skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The words "reading list" implied to me a list of books, article, etc, that one would go over to learn about the topic.

Can anyone familiar on the topic suggest a list? Perhaps starting with a "101" item for those that want a general understanding / scratch a curiosity itch and perhaps proceeding to more technical items for those that want to dig deep.
Look, your original post claimed “terrorists” but now you’re pointing to an article that merely says that most wildfires are caused by people.

I even included accidental human-started wildfires (sparks from powerlines) as an example in my original post, where I use the regrettable phrase “non-human causes” to refer to “fire not deliberately caused by a human”, and I should have been more clear. If there were no people in the forests, there would be fewer fires, yes.

It’s the conspiracy of “terrorists” claim that seems spurious. And again, sure, there may by lone criminals out there committing arson, but the claim that most wildfires are started by terrorists is what needs backing up, not the claim that there’s a human in the loop.
Sites like leetcode are great for coding and improving, because you get to compare your solutions to those of others. Sadly just building something on your own helps you learn the moving parts, but not optimal, neat, or best practice solutions.
In Germany, we have something similar but only for Elementary Schools (1st - 4th grade).

After that, you are mostly free to choose, which school you want to attend.
I remember at the time having MTP- only PMPs and every piece of software (WMP included but also Foobar2000 and Winamp) was miserable.
My family, friends and colleagues know my real name and that is enough.
I value the privacy of my family and friends and the ability to remain incognito.

In the world of psychotherapy there is no trust without confidentiality.
On the internet there is no trust simply because there is no confidentiality.

All this personal sharing doesn't make sense to me.

Who in their right mind thinks it is OK to share your real name on any website with the entire population of the world..

Why do you need to know who I am?

If only the Internet had an ethical Framework like the BACP

Extract from the Ethical Framework of (BACP) The British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

We will protect the confidentiality and privacy of clients by:

a. actively protecting information about clients from unauthorised access or disclosure

b. informing clients about how the use of personal data and information that they share with us will be used and who is within the circle of confidentiality, particularly with access to personally identifiable information

c. requiring that all recipients of personally identifiable information have agreed to treat such information as confidential in accordance with any legal requirements and what has been agreed with the client at the time of disclosure

d. informing clients about any reasonably foreseeable limitations of privacy or confidentiality in advance of our work together, for example, communications to ensure or enhance the quality of work in supervision or training, to protect a client or others from serious harm including safeguarding commitments, and when legally required or authorised to disclose

e. taking care that all contractual requirements concerning the management and communication of client information are mutually compatible

f. ensuring that disclosure of personally identifiable information about clients is authorised by client consent or that there is a legally and ethically recognised justification

g. using thoroughly anonymised information about clients where this provides a practical alternative to sharing identifiable information
Kemonomimi ≠ furry
I thi k one if the damaging things about social media sites like Instagram, Facebook etc is that everyone displays their best life on it. You visit these sites and see these photo that make you feel bad because you ask "Why is my life not exciting? Why don't I have those things?"

Hackernews and other forums don't really hit that nerve with me. Yes, it's easy to just keep scrolling and reading more but at least I don't feel like shit afterwards. It's addictive but only but for me in that I waste time on it when I could be doing other stuff. It doesn't make me depressed though.
In what sense is this a question involving "logic"?
Apple's software won't let you do that, you'll need something third-party. If you're lucky, the device will be old enough to jailbreak to get full access to the file system.
> How are you defining "tech" exactly?

The better question may be: How are you defining an interaction?

This may be a hot take, but I don't consider HN to be personal interaction. We post content individually. We read it individually. Replies are about the content, not about the person. I am replying to something you wrote, but know nothing about you as a person, so it is hard to claim we have a personal interaction together just because of this comment.
I think most people are upset that Mozilla went from a CEO with a compensation[1] of ~800K and decent market share to one earning around 7mln but with the scraps of market share that we have now. Nobody can say if Eich would have done things differently, but I guess we'll never know.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22060527
This is not uncommon across the border in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Some years have seen dozens of connectivity blackouts with the stated goals of maintaining peace and order or disrupting terrorism.
Naming isn't the only thing wrong. Gemini replaces Assistant on my Pixel phone. But my phone still has two different Google voice assistants, because the microphone icon on the home screen now activates "Google Voice Search" which is not Assistant or Gemini. Also, Android provides a feature to switch between voice assistants but of course it is broken in this case and can't switch between Gemini and Assistant. That has to be done in a different place. And the settings app is still full of "Assistant" settings, some of which apply to Gemini while some apply only to the now inaccessible Assistant. Unless you happen to be using Google Maps Navigation, in which case Gemini disappears and Google Assistant comes back! So there really are three different voice assistants from Google in there...

