skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember using GitHub as a teenager, circa 2010. I, not understanding git because I was an idiot, accidentally force pushed and deleted my history.

I emailed the support email explaining the situation, and within a few hours got a reply from Chris saying that he’d fixed my repo, along with some advice about how to avoid this issue in the future.
Wow, thanks for sharing this. I find it interesting that they chose to make it something that I have to wait 1-2 minutes for before I get my AI generated article.

Seems to do a good job for various types of research, will give it a try next time I'm curious about something and need it researched
AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online
The Brits thought the world would line up to trade with a free UK based on the fact that they were…the UK???
The designers who have not read the classics are a pain too. There are things that normal people don't know, like how a submenu should work, and when a user ask for a submenu the designer should bring the non-crapy way of doing it with their experience. The idea of not interrupting the proceedings with idiocy is also lost ; it's irritating. As an example, if open a reddit link on my phone, I have a bunch of stuff in the way of reading the posts.
Thre used to be this site called tinyapps.com. It may still exist.

Edit: It exists, and is:

https://tinyapps.org/
Thanks for this. I just ran brew upgrade and the result was as you described:

xz 5.6.1 -> 5.4.6
I’m to the point where I think we can’t afford me returning to office. My being present at home means that my wife has more flexibility in her work schedule, has allowed her to go back to school, and allows me to see my kid during daylight hours.

And all the other stuff we always mention.
Well when I have some free moments I like to walk around and stop by grad students offices and see what they're up to / make suggestions. I'm not gonna do the same thing on slack...
Buying Cryptocurrency on Binance Through P2P: Step-by-Step Guide
But they do negotiate all the time. For employees that are critical they do this all the time. For the regular employees? Nope
Numerical issues in maximum likelihood parameter estimation for GP interpolation
Billionaires are in a separate category. It's not good that one person has enough money to control so much.
The Changing Face of Protest
>what are their theoretical or practical applications of the knowledge gained from solving such problems.

I think most students wouldn't appreciate theoretical applications of some math problems. Saying "hey, you know what, a slight variation of this problem leads to a famous problem in non-commutative topology" or whatever only makes people even more confused.

Also, math is by far not the only thing you study that may have no "applications".

Does anyone in "the real world" care about Shakespeare, or Emily Dickinson? It's certainly not part of most jobs.

What about biology? Sure, knowing what a plant is and what animals are can be useful (for example, if you're a vegan), but do most jobs require knowing that "mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"? Nope.

Or, think history. Yes, knowing something about 20th century history can be useful (though not necessary), but do you really need to know about Mesopotamia for most practical jobs? Again, no.

School doesn't just teach stuff that everyone really needs in their everyday life. It also teaches

1) stuff that could be useful for some careers, and

2) stuff that becomes part of your background and subtly teaches other useful lessons.

If school were to be focused on the most common jobs (in the US: salespeople, cashiers, waiters, office clerks), you would see a syllabus made of:

- basic math, up to percentages and maybe powers. That's it

- a lot of Excel (for salespeople and office clerks)

- enough English to be able to write a few emails and confidently talk to customers. No literature, no 1,000 word essays.

- how to carry at least two, if not three plates at a time, as well as basic knowledge about hamburgers, meat and cocktails (for waiters)

Would this syllabus prove useful? Certainly. Would this system teach people something more than what they need to live their daily life and get a paycheck (no history, no geography, no literature, no trigonometry or biology or chemistry, and so on)? No, it probably wouldn't.
'3 Body Problem' Created a Disaster, with Strings Attached
It's interesting to read about the alternatives though. Like Global Hidden Variables.

Also Superdeterminism might allow for Local Hidden Variables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden-variable_theory
There is no bridge design that can be practically created and stop a multi ton shipping vessel. If you want to design something that can't then the solution would be to create a underground tunnel instead and this is much more expensive such as the channel tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel#:~:text=The%20C....
I'm a bit confused by this question because it seems like the only people in my area who can afford to buy houses are software engineers, or at least work in tech.
I wish there was a good way to evaluate this claim. It comes from the American Society of Civil Engineers. I have nothing against them, but they are self-interested in this being a large number.

The Key Bridge was structurally fine, but needed better protection so today’s ships couldn’t hit the bridge.
I still can't understand why they decided to use a single database for all their customers. If each customer needs access to its own data, why not a dedicated database for every customer?
Sorry about that, we didn't make it clear initially that Lumona only has skincare products for now, we'll be working to scale it beyond these products soon, but that message about skincare was probably not clear enough from our post
Doubt it. If somebody attacked my dog I’d shoot them, but not if they attacked my hoover.
This is false. Depending on the CPU Arch, updating a shared static atomic variable may cause cache invalidation. How fast depends on how hot and tight you critical sections are.
As someone who professionally does mostly frontend since jquery I agree but when working on full stack personal projects in Django and other backend frameworks that aren’t Node, I start to empathize. Doubling the yack shaving quotient on a project is not fun.

