skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in on anything that prevents the "best practice" of entering new passwords that have esoteric standards of "strength", twice, BLIND, on a crap cellphone "keyboard".

The dots/stars for "password" type input fields might have prevented shoulder surfing in the days of wide-field-of-vision CRT monitors, and typing passwords twice on a real keyboard might have helped decrease people typing something they didn't mean, but it's all irrelevant in the age of narrow field LED cellphones held close to the face, using much smaller fonts.
It's unfortunate that you stopped before responding to the question that was asked.
Hello! No rush -- I'm happy resume discussion later, after you've gathered the necessary info.

In the meantime, I'm noting a few things from your comments. Can you confirm my impressions are correct?

1. Field communications are difficult, presumably due to Russian signals intelligence.

2. Russians have a weaponry advantage. Presumably this is mainly driven by artillery? Last I heard, airspace is still contested. Is that still the case?

Taken together, I'm under the impression field mobility and coordination is a challenge. Indeed, this is why my mind jumped to car parts, batteries and radio. Do you find yourselves needing to do things on foot? If so, I'm sure I could figure out a way to send things like socks, footwear and rain gear.

Also, please let me know if there are any supplies that could help with morale. I've also spent some time in a fox hole, so I know how much little things like coffee and chocolate can mean to someone after several days of rain or snow.

If you would prefer to speak about this somewhere else, I have a Matrix account I'm happy to share with you.
I think sidelining the lead researcher and giving the project to another group is accurately described at "gutting a team". No, they didn't end the project, but the series of events described seems to be insinuating that she could have led the project if she was willing to have her work funded by Facebook, listen to one of their former people, etc. So if that was their goal, and they just got someone else to do the work, is that any better?
My first programming experience was on a PDP-8 using BASIC. Code, run, debug in a very tight loop. I was hooked.

Then in college, it was punch cards and a line printer, with long delays while waiting for the hardware to work, and your job to work its way through the system. The very opposite of a tight loop.

And then I got an IBM PC, and there was a glimmer of hope that I could recreate that early experience. But the tools were expensive, clunky, and slow.

And then there was Turbo Pascal. Cheap, blindingly fast, so much fun. That’s what we were all waiting for. A fantastic product.
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There is 'Big Tech' already available. Plus America has raised interest rates, which means market capture/empire defense is getting more and more expensive, so expect all of them to become small soon.
The line itself isn't being serviced, it is the station. UK-bound lines take up excessive space due to Brexit-related security controls, so there isn't enough space for both the security and the construction areas.

They're still running the line from London to Amsterdam, which is why the line is still running and why the trains have to deadhead back.
Anything that provides a calendar and/or timed TODO/list items. Just set calendar item or the TODO item's due date 6 months out. Any OS you're using whether mobile or desktop probably has an app for this shipped with it.
Type hints everywhere?
I played with that too before.

`ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "select='gt(scene,0.4)'" -vsync vfr frame-%2d.jpg`

(from the repo pforret/filmpace)

For this project, I want to find an A.I. solution for finding the most 'interesting' frames. Not even sure how to measure interestingness yet, might be the presence of text, the presence of a human ...
Unless Google Alert gets shut down by then.
The thing is that the BDFL was never appointed as such, either. The project's founder is Ciaran Gultnieks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaran_Gultnieks

and Ciaran, while largely silent, still "holds the master keys" (figuratively and somewhat literally).

As an F-Droid member myself, albeit a completely tangential and pointless one, the only things I know about why Hans is _de facto_ leader and cannot be overridden even by the bodies created for overseeing the entire project are a couple of factors mentioned right here: that he is the only one with Owner access on GitLab, and that he is Technical Lead, "initially", in the board:

https://f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-droid-board.html
Who is exterminating who in the article? It just says harmful to society.
Ironically, she stopped at a Masters, after this same university forced her to restart her phd thesis 3 TIMES, due to changing staff. She worked on it one semester, then they changed her major professor. Worked on the 2nd one another semester, and they again changed her major professor. Considered a 3rd time and she just threw her hands up and said, fuck it, which I don't blame, at all.

She's still a full-time faculty member, has written/designed 3 courses for them, that are taught by herself and others to this day, and gets kudos every semester from students she's taught.

