skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it comes back to the feeling of fun mentioned by GP? I also enjoy working with Vim, while LibreOffice Writer is clunky and Word is not much better (though I have no love for LaTeX). I could make a spreadsheet in under an hour, but if it'll make me feel like I'm hacking together something buggy in an inadequate tool, I'd rather spend more time making a web app or a Python script.

Likewise, mandating a file per each class in Java is no big deal on the surface, but having to create and juggle so many files for small classes feels terrible to me, so a seemingly small detail turns me off the language.

I think we should examime these feelings, because they ultimately drive (some part of) our behaviour, and I'd guess they're not just random preferences but are rationalisable.
CentOS Linux 7 will reach EOL on Sunday
Oh idk let me think.. off the top of my head:
- Vue
- Svelte
- Solid
- Qwik
- Alpine
- Lit
Or better yet HTMX
Senior developers are harder to replace, but by no means are they underpaid.

Even if their contribution was significant, in most cases a replacement with the same competency could have been found.
You can program a concept of truth into them, or maybe punishing it for making mistakes instead of just rewarding it for replicating text. Nobody knows how to do that in a way that get intelligent results today, but we know how to code things that outputs or checks truths in other contexts, like wolfram alpha is capable of solving tons of things and isn't wrong.

> (or any concepts at all).

Nobody here said that, that is your interpretation. Not everyone who is skeptical of current LLM architectures future potential as AGI thinks that computers are unable to solve these things. Most here who argues against LLM don't think the problems are unsolvable, just not solvable by the current style of LLMs.
Those people are dead because of Boeing. Corporate manslaughter is a thing in UK.

And let’s not be under illusion that if my actions accidentally resulted in deaths of hundreds of people I would see any fresh air ever again
> In real life the whiskers are the actual minimum and maximum values observed.

Look at this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Boxplot_...

0.7% of all values are outside the whiskers.
"But the truth is that this Cybertruck was the victim of fresh water. There is no information about how it got there. Earlier this year, we reported about a Cybertruck, which seemed totaled after ending up in a ditch full of water and mud."
The London Mayor and more recently the Manchester Mayor have been huge successes in transport coordination. I don't think many people would a priori say "the best structure for a large city is fifty non-coordinated boroughs". You could make a clearer case for abolishing the boroughs (especially some of the more corrupt and incompetent ones) and running the city as a unitary whole.

The only reason the GLC was abolished in the first place was naked party politics.
Oyster in London works like this too so I’ve heard. Some terminals (e.g. those on buses) are offline until the terminal is docked and connected to the main centre.
Except they haven’t said that.

If you’re a serious developer then you’re going to have a machine that has more horsepower than one suited for everyday tasks.

Heck, when I brought my M1 Air years ago I made it a 16GB simply because I knew I was going to do some light development on it and needed to ensure it could run the IDEs and apps I was fritzing with simultaneously - including the need to run Docker (now Podman).

Personally I’d much rather Apple have a 16GB baseline as a matter of course, but this article is simple ragebait.
Similar hysteria surrounds the 5G rollout as well. I remember anecdotes of people reporting health issues, when the already erected tower wasn't even on, but unfortunately I can't find the source for this again.

In general, I find that people are hit or miss regarding their observations. Sometimes they are so on point that they seem like a savant, and sometimes they miss the mark so hard that I find believing anything further impossible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G_misinformation#List_of_prot...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_testimony
Unfortunately not, it is the whole Compiler and VM. I'm not super familiar with embedding Luau only having messed around with it for a bit, but I highly doubt it'd be too difficult to drop in Luau over top an existing Lua implementation
The Rock Music Filter
> The City of London appeared quite often in Lee Kwan Yu's memoirs

Interesting - was it an inspiration for Singapore's governance as a city-state?
I suspect that, if Apple products were able to float in mid-air, people would complain that other products can't float in mid-air.

Yeah, it's an engineering triumph and nice to have, but how important is it really?
Those of us who have had this from birth look at y'all and wonder what life is like literally hallucinating stuff 24/7.
Yes, although there is a meaningful distinction of those which are registered under the https://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/ or not.
I wrote my comment as an objection to richrichie's dismissal of counter staff with "worthless" degrees. You replied with your experience of mostly table service staff, with no mention of their degree attainment.

What historical record do you refer to?

Servers have always had savvy, and started unionizing in the late 1800s, including a wave of strikes in 1912 and 1913. This didn't require a college degree. https://restaurantworkersunion.org/allarticles/nycrestaurant... says three of the demands were:

"The first demand was for a $20 minimum weekly wage for waiters, which would largely eliminate the tipping system. The second was for a universal eight-hour working day, which would replace the much longer shifts that many had been forced to work. The third demand was for the abolition of private employment agencies, which often took portions of worker’s pay in return for securing a job."

