skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > At the time C was invented

> C is from 01973.

> Some of these things were brand spanking new in 01973

...right. The Rise of Worse is Better is a memoir, it's set in the past.
Think it’s a paid service?
Well, a lot of those pages have Vue application running on them.
"I read books [...] I've read a couple of books a week for [...] 50 [years]"[1] - Jim Keller (CPU designer) with Lex Fridman. OT, but I like the reminder that reading can be a voluminous endeavor.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA&t=5043s
The Selfish Gene gave me lots to think about during my escape from the influence of religion in my life. That book gave me a solid idea that a lot of mystery could be explained by very simple concepts over a long period of time.
It's a good thing we don't have even more ignorant tyrants in power then
The Internet equivalent of pre-war steel:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
They are a for-profit company. They are closed-sourced both in hardware and software. Their ecosystem is known to be a walled garden. They aren't open in their processes. They sell your data, they just don't tell you. Following all of their ToS you have to agree to use their devices - you don't even own anything, you are just paying for a subscription (that can be revoked any time for any reason) to use the device.
Or skip the middlemen and buy whey protein isolate directly from a dairy/creamery, in bulk: https://old.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/16r3xjt/psa_i_...

I wonder if there are similar upstream sources for soy, pea, or rice protein isolate?
This is something I have idly wondered. Where does the expired food go? Both “literally rotting” and “canned good safe for a decade, but we toss it after 12 months”.

Landfill? Animal feed? Some amount of charity for the salvageable items? A typical grocery store could produce an incredible amount of daily waste.
> What if that's not true?

It is definitely not true. The existence of neurodivergence is proof enough.

I can visualize an entire application in my head like it is a forest. I can fly around and see various parts and how they fit together. I am unable to juggle the tokens necessary to do logic and basic math in my head but I have no trouble reading a graph in understanding the relationships between numbers.

No matter how many times I try to read it, Lisp is completely inscrutable to me. It requires the same token juggling math does.
Children's Literature: Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Tech: Code the hidden language of computer hardware and software

Non Fiction: Talking to My Daughter
imo any experienced frontend framework person will be able to pick out the issues with this impl. OP is returning entire strings of HTML (App, Todo, Icon) to rerender on state changes. this works when 1) you dont care about keeping UI state on the parts that are replaced (incl any stateful children of the UI element that happen to be there in your DOM structure), and 2) when you dont have to update the app in any other places when your state changes. go ahead and build your whole app by replacing innerHtml, frontend frameworks will be right here when you get back from speedrunning the last 10 years.

in other words, this todo app is just about the most complex of a frontend you can easily* build with htmx, i'm afraid. try to fix either 1 or 2 and you end up building components and your own little framework.

as an exercise to demonstrate, try taking OPs code and adding a count of todos on each All/Active/Completed tab that should update every time u add/edit/delete the todos. see how much extra ui code that takes. compare with equivalent [framework of choice] impl (in most it will just involve 1 state update, thats it). this is htmx's explosion of complexity that makes it not [ optimized for change ] (https://overreacted.io/optimized-for-change/). code that is hard to change eventually calcifies and consumes code that is easy to change if you do not consistently garbage collect (nobody does)

i bought the hype too until i tried building something nontrivial in htmx and im afraid the aforementioned islands of interactivity you can build are very very smol islands indeed.

happy to revisit my opinion if there are componentlike design patterns in htmx i am not aware of.

*emphasis on easily; with enough elbow grease u can do anything ofc. but then you fall out of htmx's very narrow [ pit of success ](obligatory codinghorror dot com link)
Skulls for the Throne of Skulls! We march upon the Abyss!

Seriously though. "Codex Chaos" is pretty super sweet, if sweet is skyscraper size demons of the darkness of mankind. Excellent light reading.
I feel this perspective every single day, but then I recently went to get my old tires replaced. The people there's days are 8 solid hours of taking tires off, putting tires on, driving the vehicle over to the alignment rack and gluing weight onto wheels. All day. And they get paid pretty well all things considered.

I'm happy learn some new things even if there's resistance.
I might be dense today, but how's Nickieben Bourbaki an anagram of Richard P. Gabriel?
Au contraire !

I was a ridiculously voracious reader (if I saw it, I wouldn’t put it down until I’d read it) and my answer was always “hard to say, no favorite.”

But then one day you read that book that stands out from everything else (to you, for various personal reasons that might not translate the same for the next person) and suddenly, just like that, you have a favorite book.

I wish you will discover this feeling one day!
I was scrolling down the comments thinking, huh, what if I just kind of threw it out there that Ulysses is my favorite book, by far. What would happen? Bunch of young'uns dumping on me?

