skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok are you fr? The phone I'm typing this on is superior to the computer in highschool to play video games on and it's my old phone that can't hold a candle to my new phone. The batteries in both devices are both MORE THAN 80% superior to the battery in my first phone.

F*ck. Progress does exist - life has got enormously better but people reuse to see it and focus their entire lives on living the same day over and over and wonder why they are unhappy.
Rewriting really improves the quality of the code-base, because it increases our understanding of it, and allows us to replace stupid designs with better ones. Using adifferent language or platform forces you to rewrite much of it, with the same or better design.

In my opinion the ionvestment is not so much in the code, than in the design.
It's just a driver. Do you feel the same about pipe(4)? As effectively that's mostly what PTYs have become.
I've found it amusing how some people will spend more effort pretending to work than actually doing the work.

The same with students who'd go to great lengths to cheat, rather than spend a few minutes learning the material.
Time to protest and stop using Perplexity.
Perplexity gets a content and rewrite it as it's own content.
Time to shutdown this site.
8===D (not to scale)
I was going to reply with something like this, but you nailed it.
So should we apply this logic to other areas where one person's "gut reactions" can have a huge negative effect on someone else's life?

Should we not require any due process under law, because the officer "just knew" that it was that brown guy who stole the bread?

What's being asked for is accountability for decisions that can literally result in someone ending up homeless—and that are hugely subject to bias, both conscious and unconscious, in a country that is currently riven by divisions of race, gender, sexuality, and class.
For other reasons, I had come cross Cummings substack a couple of weeks ago - highly instructive, no wonder he was ejected from UK gov circles ...
I was fortunate to come across this book in one of the many "Little Free Libraries" that dot my neighborhood. I dip into the massive tome every now and then and am consistently surprised by the quality of the writing. The writing conveys her feelings, and there is a clear "woman's voice" that comes through.
Seems like they always start with "the assembler language," which I take as "the language of the assembler," and then they sometimes get sloppy after that. I've never heard someone say "assembler language" (or maybe I just tuned it out.)
I'll be no longer using or recommending Perplexity. This behaviour is unacceptable.

It's one thing to make it an eventual goal to replace workers with AI, it's another to step in and say "hey, our AI can be your labour" when there is a labour dispute in progress. Saying nothing was the correct response, or even "if AI was your labour, this wouldn't happen". But to offer to replace a striking workforce is super shitty.
Tensors and Graphs: Canonization by Search
And how is _the_ inflation then calculated?
>If it had been proven opposite, that Monkeys could create Shakespeare, would that have disproven the existence of God?

No, it's clear from his comments that he'd just jump to the next item on the creationist checklist. He's not expressing original thoughts, just regurgitating things he's been handfed.
hey thanks for the bug report! I tried to repro and see it using Verdana, Geneva, san-serif when:

A) selecting just the logo — https://www.magicpatterns.com/21ae73b5-3e14-480c-9a2e-596146...
B) the bar: https://www.magicpatterns.com/6f378234-df0f-4df5-ba80-25db7b...
C) the entire page https://www.magicpatterns.com/6c2c1666-0c65-4ab2-a07a-42a96d...

Could you share the outputted URL? If you're referring to the example output in the post, that's the result of a "conversion" that uses an LLM to convert the the extracted styles to Tailwind. (AI is hallunicating not keeping the font consistent! Need to fix, thanks for flagging.)
Yes, I think it generally makes rails much more difficult to scale than it has to be, much more difficult to test, and more difficult to verify changes are "safe". I certainly agree with the commentary on tradeoffs, though, and I stand by my comment that AR is a big part of why Rails is such a massive success.
I touch a drop of water coming out of the produce sprayer, if available.

(No, I don't touch the sprayer, just a drop.)
Congrats! I have strong nostalgia for the ones I worked on and owned in the 90s. Using those machines felt more like living in the future than any tech I've experienced since, including the iPhone.
"The vast majority of people" would use words without thinking they have etymology and meaning?

Maybe you're only thinking about religious people who would have encountered this one in such a context?

I don't frequent any so I am clueless, but if true I would suspect there could be more than correlation to the aptitude to use words without meaning and religiosity.
Rust would have the same issues since you'd need to use unsafe code to achieve certain things systemd does.
RELEASE_NOTES [1] contains no mention of systemd (or at least does not contain that string).

README.TXT [2] also does not contain the string "systemd"

ANNOUNCE.15.0 [3] also does not contain the string "systemd"

If such a 'note' were included in the last release (15.0) it should have been in one of the above three files. So there is nothing in the release that appears to indicate a shift to systemd.

[1] https://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/slackware/slackware64-15....

[2] https://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/slackware/slackware64-15....

[3] https://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/slackware/slackware64-15....
Well the comment I was responding to specifically called out employees meeting metrics and still not being considered good employees, so your point is a little moot to my comment but I will reapond anyways.