First impressions of Gemini Pro as a phone Assistant replacement are bad. It's not hands-free when triggered by the power button shortcut, apparently? When I stop talking it makes a noise like it's going to do something but it actually does nothing and I have to tap the screen to continue. After pressing the button it's quite slow to respond. I asked it to identify a plant from a picture, which Assistant/Lens can do, and it simply refused, hallucinating a long list of excuses about the poor quality of my picture, all completely false.

Overall I'm glad Google is moving this direction as it's clearly the only path forward for Assistant, which has been stagnating for many years. But the implementation so far is bad.
This implies the prices are the same across all TJs stores - is that the case?
I love this pattern of making tiny but powerful analysis tools with SQLite + a couple scripts.
That's how it goes! If you're not already doing it, you're going to want to eventually make sure every Run is done independently. Parallel runs between multiple clients isn't going to fly as your load picks up.
Yes.

For a long time, chrome has had significantly better memory use. I really tried firefox again 2 or 3 years ago. If you have to keep jira open all day for work, it was unusable.

Regardless, your comment illustrates why Baker should have been fired for cause. Browsers are not really evaluated on technical merits past a minimal quality threshold. Rather, browser marketshare is built on distribution -- like any business.

And firefox was incompetent at that. Google has effectively used search; Microsoft effectively uses their OS; Apple effectively uses their OS, etc. And all products work this way: this is the reason Slack sold to Salesforce, ie Microsoft was using Office's distribution to effectively clobber Slack with Teams. The same reason that Google pays billions of dollars to Mozilla and Apple to be the default search engine.

What could have been done here? I dunno, but focusing on technical measures is not the right lens. BD is and was the necessary component, and that could have started with companies that don't want to see Chrome be the sole browser in the world. What could you have done to get eg Facebook or other companies with large web properties to ask their users to use Firefox? What partnership could have been forged with Microsoft when they were broadly uninterested in browsers? What could you have done to make Firefox a better browser for technical users specifically? etc.
this is my real name. you insult me, sir
You'll need more energy than the entire universe to spin the last gear once [video]
I find this amazing. Something you can see, touch, and build, yet it would be impossible to ever get that last gear to spin even once...
Oh I was definitely testing with a large account and I was also using sliding sync. It doesn’t matter though. I moved on to the rust sdk with this project and it’s awesome :)
Weird title, since as the article takes the time to note, anchovies don't have sex.
Funnily enough, this is actually a massive problem when working with cloud automation APIs. Terraform and the like kinda handle this problem by calculating / storing the “goal state” and then looking at the system’s current state, and coming up with a “plan” to reconcile it.

Unfortunately, cloud provider APIs are usually eventually consistent, and getting a full snapshot at scale is nigh impossible.

So, in order to work around this, I effectively built a write ahead log style atop Postgres. Something like Sagas would have been great, but as far as I can tell, there was no real pattern for multiple Sagas operating on global state doing coordination. This is where Postgres SSI came in handy, where I could read the assumed state of the system, and if another worker came in and manipulated it, the write ahead entry wouldn’t get written as the txn would fail to commit. The write ahead entry would then get asynchronously processed by another worker, in case the first worker failed.
No worries, the line near the top of the article about needing a phone in the search of a partner is so absolutely foreign to me I had to stop and reread the sentence to be sure I was comprehending correctly. And I'm more than a decade younger than the author!
That's a widely different experience I'm getting from it, discovery is really bad in my opinion. "hearing a new song I like" is usually in a completely different place than Apple Music... I don't know if I'm an outlier, but recommendations are absolute rubbish on the home page. Same goes for Netflix actually.
Is there a wiki for computer science? I feel like I have a couple books worth of knowledge on building and maintaining distributed systems that is just gonna die with me. Could try to start flushing out articles but would be helpful if others contributed
so, the plan is to take on docker hub?

edit: nevermind. i assumed you were a team inside oracle.
It's same problem as social media. It's why this site has a noprocrast
I don't understand their worries. What are they trying to achieve with this? I can understand e.g. not wanting to have affiliate links on fraudulent/deceptive websites, but how is a search interface hurting anybody?
Firefox has been always the best browser as it is the only open and free (as free from adversarial incentives).

Unfortunately many people (especially here) have advertised Chrome instead, naively believing Chrome to have these important properties.

