skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear Cooking Show, I really liked your recipe for the shrimp-avocado salad, and I tried to make it, but since I was out of avocados I just substituted them with potatoes. Also, it turns out I didn't have any shrimp, so I just used some hot dogs I found in my freezer. OMG, this recipe is amazing. You just made my day.

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That's what using X instead of Lisp to make "a better Emacs" sounds like, okay? Emacs is a Lisp-machine, it's built on top of Lisp, it needs Lisp to be Emacs. Otherwise it wouldn't be Emacs. Like at all. Don't be stupid, stop saying stupid shit like "python instead of lisp"...
$: querySelector
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https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/console/utilities...
Isn't Clickhouse relational?
Wow, Bloxd is really impressive. Works great on mobile.
> Specifically, having to worry about getting hibernation right.

As long as the client doesn't exchange websocket messages with DO, it'll hibernate. From what I can tell, ping/pong frames don't count towards uptime, if you're worried about that.
Apparently they are heavily investing in having multiple towers ready to go to be able to do multiple successive launches. Presumably with that approach, one being damaged for a while will be annoying but not project-stopping.
It's quite possible to have wideband AM radio. Some radio stations did it in the US before the FCC standardized bandwidth and started checking envelopes. Radio Caroline, the UK offshore pirate station (1964-1968), was wideband AM.

Noise on AM can to some extent be overcome with power and a low modulation percentage. That's how analog broadcast TV worked. (Broadcast TV was AM video, FM audio.) The black level for the video signal was well above zero. A high black level allowed showing black areas without excessive noise. About 80% of the RF power went into the carrier because of that. Simple, but inefficient. The same trick can be done with AM audio radio, although it seems that's not done much.
Well, this isn't specific to Postgres, is it?

If you were storing billions of rows per day in MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle, it still wouldn't be able to handle it, would it?
Yeah, you need an old Linux version IIRC because it depends on a particular NFS version... I think it's important to get a feel for how the actual hardware felt, though.
Does anyone have an actual notice or obituary other than an anonymous Wikipedia edit? I'd like to check in with some of the CBBS people I know, but having an actual obit would be good.
From my point of view, representation of minority languages matters no matter the political situation. I'm aware that this isn't always (and wasn't always) universally accepted, but I would still think that it's less controversial than political autonomy.

For example, people can support increased representation of the Welsh language without wanting Wales to secede from the UK.
You pretend like it was a bunch of villages living in happy harmony until the Catholics arrived. You're lying. It was part of the post-Roman empire, then it got conquered by Muslims, then it got re-conquered by Catholics. Hence, reconquista.
Electronic Arts streamlines game patching with AWS
This is a well-established phrase in computer science and programming languages, and it’s likely that its use here is meant to be evocative of those principles rather than of an anthropomorphic sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_citizen
Thank you. Your comment makes me check if there's anything like Brave for Firefox. And here it is: cachyos-v4/cachy-browser 130.0-2 (Firefox is at 131.0.2-1 now).
In fact, many schools are starting to ban phones on campus (for a variety of reasons, not just the negative aspects of social media), which makes this even easier.

Outside the classroom there are still plenty of in-person activities from informal gatherings, to sports teams, to clubs and civic events, and in those situations, the few people who are sitting on their phones are the ones more separated from the rest.

I think a lot of us who were early involved in building some of the web that led beyond Web 2.0 into algorithmically-driven media consumption see the massive dangers, and have probably sometimes even overreacted in terms of kids' access to it, but it's certainly better than the alternative.
I guess it's also used when one (usually disapprovingly) tells a story/accusation about themselves from a third party's perspective.
Modern early puberty is a total fallacy. Basic research shows the age as being 10-17 depending on nutrition and the environment. For thousands of years.

Article:

Children are entering puberty younger than before, according to recent studies, raising concerns that childhood obesity and hormone-contaminated water supplies may be to blame.

However, our archaeological research suggests that there’s nothing to worry about. Children in medieval England entered puberty between 10 and 12 years of age – the same as today.

In England, just before the industrial revolution, historical sources suggest menarche occurred between 12-14 years. By the 1840s, girls had their first period between 14-17 years.

Author:

Mary Lewis
Associate Professor in Bioarcheology, University of Reading

And that's not to negate Tiktok/Bytedance's negatives.
I hustle but have learned to balance it with regular exercise. I started taking care of my body five years ago. Since then I've run 4 half marathons and recently my first triathlon. I work out about 2 hrs a day, 6x a week. If care about yourself, you'll make the time. Chase lofty physical goals and work towards them consistently.

