skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, from that aspect it makes sense. But there are companies who use Twitter, Discord, Facebook, et al for support and notifications (which I'm not a fan of). It's hard to avoid in those situations.
My point is that it should not be that vitriolic as soon as someone joins. When I joined Twitter, I got actually interesting content, but of course that was way before Musk and "the algorithm" now. Sad to see that Bluesky is basically replicating the same thing that Twitter is doing currently, instead of how Twitter was in the beginning.
Can you show actual evidence of that. Compare NYC spending to comparably large other systems?
After the "advise" to buy luxury car for 100000$ in response to one of the arguments, I stopped understanding if he is clueless or that was satire. Gives "Let them eat cakes"(c) vibes :)
That ("Anthropic's" deliverability issue) is a Microsoft issue. Don't normalize Microsoft's bad practices.
Agreed. Fwiw, Mozilla’s style guide prohibits rivers like this.

https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/concepts/sql_style
Norwegian fishermen hunting for halibut caught a US nuclear sub
The YouTuber Not Just Bikes recently put out a video arguing that self driving cars will allow for and encourage policy and urban design that is even worse than current car-centric cities. Maybe too sensationalist, but they are interesting points to consider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0
I'm not sure you're aware of what's happening on Twitter, but for starters it's called X now for some reason, crazy I know.
I really don’t get this. If I’m a customer looking to call someone, I would rather call, leave a message, and get a call back then have to keep checking over and over to look for a green link that says that a rep is available.

I also don’t want to make a call from my web browser, I’m off on a device without a microphone and headset connected, and if I’m on my smart phone the actual phone capabilities are a lot better in a phone call (I can mute, switch to speakerphone/bt, and hold the phone up to my ear without pressing any buttons on screen).
From my memory they always said 24h for adults in movies. Kids never had a time limit in csi or similar shows
I think you have a great point here. Debugging tools make you dependent on a particular environment. Printing based debugging can work pretty much everywhere. If you master printf programming you can solve any debugging task.
I'm treating it as a news platform where Eric Berger happens to post articles :)
Incredibly impressed with how this team of 20 has been able to scale with this explosion of growth. Early adopter and it's good to see BlueSky getting competitive in this race.
Core Dumped – IPC: To Share Memory or to Send Messages
I'm in an async company and team, we practice scrum too. Half the team in the US, half in Europe.

First of all, the standup isn't daily, it's twice a week. People still miss it for reasons (kids, doctors appointments, ...), and it's just... accepted. There's a general culture of trust.

Other than that, Slack threads go on twice as verbose and long as in other places I've worked. There's a general deluge of pull requests going around certain times of the day and they're always reviewed within an acceptable time frame. In between delivering PR's you simply pick up other work, we're all seniors that know how to work independently, I'm not sure if you could achieve the same thing with a bunch of juniors mixed in unless they have the right attitude as well.
Vision Pro doesn't let you access the cameras either, being able to stick an app in the corner of your office is handled by the OS. I'd rather not hand out camera access, the problem that needs fixing is the "session by session" part where Meta's OS doesn't maintain permanent app-volumes.
From Sept 26
Only 25k miles? Kinda low for daily driver tires where 40k+ is common.
I wouldn't. That would still just be a distraction. But I should admit right up front that I feel the same about things like (non-AI) code autocomplete. I find anything like that to be counterproductive because it makes me think about something other than what I need to be thinking about, disrupting "flow".

A tool that occasionally gives incorrect suggestions is even worse because I need to spend even more brain cycles on evaluating it than I do with a simple autocomplete. Because of that, it's faster, easier, and more productive to write it myself.
A couple of years ago it was Mastodon with the explosive growth.

RSS feeds everywhere please return. The distributed web, the federated web, a turning point. Perhaps.
I was working at Hughes Aircraft in the 90's and this accident came up. One of the older guys said Grumman had a missile test range right there and he was convinced it was an accident. This little fact is notably absent from the article but does suggest a reason the FBI was so convinced it was a missile, even if it turned out not to be.
While this seems like a reasonable way to start monetising, I would add that the domain verification is very straightforward for anyone who's touched nameservers before. As an aside, their use of domains seems like a relatively clean way to inherit existing identity verification, particularly for organisations.
I am surprised this wasn't done much sooner, especially for "flagship" smartphones. When I was in university ~15 years ago, I met a grad student [0] who implemented impressive eye tracking software and even played WoW with it as a demo.

0: He is a professor now, with many publications in eye tracking, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i96gkYMAAAAJ&origi...
Yes, it's almost as if the general populace actually like centralization, even as many tech people on HN don't want to believe it.
That's just one current example of when email delivery matters, likely to resonate with HN as being senders and receivers they recognize struggling with this. Not just a Microsoft thing, we can talk about a dozen where Gmail files things wrongly as well, and where the common element is the mailer.

