skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it compiles to SQL so no extra powers. But it does make some common patterns more succinct. They have good documentation on the website.

Personally, I was very excited about using it to write some complex queries in my application that does some fancy backtesting with sliding windows etc, but I reverted back to SQL pretty quickly because I found myself first thinking in SQL and translating back to PRQL :/
From the README:

> htmz is a minimalist HTML microframework

So, some ambiguity.
Very true. Focus is overrated.

Most "mobile app" ideas can be validated fairly easily, with a few weekends' worth of time at most. Put your MVP out there. Spend a few more weekends fixing problems and responding to user behavior. If it doesn't generate any revenue, throw it away. Try something new. Rinse and repeat. If you finally stumble on something that sticks, then you can allow yourself to focus on it full-time.
Linux Distros: Ubuntu and Manjaro Fall Further into Oblivion – February 2024
"Teach yourself J2EE in 21 days, 2nd edition" remains marvellous for this :-D
Maybe QR codes, containing the code in plain text, in an appendix? That would ensure easy access to the code on devices outside of the printed book.
If a certain former president is reelected he will likely continue to push for the type of tariffs that will incentivize domestic production over foreign imports. If that happens the chips act will have put us on the footing required for that ramp up to begin.
> What dimension is this measuring?

Twenty bucks says wafer size, since 300 mm wafers are standard.

Edit: Also, here's the press release for the announcement:

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/02/biden-harris-a...
>Most fish are caught

Overfishing aside, I guess you would most often find people that believe hunting /fishing for your food is more ethical than farming it
I've not seen any "down the street"-scale cobbler outside a museum, and the only trained carpenter I know was literally homeless until they found a chance to be a software tester.

There are butchers around, though who knows how long that will last, once vat-grown flesh is both affordable and available.
some years ago a server (maybe a name or signing server) went missing and popped up months or years later in Russia, it was a really strange thing that did some rounds in some security circles and I cannot remember any details or where I would find more information, I'm posting here, once again to see if anyone has any recollection.
On top of that this data can be completely anonymised without compromising the data. All you need is an entry "a user listened to a song".

This probably gets more hairy when it comes to a user's listening history and things like Spotify Wrapped, discover weekly etc., but this is one of those areas that fall under expectations from a service, legitimate interest etc.
> what would be good incentives to make companies like blizzard start reporting fraudsters?

Having someone to report them to?
And LRDIMM, unbuffered ecc, and FBDIMM.
I know it’s fun and easy to dunk on progressive states. But at least they are trying and not just throwing up their hands and going “oh well”. Now maybe they have C-students writing policy but I think “backfire” compared to the situation before is needlessly inflammatory. And I say that as an amateur internet troll.
> Guarding against floating-point issues or considering precision errors is neither part of school-learned arithmetics, nor of most CS programs

What the fuck? I didn't even take a CS major and we got the imprecision of floats bashed into our heads. What are CS majors being taught?
Doesn't GitLab make all of their internal documentation public?
Finding Postgres rows too large for BTree indexes
Would be nice to have an example page showing what you get. Not sure the level of detail an idea has, or whether they're simply descriptions of pain points, or whether they come with context around who submitted the idea or the workflow involed (e.g. An idea solving a pain point around health care data entry could land quite differently if submitted by a patient vs a doctor vs a nurse vs an insurer vs a medicare worker). Details like that could also make it more convincing that the idea actually solves the pain point given.

I was also expecting an idea-submission form somewhere so that I could contribute in hopes that any pain points I might have might someday be relieved. Might be a lot of work to curate though...
> especially when there isn't even a hint of anti-competitiveness by apple

from the article: "Apple also prevented Spotify and other companies from informing customers on their phones that they could avoid the commission – and get a better deal – simply by signing up on Spotify’s website."

what the justification? that it harms user experience? because "our platform our rules" doesn't trump "our country our rules".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39267200
> download the author’s idiosyncratic library code

The use of an "idiosyncratic"/external library is in itself an anti-pattern. Book closed, next book.
Reinvent Kubernetes Logging with Telemetry Controller
Treat your logs as Kubernetes resources! Enjoy isolation and access control with the Telemetry Controller - from the authors of Logging Operator, a CNCF project, based on OpenTelemetry.
Gemini 1.5 and the Biggest Night in AI [video]
I had exactly the same thought. I even installed the theme in question to see if I would like tabs better and honestly I prefer how Firefox does it stock.
It's taking me forever to upgrade all my dead tree books to usb-c, to be fair.
Why continue to ignore the answer given in favor of purely economic arguments? We need chips built at home so we’re making it happen, it isn’t complicated.
You seem unfamiliar with mining.

The UK and the US aren't really big players, the single largest market for mining stocks is the Toronto TSX by a long shot - many loosely commonwealth trans national companies (Australia, Canada, South Africa, etc) with Russian, Chinese, Brazilian partners, etc.

