skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As of this release, I am not planning to publish further versions of serde_yaml as none of my projects have been using YAML for a long time, so I have archived the GitHub repo and marked the crate deprecated in the version number.
I can’t read the second article, but the first does not cite the later work and makes exactly the same mistake as Winner: sitting at a desk, assuming that (per Caro) parkways were the only way to get there, and looking only at the parkway bridge heights. The point is that parkways were by definition not for commercial traffic and you could get there by routing around the parkway overpasses, and the contemporaneous bus schedules show that they did.
Well, the other thing is that many, perhaps most, religious people don't know very much about their religion. Very few Catholics would know the difference between a cathedral and a minor basilica, say (which is what started this thread off in the first place). Actually, I'd argue that this isn't a religious question, anyway; it's administrivia.
> any reasonable person as a KPI

Have you MET middle managers in the wild? As I said, most of these metrics are measured because they are easy, not because they are useful. The incentives at that level are to come up with some sort of metric and browbeat people into making it; the incentives for the browbeaten are then to make the number. Doesn't matter what the number means.
Yep. The Boeing/Douglas merger didn't just put the wrong people in charge, it removed competition. US antitrust is in a sorry state and we are seeing the consequences.
The thing is, we got an european energy market...

just because Germany produces less does not mean there is less energy available...

would be the same as saying that since california does not produce enough energy on its own, its industries are doomed...
Yes, that's what I've seen from a lot of my experiments with fine-tuning. One should be really careful to not "lobotomize" already capable model and achieve better results at the end. It's trickier than seems from multiple of tutorials.

But I believe that most of the data stored in foundation models are just useless for some particular domain. So it's better to forget something, getting really useful info instead.
> There's some pushback from the neighbors because finishing it all means bulldozing hundreds of apartments, although those apartments were bought at a discounted price decades ago because everyone knew they had an expiration date. And now that it's here, they want to keep their apartments even though they were told about the Sagrada Família from the start.

Well, I would say this point becomes moot if they didn't have a permit for it from a start.

Also there are laws that are likely to supersede any expiration date that was set by who knows who in a different era.
Can we just get a 2FA app that's cross-platform and synchronized? I understand the security implications of that but I don't care, I would rather have my social media hacked and have it convenient than just have to go grab my phone whenever I want to login into something.

Authy is discontinuing their desktop app...
> if people just don't care do we really need further investigations and/or regulation?

We care in aggregate. At the individual level, airline ticket demand is notoriously elastic.
Not only on Linux.
It's lineage is in vyzo's personal standard library, so yes. The standard library is pretty good, going for a maximalist approach with even stuff like an S3 client [0] and websocket [1] support out of the box, among others (though these are far from comprehensive libs). The underlying runtime is all in R5RS/R7RS with a good collection of SRFIs in the stdlib. The tooling is ok, we're actively working on an LSP implementation and enhancing the documentation story. Also working on propagating type information at "compile"/expand time to give better performance safety.

[0]: https://cons.io/reference/std/net/s3.html

[1]: https://cons.io/reference/std/net/websocket.html
I highly doubt that an engineer would make a great CEO, but a CEO with no engineering background isn't going to know when what the engineers are saying that goes against what the business people are saying will matter. The bean counters will always be against anything cutting into the profit margin even if that extra expense the engineers are pushing for will actually make or break the thing.
I mean, they probably would if public services paid their engineers Google salaries. Do you think someone who can make 150k at Google is going to take a public services eng job for at minimum 50% less pay? Of course to have public service jobs like that we’d have to pay more taxes… and thus you end up with overworked engineers who are probably ok at their job but not on the same level as the big private companies
Thanks (to both of you who pointed this out), I am completely unfamiliar with Tomu so missed this typo.

Yeah the Somu looks like it would be better, but my current laptop only has USB-C and it doesn't look like there's a similarly flat implementation for USB-C. It's also still an important and fragile part sticking out from the laptop body so I think one embedded in an expansion card would still be good!

Also I've got a Yubikey very similar to the Somu, so I don't think this is a Tomu/Somu exclusive concept. The benefit of Yubikey specifically is that they're approved for certain types of specialist access – at work I am required to use a specific implementation, not just any U2F/FIDO key.
People de-risk their asset by building it as easy to not offend as possible so if they have to sell it they can find a buyer with relative ease.
You can do it in Claws Mail (also available on Windows):

Configuration -> Preferences -> Display/Summaries -> Message List -> Displayed in From Column: Name | Address | Name and Address
If you start treating farm animals as humans, where do you draw the line?

Is growing vegetables also inhumane, since we're controlling every aspect of those plants' lives?

