skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s wrong with binder?

The problem with Waydroid is that you need to boot up a whole Android system, which is not great for app startup time.
The duckduckgo results for "thinnest mini fridge" or far better for me.
Change is perhaps accelerating, especially since the invention of agriculture, writing and more recently the Industrial Revolution.

Eg nowadays almost everyone has the 'modern overbite', ie the top front teeth extend in front of the bottom front teeth.

See eg https://nextnature.org/en/magazine/story/2013/did-forks-real...

The article explicitly blames forks, but people in Song China had a modern overbite long before Europeans invented forks. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overbite#Changing_human_dentit... and https://petermorwood.tumblr.com/post/181554755777/deadcatwit...
That assumes that the best you can do is brute force, but real encryption algorithms (even AES) are weaker than that, so the attacker can infer some bits of the key. More so for asymmetric encryption.
I really wish we could get a privacy-respecting standard for electronic receipts. But every time a shop experiments with it, it's using a shitty app which they use to track their customers.
Well in other comments, native Chinese speakers brought up that when you forget how to write a character you just write a homonym and readers can guess by the context - which is how Chinese speech works anyway.

So it turns out that humans are rather flexible
This is something that most movies set in past eras get wrong.
They always show a bunch of candles in the houses, even in poor ones, and a lot of torches outside.
No, just no. No poor household could afford candles, they used pinewood chips, if they could even afford them.
And torches were also expensive, and lasted only a short time.
Even firewood was expensive.

Many movies also show kerosene lamps in eras where they weren't even invented.
The worst thing I've seen is a korean movie, set in the 16th century, showing an Aladdin mantle lamp (without the mantle, and grossly misadjusted). Those things were invented in the 1920s, and became popular in the 1930s.

Come on, guys. You have internet. Getting it right just consts you one Google search.
Yeah it takes as long to walk to a metro station from my office as it does to sit in the Uber to get to Union.
Like the path that starts with a "simple" system of "soft deletes" for Foo records, which progresses through a period of developer-assisted "restores" or merges, and then they want even older info, and to make reports...

However it would have all been so much easier if they'd realized their business domain called for "Foo Revisions" in the first place.
I'm pretty sure proper grammar and spelling would already gain you quite some points.

An indian-australian's semi-recent take on modern "educayshun":

https://youtu.be/iKcWu0tsiZM
We at Toughbyte (toughbyte.com) are working on an open source applicant tracking system (ATS), which we'll release within a week.

We've been doing tech recruitment for a while and discovered that few companies are satisfied with their current ATS. Changing systems every year is common despite being costly. The reason for this is that the needs of a company change as it grows and there are no systems that cater well to companies of different sizes.

We're aiming to build an ATS that can grow with your company through the use of a plugin architecture. We plan to charge for hosting as well as custom development.

Any feedback would be really appreciated! You can also email me at oleg@toughbyte.com
Not really. Or if I take that as face value, schools fail at it.

School mainly serves as day care and social programming: obey authority, believe what we tell you, remember what will appear on the test. Some people get more out of it than others.
Hey Friends

Today I'm releasing a new version of my SaaS starter kit, Wave. It will make building your SaaS with Laravel quicker than ever!

I'm excited to get this out there and hear y'alls feedback.
Just Dropped: Oct 28 Architecture Nugget – System Architecture Essentials
What am I missing here? This seems like a problem that's effectively solved by using LDAP.
Damn that's cool! Nice work
Optillm - https://github.com/codelion/optillm

optillm is an OpenAI API compatible optimizing inference proxy which implements several state-of-the-art techniques that can improve the accuracy and performance of LLMs. The current focus is on implementing techniques that improve reasoning over coding, logical and mathematical queries. It is possible to beat the frontier models using these techniques across diverse tasks by doing additional compute at inference time.
Try cutting down your caffeine really slowly. I did it by gradually cutting caffeinated coffee with slightly more decaff, over months. Eventually I was 100% decaff. Never had any withdrawal (the headaches, and energy slumps you mention).