Book recs: Outlive by Peter Attia, Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
There is too much potential money in it, especially for a country such as Mauritania, to bungle it.
"evidence is worse than". Excellent start on one side of the story though.
TikTok is a never-ending feed of algorithm optimized short videos designed to perpetually give you a dopamine rush.

In my opinion it is absolutely bad for most people's mental health.

Essentially all other social media platforms have now copied TikTok and do the same.

I still refuse to use TikTok and I never YouTube shorts.
So the claims were:

1. That they will probably get to 0 cases. (he was wrong, but this prediction was made fairly early on when the data looked like this: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1240767096104972289)

2. Kids essentially immune but elderly with existing conditions vulnerable, so family gatherings with close contact are risky. (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1240758710646878208) ... seems correct?

3. He said "the coronavirus panic is dumb". (perhaps downplaying it too much, but in 2024 I think most people would say that the societal response such as not being allowed to go to a beach or park was absurd)

4. He wanted to keep factories open and for people to be allowed outside their homes. (similar to 3)

5. He posted: "Yes, reopen with care & appropriate protection, but don’t put everyone under de facto house arrest" (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1255386895145672705) ... which also seems reasonable.

6. He had Tesla working on making ventilators but didn't think they would be needed in the end. (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1240770010747830272)

Did I miss anything or were his posts relatively uncontroversial with the benefit of hindsight? Personally, I was more concerned about covid than he was at the time, but I would say that his approach to it was more reasonable.
Mary Mallon's case was singled out of many more similar cases. She was treated unfairly and with prejudice. No wonder she behaved "anti-socially".
Robots are everywhere from vacuum cleaners to manufacturing.

The fact that companies haven't been rushing to produce humanoid versions should tell you everything about their usefulness.
Hardly just a BMW/German problem.

How long are Teslas sitting in shops waiting for parts, these days?
Grew up rural, but spent a lot of my formative years on BBSes and this budding "Internet" thing.

Moved to SF, spent 20 years there, then moved back to the countryside because I was going to climb mountains instead of tech and breathe the fresh country air. Hiking and climbing was a great adventure but 5 years later I see that it wasn't the "solution" I was expecting it to be.

Sometimes I feel the way you're feeling; I miss the tech scene, the vibrance of the city. Other times, I feel great about the move. I know more people in this tiny town than I ever knew in the bay, and I feel more invested in the community's future. I've grown a lot through this change, and learned much that I'd never have learned in the bay.

I do wish we'd moved closer to my parents. Caring for them as they age is difficult from afar.

The grass is always greener, somewhat, and IMO the best "answer" is to make what you can from wherever you are. Don't be in a rush to force life's progress.
This is a very underrated comment. On your death bed looking back this is a strong argument.

Think of it this way with 2 examples...

I'm following a large truck, and being followed by a large truck on the motorway. I'm thinking to myself "there is no good story that starts with 'so, I was following this huge truck closely on the highway...' I get out of the lane, either overtaking or letting them pass.

On the other hand if I get an opportunity to work for a year in Singapore, that's the start of a good story. Let's go.

You only live once is truther for every year passing by.

Regrets hurt more than debts, unless tied of course! Having choices is being rich.
I was so excited when I first discovered Dreamweaver and was gonna make so many great websites. ironically my Engineering degree program had other thoughts
Maybe they'll have some respect for resource consumption (unlike 99% of software development these days) and they'll end up writing a text editor that doesn't run in an embedded web browser and soak up 6 GB of RAM to open a blank document!
Anduril is also more competent than the government's organizational structure; it isn't strictly a question of how competent individual people are. It might not even mostly be a question of how competent individual people are.
I'd imagine teens with smartphones making poor decisions is perennial and any UGC site needs to have a strategy for dealing with it.

Strangely, you'll find many people, specifically on HN that want to attribute a separate maniacal agency to tiktok as if it's some cold war brainwave voodoo project sabotaging America. As if twitter, reddit, tumblr, youtube and instagram don't have similar problems.
I've been monitoring the SCF forums as well on WPorg, and there have been no reports of issues since moving to SCF.

It would be fantastic if people could open a topic there or a thread on Slack if they face any issues.
Kind of suspicious that almost every comment here was written 44 minutes ago. Just saying.
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advanced-custom-fields/
That’s what I was wondering — even if you sped up a realistic capture from space, wouldn’t it still just look like stars moving at about the same speed?

There might be small variances in velocity, but it seems like not near to the extent we see in these simulations.

Again, this was mostly a theoretical/scientific curiosity — I understand why they do it like this, I’m mostly trying to figure out what real movement might look like, even at nX speed.
C++ String Conversion: Exploring std:from_chars in C++17 to C++26
Escalated from a chicken sandwich to buying real estate pretty quickly! Good for you.
With xterm (Kitty, WezTerm, Alacritty) you can have good mouse support, hence you can have tooltip-like popups (AFAICT eldoc or lsp-ui-doc do it), and likely even drag and drop (never used it).

