skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question, but do you not consider environment variables to be a form of simple config?

https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/040_backup.html#envi...
isn't that the point of OSS software? vendor makes a bunch of user-hostile changes, people get pissed and fork it.

if they wanted to be hostile towards users, then OSS was a mistake
Show HN: Conductor – A Simple Desktop Video and Image Converter for macOS
I've been tinkering on and off with FFmpeg over the years and wanted to try to build a tool that automates some of my common use cases. Some fun things you can use Conductor for currently:
- compressing large video files
- converting videos from mov to mp4
- converting videos to gifs
- converting gifs to videos
- converting images between formats (png, jpg, heic)
- converting collections of images into gifs or videos
- extracting the frames from a gif to images
> Which is resolved with dialogue. If the contradictions are brought up.

In my experience noting contradictions usually leads to evasive memes and anger/unhappiness.
> or getting support requests because ignorant users tried to remove that part of the filename and now can't open Word or whatever

Funny side story, windows pops an error confirmation message if you change or remove the extension of a file name as part of a rename operation.

There's no way to disable this message outside of writing an autohotkey script to check for the prompt and auto-accept it. (I did this once, no I don't have the AHK script, but I don't recall it being hard to write.)

On on a similar funny side note, there's no way to tell windows to always open files with no extension in a specified application (e.g. gvim). But you can edit the registry to do it.
I think it'll take much longer than 100 years. The "limiting factor" here is cognitive science experiments on smart animals like rats and pigeons, and less smart animals like spiders and lampreys, all of which will help us understand what intelligence truly is. These experiments take time and resources.
How would a custom language differ from what we have now?

If you mean obfuscation, then yeah, maybe that makes sense to fit more into the window. But it’s easy to unobfuscate, usually.

Otherwise, I‘m not sure what the goal of an LLM specific language could be. Because I don’t feel most languages have been made purely to accommodate humans anyway, but they balance a lot of factors, like being true to the metal (like C) or functional purity (Haskell) or fault tolerance (Erlang). I‘m not sure what „being for LLMs“ could look like.
They must have forgotten to steal the plans for the hold down clamps.
I guess the only way forward for now is forking WordPress and creating a new plugin registry.

This should be rather easy, because all WordPress plugins are GPL-licensed because of the Copyleft.

I don't care about the current dispute, but wordpress.org can't be trusted any more.
> The config should automatically be a git repository and any change should generate a meaningful commit (thinking out loud).

git-auto-commit-mode exists, try it.
> MIMO and nonlinear control theories are probably some of the hardest topics in all of engineering.

I am curious but clueless about these problems, can you expand more?
I agree, and IIRC, Garmin has a warning and disclaimer in their documentation stating the HR isn't guaranteed to be accurate, and it's easy to see in a graph that it's using a moving average.

I still use mine a lot, because I'm not too worried about the exact numbers while excercising, and I feel like it's probably okay for comparing against previous activities. That's to say if the watch shows ~180 bpm for 10 minutes on a run, it's probably similar exertion to the last time I hit ~180 bpm for 10 minutes on a run, but I don't trust that it's exactly 180 bpm, and I definitely don't trust the "ramp up" and "cool down" measurements from 180 bpm.

As you said, everybody I know who cares about accuracy already uses a chest strap.
But no one expects 0ah to be sufficient. Change that expectation, and now you have to wonder if your middleware and your backend agree on whether the middleware filtered out internal-only headers.
We have been for more than half a century ...
No more anecdotal than these constant pointless articles trying to claim moderate drinking is harmful without any relevant new evidence
I've found chatgpt quite helpful in understanding some things that I couldn't figure out when approaching pytorch for an internship
Use resticprofile or autorestic for configuration file or to run scheduled jobs.
> Decide upon on new UTF-8 code point.

Unicode have already done so - (NEL) https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+0085
Perfect. So now we just need to start filing bug reports to any tool that does not support it instead of CRLF or LF alone.
Do you really enjoy Electrical Engineering? I’m saying this because it’s right up there as one of the most challenging degrees anyone can do. It’s harder than Computer Science, but related.

Not to put you off, anyone can do it, but you have to commit pretty seriously.

Also, what is the local job market like for Electrical Engineers? Start there first. Look for opportunities locally, in your country, or wherever you want to end up.

I transitioned from EE career into Computer Science.

One thing I found really challenging with EE is the slow feedback loop during practice/study/tinkering. In contrast Comp Sci has a really fast feedback loop so you can learn at a rapid rate.

In an EE degree you learn a really broad range of topics, and the mathematics is relatively advanced, and relatively advanced physics too. These concepts are really great to learn, and will help you grow intellectually- but they are pretty abstract.

But can be a rewarding career, one of my best friends still works as an EE and he loves it, finds it really rewarding.

