skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also mean this respectfully, this is an interesting discussion and it's easy to lose intent in text.

I don't think your view is quite right here either. I'm not voting for an administration, I am actually only voting for the President. I would agree that I'm voting for a person who I trust to make executive decisions, including hiring and outsourcing, but voting for a person and their judgement is still different than voting for the administration comprised of unelected officials. Candidates generally don't announce their cabinet and department appointments until after the election, and it is fairly common for a second term President to shake things up after a reelection.

There's an interesting caveat to competence in getting things done. I definitely agree the Biden administration has gotten projects done, I just don't agree with quite a few of them.

I think we're worse off for the debt racked up by said programs, and the Inflation Reduction Act was a horribly named and fundamental misguided program that printed and spent new money in an attempt to reduce inflation. Whether you use the old definition of inflation, increasing the money supply, or the new definition, consumer price increases, adding new money into the system isn't a sound approach.

I also dislike much (all?) of what is in Project 2025, though I haven't personally seen Trump stand behind it or allude to any intentions of implementing it. Happy to be wrong there if I've missed something, I have a habit of tuning out when he starts talking.
That's why I was asking about you stressing "must". In that case it's a mix of fetch before the screen, fetch to replace placeholders, fetch details on demand. That sounds like it breaks your "most fetch before rendering" rule.
Funky Circle Image Effect with Tailwind CSS
Sorry, existential dread sucks.

Hope you find some more things that bring joy.

(I know platitudes are grating, but I thought you might want to know someone is rooting for you.)
If you look at the percentage breakdown it’s much more modest, so it appears to be an indication of how much the participants were already spending on alcohol. Also if you filter by “high income” beverage spending appears to switch to marijuana, and there the % breakdown remains high (no pun intended)
Originally covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41042004
I agree and rank declining religiosity above any economic excuse
What industry do you think Tom Ford was talking about?
I'm not sure how they wrote up that whole article without bringing up looking at the AST representation of the code being diffed.
I upvoted this but I also wanted to say as well that this summary is valuable for me to gain a better groundwork for an undoubtedly complex topic. Thank you for the additional context.
It just means “vinyl” but it sounds more upscale than it is
del is not a printing character. it's a control character. if you run a paper tape full of del characters through a teletype it does not print anything. it has to have that bit pattern, even though it greatly complicates the mechanics of the teletype (which has to do all the digital logic with cams and levers) because that way it can be punched over any character on the paper tape to delete it

a figure caption in this page says 'This is a historical throwback to paper tape, where the keyboard would punch some permutation of seven holes to represent the ones and zeros of each character. You can’t delete holes once they’ve been punched, so the only way to mark a character as invalid was to rewind the tape and punch out all the holes in that position: i.e. all 1s.' which is mostly correct, except that it wasn't a historical throwback; paper tape was perhaps the most important medium for ascii not just in 01963 and 01967 but probably in 01973, maybe even in 01977. teletype owners today are still using paper tape that was manufactured during the vietnam war, where it was used in unprecedented volume for routing teletype messages by hand

the dominant early pc operating system, cp/m (if it's not overly grandiose to call it an 'operating system') had system calls for reading and writing the console, the disk, and the paper tape punch and reader. when i hooked up a modem to my cp/m system to call bbses, i hooked it up as the punch and reader
It's not about means-testing, it's about setting income tax rates/brackets sanely so that it gets taxed back in an appropriate way and not in a way that prevents people from picking up work, etc.
That doesn’t really answer the question, though, they didn’t ask if it was more/less efficient than a human (which itself isn’t even a question that could be answered, as there’s no way to benchmark thoughts). I am really unsettled by the way LLMs are being imbued with presumptive analogs to the functions of the brain. I wish the entire industry would take it down a notch. The technology is incredibly fascinating, and has real potentials, but claiming it could be compared at any level to human minds, in my opinion, reflects an ignorance of the underlying technology, or the mechanisms of the brain, or else a cynical cash grab using hype and lingo to convince the wider world that it’s something it just isn’t. They used to be metaphors, but now the distinctions are much blurrier.
Here's a recent demo video with sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmkKydWRpZU

Apparently this is their 5th gen and they have a more recent 6th gen aircraft but I didn't spot a similar unedited video like this of it.
> As soon as you have validation or escaping, having a record separator character loses its entire purpose. The existence of the character is predicated on the idea that you don't have to do that, and that idea is false.