And now I no longer have any of the bad symptoms caffeine was giving me: nervous tick, wildly fluctuating energy levels, random extreme emotions.

Back when I was younger, caffeine had none of those bad effects on me. But as I grew older, they started to ramp up. Because coffee was such a constant in my life, it took me many years to realise the cause.
Exactly. How well would a 1912 student do on an 8th-grade test today for comparison?

They would lack any info about world wars, decolonization, computers, space race, internet, climate change, just to pick some topics taught today.
Eh, besides Cloudflare, you're pouring money down the drain if you're using any of those. Remember that recent thread where some open source project was spending $100/month on a Vercel database handling 3 requests per minute that could have been a $4 VPS?

Non-hyperscaler server hosting is a pretty competitive business that doesn't need further decentralization at this time, though it's not a bad thing either.
Please. I still have my medical charts from my childhood, back before the computers. I can barely read the handwriting there, and it's not because of medical terms.

Apparently, it became slightly better recently, now that doctors spend less time scribbling things and mostly type them instead.
As I suffer from phone overuse, I'm excited to see what you'll come up with!
A library of documentation (nearly 1 million high res images and documents) of recent contemporary art exhibitions from all over the world. Free to the public, operated as a small non-profit.

https://contemporaryartlibrary.org
Very interesting content I don’t have anything to say for now, but I’ll leave you with a link so you can enjoy some trance music from mixed music channel and a little nifty tool to have on your browser. Cheers.
Thanks for sharing.

for the ravers and old school trance heads.
Enjoy:

https://o7.ca/index1.htm

Best,
1313.Pi
I doubt he's opposed to JS, given the number of new JS APIs he pushed Chrome to implement as part of Project Fugu, he seems more opposed to specific frameworks.
In my spare time, I am trying to port OpenBMC[0] to the BMC of the Gigabyte MC12-LE0[1], a cheap, workstation/server-class mainboard for AMD's AM4 platform.

Unfortunately, Gigabyte denied my requests to provide me with any details (board schematics/GPIO pinouts) or source code of the (partly GPL-licensed) BMC firmware, etc.), so it's been a tedious uphill battle. However, it is also a great way to learn about (some) electronics and embedded Linux development and associated challenges.

During the past few months, I have overcome the stock firmware AST2500 bootloader and made the board play ball with standard FDIs, have reverse-engineered a workable DeviceTree specification for the hardware, and am now (well, actually, not for the next three weeks or so, due to work :)) in the process of finishing up OpenBMC userspace configuration. Once this is done, and everything works well enough to use OpenBMC as a viable alternative for the stock BMC firmware provided by AMI/Gigabyte, I will try to upstream my work, and OpenBMC will have a very cheaply available AST2500 DevKit/EVB-alternative (of sorts) in its arsenal. (And I should be able to use my mainboard where the crucial OOB management function isn't serviced by Linux 3.14 any more...)

I am looking forward to documenting the lessons learned on my blog some time in the future, too :)

[0]: https://www.openbmc.org/
[1]: https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/Server-Motherboard/MC12-...
Recently started exploring WebGL and Three.js library and currently I'm working on web-interactive Solar System simulation.

Here is the repo: https://github.com/SafarSoFar/solar-system
Demo: https://safarsofar.github.io/solar-system/

Any kind of feedback (good or bad) is appreciated!
> and certainly can not be up to the standard of an encyclopedia

This is a common expressed sentiment. When I read it, I find myself wondering if the people expressing it have ever used an encyclopaedia. I old enough to have grow up with them. Mum and dad brought two of the in fact.

One was called something like "World Book". You couldn't possibly be reffering to that. It had 24 volumes lavishly illustrated. I remember one illustration in particular. It was a nuclear powered plane. I still the scowl on dad's face when he saw it.

