skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What for? Because I don't want kids? And what could they possibly say to fix the world? I can re-consider after we get rid of Putin, Trump, and Xi and fix the economy to a place where I don't constantly have to hear how people can't afford homes or even food.

Before that you are irresponsible to bring new people into this world and should be ashamed.
Quassel is basically self hosted irccloud, I use it on 5 computers, Windows, Linux and Android, it's great
BCPL ("Basic Combined Programming Language") [0]

Insanely frustrating that BCPL doesn't seem to be defined anywhere in the document itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL
> People you met and appreciated in the past evolve into friends and friends evolve into people you met and appreciated in the past. Each person can change "the status" multiple times, depending on circumstances.

Agree with that.

> However, if you decide that weaker relationships dont matter, they will never grow into friendships. They will die out.

I don't think putting thumbs up on social media posts count as "growing into friendship".

> And to large extend that is what is happening with "loneliness epidemics".

I am not even sure a _loneliness epidemics_ exists but if that is true it is mostly self induced and artificial relationship pretense on social medias do not help. Quite the contrary. If you get out of social medias you actually realize your only chance to make relationships is by going outside and meet people that are close to you. And this is how you build relationships that matters and prevent loneliness.

> We dont care to keep relationships and see it as negative. Then we dont have relationships and act all shocked.

I am an expatriate and moved countries several times. I have lost touch with a lot of my old friends as well as a huge part of my larger family because I don't use facebook and instagram. That doesn't mean I don't have relationships. I made new relationships locally, and am keeping in touch with people who are not in the same country but that are as eager as I am to travel once in a while to see me.

OTOH last few years I have called a number of friends who are living abroad or several hours of train/plane/driving away from me at least once a year. Some gave unsolicited apologies and promises that next time they will be the one calling, or that they have plan to visit my area. They never called back, nor visited me and I didn't prioritized them enough to try to visit them either. This year I didn't even try to call them. I just moved them from the _friends_ mental drawer to the _acquaintance_ mental drawer. This is very likely what they passively did 2 years ago already while I was still actively trying to stay in touch.

If for some reason I travel close enough to their last known place, I may try to contact them but it is very likely that I may never see most of them. But I don't need to follow what they are posting on social medias nor publish stuff I am living and pretend that I or they care because really we do not, or not enough for it to matter.
I don't care about using main, master or whatever, I'm not a word fetichist. But I care about people campaigning for changing a perfectly innocuous word I'm using because they decided they didn't like it for absurd reasons.

It's the word equivalent of numerology
>And by this same logic, the Nobel Committee for Physics has an obvious historical bias towards Jews, right?

No, because Ashkenazi Jews have been demonstrated to perform significantly better on IQ tests on average, and performance on IQ tests is associated with various intellectual outcomes like winning the Nobel Prize. On the other hand, lesbians haven't been demonstrated to perform better on any kind of metrics associated with success at firefighting, and the greater difficulty women face gaining muscle mass puts them at a disadvantage.
AI Opportunities Action Plan: government response
Dan's Way Back to Health and Fitness [video]
Someone recently created a "duplicate" account for the dad of one of my friends. Same profile picture, username very similar. But one of his friends who received a friend request from the new account was already friends with the old account and wrote a message asking what that was about, which is how my friend discovered it. So at least in that one instance, having the account was helpful.
Only if this pen were a daily driver and not just kept in a case because, well, it’s expensive and we collect stuff..
HFT? (explain please)
I wonder if you're missing the forest for the trees though. Google has done all of this already, but in a bespoke manner that is exclusive to Google DeepMind and they have discovered that it works really well.

>Industrial is traditionally all about understanding the problem or breaking it in to unit operations, design, fabricate and control the environment to optimize the process for each of those in sequence, and thus lowering the cost and increasing the throughput.

The thing is, you can do that using SayCan [0] [1]. You give your robot a natural language instruction and that instruction will be broken down to those unit operations and each unit operation is then performed by a robotics transformer model predicting the next action to move the mobile base and end-effector in cartesian space.

What Nvidia is going is just selling you the tools to do it yourself and one of the key parts is adapting simulation video data back into real world camera data. Robotics transformers work just as well as conventional LLMs in practice, but due to the lack of large scale data, they are limited to what they have seen in their training data, with okay performance on unseen tasks. Now here is the thing though, running a robotics transformer in real time is not feasible so far. Even Google's on-robot hardware was running the control loop at 3 Hz, which isn't fast enough.

[0] https://robotics-transformer1.github.io/img/saycan_rt1_demo3...

