skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> these days I think the much more important skill is designing systems

That's true, but that doesn't mean that there is no value in having an understanding of how established technology works under the hood.

> What computer science doesn’t teach you is how memory caching works in CPUs.

That is also a very good point. There is a lot of daylight between the lambda calculus and real systems.
"The festivities were streamed live from the Peacock Theater in L.A. across more than 30 platforms including YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, TikTok Live, X (Twitter), Steam, WeChat, Bilibili, Huya, DouYu, Xiaohongshu and Instagram Live"
Counterpoint:

while True:
requests.post(api_url, json={"username": "@jrvarela56", "message": "hello"})

If this was allowed to run without moderation, targeting your account on some social network, it would effectively jam you from receiving any other messages on that network.

Moderation is noise reduction, undesirable content (junk mail, male junk, threats, even just uninteresting content) is noise, the stuff you want is signal, usability requires a good signal to noise ratio. Speech can be either signal or noise.
By building a service that went from 0 to 275 million active users in a year (compared to Bluesky's 18 million)?
What’s “milk” is not perfectly clear today. You can certainly coagulate the fats from more than just one liquid.

Anyways my point is that it just causes confusion in a system where, normally, you can simply trust that the labels are following the law.
I keep reading stories about how well B&N is doing. It’s not evident in my local market. More competitive with an old mall-based Waldenbooks than a Borders. And practices of shelving books by type, e.g. trade paper vs mass market etc. strikes me as crazy. Thus far I’m not convinced.
> With my team, once you are done with your PR, you do a quick rebase pass over your branch and squash any remaining partial/in progress/fixup commits into a final set of meaningful logical commits - this set gets merged ...

A lack of this simple discipline is what causes people to push for squashing. If you squash every PR then your commits may be too coarse, but you don't end up with random "fix tests" commits everywhere. If it's not part of your company culture to do the cleanup then it's harder to get that rolling than to just impose a repo rule that only squash merges are allowed in.
All posts on bsky are public and subject to use for training machine learning models. So a lot of people either don't care or are going to be very disappointed.
While technically true in describing the possibility, there is a big difference in ease between printing a photo and sending a message to a user via a digital platform e.g. WhatsApp.

To physically bully you before with a compromising (but fake) photo, the bully would need to physically distribute said images to the presence of your friends and family, which requires time, knowledge of their location, etc. Not so now; if you used a social network and they could see connections to other users (such as family members) then they can just follow those connections by messaging those people directly.

That difference in scale and ease for the bully is real vis-a-vis physically vs social media.
Kids becoming friends with someone who used to bully them isn't all that uncommon. It can happen especially if the bullied kid fights back and earns the respect of the bully.
Do...do I open the modem and read the link off a piece of paper inside, kinda like a fortune cookie?
> I assume you're referring to what the upgrade guide refers to as "Backward Incompatible Changes". If so reading through the list I can't see a single one on there that has a major impact, in fact I'd wager that 99% of all 8.3 instances will have no issue upgrading to 8.4 as they are all very superficial changes to some very legacy areas of the language.

They changed error handling. That is a major impact. If things start throwing errors when they previously didn't it results in your app breaking because how you were handling errors is no longer applicable. Now you have third-party libraries, etc all breaking because the PHP core team can't be bothered to follow industry standards. And yes, SemVar is, at this point, the industry standard to the point people use 8.* in their composer require because they expect SemVar.

And changing error handling in very legacy areas of the code is the worst especially when there isn't even an RFC to say that they would be doing it. The fact it's legacy means people don't expect it to change.

> I'm also not seeing 200 on there, though you said "200 lines" are you talking about the length of the article, if so thats not really a helpful metric.

It's useful in giving an impression of the number of changes. Especially, when given an example of another release to see how they're increasing. And it's extremely useful when comparing to other languages where the breaking changes section either doesn't exist or it's extremely small. 200+ lines even with formatting and some lines taking two ends up with over 100 breaking changes.

I get it, you like PHP and you're protective over your tooling. I use PHP heavily, in fact, I'm building my business on top of it. But that does not remove my ability to look at how everything is compared to other languages and see there is a major problem. On Ubuntu, it has packages for each minor release whereas in Python it's just python3-*. Why? Because PHP's reputation for adding breaking changes whenever (despite the claim that they're really good at it) has been there for so long that even Linux distros know that people need to deal with that pain.

The problem with me being mainly a PHP developer is, I know all the problems. You can't BS me like you can devs who don't work with it so much.
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With multicast, you only need to send the image once to all 20 machines. With 10 gig Ethernet, a 1tb image should be sent in approx 15 minutes.

Also, maybe having a steam cache server and using the local disks as a game store might help with installation of games?

Definitely can see the benefits of the netboot setup, though!
What is "the front page"?