We then got the Britannica. Undeniably very good. But it was just 24 books. When you have to cover every topic on the planet in that space you only get a good summary on each one. It cost thousands, maybe tens of thousands in today's money, and was of course out of date the day it was delivered. It was great for background information, but it wasn't detailed enough for even a high school project - you have to supplement it with the school library.

To put numbers on the difference. Britannica has 40 million words, the English Wikipedia has around 4.7 billion - about 100 times more. In Wikipedia articles the have seen a bit of activity for a decade or so (just about every topic Britannica covers would be in that category on Wikipedia) most of them will be as good as Britannica and importantly, have far better references.

Or to put it another way, I don't think the kids of today know how far we've come since the age of dead trees.
I was born two years after you and I'm always using an alarm clock, which saves me from worrying about my phone before going to bed (I just worry about batteries once a year instead). Though it's a simple beeping model from 15 years ago, I've never tried to use radio as an alarm clock.
Thank goodness for the internet, best I could tell, I scored a 73! :)
Process people can't resist trying to optimize things they superficially comprehend.

When business ops tries to define how engineers with decades of experience should solve problems, it is usually a conversation with a firm heading for failure.

Smart people usually just quickly leave a doomed project... =3
Yes, and those govts can demand accountability. Its citizens cannot see the spending of other govts just because they feel entitled. No country funded the entire operation.

Your govt likely received foreign aid spent on citizens. Does this entitle citizens of that foreign govt to peer into your personal finances because part of them were mixed with foreign money? No, it doesn’t. Just because your govt put money somewhere that was mixed with other actor money doesn’t entitle you to seeing all financials of that entity.

If your standard is something even partially touched by tax money needs its finances made fully public, then you’ll need to include citizens making their finances made fully public. This is stupid, right?

Instead, if you do what all first world countries do, have your govt disclose where it spent money, then that is your accountability. Demanding what you want here isn’t good policy; it’s targeted outrage without thinking of its results.

Think through the consequences of your outrage.
> how many people drink an espresso every day and think it has an x in it.

Arguably, "espresso" isn't an english word, but spelling it with an "x" as "expresso" isn't as incorrect as you may think. There's two main theories behind which word to use: "espresso" meaning to "press out" the coffee, or "expresso" meaning "expressly made for the customer" as it's quicker to make than a filter coffee. This is further confused by the Latin root being "exprimire" meaning "to press or squeeze out".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/espresso-vs-expresso...
Problem solving is mathematics and physics, the rest is memorization, why not, most problems are solved with knowledge, not thinking, and schools don't teach proper problem solving as it needs a philosophy course.
I think you're on to something but I wouldn't call it a personality trait. It's something that can be learned, but it takes a ridiculous amount of time. I've been teaching programming to complete beginners now for a few years and there is always a point in time during their education where this clicks: they go from asking about everything to realizing that there are often no easy answers and start doing their own research and problem solving.
I didn't realize that this is actually interactive!
I disabled all suggested content on my YouTube account. My “home” page shows as totally blank. Only the subscription tab works, or explicitly searching. You still get recommended “related videos” but it helps stay focused on the things you’ve chosen to see.
From my limited experience with the area, what Marcus says also matches what I've seen of democratic societies like Japan. I cannot offer any detailed insights into this, but a way to test the opposing hypotheses would be to see if democratic countries in SE Asia present the same cultural basis that Marcus described.
Maybe it's about hygiene?
A terminal GUI library written in Crystal (https://github.com/bmmcginty/term)

As someone who is blind, I prefer information in particular formats and layouts. Borders and side-by-side content kill my efficiency. I also shouldn't need to think about more than where text should start on lines, and responding to key presses in controls should be dead simple.
I also just came across libtermkey which will dramatically assist with keyboard handling.

I plan to use this to let me interface with web browsers via the terminal, but that's waiting for more stable Webdriver BiDi support.
> Process people can't resist trying to optimize things they superficially comprehend.

