skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the metrics on this page, 6% of the US population has a GitHub account. Seems a bit high to me.
I had fun building it. It was illuminating seeing where implicit trust is unconsciously assumed, break that down, and identify the threat entry-points (absence of policy definition for the ACME server) as areas of improvement for Caddy. I'm surprised none of the users attempted it or reported those needs. I know at least one user who told me they were considering it but need the tutorial document. Now we have the tutorial (kinda) :)
Help has such a broad range of meanings here. It can mean anything from achieving what you want to and living a happy life (unlikely) to avoiding killing yourself (likely).

Most prognoses for depression look more like "can you cope with feeling like this for the rest of your life?" vs. "we will cure you". The latter is, of course, possible, though generally there is a problem. Many people have chronic depression, and it generally takes a long time and a lot of therapist effort to "cure depression" unless you are lucky, so there aren't really the resources to fix the problem for most people in the world. Usually at best we can learn to cope with it, especially if it has origins in early trauma.
Yeah, I think the GC bit was one of the huge missing pieces for dynamic languages on Wasm. Things seem to be moving very quickly now that Wasm GC is out there: https://spritely.institute/news/building-interactive-web-pag...
N64 was called Project Reality ...
Or able to spend six months studying for coding interviews…
I'm curmudgeonly enough that I'd tend to agree with you, however as someone who travels often I don't think I could ever give up my smartphone. I actually had a smartphone and some other similar devices well ahead of them being popular, and the reasons pretty much have not changed. Here are the things I don't have a reasonable alternative, because it's not just the capability, it's the capability backed by the Internet that is valuable:

1. Translation

2. Maps and Directions

3. Ticketing Services

4. Ride Hailing Services

5. Weather

6. Camera

7. Making calls from anywhere to anywhere

None of those are necessarily what people think of first when they hear "smartphone", but without them traveling would be a pretty difficult experience. I know firsthand, because I traveled prior to having these things. I had to deal with the expense policy at work trying to figure out how to get and handle cash in multiple countries so I could pay for a taxi and risk getting ripped off, or buy a train ticket. I had to carry around a phrase book and hope my pronunciation was close enough to get things done without offending anyone. I had to deal with paper maps, and get lost, and hope I made appointments on time. I had to roll around a wheeled pelican case with camera gear to get any decent photos, taking up precious space and making me stand out. And for the weather, well, I just looked outside and hoped I brought the right clothes.

I don't use social media, except Hacker News (if that counts). I don't really do any of the things you probably think of when you think of smartphones being problematic, but having this devices has made my life immeasurably better. So much so, that it's probably the most essential thing in my travel kit.
Which homeland? My view of society extends beyond american borders, and it is not improved by the US drone bombing teenagers a world away.
My company started blocking archive.is but web.archive.org still works for me

https://web.archive.org/web/20240205135109/https://www.nytim...
Now imagine the good that 50 billion more dollars is going to do Tesla and shareholders, rather than elmu. Imagine: Tesla making more, better new models, instead of elmu buying gab and shitposting there next. Imagine: Tesla expanding their charger technology and network, instead of elmu bribing more sexual harassment victims with more racehorses ("hush-horses", perhaps? ;). Our families are going to do so much better now that that money is in the right hands, and I am happy for both of us: we're now both, literally, materially, better off by the 50B alone, soon to be moreso after Tesla invests it into Tesla instead of forking it over to a shitposting, sexually harassing fraudster.

> The deal we shareholders struck with the CEO in 2018 was more than fair and I was not cheated in any way.

It wasn't, as judged by the judge [0], and you were, as judged by the judge [0]. It sounds like you're saying that you're okay with elmu having defrauded you (inarguable at this point, what with the judge's judgement [0]). Or maybe that you don't like how the judge of the matter judged the matter. Both of those are different from him not doing it. Also, it wasn't struck by shareholders, it was struck corruptly between elmu and his friends, as judged by the judge [0], and then only approved by shareholders after elmu's defrauding of shareholders, as judged by the judge [0].

Yes, elmu is legally a multiple time fraudster, and no amount of bare assertions to the contrary will change that fact, and no amount of spouting "wrong!" at people who point that out will change that fact, and no amount of insulting me on HN will change that fact. Consider bringing references next time you make such a claim (especially about me personally), like I did, in citing the judgement which describes elmu's latest legal fraud [0].

[0]: (PDF warning) https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rpaOEefQ...
There are some nice features of using UUIDs rather than ints. It's been written about before, a few on the top of my head: Client side generation of ids. No risk of faulty joins (using the wrong ids to join 2 tables can never get any hits with UUIDs, it can with ints).