Machines play a big part - Western Australia mines almost a billion tonner of iron ore alone per annum with a tiny population, but cheap labour and lax environmental regs don't play nearly as great a part as you might think.

Long term stability on 20 to 50 year time scales is pretty desirable on projects with forward capital investments of 300+ million dollars, high skill levels and good wages improve success rates, the larger mining companies have been trending more and more toward being accountable with respect to populations affected and post operation rennovation .. although that's a shift from don't care and never so .. <shrug>

From a political "how society works" PoV the mining strikes and Thatcher push backs weren't about the coal either .. it was a reflection on how the new neoliberal 80s Tories intended to deal with those not aligned with their vision.

There were other directions to turn labour forces of the 80s toward, but the vision as such for that time was propert development pyramids, fintech, and all that jazz. Better to be a barrow boy in The City than a gay dancing coal miner.
It wasn't that groundbreaking. Radiohead were already massively popular despite taking the anti-Britpop, anti-commercial rock route in the '90s. The online MP3 thing in 2007 was a bit of a publicity stunt -- the record was still distributed by XL , which retained all the traditional distribution channels.

I believe Smashing Pumpkins actually beat them to it by several years by releasing Machina II for free online in 2000 after the breakup of the band.
Damn, now my bachelor's thesis will be less unique :)

I'm working on a new language that compiles directly to Postgres' post-analysis structs. It's working out pretty well so far, but my chosen "universal set" (aggregation/array/subquery/... as one thing) semantics are sometimes a pain to encode.
This "find the latest row for each <column>" query is kind of a poster-child for seemingly-simple but actually difficult to get right/performant sql.

E.g. see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1313120/retrieving-the-l...
Tarot (tarock, tarok, tarokk, tarocchi) games are all played with five suits.
> the communist miners' union

Get a grip.

Break free of whatever bicameral Red V. Blue blinkered global view you have - there are more shades across the world than Joe McCathy dreamed of.
It can be metrics driven the whole way.

- Compact mode is rarely used and a pain to maintain

- If we hide the feature, what's the user reaction?

- Minimal user reaction to hiding, we're safe to remove
I used to. Way back when I first started learning (~10 years ago). Although there comes a point as a front-end developer where you want to build something other than static web pages.

Thus you eventually take a step into the back-end. I found it's not so bad. Actually, I discovered to like the back-end more. CSS is pain. Design is a pain. Although it can be fun sometimes as a form of artistic creativity.

> how do you handle those requests

>Do you give it a try or refuse or recommend someone else

Honestly, I'd be surprised if someone in the current year is strictly a front-end developer. Do they still exist? I'd consider getting someone on your team that is familiar with the entire tech stack.
>which is the primary rationale for reducing single-use plastic bags so they don't end up in trees and on the street.

Except that wasn't really an issue before the ban. Sure, I noticed a few bags laying on the street sometimes, but it's not like the streets were clogged with them[1]. In the same vein, I guess banning plastic straws does cause a non-zero amount of plastic straws from entering the environment, but it's not like it was a serious issue that warranted government intervention.

> This is more of a hedonistic environmentalism but it's totally valid

I agree with this statement, but probably not in the way you originally intended: it's a feel-good measure to make people think they're helping the environment.

[1] eg. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/955ff575a1da022b144dfffd34d0f...
What profits?
Professional Programming – Learning resources for software engineers
You would need a clearer working model of consciousnes to be able to know whether your efforts were succeeding. But this is the idea behind lab-grown meat, just don't grow the brain at all and you don't have to worry as much.
1. Not using apt repo?

2. It's customary to provide exact details to ensure minimal complete example reproducibility. Should've included the URL to the .deb and/or a Dockerfile.
I'm enjoying learning about shopping cart / trolley-based game theory. Haha
My understanding is that one of the feature's of Singapore's public housing is that there is a range of qualities from basic to luxury. It seems to me that could help make such a program more palatable.
And it's still broken, because the "Paste and Go" feature doesn't work.

Common sense suggests "Paste and Go" would be equivalent to using "Paste" (which correctly inserts text from the clipboard at the cursor position) followed by "Go to the address in the Location Bar." But if you unselect the automatically selected URL, position the cursor within it, then use "paste and go", Firefox ignores the previous URL and simply tries to go to the text in the clipboard. This could potentially be a security risk by tricking people into visiting URLs they didn't intend to.

If they don't want to fix this, it should be renamed to "Clear, Paste, and Go", because that's what it actually does.
There's a few such comments[0], though my assumption is there's some kind of assortative selection going on that means all the bear comments congregate in one set of threads and all the bull comments congregate in a slightly different set.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39408125 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39407263
The only sustainable option is less travel.
Oh, I missed that. It's satisfying to see what I assumed to be true to be laid out so concretely as data points.

