirectly via helper scripts. If you don't contribute, then well, it's completely irrelevant to you anyway.
I once had a colleague who was fired by his company because he pissed someone close to the CEO off. When the off boarding took place they saw that his knowledge could never be transferred in the termination period, so the termination was revoked
An interesting number would be the number of successful appeals after denial. If that number is high it would indicate that they are denying too often.
Stability AI Gets Intel Backing in New Financing
Hate to break it to you, but the Pentium 4 was released in the year 2000.
I had a similar thought about ~AI helping, but AFAIK that still involves typing; is there a way to drive that via voice?
Good news for the company. Hope they'll continue the open-source efforts.

No paywall link to the article: https://archive.is/aLHcF
Those two platforms do nothing with NSFW content. They're just too popular for Apple to screw with.
I would expect them to at a bare minimum encrypt it using a temporary public key before transmission, in case TLS connection was MITM'ed, and I'd expect them to use those fancy hardware security modules (HSM) they have[1] to protect it on their side.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/key-vault/managed-hs...
I'm building a static analyzer for Solidity in F# and the data shape of Solidity AST nodes overlaps frequently enough that explicitly specifying types is necessary just to get things to compile.

I can't imagine building something like this in a dynamically typed language. The way I see it, static typing is like writing inline unit tests to save yourself many, many headaches later.
i use Fira Code. nothing beats Fira.
Can this be used on Linux?
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Neovim has been the most responsive in my experience, way better than heavyweights like vscode and even Emacs.
I personally would not use LLMs for text that is of import, particularly for something that's for children. LLM-induced text has a very weird flavor to it that, when ingested too often, leads to changing one's thought patterns to something that vaguely looks "Open"AI-approved. Use it for bare facts and some text-templating, but sparsely for the rest. It's the early days and no one will listen right now, but as it is with excessive social media right now, it will be with LLMs in five years. You don't wanna be the guy so broken by a LLM he can't figure out he's speaking like one.
Huh? There's newer, modern C, C2x, which follows up on both C11 and C99. There's also newer modern libraries that learn from the past. GCC 9 had support for C2x a couple of years ago. You can use the stuff now, pretty safely.

The advocacy is to not program C like it's still 1988 (when the most recent K&R C went out) and keep up with the times.

The backwards compatibility of C is fantastic, really quite stunning and that is why we shouldn't be afraid of moving forward.

As far as good C being hard, do you deny this? It's not a bad thing, it acts as a competency filter. Lousy Python, Javascript, PHP - it still works but lousy C will just crash and explode. That's a feature, not a bug.
Can I have the hand-tracking laser projector and nothing else?
GitHub's UI is inadequate for some workflows in much smaller projects already, for many different reasons.
Then you can enable the calt setting and disable all other ligatures
>...But spoiler Genghis Khan found a way around that problem.

It was Kublai Khan who founded the Yuan dynasty.

>...After two decades of sporadic warfare, Kublai Khan's armies conquered the Song dynasty in 1279 after defeating the Southern Song in the Battle of Yamen, and reunited China under the Yuan dynasty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_dynasty
I just moved from typescript to javascript and for me it was just that I own the database, i own the api surfaces and as such I don't need to enforce any kind of type checking as the api schemas are sufficient for my case.

I would definitely use type safety if I had a lot of external data sources. or if there are lots of people working with me. Otherwise, I am beginning to go back to dynamic languages at least for web dev.
They refer to the behavior as apocryphal.
Ive been using KDE 5 for a decade now and I don't know what you mean by buggy, after soms growong pains in 2013 I don't recall a single bug since then.
It's definitely not HR language, they are especially squeamish about evoking gruesome images like a person being run down in the street by a bus.

Wikipedia's sources suggest it's a metaphor conjured by developers, as you suggested:

> An early instance of this sort of query was when Michael McLay publicly asked, in 1994, what would happen to the Python language if Guido van Rossum were to be hit by a bus.

> "Truck number" was already a recurring concept in the Organizational Patterns [of agile software development] book published in 2004, itself an evolution of the work published in the first book of the Pattern Languages of Program Design series in 1995, which was the publication record of the first Pattern Languages of Programs conference in August 1994, where it was referenced in patterns including Solo Virtuoso. ... It was seen in engineering by 2003, and the Debian project in 2005.
There is very simple monetization strategy: ads, cut bloat, move content moderation staff to India!

Tumblr has an army of content creator that work for free. It is a site that host text and images. How they even spend 30 million per year? Maybe on organizing "stuff convention", SF real estate and so on... Cut the bloat!
Thank you for sharing your feedback! While a lot of the content is country-agnostic, for sure we need to customize the content for geography.
How are cherry-picks relevant? Cherry-picking creates completely separate and topologically unrelated commits.