As for "colleges flat out won't allow anyone without savvy into their halls".

How do colleges measure "savvy"? So-called "legacy admissions" are not based on savvy. If someone is admitted for being a good football, water polo, or lacross player, does that automatically make them more savvy than being a good Pokémon player?

If your parents are rich enough to pay for classwork, SAT, and ACT tutors, does that make you more savvy? (To say nothing of parents who have donated millions to the school over the years, and just happen to have their kid accepted there.)

I may have done well on my SAT and got good grades (which is enough for many colleges), but that did not make me savvy in any sort of business sense that would apply to a waitstaff position.

Acting and improv training would have been better, and that doesn't require a college education (likely one of those "useless" degrees).
It sounds like they are business relevant parameters. They are self selected and independent of the data or distribution.

The point is that they are parameters of relevance to observer.

I work in medicine sometimes work with box-plots for this reason. The questions "what is the 25th percentile outcome" is perfectly legitimate
Prepare for retirement?
If Big AI lobbyists get their way, this is exactly the kind of warnings we'll get.

Flood users with warnings on everything and it'll get ignored. Especially if there's no penalty for warning when there isn't a risk.

Big Tobacco must love Prop 65 warnings, because by making it look like everything causes cancer, smokers keep themselves blissfully ignorant at just how large the risk factor is for tobacco compared to most other things.
I regularly see this kind of logic, that in order to face off China we should let our leaders/corporations exploit workers, pollute, commit crimes and behave even worse than China.

I don’t know what is the name for this faulty programming but it is very disturbing. I guess this is some kind of default behaviour of nationalism?
These devices are so tiny that presumably this is also a tiny part of IC fabrication.

I'm not saying there is none, just trying get an idea of how much of a problem this really is. We also need to consider what impact any alternative solution would have.

What struck me from the description of the system was that it seems that no electronics is really needed at all, a unique QR or barcode would be just as good because the back end system records the use.

But that would require the installation of optical readers in a system that might not have them but does already have NFC readers. Adding those readers would add a considerable amount of e-waste too.
This isn't meaningfully true: it's still subject to UK tax law and the law of England&Wales in general.

The Channel Islands and Man do fit that description and are not subject to English tax law.
No.

"Just following orders" is not a valid excuse. Your manager being a piece of shit forcing you to skip on safety does not invalidate your guilt in skipping on safety.

A whole team circumventing the official process and forgetting to put back bolts they took out isn't something that can be brushed aside as "they were just pressured by management". They made a very serious mistake and all of them deserve at least a suspended sentence for it - it literally could have killed 100+ people.

A whole team of engineers designing a critical system that can crash a plane with optional redundant inputs on inputs that are known to get blocked/fail are irresponsible.
5G was a fun one. When they built the 5G tower near me they didn't put any equipment in it. People complained about it at local planning meeting saying that it was giving them migraines, then someone burned it down. I moved and I have 5G but they still don't.
I stumbled across this the other day, I was given an old SQL Server Compact database and needed to dump out some information from it, and LINQPad was the first program that was recommended.

Unfortunately the DB was SQLServer Compact 3.5 and for whatever reason LINQPad couldn't find the required assemblies to open it which was a shame
> the test pilots

Test pilots have warned about this issue, we have emails proving it. Specific people have decided to release a dangerous plane, and those are people with decision making power higher up the food chain.
I think this is another way of saying that sating desires does not get rid of desires. The brain will simply look for more things to desire.
ReactOs only shares the name with JS library called React
To add to this, you're more likely to find someone who experientially understands what you're going through (and how to deal with it) in Buddhist circles, esp. those lineages who primarily focus on meditation (Zen, Chan).

Even if you don't necessarily prescribe to a Buddhist world view, being able to talk to someone who not only understands what you're talking about but has also gone through it and knows precisely how to get through it, helps immensely.

OP, I hope that you and your partner landed and got some intuition about the answer to your question(s). If you want someone (meditator) to talk to, my email is in my bio.
VSCode has a really great neovim-plugin that I'm currently using. Best of both worlds: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...
Aral really comes across as a class-a douche.
100% branch coverage means that you've fundamentally covered all potential states your software can enter.

What you're asking for is literally only possible in theory and entirely pointless in the context of reality, because you cannot guarantee that a device is available at runtime, invalidating any proof. The same applies to any engineering projects, software or otherwise
Windows has a bit less than half the marketshare for developers according to the last Stackoverflow suvery. By not having a Linux and a MacOS version, you are losing close to half of developers.

Even Microsoft themselves understood this.
Imagine a world where a company /can/ be put in jail.

Companies like to be treated like natural people when it suits them, but then when it comes to liability and accountability things conveniently don't apply.

