skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you!

The immediate benefit is that "what commit produced my last good result" is a local problem, so a local solution is faster and more convenient than a round-trip to an API.

But more broadly, storing data locally makes it easy for others to build tools on top of the data. E.g. a visualisation tool that plots hyperparameters vs metrics, by parsing the metadata from `logis` commits.

Also scientists often don't commit regularly, so there is an opportunity to hijack the commit log for their benefit. Every cycle of edit->run-experiment is an iteration of the scientific method, and capturing that automatically is arguably more valuable than sporadic commits with "stuff" as the message.
how would you remove stock footage? B-roll has voice over it, it's kind of a necessity.
The game is so much faster in terms of pace, and in terms of players being bigger and faster. That's the real reason for injury caution.
Well, Brexit took the spot previously. Not sure if US can top it, but they sure as hell trying.
Hi there. I just wanted to say that I like your blog, specifically the little kitty that follows your cursor. Incredible how endearing that little animation is!
Goggle's turn to the dark side started with Page and Brin doing internet privacy research for the NSA in college.

Everything since then has been to commercialize and attempt to obscure the fact that privacy invasion has always been at the core of everything they do.

If Google's name is on it, privacy invasion is in it.

In other words, profits over privacy has always been their mantra. Any suggestion otherwise was just part of the ruse and obfuscation.
Why not Java? Shouldn't it tick all the boxes?

JVM is like the Cologne Cathedral of the software world.
what kind of problem was it?
…youre saying that life was good from 1870-1910? Reconstruction and the gilded age??

I mean, there was technological and medical improvements, sure, and continued urbanization.

But that’s… those are some of our nations most shameful, inequal, racist years in its entire history. The federal government as it exists now was just getting started after we realized we needed it thanks to the civil war, and many local democratic systems were completely broken. More relevantly, we didn’t have cancer researchers, epidemiologists, the NSF, or, most relevantly, nuclear weapons.

Finally, a HUGE majority of the costs of the federal government are social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and defense spending. I doubt even the biggest libertarian on here could advocate cutting any those with a straight face, unless they’re young and don’t know anyone older than them, and/or advocates isolationism.

Regardless, this exact story makes it clear that the goal isn’t cutting the size of the government at all — it’s politicizing the civil service, and bringing it under the exclusive control of a supreme executive. They’re not exactly ashamed of it!
Developers build in floodplains in every state. What’s your point? If you live in a floodplain your insurance makes you buy flood insurance. There’s entire cities in Florida built on former swamps
Not sure about all EVs and hybrids, but for Prius the friction brakes were used below a given speed as then regeneration becomes inefficient (as does stopping power). If you pay close attention, you might notice the transition.
There are definitely countries that'll be isolated from them. It's just most of those countries are also isolated from everything else. Eg. North Korea
Why do those people still work there? They should be let go individually to find something more compatible. Mass layoffs are not the way to make that decision.
Impressions at Netflix
Exactly, and in the US no sales tax is prepaid? So there is nothing to return upon export.

You seem to be saying that having a tax that is refunded gives a different result than not having the tax at all, which sounds like nonsense to me.
>The lack of effective performance management in the federal workforce.
>Resulting in poor service provision and wasteful allocation of taxpayer funds.

Alleged. Not proven, alleged.

>No large private sector workforce would have gotten away with such broken processes.

What broken processes? You havent shown them to exist.

Large companies are built to maximixe profit. Governments are not, so why should their organizational choices be similar?
This is an interesting point. All the breaks also make it so that players get less tired from a cardio standpoint, are able to further exhaust their muscles, and leads to more injury.
Revenue is down because they fired most of the salespeople and told their customers to f off. Hardly a wise management strategy.
Fake videos may be a good way to show what AI can do. Like a dancing coconut, or even better a version thah mimics his movements.

I'm not sure how to show that it is 100% automatic, and it's not just a TV with a hidden guy on the other side that is very fast and good at drawing.
I've noticed this, or something very similar (not sure if sites are keeping audio contexts open actually, or if this is Firefox-internal, as it also happens on Youtube and other sites not using the Web Audio API) on macOS a while ago too (i.e. an audio-induced power drain, but no white noise): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1821102

Right now, coreaudiod on my Mac is at 20% CPU with nothing playing whatsoever :( I'm close to switching to another browser until this is fixed, as it's really ruining battery life for me, but I really don't want to give up Firefox over something seemingly so trivial.

Update: This seems to be a related but different bug.
I think the future of JS is going to be a lot like Python - you write your code with JS libraries because of the ergonomics, but critical pieces of those libraries are implemented in WASM under the hood.

For example, you’ll still write your React components, but the React framework itself might be written in Rust and compiled down to WASM to make everything snappier (e.g. DOM diffing).