I disagree with this - the data needs to be stored somehow, and while other characters (like comma) can be used, having a dedicated character can help - for example if the data might legitimately contain commas or newlines but not unit separators or record separators, then escaping isn't needed if you use unit/record separators (although validation is still necessary).
> which was how he was able to discard huge numbers of votes covertly last year

I don't think it was very covert–the conference organizers are required to release their data, which they did, and the voting issues were immediately apparent.
I love when friends do this. It's hard to keep up with people and what they're up to. Publishing and letting people subscribe to me is a great way to share things. A few examples of some friends who are doing this:

Justin Searls (fairly known in Ruby and Rails community) mostly quit a lot of various social channels though publishes on some of them one direction. He started a podcast that wasn't meant to be guests of some specific topic, it's just him updating you on things. What he's working on, what he's learning, random stories, etc. - https://justin.searls.co/casts/

Brandur who I've worked with at a couple of places (Heroku previously, and now Crunchy Data) who writes great technical pieces that often end up here also has more of a personal newsletter. While there are technical pieces in there at times he'll also talk about personal experiences my favorite one is some of the unique experiences hiking the Pacific Trail (https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/039-trails).
I'd also like to add to this; that the ability to consecutively create additional warheads is not of any particular inherent value, especially when our reserve count is more than enough to wipe out any and all civilization - regardless of target diversity.

It's not like missiles or ammo, where the more we produce in times of conflict, the more of an upper-hand we have. We've already reached the ceiling for the finite amount of nuclear warheads required to do the most conceivable damage. Beyond is irrelevant.
Huh, kinda funny, I feel the exact same way. Few people IRL know about my website, 2-3 people occasionally write in a year about something, but weirdly it feels like the idea of a personal, non commoditized internet space has become so rare it's seen as odd.
Peter Watts novels play by anime rules half the time. "This biological creature can accelerate its whole body across a room and then decelerate to a complete stop in 40ms." "Vampire is super duper smert so she can stomp her feet to precisely manipulate extremely chaotic physical systems to achieve the exact outcome she wants". No other author keeps me so thoroughly engaged while making me constantly roll my eyes.
Accept they also provide the security, billing/invoicing, IaaC, support, provisioning, scaling, list goes on.

As for pay per server vs pay per usage. Heck you know Amazon actually bills the team who caused the cost. And gives finance a report on how much each team is spending and on what. Good luck doing that on prem.
No, the connections are what matters. A may be friends with both B and C, but that doesn't mean that B is necessarily friends with C.
At Propel, we moved from Honeycomb and CloudWatch to SigNoz and ClickHouse, and we're pretty happy with the transition. We've significantly reduced our costs and gotten similar functionality. We like the traces that Signoz gives us. ClickHouse is a beast. The open-source Signoz has some limitations that are kind of random , like the limit on alerts.
I enabled this four months ago and I have had the same experience.

It’s not that I couldn’t retype the config file I accidentally wrote over while tinkering, but I like the safety that comes with Timeshift to try and fail a few times.

Hard lessons come hard. This softens those lessons a little while maintaining the learning.
> It will help keep college cheap: if what they teach is worthless then students should welch.

Just the opposite, presumably the best colleges that product the highest earning graduates cost the most, those high earning graduates would be might more incentivized to start over than someone with a lesser degree because at least they'd be part of a high paying field and immune from needing to use credit.

>Maybe put the school on the hook in some way too, forcing it to actually screen for talent (which would absolutely murder DEI lol), that way investor isn't totally SOL if the school was the useless party.

You're so wrongheaded there, I don't even know how to get you on the right track, but companies, and schools, with so called diversity hires do better overall. Schools already screen for talent and the ability to graduate, DEI initiates just have them look a little harder in an expanded pool.
> The problem is that we don't have such a system, and as a result, the proposition of harm is in itself already a credible threat and therefore harmful.

But we also don't really have an airtight system for censoring people we don't like, and we certainly shouldn't build one.

When you have to make a change from the status quo to get what you want, make the good change, not the ugly hack someone is promptly going to use against you as soon as you turn your back.

> I will note that from my perspective it is a logical conclusion that the insufficient policing and regulation of violence (and tools of violence) in the US in particular is directly detrimental to the expression of free speech.

Eh. "Tools of violence" are largely a red herring. The tool of violence for a lynch mob is rope. The most common tool of violence for acts of terrorism is explosives, which can be made from the stuff in the average garage or kitchen. You don't get there by banning rope or cooking oil, you get there by deterring would-be murderers with the threat of prosecution.

Notice the circumstances under which these things happen. The first is when the government isn't prosecuting the offenders for acts of violence, e.g. the KKK in its heyday. The second is when the offenders are zealots or otherwise mentally ill and thereby undeterrable, e.g. religious terrorism or lone wolf mass murderers. The first, then, is easy; you prosecute them and they're deterred.

The second is extremely difficult to eliminate, because what are you going to do, institute a police state? Try to restrict access to elements necessary for human life because a chemist could make them into a weapon? But it's also rare. It's not the real problem.

