skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't safer to make building new bridges prohibitively expensive, because the result is that new bridges don't get built and then existing bridges are overused and extended beyond their design lifetime. And they're carrying several times more traffic when they ultimately fail.

It's the same for all the rest of it. You're not helping people to nominally make something better unless the better thing is actually available to them.
Nokia 6600 vs. Samsung S24 Ultra
In pop culture that’s called a diss.
I have the exact same workflow! It's great!
> the pace of progress is accelerating exponentially.

Lots of smart people say this, but lots of other smart people say it is logarithmically. It's hard to say with certainty until we are on the other side of this curve.

> Requires a subscription fee of at least $20 per month, a high-performance computer, and a stable Internet connection.

If you have a high-performance computer, the $20 monthly fee and the internet connection are not really required. I've been pretty blown away with what I can squeeze out of a 7900 XTX, both for text and images. I'm lucky enough to be able to also afford some subscriptions (Perplexity Pro and Kagi Ultimate), but I still find my local model useful for data that I don't want to leak to external APIs.

As far as creativity goes, I think it mostly "democratizes" it in the sense that it is a new set of mediums to express creativity. New mediums are attractive to a different set of people from the old mediums that still exist, and therfore more people will be drawn to creative activities altogether.
Could you please give a concrete example of how to use funcname? I tried looking in the man page and didn't get it.
don't worry about unpopularity, bro. worry about being true. the rest will take care of itself. if not, you are in the wrong company, forum, or place, and better to work on getting out of there.
I stayed at a hotel outside of Austin and it was on par with my first apartment out of college, smelling something like a blend of plywood and cockroach droppings. That was the most expensive hotel in the area, too.
Well, the article mentions a rolling blackout is also called a rolling outage.
>> It's a real head-scratcher why Texas [..] can't build and maintain

> They have. Centerpoint is just a terrible steward of it.

So in other words, no, they can't.
So what you're saying is they scaled too fast?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40951145
Watch from 00:22 for a couple of minutes for the quote, and the necessary context:

Specifically, he addresses his main focus for Swift providing "progressive complexity"; that failed.

(Note: to find this I searched the timestamped transcript for "failed".)
23:14

But, he did not say "Swift massively failed"

He said something like the effort to incorporate progressive disclosure complexity (i.e. making the language easy for beginners and introduce them to more powerful features as they use the language) in Swift, massively failed.

It's a clickbait title.
Unlike the elephant / mammoth pairing, there aren't any marsupials similar to Thylacine (as far as I know). What surrogate options did you have in mind?
Personal sites are tagged as 'personal' in this repository.

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

The question is how do you find interesting blog in 4000 of blogs?

Some blogs are not tagged, but they are also easily found by searching 'personal site' or 'personal website' or 'personal blog'.

The blogs exist, but google has no monetary incentive to show them to you, when it can show you content farms with ads.
The word "outage" is literally in the first sentence of the article you linked.

If the power is not on, for any reason, it's an outage. Period.
> If you can measure the text because you know which font will be used

If you are using text, you can’t know which font will be used. There are no universally-available fonts, so web fonts are the closest you get, but they could fail to load for various reasons, and it’s honestly more common than people allow for. You can also block web fonts (e.g. uBlock Origin has an entire button for it), or just turn off font selection altogether, in Firefox via Settings → Fonts → Advanced → untick Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above. I did this four years ago as an experiment and have never gone back because it made the web so much better (I did switch back for one week a couple of years ago to convince myself the web really was that awful without it). Not many people will do this deliberately, but it is a thing.
My long form blog posts about the obscure topics such as old test equipment, obsolete FPGA boards, or my kitchen hood controller board repair will take a couple of weeks before they show up in Google search results but eventually they always do, no SEO required. That’s good enough for me.
Maybe a place to look for obvious use cases is in other languages. JS doesn't have threads, but Swift does. The reason I can't think of one is, free threads are most useful for full parallelism that isn't "embarrassingly parallel," otherwise IPC does fine.

So far, I've rarely seen that. Best example I deal with was a networking project with lots of communication across threads, and that one was too performance-sensitive to even use C++, let alone Py. Other things I can think of are OS programming which again has to be C or Rust.
There are still lots of blogs, they just aren’t found on search engines.

https://bearblog.dev/discover
Getting this stack set up is not as complicated as this post makes it seem... LLDAP is great and the dev was very responsive when I had issues with some early builds.

Plenty of documentation around on getting Authelia set up, and connecting it to LLDAP is also pretty straightforward.
Modern Out-of-order CPUs (like the M1), they can't see branches until far too late.

The M1's frontend at least 24 instruction past the unconditional branch before the early possible moment it can even see it.

So the branch predictor isn't just responsible for predicting which way conditional branches go. It must remember where all branches are, and their target so that the front end can follow them with zero cycle delay. This means all branches, including call and return instructions too.