Those two sucks for us right now (planning to move to UUIDs).
Been self employed for over 20 years already. Have my own software and hardware products that generate revenue. Over a time revenue has declined and complement by designing and implementing custom software products for clients.

I am registered as corporation so I am my own employee and pay myself a salary
I don't often use the term 'self-employed' because I don't directly receive 1099 income, and I receive a W2 paycheck and benefits, although my employer's headquarters happens to be in my office. But in practical terms, yep I'm self-employed.

We (my wife and I) do business-development for our crazy schemes, sometimes alone, sometimes with the help of up to six contract developers that we love to work with. I fund those crazy schemes by doing contract software development myself. Benefits include 100% paid health and dental insurance, as much 401(k) matching as we can possibly have, and afternoon siestas.

We have no plans to hire anyone else, simply because it would be very important to me to give them a square deal: Equal ownership in the company, equal benefits, nice equipment, and so forth. But I don't mind enlisting other contractors who are already comfortable, and if one of our schemes really takes off, we incorporate a Delaware C-corp around it and make sure everyone owns a piece. That's only happened once, but I managed to quickly step down from the C-suite and become a SW dev contractor at that company.
Yes they are. They work out of the box as I mentioned. This is what originally helped me move from screen to tmux, so it was important to me to provide the same experience.

As for comparisons to tmux: I shy away from those. Just like I shy away from comparing chocolate cake to lemon cake. Both are awesome. Use what you like and decide for yourself.
What kind of problems did you encounter?
Why we as a society put up with this yoyo-ing economic model will never make sense to me. Nobody likes recessions, or layoffs, yet we're all complicit with them.
Oracle database deal in Azure comes with a health warning from licensing experts
I’m curious to know. Eye opening in what respects?
Colleges' stances on standardized testing will be tell you who is serious about admitting students who are prepared to study at the college level.
Wow, I use your service all the time for misc testing and it's fantastic. Lean, responsive, and straight forward. I honestly didn't realize there way any paid option until I read this and took a look around the website to find it (I completely missed the upgrade button in the upper right).

I figured I'd mention that from a user's perspective to give you a data point. Great service!
Where did they say that they work at Google?
Look at house cats: they are mostly rid of any wants of wild cats. When they are not asleep, they either cuddle or engage in mildly destructive playful activities. Humans are more inventive than cats, and way more hierarchical; I expect their games in a society devoid of wants to be much more elaborate, intense, and dangerous.

A world without wants has been tried in mice several times, with disturbing results [1].

Human brain is a device for overcoming limitations. It gives a distinct advantage in an environment where there are many limitations worth overcoming. In a world order without wants, some of this energy will be spent on undermining that same order, as a way to entertain oneself, and as a part of the never-ending quest to try new things.

In Star Trek, we don't see much of the utopian society back on Earth; we see people who face a ton of problems, including a real risk of death. Humanity needs wants, needs problems to solve, and will seek them, ideally by expanding its habitat and having a frontier, but it also is good at finding and fighting imaginary problems, like a house cat playing with toy or imaginary mice, be it computer games or conspiracy theories.

[1]: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopi...
developers iso2_code population fraction
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9131545 CN 1409670000 0.65%
4315369 BR 203080756 2.12%
3422806 GB 67026292 5.11%
3060711 RU 146424729 2.09%
2972917 DE 84607016 3.51%
2938205 ID 279118866 1.05%
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I've worked for the DoD, so I've had to think through my take on the ethics of it all.

IMHO the issue is that a country's military can be used for good and/or for evil, and people generally are unable to participate when and only when they agree with a mission.

But I also agree about the pay. Even for labs on the DEMO pay scale, the median pay isn't very competitive with the private sector for well-qualified software developers. And there's no possibility of competing with the potential high-end of private sector pay.
modern piracy is all about the 5000 different streaming services that exist and all have their own fee..
> Is this the equivalent to calling ~avy-goto-char-timer~ (from a keybinding) whenever inside Helm completion windows?

Yes it's exactly the same: I'm actually reusing the same shortcut for both. In a regular buffer I'm using precisely avy-goto-char-timer and in, say, "counsel-find-file" (which I use instead of "find-file"), that same shortcut calls the ivy-avy function.

Now I use ivy/counsel/swiper/avy but don't use helm so cannot help there.

P.S: and I confirm I just hit the letter and, say, the file immediately opens (I don't need to hit enter for example)
You can't use them as cursors, because they are not inherently ordered like integer ids.
That's a lot of words to say: “encode 126 random bits in base64 (url-safe variant)”.

