skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we have a family friend who owns a model train shop, a very popular and notable one. He took it over from the original owner, and this fellow also has a private museum attached, where he exhibits vintage vehicles, typewriters, and other stuff: https://www.jacooleymuseum.com/

So one of his daughters was my friend and classmate, and when we were growing up, of course, her father was already collecting model trains, and he had so many that every shelf of their home was occupied with model trains of various types.

My friend didn't visit many other homes when she was young, but once she finally went over to a friend's house, and she looked around, bewildered, and asked, "Where are all the trains?"
We switched to using Nix at our startup because the rebuild time, reproducibility, and performance of Docker (especially on MacOS) were really slowing us down. Building and starting our dev container could take several minutes if we busted Docker's layer cache, but with Nix we never had to worry about that.

We open sourced our Nix dev environment tool (Devbox), and wrote a bit about why we switched here: https://www.jetpack.io/blog/devbox-turn-a-1000-container-scr...
FYI your link color is almost unrecognizable. its basically a (very) dark blue against black.
I wasn't commenting on Emacs vs Vim. My comment was regarding the meme-like nature of Emacs often being suggested for almost anything, almost "the Simpsons did it"-esque. My experience with Emacs is that it is a giant kluge, whereas Smalltalk and its kind are much more streamlined and simple. And Emacs is an editor driven and configured by a language. Smalltalk is a language that comes with an editor. They're different, and I don't think anyone is going to get a Smalltalk experience just working in Emacs.
You have to take a systemic view. Fewer batteries going into the landfill and not needing any of the toxic industry involved in making those batteries could very well be a better trade off, especially since the battery can be reclaimed and repurposed elsewhere. I think this “it has to be an improvement on all fronts” attitude is actually harmful to making forward progress. And “less toxic” is also information-free because it’s not quantified nor is it a systemic analysis because that kind of analysis is quite hard to do. So yeah, it’s very possible that a radioactive battery is net better than chemical ones. It might bring new challenges but that’s true of all tech improvements.
Because nix is also the build tool that the packages are built with.
If you live in a rural area, it's understandable but if you live in a city it's not great. Re: where I am going to this, I already stated my point. Dependency on your own piece of metal for transportation purposes is shocking. Ideally, driving would be a choice and you would always have public transportation as a backup. But if as a society, you reach a point where not owning a piece of metal restricts your activities in your area, it sounds like an awful issue with serious socioeconomic implications.
This is just a side note, but my Instagram feed has become basically entirely irrelevant. It's just reel after reel from people promoting themselves or some product. The network feels increasingly like a rapid-paced HSN/home shopping network or similar.

Do I look at it daily? Yes, I do. But I'd say that 95% of the content I see on it is junk, very few of my peers are posting their lives on there.

As for blue-line Facebook, it's so slow it's borderline unusable. I'm not sure what happened (ReactJS maybe?), but the performance is a fraction of what it was ten years ago.

> The future is probably smaller networks where users self-select into them based on affiliations, much like web forums.

Yeah it's like everyone got drunk on connection and is slowly rediscovering peace in disconnecting. I'd wager you're right about this.
I was dealing with this problem today; Total Commander couldn't get to those files (in Android/data/), but this "app" (which is apparently just a launcher for a built-in file browser which somehow acts differently than the preinstalled Files app?) fixes it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marc.files
I find sama, musk, jobs, elizabeth holmes to be in the same category. Only difference is that sama, musk, and jobs were able to not only market and get hype, but also build some 'threshold' of what they claim.

Holmes, while nearly as inspirational in the 'marketing' sham they all do, didn't have enough of a product, so she's in jail.

