skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a coincidence. There was a "new" analysis of the shroud that came out last month.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/jesus...

That's the least asinine article I could find. It's even dumber than this article suggests.
There's a real difference between surviving and thriving.

I don't think we're claiming life isn't "worth living" after adversity. Just that it's somewhat obvious that they will make similar mistakes due to the challenges they face, at least more frequently than those who do not face such adversities.
How many miles does it have on the latest software?
Because any miles driven on previous software are no longer relevant.
Especially with that big change in v12.
Not author, but these are just pixels.
Tech CEO Charged with Fraud over Security, Reliability Claims
What was it claiming exactly that it proved to be reverse?

> we would be better off if we spent less and focused on lifestyle.

I didn't see any claim opposite of this.
appreciate you sharing, thank you
Stellantis to shutter and sell large testing facility amid cost-cutting efforts
The term "byte" was introduced by IBM at the launch of the IBM System/360 in 1964. [1], which event also introduced the term "throughput". IBM never used it officially in reference to their 36-bit machines. By 1969, IBM had discontinued selling their 36-bit machines. UNIVAC and DEC held onto 36 bits for several more decades, though.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/history/system-360
Am I supposed to take this article seriously?

I see the author is perhaps ironically rejecting a narrative by using another narrative to advocate for their position.

The author is sort of implying that there's harm to society and the individual by engaging in these narrative arcs without any actual evidence to support their position. Merely a "I feel" and "might" and "could even become dangerous."

Way too many wishy-washy phrases attempting to soften their opinion, but then goes on to present a false dichotomy of absolutes vis-a-vis: You either embrace the narrative structure and have it destroy you, or you reject the narrative structure and live a care free life.

And because of the uncommitted weasel phrases this entire article has the hallmarks of AI generated slop that someone had to rush through for publication because they procrastinated. I'm flagging this one as "yawn."
JSON pointer escapes slashes by encoding them as "~1", and tildes are escaped by encoding them as "~0". But I agree that using an array would have made much more sense. It would also have allowed the use of integers to disambiguate array indices from object keys that happen to be numbers, without having to parse the document to be patched.
mankind has been created to carry forward an ever advancing civilization

that's what i go by. the goal is for each individual and for humanity as a whole to better themselves during their life on earth and how they will experience their eternal existence depends on how well they do on earth. plenty of motivation for me, and better than the idea that after i die there is nothing and therefore what i do in my life doesn't really matter.
You're looking for JSON merge patch which they briefly mentioned https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7386
This is extreme survivorship bias.

The way you say 'look at all the people' implies that a lot of people survived and had good lives, but this needs to be weighed against the number of people total that entered concentration camps to know if this is actually a meaningful number of people to validate your assertion or not.

My guess is that someone who went into a concentration camp were much less likely to live a life worth living than people who did not simply because a large number of them lived a life of torture and then death.
From my small company experience, this is more likely incompetence than maliciousness. Spreadsheets get passed around and remerged back into the blob. Mind you, I don't mean to excuse this behavior. Just to understand it. And of course, unsubscribe processes will be near the bottom of anyone's priority list until the complaints and threats begin to mount.
Just have Keepass pick from the extended ASCII set

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good point on executive salaries.
Ploopy's 3D-printed, open-source trackpad is thoroughly customizable
The Amazon is ablaze again. What it means for us
It's rather amusing that people have said this about OpenAI - that they essentially had no lead - for about two years non-stop.

The moat as usual is extraordinary scale, resources, time. Nobody is putting $10 billion into the 7th OpenAI clone. Big tech isn't aggressively partnering with the 7th OpenAI clone. The door is already shut to that 7th OpenAI clone (they can never succeed or catch-up), there's just an enormous amount of naivety in tech circles about how things work in the real world: I can just spin up a ChatGPT competitor over the weekend on my 5090, therefore OpenAI have no barriers to entry, etc.

HN used to endlessly talk about how Uber could be cloned in a weekend. It's just people talking about something they don't actually understand. They might understand writing code (or similar) and their bias extends from the premise that their thing is the hard part of the equation (writing the code, building an app, is very far from the hardest part of the equation for an Uber).
This made me go buy a cheap board on Amazon. Looks fun!
You might like these two ideas of Daniel Dennett, multiple drafts model and fame in the brain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_drafts_model

https://kenyonreview.org/2008/04/fame-in-the-brain/
Not to be "that guy" but...

