skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks!

I've been chipping away at something similar. I mostly keep writing "what is art," "who are artists," and "what is programming" "what is a programmer?" So I may reach out. It's not formal, but is inspired from my academic career and interests.

> The first step in our study of aesthetic standards in source code will identify the aesthetic ideals ascribed by programmers to the source code they write and read; that is, the syntactic qualifiers and semantic fields that they refer to when discussing program texts. To that end, we first start by clarifying whom we refer to by the term programmers , revealing a multiplicity of practices and purposes, from massively-distributed codebases to ad hoc , one-line solutions, cryptic puzzles and printed code.

Even this paragraph is similar how I've written in terms of word choice. :)

Nice bibiliography too. Happy to see Tractatus there.
In advertising it can often be true in a sense though. A very illustrative example of this when regulations tightening advertising for cigarettes were introduced, cigarette companies started reporting more profits because they all collectively stopped advertising at the same time and got to pocket the money they would have spent on it. The pool of cigarette smokers isn't/wasn't growing that much, so all the advertising was really doing was trying to take consumers away from their competitors and the net effect was 0.

To be fair, then they started investing in vape companies and things might have changed. I don't think that's a good thing, although vapes are probably less harmful than cigarettes.
This reminds me of WOPR from War Games
They pivoted from "Luna Lang" (two words) to "Enso" (one word).
No it is not ideal and that argument does not make sense at all. It would be explaining something mostly off main topic of the story. And I would rather explain it on something real rather then randomly.

And I am not always interested in research about the original reason - how much author was or was not racist.

I don't know how you define best children's book. I found most of then boring and kids taste was not the same as my taste.
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From a historic mythical standpoint, you're absolutely correct.

I was using it as a topological (I guess technically graph-theoretic) metaphor for the self-consuming looping that was/is Uber's email support system.

Over the course of 36+ hours, multiple "support agents" kept re-quoting either my responses or their own responses as "the newest escalation". It was hilarious and also sad. I just ended up doing a charge-back on the card.
Maybe? It was from Home Depot, given their turnover i assume it was pretty new. I’m just guessing at the octane, because it sounded like the engine was running too fast, if that makes sense.
Small engines are built for e90 now, so it’s not a problem. Apart from storage.
I kind of did not liked most of them. And the ones I kind of liked were still something I would not read if I did not had to.
Mike Lynch: Tributes paid to 'UK's greatest tech entrepreneur'
id be shocked as well, but the small paragraph doesnt seem to preclude it.

people make mistakes, equipment can have unexpected behaviour, and people lie.
im curious, about if this would be considered compelled speech if someone said no you cant MITM my service unless there is an extant activity of concern.

its gotta be addressed in other section or paragraph.
May I ask why you moved from software engineering to data science?
You're under representing the sadness of lost artistry. For example, there is a marked degradation in the quality of fine art between the late classical period and the early medieval period. Civilization in a large region of Europe lost skills for centuries.

We as a society don't want to lose artistry that was painstakingly developed - there's no guarantee it will ever be developed to that level of sophistication again. I don't want future generations to look at my generation as we do the dark ages.

I think it's easy right now to think that progress is guaranteed or the opposite - that it's impossible to achieve. As population levels out civilization will need to become more about archiving what we know than pushing the envelope but no one wants to lose information.
> but Apple doesn't care about developers

Why? Their whole "Pro" line is targeting developers. How many enterprises/startups would have to switch away from macs if they cannot be used by their devs any more?
Define a 'habit'.
My number one requirement in calling yourself a “company for grown-ups” is that you let your employees decide what work arrangement works best for them.
You're welcome!

The Anglicans Online site wasn't captured often enough for the week you referenced to be directly accessible. While looking at the nearest capture I noticed that the Anglicans Online site itself retained past essays on a "morgue" subdomain. I was then able to use an early 2004 snapshot to find the essay from December 2003.
So, dad spend time with friends rather then with children and mother had ... nothing except childcare.
Row at Royal Society over bid to re-elect former president to head 'boys' club'
> You probably received a link to this website because you did one of the common mistakes of working remotely

This is probably a factor behind execs crying "but muh productivity" and scaling WFH back.

These are huge distractions, agreed, but not answering messages like this or responding with _a link to a fucking website telling you how wrong you are_ will never not be perceived as asshole behavior.

A better approach is to _just respond to the message_.

Saying "hey! How can I help?" Takes two seconds to write. Shit, you could probably automate this.

Responding to asks for "quick chats" with "hey; I can't do a quick call right now, but happy to talk when I'm free. Mind scheduling something on my calendar?" is much more respectful and most folks will do just that.

Sorry for the harsh language. This is the kind of incredibly elitist and condescending behavior that make people like Eric Schmidt call us "arrogant" and spend billions of their own money finding a way of getting us out of the way.
My great great grandfather was one of those who went down on the Hawke.

