skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually pair up with the juniors to help them, or share knowledge, or bring them onboard to a task they can drive later on.

I work with people in 4 different continents, in Europe my team is spread around 4 different countries. We manage to interact, remotely.

I do not understand why people think being interactions require an office together, there are other ways to foster interactions, it's a culture. If the culture is bad remotely then it's also bad in office, just in different ways, the only thing a remote team loses is the ability of poking someone else's shoulder which is generally good, you don't want interruptions. You want people to have enough slack in their work that they can be called upon for pairing or helping with something.

If everyone is so busy remotely that they don't interact anymore then in-person you'd be having issues with frustration from senior devs being interrupt to help juniors. It's the same issue, just presenting itself to the surface in a different way...
Which mistakes is he referring to concretely?
I've been using IRCCloud for my IRC since it has very good mobile support and acts like a bouncer as well
But then your ad blocker will need to introspect and run rules on the contents of every request payload. The impact to web browsing performance would be prohibitive.

And if it got to that point Google would just randomise the payload. It's pretty easy to do with obfuscation tools.
The best collection of short scifi stories written by a living author.
Did you mistake the hacker news comment box for a private email?
There are multiple companies building Lightning software like Wallets, serversoftware and SDK’s.

Lightning Labs is one of those companies, but they don’t own the protocol.

For example, https://acinq.co/, makes the Phoenix Wallet and Phoenixd, a node implementation that you can also run for yourself.
Thanks, tested primarily on Desktop, have to do more mobile testing. ;-) Maybe this will be graded itself after a while. Generally, I want to reach a very compact presentation of relevant information instead of writing more long essays to accomodate the attention problems of these days.
> But I certainly remember writing like mad for a long time while trying to catch what the teacher told, only to be told somewhere around lunchtime I think that this wasn't actually important for engineering or even the exams, only included because it was interesting.

Depends what you are getting trained for. An acceptable cobbler who can patch up a broken shoe into something usable would have different pedagogic needs than one who is training to become a designer of the next-gen shoe. A vibrant economy needs both kinds.

That said, a big part of 'hacking' used to be about the pleasure of deeply understanding a topic, not necessarily just as means of earning or employment.

Was it Feynman who said something about whats the utility of physics and why do people engage in it ? I am paraphrasing his comment from faulty memory: sex is useful for reproduction but that's not why we engage in it.

Many here are into it for that other reason of hacking.
.big is what it really is, big. Inventing a new name for it like emphasized, enlarged or attention-grabbing is just unnecessary pedantry.

Naming things what they are and then styling with how they must look like creates an additional linguistic layer in an already csessed up system.

“What things are” must become component names, not a part of markup. If there’s no reason to componentize a chunk, it doesn’t get a name (and vice versa).
While it does build on established concepts like Hebbian learning, I think theory offers a potentially insightful way of thinking about brain function
https://archive.md/Fyx6P
It's what google was counting on, user ignorance and apathy, to defeat adblockers.
> Arguably the failed or struggling businesses could be being replaced by other services, eg home food delivery, but I've not personally noticed anything like that happening.

It already happened before and during covid (that's what the gig economy created/captured). That has its own problems, not the least of which is the overhead costs passed to consumers. Overall, the scale required of such businesses keeps small ones from flourishing in any large numbers compared to brick and mortar.
My guess: the danger that WFH is making managers irrelevant.
Anyone keeping count on which cycle of “I’m switching to Git{Hub|Lab}” this puts us?
Nice story but if anything, it was the other way around: "By the late-19th century, some 37 companies were manufacturing margarine in the US, in opposition to the butter industry, which protested and lobbied for government intervention, eventually leading to the 1886 Margarine Act imposing punitive fees against margarine manufacturers." (Wikipedia)
we really need a separation between documents and applications.

for documents - css classes & BEM are more than adequate.

for applications - we seem to have short memories. why not learn from what complex UI frameworks used in industry do e.g desktop frameworks case in point - https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/stylesheet-reference.html#background-...
This collection of short stories was my first introduction to Egan, and my first real experience with hard sci-fi. Egan’s stories don’t have the best story lines or character development, but they are uniquely realistic and based in science in a way that is hard to find in other sci-fi authors (Stross and Watts come close).

Thank you for sharing it — I highly recommend this collection, and Egan’s many other books, to anyone that is working in tech or just interested in how the future of computing, AI, AR, biology, spacetime travel, and humanity may pan out.
What do you think the point of creating Chrome was?
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The dress code alone (company polo with an embroidered logo to be worn in the office and during online meetings) would make me pick working 5 days over 4 days, with the same pay.

