skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better? I think you are ignoring 2nd+ order effects stemming from monopolization.
> We need neutral zones in society otherwise our society will tear itself apart

And we could call it ‘Pretending everything is ok’.
I don't really understand. You have never been free to do whatever you like. If I walk in to the head office of some libertarian company and take a computer, would I be free to leave? Would I be free to enter?

There is an asymmetry between leaving and getting fired. If an employee leaving seriously damages a company it is kind of on the company. If an employee gets fired it can seriously affect their life, and that of their family.
Might be a hard sell, though. People on Facebook share personal data with their friends in their profiles all the time.
The containers are not a McDonald's only thing, but they are the most consumed french fries on the planet.

So it's not really a cultural thing? It's definitely a global phenomenon.

>omg McDonald's is bad for you?

Now you're just being dense on purpose.
> I'm not sure why you think busses are more equivalent to planes other than holding more passengers.

The more I think about it, the more similarities I find. For instance, both long-distance buses and large airplanes are usually boarded only at dedicated places (bus terminals and airports); both have a separate baggage compartment below the passenger floor; both have built-in bathrooms; both are driven by trained drivers/pilots; both have a set schedule for departure; and so on.

I've taken plenty of long distance bus trips (12 hours or more in each direction), and I've also taken many airplane trips (usually on the 737 family), and I'd say the experience on both is very similar: taking a taxi to the bus terminal or the airport, looking for the correct spot or gate for boarding, putting most of the luggage in the lower compartment of the bus or airplane, waiting until the scheduled departure time, sitting still on your designated seat for most of the trip, arriving at the other terminal or airport, retrieving the luggage, taking a taxi to the actual destination. There are some differences, for instance on a bus there's a rest stop for food after several hours, while on an airplane they serve some food in the vehicle itself, but these differences are minor compared to the differences between an airplane trip and a car trip.
> They'll be held accountable to the actions of the people they employ, whether or not that's fair.

Stuff happens. I'm unfairly held accountable for my gender, my age, the way I dress, and so on. I have to suck it up; so should WHYY.

I think US law (I'm not USAian) is extremely liberal in the kinds of contracts it allows employers to impose on staff. I think that's cause for regret; unless you're paying someone to work for you 24/7/365, or the employment contract explicitly says "No off-colour jokes, even on your own time, and we decide what off-colour means", then the employer has to find some other excuse for getting rid of the joker.

But I believe that in most of the USA, an employer can fire an employee for any reason or none. That makes hiring people a lot less risky; but it makes employment much more precarious. It's a rule that makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker, and I personally think it's a bad rule.
I saw it in Dublin. No special tickets or long waits, IIRC. It's totally worth it, as is Trinity College.

I've also been to Iona! There was a bus trip through Mull (not that exciting) and then a ferry to Iona. There was some cattle land, but otherwise pretty undeveloped.
Yes, this. How would we compare to StabilityAI’s upscaling service adequately without a trying it out?
Sort of related: I was friends with a world-famous surgeon at UCLA, chairman of the urology department (he married an ex-girlfriend whom I stayed on good terms with).

His patient roster was a who's who of Hollywood: Groucho Marx, Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, etc. He told me the secret of getting these famous people to follow his orders: he always included something in his post-op instructions that would force them to do something they'd much rather not do.

Making them compliant created a kind of master-servant relationship with the surgeon as master; these megastars were so unused to following orders that the harsher the Rx, the more they regarded the doctor as a demi-god.
Of the top of my head:

You choose what car to buy, but the bus company chooses what us to buy. You maintain your own car but the bus company maintains the bus. You drive your own car, but a professional hired and vetted by the bus company drives the bus. You drive your car from a to b when you want, but the bus travels along predefined routes at specific times.
You think that reducing number of cars will not reduce the standard of living? Being forced to ride a bike in a snow is surely an improvement unwashed masses are yearning for.

Of course. If you ever drove downtown during rush hours, it is a miserable experience.

If you want to see people riding bike, see youtube videos about Finland. If you have the right clothes, or the right infrastructure and support, a lot of things are suddenly possible and easy.

But of course, noticed that I said reduction of cars, not a total elimination of cars.

We do not need a car for any and all activity. There will be a time and place when you need to haul large amount of materials, for example.
If you're writing anything useful, then you will get some negative feedback. IMHO the key is to use it to your advantage. I treat it like a game (maybe similar-ish to chess), basically I made the first move, and here's a counter-move. It's now up to me to use my critical thinking skills to determine if the criticism is valid or not. If it is valid, I can change my thinking and grow as a person. If it's not valid, I can still grow as a person by identifying any fallacies and really figuring out why it's invalid. Win/win.
Is it on the play store?
Yes, but some books require extensive effort to write while others are produced factory like. How do we take that in account?
People love to bag on Planet Fitness. I suppose they brought it on themselves, but things have moved on. I have multiple gym memberships: one to a world renowned powerlifting gym, another to an athletic training facility popular with professional athletes, and my local planet fitness. I have that because it’s closest to my son’s mother’s house (we meet there a couple of times per week) and it’s my “travel gym membership” since 24 Hour Fitness closed in our town.