The problem causing burnout isn’t the framework but all the tooling around it. Webpack alone has probably caused as much PTSD as a minor war and if you’re not in frontend you don’t know to just install Vite, copy a tailwind config, and get started. With HTMX you just add a script tag and go. The developer experience for adding some simple dynamic features is leagues better, even if the DSL is esoteric.
In the other hand it was very hard to detect. The slow login time was the only thing that gave it away. It more seems like they were so close to being highly successful. In retrospect improving the performance would have been the smart play. But that is one part that went wrong compared to very many that went right.
This isn't a new trend. Rich people have always purchased news media, often to help their other businesses. It's been going on for the longest time.

Indeed, in the US many of the newspapers were started by political parties who used the papers to push their candidates.
Inkscape certainly has some idiosyncracies in its UI, but yeah, for the most part it's very reasonable and mostly adheres to common UI/UX conventions. Not sure how much it deviates from, say, Illustrator, as I haven't used the latter.
Sshhh now you are starting to talk like a rightwinger. Alex Jones has been saying this for a long time ;)
yeah, i'm using it on a consulting job at

https://www.commspace.co.za/

they also use hyperscript

working out pretty well i guess, it gets a little crazy sometimes, htmx definitely isn't a silver bullet like some people say, but it works

also, I'm the creator of htmx and hyperscript
I was wondering how this was possible and then found this monstrosity: https://colab.research.google.com/github/EvgSkv/logica/blob/...

Click on the SQL tab.
A point that seems to get lost in many of the pro-GC articles, this one included from what I can see, is that memory is just one kind of resource.

Correct code, especially in systems programming, will need to manage external resources as well, be it file handles, sockets or whatnot. GC only solves the application memory part, thus doesn't help at all for handling those external resources. In fact it can make it much more complicated, just look at what it takes to correctly implement a non-trivial IDispose in .Net.

Other approaches like RAII or reference counting makes it much easier in my experience to handle both memory and external resources in a unified way, thus making it easier to write correct code and reason about it.

That said, I'm not blatantly against GC's. It's a tool and it has some pros and cons, like everything else. The "manual GC" RCU approach mentioned in the article is interesting for certain tasks.
> Working remote is lonely and erodes a foundational element of sociability. You spend a good portion of your waking hours at work. Your coworkers are your friends.

This statement particularly irked me. Because you’re making the condition of someone being a friend contingent on “amount of time spent with them”.

Tomorrow I’m meeting someone I haven’t seen in about six months. He helped me get out of a very dark place a few years ago. I’m meeting him tomorrow because I want to.

I choose to spend time with my friends. I choose spending three hours on a Wednesday night speaking to a group of friends. I choose to travel for six hours to see my friend in London every few months.

I do not choose my co-workers — the company chooses for me most of the time.

(Yes, I can switch companies. I know that’s a thing).

Working remotely doesn’t have to be lonely. It’s only as lonely as you make it. Go do your work in a coffee shop or something I dunno.
This just one of many examples of why it is so hard to believe the AI hype. The answer is well worded and sounds legit if you're not paying close attention. But it's bullshit. That's all AI is -- a fancy bullshit generator. It's not just useless, it's something to actively avoid.
“make green hydrogen“

Which requires a machine which may or may not be the cheapest to do keep available for opportunistic "power2somethinguseful". Batteries are also in this category, they excel in how many watts you can dump per dollar worth of battery (before they are full), but don't offer many Wh per investment.

Which brings us back to what GP wrote: "What matters is to build the cheapest possible machine, to make use of the energy in excess." It's all about how many hours of opportunistic activity does it need per year to be worthwhile. If you build some super efficient power2useful machine that is only worthwhile when running 24/7, then you are exactly zero steps closer to the green energy future. The key metric is where on the opportunisticity spectrum between 24/7 on one end and only the few most energy-abundant hours per year on the other end a technology can place itself.

At the opportunistic extreme end of the scale we will undoubtedly find resistive boosters to latent heat stores that usually run on heatpumps alone (boosters come online when maket price drops below the heat pump's buy threshold divided by work factor)
It's also a way for newcommers to discover what an app can do, people know that opening menus has absolutely no risk, while clicking a button might open a modal or actually do something. So generally you want 3 levels: menus, buttons in the UI, and shortcuts.
Progressive disclosure is an important principle in designing good UIs, but as you’re pointing out it’s often misused or used to excuse cuts and burying things for the sake of aesthetics.

