skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IRC is for people whose reaction to those is to complain or sneer about how they don't want them.

This is the real reason IRC will never achieve wide adoption. The people who use it actively don't want the features that the people who don't do.
Data Lakehouse Catalog Reality Check
Apps asking for ratings are incredibly annoying, regardless of how great the app is.

If an app asks me to rate it once, I'll refuse to do so and think harder about whether or not I want to keep using the app. If it asks me twice, I'll give it a bad rating and stop using that app.
Silicon Valley, the show, is a documentary. https://youtu.be/Q1QPXyebhiY?si=5YWYlCuI2aJ2fu-l&t=474
Why would there be noise and explosives?

Personally I'd prefer to not be put in a coma in such an environment.
Unless my test methodology was flawed:

Displays 0.3:

"=0.1+0.2"

Displays 3E+79:

"=(0.1+0.2)*1e80"
I'm trying to imagine what it must be like to believe that a company you're depending on, for a product that is either non-essential or has viable alternatives, is that untrustworthy, but still continue to rely on them for managing private communication.
Difference is the death rate from prescription ADHD meds is zero, and they’re not addictive like opiates.

I’m open to discussing the underlying problems that push people to take ADHD meds. Like the insane work life required to just maintain the same standard of lives as our parents generation, or modern devices eating our attention spans.

But limiting access to ADHD drugs is just going to affect the most vulnerable and the positive outcome is just for the benefit of Calvinist pushing their world view on the rest of us. Hey, while we’re at it let’s make caffeine a scheduled drug. It’s actually addicting, it’s long we half-life makes it more likely to effect sleep, and its vastly over consumed by everyone starting in middle school.
There are lots of well written detailed articles that don’t call themselves research.
I never bother writing app reviews because it’s a waste of time: my human efforts are 100% guaranteed to be drowned out by bot reviews anyway.

Leaving a 1* review on a scummy app is a waste of time because the scummy apps just buy review bots anyways.

Leaving a 5* review on a non-scummy app is a waste of time because that app always has a competitor that is buying review bots to boost their app and put down the honest competitor.

What I really don’t understand is why in this day and age any human beings ever bother to read App Store reviews in the first place.
Of course, the fact that there had to be water between Bali and Java for the people of Bali to keep their religion might mean something too.
Wow! Thanks for this!

This is the second time that the EMF file format has come in handy for me. In college I used to export my Matlab plots as EMF so they'd import into my Word documents all crisp - it was the only format which enabled that (please don't tell the LaTeX folks I did my lab reports in Word).
I have 3 in person degrees and some of my classes were online during covid

Are you jealous that people got the same education in a better environment? That's the vibe I'm getting here
Even if they are ideological, they are not usually political hacks (cough Thomas cough).

Honestly though, for as much flak as this current court gets, there is at least a certain consistency where they at least mostly stick to arguments about the letter of the law. In previous courts you would see some truly wild written arguments about how, like, a specific word in the Commerce Clause or whatever could mean whatever you wanted it to.
How much work did you do to validate the idea? Don't just ask people "Would you use this?" They will disproportionately say yes, because people like to be polite.

Instead, you could ask "What problems do you face? What solutions have you tried? How effective are those solutions?" If someone has not tried to solve their problem, they're not gonna care about your solution. If someone has tried to solve their problem and failed, then you know you have a killer painpoint.
I mean I have been prescribed opioids many times and I just take them as prescribed and they help the pain of the surgery or whatever. I don’t even take the whole bottle. What will replace the opioids if we don’t allow them to be prescribed?
Or like saying they should start their study of addition and multiplication from the perspective of group theory - since the integers (Z) under addition forms a group because it satisfies closure, associativity, identity, and inverses, while Z under multiplication does not form a group because, although it satisfies closure, associativity, and identity, it fails to provide inverses for all elements.
I feel like we would have been friends in high school
I think there's a misunderstanding in what the settlement is about. As part of Purdue's bankruptcy, the Sackler family is voluntarily providing 6 billion dollars to help settle claims opioid victims have brought against Purdue Pharma.

As a condition to provide the 6 billion dollars, the Sackler family has asked the bankruptcy judge to not even allow any new suits against the Sacklers related to the Opioid epidemic. This is something bankruptcy courts do regular for the company Purdue Pharma, but it is irregular when it comes to the Sackler family (this is not the entity going bankrupt!)

This is the issue that went up to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court ruled that the protection given to the Sackler family is not something that can be given by a bankruptcy judge during the bankruptcy of Purdue Pharma.