The news was censored, and despite rumours of what had happened, official confirmation didn’t come until after the war. His widow was told that he had deserted and she wouldn’t be receiving a pension.

Fast forward to 1942, my great grandfather is on HMS Curacoa on a foggy night, escorting the Queen Mary, which then rams the Curacoa, sinking it with almost all hands.

You’ll never guess what the admiralty did next.
Have Scholars Identified the Mysterious Somerton Man?
> That's not AMD's fault and there's nothing AMD can do here outside of releasing a proprietary driver.

Actually,

(1) it’s their product so yes, it is their fault, and blindly assuming HDMI would be willing to open-source their product for AMD (after release!) was an incredibly stupid decision from the get-go. You get legal approvals beforehand like any other company does. You certainly don’t release a whole second generation (or further cards in the same generation) without it fixing it, and you don’t continue advertising it on products that don’t support it.

(2) literally everyone else has figured it out, including intel, who has an open driver. They do it by implementing a LPCON onboard, which is perfectly fine and gets the job done. AMD is the only one with broken HDMI support under Linux.

(3) AMD already has a proprietary driver, amdgpu-pro, so this clearly isn’t a problem or burden. In fact it was and is their primary focus of development, per their communication with geohotz.

I will never understand why the AMD fan base engages in this kind of apologism for clearly broken features etc. like oh gosh poor lil AMD had no idea that hdmi was unwilling to open-source their shit, despite every single other vendor realizing this and implementing workarounds. It’s not their fault, they had no choice but to ship a broken feature, advertising it on the box, and spend 5 years leading people on that it was going to happen!

Like they are literally still shipping broken products today! Not just standalone cards, but laptops etc where it will never ever be fixable.

That’s shitty anti-consumer behavior and you’re enabling it.

At the end of the day it's AMD's product, the buck stops with them. Nobody is making them continue falsely advertising the product, and in fact it really is their job to make sure it works properly before release, not begging HDMI to open-source their product after the fact. Imagine if literally any other company had gone ahead and released the product before they knew they were legally allowed to release the product - "oops" would not cut it.
I took a crack at something like this a couple of weeks ago[0] except using ttyd. It’s been working pretty well since then and I actually really enjoy the setup.

[0] https://github.com/mattpowell/lazydocker-web
DJI and Insta360 are starting to become prominent in the action camera market with better marketing tactics (e.g. providing cameras to influencers/sponsorships).
That’s also how I lost most of
my weight. Sure, you could spend 25-45 minutes on the treadmill… or you could just not eat 5 Oreo cookies, and you would achieve the same result (from a caloric perspective).

My best tip for not eating junk food: Don’t buy it. It’s so much easier to eat chicken and rice when you don’t have a bag of Doritos on standby.
This is true, but the future is hard to see and there are multiple possible roads. It's not guaranteed to be an extrapolation of the present.

One possibility is a pivot towards immigration, but I think equally likely would be a pivot towards ever-larger financial incentives for parenthood, the kind that would make being a stay-at-home parent start to make financial sense.

A lot of young people put off parenthood not by preference, or because they're so passionate about being a corporate tax accountant, but just because they don't feel they have a choice; only one route offers financial security. That's been the reality in many developed countries since perhaps the 1970s-80s, but it won't necessarily remain true in the years ahead.

This would require that elderly people (who are an ever-growing voting bloc) support this shift of government support towards young people. It might not happen without some kind of external stimulus. But elderly people also tend not to be pro-immigration either, and presumably also don't love the idea of empty schools and playgrounds and dying towns. It's hard to say what will happen.
We either have to embrace the new world and make it work for our species in terms of population, or we have to go back to the old ways on some level (after admitting they were that way for a reason).

Here are some ideas, some wild, some controversial, some super obvious that we can try. But we never will because the backlash from the usual suspects will always be too great.

1. Pay people to have babies. Seriously, tax breaks and literally free money. E.g. for every baby a citizen makes and cares for, we'll give them enough to times their monthly salary by 1.06. You could do this tomorrow, and people would have babies. That relieves the burden placed on people for the wonderful gift they brought into the world.

2. Make daycare a universal human right. Quality care and free for all your citizens, no questions asked.

3. Give mothers 1/2/3/4/5 years worth of paid maternity leave. No, don't get the companies to pay it. Should be a government salary that matches the employer's salary with yearly growth. That way pregnant women aren't a drain on a company, but rather the burden we happily accept as a society.

4. Pay people to get married and stay married if they have kids. Maybe even make divorce a hard thing to motivate for and only for the right reasons such as abuse. We don't want divorces breaking up family homes and our baby-making factories prematurely.