When applied correctly, all the term really means is thoughtful, research based surfacing of features, taking into account target audiences and the way features relate to each other. It’s why you don’t just dump all your features into the main window of your program, turning it into a Great Wall of Buttons. Thoughtfulness is increasingly uncommon though, UI design has more and more been treated as generic visual design instead.
The DMC DeLorean: An Iconic Powerful American Time Machine in 2023 ?
I am not sure robots being tasked with intervening in situations with potentially violent persons is such a bad thing. a robot does not need to fear loss of life, it seems like this will be a good thing for discouraging the use of deadly force
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Probably the same reason they used postgres instead of MySQL.
> "Smalltalk and coffee breaks can be exhausting for introverts."

Exhausting or not, introverts need to network _more_ than the average person. Not having built up a personal network by the later stages of their career will leave them high and dry in an industry downturn.

Yeah, yeah, "my work speaks for itself" is true in theory but, given an equal work record, even an introvert is going to favor the co-workers they personally like more.
From what I’ve understood in NL, the limit is on all employers simultaneously. So if you work two jobs, even if each job is within the limits, if both jobs together exceed the limits, both employers are liable.

> Under the Arbeidstijdenwet (Law on Working Hours), you must inform all your employers about your working hours. Your employer is liable for contraventions of the Arbeidstijdenwet. If you contravene, your employer may be fined. Even if he is not aware of your second job. [1]

Curiously though, it appears there are a number of cases in which the law doesn’t apply: for employees who earn 3x minimum wage or more, professional sporters, researchers, theatrical professionals, medical professionals, military personnel, summer camp guides, and volunteers. [2]

Disclaimer: not a lawyer.

[1] translated from https://www.arag.nl/werk-en-inkomen/arbeidscontract/twee-ban...

[2] https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/werktijden/vraag-en...
There are already two tunnels underneath Baltimore Harbor. When they built the Key Bridge, they didn’t have the money to build another tunnel.
True, I think I would agree with most of this sentiment. Unfortunately I'm not doing many of these things and am still using my skincare products.

Perhaps we should be surfacing opinions like this beyond just products.
If only you could prosecute people in adversarial countries for a felony, lol.
Forgive me if my comment comes across as snarky, but why would HTMX not be suitable for projects at work? And what characteristic makes a tool only suitable for side-projects?

I absolutely use HTMX at work, but then I do not work at a large corporation with tons of users. Likewise someone working at a large company would never touch HTMX for new projects in anticipation of some kind of roadblock that they may stumble across.

Edit: I do not think there is anything you should wait for to happen as if the community one day settles on HTMX and its concepts being "the right way to go". Just use it for your projects if you feel like it suits the problem and enjoy!
Yeah the condition is irrelevant there, bad photo/timing for this article. Just trying to drum up fear.
Yep that's one way
Ctrl+Shift+F and "search all of the following" with multiple filter lines returns me what I need most of the times. It required switching my workflow though, yeah, the Google's fuzzy email search is really good.
Yeah, that is hypocritical. He should be congruent in his views and in any ambiguity in content disfavoring him he should lean towards giving benefit of the doubt to prove lack of bias. Although in this case there didn't seem to be any ambiguity, he should have not banned the account.
I found the report card from the structural engineers much more interesting than the article itself, but I'm glad the article was posted because I wouldn't have know about it otherwise.

https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/bridges-infras...

If I have a thought about this, it's that so much depends on what it means to be labeled "poor". My first assumption is that that means "about to fall down", but that's not necessarily the case.

The report also has this paragraph:

> Encouragingly, as of 2019, just one in 13, or 7.5%2 of highway bridges were designated structurally deficient, or poor, representing a significant improvement from 12.1% recorded a decade ago. Also encouraging is that the total percentage of bridge deck area that is classified as structurally deficient, or poor, has decreased over the past several years, totaling just 5.5% in 2019, compared to 6.3% in 2016.

... which is much less troubling than the headline. My takeaway is that things have actually improved quite rapidly, given the type of work and the speed of government.

As one might cynically presuppose from an organization of professional engineers releasing a report card on bridges, the recommendation turns out to be "we sure do need to spend a lot more money on bridge engineering". That doesn't mean it's not the case, I'm sure it is, but I wonder what it would take for them to release a report concluding that everything is great, and you could actually give us less money if it would help balance the ol' checkbook.
That MR is not part of any released version of systemd. That is simply to verify: there has been no new systemd release.

So much for the "facts".

As for trolling: just look at the usual contributions from your community like https://twitter.com/DevuanOrg/status/1619013961629995008 Excellent work with the ad-hominem attacks there.
There’s zero chance he couldn’t have shut it down. Military installation. C in C. He could have found a way and it wouldn’t even have taken much effort. He just wanted the political cover of consent from congress and chickened out when he couldn’t get it.
Knowing Louis Rossmann's history with NYC, even their non-AI employees can't give any binding or actual advice... So I would expect them just to fine everyone even if they themselves gave wrong information.
AI insecurity
I admire the idea of hubmotors as well, but once mentioned them to a car engineer, who basically said "think about unsprung weight".

