skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
these same folks probably would have been against the integration of black folks back in the day which would have been considered "woke" then. Just like always, this will pass.
Twitter essentially hasn't loaded for me since Musk took over, so: https://archive.is/c5lnW or,

> Looks like Redis is trying to take over the all the OSS Redis libraries.

> Jedis, Lettuce, and redis-py are down, they are now threatening redis-rs (link in reply).

There's no link in the post, and I don't have a link to the referenced reply, but I'm guessing the link is https://github.com/redis-rs/redis-rs/issues/1419
Most people aren't calling for towers all around, but mixed development instead of single family housing.
well aligned scala teams are a great thing, impenetrable code is not - maybe a poor choice of adjective?
Kudos to Mr. Hasbrouck, who I assume is the narrator, for putting feet to ground to demonstrate the lack of open access to executive branch law.

You can't have a law, and also keep it secret.
Why does the TSA building itself need so much security? Are they expecting it to be the target of an attack?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1icU8iao0qbS36xoId7Cj...
That's not the same.

That guarantees that the types do not determine the output (e.g. no const enums), not that you can "strip" types to get the same output.
Considering the dozens of European governments that have been fined under the GDPR, I think it's safe to say that it's not just feigned ignorance.
I will update this: Y'all have valid points regarding cars making noise:

Non-modified personal vehicles are significantly less loud than commercial vehicles, motorcycles, and food truck generators.
well, plagiarizing from whoever OpenAI plagiarized it from...
Well, this was a great answer to the survey!
> It’s an unfalsifiable claim.

It is very falsifiable. Take that employee out of the team and look at the outcome.
Someone (with or without ID) may very much suspect that there are legal issues with gating any federal or governmental behaviors behind real ID, or not allowing open source Real ID mDLs or various similar things.
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Anything is poison with the right dosage.
Product Rat King
Hardware has gotten so much cheaper and easier and yet everyone is happy nobody has "raised prices".....
The issue isn't that it's wildly expensive for cars. But rather for Tesla.

Because the company has promised that existing Tesla owners would be able to use FSD.

Having to retrofit them to add LiDAR sensors would be cost-prohibitive.
Isn’t there? I think current meta is promising AGI and waiting to see what happens.
> These mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) will be issued by state driver’s license agencies, but the standards incorporated into the TSA rule require that they be deployed through smartphone platforms (i.e. Google and/or Apple) and operate through government apps that collect photos of users and log usage of these credentials.

This is really disturbing in a number of different ways. It's bad enough to have the government requiring you to have a government-approved smart phone, but on top of that it's the logging and data analysis wet dream that authoriarian governments the world over could have only dreamed of.
When I started programming professionally in the 1980's there were really only two choices, RCS and SCCS, neither of which were networked, and which were really only readily available on Unix. I suppose there were commercial products for DOS (this was pre-Windows), but again, not readily available. If you wanted better, you had to roll your own.

Later, for SunOS, we had big, expensive systems like ClearCASE and Harvest that were (as I recall) weird as all get out, over-engineered, expensive (did I mention expensive?) and all too often designed for the convenience of the management, not the programmers.

Then there was CVS, which was a revelation. You didn't have to have a server, if you wanted to use it locally, all by yourself; I did that on my personal laptop. Otherwise you needed to set up a server. Subversion was an improvement. And then came Git (and Fossil, et al) and the world changed forever.
I'm watching YouTube videos with subtitles for my wife, who doesn't speak English. For videos on basic topics where people speak clear, unaccented English, they work fine (i.e. you usually get what people are saying). If the topic is in any way unusual, the recording quality is poor, or people have accents, the results very quickly turn into a garbled mess that is incomprehensible at best, and misleading (i.e. the subtitles seem coherent, but are wrong) at worst.
That’s why the survey. It could mean something totally different for you, and if you would like to share it. It is just there.
Well, they are the best at security theater, so it makes sense their headquarters is too.
Your point about boilerplate is key, and it’s why I think MCP could work well despite some of the concerns raised. Right now, so many of us are writing redundant integrations or reinventing the same abstractions for tool usage and context management. Even if the first iteration of MCP feels broad or clunky, standardizing this layer could massively reduce friction over time.

Regarding the standalone servers, I suspect they’re aiming for usability over elegance in the short term. It’s a classic trade-off: get the protocol in people’s hands to build momentum, then refine the developer experience later.
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Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
> Not inherently: for all I know, my doctor is technically illiterate and their contact book is thoroughly padded with spam.

Sure, but that leads us to the next question: Could it provide you utility?

> The problem of trust is that trust isn't a boolean

That's also the utility of trust. Most of the information we want to reason about is not context-free. So far, no one has figured out a reliable way to offload context-sensitive work to computation. The next best thing is to offload as much context-free work as possible, and provide the user a direct interface to the remaining context-sensitive work.