I just wish it was something more 3D and "skeuomorphic" instead of just making a flat gray arrow into a flat green arrow. For example, if Chrome used a yellow star instead of a white star outline, I bet a lot of people would say it looks ugly as hell and sticks out like a sore thumb, but I'd prefer it. I can barely tell these monochrome icons apart.
I've been getting my hands dirty root causing a latency issue in another team's codebase at work. The program needs to run in real time, but the language is JIT compiled and garbage collected. In my most recent experiment, I successfully eliminated the most egregious spikes by completely turning off garbage collection during the latency sensitive phase. RAM usage creeped up to 50GB, but my workstation has 64GB so good enough? Also, I need to run the program 3-4 times to cache all the code paths, given that the program behavior is latency dependent. Just to make things extra spicy, the program seems to also spin off a rogue process that fills up my 1TB SSD and then die after a few hours.
If I recall correctly, that was their justification for no longer supporting it: too few people used it. Except it was tucked away in a small dropdown at the bottom of the customize toolbar screen, which requires right-clicking the toolbar to get to. If it was in the actual settings somewhere or, better yet, given as an option during the first launch flow, I imagine more people would've used it.

I didn't even know about it until after it became unsupported.
> The cost is borne by the mine operators if they want to resume mining.

In my country the tradition is:

1. Mine operators get a mining permit by swearing they'll clean up all the pollution and restore the site to its original condition once the mine is exhausted.

2. Mine operates for years, paying out $$$ to bosses and shareholders

3. Mine gets exhausted or becomes uneconomic to operate, company declares bankruptcy, tax payer has to fund the cleanup
This is like the "Microsoft makes it hard to switch from Edge" experience. But perhaps unwarranted.
Yeah I find these recommendations (which I think are the same ones that play after an album or whatever has finished) to be really good on the whole. There are some songs it keeps suggesting and after a while it can get a bit “stuck” on the same artists, but I’ve discovered so much good music through them. The main For You playlists aren’t much good for me. I thought it might be down to the stronger signal of “this is specifically what I want to listen to”
I think if you used a random seed for weights and training data order, and reran the experiment enough times to average out the noise, then the resulting charts would then be smooth with no fractal patterns.
Ask HN: Unusual Ways of Getting into FAANG?
Sequia: Black, elegant, modern and gentle theme for VS Code and other platforms
Maybe try freelancing first as a step in between, then you can slowly adjust your hours the more money is coming in from your own project while still having a safety net.
Even better, sometimes homeless people will simply approach a person who just finished packing their groceries to their car trunk and ask "do you want me to put your cart away?" Of course they will do that only if they can keep the coin :)
You could start a new service based company. Offer your skillset and your team's to clients, hopefully on a retainer-based agreement so that revenue is a bit steady. Then use the team's extra time and yours to create your own products.
It seems as though a lot of startup founders and product managers succumb to this illness. I've worked for a number of startups that have always had a number of people who were building things for nobody but themselves. These features, and in one case - product, were not anything any customers were willing to pay for. Instead a lot of these founders think it's their sellers and double down on ineffective solutions like thinking something such as MEDDPICC will solve the "sales" issue, except what they should be doing is having honest conversations with prospects and customers.
To have a sufficiently well-founded opinion to call people who disagree with you "simpletons," I'd argue that you indeed should have a defensible idea of what's conscious and what's not. Of course nothing is stopping anyone from being an asshole on the Internet so no, you don't "need" to do anything at all.
Why not? A TL;DR is a summation of the article. The title tells what the article's about.

So just reading the title and the tl;dr would leave one with no actual idea of the antipattern. What if the article was about something for which the imperative voice was an accurate description?
The government outsourced managing Aberfan and most other mines to a National Coal Board. The tribunal who investigated the disaster was very critical of said board, but it wasn't the done thing in those days to go after senior officials.

Indeed, the disaster was one of the main inputs that led to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the act under which senior officials nowadays can be (and sometimes are) prosecuted for negligence leading to deaths.
I was about to download this but then realized it's only for Apple! Are you planning on having an Android release?

Also on that front intro page I don't see any link anywhere that actually takes you to the apple app store to download the app. I thought the "App" link at the top might but it just takes me to another description section.
Never seen all engineers able to maintain legacy systems in a profitable business fired because the new half baked system is for sure gonna pan out?

Many CEOs are just playing a video game and don't care if they lose because they have extra lives.
I use Disable JavaScript extension with js disabled by default and only enable it if website is broken.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-javas...
You take it back to cart storage if you need the money back to switch for money.
If you don't take it out, the store worker will do it when closing the store.

I just hold on to one in case I need it in my wallet.
This would have been awesome for me 2 years ago.

