skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still call my 12 year old cat a "kitty". If someone marked my answer as incorrect because "chicks aren't chickens yet" I would think they're wasting their time with riddles instead of actual intelligence testing. Besides, if the chicks were sellable to the farmer, why the hell wouldn't the farmer be able to sell them?
> To date a total of seven people who were in contact with the confirmed case have been identified as having been ill — a household member and six health care workers. One of the health workers tested negative for influenza when he or she was ill.

If all cases of illness are from the flu, that sounds pretty transmissable to me.
Is there anything like this but for `kubectl port-forward`?
I just love how the days of the week are in english, and the rubbish separation labels are in portuguese.
Yes, because people are notoriously bad at reporting things properly or accurately or with any useful measurements.
They did. They kicked off the STM project over a decade ago and produced a handful of releases. The project died on the vine:

> STM was a research project that proved that the idea is possible. However, the amount of user effort that is required to make programs run in a parallelizable way is significant, and we never managed to develop tools that would help in doing so. At the moment we're not sure if more work spent on tooling would improve the situation or if the whole idea is really doomed. The approach also ended up adding significant overhead on single threaded programs, so in the end it is very easy to make your programs slower. (We have some money left in the donation pot for STM which we are not using; according to the rules, we could declare the STM attempt failed and channel that money towards the present GIL removal proposal.)

https://pypy.org/posts/2017/08/lets-remove-global-interprete...
I think it’s annoying they interview engineers like they are Google and reading the blog they made it up and learned some basic “pitfalls” as they went along
My understanding the surprising factor that settled the debate for analog vs digital computers. was that digital computers require far less precise electronics. the voltage in an analog computer has to be exactly 5.2648 volts, every resister, capacitor, transistor has to be a high precision part, the more complex the computer the higher precision required. while in a digital computer "close to 5 volts" is good enough. this makes the components cheaper, more reliable and smaller. and as such the digital computer won.

This is why I have my doubts about existing designs for quantum computers, the quantum algorithms we are trying to solve in hardware require an analog design and we rejected analog computers before, mainly because they were unable to scale. This inability to scale is the same problem we see with quantum computers.
There are repos that folks can mirror

https://core.svn.wordpress.org/
https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/

but rest if the infrastructure is needed https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/s/bU4EzLozho
I used autossh to access hundreds of on prem client machines via a reverse SSH tunnel. Never failed me!
WordPress, HTML, CSS,
When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this
Talk to your mom about that. I'm more of a fix-it kind of guy.

But dad, the truest repair man repairs men...

-M
> ...how much of modern cloud architecture is over engineered.

I would wager a good majority of it is. The Stack Overflow architecture[0] sticks out to me in this regard as an example on the other end of the spectrum.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34950843
You could just as easily say that that is true _despite_ his leadership, instead of _because_ of it.
Unless I am missing it, all references to “North East” in your first link are accompanied by “England” directly after.
Somewhere I would like to believe there are. I certainly identify as sysadmin.
Gerstner Waves are less computationally-expensive than FFT-based waves and are comparatively easy to understand and implement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochoidal_wave
> A gun is substantially more dangerous than a jar of bees.
It also serves an actual purpose.

If you are just suspicious of anything "dangerous" without appropriate context then I question your peace of mind.

I was raised around law-abiding gun owners and have never felt unsafe in the presence of a firearm under normal circumstances provided the wielder is not intoxicated or otherwise exhibiting alarming behavior. It sounds like you just aren't used to guns.
This is a fun piece of creative writing, but I’m not quite sure of the point it’s trying to make about Notion. Is it that Notion is no longer cool? That might be true but isn’t the most insightful comment. Is it about Notion the company languishing in some way?
That's just a legacy of the strategy where NT native APIs were considered a private API, and you were meant to code against Win32 instead, to target both NT and 9x.

Syscalls are in ntdll, layered above that is kernel32 (today kernelbase), then most user mode code including CRT is above that. In 9x kernel32 were syscalls, in NT they were user mode shims above ntdll.

That's for most things. Things like gdi have kernel entry points too afaik.

Anyway my point is that the C library is developed out of band from that.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought his talk is absolutely devoid of content.
What would it matter if it’s a QR alarm clock or a regular alarm clock?

If you forget to disable either, the result is the the same.

I do agree with your other observations, and done the same to regulate my sleep to not need an alarm.
I can't meaningfully engage with substanceless arguments, and I'm not interested in exchanging snarky pot-shots that don't actually address anything being said.
WhatsApp Chat Analyzer
The dispute is a trademark dispute. It's not about use of the code at all.
They really need to use positive-pressure helmets or full face masks of some sort. SCBA or PAPR.
England == UK isn’t a thing here in Canada, but I imagine it isn’t in any commonwealth nation. I think we learned more about the UK as kids than we did about the United States.
I do purchase things I don’t need, and I’d like to do less of that. Anyone who was happy many years ago was successful in life, happiness and satisfaction is important. Your arguments do not convince me that the toxic wasteland that is advertising is useful at all.
Motivated people still have to spend their time and resources finding out, instead of just complaining like many have done.
Yeah. I haven't seen much in the way of modern textbooks but what I have seen tends to be full of garbage. Back when I was in school I couldn't stand used textbooks because they would contain someone else's highlighting and I found that very disruptive. I hate predigested garbage!

