skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>not the way plate tectonics are taught

There's more ways of learning now. Things I found interesting but taught fairly dryly, with even drier textbooks for self learning, I can now engage properly by watchign lectures/ listening at 2x speed. Find communities that meme about plate tectonics that makes me want to explore further etc.
Metricly is a SaaS-based solution that helps you reduce your public cloud costs
IMO, Google Reader was an important part of RSS and that killing it injured the ecosystem.
Nicely put. I also spent decades in the SW industry, tried about a dozen things, but chose to stay out of management. For me, business and engineering are two completely different areas, often conflicting, and my training is extensively in math and engineering. Trying to do both ends up with mediocrity almost certainly.
oops, I was reading the "contingent things must be dependent upon necessary things" as implying modality, but you're right that if it's there it's only implicit.
> I'm saying their bar is BS. You're not going to convince me they can meaningfully evaluate tens of thousands of apps.

That just depends on how you define "meaningfully evaluate". That definition makes it feasible or not, I think. Companies perform some level of evaluation at scale on hiring, and it's not perfect, but it's not bad, I think.
I work in an org with 5 layers of management.
I do think CEO and top management have good strategies and big picture thinking etc.
It is the bottom two layers where is see the biggest issues and challenges.
We are not a software company but as an engineering/technology company most of our work happens in systems and software. Lowest level management needs to know, really know the software and concept to support workers. Else it is just smooth talking and buzz words.
Well, we have to account for the fact that modern system simply don't require that much optimization and compression. Working with stricter limits meant that dev teams had to get creative and minimize file size, while nowadays a single game update can be around 20 GB.
Your recollection matches mine. I think I might have had Yggdrasil installed on my home PC for doing after hours support on Solaris machines, but back then if I could have afforded a sparc workstation I would have bought one in a heartbeat.

Company owned Unices still dominated the landscape in 1994
Also it was recently figured out that using the SNES's mosaic feature in an unconventional way could have nearly doubled the game's framerate.
It was common when you had a stay-at-home parent who did fresh shopping in the day then cooked a meal later for when their spouse (husband) came in just before 6pm (6.30 if he'd stopped off for a pint on the way home)

Not so common when people get in from picking the kids up from daycare at 7.30pm and have to be up and out by 7am the next morning.

Longer commutes, less time at home, and all that extra income has gone into housing and childcare costs. Yeay.
Why Is Creativity Important?
Really cool demo!
This is very cool but not infinite which is understandable because specific things is used.
Wasn't there yesterday!

[edit: also still kinda broken though because Southport, Blackpool, Burnley, Grimsby etc. all appear before Manchester which makes no sense.]
I have the feeling that we have now so much more music than ever before, the speed people diverse into their unique directions will happen faster than before.

When kids can already listen to everything through smartphones, there is less and less need to listen to one of the few radio stations playing the same everytime.

MTV is dead for a while as well. So YT and co.

Alone platform diversity is high
TextCMS open source rich text delivery system
We're not there with authentication yet (although I've no problem with Kerberos myself).
Bitnami Helm Charts are Now More Secure Than Ever
Why is this a knob and not a scroll wheel.

Protip, there's $10 "VR" controllers thats basically an analogue stick with a ring finger hole that does this already, in more ergonic way.
Living in country where you add bar code to items like that yourself when you pick them up, these problems always feel strange. As with produce you have a sign of price and number there. You put items in plastic bag or not, then go to scale put item there and press button. Prints out barcode. Solves the whole remembering which item thing.

For multiple items, there is separate bar code on larger packaging. Ofc, this does not solve the issue of some large number of individual items...
I agree with you. That's why I replied to a person that said they get paid below average as 1) they get paid around average as you say, and 2) they have a bunch of additional job perks that make it harder to calculate exactly.

The bureau of labor statistics is clear about the fact they are not paid less than average. Elementary and High school teachers make $73,890 mean wage compared to $65,470 for "all occupations":

1. https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/featured_data.htm#largest2

2. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes252031.htm

You can make this more complex and say that people with equivalent training get paid more, and they do, but then they don't have the perks I mentioned, like huge vacations, having the pleasure of teaching (there's a reason so many people want to teach and supply of teachers doesn't dwindle), pension after you retire, healthcare, and so on.
Wow, Justin, cheers.

It looks like the first version was available ~ mid November 2005 (via https://secretgeek.net/snapper_wins) and available from the TimeSnapper.com domain from ~ November 28 2005. (https://secretgeek.net/TimeSnapper_ready_at_last)

So you got in very early!

The professional version was a year or two later.

cheers
> Some people in the BSD world are adamant that their code should not be contaminated by the GPL

Yes, and? They want people to be able to use their code freely, without limitations. Check golang packages, they are mostly BSD/MIT.

