skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a business continuity plan, not some altruistic gesture.

Why is there someone always making this comment every time a company or someone rich does something good for a bunch of people?

There's no such thing as altruism, with humans it's all self-interest, and that's good actually. Might as well point out that the water is wet. So why make this comment?
Thank you! A year on this crappy UI and I never discovered that organically. Such a great discoverable UI.
there are cases where you need the semicolons; the following code will complain 1 is not a function

let t=1
(() => {
console.log(t)
})();
Losing a hobby (and how I found it again)
I find more reference to subculture in the dicussions that I never knew existed. Most of the time I start with the discussion and then decide if I want to read the content. This is a particularly interesting discussion because of the nature of the subject. Frequently there are these hidden references that just need to be expanded.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41401224

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> Goodwolf is the name he uses for interviews and is not his legal name.
I read this and immediately suspected that he is a furry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Brazilian_Congress_attack
They will 100% be bailed out. A lot of powerful people have cash stacked in commercial real estate. That is half the reason for RTO mandates.

Has commercial real estate ever corrected in the last 30 years?
Linux is also there to be run "in desktop mode" which is just a regular Linux installation.

This allows you to for example run games not on Steam or with a dock and a screen/mouse/keyboard use it as a complete desktop.
I believe that it means "I disagree". It seems common on platforms where language is not sophisticated, but rarely do I see these on HN.
Various ways to compute this.[1][2] Steel products and scrap are both imported and exported, which confuses things. The data at [3] above seems to treat steel imports as new metal because their recycling inputs are not known.

[1] https://www.steel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AISI-and-SM...

[2] https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2024/mcs2024-iron-steel...

[3] https://pubs.usgs.gov/myb/vol1/2018/myb1-2018-recycling.pdf
Can you qualify this statement? It’s 2024, Kubernetes is old tech and bullet proof at that.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps that could be part of why they are in fact wealthy?
There is no difference to what the USA and UK have done and continue to do to Assange and what China and Russia do to journalists they don’t like.

The idea that the west are the “good guys” hasn’t been true for a long time, if ever. China is just better at technology and large scale coordination than the US, so they are way better at building and deploying and operating large scale surveillance systems. The US will catch up in a few decades.

I believe this is inevitable. There is no meaningful opposition to pervasive surveillance in US government and there is no useful political action that can be undertaken by the public to turn this tide.
You live on an extreme road where road engineering can't do much due to the given environment and possibly low budget if the road is not that important. Though anything that slows vehicles before entering this stretch of road, or a much less harmful obstacle to heighten their awareness could improve the situation.

Roads where planners have a literal blank sheet is where roads need to be designed better to slow down drivers to the desired speed limit. Sometimes it's as simple as adding traffic islands for pedestrians, narrowing the road or planing trees next to the road.
I've used the Samsung Notes app that came with it for pen-based note-taking. I will admit that I am not a student, so I wasn't heavily note taking. But I found it pleasant and satisfying to use.

I also have the keyboard that magnets to the tablet -- my only complaint about it is it's too small (kinda my fault because I have the 10" or whatever size of tablet though) - and the top (number) row is crowded and misaligned compared to a normal keyboard, so I get a lot of typos involving the right half of that row, and sometimes strike the infernal screenshot key up there. I haven't seriously looked into it yet, but I would definitely consider another keyboard if it attached the same way (don't really want another device to have to charge separately).
Ladybird is vaporware at this point.
banandy’s (https://banandys.com) proposes the even more radical solution: 32 hour days and a 2-day, 40-hour work week. we’ve divided our workdays into eight 5-hour shifts, allowing for optimal productivity without burning out. the longer days mean you can enjoy a full weekend without the guilt of unfinished work hanging over your head. plus, with our unique brunches, employees get to relax and recharge multiple times throughout the day.
Who else is there to blame for Twitter refusing to designate a representative, leading to a ban?

I'm sure pre-Musk Twitter wouldn't have lost the entire market in the 7th most populous country.
(nsfw-ish) There are uses of emoji related to phonetics. E.g.:

> Sometimes people will simply use the corn emoji in place of the word 'porn', too.

https://www.capitalfm.com/internet/corn-meaning-porn-explain...

Similarly rooster emoji (cock) and cat emoji (pussy) have language dependent double meanings.

https://www.threads.net/@authorjennplummer/post/C6pKkIlSPUM
Ah yes, Parkinson's Law.

