skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said to deplete the endowments.

Not sure what you're on about with "the right" and "humanities programs." Do "humanities programs" bring in loads of cash?
Let me know when you need a little appetite adjustment. Free of charge!
Uncle Sam doesn’t have a credit limit: Uncle Sam has chosen to take on debt so rich people can avoid paying taxes. If we had rich people pay at the same rates they paid a few decades ago, didn’t have caps on the maximum amount of taxable income for social security, etc. we could return to the balanced budget we had at the turn of the century before the Republicans lowered taxes for the express political goal of forcing program cuts.
wood lathes + long hair = very risky business
I think it's more to protect the current licensees though - I have no idea how much an engine license costs, but I don't think it's cheap, and I'd be pretty annoyed if I'd dropped that money a year or two ago only to find out that the engine costs nothing.

That said, I'd be a little surprised if any more engine licenses to get sold so maybe give it a couple of years.
This feels like a really bad idea, I hope it doesn't make it into the browser. CSS Houdini would be a better path to take.
It’s always like this nowadays…
Exactly how I just said? One picks up, one drops off. Not that hard, my parents managed it my whole childhood. And kids can make their own way to/from school after a few years.
GUI's are bad for expressing tasks beyond some level of complexity.
Running out of memory and killing the OS I would guess unless the OS kills misbehaving process first.
Taking bets now on how long after release it takes to end up with someone making a "JS in CSS" framework, but with the added wrinkle that they have to be serious about it, not just doing it as a joke.

So taking the article seriously and not just being glib:

This feels like a misunderstanding of how to write good CSS. Good CSS is a lot like SQL, which shouldn't be a surprise since it's centered around selectors. CSS is a set-based language. Adding general purpose functions that seem to abuse rule precedence to make conditional statements feels like a dirty hack to force CSS into an imperative model.

Now, maybe there is something to be said for the idea that, here we are, 30 years into having CSS, and people are still bad at set-description operations. Maybe there should be an imperative styling language. But it's a mistake to overload CSS to do it.
pathologists are some of the highest paid doctors and they are right in the crosshairs of what AI is getting better at performing.
Finally, the inverse of CSS-in-JS.
> I feel like Penrose presupposes the human mind is non computable

i would be a bit more aggressive: Penrose asserts without evidence
Suggesting features is always good
It's also true. Source: one of my kids is in college right now.
I mean, security fixes are still maintenance on their own, and on an attack surface as wide as “the entire Internet”, it’s a non-trivial one.

But also… what people want to do on their devices evolves. Web developers want to be able to support that. So they rely on browser developers to constantly support new features. One can bemoan this state of the world as much as they’d like(*), but at a certain point it’s just sticking one’s head in the sand.

(*) I style myself mostly a native platforms developer, and I’d love it if the web wasn’t the de-facto cross-platform architecture of choice. But alas.
I think there's another really important set of lessons available from basic tool use which translates directly to the software industry--intuitive understanding of what makes a tool good. Tools (as opposed to appliances) scale with the user's ability. A good lathe in good condition does better and better work as you learn its behavior and capabilities. You could spend 5 decades with one hammer incrementally improving your forging technique day by day and week by week. Your dishwasher, however, just always does the same thing.

Knowing the difference between a dishwasher and a hammer is something it seems like many of the engineers, designers, and product managers in the software business are completely incapable of.
>So... you reject the idea that women might be inherently superior workers than men, despite data in the linked article showing that they seem to be.

Yes! I don't care that you gave a reference. Men invented practically the whole world around us and are more physically capable than women. They have been doing half of the work or more for millenia, and aspire to do great things (for women's benefit no less). You think some pissant DEI-funded result that only applies to modern times, where men are abandoning college because it's not worth it and women proceed because they are highly conformist and do what they're told, changes that?

>How exactly is that not just DEI for men?

What I said was to stop favoring women. If I was a woman I could have my pick of jobs or at least a leg up. I might have also gotten scholarships and other opportunities in school. That is not even possible for men. Try to make a scholarship or other benefit for boys and see how much shit you'll get. Even the Boy Scouts were forced to take girls. Somehow you think treating people equally according to their characteristics is DEI for men. I think you're a woman trying to justify discrimination against men.

>And that's just plain sexist. Yikes.

So, me acknowledging that women may regret letting 100% of their eggs fall out before trying to have a kid is sexist, but saying something as stupid as women are better workers than men in general isn't? Yikes indeed.
> Chips are gaining performance faster than ever in absolute terms.

But this is not what I as a consumer end up seeing at all. Consider the RTX 5090. Gen-on-gen (so, compared to the 4090), for 20-30% more money, using 20-30% more power, you get 20-30% more raster performance. Meaning the generational improvement is 0, software nonwithstanding.

