skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's incredibly important to control ones own communication and the public interpretation analysis of ones Umwelt.

You can't allow news distribution or news analysis to be controlled by people with other interests than yours, and billionaires certainly have other interests. This was well understood by social democrats in Sweden, who as soon as they were established started their owns newspapers.

One must start ones own newspapers , appoint the journalists and be careful with their incentives. You want the newspaper you read seriously to be your personal intelligence organisation, and you should be as careful with who you appoint as the CIA is. You want something which only delivers the most reasonable analysis, without regard to consequences.

These things exist internally in banks when it comes to things that have effects on the stock market or the economy. There is however no present newspaper that can be used like that. They're all somebody else's propaganda, with the exception of the Swish-journalists.
Sorry about your partners disease. Learning such news about loved ones is difficult.

I have a chronic condition and spent years wondering "why me?". Now my thoughts are more like "why not me?" and to try and embrace what life we're lucky to get and live day by day. Godspeed
Plant-animal hybrid cells make solar-powered tissues, organs or meat
The hint that productivity is perceived (subjective, qualitative), but not measured (quantitative), is good.

Productivity is argued, in the end, not demonstrated; or only within a very specific, limited framework (a very productive endeavour locally may reveal to be counter-productive on a higher or later scale).

For instance, heavily relying on fossile fuel while pushing CO2 in the atmosphere has proved very successful in a specific time frame, the past century, let's say. But if (if) that means that Earth becomes inhabitable by current life forms within the next century, from an external observer, it was rather an error, or mismanaged, so not so productive.
It also doesn't work properly, since it sets cookies before you make a choice.
> By contrast, a project built on the framework of the moment might not age as gracefully; the build process can feel outdated or cumbersome as standards evolve

Why can this not be true for 'vanilla js'?

If you're not using a framework, you're almost definitely half-cobbling together you're own ad-hoc framework. Best case scenario, surely that's just as likely to atrophy the same as React/whatever.
What is the practical difference?

I was responding to the reference in GP’s comment that “…your name, address, and phone number would published…” which is the case with gulesider. Their comment was about pre-internet, mine was referring to the post-internet version. Apologies if there was confusion.

Additionally, the Wikipedia page on ‘Telephone directory’ [0] states:

> A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory
I think yes it is. For people who are new to IaaS there is some work needed for git
Push to deploy
>I write code for people who can read the language

Programming languages often have syntax that's acknowledged as a source of confusion and bugs and better avoided. The line is not hard and fast, but I write C++ and there's "C++", and then there's "the C++ subset that you should use" (I probably couldn't write C++ code without tools slapping me for using the wrong parts). Operator precedence is debatable but our tools force the use of parentheses to disambiguate.
> Anti-cheat is a necessary evil to make online games fair.

It may be required for anonymous online matchmaking. That is only one possible type of online gaming model even if the gaming industry wants to pretend that community run servers were never a thing.
User ID verification: A solution to social media's problems
The hot mess theory of AI misalignment (2023)
> Mind blown: The stack is an illusion!

Why?
There is still a dedicated wiper button on the steering wheel.
Let’s appreciate the transparency and follow the project for progress rather than dismiss them for it.
Oh, I see we’re doing this again.

This is easily one of the top three extremely wrong ideas that rises like a zombie every few years and has to be shot in the head until it stops twitching.

Source: https://x.com/evacide/status/1853286485820404015
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I think we can go even further than that? If a single element generates the whole group, doesn't that mean the group is cyclic?
> ... sounds like my experience with Instaparse (Clojure)

Thank you! I wasn’t aware of Instaparse or its use of PEGs [1] which gives you the same sense about parsing ambiguities.

> REXX - I thought this was ingenious specifically for file/text processing

Formally the REXX in Amiga was called ARexx and included extensions [2]. REXX [3] itself is not specifically for file/text processing but enables you to connect different environments [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARexx

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx

[4] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=environments-hos...
What else is there? Long term remission for example. This is hardly looked at because we don't see any difference.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42039972

Most websites don't require backend logic.
Just a heads up, job postings for jobs based in NYC are now legally required to list a salary range.
Eh, I don’t lose any sleep over it. There’s bigger fish to fry.
> it's not clear how short circuiting works

It is clear if you read the docs.