These mailers all have different levels of trust and deliverability stats. It's critical to know.
The conclusion of the article seems to be that passwords should be encrypted with asymmetric encryption instead of being hashed. I really couldn't disagree more. We see how competently companies manage their security. It's very easy to imagine a scenario like a company using the same key to encrypt every password. They accidentally push it to github or otherwise get it compromised and now a dumped database becomes a table of plaintext passwords, no rainbow tables needed.

What we really got wrong about passwords is using them in the first place. I don't know know anything about how passkeys are implemented. I would hope they aren't tied into any OAuth nonsense (IMO OAuth is a cure worse than the disease), but even if the implementation were flawed, passkeys are the right kind of solution: cryptographic authentication that plays to the computer's strength instead of depending on something humans aren't good at.
1. This depends on the filesystem. For ext2/3/4 (and many others) there is a reference count maintained in the first inode of the file. You can usually see this count in the output of "ls -l", between the perms and ownership columns. If someone goes wrong and the count isn't decremented properly (due to a system crash while the inode is being updated) or is otherwise corrupt, the space allocated to the object may never be released when it is deleted because the count will never reach zero. This is one of the checks/fixes fsck.ext* does when run. If the count is somehow too low the content could be deallocated too early, resulting in corruption (the remaining link(s) ending up pointing to the wrong data when the inode is eventually refused). Again fsck can detect this, but only if it is not too late and things are already mislinked or some of the space relocated.

2. A dangling soft link points to nothing valid. If you try to access it in a way that would normally give you the object it points to there will be a not found error. If a new object of the destination name appears the link will start to work again but give the new content. If relative links are moved around out of step with what they point to this can cause significant confusion. This is not filesystem level corruption that fsck can/will check for.
I want my own ai persona. Has anyone built that yet? where I can use it anywhere on the web as a version of me.
Ah okay, I missed that.
I would say among the folks that care about game development and graphics programming, people still listen to him with attention.

Outside that circle, maybe not.
This 2020 document says that it's a “cut-and-paste” from a Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) woodcut print. Which seems much more likely.
https://www.saildart.org/simple/booklet/SAILDART_PREVIEW_202...
Iberia Launches First A321XLR for Long-Haul Flights
I quickly searched for Google Calendar and nothing came up.

A good 'trick' would be to have a Gmail account (calendar, and all), share the password with the 'inner circle' and anyone can post anything they want and it will appear on the google calendar, in "Agenda" mode
No language with completely separate booleans has ever had a fun club.

(Scheme isn't that language, because everything that is not #f is true.)

List processing is cumbersome in Scheme because the empty list is't false, and because car and cdr cannot be applied to (). (Which, stupidly, isn't even self-evaluating; you have to use '()).

The empty list is special because once upon a time lisp emphasized list processing more. Complex list processing is still important in metaprogramming, and representations of flexible dynamic data sets.

You're not working with lists, it utterly doesn't matter that nil also has a role as the empty list. Just like you don't care that your physician also plays saxophone in a jazz band; he's not doing it during your appointment.
I'll take your word that GPG is outdated. GPG is just the one that PyPI used to support. I don't particularly care what public key signing suite is used.
You can archive users when they unsub to avoid them counting towards your billable total
You can also self-host Ghost. Which I did for a while, but didn’t want to spend my free time being a sysadmin. I decided paying for hosting was worth it, and helps marginally support the product.
> The phrasing here suggests some principle that outweighs societal good.

Yes.

What is the instrument for measuring societal good? And what is the mechanism for acting upon those measurements? My naive understanding is that in a society that purports to be democratic, societal good is expressed through votes (people vote for things they deem to be good, or for people who promise to bring those things about), and the enactment of those measurements is done through the same mechanism.

> Informing voters in good faith helps them wield their voting tools skillfully. Informing voters in other ways yields other outcomes.

Yes. Now we need a mechanism that establishes the goodness of faith of the informer. And if the past five or so years have taught me anything it is that barely anyone who plays professional-league politics speaks in good faith.
I have "met" people who are both blind and deaf. They use sign language by putting their hand on the hand of the signer and follow that way. (I only know a couple signs so it wasn't worth trying to talk to them except via interpreter and so saying I've met them is a bit strong)

This also is proof that sign language works in the dark.
I think you can figure it out from context, if you aren't one of those bad faith actors.
Aye. Of my 5 jobs, 4 were via personal connections; 2 were basically bumping into strangers and chatting them up, one at a wedding, the other at a Linux User Group.

My current job is the only one I applied for. Even then, dudes from previous jobs have hit me up in the past for gigs in the last 6 months.