By organizing our social networks as attestations of [dis]trust, we can deliver the uncomputable question of trustworthiness closer to the user. By delivering that question to many users, we can collaborate efficiently on that work.
> I don't think it's unreasonable to have a system where every program uses the same version of a library.

If there were guarantees that every library would always be both forwards and backwards compatible, that would be reasonable. Sadly, that's not the case.
Cock.li Gone?
cock.li is on "red alert" – it was (maybe the last?) email provider where you didnt need any type of actual registration, and they didnt supply information to authorities at all

especially their note:

> "Until further notice, THIS CANARY SHOULD BE UPDATED DAILY. Under no circumstances will we let this canary go 48 hours without changing the "Date updated" in the PGP signed-version of this message unless a PGP-signed message changes the schedule."

with the most recent date posted being "2024-11-12" it seems they're in an exceptional bad state

another safehaven for free speech, and communication seems to be gone!

any ideas to what's going on? alternatives?
No, that actually is still "a few puzzle" pieces compared to the entirety of the geologic record, relatively clear progressions of life forms over time that broadly line up with physical and genetic taxonomy. There are some gaps, yeah, but enough to clearly imply that the overall picture is correct.

By contrast, the epistemological picture for creationism is a trash fire. It requires an ever increasing amount of special pleading to explain all the other evidence. And you don't get to complain that "abiogenesis is entirely unproven", about an event that necessarily happened long before recorded history under entirely different conditions, unless your own theory can stand up to a higher standard of evidence. Which it can't. Speaking, again, as someone who grew up under creationism and had to lever myself out of it piece by piece of evidence.

(Oh, and if you think "nobody has a clue" how abiogenesis worked, you're out of date. Try reading about the work of Nick Lane and Jeremy England, IIRC.)
It would be an interesting exercise to design a 64 bit processor that extends the 680x0 ISA and compare it against today's offerings in a similar node.
Two problems with this are 1. It is very difficult for outside employers to tell is someone is a high performer, and 2. Economists also teach to always think on the margins. A employees value isnt the amount you bring in more than if they didnt exist, it's the amount they bring in over a replacement. If people are willing to replace you for $5/hr even if you make the company $100/hr you wont get anywhere near that amount.
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This is the common usage in my experience (US).
That's absurd, I'm not arguing anything of the sort.

If you want an analogy, I'm arguing that a condom helps prevent STD's and unwanted pregnancies. It isn't perfect, but at least it is better than not wearing a condom at all. Nobody loves wearing a condom, but we do it cause it is the right thing to do.
>. How much revenue do you think a janitor or café staffer generates? Close to zero. The same goes for engineering. Someone has to do the unglamorous staff, or you end up with a dysfunctional company, with amazing talent (on paper).

There's two ways to make a profit. Gain more revenue, and not lose more revenue. Those kinds of staff are the latter, in addition to other aspects like HR (preventing lawsuits/settlements which are expensive).

But yes, there's so many hidden factors on measuring "productivity". That's why stack ranking is a bit stupid in the long run. Some people aren't just producing value but bringing out productivity in others. But that's an opportunity cost for a stacked system. Such individuals should be considered for management, not kicked out.

>The two tracked closely, rising in tandem until the 1970s, where they got decoupled. With income becoming much flatter, and productivity continuing to rise. That's how the world has been for the past 50 years on the macro and the micro

Yup, very well known that we really should be close to that ideal John Maynard Keynes predicted all the way in 1930 of 15 hour workweeks by 2030. Instead, I believe the average work week in the US is 50 hours and it's still a very controversial battle to get to a 4 day work week.
Done:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/product-hunt/alternativ...
I'm not trying to yuck your yum, but control-f "why" didn't cough up anything. (and the irony of me bitching about Bandcamp rolling their own haproxy replacement earlier this week doesn't escape me)

Could you speak to whether this is just a vacation fun project, or what problem you found existing load balancers didn't solve for you?
The channel-focused approach to stream processing reminds me of Heka [0]. It was a contemporary of Samza and Heron, and it was fairly prominent in the early Go ecosystem (maybe 10 years ago). As I recall it, quite foggily and quite a long while later, one of the final nails in Heka's coffin was that channel throughput didn't scale well. Do you have benchmarks for Rill, or is it not intended for high-throughput use cases?

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka
I didn't like how the highlighted edge of the glass didn't change as the pane was moved around, here's a way to fix that: <https://codepen.io/webstrand/pen/OPLLBZN>
Discussion (86 points, 12 days ago, 46 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42123070
Which part of the signature are you struggling with? Maybe I can help you understand.
I see more of a reason for nextjs than tailwind personally. Having perhaps different export formats would be good but I do feel like nextjs is a decent standard, for now at least.
You’re softening your position, you agree it exists and is testable, you just disagree with the interpretation of those results.