Wow, I don't think I ever heard it summarised so well. I cannot agree more with this statement.
This is spot on—a simple and precise explanation. As a programmer myself, I’ve seen developers dive into a 15-year-old codebase, independently work through it, and only ask questions once they’ve exhausted all other options.
So we should demand public expense reports of those taking state money? Citizens too?
The issue with renting software, is that it will happen even in native apps, because it is the only way most companies can get some money out of their products.

Piracy doesn't bring any money, and forever licenses don't scale to keep a steady income per month after the user base is settled, and everyone likes to get a steady income for their work.
Good thing govts aren’t so petty and shortsighted.
> My stint as a EU McD worker did give me a feel of how well scripted low skill labour can feel like pleasant work.

Would you care to write some more about this?

I was under impression that scripted work is generally considered bad and makes people feel like cogs in a machine.
Google Offers Its AI Watermarking Tech as Free Open Source Toolkit
900 kcal/day ~ 50 Watts

It is more than phones/laptops consume.

Certainly, we can only run small LLMs on such edge devices, but we getting to the level of compute efficiency that output indeed is comparable.
Please check "Selfish Mining: A 25% Attack Against the Bitcoin Network" [1] and scientific studies such as [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1pv8ty/selfish_min...

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.06183
> Good engineers know how to influence others and the organization to deliver a solution as a team.

This is a Problem, assuming someone is good at talking is also a good engineer.

> Good engineers constantly work on reducing complexity in the codebase to consistently provide high quality.

Complexity for the manager? Who is deciding how complex a system is. This could also be a skill issue with the „team“ by taking skilled engineers and mix them with not so skilled ones.

Overall the article is written for managers which try to add a image of an engineer which is like a manager. Influence people and give up on complex stuff.
https://alexanderpetros.com/triptych/ will hopefully address that.
One of my professor at uni (he managed to talk to Bill gates to get Microsoft to fund his startup, which is now an established research center) told us that if we don't know something, being honest and saying you don't know it is usually a good sign. Be it at an oral exam, be it when you're answering question at a startup pitch (...)

I really appreciated when a professor, when asked with a question he doesn't know, stops trying to answer and says something in the lines of "I actually don't know the exact answer, I'll try to find and answer and tell you next lesson"
> Combining tabs and bookmarks into one cohesive display, that allows the moving of one to the other

While I haven't used arc and don't have experience how that feature feels, I think the over 20 year old concept of a bookmarks menu, and tabs, as separate things is the best and never needed solving, and any attempt be different is worse than the original (like android firefox and its 'collections'. Why? Or Linux file managers hiding bookmarks different locations that operate differently called "Go", "Places" and actual "Bookmarks" that change through versions and sometimes coexist for some reason so you never know which menu it's going to be this time)
A site won't get slow, from Plausible's side (that's the claim). Other factors can definitely affect the overall performance.
> Good engineers understand the stakeholders’ needs…

In my experience, this can take two very different forms:

1. Being observant of a stakeholder’s stated needs.

2. Being confident enough to tell a stakeholder what their needs should be.

On a pedantic note, I would prefer the term ‘effective’ engineer to ‘good’ engineer. The later sounds like a judgment on their moral character.
> My response to that would be "for real critical thinking, you need memorization as a starting point. You can't think critically about the politics of the Middle East until you can point to Israel and Gaza on a map!"

Not true IMHO. You can map it to a some sort of neighbouring countries graph and a few other facts.
IMO Bombardier probably eventually could have gotten there too if Boeing hadn't lobbied the US government into making sure nobody bought the C Series. In the end they sold off the entire line to Airbus and it became the A220.
Android-x86 is dead. The last commits are from years ago.