I suspect that with sixel support, and kitty image protocol support, images could be shown, too. At least, Eat, the elisp-based terminal.emulator, manages to show sixel graphics inside Emacs.
What are you talking about? Emacs has incredibly good window control. It is in fact so good, people decided to build window managers on top of Emacs - see EXWM. Yes, the customization is complex and very confusing for beginners, but the levels of control are all there.
I built a tool on top of restic to host git repositories on untrusted infrastructure. Its been working fine for my small low traffic projects for years, I only sync the fork every few months. https://github.com/CGamesPlay/git-remote-restic
> If you have not, is it because you do not believe in one or more of the 3 points above, or is it because you feel since nobody really knows how it will go down, it is pointless to worry, fret or change things?

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - I am not particularly worried about "evil AI" scenarios ala The Terminator or The Matrix. OTOH, I think there is a real, but hard to quantify, chance of significant job displacement at a scale that hasn't been seen before, and the emergence of even greater disparity in wealth/power/quality-of-life between the "haves" and "have nots". Or to put it another way, I could see a "cyberpunk dystopia" of sorts emerging.

So am I "altering my life plans" in response to that? Not in major ways. And to the extent that I have, I'm not honestly sure I want to talk about it here. I'll just say that I have started focusing more on saving money than what I used to, and pick up another couple of boxes of ammo every now and then. But still, no, for the most part I haven't made any big changes.
That's right. The key difference is using row-based vs column-based databases (i.e. OLTP vs OLAP). Any good database person should be cringing at the thought of using Postgres (or MySQL, Oracle, Sql Server, etc) for pulling reporting data.

That said, no regrets using Postgres there. If we started with Clickhouse the project could have not launched as quickly as it did, and that would have given us more problems.
That's what they said about the second test flight (and the third), but the webcast recordings looked a lot more like fuel leaks to me, and that is in line with Starship and early Falcon's past issues. I'm going to press X to doubt that the dumping narrative is the truth, since a nice face-saving white lie is in every corporation's handbook.
There's no need to have a dislike button. Your behavior is enough.

If you dislike something and watch it, that's engagement. They'll of course want to show you more of it.

Rage and anger are engagement too. They're perhaps the best forms of engagement.
https://parallel-rust-cpp.github.io/

This goes through seven iterations of optimization an algorithm in rust, comparing it to the equivalent c++ at each stage.
It does allow you to query with SQL, but it's meant for OLAP workloads, not OLTP. Its internal architecture and storage is different to what you'd usually think of as a relational database, like Postgres. See https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/concepts/why-clickhouse-is-so...

The term "relational" is overloaded. Sometimes it means "you can use SQL" and sometimes it means "OLTP with data stored in an AoS btree".

(And sometimes, a pet peeve of mine, it means "data with relationships" which is based on misunderstanding the term "relation". If someone asks you if "your data is relational" they are suffering from this confusion.)
Well let's not use it anymore if I agree on principle, computer science itself is a new field, so not sure how deeply entrenched it really is.
Keep trying new things. You are young and still figuring life out. Too many people settle and stop following their dreams and whims. Chasing opportunities is likely what you should be doing at the moment.

This doesn't mean be irresponsible, but it does mean listening to your "gut feeling" and knowing when it's time to move on.

I regret very little I have actively done in life, even the things that at the time seemed to turn out so poorly I thought I may not ever recover from. I do regret, sometimes very deeply, the things I did not do but knew I should have.

There is of course a balance in life, but you have time to find it. So long as you are not hurting others or putting yourself in harms way I would always err on the side of "do something new" - but that does mean finish the things you commit to. Both for yourself and others.
That's a very strange way to present Spanish history.

Spain was unified province of Rome, and then its own country under the Visigoths for a total of 800 years. That's 800 years of unified governance. Spain had a common language (vulgate) and religion (various sects of christianity).

We have the pre-Islamic negotiations on issues of Faith. The Visigoths were Arians but slowly became Catholics. We have the history of countless councils.

Spain wasn't, but for some savages, empty land for the muslim armies to take. And it's ridiculous to think it could have been - where did the people to fight the most powerful army of the day come from? Asturias is just not that big.
Clickhouse is a SQL database, so I guess it is?

(Strictly speaking since a "relation" in the original Codd-paper sense is a table, anything with tables is relational. I don't know if that's what people mean by "relational", plus I don't know what counts as "non-relational" in that sense)
I'd trade my dog to have Clojure-like maps and destructuring in Elisp. Comparing workflow with maps in Clojure and alist/plist in Elisp won't get any points to Elisp side.
Yes, it's so frustrating.