Need to figure out how to do that without punishing the (presumably) innocent employees.
> What did the test pilot do

Validate the tests while knowing that they shouldn't. It's literally their main job, to confirm that the plane handles as it should.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/explo...
I'm aphantasic, but I also have a very good visual/geometric intuition. The brain's a funny thing that way. Give me a shape rotating problem and I'll get the answer pretty rapidly compared with a baseline, but it's by a process that doesn't involve explicit visualization.

Hopefully you'll be able to access similar mental pathways with practice.
The paper itself talks about this, so yes?
Apple Is First Company Charged Under New E.U. Competition Law
Apparently the font can only embed WASM, which is sandboxed so it can't do anything except turning a buffer of codepoints into glyphs and positioning them.

Of course, back in the 1990s Java and Flash were supposed to be sandboxed. So who knows?
Fun tangent: I hit a bug in Opal recently with the stored value cards. I was able to obtain a balance that read out higher on the exit turnstile than on a top-up machine. I'm pretty sure this was related to a recharge that failed and then eventually succeeded. Multiple top-ups later and the difference seems to persist.
Holy cow, that's me. Thanks for this tip.
Expropriate the company, at least 51%, take control and let public officials (knowing the US way, it will be some army general) set up checks and controls where necessary, then sell the shares (maybe keep an 'oversight' part, like 10% to keep a state official on the board).

Current stock owners will loose half their value (which is a good enough punishment for this lack of oversight), the state will have access to privileged company information which will allow the prosecution of human responsibles, top executives will be sacked (and their comp reduced by half since their comp is in stocks) and maybe the company will start on good base again.
That is not how humans work unfortunately. If any word gets out that a settlement like that can happen, then suddenly there is going to be a lot of people sick with such symptoms. It's the same reason why the "not negotiating with terrorists" policy is in place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_negotiation_with_te...
Pick something that works != don't bother. But nice attempt at misrepresenting my argument!
IMHO there is a huge misconception in what is the impact of AI. AI will not take engineering jobs. It will help engineers do more. That's it. Engineering is all about automation, performance improvement. Expectations will be "you have a wonderful tool, we expect you to do more".
Around the same time (2001) I worked for a startup that was doing the same thing but with Flash instead of HTML. We were building European export forms. People really liked the UI side of it.
that too, will often get used ironically
Manslaughter != murder, thats a difference between 3 years and 15-to-life in prison (not in Norway though).

Also, don't fall under the spell of some absolute fairness of our current societies, of course ultra rich are treated differently than regular Joe (or ie former presidents, prime ministers, olympic gold medalists etc), at least until mass media gets in. And Boeing is a strategic military provider not only to US, more a typical 'too-big-to-fail' category.
Doors started falling from US based airlines.

Boeing got unlucky in that sense. Had it been a flight out of Africa or Asia then I suspect regulators would still be turning a blind eye.
Commission opens additional DMA investigation against Apple
Full title (too long for HN): "Commission sends preliminary findings to Apple and opens additional non-compliance investigation against Apple under the Digital Markets Act"
...but there's nothing more obnoxious than a physicist first encountering a new subject.

https://xkcd.com/793/
I wouldn't see any negatives for that because in my experience DEI vastly "accelerates" racism. It certainly doesn't help opening minds.
Actor4k: A small actor system written in Kotlin using kotlinx.coroutines
It should work. We should have portable executables across many operating systems and architectures. The other expectation is scary.
Have you seen at leas one tool that is capable to replace a junior dev? At least one please. I would love to read anything about it.
Because the burn down charts don't matter and the real work being done twice as fast does matter.
I can't believe this comment didn't get the attention it deserves.
Not really, it's just bad management, they took unjustified risks for cost-cutting, and the system, both government and market, is punishing them for it at the first sign of something bad happening.

You could argue that the punishment is not harsh enough for deterrence, or not fast enough, but that's an issue with the government, not the market. Furthermore, the main reason why they are not more afraid of market repercussions is because they know the government needs them, they created a monopoly.

The system is mostly working as it should. The malicious players were found relatively quickly, through a mix of whistleblowing and the first relatively minor accidents getting a lot of attention (fourth estate and all).

Don't get me wrong, we need to keep making things better, there's so much work to do. But if the system were not working we would just have not heard about any of this and accidents would keep happening routinely while robber barons get filthy rich (literal violent monopolists, not plain billionaires), like 100 - 150 years ago.
Most likely. But what was your point? It's surely well known that free time is what you need to get anything done.
certainly not zero: fusion reactors still contain a decent amount of toxic materials, some of which radioactive, and when working make all kinds of highly radioactive elements inside the structure of the reactor. Probably less of a risk than fission, though (it's pretty unlikely a failure will result in an explosion or runaway reaction which spreads those radioisotopes far and wide).
People can be right and on a vendetta at the same time. The only thing relevant for this heading is: does the EPA report point at an actual problem?
I've visiting communities like HN since I was less than 10, in BBS.
See my reply to my comment - I kind of feel a bit more optimistic, as I finally watched the Veritasium video I've tucked away in my Watch Later the past few weeks.