[1] https://say-can.github.io/img/demo_sequence_compressed.mp4

https://robotics-transformer1.github.io/

https://say-can.github.io/
> Nobody in their right mind would want to learn programming in BCPL

I agree, but that's not what the author thinks:

"When a new programming language is designed it is invariably strongly influenced by languages that preceded it. One thread of related languages is:
Algol -> CPL -> BCPL -> B -> C -> C++ -> Java, indicating that BCPL is
just a small link in the chain from the development of Algol in the late 1950s
to Java in the 1980s. BCPL is particularly easy to learn and is thus a good
choice as a first programming language."

Emphasis mine.

Also,

"This document is intended to help people with no computing experience to
learn to write, compile and run BCPL programs on the Raspberry Pi in as little
as one or two days, even if they are as young as 10 years old."

So, unless I'm missing something, this document is intended to teach programming first concepts with BCPL. And it seems like it's aimed at young people, regardless of the play on words (which I didn't know, thanks!).
Very interesting, I would definitely like to play with this later. I wonder how long it runs for before something significant occurs?
The article would be so much better if it was called "The origin of the cargo cult metaphor" instead of the rage inducing "It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor".

Instead of just providing valuable historical context, educating people and letting them decide for themselves what to do with it, it devolves into a sermon. As a result, most of the comments are a sterile discussion about social justice instead of the actual history of what we refer to as a cargo cult.

I am sure this article is very successful with algorithmically-driven social networks, great engagement. Unfortunately the kind of engagement that makes people dumber when it could have made them smarter.
Releasing more often, keeping master/main/trunk deployable, and not having a develop branch or long lived feature branches solves a lot of that.

Of course that sometimes needs some kind of feature flags for bigger changes, which is a configuration option too, but at least the stable state of the code is simpler and not a nest of code + config that never really changes.
Such interview processes are big red flags. The company can't afford taking a risk with you and at the same time tests how desperate you are by making you work for free. They are likely short on cash and short on experience. Expect crunch and bad management. Run.
LinkedIn is an oddity in that, while there is a (very strange) social network there, the vast majority of LinkedIn users do not use it as a social network, they use it as a CV host, and may not even look at it in any given year.

(I do think think contributes to extreme weirdness of LinkedIn posts; there's really ~no-one normal using the social network bit of LinkedIn.)
Maybe that was possible with Facebook from 2009. Right now, to have any friend updates, you first you need to scroll through a firehose of bots, AI schlock, and ads. Then risk getting pulled into it and wasting valuable hours of your life.

The only winning move is not to play.

I just got together with two friends in RL. One I have not seen for 10 years. There were a lot of missed news we all had to catch up on. This is how it's always been, and it's completely normal. Even the olden Facebook way of being so plugged in into your friends' lives was very unhealthy. If you HAVE to know something, life will find a way of letting you know.
This is a good point, but it would be interesting if we had a "just enough" rendering engine for UI elements that was a subset of a browser with enough functionality to provide a desktop app environment and that could be driven by the underlying application (or by the GUI, passing events to the underlying app).
Thanks for that, that's a perspective of which I was unaware but I've long been aware there was a reasonable level of criticism when the film was released.

It's notable from this outsider's perspective that there's still levels of animosity over the War and that statues of Lee get desecrated and or damaged from time to time.
Eh, I’d argue most people don’t think or care about DEI or go on social media to post weird rants. Most people have better things to do. Social media and the Web can amplify opinions that really aren’t that widespread in reality.
Cargo ebike auto deploys landing gear to prevent low-speed wobble
Having a number of running processes take the CPU usage to 100% is one thing, have an under utilised CPU with almost no processes running report that usage is at 100% is another thing, the subject of the article here.
Ironically policing vocabulary like they do in hope to improve anything is a good example of cargo culting
oh so that why neither version worked for me in any reader
>rapidly approaching human-level performance

So, equally dissapointing?
You’re assuming an exaggeration of their point. The question at hand is whether OO is so fundamental as the backbone of a computer science 101 course. This doesn’t preclude much of what you said.
We’re talking about corporations, not political parties.

If this enforcement to hire unqualified people is happening, surely there’s lots of evidence? Internal emails and messages regularly get released as part of lawsuits. There must be lots of cases where middle managers at Apple are complaining that they’re being forced to hire an unqualified person because of a top-down edict, as you say.
True power is getting what you want without asking/demanding it.
Even HN boosts submissions admins deem good enough that didn't get sufficient exposure the last time they were published. And, since this one got quite a bit of engagement, it demonstrates that multiple submissions are OK. Otherwise a good article would have been lost.
Well, it's one thing to do it for these silly and easy examples, but how about :

"Surely if the case for the damage caused by smoking / drugs / climate change / platforms were to be made clearly and undeniable, people would not need to be told to stop using it, They just would."

