skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the queen had come back to live to make this statement... Who I think would be one of the few people referred by just that name.
I'm no fan of PHP but let's give them a break. It's Sunday and while having the docs down is unfortunate this basically doesn't matter.
Mmm. There's also the 4th option is probably better expanded to, individual perception of communication are encoded and decided using fundamentally incompatible protocols because of entirely differing status, background, wealth and social structure.

I don't think personality real encapsulates it. I don't believe Elon musks personality has changed, but his fundamental GIGO has.
> there is no hope of change.

There is an off chance that management (I'm not using the word leadership here deliberately) is taking leadership coaching, that the coaching is good, and that the coach will actually intervene and bring about change. Small likelihood of course, but not zero.
It's run by Nexcess.net (or was, the last time I checked). Wonder if the whole hosting service is down?
Down for 10 hours... Not a good look. Nothing goes down for 10 hours unless incompetence is part of the sauce.
Facts do not trigger emotions, but fake titles like this one does.

Current media works on emotions to drive traffic.
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Damn this ancient laptop. But my Packard Bell won’t connect either?!
> every employment should be at will!!

I would agree in an ideal world where salaries are tied to a qualification (a notion a tad more nuanced than just diploma), instead of their job. While there is no (nor should be any) constitutional right to work at any given company, I think people should have an inalienable right to live. Which in practice means food, shelter, and health care at a minimum, regardless of their ability (perhaps even willingness) to work anywhere.

The compromise most EU countries have settled on is that once you're employed and past some probation period (in my line of work that can last up to 8 months), then they can't fire you without a damn good reason or a hefty severance (the better the reason the lower the severance, basically). But it cuts both ways: I personally can't leave immediately, I have to tell my employer 3 months in advance. It is in a way a kind of severance.
An ad-free QR code generator and the handy JavaScript library that comes with it
It was reported 9 hours ago... and it's still down?
It shouldn't, one of my friends is a professional copywriter and she's very pro-AI because it raises the writing bar for the devs she works with. "I can write better than AI, but AI can write better than you, use AI" is her go-to line with her coworkers.
As a long time Django user (haven’t tried async in prod yet) the appeal is to have the full Django toolkit and be able to set something up async _if_ needed.

Which is a very Django way to think: lots of tools ready to go, use only what you need.
It may have been typed in the 1970s.

When I was growing up, my family used my mom's college typewriter, which did not have numeral 1 or 0 keys. Instead, you typed a lowercase L and an uppercase O. It was one of the typing habits, and you didn't even think about it.

When she took a computer programming class, around 1979, the terminals had all of the numerals, and of course she was constantly mixing them up, causing errors. A year later she became the teacher of that class, and completed the requirements for a CS major by staying a semester ahead of her students for a few years. She always reminded her students: "Computers are stupid. They will do exactly what you tell them."

The typewriter that I got for college had all of the numbers. Of course I used it for about a year before ditching it for a word processor. But everybody kept an old typewriter around for many years after that, because you might need one for filling out a form.
That's some misunderstanding of the human brain and thought process...
Or maybe, just maybe, no white kid has been stupid enough to do that?

Not understanding what "proof" means doesn't bolster your argument. Rather, it just makes you another datapoint when it comes to picking a team. I really wish certain segments of the left would learn to take an L and grow from it.
The answer is "state".

Imagine a big project with multiple teams.

Now they are building different components that all need to modify the state of the UI. With jQuery, it would be easy to create a UI state that your team doesn't understand and it's hard to trace exactly which mutation caused it. You're depending on a `div > div > span.firstName` and suddenly, someone injected a `div > div > div+span.firstName`.

When there's a model, it's easier to trace the model because our tooling (language servers in editors) can trace and track references. We can verify the behavior using tests by mutating the state of the model and then checking if we get the correct output state. This is also doable with direct DOM manipulation, but it's not as easy.