People like 'ilya' who understand the tech deeply are hidden and lose out to these 'musk' type folks, like sama.
yes! there are two tracks i love to play at the speaker store / audiophile's house:

Korn's "Freak on a Leash", to test the low end

Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song", to watch the implementer's reaction to source hiss

imo "Stairway to Heaven" is one of the dirtiest recordings of all time w.r.t. airtime; maybe that 'noise' is what actually made it so successful...?
"Partners" includes anyone who buys that data, not just other data brokers.
It does, it's just not the best.
This is correct, but I think for a lot of items the non-refundable listing fee is a trivial amount of currency that you're happy to pay in exchange for faster execution, because it's based on the vendor sale price.
There is a Flynn effect for concentration performance in adults
Hi there @jacooper - we already support this via domain-wide catch-all passwords. We also support filtering such as you+filter@yourdomain.com.
The deposits mostly just stop people from overloading the system, and put a tiny bit of friction into the economy.

I always made the most money when I half heartedly farmed on one or two characters and traded about five times as much material as I brought in.

It’s a commodities market. Figure out what the weekly and daily average is, try to anticipate drop off in demand (eg, post launch), if anyone undercuts you by too big a margin, buy them out and relist. If a little, either drop your price or wait.
> Sure you can, and I'll argue that we should.

That really makes no sense at all. That would mean you can't sell your stake in any company which not only makes IPOs, and having a stock market in general, impossible, it would also kill VC funding of start-ups. The only thing that would still be possible is bootstrapping your own company, because you also cannot get any bank loans as using the company as collateral is impossible. This idea is a guaranteed way of completely destroying your economy.
Right, I'm strongly skeptical about plugins of any kind for GUI applications.

I've met people who claim they can install 30 plugins into Eclipse and still get things done but when I try it, Eclipse seems to get "pluginitis" and become unreliable. I've found distros of tools like Eclipse and the JetBrain IDEs that have a curated collection of plugins that seem to work but I find installing anything, even something little like a Plugin for bash files because it saw I was editing a ".sh" file, is like playing Russian Roulette.

I feel the same way about web browser extensions. I think it's OK to install something like uBlock Origin and certain other anti-tracking tools, but you can make the case that those improve system performance whereas performance can only go in one way installing other browser extensions.

The "problematic cache" rings true for me. Any developer has had the experience of making something that performs 100x or more better with a very simple cache. However it is by no mean a given that adding a cache layer really improves performance in a system, particularly when you can have problems with locks being held, invalidation, etc. Particularly if worst-case latency is your concern, for instance (and I think it is the concern when your computer is "freezing up") the cache will sometimes waste time doing its cache thing and still have to go to the source.

Those games might do better because of a different performance culture... People are very concerned about worse-case latency for games but seem to be completely unconcerned when it is a spreadsheet or a graphics editor or the GUI shell of your desktop.
If you spend your whole life obsessing over material things, you can miss the things that matter.

I care about audio quality, but not to the extent where I can call myself an audiophile. For me, the goal is the music. When a symphony clicks with you, when you find the time to listen to it all in one go, and when you are in the right state of mind to take it in, it's a rare experience. No amount of equipment will get you that. What will get that absolute high is making life decisions that carve out the space to engage with the music.
After playing the AH manually for a long time, I'd know that a stack of ore would sell for 20g. I was manually buying when under 20g and relisting. My script just reduced the tedium. I'd manually add in checks for each high-volume item. It was super-hacky, but so effective, I didn't need to improve it.

One script would iterate over every item in my inventory. If it matched a hard-coded list, it would auto-list it at the hard-coded price. Another script would scan every item on the AH, and if matched another hard coded list, it would buy them.

Another story, pre-script. WOW had the inscription update incoming, which used flowers to make glyphs. I correctly assumed the demand for Peacebloom (tier 1 ingredient) would skyrocket once the patch hit. I spent three weeks buying everything on the AH, using multiple characters to store it all. The night before the update, I listed it all for 20x the normal price. The next morning, everything sold out completely. I remember it being 200 stacks @ 5g each, sold for 100g each.
Has anyone had any luck breathing life into old tablets with PostmarketOS or anything similar? I'm talking about Android tablets that are now so slow as to be literally unusable. Some comments here mention hardware degradation, so can a lightweight alternative OS/distro make a difference?
Apple has admitted to reducing clock speeds of devices during updates to increase battery life.