The real problems, in terms of fatalities, don't work anything like most people think they do. The large majority of firearms fatalities in the US are suicides and accidents. Then the people who use a partisan frame or think every problem looks like a nail will still argue that you could get somewhere by banning guns, but since that doesn't pass, a realist might want to direct their efforts to things like improving mental health services or subsidizing gun safes.

But then we're into politics. If you subsidize gun safes or similar and that actually reduces the number of kids playing with daddy's guns, you can't run on fixing it anymore. "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
I have an AMD Threadripper 7000 system with DDR5 ECC registered RAM, one stick per channel (maximum) and I've noticed that one corrected bit error is logged every few hours.
The Parquet We Could Have (Pco Parquet)
> Once you have identified an activity as being more luck than skill driven, a person’s process for the activity starts to become a much stronger signal for whether or not they are actually any good.

This is the central point of the article, and I don't think it's true. If it were as easy as "following a good process", then anyone could get rich investing.
They broke a private company into many competing companies. Then, at various times, they forced the companies to serve customers in ways they were simply unwilling to. They’d tell lies why it couldn’t be done. After regulation or threat of it, they rapidly accomplished what they previously couldn’t.

A recent example that isn’t regulation so much as revealing was Google Fiber vs established telecoms. The established companies had low speeds on purpose in many areas. They couldn’t do better. After Google Fiber hit, we’d sometimes see a comparable offering show up in just that area very quickly. As in, they could’ve done it the whole time but refused to soak up more profit.

That’s the kind of abuse that regulation is supposed to deal with. Whereas, the breakup was using regulation to force the companies to operate like a free market. That’s often necessary because the companies will make more profit if they collude to cheat customers. Or workers as we saw in the wage scheme in Silicon Valley.
Bankruptcy stays on your credit report for 7 years, but doesn't lock you out of the credit market. Someone with a high paying job has relatively easy access to credit regardless of recent bankruptcies. At most it effects them for a year or two, but new graduates aren't really making any big purchases using credit immediately after graduation anyway.
Please try quitting entirely. My cold turkey took a week and a half and involved intense muscle pain (going from drinking a coffee and a tea each day). I believe the caffeine was building up in my system, although I could be wrong.

I strongly recommend Barleycup as an alternative morning cuppa.
Booking.com reported net income of 4.2 billion in 2023. More than American Airlines ($822 million), United ($2.6 billion) and almost as much as Delta (4.6 billion). Meanwhile Booking.com has no planes, no hotels, no rental cars, no inventory of anything, really.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/bkng/financial...

https://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2024/American-Airlines...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UAL/united-airline....

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/delta-air-lines-full-2023-103...
I wish the author had included the full ascii chart in 4 bits across / 4 bits down. You can mask a single bit to change case and that is super obvious that way.

The charts that simply show you the assignments in hex and octal obscure the elegance of the design.
In a desktop linux terminal, Ctrl-^ or Ctrl-~ work for me. In a tty, I need to press Ctrl-V before them.
Directories and hardlinks take up space, just very little.

It would make sense to hardlink a directory if everything in that tree was unchanged, but no filesystem will allow hardlinking a directory due to the risk of creating a loop (hardlinking to a parent directory), so directories are always created new and all files in the tree get their own hardlink.

Apple's Time Machine was given an exception in their filesystem to allow it, since they have control over it and can ensure no such loops are created. So it doesn't have that penalty creating hardlinks for every single individual file every time.
Reminded me a short article: https://signalvnoise.com/archives/000324

> We’re not designers, or programmers, or information architects, or copywriters, or customer experience consultants, or whatever else people want to call themselves these days… Bottom line: We’re risk managers.
If you're a large commercial software house, with $$$$$ of revenue riding on things working/being able to develop features quickly the usual "contact support, tell them about issue, wait for fix" flow can cost you a lot of time and money.

Even large businesses that don't produce software as a product often have internal dev teams that customize third party software to their needs (at least in the particular vertical that I'm involved in).

It's immaterial in these cases whether the code is properly open source or not, but being able to go in yourself and fix minor bugs that are blocking you in hours/days rather than the weeks/months it might take the vendor to get back with a fix is practically a hard requirement for any dependencies that are core to your business.
> Flat buttons save precious space on tiny mobile devices.