We are not alone in that. My wife has some reference books in Chinese that I believe date from the 80s. They are printed on some rather cheap materials. She was trying to find some new ones--and has failed completely. I can't read them, let alone evaluate the usefulness, but she was appalled at what she found and continues to use her taped-together stuff.
We know they were in contact, but we don't know the extent of the contact. Did they just walk into the room once and leave after 2 minutes? In early 2020 in Wuhan that would have been enough.
Funny, but how wrong are they? I haven’t had the misfortune of using Salesforce, but isn’t it a glorified relational DB in the same way that Jira is?

I know a few people at Notion, and one thing I can say is that they have taste, in the way Apple has taste. I think this shows in their product.
The thing that I’ve seen my team use it most for is explaining blocks of code. We maintain a bunch of legacy systems that don’t get touched often and are written in stacks that our engineers aren’t completely fluent with, and it can be helpful when they’ve traced an issue to a particular function but the original intent or purpose of the code is obtuse.
> Many social/legal constructs are for lack of a better term, idiotic. Step back for a second and think about what ownership actually implies? Exclusive control over a scarce resource.

It implies whatever society decides that it implies, no? For example, many societies had or have conceptions of land ownership that are dramatically different from the western model, oftentimes to the extent of not having individual land ownership at all.

> Social/legal constructs like owning ideas or the sound of a voice exist not because they make any sort of logical sense

They don't make logical sense to you. Consider that for a very long time in the US the idea of owning people made logical sense to the majority.

> they exist to give privilege and power to certain groups at the expense of others.

Do not almost all forms of ownership do this? Some people own hundreds of thousands to millions of acres of land that I have no right to access. Massive swathes of the surface of the planet that we all share. Is the ability to own land not a far greater privilege than the ability to protect your voice from being cloned without your consent?
> rotary potentiometers

Purely analogue controls like potentiometers went out of fashion because controlling for things like judder, slight creep, dead-zones, and of course physical wear and tear were big enough problems. Case in point: even the cheapest new joysticks for flight simulators have moved to Hall effect sensors, and many knobs have moved to rotary detented encoders.

This change happened in real jet airliners too. A press of the rudder pedal or a swing of the joystick/yoke no longer directly pulls on cables and pulleys to directly manipulate control surfaces. Instead, nearly all modern jet airliners use fly-by-wire where control deflections are encoded, and sent digitally to hydraulic actuators on control surfaces.

Hence, UX designers and engineers could still make analogue-like controls with switches, knobs, physical push-buttons, etc and still have a digital back-end. In fact this is exactly what car manufacturers did in the mid-2000s to late 2010s, with the CAN bus and all. Controls were physical, but a shift of the knob to the previous or next detent would trigger an electromagnetic switch of some sort to send a digital signal instead of relying on the physical position of the knob.

I'd say ~2020 and the W223 Mercedes-Benz S-class was the turning point for extravagantly and pointlessly large screens in cars.
I'll have to disagree based on my reading of Endurance by Scott Kelly. It is more the profound isolation away from everyone on earth, not the lack of communication. He struggled with saying goodbye to everyone who came up to the station with him, as he watched the missions rotate. It becomes different when you're doing a whole year vs 3-6 months.
You’re missing a few factors:

1. The US would’ve been paying Russia about 10x the cost if SpaceX didn’t exist.

2. Boeing was awarded a ~$3B contract within the Artemis mission and, so far, the outcome is that they can’t safely bring back the astronauts they sent to space.

Those two factors alone indicate that it’s more a mutually beneficial relationship between SpaceX and the government with, arguably, SpaceX providing more benefit relative to the government.
It’s hardly gonna be mass production with 100 staff, hardly worth mentioning. I think Motorola had a fab in the South West once upon a time. And Inmos in Newport in the South East.
How I found a lost stroller in Florence
"Going viral" probably existed 20 years ago, though perhaps barely. I don't have access to the OED but several web sources say OED's earliest recorded usage was from 2004.
What would be great!
The USA wastes so much power! I’m saying we need to use less and bring everyone up to THAT standard, but today every bit of energy added is going to be used for useless bullshit.

You’re simply avoiding my main point, where additional power isn’t going towards helping under developed countries, by trying to appeal to how great the poor downtrodden masses have it without power.