For reasons beyond my comprehension they are number one on the "Best Workplaces Europe 2023" list in the 500+ employees category.
Did you try the experimental, raw disk image for a Debian installer that Snapdragon provided? https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...
There's also a doom map.

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/134292-myhousewad/
I think this happened to my old site gitready.com, which now has some of my original posts wrapped in https://gitready.com/advanced/2009/02/16/convert-git-svn-tag...

The index has a pile of fake conference / ads at the bottom. https://gitready.com/

Basically I let the domain lapse and now this happened :\
Worked for me by typing ```<enter>

It opens a block and you can select Java. (There's only a relatively small number of syntaxes supported, but still.)
I grew up in (now former) East Germany, and the autobiography of the first leader of my adopted home is literally called 'From Third World to First'.

Though I'm not sure what you are trying to say? I guess you are agreeing with me? Yes, if there are many companies that compete for your services and can put them to productive use, you have a lot of bargaining power in those negotiations. Conversely, where those options are lacking, you have less bargaining power.

Yes, Vietnam started from a fairly low base, but has seen phenomenal growth in the last few decades. See eg https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PPPPC@WEO/VNM?zoom=V... You can bet your hat that workers' absolute bargaining power has improved by leaps and bounds.

As a consequence, at https://tradingeconomics.com/vietnam/wages you can see how average Vietnamese wages have exploded over time. (Even if their data only goes back to 2011, the growth is still very impressive.)

Apparently washing machines are a real growth segment in Vietnam: https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/household-appliances/ma...

These days around 58% of households in Vietnam have a washing machine.

Yes, in general many people around the world used to be dirt poor. And while things have improved, many of these people merely graduated from 'dirt poor' to 'poor'. But that's still progress, and we are continuing to advance. To future generations, even our richest people alive today will look poor by comparison.
This. Since Intel and AMD weren't able to produce a good solution to nvidia's moat yet, this should be worth serious money to them. No need to give it away for free.

On the other hand, if they want better adoption (which would drive sales of their hardware) then Intel / AMD should make a deal to release it as opensource. Closed source will make some profit, but not that much. If this thing really means that everything can run on AMD GPU cards today, then this is a game changer and is worth a lot.
Your recommendation to explore the classics is a good one. You can gain a deeper appreciation by studying these foundational works
There sounds like a decent amount of insight here, but it's a little vague for me. Could you give a bit more detail, possibly a worked example?
I'm more of a WeeChat in tmux guy myself.
Obviously if there is a semantic tag, you should use it. But if not, a custom tag is not worse than a <div>.
When working on the front end, it is also useful to add screenshots with the before and after state so that the reviewer has an image reference.
Hi! I used to work on Konversation back in the day.

When a KDE app crashes it pops up an error reporting notification or dialog. Did you file a bug via this or do you have the debug info from this dialog saved? Happy to take a look whether I can fix this for you.
> Mario Tennis, would also be an RPG. you play the role of a cartoon tennis players

I think Mario Tennis on GBC (as well as Mario Golf) is generally considered to be RPGs. You walk around, talk to people, level up, etc. combat is just replaced with Golf or Tennis.
They could be a loss leader.
> I've heard some rough stories about Stripe in the past few years, but you almost never hear people's boring successes with the platform as well.

Generally, anyone happy with stripe, like my last company, doesn't make much noise. It's like everything else. Only people angry shout on forums or here… anyone happy is probably busy doing other stuff.
I like to have AI auto-complete assistance from something like GitHub copilot, so I often compose markdown within PyCharm and then paste to Google docs. There seem to be zillions of “AI-writing” tools out there but I’m shocked that nothing has replaced the smooth functionality of GitHub copilot. Google docs with Gemini is not smooth at all. Tried obsidian plugins but they are janky.
Not just near battlezones, just being near a jammy neighbour is enough: https://yle.fi/a/74-20086338
A treasure trove of information
I've used thelounge for a while but I'm baffled by how slow searching is.
The lack of successful implementation is surely at least evidence that the technology might not be living up to the hype, though — no?

It’s like “but that wasn’t real communism”.
Story points don't help me do my job. They do a great job of wasting my time and making me less productive. It's not just story points, but the whole agile/scrum methodology feels terribly wasteful. The gross amount of time we waste setting estimates, refining stories, sprint planning. To what end? So management can make some meaningless charts? So that the "decision makers" can use these contrived numbers to figure out who gets cut in the next round of layoffs?
Copper market's biggest whale fuels speculation of a major shift
This is really cool. You could try running it on Turbowarp for the training, which is a faster "version" of Scratch.
Sadly the old Libera <-> Matrix bridge has been permanently retired. Thankfully, some projects (KDE, for example) run their own bridges for their rooms.
At 12, there are already big differences among them.

