skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world was far more stable in 2016-2020. It does not matter what someone is called. Just watch what actually happens and overlook all the talk (we might as well explore what Harris is called; I think the attribute is "cackling" and not "laughing").

The NYT is not unbiased when it comes to Trump and none of these plans will be implemented. Again, the economy was good in 2016-2020.
An easier snowboard test is to tell someone to turn around and tell them you are going to give them a push. Give them a shove to the upper back and see which foot they put forward first to brace.
"Aniara" by Harry Martinson reminded me that there are levels to this game. It's the kind of book that somehow makes you feel like a master at imagining epic scenery. The awe / word ratio is very high so even though it's short it feels very deep and rich.
Do you use naive chunking? Have you tried something else?
A quick google suggests to me that smoking trends are still falling in the US and globally on average. imo smoking is considered lame to americans as a sign that someone doesn't have their shit together.
I don't think we will ever get the breakthrough you are looking for. Things like design patterns and abstractions are our attempt at this. Eventually you need to trust that however wrote the other code you have to deal with is sane. This assumption is false (and it might be you who is insane thinking they could/would make it work they way you think it does).

We will never get rid of the need for QA. Automated tests are great, I believe in them (Note that I didn't say unit tests or integration tests). Formal proofs appear great (I have never figured out how to prove my code), but as Knuth said "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it". There are many ways code can be meet the spec and yet wrong because in the real world you rarely understand the problem well enough to write a correct spec in the first place. QA should understand the problem well enough to say "this isn't what I expected to happen."
BSD always seems to be a popular topic on HN.

I think there are a fair few BSD users here, and there are also a lot of us who wonder whether we should be using it for its boringness.

I think Marinelli's blog post was discussed on HN earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732415
Polars vs. Pandas: What's the Difference?
I love this, but so many of these are missing or have a half baked Annotations feature. I've been looking for something that that for years and none of them work well for this purpose. Mediawiki, Dokuwiki, Xwiki, etc.
Right.

If this fearmongering leads to the death of domain privacy (and I do think media campaigns like this often precede and foreshadow legislative campaigns), individuals who own domains will just be forced to create dummy business entities in some cheap jurisdiction in order to keep their info private. Hardly a win for law and order.
> Smart phones confuse this, I think. I bet most right-handers hold their phone in their left hand so they can touch the screen with their right.

Phones used to be small enough that you could use them one-handed, and I still tend try. The only grips I use are one-handed or equally split between two hands, like holding a vertical video game controller. I never use a phone in the way you describe, except maybe to rarely to hit a single button that's out of reach. I tend to rock it in my hand to reach with my thumb.

Have I ever told you I think all phones are slightly too big now?
Actually, the attack of leaving a USB drive forgotten in the parking lot has proven time and time again to be extraordinarily effective.
Sorry, nowadays we're supposed to believe everything is programmable/reprogrammable.
there shouldn’t be an uppercase version of ß because there is no word in the german language that uses it as the first letter. the german language didnt think of allcaps. please correct me if I am wrong. If written in uppercase it should be converted to SZ or the new uppercase ß…. which my iphone doesn’t have… and
converting anything to uppercase SS isn’t something germany wants …
Check out https://github.com/Rust-GPU/rust-gpu if you have not seen it
> why does India get to have 75% of all h1b visas? Seems not very diverse.

Not to defend the Indians or their paymasters, but the H1B isn't diversity based, and there are a lot of Indians who also speak English, so...
I don't think it matters too much on a piano but on a guitar it does a lot because your hands do very different things.
My lefty friends use RH golf clubs
It turns out that was ordinary fraud[1] not a flaw in the physical plant. States with functional regulatory bodies don't have this problem. At most you get a situation like Michigan in the winter of 2019 where there was a massive fire at a primary storage facility and they asked everyone to conserve gas if possible.

[1]: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4896585-texas-g...
IMHO, the difference between math and (modern) philosophy axioms is that the latter's are way higher level (e.g. "the world is material", "every humans deserves to live"...) while the former's are very low level and concern themselves with "simple" rules (refer to ZFC).

Philosophers also make their arguments in natural language, while mathematicians use a formal language (ultimately also described in natural language).

Your exemple is interesting, as it makes a bridge between philosophy and mathematics. It's basically Gödel's attempt to prove the existence of God with mathematical rigor. It's basically a form of the original ontological argument[1] with extra flair. You can still translate the axioms into natural language, like: "P(¬ᵠ)⇔¬P(ᵠ)" becomes "a property is bad if and only if the opposite property is good" or "P(G)" becomes "being God is good".

