skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speed matters. So what if you just can't be fast? What if you have dyslexia? Then what are you supposed to do?
We also got a lot of things right. The past isn't just some history of failure.
D is to C++ what Kotlin is to Java.
I am just echoing the article:

There will not be sufficient space to handle London-bound passengers at the station, given the more intensive post-Brexit formalities.

Not sure about the space intensity of pre- vs post-Brexit controls to fact-check the article.
You can still go by train, you just have to change at Brussels.
I care about readability of code, when reviewing a PR.

Not doing it every time, will come back to haunt me later.

Most of the times, the reply on my comment for a more obvious variable name is ( not: ) is: yeah, I thought about a better name but couldn't find any or something is found in between.

Ofc, sometimes the change is so ugly I'll feel bad because they should rewrite it. I'm still struggling with it.

Some people just can't code too. These will come back to haunt us.

And will have bugs too...
That is fair, I have no reason to paint all academic publishing with a single broad brush. Personally, I am strongly on the side of free and open - probably in the direction of things like the Open Data Institute (ODI).

But data, including academic papers published by scientific societies, being free and open has nothing whatsoever to do with the communication protocols underlying those societies. You can have free, open and peer reviewed journals distributed by email, by FTP, by carrier pigeon, etc.

So if your beef with academic societies is merely the cost or the closed nature, federated protocols needn't be part of the discussion at all.
But all the other systems are just systems too, and even a system of systems is just a system... Unless we have a God at the top there's no escape from the fiefdoms
I'm with you on this, Django + HTMX + Vanilla JS (where needed) just works which is a beautiful thing.

Is building out the UI clunkier with Django templates than with JSX? Absolutely.

But not having to worry about both server and client side state is such a time saver and you know it is going to continue to work.

For the past few years I've been using Go (using Gin) in place of Django, and it works nicely and is quite a bit faster. However, recently I've been toying around with Django again, thinking about making it my default for new projects because it really does take care of so much that you'd otherwise have to deal with yourself.
Humility is the key to solving a lot of engineering problems.
The idea is that the reducer is your backend code. Think about it like writing your normal API layer. You handle requests and make changes to the database. Since it's Wasm, SQLSync automatically runs it on both the client and the server. Thus you've written your backend once but ran it everywhere.

As for the question of "what if my backend should access stuff that the client doesn't have access to" - the answer is that the reducer doesn't need to do the same thing in both environments. It's easy to call out from the Reducer into an Auth API which only runs on the server. SQLSync will guarantee that everyone reaches a consistent state even if the same mutation results in different outcomes when run locally vs remotely.
> There is a list of things the government should to. "Shape society" is not one of them.

All actions of government shape society. Tax break for charitable contributions? Laws permitting or forbidding certain medical procedures? Drawing lines for voting districts?

A completely laissez-faire attitude leads to landlords not renting apartments to people explicitly because of their skin color and blatant, explicit discrimination in hiring.

I don't want to live in that world.
It was actually because I didn't want to link to a hubspot url and webflow only supports uploads up to 10mb.
Not all international travel is party tourism. Both London and Amsterdam are important financial hubs with a lot of business travel between them, as well as popular places to visit for family-friendly reasons.
AI software platform for analysing company data files... acquired by the company with the most to hide
> I’m going to skip the drama and just use htmx for the client-side. Render Django templates server-side, include a single JS script, thrown in some HTML attributes, distinguish between full page requests vs. requests for a partial with updated data, and call it a day.

More of a side comment, but I'm skeptical of the way HTMX encourages partial renders like this. It feels like a premature optimization that adds more complexity on the back end. `hx-select` takes care of it, but to me it feels like it should be the default (it's what Unpoly does).
You can still take the train from London to Amsterdam so you only have to feel half as bad.
PV costs were same for all but may have been higher than alternative energy sources and that shift has been occurring more recently.

I’d also guess that shear will to think outside the box has increased. We’ve seen some things the last 15 years when it comes to the actual effects of climate change. The 15 years prior to that the climate change story could still be denied (by some) and I’d argue that now we’ve all seen and felt it and it’s pretty undeniable (without some bias).
Dude I’m literally just saying that I don’t get how calling black people the n word is some kind of bubble. Basic human decency is a crazy social filter I guess. I feel like this jump is hysterics.
No, it's not and there is a ton of literature (even entire books) written on why it isn't the time to bring this up during a review.

For starters, it results in a waste of time for literally everyone involved:

1. The person writing has to rewrite it (probably).

2. The reviewer could have sat down with the person before a single line of code was written.

3. Anyone else reviewing just wasted their time because it will be rewritten.

If you see code badly designed, walk over to, or call the developer and say "hey, can we discuss the design of the code."