Scrolling through the first couple dozen posts on my following feed, I see a selfies, science educators, artists, makers, a couple naked people, a complaint about days getting shorter, and a few people talking about health conditions they've gotten under control. If you don't want to see people talking about Trump, follow people who don't talk about Trump. Or add "trump" to your list of muted words.

What you see is up to you. If you don't like what you see, there are a ton of levers in your control.
Tesla is one of those companies. The side glass on their deathtrap shitboxes is fairly resistant to glass hammers.
And I didn't do a good enough pointing out that my complaint was focused on mainstream news media as the secondary source, not expert commentary.

I don't think primary sources are some be-all, end-all, standalone authority. I'm just concerned that mainstream news media is so many layers abstracted from them, but people rely on them as though they have some sort of firm enough grounding in "reality" to support a worldview.
So maybe think with your own head instead of just taking the average of everyone else's opinion.
They probably are, but they don’t have a marketing team like BlueSky does
Dealing with physical danger and triumphing can happen without punching a bully.
I suspect the same.
My bet is that a technical manager told his executive (multiple times) that he needed more resources and engineering time to make live work properly, and they just told him to make do because they didn't want to spend the money.

It could come down to something as stupid as:

Executive: "we handled [on demand show ABCD] on day one, that was XX million"

Engineering: "live is really different"

Executive: (arguing about why it shouldn't be that different and should not need a lot of new infrastructure)

Engineering: (can't really argue with his boss about this anymore after having repeated the same conversation 3 or 4 times)
-- tells the team: we are not getting new servers or time for a new project. We have to just make do with what we have. You guys are brilliant, I know you can do it!"
I was confused on that, too. At the top, says 18m users total. So, for how many days did the headline mean? Was it <10 recently?
I joined Mastodon in the big post-Elon user exodus. It’s great for geeky stuff, but Bluesky is much better for entertainment and news (i.e. what I mostly used Twitter for, pre-Elon).

If geeky stuff is what you’re interested in, you can build that community on Mastodon easily. But if you want more popular content and users, they’re on Bluesky.
Deciding to use a cloud provider or not has very little do to with the quality of the application and infrastructure architecture.

You can make an app that scales beautifully on AWS or you can make one that chokes.
The scale of galaxies? Which the original article is about? I feel like I need to spell out everything, but ok:

The article is about modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), which is a theory that modifies Newtonian gravitation to fix some observed differences in galaxies' motion, without invoking dark matter. The original commenter then proclaims "haha, MOND cannot be right, because we know that Newtonian gravity is incorrect". Yeah, no shit Sherlock; it is "incorrect" because it is just a limiting case of general relativity. But that's completely besides the whole point of MOND, which tries to "fix" gravity at galactic scales, which is a Newtonian regime even with general relativity. MOND is trying to tweak the Newtonian formula at those extreme distances, and if it works, then maybe it can be worked out to be a limiting case of a "modified general relativity", just as Newtonian gravity is a limiting case of GR. Got it?
federation is a form of decentralization
That is what happens when teachers and the school can get sued for any mistake.

Avoid all mistakes. (Even if it mean not trying)
that’s difficult to reproduce at scale; there are only so many “super bowl” events in a calendar year
It's quite a mystery, isn't it?
What happens when they do, are you going to leave?
Show HN: I built an app for anyone to design their own kitchen
A few court cases have decided that works created solely using AI can't be copyrighted. However, the copyrightability of works where some human action has occurred is still an open question.
> One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.

Judiciously using the muting features is required to have a good time in social media. Add "Twitter" to muted words to move past that on your own.
doesnt the EV9 have the same door handle design as all Teslas?
I follow that argument, and I certainly think I've seen cases where it's been true in various remasters in the past, but not having played it, but looking at the comparisons, I don't have the same perception of the sprites not fitting that way.

I think it looks more bland in some ways because it's no longer nostalgia filtered so you don't notice the fact that the ground has no little details randomly permuting over 50 copies of the same tile, but I'm not sure that would have significantly improved the final result, to me personally.

The original cutscenes, I agree, look terrible, but I don't think you were getting around that short of redoing them entirely in modern detail, which wouldn't have fit and also would have been obscenely expensive and time-intensive. (Doing them in the WC3 engine or the like would have been a funny option, perhaps.)
You seem confused, I am not actually saying anything about whether Latour is bad or not, and I honestly don’t have an informed opinion there.

Latour may well be bad, but an argument saying so that just attacks a straw man of his work is unlikely to be very compelling.
Must be nice to be stinking rich
However, I find it difficult to believe that all other staffs, e.g. the retrieval teams, the scientists, can keep their mouths shut. Unless they live in a cave from birth to death.
One idea I had (feel free to steal this idea for your own use) was a one-time crypto payment to create an account. Of course you can't prevent bots from doing that, but if the price is right then I think it might greatly limit the number of bots on the platform as well as possibly limit the number of low-quality accounts.