Matt Levine has a much better explanation here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-06-27/purdue...
this has been configurable in at least some IRCds for a very long time, to hide the host. It's been that way from personal experience for at least fifteen years, but it could be longer.
The HR dept that's hiring guesses that with all the recent layoffs, people might accept a low offer, and tries one. With a few tries and candidates, the HR dept has guessed a new salary level.
> More time in discussion with an expert could potentially fill in those gaps.

Those gaps were left by the removal, and lack of coverage towards critical thinking and reasoning which normally preceded these classes.

You don't see these issues in cohorts that have received classical education focused on first-principles.

Coverage of Descartes rules of Method; and a priori deduction are mandatory. The trouble these students are having is primarily because they've been taught by rote(authority and dynamics based in Marxism), instead of by rational first principles. Its infected most publicly funded education.

In all fairness, I don't think more time with an 'expert' would fill those gaps, I've personally observed several contradictions where the supposed expert fails to perform as a result of incentives.

Most teachers at that level aren't actually experts. They have their lesson plans, but the moment a problem comes up outside of that (such as when the salt the earth/burning bridges strategy is used between Algebra->Geometry->Trigonometry courses), they'll just enforce a struggle session making the student suffer so unimaginably that they succumb and believe that they simply are not good at math.

The student as a result of that torture (yes it is that) gets PTSD which few ever recover from.

The structure is by systemic design since math is used to gatekeep all hard science and technology. If you can't understand Math, you won't be able to follow any of the subsequent lessons that use it as the primary tool to impart knowledge (eschewing intuitive or deductive understandings or relationships as was previously done pre-1970s).
Author here: it's nerdy web trivia but HTTP trailers are actually in the HTTP/1.1 spec, although very few browsers, load balancers, programming languages, etc. implemented it at the time since it wasn't super useful for the web. You are definitely correct that it is an exotic feature that often gets forgotten about.
Perhaps more importantly than a mental model for thinking about this you might need the right mental state. You're tired and not seeing a path forward. That leads to burnout fast and isn't a great space to make big decisions from.

I'd talk to your co-founder and start by taking some time off. I bet for the past 3 years of grinding on the startup you haven't done a good job with vacations. If you went and fully unplugged for a month (or more) you might be in a place for a better perspective.

You might feel like you can't get away - that you're too essential to some work right now - but in my experience a top role of co-founders is to keep the passion and vision strong. Where you sound like you're at mentally you may be doing more team harm than good and your co-founder may be surprisingly supportive of you taking some time to get rest.
GraalVM is released under a free license. GraalVM CE is open source.
I think this is where the settlement went wrong. The Sacklers were going to remain billionaires after the $6B payout. In all real respects they were going to feel no pain. They already have way more money than any of them could hope to spend in their remaining years, and that really rubbed people the wrong way. With the immunity removed they will at least spend some of their retirement in court room after court room instead of sipping drinks on the deck of one of their many megayachts.

It sucks for the victims who are realistically not going to get any help before they die, but it does send a message that you can't kill thousands (probably millions) and get off scot free.
Recursion is more natural and deeply-engrained than people realize. Natural language has a recursive grammar:

My dog => My friend's dog => My father's friend's dog => My father's sister's cousin's nephew's teacher's friend's plumber's dog's chew toy.

We can construct sentences like this with a completely arbitrary level of recursive nesting. It's so natural that people do it without thinking about it. Recursion only becomes unnatural when we prime people on it and get them thinking it's scary and complicated.
Oh that's why I couldn't find a recent "10% of Emacs bugs fixed": that's what he was working on! Cool stuff. A true Emacs guru.
> one rarely sees a ruling that isn't reasonable

Not so true of this incarnation of SCOTUS. It's amazing when they dont delay or rule (by majority) via ridiculous interpretation.
If your food comes with a label, it's not healthy.
Good to know about this API preview. Hopefully the billing problem and UI maze of Vertex AI can be sorted too?
My First Kubernetes: k3s 'cluster' on 3 Orange Pi Zero 3's
Do you mean a conditional jump? Because assembly doesn't know about loops. And recursion is basically a jump too, even more so if you manually do the TCO. They are literally equivalent.
No. Java 22 will happily execute code built for Java 6.
Wikipedia cites the Holodomor as 5 million. That was mostly in East Ukraine. That's most of the half. The other 2.5 million were from gulags.

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

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

There were 20 million+ excess deaths, of which 10 million are commonly attributed to Yagoda:

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html

Maybe you disagree with these numbers, but they're the ones I know of.
Arguing is arguably one of humanity's super powers, and that we've yet to bring it to bear in any serious way gives me reason for optimism about sorting out the various major problems we've foolishly gotten ourselves into.
We'd like to stabilize our existing 3 SDKs and create a proper spec for future SDKs to implement. While we use proto definitions and openapi to generate clients, there are a lot of decisions made while calling these APIs that are undocumented but kept consistent between TS, Python and Go.