So ultimately, the "MVC-like" nature of Vue, React, Angular are productive for the same reason why MVC itself is productive compared to directly drawing rectangles.
If your superior is managing up well, then it truly doesn’t matter if subordinates lose respect. Probably laying groundwork for new ones well in advance of that becoming a real issue for their status.
Or Nebula :)
Dear cutemonster,

I know this reply may not suffice to convince you, but unfortunately I won't be able to argue forever.

Did you ever consider the possibility that you might be the one living in a bubble?

FYI, the concept of innate talent predated IQ tests and twin studies by many millenia. Two of the authors I'm citing in my book (Descartes and Grothendieck) believed that innate talent existed and they both declared they would have loved to be naturally gifted like these or these people they knew.

You're declaring that these incredibly smart people were wrong about their own domains, which is a pretty bold claim to make. What do you have in support of this claim? A fake Einstein quote?

It's a sad fact of life that most quotes attributed to Einstein are fabricated. Next time, please check "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein", compiled by Alice Calaprice.

This may come as a shock to you, but Google page 1 isn't always a reliable resource. Nor is Wikipedia, even though it's quite often correct. As it happens, there's a pretty large "Heritability of IQ" bubble on the internet. It's active and vocal, but it's also quite weak scientifically — the page you're citing is a typical symptom, and it absolutely doesn't reflect the current scientific knowledge.

The IQ heritability claims that you're citing are based on twin studies and they have taken in serious beating in the past decade, especially in light of GWAS.

It's true that a number of people have been fooled by twin studies, most notably Steven Pinker, in Chapter 19 of the Blank Slate (did you read it?)

You see, Pinker is a linguist and apparently he isn't mathematically equipped to fully comprehend the intrinsic limitations of Bouchard's approach. Did you read Bouchard's 1990 paper on twins reared apart? Do you find it convincing? Are you aware that even The Bell Curve's Charles Murray thinks that this approach, abundantly cited by Pinker, is structurally flawed? Are you aware of the fundamental instability of IQ estimates based on twins reared together? Aren't you concerned that even a mild violation of Equal Environment Assumption, plugged into Falconer's equation, would drastically reduce the estimates?

If you don't understand what I'm talking about, if you've never read the authors and the primary research I'm citing, then it's quite likely that you're the one living in a social media bubble.

If you're interesting in learning more about the actual science of IQ heritability, I recommend using Sasha Gusev's Substack as an entry point:
https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/comments-on-no-intel...

Feel free to also subscribe to my own Substack, where I plan to cover these topics in the coming months:
https://davidbessis.substack.com

All the best,
David.
There's nothing special about "Stępień", it has no combining characters, just the usual diacritics that have their own codepoints in Basic Multilingual Plane (U+0119 and U+0144). I bet there are some names out there that would make it harder, but this isn't one.
I feel like I read a book missing chapters in the middle.
In Finnish same. We actually have a separate verb for that kind of laughing: hihittää.
Discrimination against time-bomb makers everywhere is alive and well. Hans Gruber is rolling in his grave.
jQuery UI was a step up from the time, but it was still painful to do basic things compared to now. I much preferred developing front-end for apps deployed on the web in Flex and later Silverlight. I moved to Knockout and then Vue. I have used Angular and React, I just prefer Vue.

I was doing consulting work up until a few years ago and it still showed up on a lot of projects, and the integrations were usually full of buggy spaghetti code. You can build low-quality apps in any framework, but the more full-featured frameworks at least to try to set the developers up for success.
Many would like them to become your doctor, though... xD
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Very interesting.