Finally, mathematicians don't usually concern themselves with "universal truth seeking" and are often content to add axioms as it suit them, if it means they can do intersting things (e.g. the Axiom of Choice).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument
Petulant.
"HTMX in React" seems to be a very complicated idea. Seems to me like Vaadin territory in terms of complexity. I think you have to embrace the MPA approach otherwise you will not be happy with any MPA technology.
.io domain faces uncertain fate as UK hands over Chagos Islands
These people do exist, but there's also the strong friction against filling out all your personal information (including credit card info) into every or entertainment site you thought interesting and then agree to some term with auto-renewal, etc. etc. Like maybe it just had the one good article/video/recipe or whatever. This is really an unworkable solution. For a pay-per-use internet sites to work, the payment has to be cheap, easy, trustworthy, and fast. This does not yet exist.
I'm directing an indie game at the moment. I think programming and art skills can be both be valuable, depending on game and genre and so on, but I strongly agree about artists having a better perspective on game production. They understand that games are content and most of the work goes into content creation. Sometimes you discuss adding two characters and the programmer is thinking I can just share the movement code while the artist knows it's at least weeks of work to create all the art, same goes for sound, writing, and game design.

The highly automating/efficient mindset of programmers is great but even small games are big pieces of art that require a lot of diligent labor that you must expect and respect.

And of course, your point is that no one sees programming in a screenshot or trailer.
It was reported this month in a national Dutch newspaper:

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/01/beginnen-met-een-sigare...

I'm not sure if any specific scientific research points out this link, but it has been suspected for a while based on anecdotal evidence. The interviews in the newspaper article are examples of that (and not limited to this one news source).

The stagnation of the downward trend has been documented though:

https://www.vzinfo.nl/roken/jongeren#elektro-roken-scholiere...
I’m new to neural nets, when should one use fp8 vs fp16 vs fp32?
Open Standards for APIs
> For instance, the first forums I socialized on were all individual-owned or association-owned, and so were the webgames I played.

You can still make these. Why do people choose platforms with ads on over these things you remember, do you think?
Sure, I’m sure somebody who is going to go through the effort of slipping malicious code into Windows would also make sure to do some QA on it. So it would be suspiciously unbuggy.
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton, says he's proud his student fired Sam Altman
> The fundamental flaw with Lenat's approach is that humans do not think with first order predicate calculus. We do not juggle a bunch of statements/rules the way Cyc does, but have a very fast, efficient and powerful conceptual approach to the world with a massive amount of recursive conceptual inference.

Source?
I set up HTMX for a toy project recently, seemed fine to me. I think the philosophy of HTMX is the real selling point, sending structured content instead of passing JSON around. There is an opportunity here to either improve HTMX or build a competitor.
Delhi high court: 'Our son died. Now we can use his sperm to have a grandchild'
Despite other claims, the world still loves America
Article subtitle says it all: It’s become fashionable to claim that other countries hate the U.S. Having traveled the globe for three years, I can tell you: That’s absurd.
I lost a little faith when I saw the article referred to Neanderthals as "our ancestors"...

Intrigued by the throwaway comment that we know handedness is genetically determined. Is that true? I was under the impression it was a developmental issue (identical twins with opposite orientation being one piece of evidence here).
> More troublingly, performance has not improved in CI at the same pace as on developer machines—it’s usually a lot slower to build our app in CI than it is to do it locally on my M1 laptop.

While some of the other comments around optimizing CI pipelines are solid, this whole thing seems to be due to having CI running on servers that are -worse- than a laptop. Isn't that wild? Servers weaker than laptops. Not even desktops or workstations. LAPTOPS.

And they are, because they're just cloud instances. And most cloud instances... are not fast.

Consider the idea that you could run your CI runner on an M1 laptop if you so choose to. Setting up a self-hosted GH Actions runner (for example) is quite straightforward. Doesn't even need to be an internet-facing machine, it can be a spare machine sitting at home/office. $600 will get you a Mac mini with an M2 CPU and super-fast SSD; everything will build faster than it ever could on any generic CI build server.
That's not ascii then. It's byte width compatible (to a certain degree as you point out). But it's not ascii. ascii defines 128 code points and the handling of an escape character. It doesn't handle locales.
Keep the main thing the main() thing
Quit smoking, gained 30+ kg of weight, was a cardiology patient, high bp, kidney issues, depression, etc. It was horrible.
Restarted smoking, lost the kilos in several months, started hiking and biking. Ended up climbing lots of mountains and now practicing endurance sports and alpinism, doing things which were unimaginable 10 years ago.
Haven't seen a doctor in years.
Still 'pack a day' smoker.
Not condoning or recommending, just my story for perspective.
I don't think it's about comparing yourself to other people with different habits, but to your future-self. I quit a long time ago and only after realized how motivated reasoning was influencing me as a smoker.
Yeah, the human race is truly stupid.

I can’t believe we’re still having these conversations.

Warnings went on cigarettes in 1964. I was born in 1966. I’ve watched people develop COPD, etc
Someone in the family needing oxygen in their 50s wasn’t enough to scare the few remaining smokers.