Thats why BSD is in Playstation and Macs. You think there would be linux GPLed code? There is a usecase for everything and linux doesnt cover them all.
I would guess the single mistake was that it was accidentality scanned as having being picked up, but wasn't actually picked up, it just sat on a shelf for a few hours.

After the rush calmed down people started saying "hang on, what's this pizza doing here", then they made a new one and delivered it.

Of course the correct thing to do is issue an apology and refund with the replacement.
> The chapter on file systems is mostly no longer relevant (some file systems do still suck, but the defaults are pretty solid now)

Really? Afaik filesystems still do `rm` immediately and with no recourse. GUIs on top like Finder and Explorer do something more sane though, but that doesn't save us terminal users.

POSIX shell expansion is just as crazy as it has ever been too.

Those are the two gigantic foot guns I can recall from memory from having read this 20 years ago.
As others have mentioned, this resonates well. But for me, not only biology. Looking back, I wish my history teacher had done something similar; taken me by the shoulders and shook me until I really understood what we were learning. Instead, major events in our history ended up being "memorize yet another date" rather than us understanding the impact these events had on us or our parents/grandparents.
Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe
The article author has valid complaints about SPAs and the devs only focus on how easy it is for them.
Super depressing as a happy Metro bank customer, although I only use their mobile app. Which isn’t amazing. All I can say now is how quickly can I switch accounts?
* Understands what every person on their team is doing

* Coordinates actions between team members

* Actively removes things blocking their team

* Navigates the organizational bureaucracy for their team

* Technical enough to pitch in when things are running smoothly

* Personal enough relationship that you can be honest
Reminds me of the clouds from Vivarium
The brothels bit is oddly specific, but it's worth mentioning consuming prostitution in many European countries (including some of those with top wages) is illegal.
2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272975 (28 comments)
>> Some people in the BSD world are adamant that their code should not be contaminated by the GPL

> Yes, and?

And? Nothing. I'm making an observation, I'm not judging here. They have a strong stance on this, often because they deeply thought about the consequences. I don't agree with them, and I don't care for helping Apple and Sony make their proprietary products, I think we'd probably be in a better world if they participated in improving the commons and that's actually how Linux succeeds, but I respect this stance when it's well thought out.
todsacerdoti is a spambot btw
Well, "their assumed identities are a weapon" is precisely my case, and I don't even argue that G.I. identification is actually that great of a solution.

The con tricks are as old as humanity, even if they take different forms in different eras, but the ground problem is the same: if someone approcaches you and claims to be e.g. an important noble named such and such from the overseas, they could very well be telling truth—or they could be lying, and there is almost no way to tell for certain, even though there are some good heuristics (their wealth is one, as you allude to).
How did it?
Yes, I was purposely playing with the trivial definitions of maximal and minimal (max{x} = min{x} = x) to draw out an analogy with the modern concept of Galois Connections.

> there's nothing else he can do.

Right, and I thought Aquinas' take was that he must be capable of doing otherwise, but doesn't.

> we can only perceive things with respect to two attributes

Aha, so this universe uses all (are they countable?) attributes, but we imperfect finite creatures only perceive thought and extension; angels might perceive three, or a dozen, or all the attributes? (which would make sense: Samuel Johnson can both think of a rock and perceive its extension of mass in space, but the rock, while it might "perceive" the extension of Johnson's foot in space does not think of Johnson. So a creature beyond us as we are beyond the rock might have metathought? "be not afraid" indeed!)
I for one miss this type of humour. It is dead. Mailing list humour is dead. Chain mail humour is dead.

The book is a 200 page rant. Like, it is beutuful that someone can care so much.
Have you managed to get out of Somalia? Or was it a favella in Rio?
Back when Python was winning over the AI crowd, they did the same thing as Ruby, if you didn't remember to call some voodoo chants "from future import ..."
together with "I'm only traveling" and appearing on some YT video on roadstops with predictable but hilarious consequences
The ratings actually mean: 5 stars = OK, 1-4 stars = bad.

Yes, it's a bad system.
These estimates are really approximate and depend on the exchange rate. The lowest rate of NOK/USD on my memory was 5.6 and the highest nearly 12.

Developer salaries in Norway are decent as Europe goes but if you want to make money hand over fist there's no other place like America. Yes even with all the old world perks imaginable.
AI programming tools should be added to the Joel Test
They Can Be You
If a language clearly states in the FM that something "criminal", in the words of your parent comment, is known to be criminal but they leave it as it is without any clear reason behind it (even recognizing it as a past error they have to carry for backward compatibility), the junior has all the right to think the language is criminal and is against them.

In the extreme case, take something like brainfuck. Everything is in the RTFM, but that doesn't make the language less criminal.