Perhaps my family member confused the fact that the religion had no training materials for the language with there being no written version of the language. (I'm admittedly ignorant about this, I just had a conversation with them on Saturday)

I wonder if the language isn't as commonly written as it is spoken?
Alphabets may only have been invented once, but writing systems that have a (roughly, it's never perfect) 1:1 correspondence with the sounds of the language have been invented several times independently, e.g. in syllabaries (Japanese Kana are derived from Kanji) and abugidas. I would suggest that that conceptual leap is a much bigger one than the one of treating consonants and vowels as independent.
France has 80% zero carbon all the time. Why not resistive heating?
Microsoft Disrupts ONNX Phishing Service, Names Its Operator
Some Passwords Should Be Exceptional
> Only in the same sense that bottom-level employees are the CEO's superior. Which is to say, they aren't.

There's an important difference. Bottom-level employees don't get to choose the CEO at most companies.
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Tweaking non-neural brain cells can cause memories to fade
Honestly I would have thought that 5 years ago. But given the latest news on what they are doing, and how they treat security, I honestly have lost all faith that they can handle that data with care.

Laundry list of breaches: https://firewalltimes.com/microsoft-data-breach-timeline/

Profit over customer: https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-gold...
And that’s important, because?
Amdxdna Driver for Ryzen AI Now Ready to Appear in the Linux Kernel
Everything looks fine

https://status.nexcess.net/
You can lose the respect of your subordinates, but that's different than losing face.

Although one may lead to the other, they are different things.
> This program writes "Hello World" (without quotes) to the output.

> This program outputs Hello World.

So that alternative doesn't quite work for writing "its own source" without quotes...
> JQuery was born in a time of server-side rendering (SSR) where, in essence, MVC happened in the back end and it shipped html to the browser.

Yeah, I think this is nail on the head. It was also a time of smaller apps and smaller teams so it was easier to manage the state even with direct mutation on the DOM tree.

With bigger and more complex apps, you needed multiple teams and now it's not possible to really effectively track the state of the DOM if multiple teams could be manipulating it from different components.

You can see that shadow DOM and web components is one way of thinking about this problem. Separating the render from the state (a la Vue, React, Angular et al) is another.
Virtual CPUFreq Driver Coming with Linux 6.13 for Better Performance Within VMs
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We are unlikely to be in this universe, new study finds. Multiverse falsified? [video]
Power demand is often inelastic. There are many places in summer where people would pay $200/kWh to run a small air conditioning unit, for example, when their normal price of power is $0.10/kWh. There is no reason to shift toward generation sources that have price uncertainty when demand is inelastic like this. See the exact same thing in healthcare. The proper solution to this economic problem at a societal level is to have a predictable low price of available power.
I'm not sure that was their position. They're not saying tech from the 60s was inherently bad. They specifically mentioned that we today are not constrained by the same hardware restrictions that gave rise to the software in the 1960s. Those are two very different positions.

For example, I like Rust. But if Rust had been introduced as-is fifty years ago, no one would have used it, because the hardware requirements to make Rust compilation practical simply didn't exist yet. Taking a week just to compile "hello world" would have been a nonstarter. Not because Rust is bad but because hardware requirements at the time ruled something like it out.

2024 is not 1964 however, and it's always good to re-examine old assumptions.
They also appear to be using some kind of "We have Cloudflare at home" solution
I've heard from someone who would know that you should be using Orbstack.
It is kinda complex, but all the complexity is in Linux, ~none is in 'Docker'.
Why so downvoted? I think the text isn't stupid or something.
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What's new in Proxmox VE 8.3
> it’s just hard to impossible to scale that