Remember when people were going to stop going to bars when smoking was banned indoors?

Now take something that’s not as obvious as smoking and try to convince people they’re wrong.
Infinite Cosmos: Visions from the JW Space Telescope
>The difference there was that PATCO was a union for government air traffic controllers.

The Taft-Hartley Act already made it illegal for public sector unions to strike (later replaced by a similar law, the same law from which the SF-61 oath is derived). That same act allows the President to suspend private union strikes, so I don't think there is a fundamental difference. It's been used 37 times since passage. There's even precedent in this specific area: President GW Bush use the Taft-Hartley Act in 2002 for a port dispute.

>The most they can do is block strikes for 80 days

The 80 days is part of the "cooling off" period: 60 initial negotiation days + 15 days of secret voting + 5 days of certification. While the President and courts can't stop a strike after a legal cooling off period, Congress may still have the power to do so. Congress has been given Constitutional authority to intervene is labor disputes that affect inter-state commerce (see the arguments around the recent rail labor dispute). "They" (as in the entire govt) still have cards to play after the cooling off period ends.

Given the historical and legal context, I don't think the OPs assumption that govt is inherently pro-union holds.
I don't, but I have friends with families that survive on way less than half of that.

You're never experienced life within working/middle class, have you?

Maybe, just maybe, we live in different parts of the world with very different levels of salary and/or cost of living.
Show HN: I created a WHOIS API service
The worst HR case I ever got involved in was a semi-onshore (Indian) development team who couldn't deal with having a female (Indian) tech lead. She was eminently qualified for the role, but they would attempt to undermine her at every turn, speak over her, hold meetings without her, always going over her head... Caste did not appear to be a factor; it seemed to be good old fashioned sexism.
Book Review: Prompt Engineering for LLMs (O'Reilly Early Release)
> Making friends with the wrong people can really mess up your life.

> And yet, I keep reading about this epidemic of loneliness...

Both things can be true at the same time, this is not a dichotomy.

At the same time, there's a old saying in my company that goes like "better alone than in bad company". Timeless wisdom, I guess.

On this matter, I was recently brought to pondering about the extinction of the so called "third place". The reasoning goes like this: people often used to have three places they attend the most: they home, their workplace, and the "third place".

The "third place" can be pretty much everything, and it's the place where socialising happen: for example, in many sitcoms it used to be some kind of bar/pub/restaurant: the McLaren's in HIMYM, "Arnold's" in Happy Days and another similar one whose name i can't remember in Friends. When I was a kid, it was a public park where we played soccer, and most kids just spent time there.

It seems this is going out of style or something?

Two things I noticed are:

- nowadays spending time in bars/pubs etc can get costly. Might be the general economic downturn, but it seems to be that going at the bar and having a beer or two used to be more accessible in the past (older folks are welcome to chime in and offer their perspective).

- pubs with larger university people tend to be more affordable, but the age band is quite restricted... Not formally, but somewhat implicitly.
And the child-friendly flavours (bubblegum ice blast! crème brûlée! strawberry!) and packaging just plain immoral.

Oddly, nicotine as such is not that harmful, comparatively. It's the addiction (and the potential to escalate to inhaling carcinogens) which makes it so bad.
I wonder if this is more a p-hacking phenomenon than a real advantage.

Much like how when you test every jelly bean [1] you'll find one with an unexpected outcome. If you evaluate every "duplicative" pairing in the human body, it seems like you should find at least a pair where one is more effective than the other.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/882/
> Indeed, I don’t see the typescript community really complaining that there isn’t another implementation of typescript.

There are actually numerous third-party implementations that can take TypeScript code and compile it to JavaScript. Babel can do it in pure JS/TS, SWC can do it in Rust, and ESBuild can do it in Golang.

The catch is that AFAIK none of these implementations enforce the actual type checks. This is usually called "type stripping" within the JavaScript community, but it's basically equivalent to the "Rust without the borrow checker" implementation that gccrs is working on.

Well, except that the Rust community is extremely ideologically opposed to "Rust compiler without the borrow checker" existing as a viable product, so you end up with the situation described in the article where that implementation is just used to compile a hybrid compiler with all the hard-to-implement type-checker stuff copied verbatim from rustc. That erases most of the spec-robustness benefits of doing a full third-party implementation, but there are still some practical benefits, like being able to bootstrap the compiler more easily.

And who knows -- if you hack the build to re-disable the borrow checker, the resulting compiler might run faster. (That's the main benefit of the third-party TypeScript implementations in practice.)
As far as I am aware, no electronic devices from outside, and no devices that transmit anything, are allowed in these high security areas. That’s inclusive of cell phones, for example.