I like to remember that we are not here to program for the sake of programming. We are mainly solving problems. I have a problem that I know I need to solve with "a gun", and maybe I'm a novice to gun usage. After having a look at some guns, I choose the one who seems to be less dangerous and have a friendlier and more intuitive usage. When your very powerful but a deathtrap with 1000 page manual of a gun is used by no one, don't complain with "why you don't use my powerful and clearly better gun!?".

Because the key here is that this is not the 1970's anymore, when all guns were complicated. Learning by doing is the best way to learn, way better than learning by reading (https://thepeakperformancecenter.com/educational-learning/le...). If a language requires me to RTFM is at a big disadvantage with any other language that allows me to easily learn by doing.
Any ID system that isn't just totally run be each individual themselves is ceding power to someone.

Whether you need an ID to do certain things or are tracked doing certain things is also a very separate issue.

What is stopping "them" is that "them" in liberal democracies (as a technical term) isn't free to do whatever they please nor beyond control/recall/etc. If you want to live in a society, there will be rules, implicit or explicit, on how people interact, delegate, etc.
There is no reason at all to assume that the blog post was put in place to put google reader in a better light.

And the original comment is weird anyway. Google had billions of views with and without google reader.

The normal person doesn't use a RSS Reader at all. Even in my nerdy / tech group not everyone uses one.

Feedly apparently hast 15 million users across the world.
> The world is very little "don't care, whatever", things have consequences and maybe you care about some of them. Surely you deeply care about some things? (of course there's no bad answer, you can answer no)

Yes I care very much about people making their own decisions in their own lives (e.g. LGBT, abortion etc) and with ever more restrictive laws (even here in Europe) I kinda just have given up on the law in general. I just shrug at it while the extreme-right tries to curtail our rights (in my country a quarter of people voted extreme-right in our last election). I just don't think legalese is the way to protect this. It's not working anyway.

Also I'm just totally not a 'team player' so I don't care about loyalty to a party, group or country.

> I myself think the GPL is the better option in most cases, because I care that the end users' freedom is guaranteed. I pretty much don't want developers to do "whatever they want" with my work, I want them to respect their own users' freedom. This is highly political/philosophical of course.

I don't think the GPL is very good at this. The BSD license is seen as more friendly to business but in practice it gives users more freedom. Especially because the GPL protects the rights of all contributors including corporate ones, the corporate market loves GPL much more and thus is more involved. Which always comes with more strings attached. I view GPL more as protection of the authors, not the end users.

The few times serious tinkering was done by commercial entities in BSD it was basically a huge disaster: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice...
The file sizes given by the site are wrong. Super Mario World is 512KB, or 508KB if you discard the padding at the end. Only compressing it to ZIP format gives you a file size around 360KB.
Also not every task requires deep thought. If you are writing some CRUD, it is usually not going to be all that much thinking, but more touching the keyboard.
“What they missed was the after action surveillance and analysis.”

So you agree with the parent, you just don’t think Tesla was “unprofessional”. You can split hairs all you want over what specific process or check or diagnostic or paperwork did or didn’t get done. It doesn’t change the outcome — shipping 4K super expensive cars to long suffering customers to only almost immediately have a serious safety recall? That’s unprofessional.

Tesla should have been going over these with a fine-tooth comb! This is the first iteration of an entirely new vehicle platform for the company, its first time working with steel for body panels, its first time* implementing steer by wire tech, etc etc. why isn’t every single one of these first few thousand heavily scrutinized? Insane.
Tom Scott videos

Inter-building tubes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMTZvA8iFgI

Food by tube in a cafe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTHZLKFblKo
There's too much focus on the "what we know" like Kreb's cycle, which is easily examinable. The focus should actually be "how we found out", something like what the book A Brief History of Everything traces out. Things like "we used isotopes with different masses to figure out this thing about phosphorous in DNA".

In general, the "what" makes no sense without the history. Why were we searching for DNA in the mid 20th century? What did we already know? Retracing science as an investigation would be much more beneficial to kids than making them remember the conclusions. It's much more portable as a skill to understand the path of investigation than some facts about organelles that they aren't likely to use.

But the real reason I dropped biology when the choice came (and why did it come, dear IB organisation?) is that biology is not seen as the smart kid subject, when compared to physics and chemistry. Part if this is that you can grind your way through memorizing the biochemical cycles, probably easier for most than learning calculus that you need for physics. But part of it is simply reputation, and it's not reasonable.

