skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who might be in your target demographic in theory but not familiar with Clojure, what capabilities does Clojure itself offer as a language that a different mainstream scripting language doesn’t?

For example, I’ve always thought that the interesting part of Erlang is Beam & the uninteresting part was a niche language. Beam with JS as the language is much more approachable & leverages a rich existing ecosystem of tooling & libraries. Indeed, if you look at it the right way Cloudflare Workers is exactly that; isolated virtual processes within a single OS process that communicate with each other using a message based IPC & if they crash just the microservice is taken down & transparently relaunched.

So from that perspective, why Clojure instead of the same features on a different more popular language?
The US might be much closer to an authoritarian lurch than 20 or 30 years ago, but don't romanticize the recent past. My understanding is that polls around the time of the Kent State massacre... Where unarmed students were shot in the back by the military for the crime if protesting the Vietnam war... had almost 50% of the population supporting the military and saying the kids had it coming. Nixon had tons of support right until he resigned. There was never any level of social cohesion, the divisions just hadn't metastasized yet
Just teens?

There's much work yet to be done...
I mean, the answer is obviously "no."
Too much cynicism just leads to paralysis. We do need some way to identify a way forward. Top-down centralized corporate media wasn’t it, but this algorithmic social media stuff isn’t great either. The former amplified voices that could pretend to be serious. This current thing amplifies voices that pretend to be stupid.

It is a difficult problem.
> Not to mention we just elected a President who ran on Haitians are eating pets and fear mongering of “other”.

Prompted by unverified claims going viral on TikTok.

Ceding mindshare to organizations whose only allegiance is to profit (and therefore eyeball time) is a loss, even compared to a world of less-than-perfect professional journalism.

Journalism as a well-funded, independent, competitive market for news is the cornerstone of any democracy.

Because without it, a populace can't be educated enough to vote in even their own best interests. (Exhibit A: Trump being elected on a manufactured illegal border crossing crisis)
> I prefer lifestyle subcultures centred around music taste.

Class is going to dominate culture until the politics improves. I don’t really see any way around this.
Bear Blog looks like a good option for a new (minimalist) blog. Can anyone recommend it?
https://bearblog.dev/
That but also and for me more importantly it does not tell you how to add time - If you add one month of hours to a date in October, it depends on the timezone whether you will end up one hour of local time earlier or not (due to DST), because then +02:00 might be +01:00
Does the article claim otherwise?
How did I severely exaggerate anything? I am not OP
no offense (well, some offense...), but are you reading a script? enacting an argument you've had mentally with someone else?

you literally just replied to a post saying the the gay / alleged nazi dynamic wasn't critical to the point with... a moral assessment of being homosexual vs. a "proto-fascist, mid-life-crisis having weirdo".

what are /you/ even on about?
It changes nothing about the current version of the library though. It only impacts how quickly or easily one would be able to get a fix in case some issue does come up. But I’m questioning the expectation that such issues will come up, and the associated expectation that one will have to regularly update the library because new issues won’t ever stop coming up.
For images ones I have to turn off my brain. “Select all images that contain a crosswalk.”

What about unmarked crosswalks? Does it have to contain the crosswalk in whole or in part? That bit of white stripping is there just on the edge of this image, does that count? There’s a crosswalk in the background does that count? Etc etc.

The answer to all these questions is generally that you shouldn’t be asking. I can almost hear someone saying “You know what we mean.”
True, this article does not have a professional tone. So pick any of the other dozen articles that exist on this.

Whatever the tone of the article, the underlying fact remains that his reasons are not objective, either - they are political. He wants to ensure kids are exposed to right-wing rhetoric.
I’m also using it in production and it’s so much better than any of the existing alternatives
> Biden’s administration deported far more people than Trump’s did

It seems like Trump’s biggest problem is, like himself, the people he put in charge are C-players, so getting anything complex done is hard.
I trust them to deliver “a toaster” but, like, not necessarily the exact one I ordered, right? Either the one I ordered or a knock-off copycat that made it into the bin.
I would like to see if there is a correlation between Sleep Apnea cases and nose shape to determine if there is a link between humans living in an area they are not adapted to and how that affects their ability to breathe normally.
A timezone changing or being eliminated doesn’t erase the history of that timezone. So you can still use the last definition of such a timezone if the date is still in the future, or use the appropriate definition of the timezone at the time of a date marked in the past.
Does AGPL have trouble running alongside proprietary services? I always thought AGPL means that if you host the software, you have to make any changes you did available to the users. So if you host it without changes, there is no problem?
It standardizes it across platforms and implementations; I mean you mention Moment.js, but it's been superseded by Luxon and DayJS ages ago; Moment is very large in terms of file size and doesn't support tree shaking, it creates mutable objects, same as Date, etc etc etc.