Is doing pest control in your own house a mass murder, because you're killing a colony of cockroaches or termites?

Is washing your hands a genocide, because you're killing millions bacteria and tiny parasites on your hands?

That kind of extremist empathy is fatal to humanity. I'd rather choose to be cruel than dead.
Which depends on the business and, again, which is not a killer issue when you are doing business globally... For instance, in financial services the UK is still the world first exporter and does more business with the US than with the EU to begin with: doing business with the US is also 'extra costs and red tape' and yet it is thriving...
I recently did some db maintenance on a write heavy workload and I found that eventually it will bloat over time with a table with 500 million records. Switching it to use a proper partitioning scheme helped a lot. So people should not read this and assume you can just dump massive workloads into pg and they will be screamingly performant without some tuning and thoughtful design (I don’t think this is what you are implying, just a PSA)
I don't feel the lecturer is being fully open to the conservative ideals of Hamas.

I mean they are a religious nationalist movement after all, and probably agree with all the stuff he says about conservatives (prioritising their own country, wanting their children to serve the god of their elders etc.)
If this logic holds, then we should be open to bulldoze the Sagrada Familia itself to make more apartments.
For context, quoting the website:

> Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
GIMP is my pet-peeve as well. I literally have to "read" each icon to find the one I'm looking for. Luckily you can change back to the color set, which is a lot better, although not perfect.
> that is also gifting those customers to your competitors

To zero practical extent, particularly when you weight for frequent fliers. Most consumers pick the cheapest ticket. Those who don’t go first on loyalty. Frequent fliers who fly based on non-standard factors are well studied and highly in-numerous in any single aspect.
>Even older homes, compared to the average US home is highly insulated.

Why are you comparing apples to oranges? Germans don't care what it's like in America since it doesn't lower their energy bills.

America can afford to be wasteful with energy, since it's energy independent, has much cheaper energy than Germany, including oil, gas, and nuclear, and has higher incomes. Germany doesn't. Cheap Russian gas is gone and their nuclear also so of course their energy is much more expensive to the point it affects industry and consumers more than in the US.

>but there is also a large part of the population does not own a car at al

Passenger car ownership has reached record highs in Germany. Outside of big dense cities with great public transport like Berlin where car owners are in the minority, the majority of people own a car statistically.
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> bulldozing that many homes in an overpopulated city

As far as I understand, only one building (many flats though) would have to be removed in order to fit the staircase.

Problem is that there isn't a lot of space available to put the people whose home you just removed, so seems unlikely to happen unless our local government suddenly solves some really hard problems.
And Apple's iPhone market share in Europe (yes, the EU is not Europe) has been steadily growing since 2019:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/639928/market-share-mobi...

Apple would be crazy for leaving the EU. Even the suggestion would probably lead to a shareholder revolt and the removal of some executives.
Certificates are the new DNS for service breakages
EU is skeptical that Apple iPhone App Store rules comply with DMA
> Cryptocurrency is a neutral technology. It is software-based finance. While the system has advanced by insane amounts since bitcoin was created, it still has at least another decade to go IMO before we start seeing real traction with institutions currently served adequately by the existing tradfi rails

Does any part of you wonder "why would large governments/credit card processing companies/banks sit back and let consumers create an alternative currency that cuts us out of the loop"?
> and their per capita figures are in a grim state

- and Germany is one of the european countries with okayish inflation rate, most other european countries are far worse https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate%20-...

- and it's by now economic-wise at position #3 of the world ranking, now even before Japan (which has twice the amount of inhabitants). If you look up Germany on a real globe, you'll notice how tiny it actually is

- the unemployment rate is quite low (especially given that people like you call the econimic sitation a "grim state") https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1224/umfrage/... --- it's actually lower than in the years then people Germany "the locomotive of europe"

- the stock index "DAX" for german stock company is at an all-time high https://www.finanzen.net/index/dax

So really, the worrying thing here is that people tend to think binary. Either Germany is super-strong, even too strong for it's neighbors. Or it is too weak, so that people actually worry. In my book, both views are extreme and don't replicate reality.

> It would be extremely impressive if they can remain a manufacturing leader through this

There is no indication that this will change. Examples: Germany's battery production has doubled in the last year. And there is no end in sight --- https://www.produktion.de/technik/co2-neutrale-industrie/bat...