Well bring it on. It is in fact, not particularly close that Ulysses is my favorite book.

It hadn't occurred to me though to just reread chapters as they appeal, I'm heading out to reread the calvacade one. Then there is that pub with the dog... And the newsrooom... what a great day, thanks!

I started Ulysses when I was in my early twenties, stalled, and then picked it up again and finished it straight off 35 years later. Same copy! Pissed off I didn't push it through way back when.
What a cynical take. Most people working on side projects do so because they find them interesting or useful rather than to just score resume points.

They’re not moving anyone’s goalposts all usage is voluntary.

The fact that HN is mentioned is also confusing. If something had no value beyond paper thin abstraction I doubt we’d be seeing it on the front page with 500 votes.

Even if this project turned out to be less than hoped it seems counterproductive to complain about people creating and exploring. It’s a good thing to see and natural selection will do any sorting needed.
That's after the pandemic and this program has been around a while. My question, and some frustration, is with the fact that if many and/or most people get the test near end of life, then that's a huge waste because many will be thrown away unused after a month or two of being with the "end user" and then everyone like me will be without test. Maybe it could be streamlined. I don't know, it just seem like as it is, it's more wasteful than helpful but that's why I'm asking
I actually think Rust is amazing I recently discoevered some rewrites in web developement in rust and they made build times on windows corpo bloat machine way way faster than conventional js/ts implementations so I would say go for it and all power to you, also many are just salty because it's another new thing and new/change = bad
Obviously a very reductive question -- even if sharpened slightly to "most influential" book. I will reduce it even further: one of the few books that I have read twice (and the only one that has exerted different, profound influence on me on each read) is Tracy Kidder's "Soul of a New Machine." This is a book that every engineer should absolutely read, though not without an uncritical eye for Tom West and Data General. I wrote about my second read of "Soul" five years ago[0], and I know that there are folks who have read it on my recommendation -- and I don't think anyone has regretted it.

[0] https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2019/02/10/reflecting-on-the-so...
In some ways its more about organization of humans doing the work. Breaking some piece of a monolith off into its own application, not micro-service, has advantages that you avoid having to deal more than a 2 pizza team size on an app. Sometimes the business grows and you go from startup idea one-app-does-everything implementations into needing more de-coupled, single business responsibility organizations of code.

I suppose places like Spotify or Github may have good practices around working on large monoliths but I would think that takes a lot of effort to get right and may have trade-offs.
Glad someone mentioned that. I couldn't say it better.
We've added interactive lessons to our kids education app
The problem of not understanding a concept first time round was a pain point for users. So, we've made it so you can chat to your mentor at any time throughout your lesson or quiz, providing insight and guidance when you need it, and staying out of your way when you don't!
You need to watch "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" by Adam Curtis which outlines Silicon Valley's long Libertarian roots. Making money and greed has been deeply embedded from the start.
Eric Hobsbawm's tetralogy on the long 19th century: Age of Revolution, Age of Capital, Age of Empire, and Age of Extremes.

A truly epic date-driven summary of how the industrial and political revolutions of the 19th transformed the world.
From "Don't be evil" to "We're the baddies".
I've thought the art of ontology as seen in database design is central to this.

That is, how often do you have a system which is really

state is one of [phase1,phase2,phase3]

but really there are three variables

phase1 a boolean
phase2 a boolean
phase3 a boolean

or alternately there is something somebody tries to represent the first way when it is not one thing that can be in three states as opposed to having three separate attributes. You run into a lot of practical problems:

(1) Some people feel claustrophobic when they are faced with a clean data model, business process, etc. They aren't going to feel "free" until everything is a godawful mess. (Maybe they feel free because there's no longer the possibility of looking at the system as a whole and finding flaws in it) You aren't just dealing with problems of knowledge and skill but also about psychology, a clean model that looks dirty might be easier to sell than a clean model that looks clean. (e.g. the symptom is that you just got off the phone with somebody discussing a data model and you got it right after 40 minutes of knock-down-drag-out. They call you back right away because they're sure it can't be right even though it is)

(2) Sometimes there are two legitimate choices.

(3) More often people are hung up on a particular option, that is they always try the "multiple state" solution or always model everything as a set of attribute flags.

(4) I don't know how you grade the answers. I can picture having a description of a situation and instructing the user to make a set of SQL tables for instance, but how do you make those past a test? Making it a set of multiple choice questions seems to easy but might be the right way to teach modelling.
I love hard sci-fi and I keep going back to Blindsight: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

Making a distinction between intelligence and consciousness was interesting and I think applies to current AI systems, at least that what came to mind when seeing ChatGPT for the first time.