But there's the problem. Use momentjs today and you're behind the times, but use the new standard library date functions and you're pretty much guaranteed that code that works today will still work in 20 years.
> Regulations are written in blood, which is why it's such a disservice to indiscriminately tear it all down. We will re-learn the same lessons and people will pay for those lessons with their lives.

And which regulation was eliminated that caused this?
Probably should have been a bit more clear.

Involuntarily when I say decentralized I'm thinking about more peer-to-peer distribution of content (a la torrents), instead of federated. Mastodon instances are these islands of content, at the whims of the owner, as to what content you can see and what policies they think there should be. Your identity is also attached to the instance, migration isn't seamless and you can't just move around your account like a domain name.

My understanding of Bluesky, actually the AT protocol, is that there are features in there to allow you to own your identity (via domain names) which would make migration between instances seamless. At the same time, there is a different deployable services for redistributing (filtered/moderated) content.

Based on posts I've seen on HN, these were still partial of planned things (?). On the other hand, not even sure if there are self-hosted Bluesky instances yet.
> There's no safety problem as long as the arbitrary value is deterministic, which it is, being process RAM.

The article discusses how it is in fact, on Linux with memory returned from at least one very common allocator, not deterministic. Ctrl-f tautology.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=60RxCiZuD9E

Rick Hartley explains.
> If we can figure out self-driving cars, maybe we can talk about replacing pilots with AIs.

There's currently a human in the loop at almost all times but a great many planes are already self-flying. Autopilots are a thing, and have been for decades. Modern airliners routinely land themselves, and Garmin have developed an emergency landing system for general aviation aircraft which can handle everything including selecting an airport and communicating with ATC in the case of the pilot being incapacitated.

In many ways a self-piloting plane is an easier problem to solve than self-driving cars. Every plane has (or will have in the near future) a beacon on it transmitting it's location to every other plane around it to allow collision avoidance, and the procedure for getting from one major airport to another is pretty much prescribed in the form of standard departures, arrivals, and airways. The big difference of course is that if a car on the road breaks down and the AI can't handle it then the car can just stop, and baring someone not noticing and plowing into the back of them everyone will be fine, while if that happens in a plane it's a matter of time until the thing falls out of the sky killing everyone on board.
I share this sentiment, however I don't see anyone really building alternative channels. Just people creating content for big tech platforms, and ultimately chasing short term rewards (money) via short term engagement boosts. Sure we don't trust institutions so naively anymore, but sitting around talking about how everyone sucks gets us no where as a society unless we move forward.

It's going to take people interested in more than just money, and the number of people willing to work for more than just money has seemingly never been smaller.
"for most people"

If you were a nightly smoker you were already addicted. Most cannabis users don't use it daily. In that way it's like alcohol. This is in contrast to tobacco users, who use it like caffeine.
Thanks for the answer.

We will start a refactoring of the application in a few weeks to get rid of the performance problems. I will keep your advice in mind and do some thorough benchmarks in the meantime.
Same, I am trapped in the MSFT ecosystem at work but for personal stuff LO is more than sufficient. Granted .doc(x) files don't always look perfect when I open them, but good enough for my limited needs.

IMO a local word processor is one of the fundamental pieces of a desktop experience so LO plays an important role. It's also not easy and sometimes thankless. In that way I view them somewhat similarly to Mozilla.
Thermopolium
What does safe mean here? Everything can be interpreted as a [u8], right?
Ubuntu includes LibreOffice, not OpenOffice.

This is the key point of confusion! LibreOffice is great, and is the actively developed piece of software for decades now. OpenOffice is just an old zombie propped up by Apache with no actual work beyond the most trivial maintenance and no purpose beyond confusing people. No Linux distro includes it.
Building an AI Agent with OpenAPI: LangChain vs. Haystack
part of what got me into ruby were meetups and cool people at those meetups, maybe I got older, but do meetups still happen? And attract an audience?

I did find https://rubyeurope.com/ and https://rubyconferences.org/meetups/
I think the comment you were replying to basically agrees with you, they are imputing that Facebook and Google are the ad companies. AMD, Intel, even NVIDIA (although they are feeding on a bubble that might eventually roundabout end in ads), those are tech companies.
- "Second strike capability helps prevent nuclear war. Effective first strikes are what's destabilizing."

I don't disagree!

- "You need one that's already going to pass nearby."

There's a very large number of these already, within a small delta-v of Earth. We don't know where they are yet (it was a show-stopping issue with NASA's Constellation (?) program, when they wanted to demonstrate capturing an asteroid, but couldn't find one), but that's going to rapidly change.

- "and during that time your enemy can send their own nuke and nudge it away"

That's pretty useful: that brings it to a point where the defender has to invest an amount of resources comparable to the attacker. That's a win for the economically stronger country. If the difference grows large enough, they can simply overwhelm them with numbers.