The phrase “hire people smarter than yourself” is a platitude that is intended to foster an attitude, just a useful way of framing & thinking about people, mainly aimed at the manager, but has the byproduct of making ICs feel good about themselves. It’s not really a literal measurable specific requirement or goal. One way to see that nobody is taking it literally is that nobody is reporting IQ on their resume, and nobody is giving standardized IQ tests during job interviews. (And of course I mean statistically nobody, I’m not claiming that it’s never happened.) Often in hiring ‘smart’ doesn’t really mean smart anyway, it means wisdom, experience, attitude, skill, communication, knowledge, motivation, creativity, adaptability, friendliness, culture-fit, etc., there are many different ways someone can be ‘smarter’ than you on at least 1 axis of whatever ‘smart’ means, and it’s generally not hard to find them if we’re realistic about how smart we are on all axes.
I think this arrangement would be fair if you had to pay back to the company the same amount they have to pay you. to get a notice for some period of time makes sense (both ways) but I can’t see a reason why this is all not equal on both sides.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/user-select... says Safari and Safari for iOS are still -webkit- only, and I’m pretty sure that stuff gets checked and updated automatically.
That's really cool, thanks for sharing that information!
Strangely enough I have been seeing wetland creation coming up on my radar recently. Hinkley Point C nuclear power station has been proposing these as alternative to acoustic fish deterrent, but the locals who might be affected are not happy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgzwrgv71no

It would transform the biodiverse habitat into barren, species-poor salt marsh and tidal mud.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-10-09/debates/230...
Clickbait headlines like this should be flagged
Exactly. "Docker" is boring, everyone uses it, everyone knows it, no one really wants to rewrite it (on Linux) except for parochial infighting or religious license reasons.

But Linux containers[1] are actually fascinating stuff, really powerful, and (even for the Docker experts) poorly understood. The point of Bocker isn't "see how easy it is to rewrite Docker" it's "See how simple and powerful the container ecosystem is!".

[1] Also btrfs snapshots, which are used very cleverly in Bocker.
Using a built-in vector extension is convenient if you want to integrate vector similarity (“semantic search”) with faceted search. Some vector stores (e.g., qdrant) support vector attributes that can be matched against, though.

As mentioned by another comment, an advantage of using a separate vector store (on different hardware) is that (re-)building vector indices can cause high CPU load and therefore latency for regular queries to go up.
Nim is my anti-language... I'd make the opposite language design choice in almost every instance.
What is not run locally?
> they're in person 3 days a week.

> I asked about remote and was told the company was up to 4 days a week remote.

Wait, do they work 7 days a week?

If that's their attitude (and I've seen companies where it is), that's a huge red flag.
> If your superiors are unable to process no-fluff information, regardless of whether it's feedback or updates, they have no business lording over anyone and will sink whatever function they have oversight of.

You're arguing based on how you think the world should be instead of how the world actually is.
Yes, agree.

I do think that using either web components or Lit offers a nice layer of encapsulation and reuse as well as some convenience.

There are a lot of options nowadays.
Yeah, fertilizer getting into the watershed is a real problem. It wreaks entire ecosystems.
It's for when things go wrong. Same as with wire transfers. Nobody checks it unless there's a dispute.
We had been able to download PHP documentation, including useful users' notes, since the dawn of time... Prudence.

Edit: In case this comes useful to some: I think this is a backup, https://docs.phplang.net/docs.php
I’m curious as to how you would implement anything like Asimovs laws. This is because the laws would require AI to have some form of understanding. Every current AI model we have is a probability machine, bluntly put, so they never “know” anything. Yes, yes, it’s a little more complicated than that but you get the point.

I think the various safeguards companies put on their models, are, their attempt at the three laws. The concept is sort of silly though. You have a lot of western LLMs and AIs which have safeguards build on western culture. I know some people could argue about censorship and so on all day, but if you’re not too invested in red vs blue, I think you’ll agree that current LLMs are mostly “safe” for us. Nobody forces you to put safeguards on your AI though and once models become less energy consuming (if they do), then you’re going to see an jihadGPT, because why wouldn’t you? I don’t mean to single out Islam, insure we’re going to see all sorts of horrible models in the next decade. Models which will be all to happy helping you build bombs, 3D print weapons and so on.

So even if we had thinking AI, and we were capable of building in actual safeguards, how would you enforce it on a global scale? The only thing preventing these things is the computation required to run the larger models.
Ways early-stage founders will trigger a seed VC
When I was in high school, our cable out of the country got cut on the border with Austria. For a few hours we could only access domestic websites, which was a pretty interesting experience.