(defun parkinsons-law (k m p n)
(/ (+ (* 2 (expt k m))
p)
n))

Where:
The retval is the number of new employees to be hired annually
k is the number of employees who want to be promoted by hiring new employees
m is the number of working hours per person for the preparation of internal memoranda (micropolitics)
p is the difference between the age at hiring and the age at retirement
n is the number of administrative files actually completed
> One of Murray’s theses was that, historically, rural communities had a mix of intelligent (and not so intelligent) individuals. Gradually over time, the world has become more globalized, so it is easier to move from the farm to industrialized areas.

Confirming some of my most scared priors. There's very little hope for a united states when so many regions so want for purpose & role models & possibility.

Possibility by definition moves itself away, to where more is possible. I think fo Discworld, of the back and forth banter over whether the main character is lucky & has fortuned their way through things, or whether they are incredibly unlucky to end up still having landed on the expedition.
Microsoft has Linux on Azure.

Amazon doesn’t force everyone onto graviton cores, and offers competing cores.

It’s just the nature of business.
FWIW, one python project I'm working on uses an obscure Framework, and ORM. I was contemplating to convert it to FastAPI+Pydantic, however the amount of effort needed was no different than rewriting the whole project.
So the thing does not work except if they know a friend who knows a friend who can pull some strings to get them an ultra low interest rate loan.

But I try to understand why one would give me a loan at loss for them, unless they expect a favor in return
Nostr is a protocol. Bluesky is a product.
Why live in the Bay Area?
I took a very cursory look at the code, and it looks like this is just a standard Markov chain. Is it doing something different?
Do you really think the explosion in government spending is the result of austerity?
Space is big, really big, even if it looks small. I doubt you would be able to block enough but that is just armchair guessing. Things like reemission might also help?
Chromium can be forked. Minor browsers like Brave or Vivaldi do that, although they have to keep up with upstream, but they are shipping an ads-blocker that are blocking Google's search ads.

Note that Firefox or Safari aren't going after Google's business due to the search deal. At this point, Google is funding all 3 major browser engines, so they have a level of control going beyond just controlling Chromium.
Can you elaborate on how to do that without duplicating style configurations?
> This is a painfully tortured argument aimed at establishing that private citizens pushing private businesses to avoid buying ads on a website is illegal censorship

This lawsuit is just so strange. I suppose corruption is probably the only possible way it wouldn't get thrown out, because it seems quite baseless on its own.

Remember kids, corporations can spend unlimited money on political ads (this is free speech, you see), but they're definitely not allowed to say anything bad about social networks they don't like! That's not protected speech at all!
There is another way: decode it in your media centre and send it analogue to your amplifier. Remember when media centres were actually capable? It has to be decoded to analogue somewhere. Dolby digital and DTS are not the only way to get surround (also good stereo is better than shit surround, but let's assume you mean good surround).

The whole thing about HDMI is a circular argument. You can only use HDMI because you can only use HDMI. There's nothing technical stopping another cable supporting this stuff. That was my original point. We're in this situation for silly reasons, not technical reasons.
I wish that also northern Europe data would be visualised, since those countries generally are more rich than southern ones.
>Regardless of what you think of Musk, where's your outrage over this blatant authoritarianism?

"Billionaire's toy social media network gets banned after blowing off entire country's judicial system" doesn't exactly sounds like "blatant authoritarianism". When I listen carefully, it sounds closer to "rule of law".
I tried to ask my amazing google AI to send a text message today, and it couldn't fucking do it

The tech still sucks, and everyone loves to ignore that it is constantly wrong

ask an AI to help you with a Makefile to see what I mean lmao
If you've ever shuffled cards, you may have noticed that you can generate a deck sequence no one has ever seen before rather easily.

None of the cards are unique, but the sequence can be.

The GP specifically said that accurate predictions can be derived from the patterns in the model, not that it contains a list of all the facts one by one.
It’s fairly well known in the specific domain space the author is dealing with, so I think it’s fair to treat it as implicit.

But for more reading https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps2/Graphics_Synthesizer

The author has a bunch of other things in their post they don’t expand upon either which are significantly more esoteric as well though, so I think this is very much geared for a particular audience.

A few link outs would have helped for sure.
I think people see Musk differently from how he actually is. Or at least how he sees himself.

He has always said, for many years, that he got into SpaceX to work towards the goal of making humans a multiplanetary species, and he got into electric cars to work towards the goal of having a sustainable energy society.

I think he legitimately believes that “the woke mind virus” is an existential threat to our society, and if that threat isn’t addressed then the other goals don’t matter because society will collapse before they can be realized.

From a near term business perspective his political actions are dumb, but from a personal motivation perspective they make total sense.

Or in other words, Musk is primarily driven by a savior complex, not greed (which is unfortunate for investors).
Just a thought - looking at it another way, "code", in the popular zeitgeist, has an association with rigid, unchanging processes. I feel like perhaps, the sentiment comes from that? Like, even if you're just implementing bubble sort in Python - a rigid, simple algorithm - there are so many ways to express that algorithm. In a sense, it may be closer to English, or other written languages, than many non-programmers expect.
Same here, but IMO it is related to skill and experience.