> If you consider the 20 years between the intel 286 and the pentium 3, transistor count went from about 150 thousand to 10 million. Today (using the ryzen 5950 and 7950 as examples), we got 5 Billion more transistors in just 2 years.

Why would you bring absolute values into comparison with a relative value? Why compare the 286 and the P3 and span 20 years when you can match the 2 year timespan of your Ryzen comparison, and pit the P2 ('97) against the P3 ('99) instead? Mind you, that would reveal a generational improvement of 7.5M -> 28M transistors, a relative difference of +273%! Those Ryzens went from 8.3B to 13.2B, a +59% difference. But even this is misleading, because we're not considering die area or any other parameter.
easily the least productive days are when the team gets together for all hands. I'm sorry but people are going to schooze and dally and effectively write off that entire day from anything real getting done over the all hands meeting that takes up the bulk of the afternoon where like 2 people talk and everyone just looks at their inbox.
In conclusion, USA is within the higher end of average of the past few decades?
well, java is island but the island have BIG populations
> As a gay man, why specify straight men? It just shows your subconscious thought of gay man = femmy = hr.

I can't say if it was intended that way, but that's not how I read that comment.

I took it to mean that there's a popular cultural attitude that straight men (and more specifically straight white men) are "problematic" and undesirable generally, while gay men are considered different enough from straight men that they're often given a pass in certain circles. In my experience, how many "diversity points" being gay earns you vs the deduction you suffer for being born a man varies widely from setting to setting. It's also been my experience that being gay doesn't carry the same weight in those same crowds that it did decades ago.

I have seen workplaces that promote hiring for diversity which explicitly included LGBT folk as well as racial minorities. Depending on where you live these types of employers may be much harder to find, but a good place to start might be sites like this:

https://equalitycareers.com/

https://lgbt.net/job-seekers/

https://www.diversityjobs.com/

https://pink-jobs.com/

https://www.lgbtqcareernetwork.com/
Why do we allow Google to singlehandedly keep pumping garbage into the web ecosystem? Do they own W3C?
I 100% agree, and I also think it'd be a better solution than wildcard certs in most cases where they're used. I would love to be able to have a personal CA cert that was name constrained to mydomain.tld for the duration of my registration of that domain which I could then use to issue certs for subdomain.mydomain.tld for individual services instead of having to have one *.mydomain.tld which hypothetically might allow a single compromised service to be turned in to the ability to impersonate any of my services.

Obviously having a glut of new private CAs would cause scalability issues for CT logs that are already having issues keeping up with current uses, perhaps CT requirements could be reduced for such single-domain CAs in combination with limited lifetimes.
Great for them, I guess. I live thousands of miles away from Java. You? The point isn’t “there are 1500 active volcanoes on the planet”, the point is is “there are many places not in the proximity of one of 1500 active volcanoes”.
I don't think it's trite at all. The US electoral system is insane. President is chosen by the same few states every time. I haven't had a vote for president that has mattered ever, and I'm kinda old and have voted in several states.
You’re making the mistake of believing that people choose B2B SaaS purely on the basis of price and features. While those are a component, reputation, marketing, and an effective sales force are far more important.
Exactly. Which is why I said "Which would be an opportunity for an immediate funds transfer or CC charge, if necessary to keep the site up."

I'll work collegially with customers/partners who I think are being honest, or who can be nudged towards that from a somewhat different industry convention. But I wouldn't take "the check's in the mail" from someone who I thought was being dishonest. And an immediate payment would be appropriate for even honest people to do, in light of neglecting to mail a check in time.
I wonder if this is further decimation of the middle class?
> they were a bit conservative in some ways that will make the economics look worse

Or they simply ran into headwinds on a speculative project. I'll "take the under" when your PR is cagey about basic project attributes.
A sales person from Microsoft emails us every 3-6 months or so trying to upsell us on a more expensive 365 subscription.

I think their time would be well spent contacting a customer who hasn't paid.

Blocking sending email would also be a more reasonable step before blocking receiving email.

And yes, I'd consider moving.
I suspect it's logically equivalent, but one bit wider in hardware.

Binary 4x is left shift by 2, rather than 2x which is by one.

Adding or subtracting in 2's compliment space is the same operation for the bits of the word.
Several of them seem to be 404ing for me
America faces a Trumpian economic slowdown
I use caddy and I'm quite happy with it over apache and nginx, but I'd happily give my opinion if this helps OP to make this something different and hopefully even better than caddy.

I love auto TLS and caddyfiles are easy to understand. Modularity is important and templates can be very useful. Serving files and using caddy as reverse proxy are the most common uses I make of it in production, but I also use caddy in dev and it's a boon. Ease of config means my team can easily pick up my work and continue from there, even if they are not as proficient with the tool.