GitLab handles comments on commits within MRs pretty well. It still doesn't make it adequate for projects like Linux though.
For example, I work in a CA. There's really not much code to write other than keeping up with new standards and requirements.
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These numbers are not credible. US Customs & Border Patrol reports over 3 million illegal immigrant encounters in 2022:

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters
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Do you include that housing prices, health care, and university fees are all much lower in continental Europe?
> I can't believe I didn't think of this.

Because it’s not going to happen.

There were about a trillion sets of wired white earbuds pointing to iPods/iPhones for about a decade plus. Sure, there were some thefts, but to say they happened at a “phenomenal rate” would be nonsense. And iPods/iPhones were orders of magnitudes more popular than this Pin will ever be.

Street kids won’t even know what a Pin is.
> I dream of being able to healthy discuss stuff like "illegal crossing/immigration of mexicans" or "US gun control/freedom", or even more touchy subjects like "pedophilia, as a mental sickness".

You call those "touchy subjects"? Do "Jewish history" and watch it get shut down in a week.
So basically the staff is transporting all the goods up there.
Thanks for the response! I was joking a bit (though not entirely - I really like dynamic code generators and am inspired by tiny, powerful systems) but as I mentioned I like the approach and hope that you get the chance to finish the series.
>...Okay, so first thing I wasn't talking about the great wall. That wasn't created until the Ming dynasty

The most famous parts of the Great Wall were built in the Ming Dynasty, but stretches of the wall were first built centuries before:

>...Several walls were built from as early as the 7th century BC,[4] with selective stretches later joined by Qin Shi Huang (220–206 BC), the first emperor of China. Little of the Qin wall remains.[5] Later on, many successive dynasties built and maintained multiple stretches of border walls. The best-known sections of the wall were built by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
Part of the high price of nuclear comes from pricing in all potential negative externalities upfront. Production of solar cells requires a lot of energy and 80% of them are made in China where most energy comes from brown coal. If we priced that negative externality into the solar cells the numbers would look a lot different. Battery storage has similar problems.
Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it
The reality now is that many consumer purchases are datamined by MasterCard/Visa. Having it mined by just European central banks is a strict improvement.
I would also advise seeing a doctor but I'll say my doctor recommended me something very similar. I'm not able to go to the gym but what has helped me is I have a bucket with rice in it (I guess you could also use sand?) and I just twist my hand within the bucket of rice while holding and squeezing a tennis ball in it. Do it in a circular motion.

One thing I thought was interesting is he said that ortho doctors don't really think ergo keyboards help. I use a kinesis advantage 360 where I can (I still prefer a regular keyboard) I don't see much in the way beyond help with shoulder pain. I've had surgery to fix my RSI/ tunnel nerve inflammation. Anyways where I'm going with this is I do think exercise is a big help.
yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_94_in_Indiana
maybe not invented by an HR person, but they seem to have adopted this expression. Do you agree?
"to dumb us American's down"

We have literally been doing that to ourselves, for about 30 years now. We've absolutely been steadily handicapping our education system for decades.

"wars are raging"

Um who starts wars? Politicians, exclusively. What is the average age of politicians? Let's put it at 60's to be charitable. You do the math.

It seems that TikTok, which you state, and GenZ, which you imply, don't have anything to do with the major issues that you attribute to them. This whole ranting incoherent comment kind of highlights the kind of behavior that has caused those major issues; complete rejection of reality in favor of screaming at scapegoats. Actually sounds a lot like someone who was in court today.
We first discovered this while troubleshooting why we were receiving logins with an old password.. after updating the settings in Outlook. They had no other email clients, but the 'New Outlook' didn't actually send the updated password to the Microsoft cloud due to a bug :P

Imagine my surprise discovering that this little banner in their Outlook settings that said "Using Microsoft sync technology" actually means "This is no longer really a local IMAP client".
I trust my neighbors and I have a slew of high res cameras monitoring the area. When there is theft my neighbors come to my house (located at the main entrance to the area), and I get them the relevant footage if I can find it. It’s only happened a few times but I think it helps build community trust.
Handwriting cold emails is dead
Investing in something not successful is not specific to governments though.

You can find recent examples too. Also take into account the survivor bias.

The latest technology that got appreciated on HN I could think of it the Mistral LLM, trained on a government funded EuroHPC. It’s a few weeks old.
What is this "better parenting" and where can I buy it? Is there an app for it?

But in all seriousness, "parenting" is not a quantifiable resource. "Just be a better parent bro" isn't valid advice.
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> Is fine for a product that’s basically “done”, but who’s paying you to work on those?

Most companies that are actually profitable. There's a massive amount of space in between "done" and startup level expansion. There are good, mature projects which need some improvements and TLC, without expanding their scope every day.