Also vampires being real apex predators brought back from extinction with a decent explanation as to why they don't like crosses is just entertaining to me.
> "just write better code" to avoid these pitfalls

A lot of issues in and with Rails code leans heavily on this idea. It often comes in other flavors like "You can write rails apps that perform really well" or "Its perfectly doable to write a clean easy maintainable codebase in rails".

And is apparent in the "Provide sharp knives" doctrine as "And by capable, I mean knowledgeable enough to know when and how, accordingly to their context, they should use the different and sometimes dangerous tools in the drawers."

I really dislike this approach. I don't want something that is full of foot-guns and therefore requires me to recognise them when I lack all information to do so.

I've written terrible Rails apps, exactly because it allowed me to so, and I didn't know they would become terrible, until they were. I now recognise the (design) patterns that are foot-guns, I now know the tell-tales that show me where the sharp knives are dangerously placed. But then I get dropped into a Rails codebase that has seen 20+ developers coming and going over a decade, as the 21st developer, and I see it filled with these footguns and dangerously wielded "sharp knives". Often there's a lot of history apparent from these previous devs who saw this too and fixed some of it. But the overall state is still abysmal.

Sure, it's all these devs that made it abysmal. But the ecosystem, the framework and the language allowed, and sometimes even encouraged them to make it that.
I havent used them, and we are not moving to them on our existing app but I can super-appreciate the fact that by default redis is more of a down-the-road decision now. No reason to get into the complexity (+ additional hosting cost) of adding another service into the mix until you choose to later on.
I was able to make a "shared" version of their example textures

https://phoboslab.org/ttt/#W1s2NCw2NCwwLDIsMywxLjQsMiwxNzE3N...

example textures from their source here:
https://github.com/phoboslab/q1k3/blob/master/source/texture...
I appreciate write-ups of failed experiments like this. They're sorta like null results in science, but for engineering. And they can help others from needlessly walking down the same path.

If everyone only wrote about their successes, we'd all have to independently rediscover failures behind closed doors.
100%, we have collect some nutrition data that we don't expose yet e.g. cholesterol, added sugar, trans fat etc. Sort of optimised for not having the table _extremely_ wide. But might be an option adding in some extra, as well as adding filter options for that to allow you to tweak it and find your sweet spot.

Optimally we'd have even more information re: amino acids etc, but that information is _hard_ to parse out
I'm a part time maker and purchase a lot of designs off of Etsy to make into physical goods. I have to weed through so many AI images when purchasing designs off of Etsy now. I wish they required users to indicate if AI was used to produce the image so I could then filter them out.
Thanks for asking! Using SQLite with SQLx in Rust provides type-safe SQL queries, which enhances safety by catching errors at compile time.

As for backups, the setup is straightforward: just periodically copy the SQLite file to a secure location. Since it's a single binary and a database file, this keeps things simple and low-maintenance.
Is imagining shortcomings on my behalf and then categorizing them as factual to use as evidence in an argument a part of these superior approaches you mention?

If I was to do the same to you, would you not protest?
I appreciate the effort to leave out the "And now for something completely different" section (on https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3130/) after the previous drama.
How does this conflict with the Central Dogma?
I don't think it's a question of open hardware: To send a phone call to your phone, the mobile network must know the BTS/eNodeB/GnodeB associated with your phone.

While this is a large surface in rural areas and older technologies, it's not the same in urban/newer technologies. It could easily be associated with a given building.

To protect our location, it would need something akin to a mobile proxy that would relay the communication but to my knowledge, there are no such things for mobile communications. And this is not really secure, it's just outsourcing security to another entity which may be be compromised.

(I am quite rusty, but I was a telecom engineer)
> Pedestrian safety is definitely not an issue. There are much more unsafe vehicles than Cybertruck in that regard.

Purely out of curiosity — can you name one or two such vehicles? I'm really interested how they are so unsafe, or rather, which byzantine (non-?)regulation deems them so unsafe :D
I'm not offering a case for or against either, to be clear - and neither are you - indeed you went so far as to say effectively you wouldn't even bother considering the semantics since they _must_ be awful.
At what point does the arcade just kick you out? I can't imagine them seeing you continuously tamper with their equipment to circumvent paying and think, "the best way to handle this is to keep modifying our machines."
So will the EU fine them for violation of GDPR?
Now this is awesome. Hope iHerb appreciates this as it should will lead to more sales through them. Scraping is always tricky.

Love that you’ve included other nutritional facts. Would be cool to also incorporate review scores and/or taste somehow, however subjective.

