skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of communication happens online, but that doesn't make it great. Most communication online is unidirectional, dishonest, or plain wrong.

Before the internet, there was television (the drug of a nation...). I fail to see how social media actually improves communication. By all means it seems to spread disinformation faster, but it does not seem to lead to constructive thought. Even here on Hacker News, discussions can last only up to a day typically.

I personally don't care for all this to go away. We didn't win much by it, we won't lose much.

You wouldn't have had a big "friends bubble" in the 1990s, you may have had the illusion of having a big one in the early 2020s. Democracy is not built on that illusion.
My first thought on that:

How many of those missing 7m were split custody cases where both were claiming them. Then with the new law it's "Oh hey, [parent allowed to claim tax for the child] can I have their social for taxes? Whatdya mean you won't give it to me?"
It might be light-hearted, but nothing they said was untrue, and their implementation code is real.
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I don't think so — in this specific case (and probably you can extrapolate to some degree in a generic way) one of those viewpoints has proven to be more successful/adaptive/helpful than the other. Even though they are both "true" to a degree.

I mean, there are all sorts of confounding factors, but in a rough sense we are now able to look at various populations (countries, states, or even friend/acquaintance cohorts) that leaned into one or the other of those positions, and compare how they fared.
https://archive.ph/dl0vc
Managed forests are greenwashing. The term itself is a ridiculous illusion. It's like this bee article - it gives a process and metric by which things are improving while ignoring more general collapse that those same economic processes are generating
I'm working on the AZ-204(azure cloud) cert. My company uses on-prem, but we want to shift to a hybrid model in coming months/years.
Note how much work you need to do manually:

- don't forget to trigger a render from a getter. Possibly not just from one getter if the component relies on more than one data point that is changing

- don't forget to fire a custom event if this data needs to be propagated somewhere else

- don't forget to subscribe to the custom event in the places where this data is needed and trigger the render when the data is updated

- (good programming practice: ) don't forget to unsubscribe from those custom events because memory leaks

I'm not saying it's impossible to do, or that people haven't been doing this, successfully, for years across many projects. What you can have though is that same thing happening automatically: when a reactive value gets updated, all the places where it's used get updated. As frameworks/libraries with fine-grained reactivity will show you, literally only those places will get updated. E.g., you won't need to re-run a full re-render on an entire component just because some piece of data got changed.
You're right, this is Python/Django, where you don't get these semantics (Product is the database model, and it doesn't have access to the "if" to use in the filter). It was more of a general example, though, of "loop vs filtering in the SELECT", so the language doesn't matter much (well, apart from effectively making my point, which it perhaps failed at).
Feral honey bees may be thriving but native bees are collapsing.
> The mapping is bi-directional.

"(Mutation cases are in reverse, but I know you are capable of understanding that without it spelt out in detail)"

Guess you were't capable after all. How do tech people manage to be so out to lunch all the time?
And without the explicit cast I'm getting:

GCC: error: invalid conversion from 'int' to 'planet'

clang: error: assigning to 'enum planet' from incompatible type 'int'

Yeah, with casts C let's you reinterpret anything as anything else. Similar to `as any` in TypeScipt.
No.

RPi used to be $25 or $35 , and then use equipment lying around.

Now it's $80, plus high performance power, case, active cooling, storage, etc.

RPi is no longer in it's own original category. And when you compare via cost, it's a loser these days.

The only way the RPI isn't a complete loser is inertia, pure and simple.
It's extremely variable on an individual basis. I've had years with 100% survival and then others with 0% survival (small sample of under 10 hives), with other beekeepers experiencing similar losses.

There are some studies/surveys out there about survival rates (the population rate studies are less helpful). My understanding is the survival rate plummeted after the introduction of varroa but has been mostly stable around 50% survival nationally for over a decade.
Kind of reminds me of Gray code, who's whole shtick is being a sequence which only changes one bit at a time. If you see two bits change you know it's an error condition and can handle that explicitly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_code
> But all the MI300 is going to supercomputer

I'm building a bare metal cloud service provider entirely around MI300x. Anyone (within US export restrictions) can have reasonably priced access to them. You get full access to the cards (not API based). If you take an entire machine (of cluster of them), you get BMI level access. It is as if you're sitting at the machine yourself.