Which means that unconditional immediate branches cost about the same as a correctly predicted conditional branch.

But that's not actually why the fetch has been moved.

The other thing to note is that the frontend and backend of a modern CPU are completely disconnected. The frontend doesn't even try to get the correct address of an indirect jump from the backend. It always uses the branch predictor to predict the indirect branch.

And by inlining, each VM instruction has its own indirect jump, which means it gets different slot in the branch predictor allowing for better predictions.

At least that's the theory behind threaded code. I'm unsure how much of this speedup is coming from eliminating the extra unconditional immediate branch and how much is from better prediction of indirect branches.
Great things are accomplished by spite programming! https://hackaday.com/2018/01/03/spite-thrift-and-the-virtues...
I get it, though. I remember when Fukushima happened, I (living in the US) fell for those talking heads, hook, line, and sinker. To me, none of it seemed like all that big a deal, based on what I was hearing from them. Boy was I wrong.
On a long enough time line all games become Calvin Ball
Slightly related: pro cyclists inhale small amounts of CO to measure their physiological adaptation to altitude training (and maybe dope with it too) https://escapecollective.com/exclusive-tour-riders-are-inhal...
Glad we agree on China at least.

I highly disagree about Russia being a modern nuclear power. China and Israel are really the only countries that have the modern infrastructure required to maintain significant nuclear presences other than the US. Russia today is mostly living off of the remnants of pre-1985 Soviet energy infrastructure investments.

They have some nuclear capability, but it's far, far below what the US still maintains. Sadly even a reduced capacity is still far above what's needed to mess things up.
if Google wanted a performance increase of 5x over the then existing python, I guess we can safely say that Python was slow, amirite. and yes, I know the version number mentioned, and what it is today.
They are hiding something.

The unrelenting comments about "AWESOME data" (their caps, not mine) are wearing thin. The onboard systems may be working fine, but there's only so much you can learn about thrusters, when you can't actually fire them.

I expect SpaceX will be bringing back two crews.
Investigation into the Clapham Junction Railway Accident (1989) [pdf]
I would love to understand better this uxn thing? Is it some academic experiment or it has real world applications? What’s the deal with the additional return stack?
"Gas stations with no power mean inactive pumps."

You'd think that gas stations would have emergency generators. After all, they have plenty of fuel in storage. But most do not. New Jersey subsidizes backup generators for gas stations.[1] Florida requires a transfer switch so you can plug in an external generator and run the gas station, but doesn't require a generator be present. Texas? Can't find anything.

[1] https://www.njeda.gov/retail-fuel-stations-statewide-now-eli...
When HN comments like this, it always reminds me of this headline...

"Cargo ship owned by JPMorgan Chase seized by US with 20 tons of cocaine"

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/10/business/jpmorgan-msc-gay...
I usually just watch E3,VGA, Gamescom etc every year to keep a handle for AAA/AA releases, and /v/ for indie or overseas releases. Also checking IGN daily.

I'm generally looking for ambitious releases that push their respective genres forward, with an emphasis on RPGs and MMORPGs. There aren't many, if at all, of such works coming out each year so it's easy to keep track of then.

The best recent game I've played would probably be Unicorn Overlord, I can see the gameplay loop and the fast but deep combat system being a good match for gacha mobile games in the future.
I would add another inconvenience of hyperbaric chambers: you cannot do any emergency procedure if things go wrong, which, again, entice doctors to monitor the patient before going to the chamber, and once again they’ll have 100% pure oxygen during the monitoring, and the chamber will loose some of its benefits.
I think GP is using "place in Texas" as a proxy for "climate-change deniers". When, of course, most cities -- even in Texas -- are liberal-leaning, or at least politically diverse. So it's just a vindictive thing to say that also happens to be uninformed and lazy.

Regardless, it's pretty shitty to wish community and economic destruction on people (not to mention high probability of injuries and deaths), even if they've bought into the conservative propaganda machine wrt climate change.
When I made websites, I paired up with a graphic designer. Pretty much all of her clients needed websites. Since then, I always paired up with people who get work. They get to offer all-inclusive services, you get work.

Now I work in immigration. Well-established relocation consultants usually get all of their work from large businesses who exclusively work with them when they hire new people.

I'd just advise you to build similar referral streams, and perhaps reward your "salespeople" with a commission.

It's also important to be a constant and genuine participant in related communities. If you bring the community more than you get from it, you can become a sort of well-liked contributor, and the first person they think of when visuals are needed. A sort of household name.
oh yeah. At sea? Chance in a million!
(2019)

Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20646841
https://archive.md/20240712174147/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
I've donated to unfortunate via crypto where there was literally no other way of transferring funds in my situation.