Let's divide it into kids that like to learn vs kids that like to work with their hands. The 2nd group would learn how to work with metal, wood, .... Way more practical stuff, very little theory. The other group is the reverse of course.

At 16, some kids are really tired of sitting in a classroom. For example plumber track would have these 16 year olds already doing an internship with real plumbers. At 18 they can start their own company already.

It's also no secret that a 16 year old in Belgium learns math that in US you would only see at higher education.

I think it works great, and what I saw with my 2 oldest is that last year when they are all still together at age 11, the learning differences really start to show. It's neither fun for the smart ones nor for the slower ones.
Time for Gitea.
Btw, Python's Hypothesis is a lot better at shrinking than QuickCheck.

Not only do you get shrinking 'for free', Hypothesis's shrinker is also smarter at finding opportunities to shrink.
Clever clothes: Seams in clothing capture body movement
Show HN: I've made word-bingo generator from YouTube videos (no AI) – Rant Bingo
Got an idea (or need?) and could not not make it.

It simply takes most popular words longer than 5 chars from English captions of provided YouTube video and builds Bingo board.
Allows to play it while following speaker.
Seems like may be useful for learning language and training attention.

Called it Rant Bingo and/because domain was available.

Was thinking about making real online game from it, but just rolling it out as is — not sure if it will get any interest at all :)
Well there are formats like AIFF and WAVE, see here:

https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/audio/

These are more or less direct descendants of IFF so to speak (WAVE being based on RIFF, which is essentially little-endian IFF), the page also mentions as much:

"Audio IFF conforms to the "EA IFF 85" Standard for Interchange Format Files developed by Electronic Arts."
I really wanted Gitlab to succeed. I joined early on and used it quite a bit but by 2020 things changed and their message , pricing was all mess. I don't think I have ever used it since. But this was one startup I really rooted for.
Good job everyone. We're almost back there again. Twenty years later, 2026 will be the year of semantic CSS, though I guess it will have a new, cool name. Complete Stylesheets or something I dunno I'm not in marketing.
“ Indeed, the irony today is that the Russians, the French and other people in foreign countries possess Shakespeare to a much greater extent than we do, for the simple reason that unlike us, they get to enjoy Shakespeare in the language they speak."

I think the more radical argument and the one closer to the truth (but not the whole truth) is that these countries possess nothing of Shakespeare, for the simple reason that they, unlike us, have never read him.
A strategic move
> REST is a PITA for any data model that’s more complex than CRUD.

Also I'd just like to point out that for everything but queries themselves, GraphQL uses JSON. JSON is used in the C and U of GraphQL's CRUD... Explain to me why this couldn't have just been JSON and therefore a REST API again..?

Almost the only thing stopping it from being one is its "query language". I guess technically usage of one endpoint would make OpenAPI doc'ing difficult but I think possible depending on what JSON Schema/OpenAPI version you're using.

But it would also be trivial to just have separate endpoints for each schema.

You could even use all POST requests and only use the request body if you want.
> I would say the whole point of RISC-V is to study the mistakes of past ISAs and avoid them.

But they are not avoiding them.
This convinced me to (re) create my account. Greg Egan is a fantastic author, and lives in Perth - and probably Sydney at some point.

Read his books. He's also in the fediverse at https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF
Supposedly they were training on feedback provided by the plugin itself but that approach doesn't make sense to me because:

- I don't remember the shortcuts most of the time.

- When I run completions I double take and realise they're wrong.

- I am not a good source of data.

All this information is being fed back into the model as positive feedback. So perhaps reason for it to have gone downhill.

I recall it being amazing at coding back in the day, now I can't trust it.

Of course, it's anecdotal which is also problematic in itself but I have definitely noticed the issue where it will fail and stop autocompleting or provide completely irrelevant code.
Hmm, sort of agree for the later stages of learning, but learning by flashcards is incredibly helpful at the beginning and to get started.

Referring badly to a nose on an elephant is better than not having any word ready at all.

Saying „absolutely good“ is totally fine for most people if you are a beginner in the english language. (Also, you can put phrases on flashcards)

And sure, reading extensively is a great way to build vocabulary. But it takes a while (depending on the language quite a long while) before you can begin to read extensively.
> CP/M drew heavily on DEC operating system designs, notably RSX-11M

It mostly feels like a single-user version of TOPS-10, which Kildall initially used to write CP/M. OS-8 and RT-11 also borrow heavily from it, making it basically the common ancestor of anything that feels "DOS".
Well it's not as rampantly inciting as "is Evil".

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2160788/why-extends-is-evi...

