skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s just a personality game. Consider who these abstractions appeal to by the phrases people utter most:

* something about reinventing wheels

* easier

* mvp in 30ms

To me it’s always sounded like whiny bullshit. How do you get your MVP up fast? You build a starter template and then copy/paste from it. How do you make it easier? You avoid the bad practices. How do you avoid reinventing wheels? You build libraries.

These giant abstractions are created to appeal to people who are emotionally insecure about how to proceed. If you want to create the next big super framework that’s both your premise and your audience. This was the exact original sales pitch for Angular, btw.
I'm sure the executives at Chase or JP Morgan struggle to wipe the tears of loss from their eyes with 100 dollar bills once you default on a loan their underlings made to you.

The very purpose of even smaller banks is to spread risk across multiple loans and investments in such a way that a client's bankruptcy doesn't ruin them at all. Given the interest rates they charge on certain financial services, they seem to have no problem not going under themselves in most cases.
since the original article is in Czech and the event happened in Czechia, it's gonna be billions of Czech Crowns. 1 billion CZK is approximately 40 million EUR.
They grew CaF2 crystals with a small amount of thorium, which take the place of some of the Ca atoms in the crystal lattice. There’s an illustration in fig 1 of the preprint of what the substitutional defects look like

Like the other poster mentions, CaF2 is an ionic crystal, but I don’t think that’s an important detail because you wouldn’t expect a nuclear transition to be affected by the bonding state of the electrons. My guess is it’s just a convenient way to get a very dilute collection of thorium atoms without using an ion trap
Unleashing Resilience: A Guide to Chaos Engineering in Serverless Architectures
NOT WORTH THE READ.

All the posts that appeared recently on Nix have the same vague, over-politicized language where they are complaining that the person with most potential as a dictator is not one and they want more power to make decision in behalf of nixos.

I feel for Dolstra, pain in the ....
> “I would like them to fix the computer as my poor daughter had to carry all our luggage and apparel almost a mile from one gate to the other,”

Took a while to hit me : the daughter is most-likely nearing 80 herself !
I suspect the average football field size across the former British Empire is close to the FIFA standard.

Throw in Australian Rules Football fields if you're looking for a maximum, particularly if orginal marn-grook is in the mix.
I didn’t know evilmadscientist was acquired.
that's not what you're observing, you just saw a headline about how after a decade they are saying it publically.
> The whole thing was written in perl 4 style OO Perl

What does that mean? Perl's basic OO support (using blessed hash references) was introduced with Perl 5 in 1994. I have no idea how anyone would even attempt writing OO code in Perl 4.
The Lindy effect assumes you have no other information about the thing you're estimating. Obviously if I know the thing is on its deathbed, I can't invoke the Lindy effect. Similarly, a hundred-year-old language one person uses any more isn't likely to last another hundred years.

Given the relative sizes, I wouldn't bet on Common Lisp outlasting Java just because it's older.
One faction wants to apply their values onto the project; another faction wants to apply or keep their respective values, which includes making money, and supports these values by claiming they are neutral or universal.
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The Czech Republic didn't join the Euro, so you'd need to divide the number by about 25 to get Euros or Dollars.
You think taking a military advertisement is value neutral?

It's truly a mirror of the culture war you see in other parts of society where people declare things they like value neutral and things they don't like a war on culture.
Global locales were a mistake in general, not just the encoding part. printf("%f", 4.2) should not magically output different strings depending on the environment, that just causes more problems than it solves. Instead you should have to explicitly pass the local information (or relevant parts of it) to functions that you want to make locale-dependent.
This is already built into the system though and you can refresh your PESEL in those cases and invalidate the previous one. Which, for handling rare edge cases isn't a bad solution really.
Seriously. How do you write an entire post and not pin down one single person, place, thing, opinion, etc?

The only conclusion I can draw, as to why an author would choose to write only in generalities, is that any concrete facts or statements would be weaker under scrutiny, or less well received, than the uneasy benefit of the doubt that we extend someone making vague, unfalsifiable claims.
Right, that explains it. The post is really lacking when it comes to concrete examples of what is going on.

"The ad-hoc structure of maintainers here better represent the goals of Nix users and their methods of success. Yet, these contributors are beginning to flee."

It also makes the claim above, is there any truth to that? Is there evidence of contributors fleeing, and if so where? What is stopping them from forking the project?
The majority of the tech industry is part of the military industrial complex. It's a shame more don't realize that.
I'm confused why the slight inconvenience of having to check in when you arrive at the airport is a "threat to our safety nowadays" and "the whole industry needs a reset".
Yeah it is amazing to not only be mobile but coherent. I've seen people much younger (70s) not able to get around or even understand you or having trouble communicating. Some people here go into an old age home in their 50s.