Some potentially wacky ones:

5. Ban dating apps and outlaw hookup culture. We want genuine relationships and marriages to form, as they're the backbone of a culture that values generational properties such as legacy and community.

6. Make promiscuity illegal. Track who hooks up with who and you can't do more than X per year. Seriously, sex needs to be hard to attain. Side note, ban sex work and porn.

7. Subsidized baby-assistance jobs. Pay to get a nanny or au-pair or teacher in every home. Bonus points you help with the unemployment question.

8. Baby making factories or make it a profession for women to do - however workable until we figure out artificial wombs. There are so many people out there that just will never be able to get the chance to be parents even though they'd make wonderful and loving parents, why not help them by letting them adopt.

And yes I know there are many ways the above could go bad, or are riddled with "a ha gotcha" holes, but at least we'd be doing something as a society. Right now, our governments are doing nothing and just complaining "oh shame look at our poor birth rates, we wonder why. Let's just conveniently import more of them from the poorest and most incompatible countries, that outta fix it and not cause problems down the line.".

We could fund most of the above by just getting rid of all the silly government expenditures such as military and who knows what other fat we have lurking in the government.
Caracas Chronicles: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracas_Chronicles

Says once self-described as "opposition-leaning-but-not-insane" fwiw.

We in the US have big concerns with their elections and not Saudi elections for some reason. I don't think that it could be fully explained by hemisphere dominance.
Related phenomenon to this would be immigrant "time bubble", when immigrant's mental conception of their original country is frozen in time, when after decades, their origin country has moved on. Especially true in older generations that don't travel back often and fallback to what they knew.
Do moral values change with the seasons?
It wasn't intended as a refutation but a qualification, the Gastarbeiters contributed significantly to accelerate the enormous reconstruction and the Wirtschafswunder of the 60s and 70s, so the story is more complicated in a lot of places.

But to refute the actual point even though it hasn't much to do with Japan today, early industrialization was also a story of immigration. It just happened to be internal migration, i.e. urbanization. The story of getting rich in places like Manchester isn't particularly pretty, and it's a story of huge churn of uneducated rural workers and surplus labor being funneled into emerging economic centers. As it is in China or India today. For the habitual culture warrior nowadays internal migration isn't very exciting, but it is economically the exact same thing. And if you're Japan and you don't happen to have 20 million young rural folks sitting around, but you want growth, you're going to have to look for people somewhere else.
Half the internet runs on WordPress. I'd imagine they have the capital to invest in it.
>Most people don't want to have any part in a newborn being harmed

And nobody is ever the bad guy in their own story. During my sister's birth, she got stuck, and the doctor, instead of doing the normal and accepted and standard fix of breaking one bone, broke a different one instead. This damaged nerves in her arm and permanently disabled her. Turns out, he did the exact same thing to another kid in town a few years later. ALSO turns out, he had to stop practicing medicine in a different state because he kept doing that to a bunch of babies, so instead of retiring or retraining because he obviously did not know what he was doing, he moved to bumb-fuck nowhere so he could keep doing it. I bet he even thought he was a good doctor.

It is never trivially easy to get someone to do something they don't want to do, like admitting they fuck up, or that they are careless about something they don't think is important.

We only got $10k in the malpractice suit, which doesn't even cover like a year of physical therapy, for a lifelong and entirely avoidable disability of her dominant arm. She had to learn to be left handed. If our family didn't have state employee insurance, we would have never seen a doctor, like most people in poverty.
To me the issue is what people read in data. There are many suffering numberitis or they trust ANY number or "data" completely ignoring how it was established, errors and so on. Some even read the summary of an article stating their conclusion came from a certain dataset and do not even try to see that said dataset. It's not a "data" issue per se of course, but it's still an issue coming from the present data-bound way of thinking where many seems to have lost the ability of reasoning with their own mind.

I generally suggest anyone rediscover the old Abraham Wald anecdote https://www.cameronmoll.com/journal/abraham-wald-red-bullet-... before taking stanzas on data.
The ones I tried were new, of course still could be faulty. I went to the store and asked for one that would divide to both Apple lightning cable and USB-C, so my partner and I could both use it, since she has iPhone.

The store owner said that he's not sure which ones will work, so he gave many different ones which we tried in the parking lot and then brought back. He gave us only one that spreads into 3 different connectors, USB-C, Lightning and the old Micro-USB. He said that this won't likely work. Rest of the cables were all either USB-C or lightning. However when trying, contrary to what he said, the 3 different connectors one worked, and it seemed to also have best quality, e.g. compared to one lightning which definitely had much worse performance.

What I think is happening is that like someone said somewhere below as well, there's some difference in how fast or stable the data goes through the wire and something will change how they encode/decode it for those reasons. I don't know if it's the apps or the car software. I have to assume there's some sort of quality check and something will change depending on that.