For the solar industry, I identify two reasons of the decline:

- first, the "high" of the german solar industry was based on subsidies. That meant that the companies build plants ... but they didn't really optimize the costs. Once this large scale subsidies were reduced, the industry wasn't competitive

- second, the EU is blind on subsidies done in China. Over there, they have a weird conglomerate of socialism and capitalism. Basically the companies, even when privately owned, are still under control of the chines communist party. And the party decides that "this industry is vital, we push it so squelch abroad competition". They do this e.g. by heavy state investments. The EU turns a blind eye here, they don't ask for tariffs that equalize the market situation for the various competitors. Similarly, market access is asynchronous. If an abroad company wants to make a plant there, they have to accept a Chinese partner --- which will do industry espionage. Whereas Chinese companies buying or making plants in Europe (or USA etc) aren't required to have a local partner.
I care less about vulns, more about it actually working properly first. And for that, Bluetooth is bad. And pairing is pain.
> There can not be more than one cathedral in a diocese.

There can be, though it's not common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-cathedral
It's not really missing in all languages. Haskell has context in the form of type classes, and because al functions are pure, all other behaviour is derives from parameters. The only exception might be context outside the program, like operating system state.

Programming language theory also has other abstractions for context as well, like delimited continuations.
The link posted solved this problem without containers
Bill Maher Says AI Should Be a Bigger Concern Than TikTok
You keep pretending that the CADR is the only Lisp machine, while it’s basically a throwaway prototype for the real deal that was being implemented at Symbolics. ;)

There are no misconceptions in my post. The CADR software already included Flavors, which is what I meant. The Ivory definitely had the method dispatch optimisations.
> While I generally don't think we should be breeding dogs at all

What do you mean by this? If we don't breed dogs, in about 15 years or so, there will be no dogs left at all.
Isn't dagre dead,though?
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If you take out a million dollar loan for a million dollar house, then your net worth is 0. Which is actually a pretty stupid starting point, because most people wouldn't buy a house and get a mortgage without having savings. In other words, if you have $300k 401k, 300k liquid savings, and then buy a $1m house with an $800k mortgage then your net worth is $400k + $100k + $1m - $800k or, in other words, +$700k.

Yes some people push it, no that's not what I'm talking about, as your argument was that you must have enough assets to purchase a house cash before you can "not be broke buying a house."
Oh, is there a fast way of collecting the needed evidence instead? ;)
Ah. So non-monetary fines, getting jailed, and getting towed, are additional incentives to not to the behavior? So fines aren't sufficient to disincentivze a behavior? Hmm.
The Dedication of the Basilica of St John Lateran is one of the observances in the Catholic liturgical calendar with its own special mass readings that supplant the normally scheduled readings for the day (most of the liturgical calendar consists of dates relative to the start of Advent which happens on the fourth Sunday before Christmas). If I remember correctly, this is one of the feasts considered important enough to supplant the normal Sunday readings if it happens on a Sunday. (Also, worth noting that it’s one of the feasts celebrated in both the Latin and Eastern churches.)
Off you go ruining another company!
Worth noting, for crusaders against administrative overhead at colleges & universities:

> In the basement of the University of Colorado Boulder’s main library, an 85-year-old stone fortress built in the Italian rural style, the archives of the school’s Rare and Distinctive Collections occupy rows of shelves as far as the eye can see. Here, amid yellowed books, historical maps and medieval manuscripts, Martin Scorsese has quietly made public a very private preoccupation. More than 50 storage boxes hold thousands of VHS tapes that contain films and television programs Scorsese recorded directly from broadcast television. The renowned director and film preservationist, it turns out, was also, for decades, a prolific guerrilla archivist.

> For the archivists at the Rare and Distinct Collections, the most pressing issue at the moment is the preservation of the Scorsese collection. Magnetic media degrades as it ages. It is believed that a VHS tape begins to progressively lose image quality after only 10 years. Some of Scorsese’s tapes are more than 40 years old. And so the entire archive must be digitized – a major undertaking. Converting thousands of hours of analog recordings is slow, tedious work.

In a perfect world, there might be plenty of well-run and -funded museums, which could do such work. In the world we've got...yeah. Big, prestige-hungry universities probably bear 90% or more of this burden.

In a far-from-perfect world, it would still be lovely if universities provided detailed, honest financial statements - which clearly distinguished this kind of "preserve history" technical work...from the all the myriad sorts of education-irrelevant crap that they squander fortunes on these days.

In the world we've got...I'm sure that top-of-market administrator salaries and hand-carved jade ceilings in the shiny new student amenities are higher priorities.
Gaudi has been dead for 100 years. I don't think he has any vote on whether construction is done or not.
Part of the problem is the conservatives blocking the investments because they believe any debt is super bad
Sagrat Habitatge (Holy Accommodation in Catalan)
I'm reminded of that scene in House M.D. where he tells a patient she has a parasite, but she might learn to embrace it and dress it up in cute outfits.
There is no right language choice for a game, same how there's no right choice to live a life. There are advantages and disadvantages, and in retrospect, we can see how things turn out.