> That's very promising since some of the most undesirable characteristics can be bred out within a few generations.

One can hope :)
Because it's useless information. Some people (like my wife) remember literally everything, at least until their brain fills up. I, on the other hand, have to explicitly commit to memory things I want to recall later. If I don't, it's gone. And why go through the effort of committing something as useless as what I ate for breakfast?
I wonder if these giant companies constantly trying to squeeze extra microcents out of everything is why pretty much all online video now looks horrible, despite us having the sharpest displays, fastest processors and fastest Internet in the history of mankind..
The article starts with the story of a public school next to a subway line that has measurably lower test scores for children in parts of the school where the noise of the subway is higher.

Imagine my surprise when the CTA at the end was about removing car traffic noise! I guess "cities too fucking loud for healthy child development" doesn't exactly match the current cultural zeitgeist. Not particularly surprising to find yet another HN comments section talking about how cars are evil, though.
Wait, that project actually got off the ground? Is this something you're using in production? What's a good starting point?
Wait what.

For functionality like that[1] I would have expected them to fallback to `bufio.Peek` if the `fs.File` is not an `io.Seeker`. Sure, it's a bit slower, but it would just work. If someone implements custom `fs.File`, then it's up to them implementing any additional interface that allows better performance.

It's the same idea as `io.Copy` trying to use first `io.WriterTo` or `io.ReaderFrom` if implemented, and then falling back to a manual copy.

The thought process should be: First try to ask for an interface that has all methods you require (that's like the whole point of an interface). If you can't do that, then try to work with the methods you have, and then mention that performance can be improved if additional interfaces are implemented. Only if when you can't do that, you fail with a runtime error complaining about missing methods you didn't ask for in the interface signature.

I might be missing some reason that prevents them from using `bufio.Peek` though.

[1]: Link to the use of Seek, for reference: https://github.com/golang/go/lob/e8ee1dc4f9e2632ba1018610d1a...
4:3 > *.
Modern English is the English that followed the Great Vowel Shift that occurred between the late 14th century and the 17th century. So not necessarily modern in the colloquial sense.

That is, Modern is also taken :-)
Twitch banned Dr Disrespect after messages sent to a minor, say former employees
Can you do a correlation plot or a comparison plot with the percentage of SUVs being sold/on the road?

Edit: Mmm.. Possibly correlates more with smartphone usage..
It's not in /usr/share/dict/words, at some point in OPs list the words start alphabetically again so I think there is another list being used.
We highly use messaging queues to power millions of daily transactions and requests. I think it’s because the patterns have been written about and it is no longer a fun hot topic. AWS SQS, Azure Event Hub etc all very standard for what I’ve seen in recent architectural diagrams from many companies.
I have no time nor will to make this a part-time job. Burnout is a real thing, hence I don't want to turn all of my hobbies into money-making machines.
Government run chopshops is what you are suggesting. The incentives are all bad, it would get exploited even if the profit goes to a school, because the middlemen still get paid. Kickbacks to cops getting cars into the workshop.

I don't disagree with the general sentiment mind you. I think tarketing specific cars will do little, given even a regulation following car is still very impactful across a range of issues.
I also understand that mitochondria is affected by Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) [1][2].

[1] https://www.medcentral.com/pain/chronic/low-level-laser-ther...

[2] https://weberlasersystems.com/collections/books
> are all basically computers, because it flatters the egos of computer programmers

And here you are thinking tech people are all basically egomaniacs. I wonder why.
Small claims court: https://www.engadget.com/how-small-claims-court-became-metas...
What exactly is meant by this comment.
Gren 0.4: New Foundations
Two Boeing whistleblowers "committed suicide" within a few weeks of each other.
$1000+ for an online meditation retreat from a few guys with only a few years experience.

Everything I hate about capitalism. How to take something beautiful and turn it into a cash cow :(
Apple gets EU warning over app store rules
Not even remotely.

if (x > 0) {
/* code */
} else {
/* more code */
}

Branch coverage just means that all the lines above are executed in some test. That's fundamentally different from dealing with all the different values that `x` could take on at run time.
Roads are never less safe by reducing the speed, except in the case that the road design didn't also change to accompany the reduction. If you slow down a 60mph road to 20mph you need to signal with the design, that it's not safe to go fast here. Reduce the lanes, width, remove the demarking areas etc.
Japan railway companies in Kanto region are moving to QR code for individual ticket in 2027.

The bulk of the ticket will still be the Felica card though, because as far as I know neither the QR code or EMV open-loop system can handle required throughput of 60 persons/minute/gate.