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#compari...

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#boolean...
I use it at work. I must say I've never experienced that as an issue, so perhaps we use the programming language in a different way.

One issue that i have experienced, which may be related, is that it's hard to have a little bit of controlled type dynamism. That is, once you have a type that is a union with many possibilities, you need to be vigilant not to do operations on it that makes type inference give up and return `Any`. This still bites me. There are some solutions to that in pacakges (e.g. the relatively new Moshi.jl), but I do miss it with language-level support.
I'm using a free app Pictogram (https://pictogramapp.com). It's not as feature rich as Replacicon (e.g. no online search from the app), but it works well if you just need to change an icon or two. Services like https://macosicons.com/ help you to find a good icons online.
It's sad what cketti did to K9 after 5.6. I don't have any hope for the future of K9/Android Thunderbird anymore.
Yes please. I am currently driving a pre-touchscreen car and I hope I can just skip that era entirely.

Touchscreens are a menace. The most dangerous moments I have in my car are when I'm trying to skip the ads in my podcasts. Which got way worse since google removed default media buttons from maps. I bet that decision has an actual body count.
However, the problem is that touch is not optimized to perfection
For example, I want to have the function of quickly opening an application by swiping up with four fingers on my iPhone.
There is no killer optimization solution like bettertouchtool on iPhone
Org Empathy
Its possible that the knowledge was never lost but covered up.

If we imagine the neural net as code. As in the weights are the source, the fine tuning may effectively hack that code to not return certain things.

Infact that is kinda what fine tuning is.

Therefore you may have just built a firewall around certain outputs.

But quantizing could make those recent edits disappear. They are too subtle to survive.

Whereas quantizing doesn't destroy all knowledge as evidenced by popular quantized models.

Also: @simonw incase he has alerts. Would be perfect topic for him to write up.
> But I am free to be curious and ask the author why he choose it

They chose it because the discussion is about trigraphs. It is not a particularly surprising choice to talk about trigraphs in that context.

> There is no HN rule that says that I cannot be curious and asks a question that arised from a thread but it is not connected to that!

I did not write that you did not follow HN rules, just that your question was very strange in the context. I did not downvote you, but I understand why some people did. Your question was a bit passive agressive, even if you did not mean it.
John says you were wrong then and you are still wrong now. When talking about the problem domain John also mentions some switches do start sending the packet before finish receiving, it's called cut-though switching.
I think Linus is correct, and demonstrating his new abilities with diplomacy with his phrasing.

Take a look at what the Metaverse bubble has left us vs what it cost, in direct dollars and in lost opportunities to pursue other goals.

this cycle of AI is as bad or worse. at least the leftovers when the bubble pops are going to be more generally useful than the VR detritus. Getting the Cult of CurrentThing to stop mindlessly objecting to power generation is a big win; but i doubt they've secured that long term.

Leftover nvidia vector processors may have legitimate uses after they get scrapped from the big AI places, too.
The interviewer got a promotion, since he didn't spot it nor does he know basic python syntax.
wonder what R Crumb would've thought of Electro Blues (either before, or after, a few tabs from that black on yellow Joplin portrait)?
Lindt is bottom of the barrel slop with fancy branding attached to it. It's the McDoanlds/Starbucks of chocolate.
The environmental campaigners fighting against data centres
I guess it ought also be pointed out that these days *a lot* of jobs in general are harmful because increasing economic growth, accelerating in the process the destruction of the biosphere and depletion of natural resources (both of which became a concern half a century ago at least).

Yet of course it's extremely hard to make people understand that, when these are things that they, their families, and even their communities or their polities have been doing for generations, and are directly relevant to their short term livelihood (which they see as medium or even long-term livelihood, as "short term" here means decades).
Not only that, but if you don't dry it quick enough the whole hob shuts down
Code Reviews, Not Code Approvals – By Adam Ard
There's no one 'ilok' protection scheme, there are many. And most of them have been cracked.
I suppose that credits earned at a North Korean university are not accepted by any other university. However, having lived in North Korea and having an insider's view of the country certainly has its advantages.
This Week in Go: 10 Articles You Can't Miss – Golang Nugget Nov, 04
CAD/CAM has mostly been FlexLM protected for as long as I remember. Flex used a hardware dongle for a while, but then moved away from it.
Doing that would open an awesome (terrifying) can of worms.