There are language choices in projects where the choice seems to hurt the project, that's for sure. Wrt/ RCT, I don't see a single downside though. The cases I'm thinking about are Minecraft, for example, with its horribly performing Java code. Cities Skylines with their engine choice and usage, resulting in 30-40 fps even on high end hardware. Project Zomboid with LUA - many performance problems, and artificial limitations to keep performance to a reasonable limit.

Also consider that often, a project either gets off the ground with the sub-optimal choices, or it doesn't, at all. And as we see from the results, a sub-optimal, but fun game is better than an optimal, but non-existing game. At least if you consider fun and success desirable.
You can't apply Occam's Razor to things you don't understand, because that's just claiming to explain something without actually explaining anything.

Intelligence and consciousness are two of the things we don't understand.
Totally different doesn’t mean you can’t have both. It just means one doesn’t confer the other.

More broadly, I agree with you. Pretending everything would be better under a real engineer is a deluded combination of No True Scotsman and in-group signalling. As HN demonstrates, no group is immune to their siren calls.
This is a lot easier in 2024 than it was in prior years due to all the layoffs. Make sure your job application is appealing, and post it in the usual places. You will get quality applicants mixed among the flood of lower quality ones.
It also means I need to pair, and deal with all the hassle that brings. Much easier to just plug the unify dongle in somewhere rlse
I’m not in support of the DMA and I’m not in favor of the US suit against Apple, and I too have been wondering how Microsoft - who I’d argue is the most anticompetitive of all, with the longest history of doing so - has escaped all of this lately. They really must be funding some important people’s pockets.
My son and his best friend in elementary school really liked this game.
I think Gerbil has resumeable exceptions, or at least it was talked about at some point.
Ok, maybe he didn't specify how all the statues, doors, windows and other embellishments should look like, but the basic structure and shape (the three portals and the 18 spires which also determine how the support columns in the interior of the church are placed) is the same as in Gaudí's original plans.
But it's not a divide between academics and activists and people in tech.
Several years in ops in a large company where I had to hand-hold couple hundreds of programmers a lot of whom needed to install Python for development on their computers...

One of the troubleshooting steps when "something mysterious" happens on developer's computer (eg. package installation fails for inexplicable reasons, Python "standard" library components missing or present when shouldn't be, incorrect component version etc.) was to remove pyenv.

This step was often met with resentment and arguments... but, in most cases I was able to win :)

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Now, here's a larger point: some programs solve the problem by actually solving the problem, while other programs solve the problem by adding more code around the problem, which, usually, creates new problems while only partially solving the original problem.

An example of the former: fsck -- you run it, it looks at your filesystem, tries to fix it, if it's broken and then gets out of the way entirely. An example of the later: Kubernetes -- you start by having a problem of resource allocation / management and you end up with a problem of resource allocation / management compounded by problems with component version management, configuration management etc.

pyenv falls into the second category of programs. The problem it's trying to solve is: install and use multiple versions of Python. There's really no need for an extra helper program to solve this problem. Multiple versions of CPython can be installed and used together without the use of any extra tools. I.e. the solution to this "problem" is simply to learn how to do that.

Those who advocate for the use of pyenv and the likes usually make an argument for "simplicity". I.e. in their mind, not needing to know how to install multiple versions of Python is a bonus. Something that, potentially, saves them several hours of reading the documentation and perhaps saving them a tiny bit of typing when setting up Python initially.

I contend that this calculation is off because it doesn't account for the problems down the lane. In other words: pyenv helps until it doesn't, and then it becomes a liability. Debugging is always more difficult if you have more wrappers between you and your problem. So, while individual users will not face a lot of problems with "wrapper solutions", those who service such users will face such problems a lot more frequently. That's why, as an ops person, I really dislike "wrapper solutions" -- for me, they complicate the task, never help.
> Most people in Germany can't afford to buy an apartment let alone build a new house and you're taking as if your situation si representative for the average German.

- 2.84 million people in Germany were able to afford a new car in 2023 [0]
- 1.25 million dwellings were constructed in 10y 2011-2021 [1]
- The homeownership rate in Germany is very low compared to other countries but still around 50% [2]

While parent's situation is likely above the median, it doesn't mean it is not representative.

> Just because you're wealthy enough to afford a new EV and to build a new modern house, doesn't eman Germany has no problems.

Parent commented on their energy usage change over the years, not on wealth or problems. Where does you comment come from?

Also, what's your point?

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/587730/new-car-registrat...
[1]: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Housin...
[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/246355/home-ownership-ra...
Yes, Catalan modernism is relatively modern. For me it's one of the most beautiful 20th century architecture styles.