Thanks to you, I've just learned that donating money to people in need is illegal.
Drone and bomb attacks are delivered to doors without a problem, so... Yes.
I actually did work in software packaging (amongst other things) around 20 years ago. This was never a huge issue to be honest, neither was deployment.

I know, in theory this stuff all sounds very nice. With web apps, you can "deploy" within seconds ideally, compared to say at least a couple of minutes or maybe hours with desktop software distribution.

But all of that doesn't really matter if the endusers now actually have to wait weeks or months to get the features they want, because all that new stuff added so much complexity that the devs have to handle.

And that was my point. In terms of enduser quality, I don't think we have gained much, if anything at all.
While CSS certainly leans more on existing English semantics, it's so heavy with jargon I think you may find that those more familiar with English semantics don't usually get that much of a head start when first learning CSS.

Ultimately the learning pattern of looking up what each individual property does and how interacts with the DOM remains regardless of if you know English or not. If anything I think the English semantics of CSS are more misleading than intuitive.
I'm just glad I can rent a 79-pound (weight, not cost) iPhone self-service repair kit from Apple for only $49 (with $1200 refundable security hold.)

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079058/apple-self-servi...
Houston is an industrial city, primarily for oil refining.
Houston is doing this for new developments but it’s infeasible for existing neighborhoods because there’s already a bunch of other stuff underground there and its a very slow and expensive process.

The correct way to handle above-ground powerlines is to perform regular maintenance on any trees growing near the lines. Centerpoint skimped on this expense and it resulted in 85% of Houston losing power.
- How do you usually discover new games?

Usually YouTube channels which comment on current or upcoming releases.

- What are aspects of games that you enjoy?

Game mechanics. The play loop must be fun or rewarding to me, and that's enough to select s game to play. Then sound/music, graphics, and plot/story, in that order.

- Do you think finding new games to play is easy? If not, what do you wish was easier to find new games?

For me it's very easy, I have little time to play, so there is always something to play, and my list of "I know I will like this" just keeps growing.

- What's your most recent favorite game? How did you find that game?

I'm really enjoying Outer wilds at this moment, and when I finish it, I know I will spend months with Factorio Space Age
Yeah - I understand why they do this but I reckon they could have made them renewable without having to replace the tokens themselves.

Also granular PATs still don’t work everywhere.
Fine, but they can clearly afford to pay for a lack of it.
Yeah, very much so. I think that the great tragedy of FF7R is that it's not just a pretty poor remake (because it diverges so widely from the original, a cardinal sin for a remake!) but that it's a bad game on its own merits.

First, the story is a hot mess that I'm surprised a professional writing team put out. I don't know if I should really say spoilers, but the central premise of the plot is really, really stupid. I've seen it called worthy of KH, which is very much not a compliment lol. And the pacing is awful - the game is jam packed with filler because they are trying to stretch 4-5h of the original into a full length game. There are hour long chapters where only 5-10 minutes of interesting content happens, and you can tell the developers were just running out the clock (so to speak). Finally, the battle system is really poorly tuned - normal encounters are over in seconds, while bosses are bullet/sword/magic sponges even if you are hitting their weakness, staggering them, and trying to dump damage on them while staggered. It took me something like 10 minutes to kill Air Buster, for example, and by the end I was just bored of the fight.

It's frustrating to me because this was the easiest layup in the history of video game development. They had one of the most beloved video games of all time - all they needed to do was take that foundation, polish it up with some modern QoL (and graphics of course), and they would've had an all time classic on their hands. Look at P3R for how much people would've loved that approach. And I guess I get why they wanted to go in a brand new direction, but unfortunately the game just plain sucks even if you don't compare it to the original.
Houston, even. Though in an “Uno Reverse”, the current CEO of Centerpoint was the CFO of PG&E in California and the CFO of Centerpoint also hails from PG&E.

California was very unhappy with their performance and now Houston is unhappy with them as well.
This!

It's unbelievable how underrated this whole view is especially in a place like HN where I'd expect more liberal people.

Even this property of crypto alone is a single reason to support it, let alone all the other tech that can be built on top of it.
Can't speak to the data sci Medium content, but Medium's low barrier to entry is its downfall for programming content; I will ignore any Medium link I see because the articles are somehow nearly always crap. I suspect most programming articles on Medium are just devs employing that advice re. getting hired, i.e. "get your name out there! Start a blog!"
then it would be much preferable if they said so explicitly, although both of those are points I already know well. both are common knowledge, not just the first, i e. the slowness. the productivity and other benefits are common knowledge too.

downvoting is such a fucking dumb way of disagreeing. how does one know whether the downvote is because a person disapproves of or dislikes what one said or because they think what one said is wrong. no way to know. amirite? :)
Social media gobbled up the distribution
for those who don't know: there are various websites that aggregate "HN Blogs" and provide searching/opml etc.

e.g.

https://hn-blogs.kronis.dev/

https://dm.hn/
Disclaimer: Controversial take, feel free to disagree, but take a moment to as well to think what I am saying.