It doesn't help that packaging seems to list out random details and it's hard to compare cables with each other. Some USB cables have listed the data transfer rate, some have not, but they do allow data transfer. Then others don't.
Simplified Service Management with Flox
Why does the Supreme Court situation sound so familiar, I wonder...;-p
When Firebase was first built, using a document store was a great choice for building a local abstraction that enabled optimistic updates and offline mode. But the lack of relations makes it a real schlep to change your data model when you start adding new features to your app. You end up hand-rolling joins or duplicating your data to avoid complete re-writes. [1]

With Instant, you get a relational Firebase.

[1] https://www.instantdb.com/essays/next_firebase#firebase
AI made of jelly "learns" to play Pong – and improves with practice
What are the plugins or toggles you think should be included in the app?
> Email authoring is an absolute pleasure. I really like the fact I can now compose my emails in vim.

Say no more.
Not python but literally yesterday I had do a double take when I saw https://github.com/janestreet/sexplib
We deserve everything coming to us if we elect trump again.
Aerc has been my daily driver for a long, long time. I use it with IMAP (GMail and other reasons) but its completely usable with local mail directories.

- I have redefined the Aerc key mapping with a set of Vim-like keybindings, since I am too old to learn new keybindings. And I bet now I as fast as possible slashing through countless mails…

- I configured Aerc to work properly with Gmail and Imapfilter.

- I created some filters that I missed from any mail client I ever tried (at least two keystrokes away). Like:

ff = :filter -f<space> "{{index (.From | emails) 0}}" <Enter> # filter mails from current sender
fs = :filter -H<space> subject:"{{.SubjectBase}}" <Enter> # Show Mails with the same subject
fS = :filter -H<space> subject:<Space> # filter mails with subject e.g. "fs foo" filters mails with subject containing "foo"

If someone is interested, I will link my GitHub repo.
it's material and political. the most interesting people have enough resources to focus on non-survival tasks, and the individual or collective ability to act freely. today, people generally have higher expenses, less free time, and there are more cops. you'll still see interesting culture among

1. cities where living expenses are generally high, so discretionary spending is low, but a subculture has successfully secured low-cost housing or workspace somewhere the cops can't easily go.

2. rural areas where wages are generally low, so discretionary spending is low, but a subculture has successfully exploited region-exclusive exports or experiences somewhere the cops don't bother to go.

3. wealthy people

4. indigenous people that have resisted the incursion of wage labor and state power
I'm reasonably confident their original name is in the vein of https://www.rust-lang.org/, which no one refers to as Rust Lang :P

Whereas Enso is not a word to the best of my knowledge, or certainly not in common usage.
I'd burn out quicker and have to charge more for my salary if the work was too boring
> The web devs tell me that fuckit's versioning scheme is confusing, and that I should use "Semitic Versioning" instead. So starting with fuckit version ה.ג.א, package versions will use Hebrew Numerals.

Big lol
>>> from __future__ import braces
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance

For those interested in how this (hilarious) error text came to be, it's been hardcoded in cpython since 2001!

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ad3d3f2f3f19833f59f...

The author, Jeremy Hylton, is now a Principal Engineer at Google working on AI search quality. It's quite remarkable that in 24 years, a single person's career has gone from a tongue-in-cheek memorialization of certain syntax being forbidden, to working on ubiquitous query systems that don't require dedicated syntax at all!
I miss Pine too. I could read/file/delete scores of plaintext emails in seconds using single keystrokes.

Every email client I've used since Pine has been better at dealing with all the stuff we've bolted on to email (HTML, attachments, calendar invites...) but none of them have been as efficient at the core tasks of email as Pine was.
> "All the brass work on the wreck, like the portholes and the breaches for the deck guns, are all still shiny..."

I'm not a materials science person, but doesn't brass degrade fairly quickly in saltwater? Googling around, I'm discovering "Naval Brass," which is an alloy particularly resistant to dezincification in salt water, but it doesn't sound like it was in use in 1914. But I'm also reading about some brass artifacts from centuries ago that survived relatively well underwater. Wonder if somebody who knows about this stuff could clue me in to how these things do so well underwater for so long?
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> But not really. Because if I truly cannot tell the difference between two objects or the way they sound, then they're the same to me, and I don't lose anything by listening to one over the other. If I could tell the difference, and it was important to me, then maybe I could do something about it.

Trust me, as a former piano/harpsichord tuner, that the audience absolutely can tell the difference between a perfectly tuned instrument and one that is badly tuned. They just can't put their finger on what that difference is.

It's the same as when the viola section of an orchestra is out of tune or the horns drag (both very common problems for amateur symphonies). The overall effect is "muddier" and less "brilliant" than other performances, and you can tell as a listener, but very few people in the audience can say "the violas were flat in the adagio section."
Sometimes it is easier and much faster to express what you're asking over a zoom.