Once that's done and we consider our core API stable, there's a good chance we'll start tackling a new set of SDKs later this year.
And at 12:01 there's two bottles of bacteria!
>This isn’t even accurate from the perspective of 1789. The articles of confederation created a model akin to what you’ve outlined. The constitution created a quasi blend of popular representation and state level representation in the federal government as a result of several different compromises in order to form a stable national government.

The Constitution vests all powers with the people, and certain powers are delegated to States at the pleasure of the people. The States in turn delegate certain powers to the Federal government at the pleasure of the States.

While it certainly looks the other way, the hierarchy of political power in America has always been People > States > Federal.

The Constitution also mandates separations of power between the three branches of government, unlike say the Westminster system where the Legislative branch elects the Chief Executive at their pleasure.

>That isn’t how anything effectively works today though. The federal government has undergone numerous reforms both explicitly within the constitution and implicitly without any formal constitutional changes. These include the direct election of senators, income taxes, etc but also the effective binding of presidential electors to the outcome of the popular vote within a state.

Indeed, and States Rights vs. Federal Powers continues to remain a hot topic because both sides want more power.

Incidentally, the legal requirement for electors to follow the election result of their State is decided by each State. Most States have this law, but some do not. The Constitution explicitly gives the States this authority, not the Federal government.

>Americans today don’t think of themselves as citizens of the state of California, they think of themselves as Americans solely, the former concept being absolutely foreign and strange to them.

Is it? There are memes about Californians and Floridians, not to mention stereotypes of New Yorkers and Texans among others and otherwise simple pride in your home state (particularly prevalent among servicemen and veterans).

The National Guards of each State are also rooted in the concept that each State is sovereign and will have a military force legally independent from the Federal military force.

>Finally, the EC gives very little benefit to small states. The relative impact is consistently overstated. The only place that small state over representation effectively exists is in the senate.

The benefit to smaller States in the EC is nearly if not perfectly identical to that in Congress because apportionments are deliberately identical.
> All VC backed startups are default dead.

That's not true. If you have a startup that actually could pay all its bills and turn a profit if it wanted to, it's default alive. Just because you're choosing instead to spend on growth, that doesn't make it default dead.
This is why you have a primary and secondary DNS resolver...
I added the SCOTUS oral arguments to my podcast feed. They are a great listen!
that's actually the particular one I was looking for and couldn't find. Also had googled for the other ones but maybe it was so recent that it hadn't been indexed. Thanks!
The definition is clear but it produces weird results. And isn't useful for determining harm. The UPF categories with most harm are processed meats and sugary beverages. But some are healthy, like whole grain bread cause of fiber and vitamins.

If sugar is the problem, then fruit juice should also be the problem and processing doesn't matter. Highly processed corn syrup may be worse, but regular sugar is almost as bad. I haven't seen argument that the preservatives and making things on industrial scale is the problem.
Attributing every single opioid overdose to solely the Sackler family is so laughably ludicrous it's hard to take this comment seriously.
I made few of these when I was a kid. My pièce de résistance was a 10' 'coaxial piston launcher'. It scared the bejeezus out of most people... I usually shot ice slugs, which would throw a hole in a piece of plywood at 50 psi.

A golf ball with a chipped off shell fits perfectly in a 2" PVC barrel. The problem with chipping off the shell (along with an unrifled barrel) is that it makes it like a knuckleball - you have no idea where it's going to go. They would curve violently in any direction. One of the few times I shot one of these, it curved directly upwards, and I'm guessing landed a half a mile or so away. Hopefully it didn't hit anyone or anything. That was the last time I shot it.
Try listening to the audio recordings of the arguments on https://www.oyez.org/
Author here: I definitely should have been more explicit for my love of connectrpc, buf, protovalidate, etc. I do mention ConnectRPC but maybe not as loud as I could have. I definitely try to avoid confessing my love for ConnectRPC in every post, but sometimes it's hard not to because they've made such good strategic decisions that just make sense and round out the ecosystem so well.
Postponing any of my e-reader purchases until the Daylight Computer tech would reshape the market

https://daylightcomputer.com/
Not intended to be a full rebuttal, but also speaking from experience: I've gotten a front-row seat to multiple dumpster fires where a well-intentioned teacher focuses all their energy on class discussions about mathematical beauty and cool applications, thinks that because they're so engaging they don't have to optimize instruction strategies and hold students accountable, and graduates students who are excited about math yet can't solve even the most basic kinds of problems that they were supposed to have learned in the class.
This is going too far I think.

There are some partisan hacks on the bench and the institution’s legitimacy is in pretty bad shape.