But you don't know what you don't know, so I might be missing something that makes this pointless.
> I have very low expectations from a site that is called serve the home and deals too often with enterprise level hardware that will never get into someone's home

That's an uncharitable interpretation of a site's name. Is HN only for news, or only news for or with hackers? It's not called "serve only the home". On top of that, what plenty of people have in their home just for the sake of passion for tech might surprise you.
> Whatever libraries/dependencies you have, unpin the versions, and have good unit tests.

Nitpick: unit tests by definition should not be exercising dependencies outside the unit boundary. What you want are solid integration and system tests for that.
How could that possibly be aggressive? It's not a personal indictment. Tone however, matters in any context.

I hope you find it within yourself to treat strangers nicer.
> And there’s a good chance that he rejects evidence to the contrary, or if finally faced with evidence beyond refute, it changes nothing, right?

It actually wasn't even rejection. It was this pivot to, "You live in a different moral reality than I do, and therefore your assessment of factual reality is morally bankrupt," even though I thought we were talking about whether the law had changed, not the moral value of a change.

It got ugly really fast, and frankly I'm still bewildered by it. It would have been one thing if he didn't think there was a reality to appeal to. This was just, "You have a fact I don't like, and therefore are evil."
Why isn’t there an app that just posts to blue sky mastodon and twitter? I find it annoying that companies and some gov depts post on twitter only and for some reason I keep needing to verify my account so I can’t ever see a chronological timeline
Assume you're right and advertising companies outsourced responsibility to GARM.

Then since GARM was discontinued in August shouldn't all of the advertisers be suddenly flocking back to X. Because ad spend for X continues to be anaemic.

And I assure that advertisers very much do care if their ads appears next to neo-nazi, racist and misogynistic content.
that's a yikes from me
Metafilter used to charge a one-time fee of $5:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467870
Tangent: Not fewer like F (Ford) or H (Hyatt Hotels). Unfortunately we don't have a full alphabet, missing {I, N, P, Q, Y}.

I guess if we allowed the first two letter ticker symbol for the missing singles, we could send messages by mentioning a bunch of company names.

Eg "Buy: Dominion Energy, Agilent. Hold: Nano Labs. Sell: Genpact." would refer to our esteemed moderator, and "Hyatt Hotels is pleased to announce special corporate rates for Nano Labs bookings" to this site itself.

[maybe it would be better to use the companies where the corporate name and ticker letter don't match? Like US Steel for X and AT&T for T?]
Nobody take the bait
Mastodon has a big honkin' "Join mastodon.social" button both on joinmastodon.org and in the mobile apps to solve this exact problem.
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I'm not so sure about this when not even 24 hours ago Netflix has streaming issues running on AWS infrastructure, and existing social media sites still have outages.
Too late for me to edit, but Netflix is now reporting 60m, half of what Rolling Stone said.

https://x.com/netflix/status/1857906492235723244?s=46
Check out Vlad the astrophysicist, it's interesting.
This, it happens for a while after every big exodus moment and chills out after.
Probably no fault of the feed, so not really a hall of shame. People you follow repost the feeds because they want to share with the world, and the posts end up in your timeline. You block them if you are not interested or if it is overwhelming, without having to unfollow anyone.
It's fundamentally reasonably capable of things like full text search and better discovery, which its lead dev and much of the community see as anti-features. There has been some recent progress on search, but being searchable is opt-in only because many users are opposed to search.

I think decisions like that are an active choice not to become popular.
2012 live video was what, 480p?
The completely agrammatical "Latin" text in the AARO logo - somewhere on the level of English text one might find on a t-shirt sold on a street market in rural China - does not inspire confidence in the programme or its mission, as it suggests that

* some person in a high-up position is driven by a caricature of a notion of legitimacy conveyed by grandiose Latin mottos;

* this person does not have the diligence or attention to detail to be able to construct such a motto correctly, nor the capability for reflection to anticipate that he would fail to do so;

* either there is not enough of a culture of skepticism or criticism for anyone else to point out the mistakes and pull the emergency brakes, or there are not enough eyeballs even on fundamental materials like the programme's logo.

These are not features you want in a working group that you trust to sift through vague and contentious evidence on a topic marred by wishful thinking and military obscurantism. The group's findings therefore don't seem worth putting much stock in, and the main information that is conveyed by this is that there exist more amateurish and untrustworthy initiatives under the US military's aegis than one would expect.

(The motto itself seems to have come from a misremembered or ineptly modded Marcus Aurelius quote popular in motivational posters: https://ehoreka.myshopify.com/products/mundus-mutatur-vita-n...)
`Ms` would be megaseconds ;)
Does anyone remember IP multicast?

