skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He effectively pretended to be dumb. And that included using the wrong "you're" and very simple dialects of English and mannerisms which he thought could potentially be seen as disparaging some groups.

I think it was so generic and so clearly a joke it would be insane to pretend it was making fun of a group that existed in real life.

For reference in the talk he also listed strongly typed languages as "weekly typed", static as dynamic, and had a MacBook on stage display a BSOD.

The talk was comedic genius and a fun tongue in cheek commentary on the industry in 8 minutes. But it has been deemed to dangerous to society to be allowed to exist.
Us tech people being tech people, we look at this as a systems design problem but no one seems to be considering what conditions lead to such massive demand for this show in particular. I can bet inadequate supply in general is a major cause, part of which is regulatory issues and red tape.
I live in a rural area, but i have lived in Los Angeles and Seattle, as well as in other rural areas on the west coast. There's not a single woman on any road crew, linesman crew, tree crew, ditch crew, runoff maintenance crew, and so on - out here. One time i saw a caltrans crew that both had a woman operator and a woman flagger, so i know there are exceptions!

Yes, women probably can do the hours and days of work on all those crews. They just don't. Here's some more: Wrecking, oil drilling, fishing vessels (the large ones), mining, trash collection and the maintenance of the landfills.

Commercial drivers licenses are 20:1 male to female. I personally was in an area with a high population of commercial truck drivers and every one of them had a story about the - read solitary - woman they met who was also a CDL.

Again, women probably could do all of these things - they just don't. I know people like to cite harassment and the like as reasons; but having worked blue collar, you just get harassed. You either deal with it and do the job or you don't and don't. Anyhow, I just don't see the point of pointing out that a few women do some or all of these jobs.

For the record, i'm for women being included in the SSS in the US.
Lots of people in the LLM world share open-source data sets. It's incredibly helpful for training new models...
Google accused of shadow campaigns redirecting antitrust scrutiny to Microsoft
> Annual bonus is either performance based or as a retainer to make up for differences in the wages since the person was hired.

Sounds like a tip to me.

> Stock options are because you could be paid more or you are taking risks for future rewards.

Sounds to me like the allure of a job in which tipping is expected.

> A mandatory tip is because your employer doesn't want to pay you full wage ...

Tips are not mandatory by definition.
So it was a farce to begin with. Matt clearly had no intention of letting it be an independent foundation.
Ford sees another $1B EV loss, lowers guidance and its stock falls 6%
Wow, I also thought of the work as deeply philosophical. I also read a bunch of other philosophy, and found that Egan's hypothesis overlaps significantly with both Advaita Vedanta and Buddhist concept of soul (pali: puggala). Did anybody else think the same?
Sure. Lehi and Shamir are indeed awful and that's why the Hunting Season was justified. There was no similar ability to unify against the extremist voices in the Palestinian side which is the main point I'm making here.

This isn't history. You see the same patterns happening right now. Arafat and Abu Mazen were unable to control Hamas in the same way the Jews were able to control their extremists.

You could argue that the Irish were unable to control the IRA which would be a very accurate comparison. But the scale would be different. Hamas killed in one day more than the IRA killed in its entire existence. Hamas enjoys the backing of Iran, Qatar, Turkey and others. It's used as a puppet to force a regional war that goes against the interests of the Palestinian people. At least the ones who don't want to die in a holy war.
This was a coffeehouse in Redmond. Tipping baristas has been a common thing for the past 50-60 years or so on the west coast of the US.

And no, I don't think we "should" have received a tip. Most regular customers did tip occasionally. He was an outlier but only notable because of his wealth.

Other customers who do never tipped were treated the exact same.
I would love to but it was (is?) quite expensive to fly out of. I think if you book far enough in advance the prices are within a factor of two or so but I generally didn't bother. The one time I did use it was when Google flew me out for an onsite on two day's notice–so I can confirm that it is an excellent airport, with security that takes all of two minutes and a really pretty 45 minute flight to SFO–but the final bill for that roundtrip was something like $400. I remember the recruiter being surprised at the cost.
Hello! I use three platforms on a daily basis. I vastly prefer my apps to be reasonably consistent with themselves rather than trying too hard to adhere to the platform.

My wife is on two. Most of my friends are on either two or three. In fact, I'm pretty sure my parents and a few coworkers are the only people I know who are exclusively on one platform.

Many (most?) people don't have a clue as to what the particulars of any given platform even are. They know how to get around in each app they use, and maybe the web browser, and that's it. Lots of gestures go completely unused.
Do you have an interpretation of your own to offer? I merely posted the warning I would have appreciated myself.