I don't love caddyfile directive ordering: sometimes my colleagues are confused because directives have an implicit order that is not obvious: instead of reordering directives, I'd rather have a warning/error message saying "this config doesn't make sense because you cannot do this and that", or just follow the order used in the config file + warnings.

I use it a lot to prototype and mock APIs during development, e.g. to have endpoints returning html pages or json documents: static files and templates are useful for this and I wouldn't consider something without this feature, though go templates aren't that great and/or caddy docs are a bit lacking (e.g. a simple loop over 0,1,2,3... Is not obvious!)

I don't find caddy great (or I don't know how to use it) to debug things when they are not working as expected. I often find myself replacing parts of the infra with netcat so that I can inspect what is going on. It would be great to have a "debug endpoint", like a webpage I could connect to and inspect all the traffic like MITM proxy, it would be awesome. Being able to inject myself in a route and manually change headers, responses, requests etc, it would be fantastic and a great help in debugging issues. Also, being able to start this "inspection mode" while in production would be nice, without having to restart the server (something is off -> I ssh-port-forward to the server host -> connect my browser to the server and inspect the errors -> find the issue and fix the config).

Management of certs could be improved in some edge cases. For example, I'd be happy if it was easier to manage certs in a private subnet. For example, say host A could acquire certs for my domain example.com with DNS challenge, then a host B, not public facing but in a subnet with A, could ask A to manage its certificates and still have valid https (letsencrypt provided certs) inside the network.
> Political history would suggest that many good suggestions of social change were likely ignored in favour of operations with a lot of smoke and noise.

Likely to increase with terrorist designation, https://apnews.com/article/gangs-cartels-sinaloa-aragua-trum...

Organizations sometimes optimize for the problem to which they are the solution, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491863
A Guide to China's Role in the Fentanyl Crisis as Trump Targets Beijing
https://archive.is/51Zue
My understanding of that most nuclear power plants currently operating can already scale up and down to match demand.

They don't because I fuel costs are so low that the power is essentially free when compared to idling.
This comports with my - admittedly decade-and-a-half old - understanding of the code to silicon pipeline/flow.
That was my experience as well. OTOH I don’t think ethics classes will magically make the students “more ethical” or something. Might as well let students have a choice of philosophy electives if possible, I don’t think making everyone take ethics is better than making everyone take aesthetics.

Although if you were going to have something more concrete, like Engineering Ethics except somehow for high schoolers without a particular career chosen, a few weeks of philosophy would probably be good background.
https://archive.ph/0wac9
Man, it's so unfortunate that saving the planet just isn't profitable.
> It's very difficult to find some way of defining rather precisely something we can do that we can say a computer will never be able to do. There are some things that people make up that say that, "While it's doing it, will it feel good?" or, "While it's doing it, will it understand what it's doing?" or some other abstraction. I rather feel that these are things like, "While it's doing it, will it be able to scratch the lice out of it's hair?" No, it hasn't got any hair nor lice to scratch from it, okay?

> You've got to be careful when you say what the human does, if you add to the actual result of his effort some other things that you like, the appreciation of the aesthetic... then it gets harder and harder for the computer to do it because the human beings have a tendency to try to make sure that they can do something that no machine can do. Somehow it doesn't bother them anymore, it must have bothered them in earlier times, that machines are stronger physically than they are...

- Feynman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipRvjS7q1DI
Where I come [1] from, they would prefer education over everything else .

Material benefits or wealth can be stolen away on the whim of the stronger party, as history has proven over and over again.

No one can steal my education however.

—-

[1] This is a thing both the strong and weaker groups understood very well for over 3000 years. Who could learn which skills and therefore do what job is what the caste system was all about .

Teachers were and are considered only step below God, your teachers commands supersede even those of parents . Stories like those of ekalavya are venerated for a reason.

The power of knowledge and education was well understood and also closely guarded to create and manage oppression for thousands of years
For me, Windows is thousand years ahead in this regard. I download software, and run it. And it works 99.9% of the time. Yes, I have a chance of getting a virus. Happened one time in 30 years I'm using Windows. (More in DOS times).

Linux, I got burned again yesterday. Proxmox distribution has no package I need in their repository.

I am trying to use Ubuntu package - does not work.

I try to use debian - too old version.

How do I solve this?
By learning some details of how the Linux distributions and repositories work, struggling some more and finding customly built version of .deb. Okay, I can do it, kinda, but what about non-IT person?