Their OTP/MFA is still not configurable, as far as I can see. When trying to figure out how to disable passwordless/OTP only log in, I saw someone trying to do the same describing how without the ability to disable OTP login, their kid logs in to their paypal by using the OTP text and they shouldn't have to delete their paypal or work around it with phone settings to have some basic security on their paypal account. It's such poor security because of spoofing attacks anyway, but anyone who knows your email and can see your phone can log in to your paypal by default. I also hate their stupid 'try another way -> sign in with password' flow on their log in. It's my password, not 'trying another way'. Ah, their UX is so bad.
Does CloudFlare have proper spending caps? If they have, I'd be open to try DOs but if they don't, it's a non-starter for an indie dev as I can't risk bankruptcy due to a bad for loop.
Is this something we should've seen coming, as in, is this part of some kind of institutional move they had forecasted?

Because not working on accessibility seems like a really bad idea. People really like to sue about these kinds of things, and accessibility is very important for many users (like me!).
"If you have time" is the operative point here. The idea is to make it efficient to quickly search for occurrences.

So then you get back to the LSP question -- but for larger codebases I can tell you, those don't always work as well as you'd hope. I don't use 'ii' but it's admittedly much easier to just `rg` for variables than hope my editor plugin decides to work today.
Well, Visual Studio 6.0's Visual Interdev (1998) had actual browser rendering (via the Trident engine used in Internet Explorer I assume), including Java applets, which would run in the "Quick view" mode, but also amazingly in the Source [code] mode!
How does this compare to Google Workspace built in Mail Merge function?
This is beautiful! It is how I look at mindfulness mediation, and I will use some of the clear writing from this piece when trying to convey it to others
You'd still have to recover the rocket. I imagine the number of places you could land and economically recover the rocket is pretty small.
Copying my comment from lobste.rs in case you didn't see it:

I really appreciate this attitude. As programmers, we love to complain and grumble to each other about how the state of things suck, or that things are over complicated, but then too often the response is the software engineering equivalent of “I paid my student loans, so you should have to, too”. A new person joins the project, and WTFs at something, and the traumatized veterans say, “haha oh boy welcome, yeah everything sucks! You’ll get used to it soon.”

I hate that attitude.

We are at the very, very beginning of software protocols that could potentially last for millennia. From that perspective, you would look back at this situation and think of Richard’s blog post as super obvious, the clear voice of reason, and the reaction of everyone here as myopic.

Even if our software protocols for whatever reason don’t last that long, we need to be working on reducing global system complexity. Beauty and elegance aside, there is such a thing as complexity budget which is limited by the laws of information theory, the computer science equivalent of the laws of physics. People like Richard understand this intuitively, and actively work towards reconstructing our world to regain complexity currency so that it can be spent on more productive things.

I would have backed you 100%.
Playing Population One in VR did this to me. Whenever I hopped into a new game, I'd ask the other participants if they'd had particularly vivid dreams since getting VR, and more than half of folks said they had.
Personally I doubt that Matt cared about any of this when the checkbox went into effect. My guess is he will throw money at it and hire someone to take over.
Nice. Will this work with React as well?
> since the Greeks that people knew the world was not flat

Actually, most Greek knowledge had fundamentally disappeared from Western Europe for centuries, even before the official dissolution of the Western Roman Empire. Some of it had just reappeared in the XV century, largely through translations of Arabic books; this is why the Renaissance produced so much stuff inspired by classic material - because it was all new and exciting to the people of the period, like they'd rediscovered an ancient civilization!

Also by "people" here we are literally talking about the 0.1% - educated people who could read and had access to books, which at the time were very rare and super expensive.

What the vikings did was not common knowledge, because basically they didn't come back regularly and so there was no real knowledge of their actions anywhere in Europe.

The consensus at the time, among the learned (i.e. Catholic Church and a few scientists with royal patronage here and there) was that the Earth was probably round, and probably small enough that you could maybe sail all the way to China and India from the edge of Europe - but they had no idea that there was land in between.
And this is why nobody submits MLPerf against NVIDIA.
It's an extremely common trades path in Australia to work on minesites.

Not uncommon in Canada either.

The point was probably to meaningfully contribute to the conversation about trades and typical earnings.

It was a useful comment .. unlike, for example, yours.
Point 1 is false, and therefore points 2 and 3 are irrelevant.

The energy requirements of actual AGI (not the already energy intensive toys we're playing with now) are simply too huge for us to be able to produce, let alone sustain.
> 650 * dt

That should of course be 13 * 650 * dt.