But they don't, typically because this involves doing very hard changes in their lives.

So, you have to keep the pressure for decades (or even centuries) of the "I know this, so everyone should change their behaviour" kind, if you want to have any hope for the behaviours to change.

And at some point, it just becomes tiresome to always have to debate this, you know ? (How long can you can keep debating with people who think that aspects of fascism / Putin's behavior is good ?)

Anyway, I will keep publicly shaming the kind of developer scum who in 2025 still uses the likes of GitHub / Discord / LinkedIn, and doesn't even have the decency to admit there might be something problematic with them.
Or perhaps its something the author feels strongly about.

In the same way that I hate K8s networking.
The mainline ruby doesn't but tools to support virtualenvs are around. They're pretty trivial to write: https://github.com/regularfry/gemsh/blob/master/bin/gemsh

As long as you're in the ruby-install/chruby ecosystem and managed to avoid the RVM mess then the tooling is so simple that it doesn't really get any attention. I've worked exclusively with virtualenvs in ruby for years.
Good for you! You are legally allowed to enjoy it.
Although I don't disagree with that statement it is not exactly what I was implying. I was implying that good languages eventually grow into bad languages.

Usually happens through tacking on new features and standard API functions without removing old ones. I wish modern languages would allow different modules within the same project to use different versions of the language and be more aggressive about deprecating/removing old features.

So like if you open a module and see "version 3.0" in the manifest you know for sure that this module is not using stupid feature X from version 1.0. While still being able to use "crucial library not updated since 2003" without much fuss.

Most languages these days don't dare to change core syntax behaviour in order to not break backwards compatibility.
Ah those videos of Marathon, Sim City 2000, AoE2, and Deus Ex bring back such memories. Fantastic games.

The G4 PPC series were great, such an upgrade from G3 and really solid performance at the time.
"They copied ruby" is a little unfair. From memory it was some of the same individuals.
> I tried to find an equivalent male example, but every newspaper was writing about this particular case

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvalde_school_shooting

me thinks if newspapers can only write about one case, it's not that widespread
Cory Doctorow: Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline
I think a nice rebuttal to this would be a search engine for pages reported removed from google lol

so I'm guessing the guys who own the data from the webcrawls are the critical path, guess you need big resources for that. great chart thing here --> https://www.searchenginemap.com/
Im not sure I follow - can you show me another rocket currently in development that is as close as SpaceX offerings in terms of payload/price performance as new glenn?

If new glenn were to succeed it would have a massive impact on SpaceX (and starlink)
There's still simple cars being produced but they're aimed at the Chinese and Indian markets, same with motorcycles. Example is (was?) the Tata Nano (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Nano), at $2500 a very affordable and simple car, mainly aimed at motorcycle/scooter drivers.
Show HN: Finding good value property
I built this product last year when my parents found a unit with 1.3m land value for sale for 825k. Similar properties have already sold for land value in the area when the whole block was sold to developers. This tool is to find these opportunities in bulk, without tediously looking at real estate listings one by one and using slow clunky government land value search tools.

Did you know? Astute property buyers compare the sales guide of a property with the land value. The unimproved land value without buildings is assessed by the government. This is often significantly lower than the sales guide. We help you find properties currently on the market which have good investment opportunity. Get started now, use our search below. Currently serving NSW, ACT and QLD.

Was thinking about rolling this out globally once I have enough traction in Australia, as this is applicable in USA, Canada, UK, New Zealand etc.
Prefetching Subresources with Signed Exchanges
Big thanks to Google, Bing, and Linkedin then, for trying to bury net neutrality by creating the best possible argument for supporting it.
Open-source agentic o1 thinking data generation and model fine-tuning
AI is capable of so much more than just scanning and diagnosing diseases. If there’s someone with the reach to make an impact, highlight how AI can drastically reduce admin tasks as well.

If you’ve got friends working in the NHS, you’ve probably heard their biggest frustration: the system is painfully slow and stupid!!!
Right, as I said, watch is the wrong tool here. The event in common is the synchronised clocks, or an NTP server.

To see the NTP offsets of a machine you can run something like:

ntpq -pn

ntpdate -q doesn't seem very consistent to me, even pointing it at a nearby server.

To see the clocks ticking visually you can do something like the following and run it on each machine (assuming they have the same ping).