I personally really love this pattern because it strikes a balance between speed and DX. Not everything has to maximize performance, and not everything has to maximize productivity.
I think your worry comes from a materialist viewpoint. You perceive the universe as only being material, and then, looking out at the infinite material expanse, you are rendered distraught by the seeming lack of life 'out there'.

My view is that the material universe is only an illusion, that Earth is the centre of 'the universe' (it's immaterial that we orbit around the sun) and that life and consciousness only 'exist' on this planet. It's the 'stage' where we play out our lives; from whence we come and to whence we go is the bigger 'mystery' and one more rewarding to ponder on, then wonder about life 'out there'.
Sharing types between React and a Typescript backend is great DX for developing both in parallel and I've not seen anything that comes close to being as enjoyable. Being able to change the signature of an API endpoint and immediately having all places in the codebase where the change will cause problems flagged as type errors is wonderful. I went back to working with duplicated types across python/typescript on a contract project recently and it took me 5x longer to fix the downstream implications of signature changes.
Clickbaity misleading title. Should read "Rust is Eating Javascript Tooling".
Assessment of Risk to UK from Bird Flu H5N1 B3.13 in US Dairy and Beef Products
I wonder if the Marvell Libertas 88W8010 chip could be replaced with one from the same family but with 5 GHz support. That would require additional patches but probably not a whole rewrite.
The tone of the article has given away the fact that the article is not serious. At least not the way it's presented. You want something serious? Go read the pdf.

And I don't mind at all. Without this article, I probably will never know what's in the paper and how they iterated. I'll likely give up after reading the abstract -- "oh, they solved a problem". But this article actually makes much more motivating to read the original paper, which I plan to do now.
I visited a similar NK restaurant in Saigon a few times before they closed down decade ago and the experience was the same. What impressed me is that all the NK waitresses can speak the local language (Vietnamese) fluently and can sing or play music instruments. The food is quite authentic, some ingredients are exported from NK. It was a good experience overall.
I don’t say that it doesn’t happen (it is right now). I said it’s against the rules and that’s why the flags happen
I know spacing the floor is real. The point is it’s not the only winning strategy and basketball is in no way “solved”.
Are you a top tier person or a dud?
So is Go, and so is Python. The LLM craze shifted the focus from JS to Python a while back, and I’m all for it.

That doesn’t mean I’m under the delusion that JS is going away anytime soon; at least from the FE. But its monopoly on the web took a big hit—and rightfully so.

JS is a terrible language, and people who only know that one language will fight tooth and nail with anyone who opposes them.

This gave birth to the awful trend of using JS in the backend. I understand that sometimes JS is the only option for frontend work, but keep that junk out of my sysarch. There are better languages your backend can benefit from—Go, Rust, Zig, Kotlin, Python—anything but JS/TS.

I’m glad the industry has learned from its mistakes. I’m seeing far fewer Node.js backend jobs and a lot more Python, Go, Rust, and C# roles.
Reverting to the world of 110 years ago in what way resembles today?
This sound like you are deeply misplacing your confidence in your personal understanding of the world.
Foreign Affairs is an exception I’ve recently discovered that seems to go for level-headed criticism versus a more panicky take. Here’s an example article: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-a...
For better or for worse, that GDP boom was enabled by the massive spending and outcome of the Civil War, much like WW2. To point to these moments and ignore the immediate massive historical events that preceded it seems like a serious oversight in the analysis.
One of the unspoken problems with brutalist buildings is that many are now starting to enter the phase of life where they need maintenance and it is expensive compared to other buildings.

Another problem is the buildings are ridiculously difficult to gut and remodel for more modern use.
Once in Vietnam, our cab driver asked if he could pause at home on the way. We said yes. So he drove home, his wife gave him lunch, we tried it too, met her and his kids and his friendly half-street-half-pet dogs, and then went back to our hotel.

And I still remember it... whereas I cannot remember our other taxi rides!
I have no inside knowledge but the speculation I’ve heard is that this was not about a lack of funding per se so much as what happened to the money.

E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35930310
I was the first one to suggest it, and sketched out a straw-man design, but Patrick implemented it himself with his own design, after the design document mentioned it was TBD, but before the production database specified a design.

My straw-man design suggested a two-dimensional representation in the character properties: male attraction and female attraction.

But Patrick's design was actually much better from a game play and exploratory experimental perspective: it didn't explicitly represent the character's sexual preference at all, just their relationships with each other, so it was all up to you to decided who to love and what to do at any given moment, and you could change your mind if you wanted.

Regardless of whether or not sexual preference is something that's set at birth or you can change it if you want to, all human beings deserve the right to love who they choose, and how they behave, just like you get to decide your favorite color or food regardless of whether you're born with that attraction and can change it or not.