I’ve been thinking of going back to EE long term (firmware so half programming half EE)
…how very in character for each of them!
He's probably one of the few good creators that didn't totally sellout on youtube (looking at you Mark Rober).
SSO is fine, but verify the email address that the SSO provider has given (unless the provider is authoritative for the email domain)
Yep this will be the reason. And lets not forget that Bezos was able to find and recover the Apollo 11 Saturn V engines from point nemo. If that was relatively simple you can bet plucking a freshly dropped entire starship from the indian ocean would be a doddle, especially when sat views likely show exactly where it landed.
Let's be really, really clear here.

Matt might pontificate about "bastardizing and messing with" WordPress, but this is what he is actually referring to:

A. Single. Configuration. Option.

A. Changed. Default.

Post revisions are a configuration option in the admin panel. They are enabled by default. Some hosting providers (and I expect WPE is not the only one) set it to disabled by default.

That's it.

This is not remotely comparable.

Even without the ACF situation, Matt's description of WPE bastardizing the fundamental offering of WordPress is asinine at best, actively deceptive at worst (and that's where we seem to be, so far).
Async Runtimes
Everyone gets this wrong, cost is not price. SpaceX themselves launch Starlinks at about $1,200/kg but they charge customers closer to $12,000/kg. Do the math. Costs coming down are increases in SpaceX profits, not decreases in customer prices.
Alternatively, esoteric languages and frameworks will become even more lucrative ,simply because only the person who invented them and their hardcore following will understand half of it.

Obviously, not a given, but not unreasonable given what we have seen historically.
Oh, yet another option - first thought was U+0085 NEXT LINE as above
And Apple isn't Steve Jobs? Apple would have turned around on its own without Jobs?

I think we all know these big companies have thousands of people working for them, and a lot of them are pretty smart.

That doesn't change the influence the top guy has.
Right, so there is some reason and there always must have been.

If you think there is a symmetry, there isn’t, because no reason would be required if nothing existed.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

“You are a genius!” messes with the brain if heard enough.
It's likely referring to the Realforce keyboards, notice the title says "HHKB _and_ Realforce", then "Mechanical Programming _and_ Gaming Keyboards", respectively.
Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment
Google is a good place to start.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Control_Systems/MIMO_Systems
Apollo was pretty goofy if you think about -- Yeeting a couple of dudes to the moon in a giant ass rocket so that they can tool around in a little electric-go cart with lawn chair seats and play some golf but it worked.

I think that the Saturn V was a solid platform that was robust enough to do the kinds of things that Von Braun and others had in mind as well as versatile enough to be improved upon.

They would have done it with sufficient budget but the political drive wasn't there. The politicians were more concerned with killing Vietnamese and Cambodians and then selling out American interests to oil companies.
Yes, that's pretty normal, that's actually expected behavior. I think people saying it changed stuff are the ones having a problem in the first place (reality perception, lack of sensitivity or whatever).

Just like alcohol, those things are basically a poison, that you do not die from, provided you don't overdose (you probably have more chance dying of alcohol than mushrooms but still...).

People should take them to have a bit of fun, just like getting inebriated with alcohol and moving on with their life.

Beware of people who tries to pretend more, that are most likely full of shit and you can probably ignore most things they say if they lie about that...
It doesn't. It makes one or two mega-constellations cheaper for their operators and therefor more profitable, but no one except telecom and sensor platforms really want orbit. It's useless for most things, far worse than working on the planet's surface where all the labor and materials already are.
Musk and Trump

Derangement Syndrome

Is what the acronyms refer to. Its a meme for the obsession around them specifically.

My two cents is that there are other billionaires doing significantly more harm than those two. They just keep quiet or own news media platforms.
The challenge is that this drama seems to be unmasking the reality that for the past decade or more, Matt has grown used to referring to Automattic, WP.com, WP.org, and the WPF interchangably and synonymously.

Concerning is not just the things he's said, but what he has done that go along with this. Self-dealing? Improper tax accounting?
Not sure about vegetarian. There is usually lots of comments from people who say they tried being vegetarian but it didn't work when discussing meat and vegetarian threads.
It gives him an excuse to behave the way he's always wanted to.
> massive SQLite fan, but this is giving me pause about using other software by the same author

Even if I wanted to contribute code to SQLite, I can't. I acknowledge the fact God doesn't exist, so he doesn't want my contributions :P
Not humans in disguise, but remotely controlled.
does this mean you trust complete randoms just as much?

if i need advice on repairing a weird unique metal piece on a 1959 corvette, im going to trust the advice of an expert in classic corvettes way before i trust the advice of my barber who knows nothing about cars but confidently tells me to check the tire pressure.