Really nice work.
Fusion – A language designed to transpile to multiple popular languages at once
But if I’d used Vue it wouldn’t be an interesting article :)
Sound more like a success for the anti-nuclear movement.
Isn't there a bunch of complexity and security issues that come with using <iframe>? I'm not as familiar with <frame>.
It definitely does, but don't you think that it could be worth it if it makes multithreading usable for CPU-heavy tasks?
They're not as accurate as polysomnography but there is some correlation which should allow these measurements to serve as a useful proxy over 100-180 days. See this review for example:

"The findings of this systematic literature review indicate that the devices with higher relative agreement and sensitivities to multistate sleep (ie, Fitbit Charge 4 and WHOOP) seem appropriate for deriving suitable estimates of sleep parameters. However, analyses regarding the multistate categorization of sleep indicate that all devices can benefit from further improvement in the assessment of specific sleep stages."

Source: https://mhealth.jmir.org/2024/1/e52192/PDF
And bomb fallout is very different from the radioactive contamination from accidents at nuclear power plants: basically no area continues to have lethal levels of bomb fallout 4 weeks after the last bomb explodes. The method for decontaminating your house is to get up on a ladder and wash down your roof with a garden hose, then wash down all driveways and sidewalks.

Assuming they all have enough supplies to shelter in place for 4 weeks. Sure, they do. Oh, and where does all that runoff go?
Building a model for message moderation on social media platforms
> Even the extension systems, which have the opportunity to hook directly into DB internals (and has no standardization to bother meeting) end up with SQL as the API to do actual db operations.

FWIW, nothing forces an extension to do so. I'm pretty sure there are several that do DML using lower level primitives.
that’s pretty awesome. I’m going to give a try. What did you build it in?
> You’re already coming from the assumption that people are “souless automatons

do your people obey the laws of physics? is the soul magical or physical?
In most parts of the country it's not a very big risk. Most insurance doesn't cover earthquake damage either by default, though it can often be added.
Same now when trying to find 3d models to print. It's just a whole bunch of hueforge ai spam.
There's orders of magnitude more libertarians than oligarchs. It's even in the name :)

Most libertarians aren't rational egoists, they are just naive losers oligarchs take advantage of to get more power.
The lack of responses so far on this thread is just sad.
>Liberalism was the greatest innovation we ever came up with as a species

Pottery, agriculture, control over the electromagnetic field, basket weaving, LANGUAGE, formalized society, written language, MATH, metalworking etc

and you posit UNREGULATED MARKETS as the greatest innovation?

NONE of the above monumental achievements of humanity are even remotely related to people being able to do business with slightly less regulation and slightly fewer taxes. Nearly all human innovation has occurred when being murdered by your king for petty reasons was the norm.

Integrated circuits as a commodity mostly exists because the US air force wanted it to. None of that is about liberalism.

The Navy trained up hundreds of thousands of people essentially to the level of electrical engineers, basic information sciences, and computers and computation and electric fields for WW2, to improve radar and targeting, including building and deploying a networked computer system for automated fleet defense and intercept tasking in the fifties, and then these people are mostly just let go, to spread their paid for knowledge to anyone in the commercial space, no non-competes. Wouldn't you know it, training up a bulk of people in a brand new but important field, with minimal cost to them, and then just freely giving that away reaped insane rewards for the next 50 years!
Venture Capital's "Crisis"
Maybe related to this segfault I found on MacOS? https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/114653
I've been with them ~15 years, and they have been solid. Back then I had a dedicated server I was developing an online multiplayer java game on, great fun! until the whole java webstart certificate fiasco. A few years back I was porting that old game over to wasm, and they added the mime type support within a few hours of asking. They are some very knowledgeable engineers, and maybe that is reflected in the simple website design. But I like that simple productive interface, and dread the day the MBAs or marketing teams get their hands on it.
Someone needs to invent a “for humans, by humans” web. Possibly a future luxury.
Sellers are actually supposed to mark items as AI generated/assisted, where applicable: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/09/etsy-new-seller-policy-202...

Whether they actually do this (and whether there's any incentive to do so), is obviously not a given
Borges: Selected Non-fictions. Think his fictions are good? His non-fictions, imho, are even better. You can read three sentences and feel like you just listened to a symphony - you get that constant Borges wit, erudition, mystery. The English translations are SO good. Are they even better in Spanish?
Thank you. It's built using Laravel and I am using a Javascript canvas editor for the designer
No, Intel agencies have always been too powerful and Truman saw it when disbanding the OSS (Office of strategic services) after WWII. Then, he begrudgingly created the CIA to compete in the cold war.

They've always undermined American security so they could have more information and power.
Just curious, which programming language allows preventing shared mutable state for out-of-process data?
Middy - stylish Node.js middleware for AWS Lambda
Yep -- and more generally, sequential access > random access, just a bit less so in memory than on SSD, not even mentioning spinning disk.
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