All that lead up to say: the numerous PFs I visit are regularly busy and people work out there quite regularly. I see a lot of familiar faces at each of the locations. Their clientele is no worse or less dedicated than those of the other gyms.

Also, having visited their gyms in a number of coastal metro cities I’ll say that they do a really great job of maintaining their equipment.
The plane is two months old and experienced an airframe failure. The only way this is on Alaska is if they backed a truck into it.
Right yes, I think that's right. Really amazing to see.
There's always a way to invert this process, but only by doing it the hardest way, even harder than what you or anyone can comprehend is theoretically and / or realistically possible.
If I don't like your political views, am I free to come to your nice neighbourhood and spray paint slogans on your garage door?
What is interesting about this comment, is that - unlike what is clearly the poster intent - it can be equally applied to Democrats or Republicans.

That's the real problem we are facing. Too many people believing they represent the "morally correct" side due to the impact of social networks.
> you can basically take whatever train you want that you believe goes towards your goal.

That's a big difference between Germany and Switzerland. Full fare tickets let you take any route, but reasonably priced tickets are specific to a schedule of trains. If there is a delay causing a misconnect, you have to queue at the ticket window to get it endorsed for a later specific train. And my ticket inspectors on the train seriously inspected the endorsement each time.
No, the previous post above is correct:

> Each commit contains a complete exact snapshot of the entire repository. On the other hand it does contain optimizations to reduce the size of these snapshots in the form of git packs

I think the problem that you describe is that the divergent branches have made changes in the same file that cannot be automatically reconciled?
I wanted to echo all the comments here saying to turn off comments is a great tip. I have quite a few blogs/personal projects that I write weekly or more frequently.

My tips would be:

- Use Markdown. It makes writing so much more faster and takes away the focus from markup.

- Do not focus too much in the technical details. Content is still the king.

- That said, make yourself familiar and follow great typography patterns in your blog. Use legible fonts faces and sizes, clear separation, hierarchy, etc has the best impact.

- Have your email address visible. I find it be more effective than contact forms. You will get all sorts of feedback, but you can still decide if you want to respond to them. In my experience, people who take the time to compose an email tend to provide constructive and generally positive feedback.

- Decide a "tone" that you want to follow. For example, I have my technical content separate from personal, and travel content separate from the rest. It's sometimes refreshing to be able to speak in different tones.

- Be open about what you expect from the blog as well. If you hope to land in a better job, saying it openly won't hurt.
> GPT-4, paid version, mandatory, $20 a month.

Profs should be required to justify each reading list item, with an expected learning outcome, and the student should be free to seek that outcome however he sees fit. This would also create real world skills in ingenuity, etc.
the question is whether someone approves of that reality or criticizes it. i think it is reasonable to expect that certain realities (like racism) need to be criticized and not approved, and if you can't make that distinction clear then i can see that could be a problem.
I seem to have a different perspective on this. My understanding of Docker and containerization, in general, is that their primary goal is to encapsulate all the necessary components to run a piece of software within a single, universally portable package.

I haven't encountered issues with "different versions of Docker." On the contrary, I've faced challenges with various versions of Python, PHP, packages, and system libraries when not using Docker. These are issues that simply don't arise within the Docker environment.

While it's true that some users neglect image hygiene, using the wrong base image or including unnecessary elements in the final image, I've noticed a decreasing trend in such practices.

Regarding configuration files, my understanding is that they remain the same files needed for a vanilla install, simply mapped inside a container.

In my opinion, Docker is not just "yet another thing to learn"; it's a single tool to learn and use universally, both now and in the future.

I'm not well-versed in PHP development. If I were to use a tool for PHP development, I would need PHP installed, but there are numerous versions available. Do I need Apache? Is it compatible with my three-year-old version? Will it work with a nightly build? What about Composer? Does it have dependencies?

And then there's the matter of the database. Now, I'd have to install and configure a complex piece of software with numerous dependencies. SQL is a familiar term to many, but not everyone is comfortable navigating the MySQL CLI, especially when it doesn't come by default on your machine.

But what about more than just experimenting? With Docker, a simple Compose file can be created to spin up a configured database, including all necessary dependencies. If required, it can also handle any migration or initialization needed.
Nice collection that is. I always find old tales and stories from the past very entertaining. Their knowledge about neutrinos was not very advanced, but still...