In other words, I'm building my own supercomputer, and making it public.
I don't know. The iBook G4 had DDR 333 MHz PC2700 at best. The modern SSD of a Macbook M3 is about twice as fast in GB/s (2.5GB/s vs 5GB/s). The latency is likely worse, but at the same time the M3 has much bigger L1 and L2 caches (192KB*8 vs 64KB, and 16MB vs 512KB).
If it makes you feel better, Byuu faked his death at least once before and there's still no hard evidence he's dead.
Thanks - I was curious to check "ninja" and "rockstar". They seem to have peaked 8-10 years ago (from a quick glance). Was surprised they are still used at all after taking that pounding from job ads for so many years.
Native apps certainly do have their plus points, but for use cases like small local business that customers will order from pretty infrequently, a website is the way to go. I don't want another app on my phone that I'll use once and then never again for a year or so. And of course, websites are still the way to go when you just want to put some information up publicly for people to access without any interactivity involved. You wouldn't have an app just to display your store services and timings.
That is super interesting because I do not recall hearing about it or taking it seriously until early March 2020.

It really points to how USA centric our news is that there was a global health emergency declared in January, but we were so hyper focused on the upcoming election and Trumps antics that it was barely making the news. Or it was being purposely kept under wraps? It seems like something that should have been brought front and center as soon as we heard about it.
It doesn't seem like this should be the case. Humans can estimate the complexity of a task without performing the task. Why couldn't an advanced LLM?
doesn't seem much like a parallel to be honest
Looks like this was just some random failure! All looks good now. I was looking at HN for cloudflare errors and your was the first :)

Well, it turns out https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/operations/dns-records... now returns "null" in result . I think it returned empty array before.
The Russian Shadow Trade for Weapons Parts, Fueled by Crypto
Show HN: Chat with G-Drive Folder in Sheets
Q&A PDF, Google Doc, and .docx files without leaving Google Sheets. Uses Drive API and PDF.js to take in a G-Drive folder URL, fetch docs and extract document text. It processes fairly quickly, ~1000 pages extracted+chunked+embedded in ~7 seconds.

The script creates an HTML modal to let the script use browser functionality, getting around some of Apps Scripts (Google's built-in, lightweight scripting platform) limitations and another HTML modal is used to Q&A the documents in a conversational way, all within a Google Sheets tab.

I was already doing this by downloading files/using a script or another platform to analyze them with an LLM. Most of my files are in G-Drive, so this skips an annoying step.

Would love to see any comments/feedback or discuss similar projects you're working on.
I've never understood this. I dated a DR that was not an English native speaker. Her English written and spoken was better than 99% of Americans. Yet on the rare occasion when she didn't know some rarely used word she always acted like she had done something terrible to everyone by asking what it means.

In private she constantly agonized on pronunciations and such that she already had perfectly mastered. I couldn't take it and had to move on. I was not interested in a lifelong english class. I asked her "do you lie to people about where you are from?" No. Then why are you trying to pretend you are a native speaker? No one cares.

I really just don't get it, people are incredibly forgiving of non native speakers most of the time. The only people that are not you don't really want to know anyway.
US govt proposes killing half a million owls
Readers may find Pack interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793805
I think it is a lot harder for new Software Engineers to get into the field today. I was a self-taught engineer when I got into the field 10 years ago. Now I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 100 company. But now I'm hearing stories that companies are not even looking at self-taught Software Engineers.
Yes it's worth taking a minute to appreciate how well DEFLATE and gzip has stood up over the years. It's a brilliant format and tool. I was definitely a little too ready to believe the paper that claimed gzip's ability to classify text was better than deep neutral nets, alas it has some limits after all!
So is this an early proposal of the Big Bang Theory?
I would have to agree with kushku, it’s a very very high bar to fake thousand of timestamps over several years in a consistent way that doesn’t attract suspicion under forensic scrutiny.

Of course this is post facto so not that helpful until after something serious happens.

If there was some sort of reputation system that could do this analysis automatically then that would be very useful.
For me learning Rust isn't about "OMG this is my #forever-language", it's more about presenting me with a new way of thinking about and through problems. I code 99% in Python at my day job and when I made the effort/struggle to learn Clojure a few years ago it fundamentally altered how I think about problems. This is the same result I'm looking for from Rust. Basically just adding more tools to the mental toolbox.
They didn't rule that the strike would be illegal, the Democratic Congress imposed management's contract.
Before you start looking for evidence of a source, you need to show that the phenomenon actually exists. That has not been established, IMHO[1]. This is like speculating about where "Nessie"[2] came from when you haven't even shown that there is a "Nessie" yet.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/us/politics/havana-syndro...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39892766
Worried about a bump on your date's genitalia? There's an app for that
I use it on my 2015 Macbook pro. Its amazing how quickly you can get set up, kudos to the authors. Its a dog in terms of response time for questions, but that's expected with my machine configuration.