That is: the point I am making is more nuanced than whether something is popular (like cell phones or other tech).
For the record with https://hotwired.dev there is already a rather successful "competitor".
Qt is a large framework and also includes e.g. a large network module which supported async event based communication long before there was Go. But it's unlikely that a Go application uses this, because Go has its own network library and even native language support for asynchronous communication (buffered channels). But Qt also has cross-platform user interface features even with 3D and OpenGl support, which might be useful for people using Go on the desktop.
> And i love that quote, because it suggests the existence of another - very slow, but very high troughput network, human to human, embedded device to embedded device

This is the network that operation Olympic Games used to get Stuxnet into the Natanz facility. Contactor laptops are a major part of that network.
I have more faith in my 2200 watt inverter generator than a typical residential standby unit.

If something goes wrong with a generac, you likely need a service tech to come out. If my portable unit acts up I have a 2nd new one in a box just in case. They're so cheap you can basically afford to keep one fresh for each disaster.
That's called demographic targeting. you identify your advertising audience, match it with known audiences of content, and then go sponsor that content.

it's already proved it is most cost effective and had higher sales conversion.

but there are other factors at play. and everyone wants data. the entire system works now by denying publishers of any advertisement revenue by demographic targeting and forcing them to be the data extractors since they are the ones luring users in.

Mozilla is also a victim of this. they had to implement all changes google ever asked of them, and now this is their meta allegiance pledge. expect meta to pick their tab soon.
Yep, there's also ICU and utf8cpp, and many others. They all have trade-offs. So I just don't think the stdlib should cover this because there is no objectively best way to handle it.
This is just getting petty at this point. What kind of normal person or business operates this way - especially during an ongoing lawsuit.

I can't see how anybody who knows a bit about the situation would ever want to continue to be affiliated with Wordpress knowing this guy could go over the top at any moment.
Or more likely they will never get deployed.
cold.
Your second point depends on your threat model. Personally my threat model is a wind or ice storm taking down the aerial electrical lines in my area (SE Michigan). The natural gas lines are all buried and the pumping stations are powered by natural gas so are inherently more reliable.

If your threat model involves civilization deteriorating to the point where natural gas stops working then sure, a generator with fuel storage on site probably makes more sense. I'd argue that gasoline is the worst of available options though. Diesel and propane are much more shelf stable and typically more reliable than small gasoline engines.
Micropayments have been tried through third party networks but they’ve never worked. Mental transaction costs is one explanation. People want “free” is probably the other.
Not the parent commenter, but from what I've seen, they are correct, and as far as Reddit is concerned, especially so.

Genuine criticism of India's government and some Indian/Hindu cultural practices can quickly devolve into disgusting racist diatribes and stereotypes that wouldn't fly against people from other countries. Try using the hard-r n-word as a non-black person, or calling someone with East Asian phenotypes a 'Chinaman', or any Native American stereotype today, and see how quickly you bring a firestorm upon yourself.

Meanwhile, people on Reddit call Indians street-sh*tters or cow pi*s drinkers, and no one bats an eyelid. I have seen these words verbatim on places like /r/worldnews, without censorship or bans whatsoever.

Racism against Indians is normalised, full stop.
Because there are just that many applicants from India? The result of this is also that Indians have virtually no scope of settling down in the US, since the waitlist for green card for them goes beyond 134 years. Which means none of those H1B holders are going to stay.
The inline comments of when a function was last edited as very rough version control is quite something
I thought first it was about ISO8601, but it’s about ISO9660.

People, mention the numbers please.
Good point. That initialism is new to me, I can see how companies that fall into that group can be problematic.
I feel we’re giving a lot of credit to Neanderthals by assuming they had no superstitions around something as basic as handedness.
Can someone explain what inlined means here? It was my assumption that the compiler will automatically inline functions and you don't need to do it explicitly. Unless it means something else in this context
Piano music is mostly written by right-handers for right-handers. I'm strongly left-hand dominant. For music that's intended to be easy to play, the primary voice is almost always on the right hand. Where the music wants the most dexterity, I have the least.

At the developed level where the composer doesn't give a damn about how easy it is for the musician to play, yes, both left and right-handers have to figure out how to realize the piece and would make use of their strengths to do so.

For instruments like guitar I think the case for reversing the handedness of the instrument is a bit stronger, since the hands serve very different roles there.
I lose a little faith when I see people nitpick while being wrong.
Genuinely asking as someone not deeply familiar with the complexities of Indian culture: India now has the largest population in the world, is the biggest democracy, and has significant potential for growth (e.g. reducing poverty). At the same time, we see Indian leaders in top positions in major U.S. companies, like the CEOs of Google (1st gen) and Microsoft (2nd gen). How do these factors all connect? What drives this mix of internal challenges and global success? I’m not naive in thinking that a few successful individuals represent an entire population, but I do see a signal there.
This is top tier cringe from the automattic team.