Which, now that I think of it again, is a bit silly because most EV mass is battery, not motor.
I completely agree. It has those power-user vibes that many modern software lacks.
I noticed in the last few years that The Altantic's front page was almost constant negativity, fear-mongering, click-bait. Surely there is much bad going on in the world but I just couldn't handle their style. So I cut it completely out of my news. I wonder if it was tied to this.

For similar perspectives but more even coverage I've been preferring The Nation, New Republic, and, to a lesser degree, Jacobin.
The article motivates RCU and then does a u-turn and starts making a general argument for general-purpose GC. Not quite a trojan horse but a bit whiplash provoking.
It was always my opinion that Github's killer feature was putting repositories under user namespaces. Its hard to imagine but before Github you had to ask SourceForge politely if you could have a given project name. Just the ability to make your own projects without needing to ask anyone seems so obvious now, but really was a game changer at the time. This is also then deeply tied to the idea that forking repositories should be easy.

I'm glad to see that the article includes this in their history.
A big contributor to the popularity of flat design is how non-designers could make reasonably ok looking stuff with it, whereas more graphically rich style unavoidably requires the work of a skilled graphics artist (which a few developers happen to also be, but the number of people who are good at both is small).
Okay, I'll bite.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smear

Noun: "a usually unsubstantiated charge or accusation against a person or organization—often used attributively"

Verb: "to vilify especially by secretly and maliciously spreading grave charges and imputations"

Don't see a definition that "requires" the accusations are literally false. Maybe you're using a different dictionary?
It's easier to manage 1 database instead of 1000s
Tesla engineers don't have engineering degrees or even common sense apparently
The majority of unionized workers in the united states are government employees. The union protects the incompetent, shields them from responsibilities, and argues against the public interest. Public sector unions are corruption and a plot against the citizenry.
So, it's been almost 24 hours since I read this yesterday. Is it confirmed that Jia Tan is the perpetrator? do we know who he/she really is? Or are we going to live for the rest of our lives only knowing the pseudo name? just like Satoshi Nakamoto did to us. ;)
I did a presentation last year with a couple slides on experience reports:

https://fermigier.com/slides/2023-htmx-OSXP/#30

I will probably have more stories to tell later this year.
That a damaging «process had gone on for millennia» is not grounds for protracting it.
They are never inferior to existing ones in all respects for one very obvious reason: allergies.

If you’re allergic to drug A but not drug B, it doesn’t matter how much better A is than B. You need drug B.

All drugs have the potential to cause allergic reactions or other nasty side effects so unless a drug is too dangerous on its own, it should be allowed. It’s absolutely critical to deal with biochemical diversity in humans.
It's probably for people like me who only need to build a web frontend 1-2 times per year.
A great list! I'll have to keep this in mind for my projects. I think I have most of these covered, but a more definitive list is always welcome :)
Probably because product placement is tacky, and if you're not even getting paid for it then why would you do it?
I'm a machine learning engineer, will AI take my job?
> I'm trying to understand why the characters in Dune fought with swords, pikes and knives.

Because the slow blade penetrates the shield. (And personal shields are omnipresent)
Microorganisms need certain conditions to work. Wood furniture can last indefinitely as long as it’s not wet.
Jacob Linzbach's universal writing system (1916)
Because not talking to users and then implementing a drastic change they don’t like sounds like a rookie move? Although, as I kind of allude to, I also place a lot of blame on management: Employees will make mistakes. Big ones. That’s life. A company needs to be structured so there are checks before those mistakes go out into the wild.

But, yes: Senior designers can also make mistakes. I’d argue they make less glaringly obvious mistakes, but humans will human.
We're working with dumps of Reddit data, which means we don't have to use their API or do any scraping on Reddit itself for now. The data is updated monthly though, so we'll have figure out how to get higher quality data for things that are more time sensitive. We're in contact with the folks at Reddit, so we'll try to see if there are ways to get better data later on.
They are probably getting confused.

Jia had a zstd fork on github, but when things kicked off, it appears they may have sanitized the fork.
Agreed. “Google is good and Microsoft is evil” is a take from two decades ago.
Based on the way consumers have behaved over my 30-odd years of life, I seriously doubt they will care enough about the fates of voice actors, developers or any other folks who are mistreated or discarded in the project of creating yet another Call of Duty iteration. We're an atomized society thats being trained all day every day to just purchase things, consequences be damned. I want to believe you are right but I suspect you are not. I suspect you are coping and to be honest, I want to do that too.
sorry, why would low-end torque be important?