> is present a single more plausible theory

A minority support for a workable theory is quite a bit different state of affairs than “false science” which the word implies.

It’s a form of name calling.

> There is no experiment which proves it’s false. This is the problem with pseudoscience, it's "not even wrong".

In other words it’s lost popularity in certain academic circles, but not because of overwhelming new evidence.

> This applies only in extremely controlled experiments in physics,

I agree, which is why you can’t casually dismiss developed psychological theories as if they are from a crank, and you are enlightened.
In China they went and built a ton of housing, but then people don't want to live in those cities and their population has peaked up. So forcing housing solutions doesn't necessarily end well either.
> If you write comprehensive unit tests, it is not easy to have bugs in golang.

First you claimed before that unit tests will catch your subtle concurrency bugs before they happen, and that's just not often the case. They are subtle, might involve many systems and weird edge cases and often don't get caught BEFORE they happen. Of course anyone can write a test to replicate the problem after seeing it in production and spending hours/days debugging it.

More importantly, "Write comprehensive tests" is technically a strategy to avoid any bug ever. You can tell C programmers not to segfault by writing comprehensive tests but that doesn't negate the point that the language makes it easy to write segfaults. "Write more tests" is not a rebuttal to saying C makes some classes of errors easy to write. Writing comprehensive tests often takes a lot of time, is often not prioritized by companies, and is especially hard with distributed systems, concurrency, mocks and complex applications. If we just said "git gud noob" in the face of error prone and difficult abstractions, we might as well all be using assembly.
It's a great shame that our devices and operating systems don't support "connectionless" and intermediate-infrastructure-less https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_ad_hoc_network by default.
Is that surprising? It’s a federal agency representing the security apparatus of the US. That’s a good target for terrorism.
Regarding the frog, I would assume that the way to address this would be to feed the LLM screenshots from the video, if the budget allows.
Making ISPs liable for users' piracy is transparently transferring the costs of policing "Intellectual Property" to ISPs, and at the same time, making it easy for "Intellectual Property" owners to sue for damages - an ISP has a fixed address, legal counsel, and deeper pockets than most teenagers.
wtf is a hidden edge case? Is that like flying a plane with blinders on? Come on...

You write tests to cover edge cases. If you miss one, you write more tests when you come across them. This isn't magic.
What is a flaw of the IQ test?
Iirc. you just need the openMP libraries from a compatible version of clang.
I've seen detailed photo galleries of former WA state ferries when they go for auction, after they've reached the end of their service life as judged by the state government. Usually at the 40+ year mark. Throughout their service lives they get refitted and fixed up on an almost continual basis, many millions of dollars are spent on maintaining each one, but at a certain point, it starts looking like a money pit to pour funds into continuing to fix up a 35, 40 year old vessel in salt water.

There's some ships on the great lakes which are 70, 75, 80 years old and don't have nearly the same ongoing corrosion issues as similar ones that live in salt water.
The FAQ says that this product is for brainstorming and prioritizing before you use Jira. Then you're supposed to use Jira or a "traditional project management tool," according to them.
Depending on your perspective on security theater, it might be appropriate to observe that a TSA building as exactly as much security as the TSA is capable providing itself.
A lot of work has been done in Scala 3 to simplify everything.

And with the arrival of virtual threads in the JVM there are new concurrency libraries e.g. Ox [1] and Gears [2] which remove the need to use FP concepts like monads. Which have been the major source of much of the complexity.

For all its problems it is a seriously under-rated platform especially Scala.js which IMHO is far better and simpler than Typescript.

[1] https://github.com/softwaremill/ox

[2] https://github.com/lampepfl/gears
ASF's New President: Evolving the ASF's Future Through Global Collaboration
This one appears to be identical in content to the older 2015 leak I have but is also upscaled https://archive.org/details/aqua-teen-hunger-force-s-05-e-00...

And here's the vertical video audience cam that was baleeted from that reddit thread https://archive.org/details/347815378-136606309415117-736687...

The older version feels more (to me) like what an actual episode might have been like and is more poking fun at the context in which the panic took place. The 2023 one is a little too zany over the top directly referencing the panic itself including appearances from the artists.
The case for a values-oriented approach to impact
Growing Beyond the Computer
Is this going to become a trend? Project starts making trademark claims years after a downstream library has been using it without issue. Bit rich, given how accessible libraries can bootstrap an initial product ecosystem.

Is it ever safe to use a trademark name? Will all packages now have to be generic enough to imply the product for which they connect? It”s not a Java/AWS/Redis/Wordpress/Shopify extension, but a thingbob, which just so happens to connect to That-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named.
Just as a curiosity, are those 2-3 people "underperformers" or simply "Not as high performers"? In an org that size I can imagine everyone pulls their weight, but there will simply be others who are inevitably more productive for a variety of reasons.