What is this trend of citing “meaningless” work I see recently?

How is a work defined as “meaningless”?

To me, if a work has any contribution, then it is highly meaningful. World is not that simple.

For example, if someone was employed to simply sit at the door and count the number of people coming in and then subtract the number of people going out for 8h, it may be considered a bullsh!t job by many dimensions. But to me, it is very valuable as it just employed someone who is willing to do it and offers them a mean of paying their bills and survive. It is boring as f!ck? Yes, but the sole factor that it allowed someone to survive is meaning enough.

We all do not have to be brainless servants of the tribe constantly rat racing to find meaning(i.e. pursuing whatever the govt or some industry considers lacking adequate qualified people to work for). As long as something that allows a person to have their basics met, it is immensely valuable.

I hate this constant meaning finding in everything. Yes curing cancer for example brings immense meaning, but not every person on earth is capable or have the socio economical benefit of pursuing that education and mental sharp to carry out the R&D and by the definition of bullsh@t work, even curing the cancer is kind or nit much because death is inevitable anyways.

So yes, we need to stop this constant pseudo rat race of finding meaning and get led into whatever the overlords tell the media to brainwash us into believeing as meaningful.
I have been using PlainTasks [0] plugin with Sublime Text for many years now at work to do something similar. It is sort of a mix between GTD [1] and journalling.

I create a new file monthly (since that is the "sprint" duration at work) and for each project I am working on, I create a project heading and a list of tasks below each. The plugin doesn't enforce any schema and is just a plain text file so I can iterate on the task list, record thoughts as free form notes anywhere (just below the project heading or below a particular task or just in the file anywhere.

If the notes grow too large for a particular project (they don't usually for me), I pull them in a separate file dedicated to that project.

I iterate on the task list as things become more clear. For eg. I might start as "Find out how to deploy new certificates on our cluster nodes". Once I have done some research or talked to my colleagues, I might mark this a done or delete it and replace it with a list of steps required to deploy the certificates.

I also mark things I am going to do today with "@today" every day in the morning. If something planned comes up urgently, it gets it own task with "@critical" tag. The plugin highlights these tags for me.

There are some more features but I only use creating and marking tasks as done with the 2 tags. The plugin is also semi-abandoned which is a big +1 for me as I don't have to worry about flow breaking changes or sudden sponsorship messages or constant updates.

I don't use sublime for anything else but tracking tasks and notes so it gives me a sort of dedicated workspace for collecting my tasks. Recall is just a plain text search away. I have been using this for many years and has been extremely effective for me. Whenever I feel lost of overwhelmed, I just look this file, find the @today tags and suddenly I am back in my flow.

Most of the other tools I have tried (Jira, Asana, Trello, Github/Gitlab issues, Azure DevOps, company internal project management tooling etc.) are too opinionated, not flexible enough, sends unnecessary notifications to me or everyone on the team and are a chore to maintain (busywork).

[0] https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks
[1] https://gettingthingsdone.com/what-is-gtd/
> Except that it’s nothing new, right? “Writing helps you organize your thoughts more clearly”: everyone and their grandmother know that! Writing a plan, writing a diary? People keep listing how transformative that’s been for them.

Luckily, we'll soon be replacing writing with editing LLM output. Much more efficient. /s
It's surprising how many devs are trying to overoptimize for productivity with various fancy tools and techniques, when it actually comes down to simple basics.

Here is what I rely on as a founder who does a lot of context switching:

- a never-ending text file for todos and work journal [0]

- calendar for planning (and blocking focus time)

- website blocker

- turned off notifications

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39432876
I understand the compiler Microsoft uses to build release versions of Windows, Office etc is like this and can take days to run.
>These are just drones. They're not missiles that cost $100K apiece

Well
https://www.twz.com/air/rogue-1-is-one-of-the-marine-corps-n...

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1colo0...

Meanwhile Ukrainians are DIYing similar drones (including thrmal vision and up to 40km range) for under $1K.
I think it's fair to say that the game is very divisive. Some people (old FF7 fans or not) love it, but some (again, whether old fans or not) hate it. YMMV, and all that. Truthfully I hope you enjoy the game - it's not like I wanted to hate it. But unfortunately I did. :/
It's not SEO (at least, not primarily). Blogs moved to centralized sites (Facebook, etc) for the advantages of centralization like ease of discussion and discoverability.

Blogs "died" because decentralization is inefficient, even though decentralization has some nice properties. (And blogs aren't dead, they still exist. Just with very little traffic and engagement, relatively speaking)
I don't think it is. I assume everyone gets hacked eventually. It's really hard (I would argue impossible) to make a 100% secure computer system, and if they're operated by people, you're terribly vulnerable.