The saying "measure twice, cut once" doesn't just apply to wood. Design before you ever write any code.
Anybody who has to work with University IT can also :)
Access denied? (Germany, also from the Netherlands)

Same for https://www.arlingtonma.gov

VPN via Spain, Switzerland and US works.
Ask HN: Are visible tattoos stigmatized in our industry?
When my brother passed, I didn’t think twice and got a tattoo on my neck to symbolize my commitment to remember him as often as possible. It was a clear path in doing that and has honestly helped me achieve that goal.

On the flip side, I wonder, without regret, how I would be perceived in general to potential employers.

Have you seen these sorts of things lead to hiring decisions? If not tattoos, what other physical factors contribute? Unprofessional appearance, facial hair, clothing choices, hair dye, piercings?

Is there a list of employers somewhere that don’t let these factors affect hiring decisions?

Is punk rock dead? :-)
Fairly obvious, right?
Wait, you're using HN users as a metric? Are you trying for world's worst sample set?
Posthog uses react for front-end and django for back-end. https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/project-structure
I haven't used Google Search for about a year now.
This is precisely why I also switched to Apple Music, it was annoying to have Spotify constantly pushing podcast content to me as someone who had no interest in Podcasts and no way to enable a "music only" mode either.
In principle, sure. Lake Mead is in a warm enough location that it never freezes over (which could pose some difficulty for other lake-floated solar) and the intense heat and low humidity mean that quelling evaporation could be very beneficial.

In practice, the area of Lake Mead is about 250 square miles = ~160k acres * (~200 kW/acre) = ~30 GW of potential peak generating capacity. This means that a solar farm covering Lake Mead would immediately become the largest power plant in the world at peak output, surpassing the Three Gorges Dam (hydro) by almost 50%. It would be more than a quarter of all solar capacity existing in the United States as of 2022. So the overall electricity sector may not be ready for such an undertaking.

Partial cover is more feasible at this point, eventually extending to the entire lake, hopefully.
Python doesn't need JIT, python's strengths is "it's interpreted", therefore it runs everywhere without having to compile anything in one go, JIT is only useful for servers and long lasting processes, python doesn't fall into that category

At best it needs an AOT compiler, to accelerate final scripts, and that's where projects like Mojo start to become interesting
Eurostar would prefer business travellers. It may get its wish when it moves to Amsterdam Zuid station in 2036 (nearer the new business district, farther the stroopwafels).
> The only reason why Big Tech have hyped up Passkeys this much

I can't think of any other reason Big Tech (and small tech, and medium tech, government, and the list goes on) would want to eliminate passwords, an insecure concept, to replace them with a form of proof of ownership.

> [not pasting full quote because ...] "And developers and users... ― Google"
> No, they do not! - Author

Certainly, many developers hate all of the reasons outlined by the quote from the ethereal identity known as the "Google". Many users hate them for the same reason, too, but for some reason the author doesn't believe that developers or users dislike the UX, security, or liability of passwords (the Author, here, is apparently speaking for upwards of 8 billion individuals -- as one of them, I can certainly make up my own mind, thanks).

> Passkeys also makes you more vulnerable to seizures of electronics and keys.

This is why it is important for devices, like the iPhone, have a quick way of putting themselves into a 'locked, require pin/pass' mode. Or just don't enable Face ID/similar biometrics for a 'master' password.

> And when it happens to you, Google will let you know that they reserve the right to terminate your account for any reason or no reason at all.

The ethereal Google can look at you funny and decide they will lock your account without any reason. I'm not sure what makes this situation any different. People commonly use their Chrome account, or Microsoft account, etc. in conjunction with the OS/browser's password manager. With passkeys, they're effectively in a _no worse_ state than they are today. If you want to argue about backups, these are likely the same individuals who wouldn't know why you'd need a backup to begin with.

FWIW, I agree that there shouldn't be vendor lock-in with any form of identity, but there doesn't seem to be a challenger that is willing to bring something forward that eliminates both the security nightmares that are passwords as well as being highly portable with no vendor tie-in which finally, is easy to use. Big Tech found "secure" and "easy to use" which is what users are going to flock to.
The W3C Recommendation Track
It's even worse for password fields. Browsers will aggressively attempt to fill the user's password into any password input, regardless of whether it's part of the site's login form or not. This works for most web sites, most of the time -- but it fails horribly for sites where the user really does need to enter a password for something else, like if you're setting a password on a wireless network or setting credentials on a new user you're creating.
No, which is why I'm asking.
Thanks for the article. Looks like he got his eyesight back so it wasn't permanent.
Yes, it is pretty common to require re-review if it is changed again. But approval with comments shifts control back to the submitter. They then have choices:

- Modify it and accept that this will trigger re-review

- Merge as-is... maybe they don't even agree with the nit

- Merge as-is and followup with a new MR under the same JIRA. This sometimes makes sense if it gets them into an important preprod environment, but they are really still working on the issue.