Currently much of my complicated SQL is generated by a LLM.
> How many "reusable" bags are sold every year?

My question is how many "reusable" bags are being used once and then thrown out, effectively becoming massively wasteful single use bags?

My guess is a lot. Maybe not as many as single use plastic bags, but they must be even worse for the landfills, surely...

> who only offer single use bags in online deliveries

My mom gets online grocery deliveries from walmart and everything comes in "reusable" bags.

They never take them back or anything so every time she gets groceries they just accumulate.

It's to the point where she's using them as bin liners just like single use plastic because she needs to get rid of them just the same.

You could argue she should stop ordering from them, or there should be consequences for her. Maybe you're right.

Maybe people should have thought about other possible downstream consequences of banning single use plastic bags before enacting such a ban. I don't think "this could cause even more pollution in the long run" ever even crossed their dimwitted minds.

Too focused on the short term "we reduced single use plastics by 90%" KPI. Government policy by MBA.
For other platforms please refer to:
https://michaelandreuzza.com/work/sequoia/
Yes but the point stands. “Zero faith in intel being able to fill the gap if left to its own devices,” would be a better wording
Get acqui-hired.
It deserves a spot in Wikipedia's list of esoteric programming languages, next to classic ones like BrainFuck, LOLCODE, Rockstar, and Piet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#...
This is a compelling perspective. But putting sales or import restrictions in place right now would be damaging in the short term both for the manufacturing partners and the US. They’ve already put some export restrictions in place (ie preventing nvidia from selling their most powerful chips to china).

In terms of nearshoring - that’s a good idea too but I think the workforce training would be even more difficult than it has been in the US and it would be less popular politically as you said. (Side note: PR is part of the US - maybe you meant Costa Rica)
For all the HN folks, they had a very big arsenic pool near and it was used for gold mining. It will probably affect life around there because of very close river called Firat river.
Is staring at a screen for eight hours a day better or worse than staring at a chalkboard or a marker board?
> The listening stations at HMV & Co (remember those - the headphones hanging from the wall with 5-10 albums pre-loaded) never had Metal Albums.

> My entire strategy was based on going to a record store and buying whatever had appealing cover art in the metal section. And I did this A LOT. The entire backwall of my room was taken up by a stereo and an ocean of CD stands.

Before the general population figured out ripping, you could often return things if you did not like the music.

I often went to HMV (333 Yonge, Toronto Canada), bought 6+ CDs, listen them for a week or two, and return the ones that I didn't like (keep 2-3). I would then repeat the process and buy a bunch more.

They stopped this policy in (IIRC) the late-90s or early-00s, as people were just ripping CDs and returning everything they purchase the day before.
> Everyone wants to not work for someone else and be the decision maker and lead a team

Speak for yourself; can't think of anything worse, myself. Very happy to let others take care of that sort of thing.
Sometimes it's the other way around. I saved a Cromemco Z2D from the trash when the company where my father worked cleaned out their basement prior to moving to a different building.
I think there's some kind of echo chamber or distortion field among entrepreneurs, which makes them believe everyone's goal in life is entrepreneurship, "being your own boss" and some nebulous idea of "success".

It's really not. I'd much rather minimize the amount of stress and working hours in my life, thank you very much.
And their carbon price has played a role in that:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...

> How carbon emission prices accelerate net zero: Evidence from China's coal-fired power plants
Author here. to be honest I have no idea
If you want an app that works offline without a ton of hassle, then PWAs are the easiest way to write something that's multiplatform. As a bonus, updates to your app are totally under your control and distributed as quickly as you want them to be.
No a big part of the chips and inflation reduction acts are definitely the creation of jobs and the bringing of manufacturing back to parts of America that has been deindustrialized due to offshoring.
look, if you guys aren't using vertical tabs you're living in the past
One of the other things about Singapore is that they will bring the hammer down on you for abusing the public housing. If you pee in an elevator, the doors will shut and the police will come. Compare that to public housing in America...
Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity
In times of war, it is difficult to discuss historical and political theories. But Mr. Murray has some interesting thoughts.
Restricting new accounts to only being able to post in one area of a forum and telling people they have to write a message introducing themselves and manually approving people seems to work reasonably well.

Adding to this some forum software have the concept of ranks and the default rank for a new user can have restrictions such as requiring moderator review for any post until that account meets one or more bits of criteria such as number of approved posts or a moderator manually bumps them to an unrestricted rank. This may be useful as the spammers or bots may be fine posting in a board for new members.
> 11$/month I could have all the music. ALL OF IT.

except the huge amount of music that will never be on there.

and it's $11 every month, forever.
You have to prove your understanding of consciousness to be certain that LLMs are not conscious. It’s your certainty that I suspect most are reacting to here.