To clarify some confusion in this thread, it might be helpful to distinguish "open source" (the application) from "free" (this hosted instance of the application). Munging the two together might lead to some incorrect conclusions. Running a "free" application for others is going to have certain costs. The cost of running an "open source" application is going to depend entirely on the resources that application consumes, which, if run privately, might be a lot less.
> The claim that US health care prices are inexplicably high was never well-evidenced

I can provide anecdotal evidence that prices inexplicably high. A primary care physician will charge anywhere between $200-$500 for a visit. If you have good insurance, you don’t pay out of pocket. In the same city, I once had to go to a PCP who would only work without insurance. I had to wait a lot because of how many people were lined up in front of the office, but I paid $50 for the visit. I’m already paying 4-10x in a comprable market for the same services.

When I was abroad, I had to visit a doctor’s office for food poisoning. I paid 200 in the local currency. I could have gone to a hospital and they would charged me 500 in the local currency. But what’s important to know is that the median monthly wages in the country were 25000 in the local currency. So all in all, you’d pay a smaller portion of your wages for a simple checkup.

And that tbh is why people are actually mad.
So far, from the majority of comments here, yours included, I have concluded that we somehow got tricked to "upgrade" our hobby to a career, with one major cost: sacrificing our creative freedoms that companies demand us to give up on in place of daily meetings.
I never thought about it before, but I think I visualize stack frames. Local variables are registers or just memory in the stack frame. Objects are pointers. "Where I've been" is prior frames on the stack. "Where is this going" is branch prediction guesses the CPU is making. It's like having a sort of mishmash of Von Neuman architecture and algorithms and data structures rolling around.
From the article:

So far, the data suggests that native wildlife is responding in the areas the contractors patrol; though they might not be surging back, mammals and birds are finding the toehold they need to survive. While no one believes the pythons will ever be fully eradicated, Kirkland is hopeful that in twenty years, native wildlife might have regained more than a toehold, and the issue might lessen into something close to manageable.
> The majority of software jobs are not doing anything remotely good for the world

Firstly, this isn't true except in the narrowest sense where only people working on cancer are doing anything good for the world. Contributing to the economy in a non-destructive non-evil way is still good, people need goods and services to live a good life and almost every part of the economy plays some positive role in that.

Secondly, my point is that one could find a non-sexy job in tech at a hospital, or in an academic institution, that don't necessarily pay top FAANG salary but, if fulfillment is more important (as it seems to be for the OP), this would be a good option.

> Not everyone is afforded an extraordinary privilege of just arbitrarily deciding to work part time.

Of course that's true, but I was directing my comment at OP, who said in the blog post that "I quit my last contracting gig in August with £40k in debt, no other income, and only a business idea (it failed). It was still the right decision."
Firefox has had this feature for a long time.

Set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false in about:config.
But what's your point? Would you truly want consumers of JSON Patch data to embed a JS interpreter?
Perhaps I am underthinking things here, but this seems like a good use case to just use UDP here. Save all the power consumed in the original connection set up and just the router will handle NAT re-allocation whenever you phone home, right? Responses to those messages should be properly routed to your device. Building on top of TCP seems like a lot of effort for this network situation
Same here. It's just wishy-washy uncommitted phrasing indicative of "don't make a strong opinion that is polarizing" that is so characteristic of AI generated text. I used to use an online writing service for content many years ago and one of the hallmarks of "I'm doing this for a little extra money" and "I'm a pro writer between gigs" was the "in conclusion" and "therefore" and the three part school essay structure. It screamed bad writing, and I am seeing the same kind of flags in AI generated text too.
Problem is the risk vs reward question seems to be ignored in favor of talking about just the reward part. I'm sure there are reasons for not talking about the risk part like you don't want to be too chummy with the anti vax crowd or you don't want to discourage vaccine use but it makes most people's bs detector go off. There is never reward without risk.
What’s the killer 2-syllable word (google, Kleenex)??

ChatGPT is a mouthful. Even copilot rolls off the tongue easier though doesn’t have the mindshare obviously.

Generic gpt would be better but you end up saying gpt-style tool, which is worse.
Humans as groups sure are, but only because one succes in a population tends to look like it makes up for all the quiet struggle. For the folks living those quiet struggles though, life and joy is fragile and temporary.
Same here. I start with high-level signatures and data structures. Then I implement the functions.

Perhaps the git diff helps me visualize what's left to do.

On the other hand, if it is a complex algorithm, I draw diagrams representing the edges cases and I try to give them names before coding them.
Does the installer needs admin rights? Or the app after installing it?
One possible answer is that I self-signed the app rather than using 400$ code-signing authority - hence you might get warnings for the installer.
Getting a human to help is impossible at Facebook, and it's on purpose. I lost $200 to a scammer on Marketplace, and the only recourse was to go through my credit card company.