Nostradamus:
"When the animal domesticated by man

After great pains and leaps will come to speak"
I've been thinking about a terminal spreadsheet editor for about a year now. I haven't deeply investigated this tool while I write this comment but I'd love for something like this for Terminal that supported `=A1+B2` kind of formulas.
I've found the BBB to be a joke, TBH.
Actually, reached out and he republished it: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/the-website-rfp-and-the-impos...
It sounds like your students consider programming a chore (or work), instead of a hobby or something fun... are you and/or your students doing these lessons for fun, or for money/career?
Do you use zerobrane or carousel to write your apps? Why?
The book and software is under the MIT-like license https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/license.txt
Even if it is a breach of contract? Should we be free to ignore contract law?
I tried some TUI tool that was pretty advanced at viewing tables (sorting, filtering etc.), but I don't remember the name. It was on a WSL instance on my work laptop which I nuked when they laid me off.

I remember that it was tab-based. Any idea what that could have been?
SF to LA and SF to Crescent City are both over 350 miles and you never leave CA.
https://rasp.yandex.ru/map/trains/#center=37.63999999999997%... for the coverage further East. It may be partially relying on timetables and not live data, though.
TIL. That's a neat standard and I'm glad it exists, it's an interesting reflection of what opt-in ethical frameworks can look like.

For every reasonable and non-authoritarian suggestion I read for regulating AI, I feel like I wade through 10 Neuromancer-level takes. It's definitely a me-problem, I gotta stop scrolling through /new...
The question you asked was answered by the article. By asking it, you signal that you have not read the article, else you would know the answer to your question. Please RTFA.
Quantum Computing is coming for your data (2017)
First step towards synthetic CO2 fixation in living cells
There’s two sides to freedom. Freedom of individuals to express themselves, and freedom of companies, which are also made of individuals, to want to work with each other. I personally think all employment should be truly at will on both sides.
> I am specifically pretty certain that Devuan would never have been forked if systemd were merely a configurable installation option in Debian.

You can't stop 5 or so random people on the internet from starting the 100th irrelevant Debian-based derivative.
AFAIK It's nothing to do with "punishing" non-iPhone users, it's a way of reducing account break ins. Signing in from a physical apple device gives them more information about the sign in itself - signing in from a browser gives them nothing that's useful.

So if you can't sign in to the App Store, and it can't send a reset code to your Mac that means your Mac isn't signed in to iCloud (the OS level sign in to iCloud services, not the App Store sign in with an Apple ID) - so why couldn't you just do the "reset on sign in" in step 6, on your Mac?
Ok. To think the anglo world can create analytic philosophy, and have so many respected, clever philosophers and historians; still their general public seems to have major trouble with the idea that critical theory (the frankfurt's school version) IS NOT postmodernism. It's not that hard, really. There at most two wikipedia pages to read (the best way is still to read Lyotard or Baudrillard, but i understand the general public won't do it). I understand the EN page on postmodernism are mostly wrong in details (Britannica isn't better, i think people should read authors before writing about their theories :/), both are really shitty entry level but sufficient to understand the basics, then follow this:

Can we agree that postmodernism reject meta-narratives that trie to explain too much? It's one of the cornerstone of postmodernism, and probably one of the more known. Can we also agree that critical theory (not the tool, the philosophical theory) often push towards global relativism as well as a marxist metanarrative? Conclusions?

I'm not saying both theories are irreconcilable (although Frankfurt's school version of critical theory is), i'm saying they are not the same, and any "intellectual"/pundit/influencer who use both term as if they're the same should crawl back to where they came, ashamed of being so idiotic and untrustworthy they can't read a few books on subject they're talking about in public (whether it's videos or articles).
Having done both, I agree that they're more a substitute for busses. Perhaps trains.

I'm not sure why you think cars are more equivalent to planes, especially when they hold fewer passengers.
I would love this. Organizers get on this; with the rise of things like JLC and PCBWay hardware hacking culture is making a resurgence, and I suspect there will be many new makers trying to start small companies, similar to the SaaS boom. We have tons of these in the software world but, as evidenced by this post, not so much for the hardware scene.

Very much an untapped market.
Well done! I'd use this over what's out there.
Suggestions:
1. On mobile, it's hard to see more than 2 times without scrolling. I think compress the vertical space more
2. Might be nice to share a link with a configured set.
In a class with grades a certain fraction of the grade is homework, if it is a large enough fraction you can’t pass without doing the homework. For instance in a typical “CS 101” course at a uni you are expected to write a bunch of little programs which will be graded by the instructor or a TA usually using some kind of integration test. (I think a lot of people take a class like that and don’t realize how important automated testing is to it..)

Another approach is to put people into a lab situation where they do some exercises when the group is together.
It's not just the missing UNICODE support (although that's probably out of scope for the stdlib, a couple of UTF-8 aware helper functions would be good enough), but footguns-in-waiting like strcpy(), strncpy(), strcat(), strncat(), ...