this “oh no, experts have be wrong before” we see so much is wild to me. in nuanced fields i’ll take the advice of experts any day of the week waaaaaay before i take the advice from someone who’s entire knowledge of topic comes from a couple twitter post and a couple of youtube’s but their rhetoric sounds confident. confidently wrong dipshits and sophists are one of the plagues of the modern internet.

in complex nuanced subjects are experts wrong sometimes? absofuckinlutely. in complex nuanced subjects are they correct more often than random “did-my-own-research-for-20-minutes-but-got-distracted-because-i-can’t-focus-for-more-than-3-paragraphs-but-i-sound-confident guy?” absofuckinlutely.
Elephant in the room is the trillions of actual servers and user agents that would need to be tested and patched if you retroactively change a standard. Luckily there are some digits after HTTP that allow the concept of new versions of the standard.
Very exciting age, and very sad drop for intel, although as many have been warning, they should have seen it coming
Outstanding engineers care of doing engineering and making progress. And having a leader they can see burning for a mission and a goal. A leader who gets down and dirty with them.
David Cross has a funny [bit][1] about whether the reverse is true.

[1]: https://youtu.be/z09So1j4kpk?t=378
Mining. War. Sewer cleaning. Tons of jobs where it would help not being actively in the call of duty, and where precision isn't as much of a priority.
It was always Ward Christensen protocol before people began calling it Xmodem protocol. That is why everybody knew his name.

RIP Ward.
AFAIK there is just no other free and open source CMS with a similarly mature ecosystem, which could replace WordPress. So many websites, companies and agencies are built on WordPress, it would take a decade to move away.

The only possibility I can think of is a fork.
> where you can interpret any language and have them with together.

You can have multiple different source blocks in a single Org-mode document. All in different languages, and they can be passing results between one another. e.g., you can run a piece of bash that runs curl, then send the results of it to Python block, where it calculates something, then to Javascript block that uses some npm package and and then send the results to a SQL block that queries a database and generates a report.
It's as much the economics as it is the technology. It took a ton of private investment, and government investment to get here.
Sure, I can do that.

Why the HELL would you need objects and object oriented programming? Wherever you do foo.blah(), you could just do foo_class__do_blah(obj)… so what do objects really grant you that you can’t do with basic procedural programming?

Why do you need Python’s function decorators? You can just manually copy and paste whatever logic you need into each and every function, instead of decorating them.

Why have an iterator protocol? Every datum can have it’s own bespoke way of iteration that you simply have to memorize on a case by case basis (and can not be abstracted over in any common way), why make everything conform to the same interface?

Why have anonymous functions that can close over their lexical scope (what people usually refer to as “closures”)? Consider:

let x = 0;
let inc = () => x++;

You could just write:

function inc(bindings) { return bindings.x++; }

And then remember to pass along bindings whenever you need to call inc. Besides, that’s more or less what’s going on behind the scenes.

I could keep going.

We have these facilities not because they are essential (go program in assembler, and you’ll see how few programming techniques and concepts your processor actually cares about), but because they are nice to have. They are nice to have because they provide us tools for abstraction, so by solving the general case, you solve a host of concrete cases.

Lenses let you abstract over data traversal and projection.

Maybe you don’t appreciate that, and that’s fine. There are C programmers who don’t mind writing 100 different hash tables for different keys and elements. If you are a Python/TS developer, I’m pretty sure you’d find that surprising — if you want a dictionary/hashtable, you just use a dict and call it done — you wouldn’t go build a new dictionary class for each and every key-type/value-type pair.

Different people have different tolerances for the drudgery of solving the same problem for the 100th time.

However: while I don’t understand why someone would choose vanilla ice cream if they’re given the option of chocolate, I wouldn’t act flabbergasted in such a scenario. Why would I? Why should I expect my desires to be the same as everyone else’s?

The only reason I can think of that someone would express shock at someone choosing vanilla over chocolate is if they think that the preference for vanilla indicates something is fundamentally wrong them. Or in other words: being a condescending bigot.

That’s kinda how you’re coming off.

In the event that you were actually asking in good faith: if you like to broaden your skills so you can finish programming work faster, I’d recommend reading up on lenses. If you don’t care about that, that’s fine too, but I’d recommend against expressing shock at the fact that others do care about these types of things.
I've used a HHKB as my main keyboard for nearly 15 years and can't imagine myself switching. It just works so well and is still a joy to type on.

I'm looking forward to getting a Framework laptop so I can remap the keys and finally have a single consistent layout for everything.
Did you get BAH? In high CoL areas like DC metro the housing allowance is like an extra 33k, tax free.
Sounds like there is an excess supply of physicists and physics professors, so on the margin they are no help at all.
I guess the main problem was nobody had a budget for those plans. ”Technically speaking we can do it but we can’t afford it” unfortunately still means ”we can’t do it”.

