skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true. Once upon a time when I was intern I was charmed with ASP .NET.
Couple of years later I had opportunity to work with Django. Everything looked so batteries included, felt hackable and syntax was friendlier to me (Only exception ORM).
Unfortunately project got on hold and I was moved to write new service in ASP .NET.
Holding mental model of Dependency Injections, everything OOP, boilerplate produced is cumbersome, CamelCase...
In the communist era russian propaganda had a definite ideological position. It was also far more effective. Much of the 60s era progressive politics was a result of russian influence and the west was full of communists before the tankies split off.
What’s the advantage of this? It isn’t obvious to me that reducing memory usage and CPU of an empty/idle kernel is all that meaningful if the actual Python code in your notebook uses far more resources. It’s also not obvious to me how Go’s better threading helps, either, if all the computational bits are in Python anyway.
The media has no problem jumping the gun on sensitive topics if it suits their preferred politics.
> The Romans switch the start to January sometime around 700 BCE

That doesn’t look right.
Right, archive.org is very useful if you have a URL, but if you're searching for a question that was answered in a forum, and that forum post no longer exists and no longer shows up in search results, then it's effectively undiscoverable as far as I'm aware.

It amazes me how companies will have free volunteers help people to use their (often expensive) paid subscription products, and then delete all that info those volunteers wrote up. Don't they want people to use their products?! They're less likely to renew their subscription if they struggle or are unable to use the product for their particular use case.

Unaffiliated forums not ran by the company are better in that the company can't decide to just delete all old posts one day (and while the owner could, certain types of unaffiliated forums are usually a bit easier to clone and republish.) The downside is you don't get assistance from people who work for that company, but often you rarely get that in official forums. The usual reason to use official forums is just that they have significantly more users asking and answering questions than unofficial ones.
> It seems to me that there quite likely is something beyond the bounds of human experience, but we aren’t quite sure what it is. ... Simply denying existence outside of human frames seems like a denial of reality.

My extended family has protestants, Catholics, ex-chatholics, atheist and then my father. One of his parents was atheist and the other descended from a long line of quakers and catholics. Around my late teens I finally asked what his thoughts were on the subject. His reply was something like, "let me know when it helps in any real meaningful/tangible way to provide for the family; then I will think about it and let you know." He never spoke anything on the subject, as if it didn't exist. Not against it, not for it, not even a curiosity. He is also the type that worked 2 jobs while also starting his own business that drained money for some years before providing a comfortable living. I would not say that he was at all in "a denial of reality". Quite the opposite.

Personally, I think the thing beyond the bounds of human experience is science waiting to be discovered. I have always found it fascinated that other animals have differing zones or frequencies of senses. How there are sounds we can not hear, colors we can not see but other creatures can. There is a whole world within our world that we can't always directly experience or when we do, we don't always have a way to link it to measurable things; yet it is still there. We should be spending more time discovering the reality just beyond our senses, or at least building that curiosity in the next generation to pursue instead of focusing on fairy-tale magical explanations.
A TV show revolving around this exact period titled « 3615 Monique » (« Cheeky Business » in English) was released in 2020. A kind of french « Social Network » in some way, pretty cool
We can laugh at academia but we know of these similar rejection stories nearly in all domains.

AirBnB being rejected for funding, musicians like Schubert struggling their entire life, writers like Rowling in poverty.

Rejection will always be the norm in competitive winner take all dynamics.
Agreed, it’s like doing static HTML instead of an SPA for a simple website. It’s not glamorous, it’s not exciting but it’s incredibly efficient.

I have been lifting for 18 years now and it’s become like brushing my teeth: I just do it without thinking much about it. Just basic stuff - squats, bench, deadlift, few vanity additions. The older I get the more I see how much my peers physically suffer without it.
The health and safety aspects of routine handling of TNT have more to do with the carcinogenic possibilities and absolute risk of anemia and abnormal liver function if not treated as a toxin.

As an explosive it's relatively stable .. but those health risks are exactly why the regulations around it are strict and why the "bomb girls" in WWII factories turned yellow and died young.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Girls
By “denial of reality” I am referring to the totality of existence. Not the reality of working a job and paying for things.

Not everyone is curious about ultimate questions like these. That’s fine, but for those of us that are curious, they are very important questions indeed.
I'm surprised over the Honey blowback, how else did people think they made their money?
>Hunger is the feeling that we feel when the body is about to start using fat reserves. There is no way to loose weight without feeling hunger.