Why aren’t we building renewable power plants in rural poor areas all over the world if that’s the goal? Because it ISN’T; the wealthy capitalists simply want to expend energy and build new plants near developed areas to make themselves wealthier!
Yup. A piece of paper is too wide for comfortable reading. Two columns works much better.
so it wasnt to save them from insolvency?
Can you define the problem?
Splitting libc into one "stable kernel API" part and one "library with things which are useful to C programmers" part would honestly make a ton of sense. OSes which declare their syscall interface to be unstable would be more convincing if they actually provided a stable API that's intended for other consumers than C.
> It's possible to become very good at doing things the wrong way, then belatedly realise that progress has been unintentionally stunted.

And sometimes when that happens, I've seen people say "I'll just stick with this way, since I think my skills would dip too much for too long while re-learning this technique the 'right' way."
I’ve been my share of 15 hour bus rides. Greyhound. Megabus. Changing buses downtown at midnight. Mostly it’s just people trying to get around. Worst that ever happened is I got scammed out of $20 when I was a kid and I’d never heard “I’m trying to get back to Virginia but I’m $31 short” before. I mean sure, there might be a junkie taking way too long in the bathroom, but people intent on doing you actual harm are pretty thin on the ground.
> Language bindings for C and C++ with CMake and Bazel support right out of the box. Python and other languages are coming soon.
Well I am the kind who get out of bed, go to pee and shower. I hate when my partner is using snooze or set up multiple alarms, it feels like torture to me.

However here we mention people uninstalling the app instead of hitting snooze or disabling it. It sounds weird to me.
Unfortunately, they've taken to doing things like saying Horse C is in the lead when it's actually Horse B and telling everyone Horse A has gone lame when it's clearly neck in neck with Horse B while pretending that Horse D doesn't exist because they don't like the jockey.
> It's open source. Should every ... user be -required- to contribute?

No, not every user. Only entities that make millions of $$$ directly with that free software. They should be required to contribute!

Either donate directly or contribute hours proportional to your dependency on the project.
Eh common theme amongst coders but I feel like it's less the LLM and more pebkac. You have a new tool, it can be hugely productive. You just need to use it right. Stop expecting it to write your whole app or create new formulas for hyper complex problems that haven't yet been solved or aren't common. It's a reference tool that's better than reading the docs or browsing stack overflow. Ask it for snippets of code, break up your tasks, use it to compare a number of methods that achieve the same result, discuss with it different approaches to the same problem.

Much like how a nailgun won't just magically build you a house, it'll just let you build one quicker.

I get great benefit out of llms for coding. I'm not a good coder. But I am decent at planning and understanding what I want. Llms get me there 100x quicker than not using them. I don't need 4 years of cs to learn all the tedious algos for sorting or searching. I just ask an ai for a bunch of examples, assess them for what they are and get on with it. It can tell me the common pros and cons of it all and much like any other decision in business I make my best judgement and go with it.

Need to sort a heap of data into x y z or convert it from x to y? Llm will show me the way, now I don't need to hire someone to do it for me.

But alas, so many seem to think a language interpretation tool is actually a do it all one stop shop of production. Pebkac, your using the tool wrong.
What an unappealing offer. No thanks.
It looks like you're trying to maximize paperclips. Would you like help?

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ #-the-game
Don't get me started on Midwest in the US...
Now I have to think of this Reddit thread that made me react pretty similarly: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/jWlSqhJsOH

The OP there also has a pretty bad riddle (due to a grammatical error that completely changes the meaning and makes the intended solution nonsensical, and a solution that many people wouldn’t even have heard of).
> What really set Sars-CoV-2 apart was its high transmissibility right off the bat.

...
While I agree with your sentiment regarding implementing complex bespoke logic, I think there are likely measurable gains when an experienced engineer is operating outside of their current comfort zone.

Allow me an anecdote - I was recently doing some HTML/CSS to update the public website for a client. This is not where I typically operate, though I obviously have some exposure over the years. Using Supermaven I was able to very quickly perform website surgery that would have ultimately taken me much more time reading Tailwind documentation and loading my RAM with details that would be mostly superfluous to 99% of my professional workload. It's in contexts like this where I think these tools shine.

'Game changer' is clickbait phrasing for these tools in their current incarnations, but they can certainly save time while producing acceptable results when used appropriately.
They are talking about 177 database nodes, which is not an indicator of architecture complexity. I assume they have dozens/hundreds of services consisting of multiple highly available nodes each across various geographies.

Having seen a much smaller set of Cassandra nodes used to store billions (rather than trillions) of records, I can say that Cassandra was definitely a total PITA for on-call, and a cause of several major outages.
I'm not saying that you should feel bad about it. What I am saying is that the manufacturers won't feel bad about fighting you on this issue, and coming up with ways to force you to see the advertisements they want you to see, and turn over the data they want on you.