20 years later I wonder how many of those are hosted on AWS/GCP/Azure and would break anyway. Probably all but the biggest.
This approach to careers fails to take into account that we inherently change as people.

In periods of ones life other things matters - maybe it is taking an education, starting a family, etc.

Other periods work matter.

It should be entirely fine to switch it on and off and change tracks throughout life - and in my view it seems like it is!

To reach a peak it takes roughly 10 years, but these 10 years can be started at 40 when your kids does not wear diapers anymore.
The claims you are making (unsupported by evidence) are the only thing that's insulting,

And with fitting aphorisms exchanged, we can part ways Mr. 40%-of-human-societies-don't-write-according-to-an-unreproduced-survey-performed-in-1969-that-is-not-a-survey-of-human-societies-but-our-own-knowledge-of-human-societies-and-is-confused-about-cultural-boundaries-and-how-to-count-one-society-or-many.
It's Sunday in the United States.

It's not Sunday everywhere.
It's not true that in all companies you have to chose between tech and management. It's true in some companies. But at many companies lead and director roles are very hands on.

At Stream a lead is 80% technical, a director roughly 50% sometimes more. And even VPs and up are still somewhat technical.

I think the idea of management without technical excellence track is just misguided. Small teams, technical excellence, and leaders who can do the work is the right way.
Yes, one of the problems of renewables is that they are highly correlated as to when they generate power, so the value of the power they produce (per kWh) is much lower than it would be if they were uncorrelated with each other. Since we have all invested so heavily in renewables, there is generally a huge amount of excess power generated at these peak times that has to be burned. The correct marginal price of those joules that have to be burned is $0.

Providing that power back to the grid for free is about the right price for the power, and if you would like to be the one to burn it instead (because that is what the grid is doing with a lot of that power), I assume you are free to do so.
This status page link from php account on mastodon

https://ohdear.app/status-page/php-infrastructure-status-pag...
It sounds like you’re describing a Merchant of Record (MoR). This is where customers pay a third-party service, which then handles payments, compliance, and then pays you.

Check out gumroad, lemon squeezy and maybe Paypal.
Open source audio transcription model that obscures sensitive info in realtime
Soft power and the institutions of the west are a big part of the US power projection that prevents war. Those countries are very lightly militarized (<2% of GDP on military), and it's because they are under US protection not because they are democracies.

Yugoslavia was basically outside the US sphere or influence, and it was a regional conflict(not of vital importance) so the actions by the US were more limited. Also that's a weird example to bring up in support of Democratic peace theory as "Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro and the Serb Autonomous Regions were all formal multiparty democracies" [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_between_democraci...
I think that's a false dichotomy. They can play Minecraft and still get fine motor skills from something else.
> That's exactly what I've written.

In that case I don’t get the logic. “It’s no longer worth the effort to handcode an interpreter because that’d only be 30% faster” is a sentiment I could understand. “It’s no longer worth the effort to handcode an interpreter because that’d be 30% slower” I can’t. It’s that it’d be worth or not worth the effort—it’s that it’s actively detrimental! (For this particular application anyway.)

> Also note that the Deegen "interpreter" uses a "baseline JIT".

What? No it doesn’t? Unless the paper is deliberately misleading, they are completely different modules (utilizing the same set of bytecode definitions). The paper explicitly describes them as implementing the first two tiers of a three-tier architecture—two different tiers. Not once does the description of the interpreter in section 6 mention JITting anything. Figures 26–27 show e.g. array3d on “LJR (interpreter only)” is at 3× PUC Lua speed (same as “LuaJIT (interpreter only)”), while on “LJR (baseline JIT)” it’s at 7× PUC Lua speed (compared to 30× on “LuaJIT”).
"nearly 90% of the world was illiterate" I've never believed statistics like this. Humans have a remarkable ability to grasp symbols.