You start out thinking “no one are using these, surely”. (Outside the terminal and…?)
Comparing algorithms for extracting content from web pages – Chuniversiteit
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Cloudflare, Render, etc.
Anything by withoutboats, really.
> It sounds like you want multi-region

If you use Google Cloud....with the 100 ms of latency that will add to every interaction....
Feb. 4, 2014: Amid rioting on the Maidan in Kiev, YouTube carries Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s last minute instructions to U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt regarding the U.S. pick for new Ukrainian prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk (aka “Yats”) and other plans for the imminent coup d’etat in Kiev. When Pyatt expresses concern about EU misgivings about mounting a coup, Nuland says “Fuck the EU.” She then apologizes to the EU a day or two later — for the profanity, not for the coup. She also says that Vice President Joe Biden will help “glue this thing together”, meaning the coup.
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Just a heads up, job postings for jobs based in NYC are now legally required to list a salary range.
Why would someone make a GNOME only app? A developer that is not a fanboy will be more pragmatic and use something that is mature and is more cross platform. So proably a web dev would use elecktron.
The entire point of this research is to develop a targeted delivery mechanism based on malfunctioning gene activations. It's a simple but clever approach IMHO.
I don't think this is actually a significant difference between GPLv2 and v3. At the bottom of the quoted list of requirements, v2 says:

> These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole.

It is possible that v3's wording was cleaned up to make it clearer that individual file-level changes were not required. I have no doubt that git history would be considered sufficient metadata provided it was included in a release. We probably will never see a court test the attribution requirement in enough detail to settle this (in other words, it probably doesn't matter)
Google: One Laptop per Child ;)

replace education in places without electricity with survival in case of civilization end.
Seen a few projects which are equivalent to a tenant cutting off structural columns in a high/mid rise to install safes. Are people going to be punished for demanding impossible customizations or attempting them, or rewarded for "keeping the integrity" like magicalhippo and their client did, as mentioned in their comment?
It's due to systemd in that systemd makes it too fiddly to figure out or change which services are enabled on boot. (I used to know a way to disable certain services on boot under systemd, but it doesn't work any more, and I've reached a state of learned helplessness at this point)
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An open-source Python and CLI tool for reading OpenStreetMap PBF files using DuckDB.
I have made it to scale the existing OSMnx library.
If you can't beat your spouse whats the point?!
Systemd trolls on HN are really out of hand. This isn't even credible.
No, this whole spiel of big pharma wanting to keep people sick is insane. That could work if there was a single pharma company in the world, but all it takes is one company making an effective cure for a disease and they will make big bucks. Even if you think the people in charge are evil profiteers, we all win in the end
Or a USB stick filled with knowledge and entertainment for a budget price.
Yes, by R2R
> Ooh ooh, I know! It's to improve systemd for the use-cases outlined and build a really great open source init/process manager.

People already did the latter (sadly no-one used it because there was no mechanism that forced distros to adopt it), and would do the former if the systemd maintainers would let them.
Coming from higher level languages, even C, it is actually very mind-opening to see stack as just 2 numbers (stack base, stack top). Not reading about it in theory but seeing in assembly how the program literally decrements the top address value.

I also remember finding the interrupt/syscall system surprisingly stupid and simple. Reading the kernel's source did broaded my horizons!
Amen to this (no religious meaning implied)

I'm a self-taught tech savvy, I'm aware of where I come from and how far I've come. And I'm deeply annoyed when I see this almost condescending expression in various tech communities online.

Very reassured that I'm not the only one feeling that way.
The icon is stored inside the app bundle, in a "Icon?" invisible file resource fork. It's allowed by macOS and it doesn't break the code signature.
Hear, hear.

I totally understand why developers love python, but as an end user I dread seeing the .py extension.
I think COVID-times ended that habit quickly around my city. I used to lick my finger to open plastic bags on the supermarket and now try to find something wet instead - usually alcohol bottle.

(I'm asure it was always a bit nasty but when it became a deadly move, my habits finally changed...)
Why not both? See what others around you want to eat, swipe together, meet up with a stranger in a restaurant and eat together. Maybe get to know them, maybe not.
Does this support non-python dependencies too e.g. gstreamer? It wasn't clear to me.