- Merge as-is and follow up with a JIRA on the backlog. Maybe they realized that the "nit" is really a bigger issue and should be addressed separately.

Regardless, there's value in not blocking the merge for non-functional issues.
I don't think that's fair. Anti-nuclear comments also widely ignore the fiscal risks and focus on the obvious issues. Most people probably don't know about the financial issues.
It's just so easy to track money as a measurement of success, all the other goals are too intangible that they tend to get left behind
There are regulations affecting the food you eat, the home you live in, the cars you drive and the roads they're driven on. You'd be hard pressed to find anything run purely as a free market in the US, much less elsewhere.

Moreover, history is full of evidence that a pure free market begets regulation as a direct consequence of the natural desire to externalize the costs in a system. Pure free markets are an ephemerality in the world, undone by their own worst instincts soon after their creation.
I first noticed it with Rush Limbaugh in the 90's. The message was "you can't trust X, you can only trust the invisible hand of the market." Systematically, these (mostly right-wing) talking heads have worked through an extensive list of Xes - Government, police, school, courts, vaccines, ... Today, you have people who trust so little that they want to blow the whole system up.

Schneier is right. Social trust is the central issue of the times. We need to figure out how to rebuild it. IHMO, one place to start might be getting money out of politics. It was a choice to call showering money on politicians, "free speech" instead of corruption.
I think the idea is that engine failures are supposed to be contained meaning they don't fling debris potentially into the plane itself. I'd say in this case, they got lucky and the debris didn't impact the plane. It will be interesting to see what comes of this investigation and whether there will be any fixes/improvements to the rest of the existing (and vast) global A330 fleet.
Depth and breadth of electronic music catalogue and switching cost. Former is probably narrowing rapidly. What would you recommend? Building Apple's future streaming monopoly isn't particularly appealing. Small perhaps, but pausing a sub with explanation sends a clear signal.
It's also explorered in the plot of a Limitless (TV series) episode. There, it targets people that have the Khan marker in their DNA.
Anybody happen to know if there's anything more detailed from Environment Canada than their forecast pages?

https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/on-143_metric_e.html

I really like that discussion type forecast.
I too recently left Spotify for Apple Music because it works better on my Home Pod and Apple TV. I don't know why Spotify doesn't fix this. I know they are in a feud with Apple and maybe they think this is a way to apply pressure to Apple, but the risk is they lose people like me.

There were other reasons for leaving. I don't like that I can't hide or disable audiobooks or podcasts. They take up a lot of important screen space and are useless to me. I also really dislike the notifications from Spotify. I have them all turned off, but ever once in a while they decide to show one anyway.
he's become a very tempting target in himself that gets more tempting with each additional database added

I wonder if he actually deletes the data...
Sounds like you work in a toxic workplace
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Yeah, we tried to have some fun with it.
Do you remember what was the channel?
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Agreed, the admin makes development so much easier, being able to easily enter and view your data.
Title reminded me of this episode of "The Wild" podcast[1]

> This past summer, I was in Alaska in a little coastal town called Seward - a gorgeous spot on the Kenai Peninsula tucked between the ocean and some giant glacier-covered mountains. I met a guy named Dan Olsen, who records killer whale calls using an underwater hydrophone.

[1] https://www.kuow.org/stories/eavesdropping-on-orcas-love-gri...
For anybody interested: https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in...

You really aren't the best language salesman on earth ;). And that's great!
> Consumer confidence is down three straight quarters in a row. Nobody feels good about what the music is going to do next.

Sure, but you can leave a downturn four ways:

1. You went out of business

2. You experienced a decline and let a lot of people go

3. You managed to stay roughly where you were, no further forward, no further backwards (this is a small success but still a great achievement) and you may have let some people go — the expression "running to stand still" applies here

4. You find a way to come out better than you went in and maybe continued to hire

Spotify feel like they've gone from #3 to #2, but they had ambitions to be #4 of those scenarios, they will likely survive, but in what form and with what potential? And more to the point, if their competitors manage to achieve #3 or #4, at what long-term cost to Spotify?
Fascinating how terms such as "pirate station" get into common language and nobody is getting a pause. Pirates are people who ransack other ships on the sea. The term has originally nothing to do with not having a license. Is a ship crew who sails the seas without a license a group of pirates? No. Is this a language psyop to implant people with a negative view of people who do stuff without official license?
I've done self-experimentation using the two extremes which to me are carnivore and vegan. My blood results from carnivore were eye opening: Creatinine high out of range despite no supplementation, LDL extremely high out of range, total cholesterol extremely high out of range. I really wish I would have tested my blood histamine and homocysteine at the time but didn't.