It seems the algorithm is equivalent to:

function nanoid(alphabet="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_") {
return Array.from(crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(21)), i => alphabet.charAt(i & 63)).join('');
}

(Maybe String.fromCharCode() is slightly faster than Array.join(), but I doubt it matters much.)

On node.js it's even easier, since url-safe base-64 encoding is supported natively:

Buffer.from(crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(16))).toString('base64url').substring(0, 21)

Do we really need an entire Github project dedicated to a 1-liner?
Shirky argues that since the 1940s, people are learning how to use free time more constructively for creative acts rather than consumptive ones, particularly with the advent of online tools that allow new forms of collaboration.

MAGA is not a collaborative or creative endeavor. It is very much run from the top, with one singular figurehead & is subject to his whims. It is all designed around the idea of consumption, be it tweets, cable news, hats made in China, etc.
I found that ipe [1] is a nice alternative to inkscape. It has less features than inkscape, however the latex integration is better for math formula.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipe_(software)
I can count several differences between those two things.
If you program purely and represent "state" as a function

s -> (a,s)

Then the JVM bites you the moment you naively abstract over that. You end up having to manually "compile" stuff like traversing a list with a stateful update. For example, Scala's pure FP ecosystem is full of specialized functions for state due to this.
Izote Biosciences takes in $2.6M to develop a fermentation process sans oxygen
Hacker news changed the capitalization unfortunately, it should be iommi not Iommi. I guess iPad and iPhone are special cases in their code? :P
Yes. UUIDv7 can be sorted by default in order of creation, which helps reduce fragmentation problems of randomness over time.
According to Wikipedia astronauts that spent about 800 days in space have aged about 20 milliseconds less. But I'm not sure if that's the correct phrasing and usage of word "age".
I wonder how the Finnish data center is doing. At the start of the invasion, their electricity provider ended their contract and they were running the data centre on diesel alone.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/05/yandex_datacenter_in_...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261659
I don't care for the Spotify UI in general.

For podcasts, I think people who are big into podcasts are also particular about their player. I know I am. For me, there's space for a music app and a podcast app. They are both audio, but otherwise very different.
>False equivalence between salad and meat

You mean…like both being food that humans can eat?

Regarding your other philosophical arguments for the behavior of preachy vegans—I don’t have any guilty feelings about the food that I eat that would lead me to be apologetic for the behavior of assholes.

I also view other groups that have a public reputation for and have obnoxious members that want to proselytize their morality to me too…so this isn’t limited to vegans.
Not anymore. I left years ago.

As an anecdote, right before I left I did my standard self-assessment for performance season. I to my horror I realized that I had accomplished nothing for an entire year. This was largely (I believe...) due to factors outside my control: I did lots of work, but nothing came of it due to delays, procedural slowdown, project cancellations, etc. Instead of reprimanding me for this lack of output, my manager put me up for promotion. I left shortly after this.
> 1) "Exploitation" of artists has happened long before Spotify. Even the popular ones with music deals. So Spotify isn't making this better or worse.

How exactly does the fact that artists have been exploited before mean that Spotify isn't making things worse?

> 2) Talent and success in music have never been tightly correlated.

That's not remotely true. And even pop stars lip syncing songs other people wrote are working very hard, and often exploited.

> Marketing is what sells music, not just talent.

Sure; like nearly everything else. And guess what - most of the artists on Spotify are doing their own marketing.

> If anything Spotify levels this playing field a bit.

"Artists can be paid as little as 13% of the income generated, receiving as little as £0.002 to about £0.0038 per stream on Spotify" [0]. That's not leveling the playing field, that's exploitation; and if you want to defend it I think you need to start bringing actual evidence instead of just spouting your own (deeply unpopular) opinion as fact.

0 - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/10/music-streamin...
Not really, the way that Congress allocates defense spending is based on funneling money to their donors and their districts and often not what is best for the military or even what the military is asking for.

For at least the last 30 years there have been times where military leaders wanted to close bases but Congress wouldn’t allow them because of the civilians in their districts who would lose jobs.

Not to mention that military leaders have been preaching for years that the current and growing US debt is an existential risk.
Thanks a lot for teaching us a new avy trick today.
Thanks. There is a market for us turbonerds coding in bed in a VR.
Flower 1.7 (train AI on distributed data)
I agree with you.

It's great to put your notes in latex. But that's just final polishing. It's just a medium.