Who you know matters, even w/r/t code, so know people.
In UNIX actually.
Eclipse CDT is a whole IDE; is rather complex, and one might even say convoluted; and is Java based. Seer is none of these things.

Of course - it's not like a GDB GUI is a novelty in itself, there are quite a few. But a GDB-GUI-only utility is a meaningful and important niche to consider.
I think we all agree on that RSS feeds are great, but I don't really see how that's related to Twitter alternatives.
It varies considerably depending on where you live.

The Republican party in my state decided to do a caucus instead of a primary election for the presidential nominee. This resulted in less than 10% of the registered Republican voters going to the caucus, effectively disenfranchising 90% of the registered Republican voters.

This issue became more evident when the Republican party's state governor candidate chosen at the caucus was not the incumbent governor. The incumbent governor ran a signature petition and was able to get on the primary ballot (which did not include a presidential candidate as described above) and went on to win the primary election and the general election. There were lawsuits and a write-in campaign for the governor candidate who was chosen at the caucus, but that candidate received less than 10% of the votes in the general election.

This illustrates how the state Republican party leadership is out of touch with the state's cititzens and how in the case of the presidential candidate they did not trust that the citizens would do what they wanted in choosing the party's presidential candidate.
True, I joined during the beta. They really should have some default filtering of content for those who have not yet followed anyone, because seeing the homepage like I posted above made me not want to even interact with Bluesky anymore, which is likely how other people would feel as well.
> nobody knows what it means

The definition of consent is provided here. [0] There are clear application guidelines. To me it takes being intentionally obtuse or malicious in the interpretation when reading the text to come to the conclusion "I don't know what it means so I'll do the thing that benefits me".

Imagine blowing through a stop sign and trying to explain that you don't know what it means, the Earth is moving so you could never really be in compliance. You're not wrong but it's clear that your incompliance doesn't come from a place of honest misunderstanding.

> Mandating that huge populations spend time to make informed case by case decisions

It's mandating that the user is given the tools to provide informed consent, not that they must use them properly. If you need to know what it means, the text is clear. If not and never needed to read it, it's easy to conclude it's hard, impossible even.

[0] https://gdpr.eu/article-4-definitions/#:~:text=%E2%80%98-,co...
So what? People have the right to be wrong and ignorant. It's far better than having The Ministry of Tru... sorry I mean Disinformation Governance Board. Even if lies spread far and wide they always get exposed eventually. For example consider the Iraq war, a war the american public was rushed into without the free flow of information, something you seem keen on, but now that the public has access to info the same republican base that was in support of the war now hates war hawks like john bolton.
I set up Zitadel Cloud for the services at home, just for a few basic services (professionally I'm mostly using AAD and Keycloak).

Already with one user per family member we are coming dangerously close to the quotas, it's my fault, I didn't take the time to check the terms and conditions. But I honestly did not expect the free plan to be that restrictive. I just stopped at "100 users" and thought: "well, that should be enough". That's why I'm warning everyone about this fact.
Cool to see the growth. I have a minor suggestion: while the spinning counter showing "Estimated growth: 123.5 users since last update" is cool, it would make more sense to only show an integer here, since users can presumably only join in increments of 1 and not fractions.
Stephan King leaving will help X become less toxic. Seems like a win for those who want a less toxic X.
Shouldn't wait() support SIGALRM directly with EINTR?
I think Medium is a bad way to go. You give up control of your content and bow it’s presented to users. Additionally, there’s a lot of low quality content on Medium you may not want to be associated with.
I would say that when there was only one human being, there was only positive karma, so I would say that there was no negative karma until there was a second person to do something wrong to the first person, thus facilitating the transfer that results from a negative deed.

From another perspective, I'd say that the first human being could sin against God, but that doesn't align with my understanding of how human beings were created. My understanding is that Adam was created in a state of grace, as a Prophet, free of negativity, but that as the population grew, our negative tendencies (to vice) established itself and the karma began to flow.

[I have some understanding of how the universe works, but I in no way claim to be authoritative. That said, I don't see any obvious errors in my reasoning.]
Hrm. Very little of my Twitter usage was following ultra-high-follower accounts, and of those I did follow, most of them ended up simul-posting on Mastodon and/or Bluesky. I'm not sure how typical a use pattern this was, mind you.
> DDD is still maintained?