As for android, I have experienced this a million times also, but do not know the cause. But I do usually see an accumulation of new and stupid bugs as I get software updates. Incorrect app scaling and positioning, etc which were not the case for the first six months I had the phone.
ORM abuse are absolutely rife in small-scale/volume build industries i.e. web agencies, outsourced crews

8/10 projects I look into don't have any indexes set up.

Use of ORMs with little thought into lazily loaded relations lead to 100s of queries being done per request.

It's pretty mad. Do not underestimate the propensity of a developer to stick to the only tool they know how to use. Unfortunately ORMs like Eloquent make it way too easy.
I’m wondering how much the green energy policy from Ottawa contributes to the problem in AB. If it’s like described that carbon tax prevent the operation of coal or gas powered plant, and how are those solar panel and wind turbines doing in AB right now.
Most likely they were using AI programmers. As we keep hearing programmers are already being replaced by prose generators.
On the header, "Learn Penrose" and "Documentation" seem to link to pages with what you want.
So perhaps a priority could be to build more medium/high speed passenger rail, and get it off the freight lines?

Travelers and commuters win, cargo wins!

It is funny though, the US built it's current freight network in a comparatively low tech era, yet I doubt it could do it again in the current era due to funding and beauracracy.
> There is no such crisis in experimental physics.

Then why do I keep hearing about superconductors on here?

This sort of thinking comes from ignorance and arrogance. When you do research at the frontier of any subject, you won't compete with the average university graduate in that subject, you'll compete with people with the highest "intellect" who also studied this subject for their entire lives, and you're incredibly unlikely to find a breakthrough without doing that too. The amount of Nobel Prize winners who went on to support compete bogus theories in other fields is endless.
No, social media accounts are really and truly personal things. Having my father's account meant that I could read all his DMs, I had access to all the trees and other relatives' DNA tests, and I could essentially impersonate him on the site. This made me really uncomfortable.

If Dad really wanted to help out my research, then he could've picked up the tab for my own subscription on my own account, which I do have.

It's not like Netflix where our recommendations would just be tossed in a blender. It's about trust and identity.
North of 55 is ice sheets. South 55 is Cape Horn. Not saying it can’t be done. Just not something you just “do” except for Vikings.
The docs don't really work on mobile, the side navbar takes up half the screen and doesn't seem closeable
Thanks for the suggestion! Yes, I'm familiar with Thinking in Systems and other systems thinkers but for whatever reason haven't read anything from Ackoff.
Thanks so much for making this and making it under MIT to boot.

I’ve been thinking about how to do this for about 6 months now and just started working on a demo for querying just one table // JSON column today.

I would feel a lot more comfortable with putting this (and/or my demo) into production if the database had been set up with a schema+db user per account rather than every tenant sharing just the one set of tables.
Ingredients were always pretty stable.

I think a lot of sales came down to people trading time for money. I just hit a critical level and I want some cheap blues to power level faster and got shitty drops. Or Buddy wants to play and he’s laughing at my gear, oh there’s a reasonable purple.

I found a lot less stress looking for cheap blues and greens to disenchant for ingredients. That could suck up an hour a day easy. Which is why people just dumped them. Not worth their time.
I wonder if we're misunderstanding each other ...

I am not suggesting you dual-use your high voltage romex and also send audio signals on it ...

I am suggesting you run additional runs of romex dedicated solely to audio.

This would be NEC compliant.
I'm a bit puzzled by this, not going to lie!
Exactly my thoughts too, especially regarding reproducibility issues Quarto has been great in the past for projects at my workplace.

I have yet to try Marimo but synchronised code cells are what seems to set it apart. Quarto + jupyter-cache [1] was the closest I have managed to get to that experience but that approach has its constraints.