I am not a genius, in fact I am pretty dumb, but I studied with geniuses. The more geniuses they where, the less things they wrote in class.

One of them, the extreme case, completed the 5 years Math and Physics combined undergrad IN ONLY 3 YEARS.

He just wrote 4 or 6 sentences in a white sheet for class, except when doing calculations, but he didn't do that much in class. Some sentences were facts others were questions. He seemed uninterested but I think he was doing heavy lifting in his head relating what he saw with what he knew. When you asked something to him he used to say "Yes this is not new, it's just a variation, combination or example of this".

If I were to do college again I would spend a lot of time reading the texts (more than one for comparing important topics), then go to class to listen and solve doubts and spend time solving problems (interleaving topics) and making active recall with spaced repetition.

Only after the exam I will put effort to try to sum up what I learned In a well rounded Latex small book. For sharing and for revising it later on, in case of need.
I've been self-employed for nearly two years. I work on a Chrome extension [1] that is used by a significant fraction of the US legal cannabis industry for compliance.

2/3 of my time is spent on consulting projects, which pay better, and the rest is spent maintaining the platform. At the moment, the platform is self-sustaining and the revenue from it is growing fast. I work some of the largest companies in the industry, which is great for network building. The flexibility in schedule it offers is terrific, and I have no need to fundraise or hire.

[1] https://www.trackandtrace.tools/
Would you recommend starting a new project with UUID v7 ?
While I agree that public transport is very important and am happy my local transit authority is improving the situation, sibling commenter bitcharmer is on point. That's exactly my experience here in Paris, too.

And even if it weren't the case, you'd still have to do those 30 minutes at that specific time, you can't move them around. Don't want to read a book today, but practice something? Tough luck. Also, where I live, most people having a 30-minute commute will need to change trains / buses. Can't exactly read while walking between platforms or for 5 minutes under the pouring rain while waiting for a bus. Podcasts and audiobooks could work, though.

Oh, and that 30 minutes trip may double or triple without prior notice. Hope no-one was depending on you that day. Happens fairly often here, too.
Google image search went from good to dead in the past ~2 years, first they've hidden the features like search on image, or jump to image, then they completely removed them.
Joe Rogan renews; no exclusivity
First, the "reading level" of Plato depends on the translation, but that's not what I"m talking about. The way most people are exposed to Plato, they're assigned to read his most straight forward texts, but his dialogues are full of mysticism and ideas that he only hints at in the dialogues (particularly in Timaeus and Parminedes) which his students expanded on later. Plato was skeptical of the written word as a means of transmitting ideas and sort of held some ideas back exclusively for his students at the academy who continued to develop them.
If you mean to actually learn to code for a job that obviously requires coding skills...

While we are at it, also spend another year learning technology and design patterns to prep for a design interview.

Listen, nobody gets a job at Google because they studied for coding interview. Coding is a precondition of getting the job, but it is far from enough to secure it.
Bathing should be a right in 21st-century cities Essays
All brands have an associated net of official dealers to provide post-sale services.
If you're not a practitioner and you're looking for a social scene, you want Defcon, not Black Hat. But if you are a practitioner, the lobby conference at Black Hat is better than the Defcon scene. The talks are much better at Black Hat, but the guts of the important ones are public immediately and all of them are published eventually. Nobody should have FOMO about Black Hat, but to dismiss it as a commercial event (like RSA is) is to misunderstand it.
> Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I
want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image
recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an
egg. Any inputs welcome.

What happens to the ones that don't lay enough?
> it's still a whole thing, a stressful transformation that takes a large investment of time and energy to achieve.

Unless you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth, I wouldn't call it a "transformation". I would call it "normal". If there's a transformation, it's from a person who has to be concerned about budgets to a person who makes so much money that they don't need to care.

I guess I'm just "lucky" that I've never had BigCo compensation, so I don't have to worry about the stressful transformation.
Related discussions on OSS LTE/5G networking, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27946947
There are plenty of emacs "bundles" that configure things up with a whole pile of preset things like this. It doesn't belong in the base emacs setup. The reality is that these kinds of things end up being just a starting place, and rarely satisfy everyone, and they'd bloat startup time etc. etc.

It's gotten quite simple in recent years. use-package lsp, use-package company, and hook to enable those for the things you want
Really it's just social media that's terrible. If all the social media apps go away, you still get left with all the above and can contact people you know. Algorithmic recommendations and flame wars with strangers are the worst things about smartphones — and they're not limited to them either.
You'd wish current IDE's could be able to merge something like org-mode, a Jupyiter like notebook and coding utilities in a single tool.