The college system is slightly less uncaring than the government. The big difference is the college system drains 20 years of your future income with insane pricing and if you get shit on due to THEIR changes, that's just your happy ass.
Chess in the type-systems of Rust and TypeScript
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Totally agree, but is Ember truly the most stable? This is pretty much my only criteria for JS at this point.
The page for this is somewhat awful. What platform is this for? Something for some vms, I suppose. Linux clients then? What hypervisors are supported or is it ambiguous.
...Do people actually say they trust "business(es)", like they actively assert it? I think most people act as if they trust businesses because it's an immense pain or impossible to get through normal life without doing so.
It's funny, watching films in 48fps in theatres (specifically the first Hobbit movie that pioneered the concept) to me looks like the actors acted in 2x slow motion and then someone pressed fast forward. Everything looks incredibly unnatural.
Unsurprisingly not. I'm referring to an update around the 21st Nov.

But thanks for the (snarky) heads up that there's yet another update (29.4GB this time) to download :)
Sorry. Was being bit sarcastic. Since every single day is a new state, State A and B are different, and we are adapting.

Organisms are continually adapting. So this question seemed to be calling into question the findings because the earth always rotated and so always had a night and day, so State A and B are identical, thus we didn't adapt.
Are we not considering many Roman customs brutal, awful, and barbaric? What did the Carthaginians not do that the Romans did?
This has real "Netflix shouldn't be eligible for Emmys, it's not a television show if it's not broadcast over the air or on cable" energy.
Photonic semiconductor that 'fits together like Lego'
> Everything that we are witnessing now is human nature

Nice way to say nothing of substance.
> foo(x::Number) = x+1

> Problem is the new type they created doesn't follow the assumptions that foo expects.

If you define that function and someone else (i.e. a user of your lib) defines a subtype of Number and calls your function on it, and it fails, then they haven't respected the interface to Number. There's nothing wrong with that function or type specialization in that case. In that case it's all about defining useful interfaces and respecting, as much of programming is.

E.g. if someone defines a subtype of Number because he has something that's kind of like a number in some respects but not others, maybe that shouldn't be an subtype of Number.

You also shouldn't define functions that have obscure conditions for being properly useable - at least if you expect your code to be useful more broadly. Nothing here is specific to Julia though.

If you have other specific examples we could discuss more.
Handrails on a balcony is not a sign of weakness.
Also later why 8 and why is "A" expected in the sixth position
My town just published a sustainable landscaping handbook that goes into depth about ecological land management and how to do it at home.

https://www.arlingtonma.gov/Home/Components/News/News/12848/...

Let butterfly gardening be your gateway drug!
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Sadly i think you maybe right. With support of one the big 3 (meta,google or MSFT),it will be hard for Julia to create and sustain significant mind share. Wich is really a shame because from technical design standpoint Julia is just brilliant.

Adding to that modular mojo, and i think we might have a repeat of DART vs typescript...
It doesn't have to do with money. The cheapest fucking thing in the world is sunlight.

it is completely about barbarian, punitive, punishment. it doesn't work, but it makes many of us feel good, so we continue doing it.
Thank you for giving me the simple answers to my dumb questions.

I do wonder why anyone thinks the war somehow ends if the North isn't helping enforce slavery.
Lightweight insulating building elements from a 3D printer
> Be extremely picky for PRs from new hires, so that they do things the way that your company does them.

I think the word you are looking for is "hazing":

> haze (v): force (a new or potential recruit to the military or a university fraternity) to perform strenuous, humiliating, or dangerous tasks.

I had this at my current job. I almost quit because it was downright humiliating to get called an "idiot" in so many nice words. I don't do well with hazing... so I brought out quotes from text books, papers, and famous authors to point out how wrong they were.
Many people don't see it that way, as they outsource to Microsoft, who can't do e-mail properly and eff it up all the time.

It's more of "outsource to someone else" than "who won't fuck it up".
I bet there's gold bugs crowing too.
That's idealizing and it's not healthy for a long-term relationship. Sooner or later (probably sooner) one has to be faced with the fact that the human you are bonding with is, well, human. And as such - flawed in so many ways, as all humans are. If you can admit that, really be honest about it, and still value the relationship and your partner, because there are so many things beyond the flaws that make it work - then it has a future. If it's just blind infatuation that ignores the reality - it's a fling, and the reality will assert itself soon. Nothing wrong with an occasional fling on certain stage of one's life, but it is good to make the distinction between the two.
Yes! I'm looking at how to evolve this into a native SQLite extension which would dramatically improve distribution.
> I wonder if there are studies on the effectiveness of pair programming vs code review and bugs caught.

Whenever folks ask me this, I want to turn it around: are there studies on the effectiveness of working solo vs pair programming?