[1]: https://github.com/executablebooks/jupyter-cache
63% of Americans, own homes and 65% of those homes have garages.

the math is clear on what's more normal
Renting Clothes Was Meant to Be the Future of Fashion. Then Shoppers Got Bored
When I started getting some RSI from coding all day, I looked for solutions. I ultimately settled on a split keyboard (separating the left and right hand more, less cramped in front at odd wrist angles) with a bunch of thumb keys (to act as modifiers, much easier to use than pinkie based mods) and a folding tripod stand for each so i could "tent" each keyboard out at an angle that matched my natural resting hand posture. That and a wrist pad completely resolved any RSI/tension I had.

With QMK, I was able to setup a nice set of keyboard layers for regular use, gaming, and multimedia control. For any keyboard power users, it's a dream! My hands are always in home row and everything is a simple finger movement/chord away.

Link to the build kit I used: https://splitkb.com/products/kyria-rev3-pcb-kit
Cool, thanks for sharing this information! I'm not a Lua or wasmtime developer, but I hope to learn from whatever discussion follows.
Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions? (2019)
"“We were actually surprised that reduced inflammation was the biggest explainer, the biggest contributor to the benefit of activity,” says Mora, “because we hadn’t hypothesized that. We knew that regular exercise does reduce inflammation over the long term, but we also knew that acute exercise transiently increases inflammatory biomarkers during and immediately after exertion.” About a third of the benefit of regular exercise, they found, is attributable to reduced inflammation."
What Is the Nobara Project?
Maybe check out epik.com
> Simultaneously, rats in Group 2 received a dosage of 30 µg/Rat of the COVID-19 m-RNA Vaccine BNT162b2 intramuscularly on the same day of pregnancy.

from wikipedia:

> Pfizer and BioNTech started a Phase II–III randomized control trial in healthy pregnant women 18 years of age and older (NCT04754594).[191] The study will evaluate 30 mcg of BNT162b2 or placebo administered via intramuscular injection in two doses, 21 days apart.

Why did they dose rats with a human size dose?
For those that are not following very closely, what came after the “hooks” that took it too far?
That actually makes me feel little better. I spent a few weekends trying to get a little raspberry pi SNES emulationstation on NixOS going and it turned out to be a total waste. I quickly found myself deep into scripting custom configs and questioning whether the packages I was using actually work. Reproducible != Just works

I assumed I was just a dummy for not getting it to work because there are tons of peoples' flakes on Github with their entire desktop environment declared. That's what gave me the impression that this was totally normal. It's super cool and impressive but I just haven't grokked reading Nix yet.
My iPhone does this, and I have no idea why. It’ll just randomly have huge issues switching from one program to another. It doesn’t have an activity indicator on individual programs, so I never know what the issue is.

My mac basically never has it, unless Intellij is running in the background and decides to re-index.
Even young audiophiles can’t pass an ABX for high quality (192kbps+) lossy compressed audio. It’s perceptually transparent.
It's an impressive level of cognitive dissonance to describe union workers as more competent and customers demanding union-built planes because those planes are better built, and then still feel the need to throw in a "unions suck" comment.
Texas and Georgia both have massive immigration from other states.

People vote with their feet.
Why so aggressive? I didn’t make any claims other than less than USB2.

And for reference, I was assuming 384 kHz, 32 bit depth, which would be 196 Mbps at 16 channels. You cannot even do 32 channels over USB2 which would be the next logical step.
The issue is there's no long-term business since there's little more to learn once you've seen your ancestry and connected with a few relatives, and these services are running out of new customers to sell $100 DNA collection kits to.

People here are blaming PE, but 23andMe is public and flaming-out on its own. Blackstone bought at the peak, so they're probably taking a big loss on this, and this will just speed it up.
>But this feature is being added to Java to solve the pretty serious problem of code injection

My take is that it will do little for code injection. Most programmers will use STR/FMT, and unless they offer an HTML or an SQL processor in the stdlib, they wont be used.