My own grandmother was dead by age 64 of a stroke, her husband (my grandfather) died age 52 of emphysema. My other grandparents were in an old age home by their 60s died at ages 85 and 92. My mom is 80 and pretty mobile buys groceries but has bad hearing but won't get hearing aids. My Dad died at age 78 of IPF a lung disease after a 20 year battle.

Since my Dad died I'm amazed at elderly who walking around no glasses, no mobility issues. Then again some elderly I knew looked good but had many problems they just didn't complain of their ills, then one day their died in their sleep (a few did like that).
This is where I slip in my recommendation of the little book titled Votan, by John James.
Certainly only tourists /s
I've been round and vouched for their comments in this thread. Not quite sure what's happened moderation wise, but almost all their comments for the past few months are on the war, which are dead, except for a couple on other subjects which are not dead. I wonder if there's a flagging ring going on.
Invade Kaliningrad.
If the banks gave cheap credit to businesses without any collateral or any real liability, they would quickly go out of business because of people taking advantage of them. Credit without collateral is available (e.g. credit cards), but it’s not cheap, and it’s limited in size.
+ moving all FKs and constraints, both operations add a new level complexity to make them live when the db is online up and running
The value neutral position is Eelco's: To let event organizers choose. It is them that tries to fund the conference, let them make the call.
Companies here might not be making fang money but they are underpaying. You have to push harder and people here tend not to do that here. Most I know value their free time above everything and so they want easy ok paying work, not millions while working their asses off. If they don’t appear in the office or take an ad hoc vacation they don’t want to be yelled at. Personally I have almost always made fang+ money as developer (since the early 90s) in Europe. I am good at what I do but I also have a big mouth and I mesh well with c levels; we become friends usually. Unfair for my colleagues but it’s not like don’t tell them to speak up and bluff; they don’t want to mostly because they think it encroaches on their freedom (not sure if it does; in my company it doesn’t; just less shares).
You can't follow the russian disinformation playbook without the good old Whataboutism (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism)
Despite the weirdly aggressive (defensive?) intro, this is effectively blogspam for the article it claims to be responding to, apart from disagreement on whether a beige home computer was cool or not it hits the same nostalgia momentsbfor people of a certain age.

It too sang the praises of Sensible Soccer and is effectively an advert for the new mini Amiga release.
Super curious what data this is, can you share a bit more of your use case for this much vector data?
I see a lot of cool tools in the broadly defined dev space written in Rust. Best ad for Rust.
I'm not sure there's something new since this was announced in 2021.
On the CH32V003, a load should be two cycles if the code is executed from SRAM, there are additional wait states for load from flash. The V2A does only cache a single 32 bit instruction word, so there is basically no cache.

This publication seems to describe more details on the arduino implementation:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02953

It appears that the code is even using floats in some implementations, which have to be emulated. So I'd wager that both on algorithmic level (QAT-NN) and implementation level there are some discrepancies that lead to better performance on the CH32V003.
Except that they don't have to source that currency from somewhere - it really is literally magicked up out of thin air! When you come to spend it, that amount is transferred to another bank, that they can then offset against their own magic money.

The only relationship with deposits (which are actually liabilities) and assets is that enforced by regulators.

This is how money creation works in the modern economy - so the money supply can grow as economic activity increases, all guided by central banks / governments with levers such as interest rates, open market activities (QE), and regulations.

Again - banks really do create money from nothing, all day, every day.
It is a fair point that there isn't necessarily actually anything important going on.

The onus should be on the article to convince people that something is happening and what it is. Where there's smoke, there may just be someone blowing smoke.
Well, if you take an enemy nuclear strike as given, then yes, I guess it does? But the general consensus is that nuclear bombs hitting your country at all is bad and most strategists try and optimise to avoid it happening altogether, rather than assume it's going to happen and try to make it less unpleasant.

It's fairly clear that the optimal thing to do once your enemy has launched a single nuke at you is surrender unconditionally rather than retaliate, but we would probably not prefer to live in a world where launching nukes was seen as a good way to win a negotiation, so we try our best to discourage it.
Surely you mean Krolewiec!
Do you think there's any danger in handing over absolute power to whomever just claims to have a superior morality? Has that happened before in history and what has the consequences been?

Didn't Andruil get sent of after a while anyway?

Why don't the do-gooders just fork Nix and do EthicalNix or whatever, and lead by example instead of trying to take over the existing structure, wouldn't that be more in line with open source ethics, and you know common courtesy? Maybe drop github and Microsoft due to ethical principles while they're at it?
My happiest time is when I start seeing code all day and in my dreams. I still have that after 40 years of coding if people don’t bother me and it makes me very happy. So for the coming 4 months everything is shut down for my new project. Only way I found to shut off both external and internal interruptions.
Maybe we need another PEP that switches the default to WTF-8 [0] aka UTF-8 but let's ignore that a chunk of code points was reserved as surrogates and just encode them like any other code point.