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2161183/why-getter-and-set...
More than a decade ago I worked as a research programmer on a similar AI tutoring product for hierarchical skills like mathematics at Carnegie Mellon (in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center and Carnegie Learning).

The system would prompt students with problems that incorporated dozens of sub-skills, each of which incorporated other sub-skills and so on. If the student gets the problem right, all requisite sub-skills are marked as reasonably strong. If they get it wrong then the statistical model concludes that at least one sub-skill must be weak/faulty/missing, and when selecting subsequent problems the system would incorporate problems with different subsets of the original sub-skills to identify the missing sub-skill(s), with the goal being to spend time reinforcing only those skills that the student has not mastered.

I no longer work in that domain, but I recall it being amazingly efficient -- it often only took a dozen questions to assess a student's understanding of thousands of skills.
RISC-V has specs to suit everything from microcontrollers through high performance multi-core server level machines. It's not realistic or a good idea to use identical features for such different applications.

For example a microcontroller can't be made economically with 64-bits, SIMD, quad-precision floating point, transactional memory and so on. So it makes sense to provide flexibility rather than locking in a single high-end feature set.
> Apple isn't generally a trustworthy company

Could you provide some evidence for this claim, beyond the fact that all companies are profit motivated, and thus can only be trusted to protect their bottom line.

> This feature is being sold as a strong privacy tool, and it's beneficial to discuss its flaws in isolation.

Not really, all security and privacy is relative. You can discuss any security or privacy tool in isolation and find fault. But that’s not actually useful, because the only conclusion you could possibly derive from such an approach is that only truly secure and private way to exist is inside a small box disconnected from the rest of the world.

> Even if it doesn't happen today, there is a realistic, technical possibility that the data flow could be exploited tomorrow. If the infrastructure is already there, and future incentives are found, what prevents the infrastructure from being exploited in the backend?

That’s a rather silly question. It only makes sense to worry about this hypothetical if you already have strong argument for why Apple et.al. wouldn’t just compromise the browser or OS instead. The more parties needed to assemble a complete data flow, the more people that are needed, and more likely some will leak the fact this activity occurring. That the whole point of making a big song and dance about both Apple and 3rd parties being involved in Private Relay. Both parties have to be compromised to get valuable data, that’s much harder than compromising a single organisation.

Talking about all this silly hypotheticals deliberately ignores the simple fact that people will always choose the simplest, easier route to solving a problem. Putting forward the argument that a nation state or a private organisation is gonna bother attacking Private Relay, but not your ISP and unencrypted HTTP connections (which we know are already tapped at major internet exchanges) is ridiculous, bordering on paranoid.
Don't forget the forks: Gog -> Gitea -> Forejo
This might be a bit morbid but consider contacting estate sales agents in the Poughkeepsie and Rochester areas? The last generation of hard core mainframe employees are all nearing retirement or have retired and as they and their families deal with the detritus of their careers may just be throwing away stuff. A lot of the print books ceased mid 1990s, in favor of BookManager files and eventually PDFs.
Stop being weird.
https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/ for some suckless credits.
Funnily enough, the linked page shows The Lounge IRC channel among the ten most populous on Libera. (The Lounge is similar to IRCCloud but self-hosted.)

https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge
Chinese coal capacity factor is dropping even faster than coal plants are being built. They're building coal peakers that only run at night when there is no wind.

Which makes sense because China's primary goal is energy independence, not decarbonization. China has lots of thermal coal, they don't need to import it, unlike gas or metallurgical coal.

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants
CEOs, VCs, and other managers do not give one flying fuck about talented people leaving. When talented people leave, they're replaced with cheaper people who can do decent enough work that the quality of the end product doesn't noticeably suffer. Come to think of it, they also don't really give a fuck if the quality of the end product suffers.
Honestly, Gitea have started on the open core route, I'm skipping over them and have gone to Forgejo
And it has (had?) a decent slack plugin so you can avoid running slack...
Meta's digital censorship targets art from the Leopold Museum
Your ISP and every single network between you and the server your connected too. Better hope that your connection does go via any major internet exchanges or data centres, because we know full well they’re all tapped by various three letter agencies hoovering up endless amounts of metadata
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(finds the first channel I read on page 7)
It isn't distasteful, it is harmful.

I asked a question recently to someone and got a "like" back as the "answer". I then spent one minute pondering wtf this message even was (it was the first of its kind that I received) and another pondering wtf the respondent meant as the question was not of the form "do you like XXX?".

This "feature", at least in this case, was not a form of communication of but a disruptive form of confusion.

This "feature" is not just distasteful but actively harmful and anti to accepted email communication norms. On Slack it's annoying enough but it's a norm so it is merely distasteful.

In email, I see it as yet another EEE method from Microsoft.