I'm very wary of a new tool announcement that doesn't appear to mention why the existing tools/solutions were not sufficient. Which gap does this fill?

Edit: the answer to my second question is at https://venvstacks.lmstudio.ai/design/
Is it physical?
Well even your examples...

* two's complement is the best general purpose way (tradeoffs!)

* static typing leads to fewer bugs (but makes development slower - tradeoffs)

* length prefixes are better than sentinels - but the largest system language uses sentinels for strings (because prefixes are not actually always better, be and sentinels were deemed better by its creators)
Ah I've had it hallucinate non-existing methods in python rather often.

Or when I say I need to do something, it invents a library that conveniently happens to just do that thing and writes code to import and use it. Except there's no such library of course.
Yeah, leaving aside other concerns about platforms, Microsoft, and the USA, I too want to stress how GitHub is problematic in GP's «some metrics are bad» sense : the social networking aspect, stars, number of projects, and, as you say, number of contributions and number of lines of code.
Cybersecurity for Railroads
I'm an Engineering Manager for a large company and have been for a number of years. For our large team we will rank the team based on perception of managers. After that we will then manually collate coding stats from all repos we work on. Unfortunately for the consensus view here and in the article, you get a 100% hit rate on who you think poor performers are and the lowest coding contributors.

For top performers it's more nuanced. In general they will be top of the contribution stats but sometimes if they're doing R&D or hard work then the stats are not very meaningful. But that's why we don't rely on them.

So metrics have their place to inform and color existing perception. But they will rarely change perception completely.
Not the person you're asking, but I find it adds a delay to setting off and frequently feels 'wrong' because it cuts the engine for a very short time.

(I don't often drive at rush hour, so often I might just stop at a light for literally 1 or 2 seconds whilst it notices I'm there and then switches over to green, or maybe I've timed it almost right to slow down gradually to the lights and only have to stop for a short time at the end.)

I don't know anything but I have been wondering if it might actually be worse for emissions and engine wear for the auto to cut off only for 1 or 2 seconds each time.

I can see the appeal in traffic with longer waits though?
I really question what causes companies to ignore consumer opinion.
It was obvious people wanted tactile controls.
All they had to do was read comments, do user studies, ask for feedback... any sort of interaction with consumers at all.

Its easy to say it was for profit. But surely they cant be that bad at the math of frustrating their audience versus saving pennies.

I've similarly seen car companies doubling down on obviously hated design decisions for 10 years when it could be fixed with a refresh in 3. As if they have pride and spite rather than wanting to make money.

I have a feeling the core issue is companies do not have any interest in oversight of their designers and their designers are unhinged.
> We can (and arguably should) make their life easier by changing society, but unless you fix the root problem, they'll forever lack visual experiences.

But not everybody wants to gain the experiences that would come from not having their condition. (This is especially true in the Deaf community[0], but can be seen in other communities as well.) And honestly? I feel that's a very valid viewpoint to have. The reason they "can't participate in society" to the same extent is because society doesn't let them!

Thankfully, people are starting to realise that.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/understan...
I was previously told the company is unable to sponsor visas. tbf OP had mentioned in their previous post as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846503

Let us know if the visa sponsorship situation has changed since. Thanks!
I like that Rachel has clearly expressed opinions.

What I love is that Rachel is aware of them, revisits, and explains why a new opinion has been formed.

being able to say "I was wrong, because" followed by "here is my new opinion based on what I have learnt" is much more valuable than opinion disguised as fact.

Knowing _why_ an opinion has changes is often very valuable.

> Maybe, just maybe, there's some tool out there in the blue void of ideas, that could potentially help managers UNDERSTAND what's going on.

Maybe, but what the article points out is that slapping a metric on something and saying "this is performance" leaves you with a massive quantisation error. If you have a simplistic metric, then people will optimise for it, often simplistically.

The other thing the article points out is that "peer feedback" is often not a useful way to help people. If you were to put your point about those specific tasks in your own feedback, or someone wrote it about you, it would form an indelible mark on your record. Because it'll probably be the only tangible and actionable bit of information, you manager will overindex on that.
What is the current time around the world?