#include <time.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void main() {
struct timeval tv;
struct timespec ts;
ts.tv_sec = 0;
while(1) {
gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
ts.tv_nsec = 1000000000 - 1000*tv.tv_usec; //number of nanoseconds left in the current second
nanosleep(&ts, &ts);
gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
printf("%lu.%06lu\n", (unsigned long) tv.tv_sec, (unsigned long) tv.tv_usec);
}
}

Note that the sleep and second gettimeofday call take a little time (between 70 and 300 μs for me, but it depends what else is running), so the tick times reported won't be exactly on the second.
I also can't think of a regulation that is without significant detriment to investment and makes things better here. But that is my point: "without significant detriment to investment" is what is most important in capitalism...
Despite society crumbling

> I’m in a context of an super-regulated EU market, where such things still somewhat happen (well even worst, with people having their homes and theirs relatives searched, because he called dumb a politician), bad with the added problems, namely: there can just not exist such a giant in the EU.

I think state police forces acting beyond their power is an unrelated problem.

Such giants shouldn't exist and be for profit in my view. The issue is that the EU does not block the non-EU giants so Europeans also suffer from the less strict regulation.
One can made arguments both for and against `set -e`.

Over may carrier I've seen many shell scripts:

The most common case is no `-e` and no explicit error/status checks for most commands. It's unreliable and such scripts is one of reasons why shell got it's bad reputation (and criticized by coders using languages where an unhanded exception would terminate a program).

In my own scripts I often use `-e` (but not always as it is a tradeoff). If you unfamiliar with shell `-e` also could cause problems. But `-e` is not magic which makes a script better, one have to know how it works.

The option author of this article advocates (no `-e` but explicitly check every command which could fail) is the least common IMHO. Unless the scripts calls just 1-2 commands it's tedious and the resulting script is harder to read. May be you can find such style in some opensource projects but I've never seen such scripts at work.
Do you really think being a successful leader in a fire department is about muscle mass and genetics?

Or that IQ tests predict physics Nobels?

My lord…
Yes they do this every time and it will happen every time culture shift nothing new.

problem with DEI and other politicL "incentives" is that they are very visible and easy to make normal people angry about.
I didn't intend this as an example of the issue the article mentions (a misreporting of usage because of a hardware design issue). It was just a fun example of how different hardware behaves differently.

One can also say Omegamon (or whatever tool) was misreporting, because it didn't account for the processor time of the various supporting systems that dealt with peripheral operations. After all, they also paid for the disk controllers, disks, tape drives, terminal controllers and so on, so they could want to drive those to close to 100% as well.
I respectfully disagree. I try to avoid racism and ignorance, and yet my current feeling is that use of the cargo cult metaphor doesn't constitute either of those.

I'm not sure you and I even have the same understanding of the term., since I wouldn't have said it was equivalent to snake oil or alchemy. My interpretation is that it relates to trying to reproduce success by mimicking some (apparent) cause, while in fact not understanding the underlying mechanism, and hence failing.

If you distilled the Feynman story into something like this:

"There was a society inhabiting a remote island, who had little or no contact with the outside world. At some point a much larger and richer society sets up an airstrip on the island and gathers supplies. They share these supplies with the locals and due to the relative wealth disparity it is a significant improvement to their quality of life. The foreigners eventually leave and the supplies stop, and so the locals try to replicate the prior conditions. This makes sense, but since they have relatively little knowledge of aircraft or geopolitics the only information they have to work with is what they saw at the airstrip. Their efforts are doomed because they lack the requisite deeper understanding."

Now you and I know that this is a gross simplification and neglects a religious aspect, the anthropology-goggles of whoever reported the effects in the west, the many disparate groups that have been labelled "cargo cults" in recent history, the local economic and social conditions, etc. I think a reasonable person can understand that it's just a little fable inspired by genuine events, and that it serves to illustrate an idea. It shouldn't be used to make a judgement about the people involved or global conflict or human nature, except as a small piece taken with all the relevant historiographical context.

Stories like these are IMHO an effective way to spread and label ideas, so that if my PHB buys ping pong tables because he wants to have a share price like Google's then I can say "cargo cult" rather than explaining the whole concept, because I understand that my colleagues will know what I'm referring to.

I applaud your effort to stand up for people you feel are being unfairly maligned, but I think that you can use the metaphor without lying or promoting ignorance.
Slixmpp 1.8.6 – XMPP/Jabber Library for Python – SleekXMPP
The "stochastic" is in an Athenian accent I assume? CHACHACHA

Edit:

Today's (01-12): Avocado of not being such a dick!

(Wsmith knows his etymologies, but (maybe) not gradschoollife!)
Cyberhaven OAuth Attack Mechanism – What Happened?
> Why that made up pronoun?

Pedantically, all words are made up. I'd assume GP is using it because they see utility in a unambiguously-singular gender-nonspecific pronoun, opposed to the more widespread but somewhat ambiguous singular "they".
It doesn't have the iconic 2CV look ...
Building a new treadmill desk setup for 2025
Did they post the blog publicly?