But in this case they got an issue that didn’t have as much partisan alignment so maybe they did some good work.
I am merely presenting it in an honest manner as having more to it than just rhetoric made up on the spot from the comfort of my keyboard, while also not insinuating the credibility of being able to quote other people who agree.
Plumbing isn't always challenging.

If having two dishwashers instead of one is the goal, then it can be trivially easy to put a second dishwasher next to the first one.

(It is possible to think in terms that aren't exclusively flippant and extreme.)
There was never any licensing issue, do you think Google would depend on third party software for anything as core as the RPC system? The issue was simply that at the time, there was a culture in which "open sourcing" things was being used as an excuse to rewrite them. The official excuse was that everything depended on everything else, but that wasn't really the case. Open sourcing Stubby could certainly have been done. You just open source the dependencies too, refactor to make some optional if you really need to. But rewriting things is fun, yes? Nobody in management cared enough to push back on this, and at some point it became just the way things were done.

So, protobuf1 which was perfectly serviceable wasn't open sourced, it was rewritten into proto2. In that case migration did happen, and some fundamental improvements were made (e.g. proto1 didn't differentiate between byte arrays and strings), but as you say, migration was extremely tough and many aspects were arguably not improvements at all. Java codebases drastically over-use the builder/immutable object pattern IMO.

And then Stubby wasn't open sourced, it was rewritten as gRPC which is "Stubby inspired" but without the really good parts that made Stubby awesome, IMO. gRPC is a shadow of its parent so no surprise no migration ever happened.

And then Borg wasn't open sourced, it was rewritten as Kubernetes which is "Borg inspired" but without the really good part that make Borg awesome, IMO. Etc.

There's definitely a theme there. I think only Blaze/Bazel is core infrastructure in which the open source version is actually genuinely the same codebase. I guess there must be others, just not coming to mind right now.

Using the same format everywhere was definitely a good idea though. Maybe the JS implementations weren't great, but the consistency of the infrastructure and feature set of Stubby was a huge help to me back in the days when I was an SRE being on-call for a wide range of services. Stubby servers/clients are still the most insanely debuggable and runnable system I ever came across, by far, and my experience is now a decade out of date so goodness knows what it must be like these days. At one point I was able to end a multi-day logs service outage, just using the built-in diagnostics and introspection tools that every Google service came with by default.
Yes - sort of. Many of the additives found in cigarettes are designed to increase the rate of absorption of nicotine. This gives you a distinct rush within seconds of consumption, as well as a more pronounced crash that triggers intense cravings.

That's very different from the effects of (freebase?) nicotine typically found in e-cigarettes which is slower to absorb and doesn't have a noticeable crash.
There is no information on what do they actually measure in every individual. Without some real-time feedback it seems somewhat not enough basis to deliver the treatment to the intended target. (But if they're hiring...)

P.S. The website design is also imho a bit wacky.
Same system is used in Canada to authenticate indviduals who are logging into the government tax portal, or submitting their tax returns electronically through a tax preparation software.
Agreed. Presumably people want to keep years of posts and pages plus the familiar admin interface.
justice from whom? Just because they got a prescription doesn't mean they lost complete body autonomy. The lack of personal responsibility regarding drugs around here is insane.
Its almost like capitalism has no lngterm direcfive and is unreliable.
Author of the blog post here -- that looks like exactly what I needed, so I'm probably going to add a dependency to it to https://github.com/kaaveland/eugene/ so I can delete a ton of code. :-)

That looks fantastic, so I'm actually just going to put a link to it in the post so that more people see it.
I've struggled philosophically with that very question as well (especially having to update my own WORKING code just to conform to API changes), and I'm very torn on it. I just don't think there's a good point to pick at which to "freeze" the API and say no more changes are allowed. It would greatly hamper innovation and IMHO ultimately lead the Linux kernel having major forks or being displaced by something more adaptable. Despite the pain points, I think it's an overall good, though that doesn't stop the stinging of having to keep up. It really forces you to either be in or out. It can be very difficult to be a part time contributor.
That's great, but protobufs is slow as shit. I wouldnt use it in games.

If I was using something slow that needed flexibility I'd probably go with Avro since it has more powerful scheme evolution.

If I wanted fast I'd probably use SBE or Flatbuffers (although FB is also slow to serialise)
Designed it knowingly to be more addictive WHILE producing physician literature that denied or downplayed addiction risk.
Just to advertise the perf tool has inbuilt flamegraph generation code these days (well leaning on D3.js). So `perf script report flamegraph` will convert a perf.data file into a flamegraph.html. Similarly there is `perf script report gecko` to write out the firefox profiler's json format.
ISS Astronauts Take Shelter After Russian Satellite Breaks Up in Space
For the first time, I used a c style loop in a bash script today. What a coincidence