>hiring is a goddamn mess right now.

Any insight you can give on why? I know enough from the hirees end, but how's it on the other side?
I also read it as “hunt lie” instead of “hunt lee” FWIW.
> The reason Docker Desktop for Mac looks like you're running Docker on Linux is because... you are. It's running docker in a linux VM for you.

Yes, but that wasn't what I was talking about. Docker Desktop for Mac goes to a lot of trouble to hide the fact that there are two different virtual filesystems involved (Linux vs macOS) and two different networking stacks too. That means scripts which run on Docker for Linux and do stuff involving filesystem/network integration between the host and the container will often work without change on Docker Desktop for Mac. In my past experience, open source alternatives don't offer as seamless integration, they don't do as good a job of hiding the fact that there are two different virtual filesystems and networking stacks, so those kinds of scripts are less likely to work.
I guess it's messy but it's not worth the cost to fix, in that case.
As it's often used, the anthropic principle is fatally flawed.

It often starts with an argument between a creationist (could also be an advocate of intelligent design, but I'll just call them the creationist) and an evolutionist. The creationist says, look, the origin of life by purely naturalistic means is ridiculously improbable (and therefore it's reasonable to consider the possibility that God did it). They trot out some generally-accepted scientific principle, do a back-of-the-envelope calculation, and come up with a number that is, in fact, ridiculously improbable.

The evolutionist responds with the anthropic principle - if no life had arisen in this universe, we would not be here arguing about how life arose. This is clearly logically correct. It is also completely irrelevant.

The creationist didn't argue that life couldn't have arisen in this universe. They argued that it could not have arisen by purely naturalistic means. They're arguing about how, not about whether. The creationist might answer: "Yes, I agree that if life had not arisen in this universe, either by creation or by naturalistic processes, then we would not be here having this conversation. But the question is, which way did life begin?" The anthropic principle doesn't address that issue whatsoever.

It doesn't address that issue unless you add an assumption - that life had to begin by purely naturalistic means, that is, that the probability of creation is precisely zero. Then the anthropic principle is relevant, but then there's a new issue, that of begging the question.

I suspect that this assumption is present on the side of everyone on the evolution side that pulls out the anthropic principle in an argument with a creationist, but I have never heard it explicitly stated. I'm not even sure the evolutionist realizes they're making an assumption - it's so ingrained in their world view that they can't think that the alternative might be possible.

I grant you that the universe is huge and the evidence available is small. But that can turn into an "evolution of the gaps" argument quite easily, so I'm not sure you want to seriously use it.
You run your code in production, you see it is deadlocking and you fix it. How do you fix it? You write a test the reproduces the deadlock, you fix the code and your test passes. Just like any other testing.

I'm not arguing that you magically predict everything that's going to happen. But, without those tests and the culture of writing tests and writing your code to be testable, you're screwed when you do have bugs in production.
The distribution implies that a score of 100 means you did better than half the population, and that a score of 130 means you did 2 standard deviations better than the population ie. better than 95% of other people. We have no objective measure of IQ so we use relative rankings. If you used a uniform distribution for iq everyone currently above 145 would have 99 out of 100 IQ. Normal distribution is useful when you want to differentiate points in the tails
> If you're not old enough to sign up for the service, you're not old enough to live on your own or hold down any other job.

Most other jobs that an 18 year old can get do not require a multiyear commitment.
> actually have any real-world performance impact

There are many techniques like this within Scala that would never be feasible if it wasn't for the fact that the JVM is ridiculously fast. You could write the worst code imaginable and in many cases would still have better performance than Python, Javascript etc.
So you have a theory that you can’t explain and you believe in strongly, in spite of tons of evidence that counters your theory? You believe it’s simultaneously important to their brand but is a product that has no market? How does that even make sense to you, let alone others?

That’s a lot of mental hoops to jump through. Would the simpler answer just be that you’re wrong?

And Apple does the same amount of marketing for its iMac as it does for every other Mac.

Also, Where are you seeing M4 iMacs at a first party discount? Certainly not on the Apple Store.
It is and its in the dictionary

Adjective
boobless

1. (slang) Without boobs (breasts).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boobless

Which also includes an audio pronunciation, which should be invaluable to all teenage boys.
Why are you comparing golang to C?
Also he wants to reuse the foundational machine vision tech in Optimus bot, which probably won't have lidar.
I HAVE a Tesla :) Insurance is fine unless you are a bad driver, just like insurance should be.

I pay roughly 40% less for Tesla vs. my other car which is audi etron. KBB on both comparable.

Even if insurance was higher, the actual cost of ownership/maintenance is practically $0.00 so even if I was paying 25% more in insurance compared to some comporable I’d still choose Tesla every day of the week and twice on sunday
How do you determine what is scientific evidence and what isn't? That is done via the scientific methods.