>Remember, string templates are most useful when what they produce is not a string, but rather construct a specific API entity

Sure, but the processor can do little short of implementing full parsing to understand the context of say HTML or SQL, right?
Apple recently demonstrated ARM is pretty capable of emulating x86
> It’s kind of interesting how they have this hold on gaming outside of conventional PCs, but can’t seem to compete with nvidia on just that one market.

As for PC gaming, word of mouth plus a huge chunk of money for advertising deals. AMD, or back then rather ATI, drivers were always known for being more rough around the edges and unstable, but the cards were cheaper. Basically you get what you pay for. On the CPU side, it's just the same but without the driver stuff... until AMD turned the tide with Zen and managed to kick Intel's arse so hard they haven't recovered until today.

The console market is a different beast, here the the show isn't run by kids who have had NVIDIA sponsorships in games since they were first playing Unreal Tournament 2004 but by professional beancounters who only look at the price. For them, the answer is clear:

- generally, the studios prefer something that has some sort of market adoption because good luck finding someone skilled enough to work on PowerPC or weird-ass custom GPU architecture. So the console makers want something that their studios can get started on quickly without wasting too much time porting their exclusive titles.

- on the CPU side there's only two major architectures left that fulfill this requirement, ARM and x86, and the only one pulling actual console-worthy high performance out of ARM is Apple who doesn't license their stuff to anyone. That means x86, and in there there's again just two players in town, and Intel can't compete on price, performance or efficiency => off to AMD they go.

- on the GPU side it's the same, it's either AMD and NVIDIA, and NVIDIA won't go and use their fab time to churn out low-margin GPUs for consoles when they can use that fab time to make high-margin gamer GPUs and especially all the ludicrous-margin stuff for first coin miners and now AI hyper(scaler)s => off to AMD they go.

The exception of course is the Nintendo Switch. For Nintendo, it was obvious that it must be an ARM CPU core - x86 and performance under battery constraints Just Is Not A Thing and all the other mobile CPU archs have long since died out. Where I have zero idea is why they went for NVIDIA Tegra that was originally aimed at automotive and settop boxes instead of Qualcomm, Samsung or Mediatek but I guess that the former two demanded inacceptable terms (Qualcomm), didn't want to sell low-margin SoCs when they could run their own high-performance SoCs for their Galaxy lineup (Samsung) or were too sketchy (Mediatek), so they went for Nvidia who could actually use a large deal to showcase "we can also do mobile" for a world that was dominated by the three before-mentioned giants.
FWIW, I don't personally think this affects most Linux distros. My Arch Linux laptop from 2014 stills runs just as well as it did on day 1. The only reason I don't use it is because I wanted to use a gen4 ssd (at gen4 speeds). I verified this when I revived it recently to run a win95 emulator so my son could play an old PC game.
A “short flight” still means a few hundred dollars and 5+ hours traveling unless you live in the airports, and maintaining a second house is going to exhaust that tiny relocation sum very quickly. Anyone with a family would be effectively be asking their partner to become a single parent, which is a huge burden.
Perhaps different today, but back when I lived in the auld country it was totally different in Scotland (still in the UK, I believe).
This is why balanced cables exist.
> PRs should be reviewed before code executes on your infrastructure

Very often local tests results can't be trusted specially for projects with architecture level codes like pytorch. Before merging the test results needs to be checked. And it doesn't require just PR review to be safe, it requires review of all the commits as the contributor is making the changes to fix the testcase. Even if we assume that the maintainer will review each of the commit within a day, it could take weeks or months for the contributor to fix the failing testcase with this and maintainer to be looking at the same PR everyday.
> the journey and the people you met along the way

You mean the son who hates him and the wife who divorced him and the other kids who seem at best ambivalent about him?
Next.js and server side components
I’m an app/web dev too. Doing a bit more web these days, Next and htmx. But just wrapping up work on a React Native B2C App that had around 50k users. Also a bug mac user ;) Shot me on a msg to the email in my bio
Server side rendering / server components / pushing NextJS on everyone