I don't know what the science says, but from personal experience, this is false. I've lost weight without feeling hungry.
Why is this level this hard? or am I just bad at the game?
It took a decent amount of digging, but it seems like this is trying to be a browser-compatible pubsub system more than a direct websocket replacement. The main thing they're doing is introducing a "mercure hub" between event producers and consumers (browsers) that handles delivery through SSE in a way that tracks subscribers and handles sporadic or interrupted connection.

However what confuses me is that they seem to focus mostly on the protocol, hub, and publish implementation. At least based on a quick glance at https://mercure.rocks/docs/ecosystem/awesome and elsewhere it seems they expect you to use raw SSE clientside according to their protocol described in eg https://mercure.rocks/spec#active-subscriptions.

Most of their clientside examples look pretty simple but they don't seem like they're fully implementing the logic described in "Reconnection, State Reconciliation and Event Sourcing" which seems rather complex. Maybe I'm missing something but it seems like that logic is the entire reason to use this over SSE alone.
> You don't get credit for IDDQD though.

What does this mean? I was able to "solve the captcha" using IDDQD.
Not sure about Rust std. But on cpp I heard a lot low-level companies avoid using its standard library since it is too bloated and optimized for too many cases.
I think the default media wiki implementation suffers from there being no nice "page of contents" - Wikipedia is the same but many articles have a lot of manually curated "see also" or "other foos from bar" type table of links that helps a lot, but without it, it feels to me like the default discoverability and search on media wiki are terrible.

So if you are setting up your own wiki then you need to spend a lot of effort to create and maintain the ToC/landing page and build those interconnections up, and just hope Google indexes everything so you can search etc (... and if you have an internal wiki at work then you are basically screwed because Google won't index that). Otherwise you write your articles and they "disappear" and are not readily found.

At least that was my experience of working with media wiki and dokuwiki - the sites always felt "empty" even if you had teams of people contributing articles, because it was hard to see what was there in a meaningful way. And so they always felt moribund and abandoned even if they actually weren't.

Patiently waiting for someone to create an overhauled UX. Potentially one that does some sort of clever LLM-powered hierarchy so people can browse and peruse page hierarchies sliced-and-diced by some sort of topic/area-of-interest. So say I enter "engines" or something as my area of I treat, the LLM auto-categorises the pages into a sensible hierarchy that I can view, then I change my term to e.g. "steam engines" and it recalculates the hierarchy and shows something sensible for that etc.
Maybe you weren't paying attention and didn't see the "Trump led away after loud noises at rally" crap. The headlines and Google searches eventually aligned with obvious reality but it took a couple of days. This information is not terribly easy to find for most people so I'll help you out: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/07/13/media-rea...
America is not the world and plenty of cities are designed around people.
I’ve developed this tic where anytime I’m on Facebook I aggressively block all the non sponsored suggested content in my timeline. I’ve blocked literally thousands of pages at this point. So the recommendations have gotten really weird, last week it thought maybe I was gay, then I started recommending Chinese state sponsored pages, now it’s recommending all 50 National Geographic pages. It’s always pages over a million “likes” whatever that means. I'm curious what’ll happen if I manage to block all of them.

Honestly probably something lame where the recommendations just get weirder and weirder (which I guess is happening now)
It is targeted to the PHP community, not the language, it has no dependency on that, it is written in go and is based on caddy. (I’ve contributed with one PR in my former job)
Stand still and attract them to you.
> Hunger is the feeling that we feel when the body is about to start using fat reserves.

None of that is true, but particularly the first part.

Hunger is what you feel when your ghrelin levels rise.
> Don’t like porn? Then don’t use it. Forcing your personal views on others by banning things you don’t agree with is bullshit.

Would you say alcohol is banned if a liquor store that was against carding customers would have to lock its doors to avoid violating laws about selling to minors?
What counts as a tree in the behind-a-paywall Nature study? Also each little sapling? What about these very tiny artic trees, like salix herbacea?
>They don’t actually allow you to access more things in less time. They reshape cities to spread things further out so you spend the same time accessing the same things, but you get there by sitting in traffic rather than walking or riding a bike

You're equivocating. In some vague, general sense, over a long period of time, cars might make it harder to access things. For any given person at any given moment, having a car gives greater access to more things in less time.
Why do you want to be a Go developer?

Serious question.

What would make you consider yourself a Go developer?

Another serious question.
Given that I hadn’t heard of half of these, not surprising?
> Fasting is very hard, and also dangerous if you faint while driving.

What is the logical connection between the first part of that sentence and the second?!
I'm also confused, the link you shared is more akin to a sourcegraph alternative; but the parent is talking as if it's an LLM.