I know there's this idea of the 'lean mass hyper-responder' floating around the low/zero carb-sphere but I'm not sold on it yet.
That looks handy, thanks for sharing! I used to use some other n+1 logger, but yours actual shows the query which is more useful.
They must believe that there is, regardless of whether or not their _actually_ is. Manufacturers killing local control that is only used by extremely small numbers of their users is a pattern [0]. The only potential good reason I can think of is if the existence of these abilities allows users to get themselves into trouble when they don't fully know what they are doing, which could create a great deal of (expensive) support and so they decide to just remove the headache

[0]https://www.theverge.com/23949612/chamberlain-myq-smart-gara...
should ask parent commenter that. haha.
There’s an oversupply of administrators too.
Dramatic Headline.
Only the direct trains will stop.
The majority of the Amsterdam to London trains already involved a change in Brussels, where they do have a large and chaotic border control area for onward travel to London. These will still be running.

Eurostar wanted to change this to allow direct trains from Amsterdam around the time of the pandemic, but they always struggled for space. I suppose this construction will result in a definitive solution.
Why do custom checks happen in NL on the ground, and not on-train? The train still goes through Belgium(at least), where no customs checks would be required
I haven’t told anyone in person I did, but the fact you think I did it to virtue signal says more about you than me.

And if I was doing it to “grift internet points” nothing stops me from just lying.

Some people do things because they genuinely believe it’s the right (or at least less bad) thing to do.
Can someone clone you with this? In the future?
The layoffs suck. But WHO was laid off? What depts?

I think it's important data because the labor market needs to adjust its skills away from what's not in demand, to what's IN demand.
It is worth noting the user awareness impact HaveIBeenPwned has had.

On the other hand, I feel like SpyCloud does not get enough credit for having a dataset 30x bigger and working directly with companies to actually mitigate credential reuse. If you've ever been prompted at login to a major website or received an email asking you to reset a password because it was used in multiple places, there is a good chance SpyCloud is behind it.
I can’t tell if it’s Django or just how I use it—-I’m a mechanical engineer by training and only dabble on web dev—-but I deeply appreciate how it gives me enough abstraction to get going but doesn’t get too far ahead of itself. If I go away for a year or two then come back I still get what’s going on. Meanwhile anything I try on JS land has gone through a few half-lives.
I don't get the negativity, looks like a self ironic Rust tutorial to me, which may be quite useful to Rust beginners.
I'm afraid that you are about 60 years late on that one.
This is the only response that actually addresses the article and my criticism. You make a good point that pressuring the governmental agencies that distribute funding to adopt a set of requirements could push the entire academic body in a particular direction.

I still don't see the point in choosing federated protocols as a mandate if we were to do this. My preference would be to use that energy towards free and open data sources. I think arXiv is the best example for that and not Mastodon.
frequently apple has non official api they use for inhouse apps that provide better interfacing with hardware
legalize doping and make it part of the tournaments. they all do it anyways. the medical teams can then act a bit like pit stop crews. good for science, entertainment, fans and all industries involved
Isn't Sellafield mostly a consequence of rushing to acquire the atomic and hydrogen bomb as quickly as possible? Akin to Hanaford site in the USA.
I believe overtly verbose, enterprise Java names make code _less_ clear in modern times with proper development tools.

Entire group of people has to think otherwise due to proliferation of that style.
Not absolute, but pausing a sub with an explanation sends an immediate message. Which services would you recommend? I'm mostly after a broad and fresh electronic music catalogue.
They should be a last resort for that sort of alignment, but it's still important to pull that last resort if it's necessary, so you don't end up like Cloudflare and let your own standards slip so badly that you end up with a 100% preventable multi-day outage.
Counter-anecdote, I like that Spotify hasn't changed, and if it changed significantly tomorrow, it might prompt me to look at competitors and decide afresh which music service to use.
You mean to say that no one is running the world, not even behind the scenes, or even behind behind the scenes? You are leaving us without anyone to blame! Daring I must say.
You can avoid most of the annoyances by always using the Songs view and hitting Command-B to get the columns browser like iTunes. Then edit the columns to browse in the menu.