There are a lot of better SF stories that neither you nor I will live long enough to get around to, including many written by the same author at a more-mature stage in his career. This one can safely be skipped in favor of one of those.
Identify a small but annoying issue and try to solve it through technology.
The great thing is, Liquibase even allows you to run arbitrary programs as migrations using `customChange`: https://docs.liquibase.com/change-types/custom-change.html

Though you can get a long way with just specifying the appropriate contexts before you kick off your migrations (and tagging your changesets with those context tags as well): https://docs.liquibase.com/concepts/changelogs/attributes/co...
The vast majority of vending machines in Japan are allmost as deep as American counterparts. And even if not, maybe we could just have more thin vending machines here.

Also the zoning issue is just a very clear policy failure. I don't think even the most hardcore NIMBY suburbanites would complain about being able to get meat and dairy steps from their front door in an automated low traffic fashion.
Blue Origin has billions in federal government contracts
Samuel Delaney - Nova, Babel-17

Clifford Simak - City

Alan E Nourse - The Universe Between
This is the most insightful comment about organizational dysfunction and misaligned incentives. What you have described is astute and 100% accurate.

Please make a blog post or something and share it around.
Unless he specifically asked for that kind of service, I wouldn't tip either, and I refuse to tip a pickup order regardless of net worth, out of principle (unless I am making a non-standard request).
> I'm sure people have tried to come up with something, somewhere.

Perhaps related is the abjad used in Arabic and Farsi. Vowels are written with diacritics above or below the main part of the character, which represents a consonant. However, in modern Arabic, the vowels are rarely written and are inferred from context.

The bigger problem for Japanese is the absence of spacing between words. Even if you write everything in hiragana with spacing, it's significantly slower to read than when kanji is present without spacing. The mixing of kana and kanji usually provides a hint as to where word boundaries are, because there are few cases where kana is followed by kanji in the same word (eg お and ご), and kana which follows the kanji are most often a continuation of the word (okurigana) or a particle. Some words are usually written in kana despite having kanji available, and their presence can sometimes make it more difficult to read because they might look ambiguous with a particle or okurigana, and you have to figure out from context what was intended, which slows down reading slightly.
this basketball one is glorious!
No, not really. Modern APIs usually don't even let you access that kind of information without additional privileges. Some older toolkits have functions that are supposed to do this, but it doesn't work everywhere.
This. It's basically about average quality. It's the old Python Paradox all over again. Javascript / Typescript is the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality. Python / C++ is higher than that. And Rust is at the top.
Good chance that Google legal won't be happy and ask the website to be taken down. https://docs.flutter.dev/brand
In general in PLs this is not true—the standard library is usually very carefully designed and all of its interactions are well-considered—but Python's libraries do seem to be more independently-updated than most.

Even so, isn't that an argument for a smaller, integrated team for the framework, rather than a large one made of ~1000 volunteers? A tightly-knit framework is much more likely to suffer from too many chefs than a disparate collection of library functions.

Between the parallelization problems inherent in a tight framework and the fact that its total surface area is also smaller than a PL that's maintained by about the same number of people, it sure doesn't sound like Flutter's problem lies in developer headcount.
I've given stores bad Yelp reviews for daring to ask. I tip people in tipped positions really well. No way in hell I'm giving a penny to someone who only rang up the stuff I carried up to their counter.
Do they forget that? I thought that was one of the most well known facts about the incident.
Azure existed long before ScottGu took over. It started with dueling projects from Ray Ozzie’s world and Bob Muglia’s world. Ray had great ideas but no idea how to run something like Azure at scale. Bob brought the enterprise mindset and retooled it, and of course Scott owns the lion’s share of the credit for its growth and technical qualities.
Drupal is really bad. Better off to use ProcessWire but that is showing its age. It was called the jQuery of CMSes at one time and they were growing in popularity but the creator didn’t want to be on a popular CMS ranking site because others were gaming the ranking system for other OSS and paid CMSes, so it became obscure.
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The brightness comes from the accretion disk.
Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(2...
Nor did I claim it is.

My comment was concerned with making it abundantly clear that this glitch happened in specific scenarios and not just any and all window resizing.
P vs. NP Official Problem Description by Stephen Cook [pdf]
How do you debug kernel boot before that process is started?
Indonesia is a very large country, with a large and low cost work force (along with a lot of drawbacks). They're probably safe to demand local production of parts.

Also some degree of forced IP transfer too. I see why they do it.
Physical experiments.
It has to be both.

The plug manufacturer has to provide many, many keying options (say for a 2-pin plug, one might have variants 2A, 2B, etc... which explicitly cannot mate with each other)

An engineer designing the car has to ensure all plugs with same keying options are interchangeable (2A is for power supply; 2B for door switch; etc...)

If the plug manufacturer does not provide enough keying options, this will be pretty hard to during design time.
Storing small events in s3 can explode costs quickly.