All the wide string stuff (wchar.h and wctype.h) as well as locale.h is all pointless today.

Everything related to filesystems and file IO is just the bare minimum that's acceptable for simple UNIX-style command line tools, but not really useful in modern applications (most notably, any support for non-blocking IO and memory-mapped-files are missing).

Arguably, complex.h doesn't even belong in the stdlib (I wonder why such an esoteric feature was even considered).

Better support for custom allocation strategies would be nice (e.g. each function which allocates under the hood should accept an allocator argument instead of being hardwired to malloc).

I'm not even asking for a more feature-rich stdlib, a stdlib2 with the obsolete parts removed and modernized IO and memory management functions would go pretty far. But then of course there's the problem that the C stdlib is also accidentially the de-facto system API on some UNIXes.
My personal opinion is that it’s fine for an employee of my company to do comedy on the side, by the way. So it’s not about this case. It’s the principle that I’m highlighting
> That one does leak a bit in some places: for example, pressing the pedal isn't linear.

That’s the least of your problems, because it leaks profusely. We could start with the fact that in many scenarios the “accelerator” pedal does not, in fact, accelerate. This is not an edge case—any driver who had to drive on ice, snow, dirt or otherwise not have traction knows that. What it does do reliably is make the wheels (some or all, depending on your car) go faster.

> But ultimately that doesn't really matter; the person driving gets used to it in very short order.

Let’s recap. I believe you were saying that the abstraction is leaky, the system does not always do what we expect, and even though many of us don’t really care to understand how the system works it’s OK because we sort of adjust and roll with it because for all its faults the system is good enough (and, perhaps much more importantly, we’re used to it). Hold on, it’s almost as if you’re talking about one well-known version control system…

…and on balance I’d agree with you, except I think a serious software engineer is more like an auto mechanic or professional racer rather than a casual driver—“press the pedal to go faster” doesn’t really cut it, and we should have a good and correct model of how Git works.
My new year resolution is Bitcoin
Whispering Gallery in the Missouri Capitol (2018)
For cross platform, from a technical standpoint Qt is one of best and that’s the problem. The best isn’t good enough, not for the masses that instead chose Electron and certainly not for the sorts of devs making polished Apple platform apps.

Developer experience is extremely important but it’s consistently something that’s swept under the rug with Qt, much to its detriment. Devs at large would rather be limited to a single platform or make huge tradeoffs in efficiency than live with bad DX.
> How maintainable code is is measured in how many files you have to edit to add one feature.

Trivially false: if all of the source code is kept in one file then you only ever have to edit one file. No matter how many lines of code are in that file, any such system would be maximally maintainable by your definition.

Maintainability is not so clear-cut. It's currently an imprecise measure of organizational clarity that makes it straightforward to extend a system in ways that are needed or will be needed.
I was nervous/hesitant to start my blog last year for the same reasons. Then I figured that probably no one will ever read my blog so why was I worried? I ended up just doing it for the writing practice. I'm a few months in and it's already got me in a groove of thinking about side projects I can work on and then write about. My readership is mostly me making sure the formatting looks right and sometimes my brother when I share my musings with him. Based on what I get out of it I'm happy with that.
It could just easily shows that people don't have choice. After all, state and local authorities decreed how much parking there should be and how zoning works. Meanwhile, the feds provided funding for an interstate system in which highways destroyed whole neighborhoods in the process.

Our choices are shaped by the available options people have, sometime very little choices at all.

Given that some countries are richer or poorer than other, and some countries are better at public transits than other, I find it hard to believe that the status quo can be justified by people merely making 'choices'.
I think the intention was both to share a lot of Irish folklore and the tumultuous times where that book was made in the era before Ireland became as Catholic as most of us were used to thinking of it as. The idea that something beautiful could come out of the violent Viking era is a pretty powerful concept for a filmmaker, and the art style shows that the makers weren’t rejecting their Celtic heritage.
No freedom was lost. The company broke union due process rules that they agreed to.
Unfortunately, it’s kind of overblown. That particular exemption already exists for the 8 and 9, they just haven’t granted it specifically for the 7 yet. It’s not clear that there’s any issue there.
There are nanoscale features in the glass that scatter or reflect the incoming light in an engineered way to small camera sensors in the frame.

It's basically something like the Microsoft Halolens in reverse.
That's a great point, and I think we all agree that the documentation does a poor job of distinguishing between when the "snapshots" and the "diff" models are in use. But what is never exposed in the docs or user interface is the internal implementation details of how snapshots are stored. And that's what I was arguing is not one of Git's many documentation and UX problems.
We didn't even make it to mars, and people are already dreaming about going to pluto.