Chrome has always been the controlled frontend for Google business and Google is readily willing to hurt the browser to aid its business and keep its dominance.
Egg price deflation and fresh chicken price disinflation
This article reads like it was generated by a LLM. Especially when read by the, generated?, voice that plays if you click, “Read this article to me”.
> This business of hour-long standups sounds insane and so wasteful.

The media has been proclaiming "Agile is dead" recently. I wonder if all these tech layoffs have come simply because that hour was gained back for productive use?
Good riddance. State of mozilla shows she was not fit for the job. It is too late anyway. Years ago, she should have been fired for her post after the death of a veteran mozilla developer.
IMHO the beauty of "let it crash" is that you can code very tersely while maintaining data safety. In order for "let it crash" to work you need two things:

1. A tech stack that isolates crashes such that they do not affect the rest of the system. Example: you receive a malformed API response. The code responsible for parsing it crashes, but the rest of your application does not.

2. You use this to code in a declarative style.

Coding declaratively means your code has the shape of the data you expect to have.

Example (in elixir):

Let's say you are calling an external API where you expect to get back a list with a single element.

If you code non decleratively, your code might look like this:

thing_i_want = List.first(my_api_response)

Now imagine that for some reason the external API sent you a list with two elements. That code still runs! It doesn't crash, but you are now in a strange state. The data you are passing into the system is unexpected.

Coding declaratively you would write:

[thing_i_want] = my_api_response

In that case, if for whatever reason the external API sends you a list with more than one element the code will crash. In BEAM languages that is fine--the rest of the application should be ok, and you should log why you crashed and when, so you can look into it, but you are not ingesting bad data into the system.

The alternative is to code defensively: check the lenght of the list before extracting the first/only element. That works, but it tends to be very verbose and more importantly it means the entire call stack needs to be aware that you might get exceptions bubbled up from anywhwere.

Of course, for this to work you need software that has lightweight processes and a supervisor architecture..not usually worth it unless you're getting it for free! (as with elixir/erlang).
>Texas is absurdly large

You weren't kidding. I just checked a map and Texas is as wide as France and Germany combined. No wonder Americans can afford to all have single family homes with so much space.
If this was on the big island, it was recently shut down. We were there two years ago and it was really interesting...

https://weanimalsmedia.org/2023/09/08/octopus-farm-closes-fo...
I think this is a rule in Europe but I am not aware of this being a rule in the US.
> A definitive belief that deities do not exist is sometimes called strong atheism.

Yes indeed!

My variation of atheism is often called "ignostic" -- that is, I can't tell you if I believe in god or not until you tell me what, exactly, you mean by "god".

The more proper name for this is "incompetent atheism", but I dislike that name because it implies a different meaning than it has.

Philosophy is fun!
That is indeed a different and separate problem in a different
information space. Personally, I don't think any kind of censorship is
useful or justified there.
Is it really any different from any other animal? So why would it not have possibility to be on plate? After all one of my life bucket lists is to taste as many species as possible...
Netscape always had free editions. It was simply closed-source until 1998.

Baker may be a savvy lawyer, but that doesn't make her a good technologist.
You can still buy movies and tv shows from Apple through the TV app, even though AppleTV+ exists. My guess is the iTunes Store simply becomes the Apple Music Store.
Exactly once is a mathematical impossibility. It has been proven. See the two generals problem. You can get similar end results if you have idempotent calls and allow duplicate calls to be made. This gives the illusion or impression of exactly once.
Interesting!

I’ve always held on to my grocery receipts for the last 8 years. I took pictures of them but when I moved a box got water damaged so now I only have like the last 3ish years.

Is there any open source software that I can use to transfer these receipts into a useful csv?

I have an idea for a few interesting data visualizations as I’d often buy the same things every week. Grocery bill went from like $70 to $150 with not much changes from what I can tell.

Would be cool to put it out in the public.
I think that I'm rather observing than accusing. Which of my statements do you need evidence for? That Mozilla fumbled despite Firefox having 30% of the browser market share? See its market share today. That they played wallflower while others were figuring out the front-end ecosystem? See the ensuing decade of front-end tooling extravaganza, through which Firefox's role was reduced to the app that eventually runs your web app (i.e. you the community figure it all out). That Firefox was an undervalued asset? See their foray into other venues, despite Firefox's untapped potential in being a real platform for the web (unlike Android and iOS). That Mozilla didn't see Firefox as their Trojan horse to share the apps market pie? See their equivalent of the App Store and Google Play. That they sat on it to barely make it compete with Chrome? Firefox has been my primary browser since it was still named Firebird, there was an extended stretch during which my faithfulness had nothing to do with it offering a better experience than Chrome. Indeed, even today, I still have to start Chrome from time to time for a few things that FF doesn't handle well.
The easiest way is to fire up a bunch of VMs.