Once you get sufficiently familiar with some paradigm the training wheels can come off.

“Raw” SQL is already an abstraction. Over time all the implicit magic will get on your nerves. Trying to shoehorn two completely different worlds into one abstraction is not worth it: you get to learn today’s untransferable funky ORM syntax and idiosyncrasies while losing sight of the actual skill that matters long term which is SQL itself.

I concede however that handling of SQL, the field names, the relations, is annoying. But it’s core to the problem you are probably solving (some form of CRUD). Plumbing is annoying but as a plumber I’d say get used to it instead of wishing to be dancer.

I notice this in other aspects of my work as well. When I switched away trom desktop environment to terminal I had the same feeling. It’s easier, less hassle, less wonky abstractions, more direct. Completely counter to what popular culture is telling me.
> suggests that the solicitous, authoritative tone that AI models take—combined with them being legitimately helpful and correct in many cases—could lead people to place too much trust in the technology.

Haven't there been reports lately that people don't trust the news? I'd think that the search engines' AI models would suffer the same fate given similar levels of accuracy.

> No one person, or even government, can tamper with every link displayed by Google or Bing.

Well, Google or Bing can.
Consumer Financial Protection Circular 2024-03
The foundation of any society are rules.

So unless you think every society is totalitarian your point makes no sense.
Archive.today is the master domain which should redirect to the best one for one's location:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
It’s both. Each emoji has a pictographic meaning as defined by Unicode, but there’s also a language that has arisen contextually on social media. For example the “painting nails” emoji may refer to painting one’s nails, but it can also mean “whatever” as in “whatever you say I’m just painting my nails”.

Or the skull emoji which has a variety of meanings relating to being metaphorically dead - “I’m dying from laughing”, “you’re fucked”, etc.

There’s also the controversy over the acceptability or not of using the sobbing emoji to represent laughter.
Even assuming a perfectly efficient government with good intentions, you should not expect to benefit from more than a fraction of your tax money if you are above median income.
A limited number of bits means a limited amount of information.
Agreed. As an interjection, consider Scooby's 'Huh?' sound from the early 1970s cartoon series.
People who acquire money simply reset the goalposts.

ESPN recently did a movie on what happened to poor people who suddenly became multi-millionaires when they joined a pro sports team.

TLDR: they quickly spent it all and wound up with nothing. It turns out to be amazingly easy to burn through a million dollars.
The tools for the most part. One doesn't have to hack the system in order to make it POSIX-compliant.

Mac doesn't make a better developer of course, but it's better than having Windows.
Show HN: I made CMS less than 15 kilobytes, flat file
https://github.com/turboblack/HamsterCMS

http://web1.0hosting.net/ - free hosting based on this CMS
At $14k a piece, buying a vacuum forge just to make one video is an eye popping price to pay!

I wonder what else could the forge be used for in future videos?
Because I regularly need to change configurations in snap applications, and it's a huge pain. Or I want the application to make use of files in a location, and they can't access them because they're snaps.
This is just not true anymore. I went through the pain of using it early and there were times to feel like that, but t brings far more to the table than it costs anymore…
Contrary to the (most of the) rest of the comments here, I quite enjoyed this. It's refreshing to get a (relatively former) outsider's take on a world that's a majority of one's working hours. Is the content of this article useful to my code, or how I decide what language to write in? Not at all. But it's useful, as another anecdote or datapoint, to help understand how people outside my head see what I do.
> he legitimately believes that “the woke mind virus” is an existential threat to our society

Sure. I don't think he's a hypocrite. He has, however, hyper fixated on a topic that's in vogue in tech circles but totally irrelevant elsewhere.

Unlike in technology, where one can credibly fail upwards, doing that in politics comes at the cost of influence. And in this block order we're seeing, tangibly, the consequences of Elon Musk's deteriorating influence.
> For servers especially, ubuntu is often inappropriate. For instance a GUI is not often desirable in a server only computer.

Ubuntu works fine headless. No one I know who uses Ubuntu on servers is using a GUI.
It might be they’re just against taxes. How could that be a surprising thing to you?

In democracies, the massive bulk of people are voting to steal the money of the rich. That’s not cool.
That isn't a political statement. The flow from "we won't shove you in a database" to "the non-existent database was leaked" is something that's independently verifiable.

