skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As part of Chan’s research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provided old weather maps that helped him determine the precise date of the weather observations in the coded note: May 27, 1888.

When the article introduced the weather report idea, I was hoping that this note was spy communications made to look like weather reports.

(Maybe the coded note wound up in a pocket because Elizabeth Bennet was joking with her sisters, pretending to be a spy.)
I don't think software is uniquely a mess behind the scenes...
The putin assassinations are a little different though. The assassinated are publicly known to have links to the regime. The methods of death have a similar signature and the rarity of that type of death makes most people draw one likely conclusion so that the message is communicated. People fall out of windows for minor infractions and to really send a message they are poisoned.

The asset in this case wasn't known publicly and the method of death makes people assume it was simply an accident. Unless they did some private announcement, no one was deterred. If it was Iran and they wanted to send a message, they would probably have to out the asset publicly and/or make it clear that it was an assassination. e.g. a bomb would send a clear signal that it was more likely to be a nation state assassination and not some accident or a random robbery/act of violence.
I don't think it needs spelling out. Make an effort if you must.
> but in others software was designed and driven incrementally just as with core agile

That's my experience also. Since the early 80's, every project I've been involved in was managed with a semi-flexible, pragmatic approach that involved breaking down the problem into smaller chunks, regular communication with the customer, etc.
I think it works for older thunderbolt too. Been years since I tested it though.
SaneQL: A Critique of Modern SQL and a Proposal [pdf]
Apple tells employees in San Diego to move to Austin or face layoffs
Original title: A Critique of Modern SQL And A Proposal Towards A Simple and Expressive Query Language
It's an option on Windows that avoids Visual Studio. If you don't like it then don't use it.
“Former” a la Marines
0BSD scares a lot less people than the various "public domain" or "wtf" licenses, let me tell you.

Lawyers don't like things they don't recognize.
Not sure If you'd count it as a bootcamp but I did something similar.

I taught myself to program Basic aged 11, using the manual that came with the early 80s Dragon 32 home computer (a whole 32k of ram). Wrote some simple games, worked out you couldn't really do anything cool without knowing assembly language, completely failed to learn assembly language, as it was too hard for this 12 year old on his own, armed only with a copy of https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/6809%2...

By the time I was 13 I'd given up programming and basically barely touched a computer for the next 15 years, did a History degree, bummed around as a musician for a few years and then, courtesy of the UK dole office, did a 3 month, 5 day a week, 9-5 course in Visual Basic, followed by a 3 month work placement. The company I worked for employed me when the placement came to an end and I've been working as a programmer for the last 25 years - although the last Visual Basic I did was about 24 years ago...

I think I was lucky that I hit the London job market as the first dotcom boom was starting, it seemed to be pretty easy to get a job back then and no one seemed that bothered if you had a CS degree or not. (I still don't have one)

I have done some academic CS courses (via Coursera) and did learn some interesting and useful stuff - but I think the most important thing to have if you want to be a good programmer is to have a self-directed mindset, you have to want go and figure stuff out and be able to learn on your own, using what ever resources you have to hand.

One of the things I like most about programming/software engineering is the fact that there is always more than one way to solve the problem, always scope for improvement and inovation
Wasn't the preliminary consensus from current studies that LLMs improve the performance more for the workers with lower initial performance, in various fields (copywriters, developers)? I.e. C worker becomes a B+ worker, but A worker becomes A.1 worker. So if anything, it should reduce inequality...
I wish i could eat steak and cheeseburgers like i use to, but for me it all started with my first gout attack right before my kidney issue was spotted. I have had 5 to 6 gout attacks in the last 8 years. Last being a bad one in Sept 2022.