You're probably mistaking a flat button for a link / undecorated button. Apple's HIG refers to these as plain buttons for iOS[1]. I'm referring to flat vs bevelled[2], which take up the same space.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

[2] https://image.non.io/428397dc-93ae-4158-8b71-323bd11182a0.we...
Swimming? I can't think while swimming.
Is there anyone out there that will make a GC Nano for a fee? Don't have time / skillz to do this myself but I want one
Possible electromigration damage, yes.
From a negotiation perspective, it seems the domain owner has set an upper limit to how much they could make from the domain.
Based on what I know about corporations, it's entirely plausible that the folks posting the information don't actually have access to the communication channels you are referring to. I don't even know how I would issue an official communication at my own company if the need ever came up... so you go with what you have.
> You’re getting mad because

Anyone who uses this "trick" automatically loses whether they know it or not.
There are ways to turn that off if you don't like it.
Technically it was never an acronym - rather an initialism or abbreviation.
Liabilities are obligations of a company to pay money owed to a lender as a result of a previous transaction.

You are describing an operating expense which has an entirely different nature than a liability.

'comes with a maintenance liability' is a handwaving statement that means practically nothing without a ton of contextual information. A true liability has a contractual set of obligations to pay defined amounts on a agreed upon schedule. No one is going to come after you for not changing the oil on your truck, try missing payments on a lease.
Space Geodesy Project
> So Netflix expects open source community to pick up the maintenance tab?

Isn’t this the deal with all open source? They are giving something (the code and access to the project) in return for help maintaining it?

No one is being forced to do anything. It is not like there is some open source contributor somewhere now saying, “oh damn, now I have to maintain this, too?”

If people like it and find value in it, they can help contribute to the project in ways they want. Netflix gets to use those contributions, in return for letting people use their contributions. That is just how open source works.
It's the megahertz wars all over again!
Lost but Lovely: The Haversine
Thus, the need for the Air Force to appropriate a multitrillion dollar black-box budget to develop a Sub-Supersonic Invisible and Noiseless Defensive Second-Strike Offensive Attack Bomber that flies faster than light so that you can bomb someone yesterday.
Fisker Going Bankrupt
It is a free gift, because you keep receiving it even if you dont make money next year.

And that's right, its not meant to pay for people who can pay their way themselves, just like in most income redistribution schemes the rich would be taxed at several (thousand?) multiples of the value they receive back.

In the current regime, the rich gain far more benefits from taxes (they pay little, and get to offload much of their cost of society to the rest of us) than in a UBI approach. That's the point.
What's your source of truth other than polling women and watching their actual choices?
It's not just about salary.

Of course the assumption is that they have to pay more for more experience.

But it's also about perceived power and control. Younger workers are seen as more compliant, and many managers do not feel comfortable hiring underlings who are older.
People who run bots have IDs.
You're essentially stating the obvious of informal adult relationships: Communicate what each is offering or can offer and see if it works for both for the sake of an agreement. The previous comment I replied to bothered me specifically because it seemed to take the position that by dating a woman, a man is automatically obligated into supporting her children and childcare needs, which is... plainly ridiculous.
The problem here is nobody milk-related cares and it would most likely get bought by a VC funded startup and become the name of some sort of AI js bundler tool.
> GP must make an account and, in their view, endorse those opinions

The view that having an account on a service is an endorsement of every opinion of everyone else who uses the service is baloney.
I do and I play duplicate bridge, a game that has taken the luck out of a card game. I just like poker theory - I ran a bot for years - and I just don’t like variance that much and I guess I like the game for the strategy more than who has the most chips at the end, although obviously without the hazard it’s not anywhere as entertaining
Video lectures: https://vimeo.com/showcase/the-ivs-vlbi-school

Discovered via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41000925
Don’t forget good ole `=` for comparing numbers.
Well it's extending the browser. There are plenty of situations where ignoring or modifying the browser preferences would be the optimal path.

Cookie management it an easy area to point to as an example.
> Like look at this 20 core processor! Oh wait, it's really an 8 core when it comes to performance.

The E cores are about half as fast as the P cores depending on use case, at about 30% of the size. If you have a program that can use more than 8 cores, then that 8P+12E CPU should approach a 14P CPU in speed. (And if it can't use more than 8 cores then P versus E doesn't matter.) (Or if you meant 4P+16E then I don't think those exist.)

> Hard to compare that to a 12 core 3D cached Ryzen with even higher clock...

Only half of those cores properly get the advantage of the 3D cache. And I doubt those cores have a higher clock.

AMD's doing quite well but I think you're exaggerating a good bit.
The health risk of social disadvantage is transplantable into a new host
Fun fact. I approached a domain squatter for my name as a domain name (obviously not going to provide it) ending in a .com. I asked out of curiosity what they wanted. They were talking on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Mind you, my name isn't... uncommon, but it's not common either, and this was a firstlast.com variety. I looked through the web archive and could see the domain had literally not ever had a website, since it was originally registered in 1995.

Now, I wasn't expecting to get it for $15 a year like a hover subscription, but still. 6 figures of value based on what?