Waydroid is slightly more alive, but only barely. And it itself is a fork of now defunct Anbox.
Who does funeral wrapping? I mean, which cultures currently do, or did recently (in the time of ghosts)?
Nonprofits don’t. There goes your argument. They comply with tax laws, but you can’t see them.

Why do people just make crap up?
Not really surprising that it won't be a strict superset
Anyone else getting this?

The connection for this site is not secure
legend.octopuslabs.io uses an unsupported protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
Another day, another listicle about senior/staff/principal developer labelling disguised as a blog. Only insecure devs care about this crap. Devs who know their shit aren't coming up with definitions distinguishing themselves from devs who don't. They have better things to do (e.g. actual work).
Maybe .. but in an urban area with many houses, each with solar panels, it seems inefficient to have mini home chemical process factories, particularly with intermediate steps involving explosive gases.

I'm in favour of home PV and community batteries | larger area "peak" use industries - it's a sensible long term use of cyclic energy production.
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The usual metric is complexity, but that can be hard to measure in every instance.

Used within a team setting, what is simple is entirely subjective to that set of experiences.

Example: Redis is dead simple, but it's also an additional service. Depending on the team, the problem, and the scale, it might be best to use your existing RDBMS. A different set of circumstances may make Redis the best choice.

Note: I love "dumb is robust," as it ties simplicity and straightforwardness together, but I'm concerned it may carry an unnecessarily negative connotation to both the problems and the team.

Simple isn't necessarily dumb.
>Yes, fat is 'good for you'. Without consuming it, you die.

Right, in small amounts though. You don't need that much. Eat a handful of nuts and you're good.

It's like a teaspoon of sugar in your tea won't cause huge issues. Cold drinks with 10 teaspoons in a bottle however are a problem.
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What tends to be complex about build requirements that necessitates special purpose tools? Golang seems to be doing fine with just go build and go test. What else are people doing with gradle/maven that requires static typing, DAGs, plugins etc.?
A GraphQL server in Eiffel.
Currently working on promoting Software Engineering Handbook (https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/), a book that goes beyond typical technical guides by addressing both the technical and life aspects of being a software engineer.

Marketing it on Amazon, LinkedIn, and Reddit. It's slow but I'm making progress.
It's on the agenda for the next parliamentary session: https://jonworth.eu/tzitzikostas-at-his-ep-hearing-4th-novem...
Apparently SSR is quite hot in JS frameworks, after a new generation rediscovered how we oldies do Web development in .NET, Java, Ruby, Python, Go, PHP....
It had been a community request from the beginning. Personally I still use the default Monokai Pro, but dark themes aren't suited for coding in very bright environments, like outside for example. Then a light theme really works better, and I'm glad I can offer that now.
I am no expert but from what I read & remember: it can have fluctuations and lagging behind or leading "real" time but it gets corrected and synchronized back later
Me too, but honestly I love almost everything from those two.
Copilot already does this, at least for individual chunks of code (and text, for that matter). Not for a whole codebase, but I think that's going to be a matter of time.
What’s your reading of that study and how does it disagree with the inference I’m making?
Hence why I am rather looking if two pieces of code change together, opposed to just looking the same.

If I need to introduce the same feature in multiple places in roughly the same way, that's a decent indication code wants to be the same and wants to change together. That's something to consider extracting.

Fixing the same bug in several places is a similar, but weaker indication. It's weaker, because a bug might also occur from using a framework or a library wrong and you do that in several places. Fixing the same business logic error in several places could mean to centralize some things.
Yeah I was going to comment the same. Even looks good on mobile.
I was really disappointed that XHTML effort was killed by the HTML5 folks, we could be so much better, but it is as it is.
We return 418s for captcha failures.
In case anyone needs it: https://web.archive.org/web/20240306134340/https://legend.oc...
(The most recent snapshots look like a bad redirect.)
The dozens of countries ranked less corrupt than the US beg to differ.

Maybe if Americans were aware of things like this they’d learn from them instead of pretending they somehow are good at something.