In the debate about LGBTQ+ rights, it really doesn't matter whether or not sexual preference is innate, because human beings already have the right of freedom of choice, and deserve to love anyone they want, no matter if they can chose or change their sexual preference or not.

The bigoted arguments against gay rights and marriage based on the belief that sexual preference is a choice (which is pretty presumptuous of anybody who's not LGBTQ+ themselves to have an opinion about) don't matter at all. Nobody even really knows or understands how the human mind and body works enough to be sure, and it's different from person to person, and there are many factors at play, so why bake it into the game one way or the other?

So from a gameplay, family representation, and storytelling perspective, it was better not to explicitly represent sexual preference, and just let the players and Sims be free to love whoever they want. Like it should be in the real world.

>After discussing it with Patrick J. Barrett III, we've determined that the sequence of events that led to The Sims having same sex relationships: The initial prototype implementation did not support same sex relationships, and I noticed that, when I tried to have two women kiss, the would-be-kissee slapped the kisser. So I wrote up my opinion that it should support same sex relationships, instead of resulting in homophobic violence, and proposed a straw man 2-dimensional way of modeling it. Subsequent design documents said heterosexual romance would not be the only kind available, and that Will was reviewing the code and would make recommendations on how to implement it. Patrick was hired soon after that, and was set to task implementing some social interactions. But Will didn't get back to Patrick and the production database didn't reflect his opinion by the time Patrick started working on it. But Patrick implemented support for same sex relationships anyway, but not by explicitly modeling sexual preference as property of The Sims personality -- just as a behavior that was possible at any time for any character.
There's something about having a weekly format that feels less overwhelming than long-term
>I fully acknowledge that it will result in mistakes,

The people arguing the other side are not talking about reversible mistakes with minor fallout. They are claiming that taken as a whole the damage will be very difficult to undo. Countering this simply by accepting that there will be mistakes doesn't quite suffice. As pg tried to remind Musk on twitter (I'm paraphrasing): Countless startups come into being and die within the system. But this is the system we're talking about. There is only one.

I take it you want the others to believe this administration geniunely cares about providing the public efficient services without fraud and corruption by establishing highly-efficient meritocratic institutions. There's overwhelming evidence in the events of the past few weeks that this not the case. Just looking at the Eric Adams fiasco and, say, the cabinet picks of Hegseth, Gaetz, Bondi (straight of the movie Idiocracy) show this administration does not care about fighting corruption or hiring people that are most qualified for the job.
Well the cats hate you right back, how dare you. The whole point of the internet is to post cats on it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I didn’t flag I’m just addressing the comments
Easier to just go to any of them in an actual Korea in Seoul.
Maybe that’s because you only know one language and focused on using that everywhere.

I have worked at 2 of those named companies where people made conscious decisions of moving away from TS backend because JS is an awful language to be used for system critical things.
The original is a Twitter thread, not a serious article.
But on the flip side, having a weekly focus can make things more manageable, like breaking down a big goal into smaller chunks
I think he sort of assumes that there are things you can post on Facebook/Twitter in the US, with no real consequences, but not in Europe. AFAICT the people in the European city where I live generally expect that they can post anything on Facebook/Twitter with no significant consequences.

They can't. In the next largish city to the southeast someone did post whatever he wanted, got dragged into court and ended up having to pay, even for the retweets. But he did not expect that and that's significant. His understanding of free speech was that he could post whatever he wanted, and the local reaction in that city showed that many, perhaps most people were as surprised as he was.

So I don't understand what aspect of free speech people in the US understand that Europeans don't.
Are you talking about my flat in Chamonix? :) Those are top season prices, one can go much lower and mountains are still roughly the same, meaning absolutely awesome and most accessible brutal high alpine terrain in Europe, possibly globally. Skiing Vallee Blanche is top experience (just take helmet at least).

Anyway backpacking is the most intense form of travelling by huge margin, the cheaper the better. I did two 3-month trips in India & Nepal around 2010, all costs combined apart from return flight tickets were around 500$ per month. Best time of my life, literally life and personality changing experiences that will stay with me till my last breath. No plans, just 1 thick Lonely planet book

Adventures don't need to be always positive experiences, intensity is what matters much more, the further away from comfort zone one gets more impactful the experience is.

Also it feels significantly longer, each time those 3 months felt like decades, hard to describe with mere words
Oddly enough, it seems that every time a self-selecting population of lunatics and sociopaths attempts to bootstrap a New Society, it proves their theoretical framework wrong. How curious… well, maybe next time!
> While you might not like his methods, you can't blame him for not wanting to wait 2 years for these issues to be addressed, data to be collected, and then action to be taken.