That's even before opening the technological possibilities of stealth asteroids.
You don't :)

Seriously though, the pitch is: "I want to get a job in what you're doing, and you have that job; I'd love to learn more."
Figured I would here this cartoon here https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...

I talk with elderly people who do not have smartphones, and they tell me how difficult it is to navigate the modern world without them - doctor offices who want to send a text or MFA or the like. That we have a Google/Apple monopoly (or any nationwide Verizon/AT&T monopoly, with maybe one or two smaller players) is not much of a gotcha. I have more faith in the wisdom of the youth than your neoclassical theories of political economy.

Of course virtually everything is an oligopoly nowadays. UMG, Sony, Warner own at least 65% of global music. Media, accounting, advertising, breakfast cereals, go down the list - most commodities are sold by an oligopoly of four or less companies. A theory of political economy where somehow consumers are "choosing" this system is what is bankruptcy, not the understanding of the working youth who resent this.
This seems to be a resolved problem and one that we shouldn't have in this era. An unnecessary tragedy.
It is great news. I was not aware this was in the works.

Using other libraries for something as fundamental as this always seemed odd.
Implementing a Game Boy Emulator in Ruby
Seems like you’ve stumbled onto a very obvious solution that would be easy to implement and that no one else has ever managed to see, but which would totally revolutionize the airline industry. Time to start a business!
Then why is there an ATC union if, apparently, it can't affect any change?
How would the runtime know that though? If you're in a plane with no internet, or if you're privacy conscious and you have location services turned off, there's no way for the JS engine to know you're in a different timezone.

I mean your argument has some merit but I'd argue that "you get the new timezone if you create a new date after your system updates its local timezone" is good enough.

Furthermore, most applications will just use UTC; local timezone is more used to adjust the displayed time, and even then it's opt in (e.g. someone reading a log will want server time or UTC, someone using a calendar will want to see their local time OR the time at the location of an event, etc).
I understand the interviewer wanted to approach the problem as non decimal number of months in a year and variable number of days in a month. One day as the most granular entity. I didn't even wanted to argue over leap years and why the year 1900 wasn't one. It was consecutive meeting in a row and I was too tired for his shit.
They deliver pre-built full racks.

The "reasons" are most likely because it's not cost-effective as what is effective at this point a tech demo, that first becomes cheap to run if you're actually going to use a decent portion of the capacity for a single model.
Yeah, it looks more like post-2007 Office with the Ribbon; LibreOffice, like its predecessors, looks more like classical Office 95/97.
> and hold them up against the theoretical ideals they set for themselves.

The perfect being the enemy of the good (and the path to inaction) is the curse of youth.

Imperfect institutions can absolutely be better than alternatives. (Often: no thing)

It's a hard lesson to learn, but a corollary to it being harder to build something than to tear it down.

Yet some things need destroying or reshaping. The best square to the circle I've figured out is 'Don't break things you aren't willing to put ideas, time, and effort into rebuilding.'
This is what you are saying:

My shoe was loose before my booster and became untied after I got my booster.

There is a high probability my shoe being untied was caused by the booster.
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2019/07/14/uninit.html perhaps (the OP also talks about this when linking to a talk about jemalloc)
That's fair, but they didn't need to - just make a new Date library and deprecate the old one.
Old ThinkPads still work great as it happens, but these days I use an MNT Reform. MacBooks definitely aren't the only option!
And I thought I have the only bad apple...

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sry, I see myself out.
Thanks. I'm aware of most, if not all, these alternatives as I've spent some time a few years ago researching them before sending a proposal @ NLnet for funding in this space.

I should have said P2P in my comment instead of decentralized, as the broader term captures the concept of federated as well.
GrandOrgue is the software behind OpenPipes (well one of several options). Open pipes is more about the whole system of owning an organ.
What about the pirated books you used and millions of blogs and websites scraped without consent? Somehow that's legal? Come on, give me a fucking break. OpenAI deserves the top spot in the list of unethical companies in the world
So you blame TikTok for a grown man and our now President getting his information from TikTok?

The population doesn’t want to be “educated”. They knew exactly what they were getting. How do you “educate” people who in their heart believes that for instance saving Israel will bring on the second coming of Jesus during the rapture and if they condone the “gay lifestyle” they are going to burn for eternity and the nation will be set on fire?
it’s actually really hard for private jets / charter (whether part 91 or part 135) to use dca. requirements include having an armed officer on board. as a result almost nobody flies charter into dca.
I would start with breadboards and modules from SparkFun or Adafruit. You can mock up a lot of functionality without needing to solder anything. If you get to the point where you're ready to jump into PCB design, check out the /r/printedcircuitboard wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrintedCircuitBoard/wiki/index/. You might be able to find similar projects that have been posted and critiqued there already. SparkFun and Adafruit both publish their schematics/PCB layouts. I recommend KiCad for your PCB/schematic software - there are plenty of KiCad tutorials and guides on Youtube. Have fun!
The trust was built on basking in the glory of WW2's victory and fear of nuclear annihilation. Maybe part of it too was the quality of life for 80+% of the generation was better than their parents in clear ways beyond "our TVs are better."