At 1M events/day that's $7.5/day. Decent

At 15M, $75/day

Cost for 150 million S3 PUT requests per day of 25KB each would be $750/day, assuming no extra data transfer charges.

With clickhouse you won't get charged per read/write
Not sure I've spent more than 10 minutes combined over the past 20 years 'reading' a spam or scam email. When those things do manage to get through spam filters it's usually pretty obvious what they are. As for 'marketing messages' I can only assume you mean spam and added this to make the list look longer.

Get back to me in 3-5 years and let me know how getting AI to condense your work emails is going for you - my guess is that the first time ChatGPT manages to fuck up a distillation for you, either by garbling the meaning of something important or just missing a crucial point altogether, you'll swear off it for good. If you still have a job by then...

Point is, if you've been so genuinely bothered by spam and Nigerian princes that you're happy to outsource judgment and critical thinking to a probabilistic bot that hallucinates once in every 15 to 20 tries, then - aside from your skill issue getting your spam filter to work - you and I have very divergent views on what makes man's brain valuable and unique and indeed what parts of our cognition are worth preserving.
Oh nice. I didn’t know about the Airplay 2 update, but I’ve been using an old Airport Express to airplay for this old audio receiver I have for ages. And I’ve got a spare I hold onto in case this one ever shits the bed.

And while we’re on the topic — its amazing how many hifi audio receivers I see being thrown away, stuff that is still top-of-the-line for sound quality, but is now considered “obsolete” purely based on connectivity options — ie not having a direct bluetooth/wifi ability, when one could easily buy a separate device for that and hook it up.
No, that's the correct ending. I looked it up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_Party). Clarke himself gave it a -4:

I don't believe I've reread it since its original appearance, and I refuse to do so now — for fear of discovering how little I have improved in almost four decades. Those who claim that it's their favorite story get a cooler and cooler reception over the passing years.
So, the progression is:

* humans creating things

* algorithms emulating (humans creating things)

* human-in-the-loop guiding (algorithms emulating (humans creating things))

* ai that mimics the (human-in-the-loop guiding (algorithms emulating (humans creating things)))

* what next???
Even in states with a lower tip worker's minimum wage, they are still guaranteed to make the standard minimum wage if the tips don't make up the difference.

Serving up food you didn't even cook isn't an intensely difficult or skilled job. Nobody should expect a 20% cut for doing that. It is not a customers responsibility to ensure unskilled service workers are rolling in largesse. Just making minimum wage is fair for that kind of work provided the minimum is livable.
Wouldn't Jupiter's orbit create some interactions?
Ask HN: Thoughts on a "Google Analytics" for CLI Tools?
Hey HN,

I’m exploring an idea for a plug-and-play analytics solution specifically for CLI tools — think Google Analytics, but for the command line. After reviewing multiple open-source CLI tools, I noticed that many teams end up building analytics from scratch. Setting up and maintaining this kind of infrastructure can be resource-intensive and often lacks features that would make it more actionable.

Here’s what I imagine this solution would offer:

1. Automatic command tracking to capture usage patterns and activity frequency

2. Error and crash reporting to help identify pain points in real-time

3. Opt-in/opt-out strategies for respecting user privacy preferences

4. A web dashboard for data visualization and analysis

I’d love to get the community’s perspective on this. Is this something you’ve encountered a need for? If you’re already using or building a CLI, would such a tool be useful, and what features would be most valuable to you?

Also, if anyone here has tackled CLI analytics themselves, I’d be interested to hear about any challenges you faced or any DIY solutions you’ve found effective. Thanks for any feedback!
Will try to find one from now.
This thread made me forget I was wondering about gallium nitride.
> I think that a quick improvement would be to let the mouse wheel "spin" the number up/down when the input element is focused.

Firefox did that for number inputs for a long time, until very recently. They switched it off in Firefox 130 because people kept inadvertently changing values in forms while scrolling through them [0]. Personally, I've set the about:config option to reenable it since I've found it useful in certain interfaces, though I can't imagine it's much longer for this world.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1741469
Out of curiosity, what do you see as the fall of Xbox? It seems to work fine to play games, even if they had missteps with certain things (eg. Kinect being deprecated after being mandatory, some hardware issues).
It’s not as difficult as you might think; take the recursive code and turn it into CPS style.
I appreciate you having the courage to go against the grain on this. I share similar views, specifically about healthcare privacy in general. It's obnoxious to what extent they go to guard some bland info like my blood type or blood pressure. I'm not saying it should be published on a ticker at the hospitals website, but the only info they should really keep private are the things that could blackmail or shame people. Birth control, abortion, STDs, etc. I actually hold the unpopular opinion that HIPAA goes too far. It's "privacy theater". If the concern is health insurers dropping patients, then the agency that regulates insurance should "leak" some information in a sting operation and sue the insurers for breaking the law. We shouldn't foist that liability on IT people and allow insurance to harm people.
I may be the odd one here but my career consisted of finance and software engineering. Until my current job, there was always screaming and yelling at all my previous positions that I just assumed that was the norm. It’s more likely that I’m just extraordinarily unlucky because as you’ve noted, not screaming or belittling colleagues is the norm in much of society. I think my issue was that I’ve experienced it so much that I just accepted, especially since I saw it happen at my very first job.
Ask HN: Should I market my indie project
I am building an AI Powered podcast generator. As a technical guy, I don't know much about marketing.