... Don't buy things on Marketplace that offer shipping. The seller will give you a real tracking number to an unrelated package with the same zip code destination, which means it is much harder to claim that the package never arrived to you.
Most of this is extreme hyperbole and it’s really hard to believe this is a genuine good faith attempt at conversation instead of weird astroturfing, bc these tired inaccurate talking points are what come up in literally every single even remotely associated to Elon. It’s like there’s a dossier of talking points everyone is sharing

The car drives itself. This is literally undeniable. You can test it today for free. Yeah it doesn’t have the last 0.01% done yet and yeah that’s probably a lot of work. But commenting like the GP is exhausting and just not reflective of reality
If I understand your first point correctly, then I have great news. I guess my wording could have been more clear, but PocketBook devices do NOT run Android.

As for the second, if that is a requirement then at least the Era doesn't have an ambient light sensor. I don't have any issue without it because I just have the front light off entirely by default since it is e-ink. Obviously if I need to use it in the dark I turn it on, but that is easy without having to navigate a screen I can't see since you can configure a hardware shortcut to toggle the front light (it is set to long press on the home button by default). While it does support automatic screen brightness and temperature (individually toggled), these are driven by a schedule based on the set timezones.
The fact that stubbing your toe meant death in the past doesn't mean that facing massive adversity doesn't have real negative long term impact on one's mental well being.

You're equating psychological harm and learned patterns of behavior that are unresourceful with physical accidents, without explaining why we should see them as comparable.

Even if they were comparable, who's to say Neanderthal younglings with badly stubbed toes didn't also have skewed reward processing as adults?
Are you suggesting checking the date every frame vs scheduling long task every once in a long while? Can't tell if it is ironic or not, I'm sorry (damn Poe's law). But assuming not, it would be a lot more computationaly expensive to do that, timeouts are very optmized and they "give back" on the computer resources while in the meantime
Huh, I never really thought of that as a unique property of Sandstorm, but you're absolutely right, this is essential to any software intended to be operated by a non-technical end user, and Sandstorm is aggressive about it (e.g. apps are always shut down by abrupt SIGKILL and whenever someone requested that we add some sort of clean shutdown notification, I refused).

Ironically, Sandstorm itself is still stuck running on Mongo version 2.6 (a decade old!) because Mongo can't necessarily be updated in an unattended way. Of course, we could never ask every Sandstorm user to do some manual process to upgrade it.

Meanwhile, newer versions of the Mongo Node.js client library don't support such old Mongo, which means Sandstorm cannot actually update that package nor any of the packages that depend on it anymore. And this is why Sandstorm is now stuck in time and no longer receiving updates. :(

It was clearly a big mistake for Sandstorm to use Mongo. We chose it because we built the UI on Meteor, which was really only designed to work wing Mongo. In retrospect I wish we'd used SQLite, whose backwards-compatibility guarantee has now reached twenty years.
Come on. The majority of programming work isn't particularly mentally demanding, at least not any more so than other professional office jobs. It's not like lawyers or mechanical engineers have it any easier.
>It is actually the mental discomfort of fasting that gives you confidence that you can deal with mental pain and discomfort without trying to escape it, that leads to eating less. This is likely the same mechanism behind weight loss drugs like semaglutide that also help with non food related addictions.

This is not true. For me at least the effect of fasting for several days is purely physiological, not psychological, emotional or spiritual. There's no extra "confidence" to deal with "discomfort," your body simply needs drastically less food. You also drastically increase your feelings of being satiated after eating.

So after fasting (and its probably the same on GLP-1 meds) you don't get very hungry and when you do eat you feel very content and full after only a few bites.
The pay only what you use model is nice when your revenue also scales with use. For my projects I wish there were plans with higher fixed cost and risk only in availability and not in cost.
it's worse than that, at least in ours, the backseat latches are under some mat, literally hidden. i had no idea it was there for the first 6 months.
Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't – Faultlore (2019)
One such life adversity can be having bad teachers and unhelpful indoctrination in early life. If anything you're corroborating TFA's argument?
My point is that the JS interpreter is likely already there.
Thanks, I played today with step-ca OpenSSH certificates. I think it does thing better than Teleport in some ways. It's also lacking many features but it's a good alternative for me. I like that it's still vanilla OpenSSH and it doesn't go in the way of other authentications systems.

I wish the step-ca documentation for OpenSSH certificates was a bit more centralised. I had to look at quite a few pages, blog posts, and shell scripts to understand what to do.
This is such a terrible bit of "science journalism".

First, they don't bother to link to the paper (presumably because it was published in Cell?). So if you're wondering, here it is:

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01093-6

Second, the writer doesn't bother to mention any of the actual science done here: the AlphaFold step, however sexy, was just a hypothesis-generating step. The reason the paper is in Cell is because they did a bunch of other, more important work to verify that the hypothesis was correct.

Third, I'm kind of offended that they make it sound like this was some unknown theory until AlphaFold revealed the magic of the universe. If you go do a publication search, you'll see that people have been challenging the 2-protein theory for a while. So it's cool that they found another factor, but again, AlphaFold didn't magically unlock this area of research.