I'm going to guess that there are to completely unrelated products that share a name.

glean.com and your link (glean.software).
Honest question: what is not modern about JupyterLab? I know JupyterLab has existed for a long time, but continuous development has kept it modern.
Hi, Mercure author here.

WebSockets are hard to secure (they totally bypass CORS as well as other browser built-in protections), don't work (yet) with HTTP/3 and for most use cases require to implement many features by yourself: reconnection in case of network failure, refetch of lost messages, authorization, topic mechanism…

Mercure, which is built on top of SSE (it's more an extension to SSE than an alternative to it) fix these issues.

However, SSE (as well as WebSockets) can be hard to use with stacks not designed to handle persistent connections such as PHP, serverless, most web servers proxying Ruby, Python etc apps. Even for languages designed to handle persistent connections, it's often more efficient and easier to manage persistent connections with ah-hoc software running on dedicated hardware.

That's what Mercure allows. Mercure provides a "hub", a server that will maintain the persistent connections with the browsers, store events, and re-send them in case of network issues (or if asked for old messages by a client). To broadcast a message to all connected users, the server app (or even a client) can just send a single POST request to the hub. The hub will also check that clients are authorized to subscribe or publish to a given topic (that's why JWT is used).

The reference implementation is written in Go, as a module for the Caddy web server, and his very efficient/optimized (it can handle thousands of persistent connections on very small machines).

Install a Mercure hub and you have all these features available without having to write any code. Client-side, no SDK is required, you can embrace the built-in EventSource JavaScript class.
If VPNs have such big margins then why doesn't a competitor undercut them all on price?
>Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

This is kind of my secret to everything I do. I'm not super skilled in anything short term. My main talent is just the endurance to do something and concentrate on something for a long time. Running, Elden Ring, investing, gardening, my former career as a scientist. You can get pretty far with just grit, and it is more rare than you would think.

https://www.nosmallendeavor.com/angela-duckworth-is-grit-the...
> I’m using the summaries as a juicier abstract. I’m not taking them as gospel.

I'm not sure of the value of this. Papers already have abstracts, rewording them using LLMs is just playing with your food. If you're seeing use out of it that's awesome though.
Netflix limits FF and Chrome on Windows to 1080p. On Linux it's even worse: 720p.

And up through Dec 2023, FF and Chrome on Windows were limited to 720p. That's right, it wasn't until 2024 that Netflix on Chrome on Windows supported 1080p... That's what, 15 years after 1080p monitors became common?

https://web.archive.org/web/20231229030336/https://help.netf...

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931
You can check https://openmeter.io for usage metering and billing.
He's the biggest creator on YouTube. Each one of his videos gets more views than the Superbowl.
While Engineer tools are very well made, the PA 09, 20 and 21 are not suited for dupont style connectors. Those required circular crimping.
"Plenty" may be in good health, but since the median person in the US is NOT in fine physical health, we can confidently say that "most" (by far) people who drive cars are not in fine health, and the situation is trending worse, much worse.
The Translator's Task (1923) [pdf]
CV driven development!
I have one nit with JupyterLab. When I press Ctrl+F, it takes ~0.4 seconds for the search box to open, and sometimes the first keystroke doesn't register when I type something into that search box.

"Zasper ... provides ... exceptional speed".

If they can just make input latency indistinguishable from vim, that's a very worthwhile value add.
There _was_ no real risk. We’re quickly giving the LLMs computer use and the ability to think in a space we can’t understand.
The number of trees (assuming it's correlated with the "green" area of the planet) has grown significantly in the last few decades[1].

Only a small part of the overall land of most countries is used by agriculture[2], normally less than 30%. Cultivated lands add up to 17,235,800sqkm, "other lands" add up to 131,701,100sqkm.

You seem extremely pessimist given the actual numbers.

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/co2-is-making-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_statistics_by_country
how about finetuning your 32B to be R1QWQKV?
What has a higher information density than text? Or do you mean that writing will evolve to become increasingly higher density?
cacophony = chaos, so a lot of mixed opinions that don't really make sense would achieve just that. I would not expect thought out and stringent discussion from throwing a bunch of bots at every discussion
A relatively detailed description of such systems: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00037
Put yet another way, Bezos’s $220 billion represents 94% of his “wealth.” And what it represents is the right to a stream of dividends out of Amazon’s profits decades into the future. It makes no sense to compare that to income the government is taxing this year. The government is already going to tax that money in the future when Amazon earns it, and then again when Amazon pays it as dividends.
The government can’t make those future profits materialize in the present by taxing Bezos. Obtaining stock from Bezos would give the government a share of Amazon’s future profits. But the government already has that right—it can simply tax those profits when Amazon earns them.
Talking about a taxing Bezos’s “wealth” as if it’s money that’s sitting around is just a shell game.
Karan from Cartesia explains SSMs+voice really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9DPRZ0lSIQ

its one of those retrospectively obvious/genius insights that i wish i understood when i first met him
And the unreasonable hostility towards macOS will have zero affect because in the end the best product wins.