I am open for ideas.
What I might try to see if it works.

I am already posting a lot on X, submitting the link to directories.

What I am doing wrong with my landing page?

Project is ZenMic: https://ZenMic.com
Those would be 10 year old or so CPUs. Not only is it because they're unprofitable to run, but they're end of life. I know CPUs do and can run longer, but realistically they're towards the end.
> So you're using Amin al-Husseini as a stand-in for all Palestinians

Nope, not what I'm saying. I'm saying you can pick any historical point in time and show why things happened in a particular way. Palestinians bemoan that Israel exists and that Jews were "given" statehood (I quote given because there was a war and it was paid for with blood). But if you look at the history it's pretty clear why the UN felt Jews deserved a home in Israel. They were on the right side of history in this particular conflict and fought besides the allies.

This is a repeating pattern for Palestinian leadership. Unwillingness to compromise and victim-hood, that doesn't work well for them. I'm not saying they're not victims or even not saying that Israel isn't to blame for a lot of their problems. I am saying that their leadership bares a LOT of that responsibility too, the choices they made brought them to this point and they continue to make similar choices which make matters worse.

Right now it's obviously too late since the last big choice they had was in 2008 when they rejected a statehood deal. Hamas had a choice during that time of recognizing Israel and negotiating, but it's Hamas so it obviously wasn't much of a choice.

I hope there will be another such fork in the road, I doubt they will get anything remotely as good as the 2008 offer. Knowing history I doubt Palestinian leadership will take it and again they will blame Israel.
great read, thanks for sharing!

some more fun and short reading:

Report on an Unidentified Space Station by J. G. Ballard
https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm

The Last Question By Isaac Asimov
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
you gotta start real young and psychiatry is a soft science and so is early-childhood studies; it makes recommendations difficult to get behind. The only way to change this is cultural, seriously. We have to start now with Millennials and zoomers, and the few gen-x that aren't calcified in their own trauma - start by making therapy better sounding. Less "tissues and issues" and more "neutral third party that will be honest about reflections on what you've said / contemplated." I hope this makes sense - right now, seeking mental health help has a stigma. It's strange to go to the equivalent of a doctor and spend 45 minutes talking. Can you trust them? How open should you be? Are they judging you, and will that color their dialogue? Seriously, how open should you be?

Once we have a generation of parents that have benefited from therapy, when they see their child having an issue, they can now reach for the therapy route in addition to dr spock. Having good experiences with therapy in your formative years will make you more likely to seek similar experiences as an adult.

Who knows, it's all flimsy.
The whole point of running an opensource OS/vm/runtime/etc is that you can tweak things here and there when you need them.

Yeah, we had to make changes, some changes to FreeBSD too, but mostly little changes here and there. Erlang and FreeBSD were both lovely to work on.

Re the sibling's question about what was changed, I don't remember everything, Rick Reed's presentations at Erlang Factory / Elixir describe most of them though (although those ended in 2014, I think). Many or most of the changes got into upstream one way or another. But most of it were things because AFAIK, we had much larger Erlang clusters than the rest of the community; I remember seeing advice about large clusters of 50 when we were running 300 nodes in a cluster, and I'm pretty sure we had dist clusters above 1000 later when we also had separate cross cluster messaging. We also had huge mnesia tables, other people said don't use mnesia over 2GB, and we had nodes with more than 512GB of data in mnesia. I don't really remember much that we had to do with dist, although pg2 needed help and our replacement became pg in OTP, mnesia did need some help to scale. We changed the ETS hash kernel to avoid everything hashing the same way, I don't know if that made it out.

We also needed to do things like timer wheel improvements, but OTP also did timer wheel improvements and we dropped ours. Not so many people were running quite so many timers.

Then there were things that I don't think are upstreamable. Adding a way to drop a process's message queue. Adding a way to add a message to the front of a process's message queue. Those two are very not in line with OTP, but handy for operations if you use them carefully.
Not necessarily - your handwriting can sometimes be subtly optimized to the sort of subject matter you write about. For example, when I write lowercase T, I give it a little hook at the bottom. I also write my lowercase L in the cursive form, the tall skinny loop. That keeps similar-looking letters that I use a lot distinct. There must be other examples.