Now only if Project Orion had not been canceled due to international treaties banning nuclear testing we’d be on the moons of Jupiter by now (sigh).
What loophole? Did I miss something? The law was explicitly designed to force Uber et al to pay drivers more per hour. How on earth is it surprising that the ride share companies turn around and don’t want to pay drivers these minimums when they’re not confident demand is sufficient to compensate?

It’s exactly what many people have said about minimum wage laws for a long time: it makes it illegal to have a job unless you can produce $X in value per hour. Maybe as society we’re ok with that, but it’s lunacy to pretend there are no consequences.
I hadn’t seen autorestic before so I can’t compare them, but there’s resticprofile
Doesn’t everyone know that people are like this, but those that put on a show as if they aren’t like this are just putting on a show?
Fair enough. My info might be a little out of date from my web agency chop shop days, but I do recall that for essentially any substantial site it was assumed from day 1 that it would involve an ACF install. Probably integrated it into… fifty(?) websites over the years. I don’t recall the value prop of Pro, and I actually don’t think I ever touched it myself.
So now you are diagnosing the guy as bipolar? Based on what?
a is for array

b is for byte or buffer

c is for character

d is for destination

e is for event or error

f is for file

g is for graph

h is for handle

i is for index

j is also for index

k is for key

l is for length

m is for mode

n is for number-of

o is for object

p is for part

q is for queue or query

r is for reader

s is for source

t is for time

u is for user

v is for value

w is for word

x is for x component

y is for y component

z is for z component
This article seems like it was written to troll people into a flame war.
There is no such character as NL, and the article does not at all address that fact that the "ENTER" key on every keyboard sends a CR and not a LF. Things work fine the way they are.
Ah, good catch, I must have misread the Wikipedia page. I misread that they were included in the rocket in August. Reading the Raptor page more closely I also see that the 2.75 MN of the Raptor V3 are supposed to be at sea-level.

Anyway, plugging in the Raptor V2 thrust numbers the approximation increases to 4.25 seconds. This is in line with the thrust I used for the V3 being ~8% higher than the V2 thrust figures.
Trump is pro big oil, not electric, so Tesla wouldn't be getting any more favors/subsidies under Trump, and with all the NASA money currently flowing to SpaceX, no strings attached, I doubt they would benefit from Trump either. Money coming from Trump will always be conditional on him getting something back.
Yes. We all know how to do this. You know that API version thingy. I agree to drop the carriage return when not needed but do it in future protocols.

Obviously IPv6 shows you need to be patient. Your great grandkids may see a useless carriage return!

Windows doesn't help here.
>remote control first

If you mean 'first' in a literal chronological sense, sure. It's a logical R&D stepping stone.

If you mean it's the typical operating mode for the final product, I doubt we can conclude that just from an early public tech demo.
Well if US would deploy global kinetic bombardment system that would def. be a game changer.
The concept is actually great, having declarative GUI components compiled into efficient binary representations, and allowing named values to be shared in a single-point-of-definition style with the code that will be handling those components at runtime.
So do the new corporate policies of those platforms.
> Nobody ever wants to be in the middle of a line, then move down to the next line and continue writing in the next column from where you left off. No real-world program ever wants to do that.

Is this true?
The writable stream will only emit 'drain' if the buffer fills past the limit. In that case, a prior call to `writable.write(...)` would return `false` indicating you should wait for drain before calling write again. Even if your code can't access the return value for the last writable.write call, you can check `if (writable.writableNeedDrain) { ...` to decide to wait for drain.

This program will run forever, since we never write to stdout, stdout never "drains":

setInterval(() => console.error("stderr: ", new Date().toISOString()), 5_000)
process.stdout.once("drain", () => {
console.error("stderr: stdout.once.drain, exit")
process.exit(0)
})
I think the parent is equally denigrating the situation.

Leaders choose the standards, especially as they approach monopoly.

Worse still: people will come out of the woodwork to actively defend the monopolist de facto standard producer.
It's become an absolute meme on the left-leaning internet to say SpaceX isn't Elon and Shotwell is doing all the work. You can't go to a thread on this site or reddit etc without it being brought up.

Really I am pretty sure it is just coping to deal with the uncomfortable fact that Elon (bad guy) is doing something great and clearly is skilled. Ask anyone at SpaceX or Shotwell herself and they will all say Elon is very important to its success.
Child mortality is much higher in worse conditions as well, and having more children the increases chances that some survive.
Roads are public infra. I agree they should be kept in good order.
Still amazing progress! Such a shame that Sony and Honda gave up on their bipedal robots 20 years ago. Imagine where we could've been
> while the windows management was a bit irritating at first

https://youtu.be/1-UIzYPn38s - Emacs: control where buffers are displayed (the 'display-buffer-alist')
The layout isn't the problem (or at least not just), I'd just never recommend Topre for gaming.