Did the rise of Windows cause long term harm to past generation of engineers? I doubt it since now Windows, which had a gigantic market share, still was forced to implement Linux "compatibility" for developers.

There are three popular operating systems for the modern developer and it's not unreasonable to ask for a build for all of them when presenting a project to a developer focused community.
I wish the author considered https://wails.io/ for UI. Why all the effort with Go and ended up with Electron?
Does it play well behind a load balancer? For example Cloudflare's?

And does it work well with non-browser consumers like native mobile apps?
Clickbait title. It didn't "win" anything.
I guess if I'm totally out of condition then exercising feels very inefficient. Once I'm in condition, though, it's calories in = calories and it isn't complicated, at least for endurance activites. If I pile on more activity then I need a corresponding amount of extra calories and it's simple arithmetic.

I only see that study cited by people who are looking for excuses to not exercise.
Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour
> how modern western society is increasingly immanent

This misses something about western society, though—it prioritizes immanence but in a way that fails to ever attain it. If you consider a Citizen-Kane type of person who accumulates wealth and fame: the underlying emotional need behind all that accumulation is for love and connection in the present, which if it were attained, would have this character of immanence. Wealth-accumulation is instrumental towards that goal, but Western culture makes it an end in itself. We wind up continuously striving after that "connection in the present" but go searching in the wrong direction, getting trapped on the plane of ideas and vanities and other-peoples'-expectations. But this only bars the way to the actual thing we want. It's a "metric becoming a goal", and therefore moves away from the actual goal.

The linked blog post I think is expressing something along these lines: "our longings, even those that appear mundane or materialistic, often mask attempts to recreate that sense of secure attachment". What's needed instead is an openness to reality, and in particular some way of reckoning with the feeling of the finiteness of one's life, compared to the seeming endlessness of the realm of ideas. (You'll die, but ideas are forever.) And the post rightly emphasizes "safety" as the essential thing.

This is I think what is meant by "we are loved precisely in the midst of our most profound insecurities - this is what it means to stand naked before God." While that God-language might describe what it actually feels like, it strikes me as misleading from the perspective of a person outside that state of existence, who would not know what to turn their attention to.
Because it’s mostly brand recognition that lends security products an aura of trustworthiness, and that involved a high ad spend with an advantage towards established brands.
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42572538
I see Brilliant a lot on technical channels I follow and I'm very confused, the "courses" they are selling all seem like highschool level at best, but very advanced technical channels go "I've learned all this from our sponsor Brilliant".
It isn't. Because when they put it much more sensuous & yet concrete terms, than the one of numbers & cents, the reader's mind might be primed to apply the idea to more general problems if & whenever they do arise, such as the problem of finding the right problem to solve.
>Big, global, uncensored megaphones are the problem I think.

No, anti-populist political agitation psyops backed by pervasive censorship campaigns are the problem. People who blame that problem on free and open channels of communication might be an even bigger problem.
That's really interesting – though it appears it's a general human thing. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7739287/

> TT and FT began to decrease starting 12 weeks in both moderate and high intensity exercise groups. Most significant decrease was at 12 weeks in high intensity exercise group
Many of the brand-name VPNs are owned by the same parent company. They were gobbled up one by one.
It's important to consider if existing tech can do something as well if not better.

LLMs can have have great application where existing tech can't reach.

Too often, seeing LLMs doing something that's done better already by an existing tech or something it's not designed for seems to miss the impact being sought.
Isn't that exactly what a consultant wants, though?
yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13342516
> I’d say the takeaway is that treating everything like a black box doesn’t produce good results (sometimes). And not knowing enough to open the box completely leaves you with a lot of unknowns, surprises, and loose ends. But hey, figuring this stuff out is why we get paid the $$$.

To add a little bit of nuance to your comment, I've to say that computational geometry algorithms are incredibly human-effort-intensive. Treating their implementations as a black-box could be an incredible time-saver. In my experience however, that particular black box tends to fail when least one needs it, and then one is left with inscrutable pieces. Often the "least bad" approach is to learn how polygon/polyline composition works and implement it oneself. It will be buggy and crappy (at first) but it won't break in cryptic ways. Budget a couple of months for the learning and initial implementation though, and be most wary of floating point and God coming in the night to mess with your code and put new bugs.