Software without dependencies is awesome. So, docker is something I respect a lot, because it allows the same model (kinda).
All current bitcoin in current existence is max $2 to $3 trillion USD. I don't think we consider all currency on the planet to equal $81 trillion USD or even half that.
Do HDDs have many electrolytics? Those are the main culprits for going bad, and are usually used for power electronics, not controllers/processing circuitry (they don't need the bulk capacitance that you'd usually use an electrolytic for)
At least it could probably run Doom
I mean, puff pieces exist, and basically every media outlet is a corporate mouthpiece. Don't be surprised by this.
I’m in agreement with you.

I was asking the other commenter (what) why he felt free to dismiss your definition on accessibility as a revision, while at the same time asking us to abide by his arbitrarily decided definition as the one true definition.

I fully think that accessibility is impossible without freedom to use all possible functionality.
Thanks for digging in. Yup, those two libs don’t support custom allocators. I raised an issue in the jq repo to ask if they thought about adding it.

Great points about happy path allocations. If I ever touch the project again I’ll check each location.

Note to self: free code reviews of projects if you mention LLMs!
> Fun fact: you don't need CSRF protection at all if your API is strictly JSON-based, or uses any content type that isn't one of the built-in form enclosure types. The Powers That Be are talking about adding a json enclosure type to forms, but submitting it would be subject to cross-origin restrictions, same as it is with JS.

AFAIK, this is not totally accurate because the internet is a messy place. For example, the OAuth authorization code grant flow blesses passing the authorization code to the relying party (RP) in a GET request as a query parameter. The RP must protect against CSRF when receiving the authorization code.
They are where I live. Guess it depends on the city.

I can tell you where they most definitely aren't, though: downtown. Anybody who can afford that real estate is not the little guy. If they appear to be, that just means great effort (and money) was expended to create that image.
It looks like it's available on homebrew, so that may be a good workaround.
We also don't have to generate the entirety of our energy usage from one source.
Because the companies make it easy to sign up with an individual's address, and that's often fine to test out the service.

Some then make it difficult to use a more appropriate address.

It's not ideal, but there's a huge amount of IT that doesn't follow the official policies — like all the teams using AWS rather than going through their official procurement procedure.
Beware of ANSI escape codes where the LLM might hijack your terminal, aka Terminal DiLLMa.

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/terminal-dillmas-p...
First of all that isn't evidence of anything and explains how we got in this pickle to begin with... people making shit up.

Secondly, private companies don't have to do a good job. They have to turn a profit, which could be exploitative and not necessarily legal.

Third, government agencies have budgets and audits like many public companies but not private companies. If a government agency exceeds its budget it is essential bankrupt.

Finally, if a government agency fails an audit people can be fined, fired, or even prosecuted. Government agencies are always audited, unlike many commercial companies that are only audited according to regulation and/or cause of investigation. Many of the people recently fired by DOGE are auditors that were preventing the very kind of behavior you suggest of government.
86% of codebases contain vulnerable open source components
This remote colleagues problem is my issue. I don’t mind coming back in (except the cost) but it is very irritating and pointless as I’m a project manager with dispersed teams all across the country (and some in other countries). I come into the office, say hi to a few people I know, get on Teams calls all day in an open plan office with less privacy than at home, then commute home again.
Cost is an artificial construct (see: oil subsidies, corn subsidies, EV subsidies, and so on). "It's too expensive!" is such an uncreative response to technology we desperately need to stop overheating the planet.
The flash runtime was pretty efficient but the authoring tools were so easy to use that anyone could produce "working" abominations filled with the most good awful code that got the result they wanted.
Wait until they see what happens when all of their exploitable employees get cooked lol.
Large parts of dentistry are fake. There is no evidence regular cleanings do anything.
Would the Paris Climate Agreement not qualify as a treaty?
honestly this whole argument about penrose, gödel, non-computability etc feels way too complicated for what seems pretty obvious to me, humans are complex biology with basic abstractions: we take in sensory data, process it moment by moment, store it with varying abstraction levels (memories, ideas, feelings), and evolve continuously based on new inputs, evolution itself is just genetic programming responding to external conditions. It looks random sometimes but that's because complexity makes it difficult to simulate fully, small variations explode into chaos and we call it randomness, doesn't mean it fundamentally is. The whole thing about consciousness being somehow outside computation just feels like confusion between being the system (external view) and experiencing it from within (internal subjective view), doesn't break computation...there’s no fundamental contradiction or noncomputability introduced by subjective experience, randomness, or complexity, just different perspectives within the system. If you want to understand say genius for example, go into neurology and look at raw horse power and abstract thinking.. Neurological capacity (the hardware), Neurodiversity (the software style), Nurture (the training data and tuning environment) - (Mottron & Dawson, Baron-Cohen, Jensen & Deary & Haier). It's part of why I personally think we're really at the point that spiritual/godly exploration should be the most important thing, but that sounds woo woo and crazy, I suppose. (I probably just over simplified a bunch of stuff I don't fully understand)