The cheapest way is to pick up an old ThinkStation (or other tower), load it up with 128GB (or more) of ram and install ESXI on it. That's a perfectly good baseline, and you can run about 30 4gb linux VMs on it.

Ideally you'd have a bit less than 1 core per VM, just so it's a bit slow. Lots of people assume your nodes are quick, but in real life they may not be. And really, most of the time your machines won't be doing squat.

You might want to have SSDs in there too, because ESXI doesn't have RAID capability (or at least mine didn't). I don't think you can get a cloud device that uses spinning disks anymore, and you wouldn't use it in real life anyway.

A 2tb drive is cheap these days, or just slap all those old small SSDs in there. Everyone has a bunch of those small SSDs left over, and they're perfect.
Fake LastPass password manager spotted on Apple's App Store
Wait till these guys try the Apple headset.... oh the irony.

I think the AVP (Apple Vision Pro) is incredible. I am wearing it... a LOT. I'm working, wandering around, playing, etc. I don't think I'm crazy either. It's not social media per se at the moment but it's definitely a major shift from not being "online".

I'm wearing it so much I'm getting puffy bags under my eyes (hopefully temporary)

There is a whole new set of issues and causation coming!
Not all notifications from the same source, have the same importance. Not only the content can vary, but also the context.
The linked article is poor. The original report covers all the different aspects to the reduction in fossil electricity generation.

See https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/european-electri...

For a summary look at the "What drove the record fall in EU fossil fuel electricity generation in 2023?" graphic.

The reductions are as follows:

* -90 TWh - Rising wind and solar generation

* -50 TWh - Rebound in hydro and nuclear generation

* -94 TWh - Electricity demand fall

The area graph "How the EU's electricity mix has evolved over time" gives you a good idea of the impact renewables have made on electricity generation.
FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
Your argument is much less effective at making me trust Waymo than the accident video could be.
It seems like he was stating a fact, that it is entertainment for many who watch. Most people are not going to take this information and do anything useful with it.

Regarding the psychopath comment, it seems like many more Ukrainians (and Russians) would be alive today if the US had not sent military aid to drag out the war.

You can argue that the invasion shouldn't have happened in the first place, but these geopolitical events happen for real reasons. Whether we think them just or not in our country, I think we have a duty to consider these and try to keep the peace and save human life, and not antagonize other countries for ideological or corrupt reasons.
No but I saw the author of AccessKit voicing on Zed discord that he would like to help implement it into GPUI and Mikayla from the Zed team being very enthusiastic about it.
Counter-anecdote.

She also wrote this incredibly rude and grotesque obituary for Gervase Markham after he died of cancer (working for Mozilla until the end). You are welcome to disagree, but Gerv contributed just as much to Mozilla as Mitchell did.

https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2018/08/07/in-memoriam-gerva...

And a well written reaction here

https://lwn.net/Articles/762345/
> You say it's a good naming choice, yet you called it Gemeni, Gemini and Gimini.

English isn't everyone's first language. I'm fairly certain you've butchered spellings of Nouns originating in other languages.
I think an electric shock would go a long way.

Years back I tried to make a phone case that would shock me at random while using it. The idea was to replace the dopamine hit you get from checking your phone with a twinge of anxiety and dread.

I never finished the project. Turns out generating high voltages requires tall inductors, which generally make a phone case unacceptably thick.
I wonder what you mean by "full confrontation"? Not rolling over and surrendering meekly? Ukraine is a sovereign state, it won't be neutered and turned into Russia's client state. If it takes "full confrontation" to do so, what other choice is there?
I have a problem with surveillance on any criteria that's only marginally more specific than 'people the government doesn't like' or 'people who don't like the government'.
I understand why this transcription may have been downvoted, and why devaluing the creator’s effort & intent in their choice of medium, dismissing diverse learning preferences/accessibility needs, etc. are Bad Things, and I appreciated this transcription being left here. But seriously: others very well might feel the same, but packaging this up with bashing the creator really wasn’t necessary IMO.
There are people who engage in the thought exercise without believing it's true, but there are definitely people who believe it's true. See: Elon Musk (at least he did a few years ago)
Compare it with Microsoft's copilot branding. It's simple, both casual and business people can understand what it does. Also appending it to other services like github or office adds more value to them.
it's impossible to tell what you are trying to communicate
Pleasantly surprised to see about as many price reductions as price increases. Also funny that they marked up the price of roses ahead of Valentine's Day!
https://www.chinasmack.com/boiled-alive-cat-prepared-served-...