[0] https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
Maybe you should contact the Czech secret service and let them know about your groundbreaking investigation ;)
What harm does Microsoft do? I think on net the world is better with it.
And we just improved the waiting time by about 1000 years, by adding flux to the list of supported projects. But sarcasm aside, yes this is a bit of criticism of the c++ ecosystem that moves a bit too slow. Many libraries pride themselves with only using c++11/14.
Do Polish passports encode gender? I'd expect passports to encode biological sex.
The "why" in the title was important to keep, in my opinion.
Psychological Warfare (1954)
From Chapter 1:

“Psychological warfare, by the nature of its instruments and its mission, begins long before the declaration of war. Psychological warfare continues after overt hostilities have stopped. The enemy often avoids identifying himself in psychological warfare; much of the time, he is disguised as the voice of home, of God, of the church, of the friendly press. Offensively, the psychological warfare operator must fight antagonists who never answer back—the enemy audience. He cannot fight the one enemy who is in plain sight, the hostile psychological warfare operator, because the hostile operator is greedily receptive to attack. Neither success nor defeat are measurable factors. Psychological strategy is planned along the edge of nightmare.”

The author, Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, also wrote science fiction under the penname Cordwainer Smith. I learned about him and this book from a recent article in the Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/science-fi...
Pre–internet, depending on the size of the store and retail chain, your cash registers might tie to a local small system which in turn talked to a central mainframe (IBM, Dec, Unisys, etc) using APPC over SNA, or TCP/IP, or Decnet, or whatever Unisys used. Leased lines were not particularly fast, but did not need to be, you’re talking less than a megabyte of data at most per day.
If it's not [flagged], there's no flagging and hence also no flagging ring. baybal2 has been banned on and off for years now https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Anduril specializes in counter-drone warfare and collaborative intelligence. They are not bombing civilians on the other side of the world.
This article is essentially a damaging self-fulfilling prophecy camouflaging as analysis. The world is full of turnarounds, and stories where "mistakes" turn out to be happy accidents: "maybe so, maybe not."
Nice! I shall give it a try. Looks like a very developer oriented tool.
I think it's still a tricky question. What should you do when there's this kind of dilemma and it pisses off a vocal minority in your community? I guess that's where the question of leadership comes up but I don't know what I would do either.
Yes, I would. There is a law of diminishing returns for all technical and scientific inquiry.
I made my own keyboard, and came to the same realization regarding special keys. Now the parentheses are on my shift keys (press the left shift for opening parenthesis, right shift for closing parenthesis), and the brackets (square and curly) are tab+hjkl. That's much more convenient than hunting around with my pinky, and I don't have to press a button multiple times to switch in and out of a layer.
You're suffering from ChatGPT Derangement Syndrome.
Oh, the way people sometimes talk about it, I really thought it must be some amazing feeling, and I'd definitely know if I'd experienced it! I'm slightly disappointed now.
Thanks, looking forward to your answers
Internet archive started making their own crawls in late 1996. I believe the oldest captures in the wayback machine are from data donated by alexa starting from January 1996 [1]

1: https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?sort=-downloads&and%...
Has the DevOps pendulum swung too far left?
This article explores the potential downsides of implementing DevOps in large organizations, arguing that some teams might be stretched too thin by managing all aspects of infrastructure. It proposes platform engineering teams as a solution to this challenge.
Most Linux distros still package jdk8-openjdk which has appletviewer.
Commercial property owners are in denial at the moment. I have a friend who wanted to open a small restaurant in our neighborhood. The building is mixed use so great foot traffic and great elevator traffic. They contact the realtor who sends back the terms and the terms were eye watering expensive. Since then multiple coffee shops have tried and failed within the same storefront. I'm guessing over 50% of revenue is going toward paying the lease. Now it's been empty for almost a year.
Who is “we”? I love my big company job
Because our brainless boss parties while we work
at ~$800.— + $25.—/month it's significantly pricier than a lot of smartphones
The multiplier is roughly the same even if the dev in London is working at the exact same company as the one in SV.
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When I was an intern, I was supposed to take 5-6 udemy courses. Some lessons were an absolute waste of time.

So I built offthreadr, where courses are AI powered. The snippets of the course is directly sent to your inbox just like a newsletter. This makes learning asynchronous and makes it easy to skip the bs lessons.

Since, its AI powered: you can also chat with course content and get the questions answered in seconds rather than hours while waiting on the udemy QA board.
At least the startup has an advertising effect from this court case.