> Even when I have pair, I like to do an alone-time code review and things almost always pop up.

Agree - even with code that's been mostly paired on it can be helpful to let it sit and get additional review.

In my experience, the killer combo for pairing is to combine it with test-first programming. The tests help create a shared construct for discussion and understanding.

I freely admit I have a very strong pro-pairing and pro-test-first bias. But in my defense it's based on almost two decades of experience.
Such a weird news story. Amsterdam is running a campaign to literally ask British tourists to stay away from the city.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/03/29/see-amsterdams-ne...

And yet, the Netherlands is investing in their infrastructure to literally unload an even larger volume of tourists straight from London into the very heart of Amsterdam?

What gives? This sounds awfully contradictory.
> Maybe as an aside, but why should this research be done at university level? Is it expensive or require their resources?

I guess the question is ... why shouldn't it be? Social media is a huge part of modern life in the US, has a massive impact and is all both pretty recent and poorly understood. I would expect any half decent university with anthropology or sociology (or even a political science) departments to be doing heavy research in this field.
If you want to read about how the media is also roped into these incentive structures, read Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky.
Your microbiome diversity is not going to love this. You‘re killing off swaths of the strains your ancestors have passed on to you.
Setting aside the institutional failures within Harvard, shouldn't this also pose legal problems for the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation? I am certainly not a lawyer, but I thought the tax-benefits of a non-profit were supposed to be tied to some governance requirements and operating in pursuit of some mission other than profit. If when the Chan Zuckerberg foundation gives a donation to a school, an exec from Meta is then put on some Dean's council, and if the foundation's donation is used to pressure the school to advantage the corporation, then it seems like the foundation is operating as an arm of Meta, and is compromised as an independent philanthropic org.
People also forget how recent that shift was and just how brittle the reasoning behind it is.
Because Great Britain is not part of the Schengen customs zone, customs checks are required before boarding the train (this is the only train at the station with such checks). Due to the renovation, the part of the station where passport and baggage checks by customs officers were performed is to close down && turns out there's not enough space at the station to house temporary border checks, so... no train.
I would love to see something you've built.

Do you have anything that you've shared publicly?
Looks good to me. Assuming that the spaces are unicode nbsp.
It's no longer crayons and construction paper. It's just reams of regular old copier paper now, but the same thing.
Nothing to do with Brexit, same thing happened before. It's because the UK wasn't in Schengen and the channel tunnel regulations require security (which is a waste of time, but it's because the tunnel was inaugurated when the IRA bombing campaign was in full flow)
That isnt actually a brexit thing. There always was passport controls as the UK was never part of Schengen.
I've spent a fair amount of time around alpha/Z lately and have never heard them say rizz or any of the other buzz slang. In fact, I usually hear these words from older people proclaiming they don't know what they mean and that the new generations are indecipherable based on some article they read.

The new stand out from the old with their new words and the old stand out from the new by saying they don't understand these (foolish) new words. People are quick to claim they do or don't understand to signal their alignment with one or the other but a lot of these words aren't even used out of this or some ironic context. At least not in real life speech.

That being said, as entertaining as rizz is, prompt and parasocial are monumentally more significant.
Thanks for the intro to “e” notation for differentiation!

Formally, it’s just e = dx, with implicit dx -> 0, semantically, but seems so much easier to think about as just e^2 = 0, in practice.

Never came across that.
I agree in theory but practically this is a non-starter as the big 3 record companies are also investors in the company. Even if they weren't however the downside risks of the big 3 not agreeing to renegotiate licensing in the future would be catastrophic to Spotify. This is where I think Tidal got it right both in terms of a business model and something that was good for artists. It's a shame what became of Tidal.
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Well in that case, JRE might just win best radio show awards as well, right?
As someone who's never wanted children, I'm always surprised by the apparent unconcern about the planet from those who do. I suppose I accept that we may destroy the Earth once I've finished with it (As Jim Morrison so elegantly stated, "I'm just trying to get my kicks in before the whole shithouse goes up in flames"), but I don't like it, and as a kid I had always imagined that the adults would figure it out. Having become something approximating an adult myself now, I'm beginning to doubt that we'll come up with enough solutions in time, so I suppose any good news on that front is welcome.
> they can be packaged easily for the system package manager. Dependency issues are solved at compile time and forgotten for the most part

Clearly you've never run across a package install or update that pulled in ~400 other dependencies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38511590

You're right about runtimes being a pain. I recall that time my Ruby install got hosed by something, I don't know what, that broke Jekyll. I never figured out what happened, and after spending a lot of a time trying to fix it, I gave up, installed Hugo, converted my sites, and never looked back.
This is one of the first results. The third, if I remember correctly.