It's really cool that a computer model was used to generate a hypothesis that was subsequently validated with (IMO) hurculean amounts of lab work; it's not cool that the lab work was minimized to a factor that was omitted from the summary, because that lab work is the only thing that got the paper in Cell (and in fact, what "reveals" how sperm-and-egg "hook up" yada yada yada.) Computer predictions are a gigantic haystack, but validated computer predictions are diamonds in that haystack. As always, you have no idea how many incorrect computer-generated theories the authors discarded before finding the one that got published.

In short: beware hype generated by "journalists" writing in the toilet-reading section of Nature and Science.
Millions protested the Vietnam war. Many millions more protested the Iraq war. Millions upon millions have protested against Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people for an entire year. Now those same people also protest against Israel's invasion of Lebanon.

It has been ineffective. We've seen peaceful protestors smeared, and beaten and harassed by the police. We've seen counter terror laws abused to smear and arrest leaders. We've seen clampdowns on what protests are allowed to go ahead, and at least on the UK they are pushing and pushing for "tougher" laws to crush protests.
Rosetta Stone is an item in Animal Crossing, it's very similar to the original I wonder if they used the model as starting point.

https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Informative_statue?fi...
I mean, _yeah_, for anything important you should move as carefully as possible. Just, "not upgrading" ain't that.
It's slower but out of spite I usually go into the console and remove the `onpaste="false"` nonsense from their markup.
Before Facebook, the Late Ward Christensen Booted Up the First Social Network
When this gets brought up as a positive to our high healthcare spending (which you're not exactly doing, more just making note of the existence of the argument) it's such a head-scratcher for me.

1) OK... maybe we should stop, then? Like, that seems like a terrible deal? How is that a justification at all? It seems like just a description of something very stupid we're doing.

2) This would be a good deal if we were getting other countries to also pay high prices and bringing that money "home", but basically the exact opposite is happening. WTF.

3) More often than not, the side of the issue that raises this as a good thing is also the side full of folks who think we should e.g. reduce spending on foreign aid, so it's especially weird that they're bringing it up.

Plus, I'm very skeptical that the idea that drug development would dramatically slow down if the US stopped over-spending to the tune of 2x-100x on lots of drugs is even true. But setting that aside, it's still just a bizarre line of argument, to me.
The most recent blog post they have up is titled "The Mondragon of Music" which, frankly, is all I needed to see.

https://subvert.fm/blog/our-50-year-roadmap-the-mondragon-of...

The article mentions the highlights, but a deeper drive into the Mondragon Corp can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Posits https://posithub.org/docs/Posits4.pdf are an excellent perspective for an alternative to IEEE floats.
It's a great start. Co-ops and non-profits can also be subverted and taken over. I hope you look ahead and plan very carefully.

For example, according to an (unverified) story someone told me, a vendor to US east coast food cooperatives now controls many of them; they get their person in, pass bylaws empowering them and disempowering the board (the board usually lacking sophistication), and have deeper pockets for any legal struggle than any co-op member does.

Also, I remember in the news that a non-profit or limited-profit company in the IT industry, founded for the public good, is going to be turned into a for-profit. The board actually fired the person behind this plan, but that person came back and fired the board members.
Musk's attacks on the real heroes of disaster relief is insane. And completely separately, the scummy half-truth behind his free internet claim is insane.
Right. Work being "not fun" is a long way from Burnout (which looks a lot like, and maybe is, depression).

The difference between a Grind and Hopeless.
> javascript's type system natively distinguishes undefined from null values.

JSON is not JavaScript (despite the "J"), and `undefined` is not a part of JSON specification.

However, I think every language out there that has an dictionary-like type can distinguish between presence of a key and absence of one, so your argument still applies. At the very least, for simple documents that don't require anything fancy.

I believe this simple merge-based approach is exactly what people are using when they don't need JSON Patch. If you operate on large arrays or need transactional updates, JSON Patch is probably be a better choice, though.

> Only trouble is static type people love their type serializers, which are ever at a mismatch with the json they work with.

I don't think it's a type system problem, unless the language doesn't have some type that is present in JSON and has to improvise. Typically, it's rather a misunderstanding that a patch document (even if it's a merge patch like your example) has its own distinct type from the entity it's supposed to patch - at the very least, in terms of nullability. A lot of people (myself included) made that blunder only to realize how it's broken later. JSON Patch avoids that because it's very explicit that patch document has its own distinct structure and types, but simple merge patches may confuse some.
Unportal? What the fuck is unportal? I have played games for 30 years and I've never heard the term "unportal". Google gives no useful results. That clue made me angrier than any crossword clue I've ever seen.