> left/right

Yes, many people care about freedom

> going to have a hard time accepting self-driving cars

I'm usually optimistic, but I don't think public sentiment matters here. To the extent it does, it'll be some sort of Faustian bargain, where the law says your car must have a backup camera (arguably useful) and as a byproduct brings in unwanted, undisclosed tracking and also remote takeover capabilities through radio bugs (buffer overflows plus poorly designed canbus access). However self-driving inflicts itself on the masses, it'll be in a series of small enough steps that the freedom crowd can't appropriately fight back.
I used Django a lot from about 2007 to 2010 and, then, went for several years without using it at all. When I came back to it, I was delighted to find that everything still worked like it was supposed to, just better. Congrats on getting it right on the first try. That's...not something that happens very often in software.
When it comes to human rights, unfortunately, the notion got perverted by USSR and its allies.

The difference between the US and the rest of the world is that the US has the First Amendment, which it upholds. So, for example, in the US "hate speech" is not banned, and while inciting violence is banned, it must be literal incitement:

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

This is important, because freedom of speech was supposedly allowed behind the Iron Curtain as well, as long as it wasn't "going against the socialist order" or "promoting fascism" (with capitalism or social democracy being just light fascism). Various countries found ways to pay lip service to human rights, while being authoritarian.
In agreement with your overall point, accounting and legal is different though.

For accounting, it's not a simple cost center, and is at the front line to show the numbers. They can say how much it will cost to not comply with a rule, or how much they saved by creativity or ingenuity. Being that close to the money is a tremendous advantage.

Legal is more distant, but there's a clear scale of how much is on the line. When you review a contract, it's pretty clear what’s at stake if legal work is botched.

That's my main takeaway: if you care about money, you need to be as close to it as possible. At the same skill level, dealing with user security or financial transaction security won't pay the same.
occam's razor says probably not
> X isn’t profitable so does retaining a bunch of users from a country with relatively low disposable income really matter?

Oh, I totally agree with you. But they're not worth negative money. This was a cheap stunt for both sides to pull off. But it's still a stunt. X's TAM has been cut. Brazil's reputation harmed. But both men have personal interests that make those costs worth it, and there isn't anyone in their respective domains who can check them.
I used Doctrine for a few years, and I remember thinking that it was about 50% awesome and 50% terrible. I wonder what I would think if I came back to it today.
Contributing to an IRA or HSA.
Its funny because we are really close to being able to invoke software apps and tools like that..
I was managing a database cluster that served 30% of the population of my entire country.

We rarely needed to restart the hosts or database service (maybe once in every two years), and even if we had the failover process took minutes and it was automated. Without Kubernetes.

Nowadays people often think that Kubernetes is the only answer for scalability and automation problems.

As the matter of fact we had another product that was running on Kubernetes, they are now migrating off from it, turned out that the old school approach with bare EC2 instances, Ansible, Terraform and Packer is much more reliable, scalable and cost effective than Kubernetes.

I have to add that yes, we had to write some custom tools, but it was way less effort than managing a K8S cluster and all the software/operators/controllers that are needed for running your workload on it.
Batches for Recursive Data Structures
IANAL but from what I understand, folks will be able to use the current version of the software as it is currently licensed, forever. The author is making clear their intent to change the license on a certain date, at which point new versions of the software will only be available under AGPL.

I agree it's odd that folks who use this software something that isn't a "competitive offering" may have to open-source their software stack if they upgrade to a new version in 2028. But, they will always have the option to use an older version of the software that is still covered by the BSL.
Yes I agree. That’s a valid argument, but there are other ways as well like SQLKata and other query builders.

Depending on the complexity of the product I think writing standard SQL92 will get you far as well.

I don’t get how an ORM will handle Postgres’ CTEs and windowing functions. Those are pretty basic and extremely useful features to me, but those require dropping to raw SQL. Each vendor has those useful particularities that you immediately lose by going ORM.

So in practice you are already required to make your queries as bland as possible where GROUP BY and JOIN is about as complex as it will get. I’d say just do SQL92 work around the limitations - which is something you’ll have to do anyway, but now more directly - and all major vendors will work OOB.
> Will there be additional parts that cover how to create GROUP BY queries in the ORM? I find even seasoned Django developers struggle with these.

The last time I needed to do that, I ended up crying "uncle" and writing manual SQL. I wasn't happy about doing it, but I was happy that the framework left me an escape hatch so that I could.
Loans Reviews: Quick Cash or Debt Trap?
Back in the day I wrote a Google frontend so that I could get search results on a low-bandwidth connection (basically just a fancy proxy server). I bet you could similarly block out the suggestions.

Actually, you could probably just DNS block those? I'll check later on desktop, but Google has a habit of throwing everything on a new domain.
I had it!!!
So what can brazil do to shut down Bluesky if it starts hosting the same illegal accounts?