My previous diet was going to steakhouses a few times a week with mac n cheese and mashed potatoes with country gravy as side dishes. Shared dessert with my dining partner(s). My body to enjoy the same full life of hiking up mountains, skiing, biking, swimming, enjoying lots of intimacy for years to come without drugs can no longer take my previous diet. I'd be on dialysis most likely now or in the next few years if I chose a bad diet over continuing to live the same full life ive always enjoyed by revolutionizing my diet.
i do. what now?
That is a great soundscape
There's some correlation, and while Trump tried to take credit for Operation Warp Speed for a while[0], he distanced himself from everything related to "Covid is a threat" (including "it needs vaccines") when the tide shifted in his voter base and they went fiercely antivax, antidistancing, antilockdown, ...

[0] the process was pretty much the same speed for non-participants in non-participant countries, but okay: his administration made it a priority. Gold star for you!
The title says "dozens of employees" but HN removed that from the title automatically.
Spiegel might not be what it was anymore, but I wouldn't call it "populist". Otherwise I have no word left for Bild then...
If you go for React, remember you're learning a UI library and not a framework. You'll need to learn a number of different libraries in order to use React in a framework, and with a multitude of choices for each portion of the framework functionality.

The problem with React - and to a lesser extent Vue - is that each project will likely use different libraries for similar functionality. There are some very popular defaults for many (like routers), but you'll still end up needing to be familiar with more than one.

You could look at Next.js which is a React-based framework.

Between Vue and React, I'd go with Vue. It has the same problems with multiple options for every framework aspect, but most of it is Vue-branded (so to speak) which means you're less likely to need to learn alternatives. I also think it makes more conceptual sense than React, but that's a personal opinion.

If your interest is to become employed, React is definitely more popular - but it's not better.
UK air dates were about 3 years later than US air dates:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Power_Play_(episode)
Most of those were considered normal best practice in watarfall shops I worked at. They were common, but we knew many not doing them and laughed at those fools.
Why even reply if you don’t know what you’re talking about in terms of current mongo? Not sure what Postgres or Uber or Google even has to do with this.

FYI using mongo is more than simply wanting a json interface.
It's pretty big as a seasoning/spice.
I'm only just beginning to scratch the surface with gamedev in Rust, but JS and Rust are quite different languages. Rust is compiled, with strong typing. But once you get the mechanics of compiling to WASM figured out (as I have in this repo), it's pretty pleasant to work with.
As a current ubuntu user, that hostile cookie wall is jarring and makes me question what path ubuntu is on. Either the management never looks at their public website, or they are happy with giving the user a bad experience in exchange for whatever value they think those cookies provide.
This is my first time seeing Dynamicland in a few years, and it's interesting: my perspective is flipped.

Instead of seeing it as "computing in 2100", I see "ehhh, you say you could get the iPad out, hope you don't have embarrassing notifications, unlock it, and look through 24 rainbow gradient icons with red bubbles"...

...is laying out 10 things better? ...is having to putting a piece of glass against a big map, then rotating it, causing it to zoom in on a nearby sheet of paper, better than pinching?

I want to write off that reaction immediately as being older and jaded, but who knows.
Monitoring Postgres Logical Replication Slots
It's weird you didn't find the sign-up box to the waitlist, this is how it should look like: https://imgur.com/a/0ZIbz4p, I actually got some sign-ups from this comment!

Anyway, I can sign you up manually if you wish.
Love this idea!

Does Anki or any of its plugins support creating a difficulty progression when creating cards?

ie. half-word cloze, then full-word, then multiple choice, then q&a, etc.

I’m not sure how this would work in practice. Like would the next difficulty card be added to the deck once the easier card has reached a threshold?
Ebiten (Go package) compiles for all OSes, Switch and web via Wasm as well. The binaries are little fat but it's really nice :)
If you don't want the portability, you can also write basic drawing code in JS, eg. WebGL, Canvas, WebGPU, whatever other API. Then, you can expose some basic functions to your WASM interface. It's more flexible but not much more complicated if you already are comfortable with JS.
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This is an excellent point. Few people can appreciate the utility of losing tens of thousands US dollars by hodling
What the hell is a "quality" wastebasket?

I mean sure, I once had a teak Danish modern design that looked sculptural with it's ovaloid cone shape and tiny handles, but was space inefficient and didn't handle wet items very well.

Now I have plastic waste baskets from Walmart that are much more functional because they are smaller, lighter, more compact and won't leak in an "emergency" involving liquids.

Anyway, the advantage of Walmart is you can go and look at stuff in person and drive home with it today.

Good luck.
The beginning of the end might’ve been before that marketplace even opened up.

Remember that time Seth Green was going to make an NFT show, but then the “star” NFT was stolen and Seth had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to get it back, and then the show ended up not happening anyway?

Why is there zero information about that on Seth Green’s Wikipedia page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Green
>The regulators and DMA just need to consider that it qualifies as e.g. gatekeeping, which is centrally referenced. Even if it can't be defined as a required action of gatekeeping today the DMA allows for the commission to quickly update that to qualify and require action by Apple. If, by some miracle, the regulators truly made a law which doesn't allow them to regulate the anti-competitiveness they intended too and they are truly beat by some gotcha this time then Apple has only bought a delay not an exception.

Is charging a royalty for using the iOS SDK "gatekeeping"? I don't see why that's the case. Is Epic Games "gatekeeping" Unreal Engine by demanding 5% royalty to use their engine? Why should it be any different for Apple to demand royalty for using their SDK?

Even if EU magically made a law that explicitly banned royalties for operating system SDKs, that won't be the end of the story. Such measures could be construed as anti-free trade (given how it disproportionately affects US companies compared to EU companies), and will probably lead to a trade war and/or WTO arbitration between the EU and the US.
He really knows how to dig into a topic and go deep, and for all of the length it never feels over-long... it feels detailed. His breakdown of flat-Earthers and QANON was also genuinely stunning. His closing monologue, which is admittedly more powerful in the context of having watched the thing, is incredible.

> "Because ultimately it's not about facts, it's about power. QANONs are not otherwise empty vessels who believe one whacky thing, they have an agenda. QANON; what it accepts, what it believes, is driven by the outcomes it justifies. The reason they aren’t more bothered by Q constantly getting things wrong, why they aren’t more bothered by the extreme inconsistencies and outright contradictions, by the claims that are just materially wrong, is because it gives them power over others who are bound by something as weak and flimsy as reality. They claim to be against corruption while hanging their hopes on an openly corrupt man, and that naked hypocrisy is the point."

> "They will effortlessly carve out an exception because it makes them exceptional. They engage in wild hypocrisy as an act of domination, adhering to something demonstrably untrue out of spite, because they believe that power belongs to those with the greatest will to take it; and what greater sign of will than the ability to override truth? Their will is a hammer that they are using to beat reality itself into a shape of their choosing; a simple world where reality is exactly what it looks like through their eyes; devoid of complexity, devoid of change, where they are right and their enemies are silent. They are trying to build a flat Earth."
those are all reasonable points, if I were doing mine again I would spend a little more and go up to 100gbe

if you run all older mellanox gear the cx3 can do the kinda nonstandard 56gbe as well
I was directly replying to a comment from someone who was disappointed with their Raspi as the home server and was clearly going to choose something like a NUC next time. That's why I talked about my NUC. You seem to think I have issues with Raspi being available on the market..? I do not, in fact my Raspi lives in the same cabinet as my NUC and runs Pi-hole and a backup of Home Assistant.
Not been on that one, but I did get the chance to do the channel crossing from Dover once in one of the big ones. That was fantastic. I’d seen them on TV but it didn’t prepare me for the visceral reaction of seeing these giant machines lift off and glide around. It really was like Thunderbirds in real life.
Or dumplings, for people who played Xenoblade Chronicles 2 in the West.
Mathematicians' Search for the Mysterious "Einstein Tile"
Related, Intel was showing off Thunderbolt Share at CES[1]. Allows Thunderbolt 4/5 device-to-device transfer of files. Theoretical speeds in the 20Gbps and 40Gbps for Thunderbolt four and five respective.

One idea for why they were only able to reach 11Gbps is having only one Thunderbolt/USB4 controller[2], meaning the two USB4 ports split the 40Gbps PCIe lane. Throw in a full-duplex connection and you get 10Gbps in one direction.

[1] https://youtu.be/GqCwLjhb4YY?t=81
[2] Just a theory but seems like a sane assumption.
> "POINTS AREN'T TIME! THEY'RE EFFORT AND/OR COMPLEXITY!" I've been routinely told. Yet... low complexity stuff was expected to take less time, even if it was high effort. All 'in my experience' of course.

This realy grinds my gears. I had a recent experience with a scrum master (technically a delivery lead but in practice a scrum master). Really nice guy, smart, easy going. We had many discussions about the value of estimates, and the whole "it's complexity, not time" trope would come up. So I asked what the estimates were used for. Turns out they're used to forecast cadence / velocity. Of course, knowing that we were going to be asked why a small story was taking two weeks to complete, we'd start sizing based on time. After all, we're humans, biased and flawed.

Now you tell me, how do you want a measure of complexity to be a predictor for cadence when these 2 things are at best orthogonal?
Seems like the only "utility" is hope - hope that an $80 bet turns into more.
> The season immediately after a very unusual high amount would naturally be much lower.

Much lower than the unusually high amount, not much lower than average, to clarify.
> This is what happens when sewage is given time to cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i_axpk0a7Q

First thought when scrolling quickly to the fatberg: How can those guys operate there without any "smell protection", could never do.

Next scene: See the guy repeatedly choking and puking.

Thanks, now need to get rid of pictures in head (:
The idea, and especially its unconditional forcing down the throat, that you can run marathon faster by running it in 100m sprints. That idea is wrong as it has been shown many time in practice, yet even the slightest doubt of that idea is squashed. Scrum is basically an ideology/cult, and as typical for such it is built on a lie - it is sold to rank-and-file as performance improving whereis its real goal is improving reporting to the manager at the cost of rank-and-file's performance, the manager's convenience at observing the status even if the things are relly moving much slower as a result. It is similar to how in a religious cult people would be sold on supposedly reaching nirvana/etc. while in reality the guru/pastor/etc. would be abusing them financially/morally/physically/etc.
I went through a period of a couple of months where I pair-programmed almost every day, and it was probably the most productive time of my career. My partner was very junior, and new to the project, and the process of explaining things to him definitely helped avoid some of my blind spots. He had several good insights and ideas, too, coming in with fresh eyes.

It was high-energy, though, and an extended period might well have been fatiguing.
Tastes like soap. So, big for people who like soap.
Could you clarify what trend you want to accelerate?
absolutely proprietary :<
The ring of convulsing and dead is a bit disconcerting…
> daily advertisement

Not defending scrum but sounds more like you've been abused by bad culture disguised as scrum.
Are you asking if the experience resulted in useful knowledge that will help with performing a new job, or if they will use the “name” to get a foot in the door?

Personally if I look at someone’s education on a resume I simply ignore anything that’s not a “regular” multi-year degree. That includes those year long executive MBAs which probably are useful for someone working for a big company.

But if someone has had a couple of years in the workforce I don’t even look at their education at all.
cx353a and cx354a, prefer the fcbt models, but you can reflash them all to fcbt
We just have to see it, I have a doubt that apple will be fooled by meta calling whatsapp in a different way, but no certainty, most recently some people were convinced that apple had no solution but allow a unofficial android app on iMessage, and we saw what happened, something tells me theyre harder to fool than it seems
This is the story of my life. I know a little about pretty much every topic ever.
Hemlock and Sun make a nasty pie:

https://www.leben-und-erziehen.de/kind/gesundheit/riesenbaer...
The onigiri would not stick together. The short grain rice has lots of amylopectin, while whole grain, brown, and basmati have much less.