I have a friend who is a postdoc stats guy in the biology field. There's actually a deep need for numeracy in biology, people just don't seem to know it when they're in school.
Awesome! But how about private browser windows?
It’s a reference to Weber.
I wasn't able to run Nextcloud without Docker (to save compute power on a tiny VPS), there were so many setup issues that I've run into, and the docs were terrible (undocumented folder permissions, no proper nginx configs). As an alternative, I use Google Drive through rclone drive mount (there was also their own drive mounter, which is dead now, I think), works fine, but it's not fast, and kinda pricy for my 1.5TB.
Coca Cola actually made a reduced calorie with half the sugar content. It was called Coca Cola Life. It tasted less sweet obviously but not something I would notice if I didn't pour the drink myself.
Some of the Puzzle Team's puzzle work ok-ish in a web-browser on mobile. (You can pay them a dollar a month to remove the ads.)
I made 245k USD before taxes in the EU last year self employed. Most people I know cannot believe how much money I made. To make that money you don’t just need to be an average leet Code drone but negotiate great contracts on your projects and take on and manage a lot of risk.

What I am saying is: the math definitely doesn’t check out because apparently someone in my position would be doing 3x in the US
bring it on the more the merrier in any endeavor to build the ultimate mousetrap.
Now we just need a name for our humanity which will reverse our species suicidal and violent tendencies.
Any chance for a tldr?

I can’t read article because of paywall.

I’m genuinely interested as I am part of expanding the thermal energy network (district heating) in Denmark. A technology we have been exporting for quite many years - later years also for cooling.
Horus: An OSINT / digital forensics tool built in Python (formerly 'Sentinel')
Literally almost all of them.
Maybe the US is just particularly broken? It is not like countries with robust, state-run ID systems are all some sort of dictatorial or even data hellscape.
Address Sanitizer for Bare-Metal Firmware
Show HN: PodBear – A Podcast Search Engine
Hi all,

a few weeks ago I found myself in a situation without anything interesting to listen to. Been through all podcast recommendations from friends and the usual recos from itunes, etc were not cutting it for me. So I build myself a podcast search engine. Based on the data from podcastindex.org and some other available infos.

It doesnt (yet) have all available podcasts, only the ones I could find some rating/engagement infos on. But its still around 60k podcasts to discover :)

One can search / filter / sort by category, rating, popularity, episodes, language, update date, etc. There is also a very simple full text search that searches through title, description, author, etc.

Would love to hear what everybody is thinking! All feedback is welcome!

Tech: Postgres + PostgREST backend, Sveltekit frontend.

Disclaimer: its still a bit hack-ish currently, so I fully expect things to break somehow :) just post me a note about it

Here you go: https://podbear.netlify.app/
Almost as creepy as https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/po...
> it's criminal that you can write 1/2 and get values nowhere near one-half

This is a foolish argument and Guy Steele should know better. What makes 1/2, which has an accurate floating point representation, any more important than 1/10, which doesn't? Every novice programmer, every single one, trips over floating point, and pretending that floating point numbers match our intuition from mathematics doesn't do anyone any favors.
> Linux distro packages are no longer easiest or best way to get working software.

Debian explicitly ships free software. They make no apologies for the impact on functionality if software authors depend on non-free elements, for software that they package. This has always been true, and is always a source of complaint from people who prioritise functionality over freedom.
It depends on the type of company I think.

There's a big difference between for e.g. Twitter where ultimately you have thousands of people working on a single product, and a conglomerate like Siemens or GE where you have very different, almost totally independent, business units doing totally different things.
Literally who asked for this.

"You are identified as a non-authorized CCTV," You never asked my permission to film me the Human is heard shouting at the CCTV camera taking photos of him. "You have five seconds to stop recording me."

The human took out his splatter ball gun, set it to auto, and proceeded to blast the alien interlocutor until it was dead.

Why doesn't someone invent something that protects us from this bollocks?

last line of the piece:

Most importantly, however, we're dying to know: who the hell asked for this?
The population of Denmark is equal to that of Wisconsin. If we look at Denmark simply because it's among the richest EU countries, it might be more appropriate to compare it with the richest US states. Taking the top 5 state (California), we get $100k vs $68k (nominal), again ca 50%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
And for most Americans who own publicly traded stock, the income that is derived from it is supplemental, not primary.

You're not really a full-on capitalist unless you can stop working and still have sufficient income derived from economic rent collected from somebody else who is working to sustain you in perpetuity.
Nextcloud seems to me like an incredibly bloated mess. I had high hopes for it, genuinely really wanted it to work.
Oblig: https://xkcd.com/977/
That doesn't make Boeing a car company.
Agree with you, active listening and observing people has improved my vocabulary and articulation.
This never worked like this in the history of mankind, but who will forbid very rich people to try that out.
Trying Codeium was like the difference between notepad and an IDE.

Unfortunately, it overheats my laptop so I can't actually use it, and I primarily do support, I don't program enough at my job to justify paying for copilot.

If the CPU use was lower, I don't see why I'd ever go without.