I remember a lot of trade magazines in the late 1990's during the dot com boom talked about how important it would be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_multicast

I never hear about it anymore. Is that because everyone wants to watch something different at their own time? Or is it actually working just fine now in the background? I see under the "Deployment" section it mentions IPTV in hotel rooms.
True. Only 98% of mechanical keyboards are noisy.
For any headline ending in a question mark the answer is “no”.
That was the outcome in this case but in general it can be very damaging for someone to lose most of their social circle. The principal's goal was to save face at the expense of harming the son. The fact that he came out on top is irrelevant to the morality of the principal's behavior.

The principal is in a position of power which cannot be held accountable within the confines of the system. Such positions are ripe for abuse and in fact attract people who want to abuse power.

As a society, we should design rule systems in such a way that each position can be held accountable.
Have you ever met any person who says bullying is a good thing? I have not, yet it appears in any group of people large enough. So obviously people rationalise it somehow. How do you think they rationalise it to themself then?

Bullying is always wrong according to everyone, but that person being bullied is always the exception. “If they could just act in another way we wouldn’t be “forced” to do this to him/her.”
You seem to think that I care about the audience. It's funny because it's a puppeteer piloting the shambling corpse of Jones's products around to mock him. A constant reminder of his failure he'll see every day.
> One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter

That was a huge turnoff with Mastodon for me. Seemed almost everyone was just saying “wow, isnt it so much better here than on Twitter?” over and over and having everyone agree. By comparison Bluesky isn’t so bad, at least right now anyway.
Sure, I can do that.

I've published a game on the Apple App Store. All graphics were produced using non-Adobe commercial and open source software. I even used relatively ancient software.

Here's a list:

- Creature House Expression: a competitor to Illustrator, which has a way better UI than anything Adobe, and still (AFAIK) unique features (eg. "skeletal strokes").

- Synthetik Studio Artist: has no competitor, and outdoes anything that Photoshop can accomplish in its niche;

- Vue d'Esprit 4: landscape and plant generation, which worked well enough that I didn't need any resource-hungry later versions;

- Candy Factory (for the Amiga, running under emulation): I'm sure some PS plugins can do the same, but why bother when I had this already from way back?

- GIMP: STFU about the UI. If you're used to Photoshop, get used to something else; PS is not the pinnacle of UI excellence.

Other superb software:

- VectorStyler, which might be a practical successor to Expression;

- Escape Motions software collection.

I've also tried Affinity Photo and Designer, but I definitely prefer the software I mentioned above.

So, YES, I am qualified to bash Adobe, and I unashamedly do so.
What's the argument you're making?
Here's the actual link to the starter pack:
https://bsky.app/starter-pack/bradgessler.com/3laa47lbuwb2r
I'm not sure it's inherently unfalsifiable. There are some specific proposals for dark matter that could be ruled out by experiments, such as right-handed neutrinos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_neutrino#Sterile_neutr...

Maybe if you're being very broad in definitions then some class of proposals describable as "dark matter" might be unfalsifiable, but to be taken seriously as a scientific proposal I think it should be specific, concrete, and indeed testable, and there are a few of these within the "dark matter" class.

Again, we're in the perhaps unsatisfying position of having observations which don't cohere with our current theoretical understanding. What's the solution? It's not easy...
Do people even have cable TV anymore? I have internet from my "cable" company but I don't have the "cable" connected to anything but the modem. Everything I watch is streamed. The only thing connected to my TV is a Roku.
> Yet one still can produce great amount of working software without knowing how indexes are stored on disk.

I agree... up to a point. Most software will likely be replaced/obsolete before it even reaches a scale where indexes even matter (at all) given how fast the underlying hardware is at this point.

... but I don't think this is particularly relevant wrt. the "to CS or not CS" question. If a CS grad has been paying any attention they usually have a decent idea of what kinds of problems are intractable vs. problems that are tractable (but maybe expensive to compute) vs. easy. Also just general exposure to different ways to approach solving a problem (logic programming, pure functional, etc.) can be very valuable. There's just much that one couldn't come up with on their own if one weren't exposed to the ideas from the vast expanse of ideas that are known in CS. (And even a master's doesn't come close to scratching the surface of it all.)
Spelling correction on the second author's last name: Kaiser
What I see from this is a person that has seen so much malfeasance and corruption right across the health sector that he maintains an open mind on issues and reflexively questions the status quo. But of course, any mention of something outside the bounds of conventional thought is immediately "RFK is an xxxx-denier!!!"

People are so desperate to attack the credibility of RFK, to defend the status quo but have nothing to say about the govt institutions that in recent decades, have overseen an utterly, catastrophic failure in their duties.

60% of adults in the US now have chronic disease (60% percent!!!!!)
https://www.statista.com/topics/8951/chronic-disease-prevent...
No I did not say that.