It would fall apart and be very difficult to eat.
It's the same in Canada btw
This is one of the subjects that I upset about. How did it get so bad? How can we fix it?

I’ve tried DuckDuckGo but it fails due to spam too.

I think the only viable option in the next 5 years in a good LLM with a user (or community crowd-sourced) library on RAG. Ideally with privacy and local hosting options. I want to make “my library” (choosing which archives to trust as authoritative) and then put a good search interface over it. It’s totally possible now!

Any other takes on solutions? Anyone building what I describe?
Not sure how Alpha Zero is relevant to whether a transformer can play connections. Alpha zero is not a transformer and chess is not connections.
On-prem is massively harder if you can’t cut corners on security or reliability. Just things like testing & upgrading firmware, doing real DR testing (I know multiple places which spent lots of time and money doing annual failover tests, but went down hard every time they had a true failure due to something they’d missed), handling things like boot signing or secure logging, etc. all take up multiple FTEs worth of time, or are a checkbox from a platform which handles that for you.
OpenBSD emphasises security, simplicity and a whole system approach and has a devoted following.

I've tried it out and while I appreciated many aspects, the system as a whole does not feel "much better" than Linux in any way to me apart from the security aspect [1]. It's slow and I've lost about 2 installations of OpenBSD just because my VM crashed or it was shutdown uncleanly. This is probably because it does not have a journalled filesystem. I don't care much for its pkg package manager either. Again it was very slow and felt a bit crufty/ancient.

Now, in 2024 "Effortless OpenBSD Audio and Desktop Screen Recording Guide" is on page 1 on HN. Maybe in 2030 (!?) when the default filesystem acquires a journal, I expect to read a similar article on HN page 1, rank 1. I look forward to it :)

[1] I don't absolutely, fully buy into OpenBSD is "very secure". Some of its mitigations are good but many do feel a bit arbitrary.
Pretty sure I got worst at it. 10 years later and now my back hurts.
You could try something like https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ or https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting. Both have support for modern handwriting. I don't know if it will work with a script written a century ago though.
'Skew' in the history of computer systems
That, and also that it has to be installed globally with the absolute path of `/nix/`. Sure, you can change it, but the packages won't work then.
You don’t do estimation without prioritization. As a consultant, my default way of working is kanban, often setup on Trello. Once I deconstructed the project into features, the first thing I do with the client is arrange them by priority and arrange them into sets for releases.

If sales and marketing need to do planning, then they need to tell what they want to push back to the backlog so that the feature they want are on time.
I like this sentiment. A Wittgenstein collection called “Philosophical Grammar” contains a lot of these kinds of thoughts.
Meta and other Big Tech corpos will naturally have their own app stores, and distribute their apps through them exclusively once they can.

A year from the release of this capability, EU users will have 20 additional app stores on their phone. Each will be sending notifications, coordinating "enhanced user tracking" between their apps and partner apps, advertising additional 1st- and 3rd-party products, performing background tasks like polling for updates, etc.

Paradise!
World’s first floating offshore wind farm to be taken offline for up to 4 months
It’s a story as old as time itself. IBM has been doing it at least as far back as the 60’s. Fancy consultants who know the tech and also know how to sell and make themselves seem way smarter than the VP’s reports. Do one slick presentation and the VP is asking his team “why didn’t you guys come up with this stuff?”

Next thing you know these multi-million-dollar contracts are signed and the existing teams are just shaking their heads. The smart ones have already put out their resumes and started interviewing elsewhere.
The article mentions that spotted water hemlock is not particularly common, but unfortunately the same cannot be said for poison hemlock. It is a omnipresent weed around here (Pacific Northwest). And it remains poisonous for years after it dies, which makes disposal a problem. This also is a huge issue if it gets into a hay-field. I have heard that some people have tried to burn it, with very poor results.

Also, in this terrible plant family is Cow-Parsnip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_maximum. If touched, it causes your skin to be excessively sensitive to the sun. It is basically reverse-sunscreen.