Also they have Python (and less relevant to me) Javascript libraries. So I assume you dont have to go through LangChain anymore.
Lucid Motors raises $1B from Saudis as it searches for luxury EV buyers
Signs to know if your bank is facing trouble
It wouldn’t have added support for custom types to printf(), which was an important motivation.
I am the 4th person you've responded to in this thread.
Lol, I hope I get to feel that way in hindsight! Right now it's just the struggle and the grind... math feels like a bad Asian MMO where you just run around crunching numbers to make other numbers go up slowly. And if you die/miss an assignment, you have to go back a few levels and do it all over again. Sigh.

> that 6-figure salary and maybe not feel too bad about calling our self’s engineers

Hah! I've only ever briefly made a 6-figure salary, and I quit that job because of its bureaucracy. I'm just some rando dev and I would NEVER call myself an engineer (even though my job title sometimes says that). It's an insult to all the REAL ones who actually survived the math, lol.

(Frontend) web dev has always been more similar to me to graphic design than anything I would call "engineering": It's pretty-looking shiny stuff backed by spaghetti code, not anything I'd ever trust to life-and-death scenarios like dams or bridges.

Anyway, that's not the point :)

> well hell go for it my friend!!!

Hah. This is the upside of a minimal DINK life. We don't have much money (at all), but we have fun!
https://archive.is/dl0vc
On a side note: no response from gitlab-org, meanwhile 2 "AI" bots generated wall of enshittificating comments.
I agree with what I think is the implied premise of your question - which - I'd make explicit as - its not clear we can agree what the lessons even were?

For example, was it good that we closed parks? Remember when sand was poured into skateparks? Or the parks in NYC were padlocked? Was it good that we closed schools for so long? Remember the amount of shaming that happened when some people went to the beaches? Remember when the grocery stores had arrows about which way the direction of the aisle went? Remember how long we handed out bacteria wipes as though it was spread through dirty surfaces?

I'm not sure us peons in society are the only ones who need to learn lessons here.
The IIgs UI is not simplified at all, it had pretty much all the toolkits the Mac had in terms of user interface. It had all the graphics bits, the IPC bits, even networking, layered filesystem etc etc; it is often overlooked how far they had gone in term of featureset at the time of GS/OS 6.03 which was the last (official) release.
RFC: Add large language models to Rust

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3603
No system is safe from bad actors.

The only way to armor yourself is to have consistent policies. Would this have happened if there were code reviews and testing?

Consistency is key. At my workplace we routinely bypass branch protections, but we're only responsible for a few customers.
> AML is good, no I don’t.

Kinda crazy how willing you are to let government step all over you under the disguise of AML, when it does jackshit for it. Soon enough you will be convinced that government being able to intercept all communication is good because think of the children!

> Is there literally any scenario where you'd accept that maybe crypto isn't actually useful and maybe it is just a big scam?

What scenario? Crypto is useful in current world. Not useful to everyone, that's fine, no one is forcing you to use it, but a lot of people do find it useful, myself included. Disregarding something as a scam just because you don't find it useful in your life is shortsighted. Think about it hard, otherwise you'll waste years of your life whining about how others are enjoying their lives and you will miss out on yours.

Blockchain/DeFi allows USDC to exist, even you admitted to that. The fact is, USDC exists on the blockchain. Sending international payments is the easiest with blockchain (provided both parties have a way to ramp on/off).
IM personal O, people determined to make others suffer unjustly are as full of nonsense as people who straight up lie.

One may be disruptive to social order (the liar), but the one forcing unjust outcomes on another is straight up barbarism. A lie can be sussed out with diligence. A life ruined through unjust application of force cannot be mended.

Then again, I suppose at best we're all just choosy barbarians, picking and choosing when to let the crazy out.
Just let reddit die already, the VPN blocking is just bullshit.
Thanks for all the comments. Usually when you hear of "armed thugs breaking a strike" it's in the 1930s and they're Pinkertons or equivalent. I don't know of any others where regular US Army troops were used.

National Guard: yes. Those are usually under state control, though.