How do you measure a better writer? It depends on what the purpose of the writing is. If it is an author directly selling books then you measure by books sold. If it is an online publication you can conduct surveys to determine the impact of a particular writer on subscription or view rates. If it is a techincal writer doing product documentation you can measure based upon meeting schedule, number of defects and by conducting customer surveys.
Absolutely. I'd like to see companies get more serious about driving manager requirement from span of control.

As well as regularly rotating managers, like the military does (e.g. 3 year reassignment).
Most of the pro-union tech workers I know have never been forced to join a corrupt union that does nothing to help them while keeping the good old boys who contribute little to the company employed. Many tech workers are paid in stock so theres tons of incentive to get rid of low performers.
I've noticed it is entirely possible for code to be written that absolutely conforms with every good coding style rule, and is utter garbage (even if it works!).
California might well be different; I don't know, and don't live there. Where I live, any employee can be fired for any reason, or no reason (protected class stuff excepted of course).

There's precident for "we're transferring you to the Chicago office, Bob" and Bob would just pack up the family from wherever they were living and move. This was common in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s at least for white collar jobs.
He’s got innate talent, he’s skilled, he’s had some good luck (like anyone, but it’s often overlooked with (and by) the successful), and there are plenty of interviews with others that make clear he’s also a regular person in terms of having interests, showing a sense of humor, being curious, etc. The two things that always stand out to me are 1) how he used his wealth to shield himself from the world of fame and the often overbearing culture of the US and 2) how he didn’t let that wealth which was realized in his mid 20s affect his work ethic. The author does well talking about that Dylan work ethic just as it pertains to his work as a musician (there are many other areas outside the scope of this piece):

> The more time you spend in the Archive the more you find yourself overcome by the intensity of Dylan’s work ethic, the pathology of his drive. Scraps of paper bags, the backs of receipts, both sides of a business card, the insides of used matchbooks, hotel stationery from Miami and Sydney, from Skopje and Tokyo.

> It’s tempting to call this graphomania, but you don’t think he suffers from a compulsion to write per se. It’s more that his mind never stops racing. He’s always thinking, riffing a mile a minute about girls and the fates of nations and chord progressions and what it is God put us here for (though in his hand it is nearly always written “G-d,” the Jewish way) and a better rhyme for the line and whatever he sees out the window and some old blues song and a tall tale sprung out of a daydream and he’s writing it all down not because he thinks he’s gonna use it—though he might, that’s why he’s saving it—but because it has to go somewhere. He has to get it out of his head. And so he is always, always writing, the gaunt letters straining ahead like hard-driven horses, the ideas pouring forth one on top of the next, good ones and bad ones, brilliance and bullshit, not that he’d know the difference, at least not right now, and sometimes the pages bear trace logics of association or sequence but mostly, you think, they’re random. This and that and that and that and this. The painstaking editing and revision will happen (eleven drafts of “Jokerman,” forty of “Dignity,” twenty pages of potential lyrics for “Like a Rolling Stone”), but for now it’s all he can do to bottle the lightning as it strikes. How does it feel? To you, it feels like the inexhaustibility of being Bob Dylan in any given minute must be exhausting. Now imagine doing it all day every day for eighty-three years. Imagine you’re doing it right now.

I think that’s a lesson anyone can get from Bob Dylan, regardless of one’s opinion of his work. Focus on your thing(s) for a long time and the payoff from that sustained effort can be significant. I know that’s not some new idea, but even a legendary figure who seems to be inherently more talented than most actually benefits from something just like others do. See? Dylan’s just a regular person.
You can run govulncheck as part of your CI pipeline too
I love the new UI. Reduces a lot of visual clutter and lets me focus on the code. I don't understand the problem with telling where a tab ends and the next begins; I don't click on the borders of tabs anyway, just the text. (And there's an icon in front of the tab name.)
I learned this in my very first corporate job at Factset and it made me sick of them; it's the main reason why I've worked at a bunch of startups.

If the manager likes you, they will see the things you do in a positive light.

If the manager doesn't like you, they will see the things you do in a negative light.

So obviously, the solution is to optimize for always keeping the manager happy... except that that is a little dehumanizing.

It's basically like any relationship coupled with confirmation bias. Basically, if you get onto the shit-list of your partner or friend or manager, it is difficult to get off it. People seem to automatically polarize their opinions about other people (probably due to confirmation bias) and then just apply post-hoc justification.