The first two I'd like to avoid something analogous for a new order based on trust, but maybe the last one we can bring back if our leaders start to have a larger vision beyond focus on GDP, Stock Market returns, inflation, and unemployment rates.
[u8] guarantees to the compiler that two reads through the array at the same location without any intervening writes return the same value.

Turns out that's not the case on freshly returned uninitiated allocations. The first read could return old data (say "1"), and the second read could return a freshly zeroed page ("0").
So happy that it continues to grow in popularity. Draw is probably their best tool in the suite. Also related, people might be interested in using Xournal (https://xournalpp.github.io/) for PDF manipulations and pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) for general document conversion.
There have been huge advancements in specific life strategies for ADHD- many of them organically from the community, but they aren’t the same things that work for people without ADHD to add structure and discipline- they are adapted to require less executive control. You don’t need a professional diagnosis to try them- but it helps you know what is more likely to actually work, and can be helpful for some people to take it more seriously and deeply investigate and try ADHD specific strategies.

For me, the "Hacking Your ADHD" podcast has been life changing- after trying a number of productivity advice books and not knowing why I couldn't get any to work, this podcast mentions ones that work for me.

Moreover, while not everyone with ADHD does well on or needs medication, for a lot of people it is absolutely life changing... and people end up suffering needlessly for years because of preconceptions that prevent them from trying it. It’s worth trying and finding out. Personally, I think more people would benefit from the less used non stimulant medications and/or lower doses of milder stimulants- most people that have bad side effects are taking heroic doses of amphetamines. I think a lot of doctors are just incompetent when they are starting people out like that.

I do all of the things you listed above plus an extremely low dose of ritalin, and neither would work for me without the other. Structure, discipline, and habits are life changing for anyone- but a lot of ADHD people try the regular advice for implementing them unsuccessfully for years.
> (though at larger scales it becomes more debatable)

My thought exactly. In a small component as the Button I agree with inline everything (almost did it myself cause I knew people would read this code) but I have decided to keep it as is for readability. In a more complex component as the Canvas I think you'd agree with me that the long winded version is easier to grasp what's going on.
On-demand scaling is still a feature of zSeries mainframes, now called Elastic Capacity on Demand .

To non-corporates it might look like wasted resources or gouging the users, but from the enterprise perspective it's a marvellous feature. It's basically on-premises cloud-scaling.
I have no doubt programming jobs exist out there that require a degree, but the vast majority do not - nor do they even seem to prefer it. I think calling them a necessity in this field is a really big stretch.
Staring into the Void
I just use a filter for different things.

I have a "newsletter" filter for substacks & news letters.

A filter for for people I am currently talking to about something i.e someone I reached out to and expecting a response.

Filtres are really powerful, though difficult to set to Gmail
as you need to do it on a computer.

You can do auto-delete for key words, senders etc.
It's not common sense regulation. It's anticompetitive regulations. You're happy to ride a taxi that often times takes a longer route to steal you a few extra euro? Are you happy that a taxi driver earn 500-600-700 euro a day when the avg salary in some EU countries is 1.5k a month? Are you happy that they don't take credit card payments and accept (often time) only cash? Are you happy that they evade taxes? Are you happy to go inside a car and don't know how long and how much your ride is going to cost? Are you happy that often times in touristic cities they refuse to use the meter?

You seem to know well what Europeans want but I bet you never got scammed by a taxi driver. Europeans like everybody want to simply pay less by having an open market that allows the best players to offer services without artificially inflating the price because that specific category some privilege.

If you claiming that Europe is not decaying probably you're living in the wrong Europe.

Europe is decaying faster than you think.
You can also see that Congress has become this trash: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figures?id=10.1371...

I think a large contribution to this behavior is the limited number of representatives. A terrible law and a huge disservice to the American people.
Semaphore Is Going Open Source
Time and timezones are a big and complicated thing, I'm not surprised / appreciate they're taking their time with it. A library is temporary (ha) and is often superseded (e.g. momentjs -> luxon -> dayjs), but standard libraries are in it for the long time (Date has been around for 30 years and will be around for another 30 alongside Temporal).
Good thing that I flagged the post then (and sad thing that not enough people did for it to appear flagged)
I don't believe adding this event would represent a new data point for fingerprinting because it's already possible to detect timezone changes by polling `Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone` and `new Date().getTimezoneOffset()`.