And because they're already large and most of the simple issues have been addressed, you start getting the interesting problems that take many more times as long to investigate and understand as they take to fix.
The damage of keeping a negative employee is often underestimated but I disagree about the other bit. Companies always greatly underestimate the damage caused by someone with years of knowledge and context leaving. I've seen it time and time again. I feel it each time I switch jobs.

It goes from: someone who can literally look off into the distance during a meeting and go "hmm yeah I just did the architecture design in my head, this won't be too bad of a project, it'll probably take 2 people 1 quarter and one of those people has to be either Alice or Bob" and then you do it and it works and it's great.

And goes to: "we'll have to do a 2 week discovery phase where one of the senior engineers goes in and reads 5 years of source code for 3 days and then mulls it over for 2 more and then does a design and confers with 2 other people so we can patch together the knowledge we lost when <veteran from first example> left"

It's damaging. And it somehow has a habit of reinforcing itself - more people leave, you end up never having people who have more than 1-2 years of context and everyone's context overlaps less. And management never cares, somehow, since all their bs metrics for productivity correlate so poorly with actual work getting done that they don't notice and in fact think the situation is improving.
I had 16GB on my windows PC and was having trouble building our Unity project.

Turns out we now require at least 32GB to build the project, but I just upgraded all the way to 64 because it was so cheap.

btw, if you are wondering, Unity will just hang forever during the build process of you don't have enough ram.
You're making a ton of incorrect assumptions about what approaches Tumblr tried, what solutions Apple rejected as insufficient, what resourcing decisions were made by Tumblr vs parent company, and so many other critical details here.

It's pretty messed up for you to say "Tumblr just didn’t want to put the effort" when you have no idea who or what was actually responsible for any of the things you're describing. I don't feel you are addressing this topic in good faith, so I'm not going to continue discussing this with you.
The internet was only one of many telecommunications digital protocols. It was inevitable that computers would be connected together, with one protocol or another.
> They were skipping all the good software engineering basics.

Who decided the things you are pushing have anything to do with "good software engineering basics"?

Just because someone says it's cool thing to do, it doesn't mean it is, and it also doesn't mean it will produce good result in particular environment.

Look at it through Chesterton's fence - if team was able to produce good results without the "good software engineering basics", it may harm it. Thats' why you are rejected, and if I may - rightfully so.

I am too old to observe teams with amazing productivity - and any "good software engineering basics" would have destroyed it very quickly.

As a piece of advise - I would discuss with the TEAM first - what is their opinion about pending issues and how THEY would suggest to rectify it. Talk through suggestions, see what actually may help. Have them onboard instead of shoving off their face some smarty-pants management tactics you have read the other day in expensive book.

Guaranteed, if you put your ego aside, get to listen, and adopt solutions that solve actual problems instead of "code review (or whatever-cool-thing) is cool" - you will get on track very fast.

All the best
Yeah, at a CA, fair enough. But there are tonnes of B2B or B2C SaaS type products, that do need new features, bug fixes, performance improvements, UX improvements, etc., but aren’t getting them quickly because dev productivity has declined so far. Typically environments with confusing architecture, slow local dev flow, slow CI, poor test coverage and tonnes of manual QA required, etc.
Not just old GPUs, but also low-end GPUs. Which the Deck definitely is, that's why its target performance is 720p. I shouldn't expect to be able to plug it into a 4K screen and get performance without an upscaler. I also disagree with 720p being perfect for the size. I also have an Asus Ally which is 1080p, and it is a noticeable difference.

> actually worse results if you need to rely on upscaling to reach it

Not worse than just outputting the lower resolution. Otherwise there'd be no point of any of these upscaler.

I don't think comparing overhead to current resolution is 1:1 because modern upscalers also double as AA. Some modern games even force TAA, which upscalers replace. Especially at the lower resolutions, too less AA is more noticeable. And TAA kinda sucks.

Alan Wake 2 has FSR2 or DLSS instead of any other AA option even running them at native. Other games like Diablo IV give you the option of either TAA or upscaler.
I mean technically you wouldn't have written it up even with a keyboard, so... :D

And yeah, even notwithstanding the massive accessibility benefit, I can see use in learning it just for the sake of a new lens on how to navigate code. Sort of the same reason I'm looking forward to the big Emacs 29 update on all my machines around the end of the year - among other things, I get to find out firsthand whether I'm as excited as I should be for first class tree-sitter, or not excited enough.

But for VS Code folks, this is already right there and I can't imagine not wanting to play around at least a bit with it and see what it can do.
I've been using Ruby since about 2007. Every time I attempt to switch to the next "cool" thing, I ended up switching back, because Ruby is what I love and am the fastest with, and that's all that matters.

However, I've been starting to see a lot more Elixir buzz, and I love the looks and sounds of it. Looks like I'll need to start a new side project soon to give it a try.