It's a principle I'll call Kellner's Law: If a company makes a product or service available free or at a discount by involving advertisers, from the company's perspective that creates an implicit contractual obligation on the customer's part to see the ads; and any attempt to take advantage of the freebie/discount whilst avoiding the ads will be considered a form of theft, legitimizing any technical or legal means at the company's disposal to force customers to see the ads, or else to withdraw service from those who try to avoid them. Kellner's Law explains a lot of corporate behaviors in this space, including crackdowns by YouTube and other sites on Web-based ad blockers.

I named it for Jamie Kellner, a television executive who when TiVo (which famously allowed skipping ads in television programs recorded to the device) came out, said "Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots" and that skipping ads with a device like TiVo was "actually stealing programming".
Bracket free-ness is still my favorite part of python
Looks great! From a quick glance it seems like it is a cross platform shared memory library. Maybe similar to this? [1].

Suggestion: would be cool to have a quick description of the system calls involved for each supported platform [2]. I'm guessing mmap on linux/osx and CreateFileMapping on Windows?

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1: https://github.com/LiveAsynchronousVisualizedArchitecture/si...

2: https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2?tab=readme-ov-fi...
My HN client uses the HN API which reveals the true post time of the comment. See https://seville.protostome.com/item/?id=41641314.
To me paper has a huge advantage for skipping around, but in every other context I prefer the screen assuming it's big enough. Things like Kindles and phones are only good for text that works fine reflowed and where you don't need to keep looking back as you read.

The screen would also benefit from something I have never seen used: Have a second window that shows whatever images, graphs etc (pretty much anything that's not just words in a row) are relevant to whatever is currently displayed in the main window.
Pun unintended. Freudian slip? OK, right off the Pangolin then.
What the heck is going on with WordPress?
Yes, that means it will look in the host system (/) for those dependencies. But when you're also recompiling and installing those dependencies to /whatever/ as well anyway, and /whatever/ is eventually going to end up being /, this is fine. The original / doesn't get touched until everything is done, and /whatever/ is all built to the new ABI, which it can be precisely because nothing in /whatever/ is getting consulted or used during the rebuild process.
It's middle aged and not exciting anymore? Doesn't know what else to do so it buys a sports car (adds AI). Just guessing but I know I am much less excited about notion than I was 4 years ago and maybe that's the point or maybe that's just how it resonated with me.
I tried to learn AI frameworks. I really did. But I just don't care about them. AI as it is today just isn't useful to me. Databases and search engines are reliable. The output of AI models is totally unreliable.
You don't compete with them - you're not in their league, don't have the inventory, and nobody with a functioning brain sell domains without an escrow service!
Modern cars are heavier, but that's not why I'd think they're shit. I use them to go from point A to point B, not to race.

1. Modern cars are shit because in the pursuit of profit growth, cars have tacked on a bunch of shitty, unreliable, privacy ruining computer systems.

I already have a great computer system in my pocket, it's called a smartphone. It handles positioning, media and communication much better than underpaid, third tier software engineers at auto manufacturers could dream to make.

I just want a dumb, reliable car like I want a dumb TV.

2. Modern cars are aesthetically boring because they all optimize for wind tunnel tests. I'd rather have a slightly suboptimal car on aero that I find a joy to look at
I don't think every single individual message ever needs to be archived. Every text, every email, every post-it, every poke, every emoji, every reaction GIF...
We’re all glorified relational DB when you think about it lol

Notion was one of THE new tastemakers. Every startup copying their designs, now there’s AI generators to make “notion style art”. To see their new pages and additions have such clunky copyrighting is disappointing and I hope just temporary, not a sign the tastemakers have left the company.
If you use #!/bin/sh then you must understand the POSIX.2 shell standard.

If you use arrays, coprocesses, or advanced conditional [[ then your script will fail.

The rules for #!/bin/sh as POSIX.2 are here:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...

Will this fail on rhel? No, as bash implements #!/bin/sh. Will it fail on Ubuntu? Absolutely.
Notion is jumping the shark by moving from being a notes organization / mini database product to trying to compete with Salesforce and Hubspot. Just completely a different sector / product.
> but it's currently the case that that is not what happens when one runs `emerge` (the gentoo packaging build/installing tool)

This would be a simple matter of changing /etc/portage/make.profile to point to a profile that uses the new ABI and setting (and exporting) the ROOT variable in the shell you type "emerge" into (or add this ROOT=/whatever/ line to /etc/portage/make.conf), is what I was getting at. There's no need to write any wrappers.
I think there comes a point where a monitor is too big, at least if it's not curved. But a 276ppi monitor would bother me--nice for the text, but controls don't seamlessly adjust for ppi and typically do not adjust at all.

This machine has one 27" monitor that I frequently use for games, video etc, but that's pretty much all I use it for, rarely do I do text based things on it.