Absolutely. I wrote about its features here
https://begriffs.com/posts/2022-07-17-debugging-gdb-ddd.html

Since the article was written, the maintainers fixed the issues I pointed out. No need for many of those workarounds now. Versions 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 are substantial.
I generally see that grid and generation improvements are being made. I think the fear is that the EV usage is outpacing that. I don't know if it's true, and the referenced 6 year old article from Ars which states that there could be issues in the future does not seem to show where we're at today.
Who did he ban?
Is there anyone here who uses Bluesky for its own sake rather than protesting against Twitter/Musk/etc.? Trying to understand if it have any inherent pros in terms of design or operation. IMO all these platforms thrive on network effects and their value grows exponentially as their size grows.
Pedantic and wrong. What was your point here? Sign languages per your own link are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. That's gestures in common speech in all cases unless you are operating with the most specific and unhelpful definition of gestures.
yes! this was so great in college to learn pointers and visualize linked lists
Absolutely, we'd 100% love to learn more about that and co-design. Could you possibly send us a note on hello@onair.io?
Yes exactly, and I'll probably say very generally that I usually use breakpoints when I am in the exploration stage of a significant state bug, and I'll usually use logging when I generally know where the bug should be but I need to pin point the exact place
When you need to communicate something technical you finger spell what you mean once, and the you make up a sign on the spot for that one thing and use that sign there after. The next conversation you can make up a different sign for the same thing, or reuse the old sign. If a sign is used often enough it enters the common language.

By doing such you can communicate anything technical.
The Future of Data Engineering with LLMs Podcast
How so? VW intentionally changed the operation of the vehicle so that its emissions met the test requirements during the test and then went back to typical operation conditions afterwards.
The author says nitrous use doesn’t occupy any cultural space but for me I associate it with Aleister Crowley and the many “magick” things that he influenced- it was used before a lot of rituals they did. William James was a big early influence for him. But also he did a lot of other drugs too.

Looking the mechanism of action - that it replaces oxygen in the brain - it’s pretty obvious why long term use can be so damaging to your brain. It might also contribute to how crazy Crowley gets in his later years.
Chess Transformers: Teaching transformers to play chess
OK, yes, building larger-molecule more-useful-stuff will take more energy, and I'll go with the first approximation that it's a similar quantity of energy re-input (some useful things less, some more). And yes, all that product will take substantial volume. Thx for clarifying.

That said, it still seems an extremely useful measure, even if we keep using only single-digit percentages for long-use plastics instead of hydrocarbon fuels.

Let's assume that for the next century or so a bunch of applications will continue to require the convenience and energy-density of liquid hydrocarbons. In order to avoid extracting more and further increasing CO2 levels, we'll have to input significant energy to reconstitute them from CO2. Obviously, inputting that energy from more fossil fuels defeats the purpose, but using renewables will work; and now they are even cheaper energy inputs.

The result would be a cycle of newly fabricated hydrocarbon fuels, which can be custom-optimised for each application. No new CO2 would enter the atmosphere and the existing levels would be reduced by the amount of hydrocarbon fuels (and plastics, etc.) fabricated and in existence throughout the entire chain of existence, fabrication, storage, distribution, transport, in-vehicle, right up to the moment it is burned. With cheaper renewable energy inputs and optimized custom fabrication, it would likely get cheaper than the existing drill/pump/transport/refine process. And, it's permanently sustainable, and as liquid hydrocarbon fuel use declines, custom production can be converted to storable materials.
First thought: if I left bad or useless code in a commit, how many levels of verification would it need to pass to make it to production?
I think the OP's point is that chat GPT-3.5 may have a chess-engine baked-in to its (closed and unavailable) code for PR purposes. So it "realizes" that "hey, I'm playing a game of chess" and then, rather than doing whatever it normally does, it just acts as a front-end for a quite good chess-engine.
Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models
I mean, why would they? It would only create negative emotions, but it wouldn't have any positive impact on anything. Feeling bad about a condition can be useful if it can propel you to improve the situation, e.g. if you're an alcoholic and you feel bad about it, you might stop drinking. But for conditions where it's out of your control and there is no cure, framing it as bad does not do any good. No one needs to wallow in self pity thinking oh if only I was born different, especially if they can lead rich and fulfilling lives.
Does the engineer not have to log in when he is on-site?

Does the employer not have employees log in periodically to validate that their procedures are currently working?

My employer does "disaster recovery" exercises at least once a year (preferably every 6 months). If we were in charge of this we could have stood up a replacement system in the time it took these folks to get their engineer logged in. And if someone said that it would have been better to be on-site, our bosses would have a confused look on their face and said something like "but the internet was working, and the actual machines doing the work aren't at their desks"
'A bullet train for power': China's ultra-high-voltage electricity grid
um, a normal one? it looks exactly what I've seen on my grandmother's garden patch in my childhood. It's just that size is not very practical for supermarkets and a small family consumption, so current selection and harvesting methods go in the opposite direction.
The Relatively Messy Problem with Lunar Clocks
An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected