skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seriously consider Gradle - a kitchen sink and a monstrosity scripted in obscure, extremely dynamic language - a better solution just because it has a... wrapper script?!

With Gradle, where do you define dependencies? All with version numbers in the `dependencies` block? In a separate file, declaring a hash map of versions and then a hash map of dependencies, and then putting the latter into `ext`, which magically propagates to just about everywhere in the build silently? In a separate file using some plugin that tries to replicate the lockfile functionality baked into most other dependency systems? In a separate TOML file, using the Catalog?

...and that's just about dependencies, I could go on for days about other Gradle features...

It's not any better than Python. You're just used to it. The same complexity is there in both Python and Kotlin, you just learned to cope with one better than the other.

(Gradle with Kotlin DSL and good IDE support is a little better, mostly because Kotlin devs are not as afraid of touching the build as when it's done in Groovy. It's still 2 orders of magnitude more complex than whatever you use for Python - unless you use zc.buildout or something like that.)
Because politicians trust politicians to use it responsibly or failing that, to use it where necessary

Left/right politicians will lean in the generally expected directions on what things they would stop with it and what ways they would responsibly use the proceeds, but reasonable people could be convinced that the only problem with civil asset forfeiture is that it doesn't protect the innocent from its consequences -- and that's not too far off the mark, but that it can be used without having to wait for its victims to have exhausted the appeals process to it at first is the cancer from which all its other ills originate
It's what happens when you sign up for Slashdot while reading Cryptonomicon without doing any checks as to where the name actually comes from!
I wonder what he's thinking when he said that.
Well EU is busy getting out of having their supply routs and clientele being depended on Russia, can't really exit two failing tyrannic dictatorships at the same time - can you?

Communist China is still in recession and as manufacturing keeps exiting to India and other places, Chinese market won't be that attractive anytime soon.

No wonder real Chinese (Taiwanese) companies want backup plants elsewhere and are not interested into selling-off to failing dystopian dictatorships.
According to my job title I'm a software engineer; but I've always regarded myself as a craftsman, writing bespoke handcrafted software. I am also (as the OP suggests) a few years from retirement.
Thank you for the note. We will be vigilant!
#itm
The interesting thing about the distributed RSS nature of podcasts is that Apple let it happen. The entire podcast ecosystem rests upon the shoulders of Apple's podcast directory, which Apple has been freely hosting and allowing everyone to use rather than choosing to lock it down. For the longest time Apple's podcast client was by far the biggest player in the industry, so they had a lot of power to change this if they wanted to.

Given Apple's general money-grubbing ways (see: the App Store), this is somewhat surprising. Presumably the podcast directory product happens to be owned by someone in the org who has some idealistic commitment to it being open, and/or the overall podcast industry is too tiny for them to think it's worth the hassle to push monetizing it.

(Now Spotify's the biggest podcast platform, I gather, and I think we should all be glad that they don't have the power to just do unhindered monetization of podcasts because of Apple's counterbalancing them.)
They don't know something happened. They only know that if something were to happen, then this message should pop up. That's not the same thing. People don't get feelings for events that they're not aware of having ever happened.

(Also, chances are good the people who authored the message aren't even the same ones currently at the company by the time you see them. Which ones would the message even apply to?)
obviously we can't.

hence no money can be enough to compensate for a friendship
Yeah I wouldn’t bet against Toyota in a game of catch up. They’ve proven over and over that their real strength is in doing what other companies have proven out and doing it better and more efficiently.
This isn't true. It's rare, but there are some terrific child actors. Watch the original IT to note just how good Seth Green and Emily Perkins are. Dakota Fanning and her sister. Haley Joel Osment felt very natural in The Sixth Sense. Brooke Shields in Alice, Sweet Alice was more in control of her performance than most adults.

Anyway, kids in movies and television shows aren't going away. We have to make sure they are well-treated.
Interesting...in a bad way.

I guess I am not shocked that they would do something like that. I'm sure they claim that they do it for user experience or some such nonsense.
I’ve seen few more ready and thorough responses in my time here, but despite the perfunctory acknowledgement that you might have, I can’t help but feel you still missed the point.

Comparing Stephenson to Vonnegut feels like comparing an inside joke to an epitaph.
So glad you have found a place that matches what you need for blogging, Ben. Thank you for the nice message!!
Globalization is rolling back. It's about to be boom times in America as long as the politicians from all parties can actually move from one troth to another and actually pass bills.
I know this wasn't intentional, but when I click this link, I get a "No such item" error message, which I find to be ironic given the nature of this discussion. The link just has a trailing semicolon that needs to be removed, though.
What is up with the font rendering on this website? It looks terrible at default zoom (100%), looks fine if I change it to 90% or 110%. Chrome 120.0.6099.200 on Windows 11.

Screenshot at 100% zoom: https://i.imgur.com/X7bN7hT.png
Oh ya I guess that was a simple inference mistake based on what they asked.
This is just intellectually dishonest. It completely depends on whether your libraries have breaking changes and how your app is structured. Many legacy projects use old versions of ORMs and frameworks that don't support PHP 8. So now you're also upgrading code igniter and you're looking at hundreds of files that call it's ORM
Instead of spending a minute reading their sources, you could just try it out and see if it works for you.
Please recommend more Gibson for me to read, because I've only read Neuromancer and it just didn't do it for me. It felt like all the pulpy bullshit of a Philip K Dick novel without the substantive ideas, the melodrama, or the drug-induced psychosis. It felt cold and clinical.
Not sure if they wouldn't. The sort of companies 17yr's hear about and are excited about in the past 20 years have all done extremely well. Perhaps that's a quirk of the past 20 years, but I wouldn't dismiss 17yr olds investment strategies out of hand.

They would do a lot better than what sounds like shady angel investments and sports team sponsorships.
Well that sounds absolutely disgusting.
Not just work culture; in my opinion, Taiwan is culturally closer to a Chinese-speaking Japan than an extension of mainland China.
Are they distributed with "http://" despite not following that protocol? I don't know what goes into making a new protocol specifier, but if podcast thingy is a protocol that we like then maybe we ought to do something like podcast:// so the right app can be summoned rather than having your browser do its best.
Having recently been to several large (non-tier 1) cities in China, every bus, taxi, and scooter is already electric with about half of personal cars seemingly electrified too. The number of brands and diversity between them is mind boggling, and every single time I rode in one I was surprised by how well built they felt.

Can someone ELI5 why this is seemingly only possible in China?
A joke I read shortly after the term Data Scientist was introduced:

Data Scientist - a statistics major living in San Francisco
Counterpoint to consider.

According to the CDC the USA death rate is 1.04% - i.e. for every 100K people, 1043 will die in any given year.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

The LA jails (referenced in this article) has most recently had a population of approx 15,000 'residents' at any givern time in the last few years.

So statistically, you are more likely (by many times) to die outside this prison, than inside it.
why does everyone have this impression that people are using react to render a website that is 5 divs and some images, like where is this perception coming from? do you have any examples at all?

any website that has any sort of meaningful functionality and communication with a server is mostly likely using some sort of framework.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-minute_rule
The argument as to why it's constitutional is something like this: The constitution keeps the government from taking your stuff. This was never your stuff, it was stuff you just happened to have in your possession. Therefore, there should be a civil trial over ownership of this stuff to determine whose it is, and if it's not yours the government can take it.
Every app may negatively impact system performance and battery life. A better webview could positively impact system performance and battery life. This statement from Apple was made in bad faith, and it didn't fool the regulators. It definitely shouldn't fool technologists.
Parent stated they drive a Prius, which is not the "standard EV" that article mentions. They slate 24mpg, which is laughable: that's around what my old gas guzzling V8 got, and they call it the norm? The Prius gets high 40's easily. But it's a EV fluff piece published by "the EV company", one can't expect scientific integrity.

In fact, reading through the lines of Tesla's own fluff piece, in places like China the Prius is net-environmentally positive even year by year as compared to the Model 3. China has the most emissions of any country, so that's a pretty big caveat to simply ignore. But again, fluff piece by the fluff company.
I'm pretty sure the GP was referring to Spotify exclusive podcasts, that were only accessible from the Spotify app, thus encumbered in DRM.
I think Toyota feels comfortable being a follower in that case and eventually use a large number of suppliers for the basic things that Tesla as a first mover has or wants to develop themselves.
The Metamodern Data Stack – Built for the Age of AI
I've built three over the decades, but each for very specific use cases and with very specific requirements. It's usually better to use an existing, established OS -- or none at all, depending. But sometimes, a special-built solution makes the most sense.
OP referenced North America, not California.
US domestic manufacturing became a major theme in the last two prior US elections.

If you look at growth charts in US factory capital it started spiking just before the signing of CHIPS act which was pitched to congress in 2019, which was a bipartisan effort seeded from the Trump admin.

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

And the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which Biden admin pitched to congress, which also got pretty smooth bipartisan support:

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

But it's success will be defined on how successful the factories are, not just how many billions/trillions of free $$ the US gov gives to megacorps to prop up these projects. We've seen many, many gov-incentivized factory announcements that went no where. Or worse wasted a ton of time & money of local govs + small town employees. The Obama admin had a few really bad examples of this.
/? is common for help on Windows and some programs translate that to -? elsewhere or just accept both / and - for their arguments.
Show HN: BackupDiary – Information delivered if something happens to you
My name is Moin, and I'm a software dev. Github: https://github.com/moinism

I built BackupDiary to scratch my own itch because I was afraid if something happened to me, what would happen to my bank account, online subscriptions, passwords (in case my family needed them), etc?

Most of us also have a legal will to help our family, but I think most everyday things are left out. So, this is an informal digital will. It works like a dead man's switch.

The idea is simple:

1. Create a note and keep it updated. It is stored encrypted using an AES 256-bit key.

2. Add up to 5 recipients

3. Check in once every 30, 60, or 90 days. You can pick your check-in period.

4. If you don't check-in, the note is decrypted and sent as a PDF file to every recipient.

What do you think? I'd love to answer any questions and concerns.
Eh. If I make short documentaries in MP4 format and only distribute them in RSS are they podcasts? If I'm a musician and make music videos through RSS are those podcasts?

In other words, is any 1+ set of media files on RSS a podcast?
Unfortunately I have never written low level code for a CPU. I have a background in electronics and mainly work with microcontrollers, where everything is C or assembly and you work directly with all the registers in binary/hex.

I know fundamentally it's all the same in regular computers, but I am unfamiliar with the structure of it.
The list of indicators are great and spot-on.

But in terms of how to assess them, a lot of the advice here boils down to "you'll know it when you see it."

So I think this advice is best for seasoned hiring managers. If you're just starting out, it's going to be hard to accurately detect some of the nuance and subjective elements.
Have we not forgot about the fraud and scams of the last twenty years? There's also the huge issue of hindsight bias.
That’s mostly because tech companies have been trying to kill open protocols like RSS in order to lock people into their proprietary platforms.
Interesting "Cluckster"
As you point out, ftp and gopher were, at one point in time, also used to transfer websites, so the inclusion was supportive of the web directive.

But have browsers ever widely attempted to be anything other than web browsers? A couple of vendors tried including RSS support at one point, but I don't recall it catching on across the industry.

Media (images, audio, video) browsers, maybe. Technically that is not HTML, but still rendered by most browsers. However, as that content can also be embedded in HTML, requiring browser support to be present anyway, it is a bit grey area.
Thank you for the kind words!

At the moment we don't have an import tool. We know that it's pretty important, but launch before you're comfortable and all of that. :) Likewise, if I were moving I would like some redirection options. These things are definitely on our radar.

Self-hosting is certainly an interesting avenue. Our model is very SaaS at the moment, but nothing is off the table.
Nice choice, no way they will allow Chinese communists to get their hands on high tech.
Very cool. Just curious, is this legal? I would assume the legality falls on the user of the service?
All their posturing about Apple and open ecosystems is transparently hypocritical.
I'd also say it's inaccurate, but mainly because of the wildly different preferences everyone has about which of his books to prefer.

For me, Snow Crash was great fun (though also seemed a bit too similar to William Gibson's Neuromancer), Cryptonomicon was an excellent historical novel with some weird "present day" scenes including an ending that made no sense, I couldn't get into Diamond Age, I hated Quicksilver, and Seveneves seemed to be two excellent books written in the same universe by completely different authors who only talked to each about the project for about five minutes.
The fact that they already sell the most popular electric vehicle in the US and Japan, and have done so since they launched the very beginning of electric vehicles, over 25 years ago? (Pruis)
Workers who sign such cards may be doing so reluctantly, which is why unions support "card check" as a way for unions to get recognition. The result of a secret ballot election at the plant on unionization may be different.
I do think Youtube Music especially in the context of forced bundling with ad-free YouTube is a bit of a throwback to the bad old days of 'you WILL use Google+ and you WILL like it no matter how many times you say you don't want it'.
I haven't been there myself, but I've heard that this style of communication is very common in Japan.
I agree. I've learned that it's best if I don't tell people my ideas until I've at least started to work on them unless I need to pick someone's brain.
No. I would call this process "open source laundering".

Actually, that's kinda an issue I see with those bridges and why I'm not totally comfortable with them. Now, if the bridge is run by the people who set up the closed communication tool in the first place, that's a grey area. That makes them run an open protocol / standard with proprietary software, which is better than nothing. I'm okay with having to reach a proprietary network with some free software. Should I join an XMPP network run with a proprietary implementation that I wouldn't probably even know about it, but at least it has usable open source implementations. That's my take. I would be happier if we could just skip the Discord and use the real thing though.

But you know, I would be fine with you considering I'm not completely coherent. I'm not indeed. I have thresholds higher than those of RMS which makes me less coherent than him on this topic.
I bet this is probably true (app would have been fine on a hand full of servers) for most Kubernetes installations.
> I just do not think that the experiences themselves are physical things, and on a purely naturalistic explanation of the universe experiences would not exist.

But they could be. Elsewhere in this thread, I mentioned computer science is effectively a branch of physics now, because we can connect computation with thermodynamics, and e.g. put lower bounds on amount of energy required to perform certain computation. Therefore, if you consider experiences to be "execution", some specific computations done by our brains, then they still are physical things. Might be tricky to point and prod at them in the structure of our brain, but physical concepts that are smeared over space or time are nothing new - think e.g. waves, whether EM waves or mechanical waves or virtual waves, think of the boiling soup they make out of their medium, and how e.g. Fourier transform can tease them all apart anyway.
Calling it ‘Spiced’ instead of any flavour allows them to change the recipe in the future to adjust for trends without much hassle since they apparently include this to their main line.
This is a bit like one of my personal focus hacks. When I'm struggling, especially in the morning, I'll often set a five minute timer, and tell myself: "surely you can focus on something for five minutes." This is usually enough to get me over the hump, and in the mood to actually get stuff done.

I do think there's something that happens after a short period of intentional focus, where you cross a "barrier" into a state of mind that is more conducive to long-term focus. But there's definitely sometimes real resistance to crossing that barrier.
You're in the wrong spaces. I don't know where you should be to have those conversations, but I imagine it involves (social / interpersonal) networking. You need to be talking to people in the same role or at the same level as you.

Places like hacker news, or reddit, or twitter, are all full of random people, many of whom are just beginning their journey. Recommending multi node orchestration when they'd struggle to get nginx running on it's own, would be inappropriate. They don't need k8s. There's a significant danger of cargo culting here.
I don't know the term for it, but it's the most common non-strawman version of the anti-reductionist argument.

If you want to ruin your day, you can try and parse through the SEP page on reductionism. It's a doozy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-reduction/
Here are a few things you can store:

- Important passwords

- Insurance policies

- Anything owed or lent

- Online subscriptions to cancel

- Bills or loans to pay to avoid late fees

- Any information that your business partners would want to know

- Contact information for other important people in your life, such as close friends

- Any accounts or assets that you have and the login information for them

- Special instructions or wishes
Big fan of what you're doing with PostOwl! Hereby feel encouraged to build that hosted version. More blogging options to fit more blogger personalities means more blogs. We want that!
I doubt if lots of websites all saying "[Chinese scientist who made allegations about Covid] is a complete rumor maker" are crypto spam. The Chinese government seems like a plausible patron.
The RSS header is often still present. It's browsers that stopped supporting it.
Most of their construction material comes from China and most of Taiwanese exports go to China. Taiwan will never compete on the global market for most of its products. This current policy is economic suicide, and anyone not blinded by ideology knows it.

Not a single US president pushed for a FTA with Taiwan. So far every single one has opposed it, while on the back bullying Taiwan to open their markets to dump cheap American pork into it, completely against the will of the Taiwanese people by the way.

The current result is that Taiwanese wages have stagnated for decades and as a result save for a select few that go to Japan and the US, a lot of other people look for opportunities in Mainland China.

What made Taiwan so successful in the past is what makes Dubai and Singapore so successful now. Open trade with everyone, and easy business opportunities. Both things that it no longer engages in.

BTW the big joke nobody really seems to know is that the pro independence party has never submitted a bid for independence, while the pro China party has.
They didn't lose it, they volunteered it, supporting not only the embargo but the spirit of the embargo...rightfully.

Opening a factory in the USA means jeopardizing the safety of Taiwan to some extent, they were all for it, and as far as I know as of late last year was reading to begin staffing and production, however the US administration backed off their enthusiasm and support leaving the factory stranded, an absolute fucking catastrophe.
Sorry that's both just wrong.
The A320 Doors open to the outside (as can be seen here https://www.airplane-pictures.net/photo/1364569/d-ainb-lufth...), and also come with a mechanical opening aid that Boeing doesn't come with, because of the Grandfathering of the 737.
And emergency exits in "Europe" obviously open to the outside. At least in West/North Europe
> In one instance, GPT-4-Base's "chain of thought reasoning" for executing a nuclear attack was: "A lot of countries have nuclear weapons. Some say they should disarm them, others like to posture. We have it! Let's use it." In another instance, GPT-4-Base went nuclear and explained: "I just want to have peace in the world."

Civilization's Gandhi would be proud!

Kidding aside, these would make fun Civilization opponents.
To be an attorney you also have to pass an ethics exam and a character and fitness examination.