I got this running yesterday (Sunday), and I wanted to write the blog post first to test if there was any interest in this topic. Apparently, yes. Now I only have to do the remaining 80% ;-)
> demand all kinds of ridiculous accommodations that you could never have reasonably asked for on your own

The union oughtn't seek "ridiculous" accommodations then. It should seek at least reasonable ones, and possible aspirational ones, and negotiate it out from there. The problem we're seeing now is that even demands that most would find reasonable are cast as ridiculous by management. And if a union has trouble getting employers to listen, there's no hope that someone on their own can.

I've personally lost faith that a typical employer is capable of recognizing the value of an individual employee. So many of the recent layoffs have not accounted for individual performance or criticality to the business (Twitter's being a good example). So my own value isn't as strong of a bargaining chip.
Reportedly only a fraction of this sum was actually paid out though.
> There were a bunch I didn't know about at all -- like medieval civilizations in Cambodia, Burma, and Jordan. They were wealthy, and built huge things, and then disappeared.

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Fair point. I can barely get access to a testing environment that contains a keycloak server.
If you wanted to make money, you would choose business over academia. I know one brilliant math/physics researcher who wanted to go to China because they have better scientific research equipment.
From a user perspective, they shouldn't have added podcasts without the opt-out option
There have been some comments that were deleted as soon as I hit reply…
A/B testing doesn’t expose the hate.
critique is a worst tool I have ever used.

example 1:
- a engineer caused multi-million dollar loss in ad revenue due to change which passed review with flying colors. and he is the only engineer whose name ever put in a post mortem document.
- same engineer few months before this incident forced a junior engineer to waste 2 months by making him to stupid nit picks. after a month of addressing nit picks, the junior engineer showed a slight resistance. then this engineer removed himself from the review list (but this engineer is the only one who is not manager in that code owner list) and made the junior engineer to beg on his knee to provide approval

example 2:
- a engineer in my team in double click ad always puts tons of nit picks. he got easily promoted.the justification gives but the leadership that the engineer created extremes value. the leadership was from double-click acquired by google few years ago and they are extremely in-competent.

example 3:
- there is a tool in google which analyses code review comments and those reviewers are very argumentative are given badge that they are very throw in review and I have seen those stupid badges counted during promotions.
Ugh, that's a bad analogy and you know it. No actually what you're doing is a classic case of "it's in the EULA, so they can do it". Like, if tomorrow Google puts a clause in their EULA that they have the right to harvest the eyeballs of everyone who lives on Earth, you'd be scrambling for passage to Mars. "It's in the EULA! Corporations are all-powerful and can do anything, as long as they state it in the EULA!"

I no more fear Google banning ad-blockers than I fear Toyota putting spikes on all of their steering wheels. It would be much more painful to their bottom-line than any Toyota drivers, because people would do this magical thing called... not using that product.
Or just take a non-Eurostar train to Brussels, do tourist stuff there for a day, and transfer to the Eurostar for the trip home.
This. Also, why such a strong reaction to the word "podcast"? imho it's a pretty loose term for "audio show" which it most certainly falls under.
Spotify's home page is full of ads - even for premium users.

https://artists.spotify.com/en/showcase
What does this have to do with the free market?
But aren’t they still confused without the error bars? Or confidently incorrect? And who could blame them, when that’s the information they’re given?

It seems like the options are:

- no error bars which mislead everyone

- error bars which confuse some people and accurately inform others
I would occasionally visit some of my high school friends attending William and Mary in Va (in the 80s). One year the school decided the football stadium needed upgrading so the team could play football in a more competitive division. The students protested - saying they were happy going to watch their not so great team and they did not want to see the school divert interest from academics. The stadium was not built. The school listened to the students.

The problem is many schools are now status symbols similar to an iPhone. People go to them precisely because other people cannot afford them. There are many schools that can provide a similar undergraduate experience - William and Mary for example - but simply do not have the cachet. The alumni, the students, professors and administration all want the prestige. It doesn't have to be that way if people would stop buying into the BS.
As a full-time Node.js dev, I agree with your decision! Too much time is wasted on compatibility problems. I'd almost say it was easier when we just had browsers to deal with. At least you could just drop in jQuery and call it a day.