I wonder why IBM is going to court instead of buying up the startup and offering the solution itself.
I don't think so. The article is probably intended for the Nix community, so the author doesn't need to convince HN that something is going on. If as an outsider you are interested then you need to look into it yourself, the community has no obligation to make their internal conflicts legible to the outside world.

As an outsider myself, it certainly looks like something is going on as more than 20 Nixpkg maintainers left in a week: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=label%3A%228.has%3...
It's fine to ask if someone can explain what is going on, it's a waste of everyone's time to say you have no clue and you haven't read anything and it's probably nonsense.
That does seem to be a separate instance though, so it was never really properly resolved at that stage.

The reason that Anduril was dropped as a sponsor for the 2023 EU conference was that the venue wouldn't allow the association. This time the NA venue did not have that policy, so the sponsorship went through.
Thanks to Brave[0], I can't remember the last time I had to reject cookies.

[0] https://brave.com/privacy-updates/21-blocking-cookie-notices...
Great piece. Can this framework be used for security purposes as well?
Sleeping Tesla driver caught on Swedish highway – after 25 miles
It's a bit worse with windows. You can get a scary warning or you can get smartscreened to death and the app will be prevented from starting. This is random / depending on functionality and effectively impossible to test with 100% certainty.
And you created this account just to write this comment? Sounds totally legit...
Now, do the math on leaving obesity unchecked. Hip replacements, heart attacks, diabetes…

Medicare should easily be able to negotiate some volume pricing, now that they’re legally permitted to finally.
Yes, were still interviewing.

Harming productivity only matters for hourly staff (in the minds of bad executives leaders). Salaried folks have to finish the with no matter how long it takes, and it doesn't cost the company more.
I wouldn't follow this approach because if you run `. .env;` you .env gets evaluated as a bash script, not as a configuration file. This means that you can get runtime errors in the .env file, and nobody wants that.
This seems to be the new way people have decided to discuss polemic topics about their projects: avoid all mention of specific disagreements or god forbid people, and be as vague as possible about everything.

Remember the Rust polemic where the entire Rust moderation team resigned? I was following the debate at the time and could barely understand what the actual problem was... only after reading A LOT of arguments in multiple websites I was able to kind of understand what was going on (here I am being vague myself, ha! If you know what that was all about, please comment, I don't feel like I can do it properly).

What is this all about? Is it a particular person, or organization, being a troublemaker?? Is it one event? Many?

Do you think your project's internal politics are some kind of "state secret" or what?? And by the way, why do Governments have so many secrets anyway!?!?! You've got to be up to no good to want to keep everything bloody hidden!

For goodness' sake, just spit it out!! We can handle the truth.
It was a cool machine, mismanaged into oblivion, first by Commodore, then by the corporate vultures that got the remains.

Had they managed to stop bickering and actually release hardware in a timely manner, it could at least have had a fighting chance.
Ah yes of course, the short term needful.
Yeah, Robot Wars was pretty popular so I don't see why something with 10x more action wouldn't be as well.
But (inserting my own narrative), isn't the point that some deeper societal problem is being masked by this?

> Snack companies take advantage.

I'm uncomfortable with these new drugs but they seem to be a net positive so this is a good thing. But we should also look into legislating junk food companies that hijack people's appetite for a quick buck.

Chile banned sugary food TV advertising to children and saw a roughly 10% drop in purchases high in sugar. An unleashed free market in food has been shown to be harmful and the drugs alone are insufficient. Regulation is necessary.

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/chiles-comprehensive-food-po...
Yes, and contributors to NixOS, and probably you eat meat as well, so they are guilty of killing sentient beings as well, and on account of that I should be in charge of the organisation, and your salary. I'm expecting their and your resignation by the end of the day.
Honestly, the weird thing is we don't need another person at all.
Retroactive hate crime bill in Canada [Online Harms Bill C-63]
I think this is written for the people in the Nix community. It's not intending to be an explainer for people outside it.
The first I learned about flow field pathfinding, was when then colleague implemented it for a j2me game he was developing, called Turbo Camels[0].

I was quite young then (just joined my first "real job"), and was very impressed by the elegance of the solution, as it made the AI players always find the goal in the game, even when you are bouncing around. Even with the limitations of the time, almost 20 years ago! (64kb JAR files including all the game and resources, crappy java implementations on crappy phones, etc.)

I think I've heard of similar method used to emulate fluid dynamics, when full on simulation is a total overkill.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26dXgqPwupI
Because if fresh accounts immediately start pushing narratives for said nation state they would easily be identified and banned. The game of spam is about slowly gaining the trust of the target algorithm by appearing legitimate.
Hi!
We are grateful for all your nice archeological work, may we please ask to make "Baa Baa Black Sheep" on the Ferranti available again based on the scans?
Many thanks!
Man, I wish my problems were shaped like that.