If nothing else, I have gotten very good at noticing the change of tone when the point-of-no-return is reached (perhaps because I feel like I am terrible at avoiding it). You'll feel some queasiness/nausea after a conversation that went from friendly to critical based on something you perhaps flubbed... you'll start blaming yourself (even though you probably didn't actually have a ton of control over the outcome). Something will feel "off." Things won't feel as harmonious anymore. Details will be off- you didn't get invited to an important meeting that you are pretty sure you would have been invited to months prior. A new hire will get approved, but without anyone checking in with you first. You will feel like you are on the defensive and are working "defensively"- you're struggling to complete work or put presentations together or whatever- you're not sleeping well- those are all the feel of the ring ropes against your back, because you're actually on them, and you're in denial. It's hard not to take personally; has anyone actually ever been put on a PIP that made it back to "stellar performer", or are PIPs purely just lip-service to a CYA for the inevitable layoff?
I'm not surprised that this conclusion was reached after trying to use Rust for a web development project.

Rails' is what people are going for when they choose it, not Ruby (generally speaking... there are obviously people who like Ruby). Rails provides all of the tooling, conventions, and ecosystem needed to tackle a great deal of web development projects.

Rails is a great example of a killer application. People learned Ruby just so they could use Rails. Wanna make a bread-and-butter website, just build it in Rails. Three-quarters of what you need is available in the framework itself and most of everything else is a library that integrates seamlessly with the framework.

If you need to use a systems-level language to solve a technical problem, you'll know exactly why you need to go through the trouble. If you're using maxims to justify your choice, you have no idea. "Because it's blazingly fast," doesn't matter if -- as the TFA points out -- your most heavily-trafficked endpoint is serving a p90 of < 400ms, your team is delivering the features you need on time, and your users are happy.

I think there are lots of good reasons to use a Rust-based framework. I work in Haskell full time. I get it. But there are huge trade-offs. The most obvious one is that almost no SaaS or open-source components you use will ship Rust or Haskell SDKs. They will ship libraries that integrate with Rails.
>Literalists do more than anyone else to drive people away from Christianity.

At least they are honest about their beliefs, as odd as they are.
That strikes me as an insane take (not to mention blatantly inaccurate), but I take your point that this is a common one for distribution-maintainers to have.
Exactly! DataChain does lazy compute. It will read metadata/json while applying filtering and only download a sample of data files (jpg) based on the filter.

This way, you might end up downloading just 1% of your data, as defined by the metadata filter.
> We know these don't reflect real productivity

Mild issue with this. Mostly, cause it's a one size fits all. There's a certain kind of productivity worker that actually responds relatively well to that type of metric. That vagueness results in stagnation and analysis paralysis.

Those workers tend to actually respond better to what the game community almost considers the grind mindset. Give us a well defined hallway, with well defined tasks, and then we'll walk down the well defined hallway. It may not be "super creative" productivity, yet it's a "form" or "type" of productivity.

Part of the issue also, is a lot of the time, people seem to always want to be the Einstein of the company, and nobody really wants to deal with the day-to-day shit. It's simply not status enough, or management visible enough, or high-level content enough, or similar.
I recommend Spring Boot, it provides a "blessed" set of dependencies that work with each other. When you want to upgrade, you just need to increase one version (the Spring Boot version).
Half of all of the work - not all of all of the work.
"All publicity is good publicity" hasn't been true for a very long time.
> I stand by my comment that AR is a big part of why Rails is such a massive success.

I think most would agree. It is the "doesn't make much sense" part that we're discussing, though. How does it not make sense when you seem to have the same opinion of it? It seems, as an onlooker, that it makes perfect sense to you.
Selling your house to a local family rather than an “investor” is pretty close to an Absolute Good. Putting a condition in your will that any housing asset in your estate is only to be sold to local families is a pretty trivial way to do a good deed, which you may be in some need of (on the other side).
MegaScale: Scaling Large Language Model Training to More Than 10k GPUs [pdf]
.0 is for local development, .1+ is for production
> GitHub tells me about them automatically idk

GitHub tells you about published CVEs which represent a small fraction of actual patched security vulnerabilities in the wild, which typically never get a CVE.
I think it's due to the toxicity of dating apps in general. But Grindr gets more freedom to treat users poorly since the overall user success rate is better than on mixed sites like Tinder, at least in the short term. It's also tougher to find someone IRL without an app when you're in the 5%. They have a captive audience for now.
This may be the one area where some form of autocracy has merit :-)
Don't get it. Is it because your Go app relies in fewer dependencies? If so, it's just a matter of numbers I believe. JS apps tend to rely on more dependencies on average... but that doesn't need to be that way. I have plain JS apps that still work like the first day (even better than Go apps, since there's no compilation step involved).