I have at least two more posts on this coming. Stay tuned.
iPhone SSH clients allow you to establish a SSH connection from your iPhone to remote server.
Recently there was another similar analysis (looking at the details, it seems like this article might even be based on the one below)

Show HN: "Ask HN Who's Hiring" Trends: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39631301
Interestingly your account joined 9 days ago, and this is your only post, this is one of the only times I've seen someone outright support Russia's invasion of Ukraine on this site. People in the Donbass voted -for- Zelenskyy before the invasion. So, your point is nonsense. Putin panicked because he wanted a puppet state with tons of agricultural and oil exports, and it turned against his planted head of state.
I dunno about "battle" but https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launc... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39853463 feels like a safe bet to have legs
> The current job searching experience, at least in tech, feels broken in many different ways

Yup, after being told I had a (Sr. level) job x3 times at just as many companies only for it to "fall through due to budget" I gave up. Looking at you Disney and Mozilla.

I'm riding with my current company until something changes in hiring. I'm missing money, but I'm enjoying life.
> implement your proposal as a library, AND convince people to use it on its own technical merits.

That is almost literally exactly what happened: most major JS frameworks (except React) converged on Signals.

> Because not having signals in the language was never an actual problem holding back reactive UI development in JS.

Oh, but it did hold back reactive development. There are many limitations on current implementations of signals precisely because there's no proper support for many things in the language.

> You need to sell why your (or any) signals implementation needs to be in the JavaScript standard.

That is why it is:

- a proposal that

- calls for input from implementers, users, library developers etc.

> Unlike e.g. promises that are useful on their own,

But the exact same thing happened with promises: everyone had their implementation, there was no need for a proposal to add that specific API to the standard library. Deferred (the precursor to Promises) existed for several years before Promises. Here's the full history: https://samsaccone.com/posts/history-of-promises.html

And yet, 15 years later here we are
I have also read that our gut doesn't like being in constant operation. Our ancestors didn't have access to food 24/7 and it makes sense our bodies adapted to take advantage of this by entering a self-cleaning state during long periods without consumption.
Sweden doesn't require that you have id to vote. You could alternatively bring in someone who will vouch for you and can present their id and personal id number.

https://www.norden.org/sv/info-norden/rostratt-i-sverige

> För att kunna rösta ska du kunna styrka din identitet. Du styrker din identitet genom att visa upp en giltig id-handling eller genom att en annan person kan bekräfta din identitet. Då måste den som bekräftar din identitet kunna uppvisa id-handling och ange sitt personnummer.
blink is a mosh client. you'll need moshd running on the server.
It's a collective issue, not an impossible one. Collective issues need leaders and role models for action. You can normalize the optics of change, get involved, educate people.

Additionally, you can help make your community resilient for crisis and hardship. For example, reforestation doesn't just help sequester carbon dioxide, it's also stabilizing the local weather and water cycle. Build local community networks, plant trees, prevent soil erosion, rebuild the humus layer, build water retention reservoirs. Incidentally, it's very rewarding to see living things grow and recover. If you have a garden or yard, start there maybe.
When I was doing freelance work, PHP/Laravel was always what I used. It's incredibly simple to deploy compared to the modern "cloud native" stack I use at my day job.
I think if you gave an honest effort at interpreting what he said, you'd find that he's saying there's a reason religion has survived as long as it has.

He's not claiming that your actions are going to cause a biblical flood - that's something you're projecting on to him and, in my opinion, just feels like mockery for the sake of mockery.

He's suggesting that there are generation-spanning lessons that had been learned, both ethical and practical, that made their way into scriptures. Not all the lessons in the Bible (or other religious text) are going to be pertinent to the modern day. To say it contains nothing of value, and that nothing can be learned from, it proves his point exactly.
Yes, because it is rational. Maybe taking it this far isn’t when you consider personal impact, but questioning things is very rational, and there are more than enough legitimate examples (MKULTRA, Operation Northwoods, and countless other declassified operations that were regarded as conspiracies in their time) to justify not accepting things at face value.

There are declassified documents from the Warren Commission where they basically concede that parts of the CIA could have been involved. And there IS significant fishiness around 9/11 (the missing trillions, back when that was a lot, building 7, etc), it should be questioned. That doesn’t mean assuming US involvement, it just means not assuming that there wasn’t any. Because there it should be clear by now that most of government does not have the people as a priority.

The Epstein island was a “conspiracy theory” at least a decade before it was known, and it’s still considered “conspiracy thinking” to say it was an intelligence operation, when that’s the only rational explanation given all the details. And there was someone that had him suicided under the public eye, it’s not inconceivable to me that those same people would facilitate a domestic terror attack. Especially after reading declassified CIA documents proposing similar false flags.
Infrastructure as Code Is Dead: Long Live Infrastructure from Code
We already know. There are little username thing-ys that communicate that. Is there something you are trying to add?
To be fair, you also need software engineers to break the windows. It is in our best interest to break the windows.