Yes, I definitely can blame him and anyone who wants to 180 the government in that time - that's stupid, childish, short sighted, and suicidal for keeping the lights on.
Which Height Has It Worse?
I wonder, too.
I haven't missed anything in my usage, I just wish it had photoshop's easy automation tools where I could record and save my actions but Krita has scripting support so I'll learn that eventually.
Parsing a JSON document for example will create an unknown amount of temporary heap allocated objects, that later will need to be freed up.
Say what you will about misguided efforts, you have to admit they changed public behavior.
3 point line is also closer in college
Probably not in any meaningful way, but I would agree the above comment they are ethically distinct.
We spend so much time optimizing for productivity that we sometimes miss the bigger picture: the quality of life itself, not just the quantity of tasks we can check off
You are thinking of a different deductiblity. When investing into the company you can deduct cost from taxes on profit, assuming there is profit to deduct it from. VAT however is still removed regardless if there is profit, which apply both to inventory and to other assets like buildings, equipment, cars and so on. The deduction on taxes on profit is thus done after vat has already been removed.

The assumption is not that you can one day sell it and pay vat on it. If a company buys a car, there is no assumption that they will sell the same car for profit at a later time. The assumption is that the car exist for the company in order to generate profit over time as part of the business operations, which is the reason why you don't need to pay VAT when purchasing it.

As a side note, there exist plenty of companies with zero or close to zero revenue, but with plenty of expenditures for which they get to remove VAT on. Those could be fake companies that are created for this specific purpose, or companies that are in theory investing into becoming profitable. A common example is a person investing into a expensive hobby, say photography, who could in theory turn it professional but has a company in order to avoid paying vat on equipment. In order to make the tax office "happy" they maybe sell a couple of photos a year, but is no where profitable and will likely never be it.

Different countries in EU may have different laws regarding VAT. The above is primarily about Swedish TAX system, but its very likely the same apply to Germany.
They hate cops in California.
The point was never to turn it into a profitable venture, but to acquire a widely adopted and established communication channel, turn it into an echo chamber and make it run with the least cost possible. It became what was expected of it.
> change the video input on my display

Many monitors support input switching via DDC, using CLI software that can be mapped to a hotkey with keyboard macro automation, https://joostrijneveld.nl/posts/2024-06-04-ddc-input-switchi...
> Since programmers these days typically read their code on-screen, not on paper, it's not clear why the size of a sheet of paper is relevant any longer.

Folks spent a while (centuries?) iterating on the standard page and character sizes. It makes sense to me that what we landed on wasn’t solely due to the limitations of paper, but also the limitations of humans.
Libertarian capitalists like crypto currency fans idolize capitalism without any government regulations. That isn't anything new -- that was what we had in the late 19th/early 20th century when "robber barons" like John D Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie had free reign and workers had few rights. It's regression to return to that "Gilded Age".
I challenge you to find anything bad to say about Maxime Faget, one of the finest spaceflight engineers there ever was.
Can you please share more about this prophecy? A like would be helpful.
I would cheer then on if they made a competition out of this: Can Bezos make an O'Neill Cylinder first, or will Musk be faster building a sustainable Mars colony. Both seem like far-off goals that will take decades to accomplish, but for very different reasons.

Kind of reminiscent of the Cold War space efforts, when the USA was focusing on Mars and the USSR on Venus, both making great accomplishments.
The power of pasteurization:

“ The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in collaboration with states tested unpasteurised milk samples from bulk tanks, finding 57.5% of 275 samples positive for viral RNA. Of these, 25% contained infectious virus”

After pasteurization:
“We assess the probability of individuals being exposed to an infectious dose of H5N1 virus from pasteurised milk, pasteurised colostrum or dairy products made from pasteurised milk to be Negligible with a Medium level of uncertainty”
This is the nice if your only consumption of the frontend is first party.

Alternatively you could go the openAPI route and declare your API as a spec with types for a client to consume and the endpoint to return. This works cross-language and gives you docs first. (Start from the docs, convert that to types, then implement).
duckduckgo is still reasonably usable.
Otherwise use sites that index DHT or use piracy communities on lemmy.

Google should be regarded as an enemy of the internet, and probably, by extension, society. But then so should any corporation that size.
Wow, that's actually a really good list.

I'd add if a journalist has done it, you can do it. Search HN for you location (which also has most of Atlas Obscura in it)
Show HN: Hackerfeed – New Chrome Homepage with Hacker News Stories
I created this Chrome and Firefox extension called Hackerfeed, which replaces your browser's default homepage with one that has over 20 themes and the top Hacker News stories displayed as cards below. I mainly made it for myself—it's not that great, and there are better extensions out there, but it suits me perfectly.