TypeScript apps on the other hand, yeah, they tend to be more fragile (at least from my perspective: the tsc package has dozen of dependencies, so anything can go wrong)
It seems to be pretty common even among native English speakers to use "writing assembler" and "writing assembly" interchangeably. If one were writing the tool that assembles to machine code, you'd say "writing an assembler".
As the article also mentions: instead of checking if your program has a dependency on something that contains vulnerabilities, govulncheck checks if vulnerable code is actually reached. I find that so awesome. (And I know, someone is going to point out that hipster language foo does this too and better — it’s not the norm).
If humanity somehow succeeds in colonizing Mars, it will be through intense political and scientific collaboration, not a moonshot spearheaded by an egomaniac with a messiah complex.
The very first Go code I ever wrote, way back in 2011, still compiles and runs perfectly. It's glorious.
Well, logos are a mode of communication that tell people what your brand is. Your brand should represent what you are, and to whom. Startups need to have "branding" in place to solicit investment, and they don't really have any idea what their company will mean to anybody, let alone their core demographic; they don't even know who their core demographic will be. So, every logo ends up trying to say "We are a credible and stable software company run by adults, but with energy and optimism" and the audience is California venture capitalists.
This is great to hear. I had an Aunt that was diagnosed with MS around 40 and by 50 she was in long term care - it's the only place I ever saw her and she had a terrible quality of life, completely incapacitated. I've always had a fear of MS bc of this bc apparently she was completely normal before.

Thank you for that comment.
I'm not dismissing ANY form of dissent. I'm dismissing the "unions mostly cater to the mediocre employees" as propaganda which ignores the universal benefits a union gives to all employees, mediocre and superstar alike. Benefits that would either not be guaranteed without a negotiated contract or would be hard to have conceded on an individual basis.
Yes. But nowing a bit of signal theory, hf electronics and embedded is super helpful.

With 2 antennas you can start playing around with beam forming. This will enable you to scan the sky from one position without moving the antenna. Then you can map the signal strength to a sky projection.

Have a look at the low-frequency antennas from LOFAR. They look like tents for chickens. A lot of them.

It sounds complex and yes.. it's also a bit complex. But still in the range of a project for the home lab.
I had a dish set up in London, 20 years ago (before I came out to the USA). Looked like #1. The dish splits into segments, and I recall driving down the M1 from Birmingham in my battered old Ford Escort, with the (razor-sharp) mesh segments squeezed in and wobbling right next to my jugular... Those dishes were getting vanishingly hard to find in the UK, so it was worth the trip, and I kept my neck intact with only minimal damage...

I had it all packed up when moving out to the US (because my imagination told me that houses in the US were far larger than in the UK). The house I ended up buying (despite having a much larger back garden) didn't have the space to set it up again and remain married, so two decades later, it's still in that wooden case... I do, however, have an optical telescope set up (#2)

Back then, we didn't have easy access to SDR's, so there's a feed horn, a down-converter, and I had an external (standalone) WinRadio receiver to actually listen to the feed. That went into an audio card on a linux box, and the waterfall display was beautiful :)

#1: https://imgur.com/a/CDrEeII

#2: https://imgur.com/a/askar-130phq-scope-sb-myt-mount-26mp-cam...
a junior who was dumb enough to actually do work
Bosch?

We are semi-unhappy with ours. Our kids will open it to quickly grab a cup or bowl if nothing else is available, and forget to press the "Start" button to restart it. Our old washer would auto-restart after being opened. Oh, and the Start button needs to be pressed for more than a second, and there isn't really a tactile click when it succeeds. Which it doesn't always do. And if you press it twice it can reset and have to re-run the entire cycle.
VisionOS 2.2 Beta Adds Wide and Ultrawide Modes to Mac Virtual Display
Mac Virtual Display is now available in three sizes: Normal, Wide, and Ultrawide.
Ultra-wide version of Mac Virtual Display is equivalent to having two physical 4K displays sitting side by side on a desk.

Finally available since this was originally mentioned when VisionOS 2 was released.
> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull.

They are so silly, why have the strike when you have the greatest leverage, they should wait with their strike until a more convenient moment when they could be easier ignored.
If they are refocused on their job and now meeting metrics why terminate them? People can become unfocused for a variety of reasons beyond working other jobs. Life happens. If they don't remain focused and again don't meet metrics they have already been given an opportunity and should then be terminated.
I read a statistic some years ago that public school teachers have the lowest rate of firing of any profession. The union has been successful in instituting a "process" for firing a teacher that is so onerous, time consuming, and complicated that it never happens.

The only way a teacher can get fired these days is for showing up drunk or high, or having relations with a student.

(And yes, in spite of this, there are some gems of teachers.)
>That being said, even if we did find Q or something like it, would it change much about our understanding of that time in history?

I'm not a biblical scholar by any means, but I don't think Q needs to be a specific individual source (although it could be), you just need to understand that the later books all incorporate shared material that came from somewhere other than mark. It could be that all incorporate the same subset of oral histories, or the same material from multiple sources. It's just the idea that there is some larger source of material that predates mark that the others are pulling from.