skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much. They're saying put in really cheap and reliable power sources with a cheap and reliable funding mechanism. And put them everywhere. Only go to level 2 if it's just as easy and reliable as level 1, prioritize ubiquity over speed.
'woolly mouse': why scientists doubt it's a big step towards recreating mammoths
Job with worse degree (potentially) vs Degree which might get me a (better) job in the future.

Honestly, I'm unsure. I figure if people say experience is more valued in SWE / cybersec / devops then I will go for the former. If education is valued more I will go for uni. Looking for experienced people's thoughts
They did know how to manufacture. The products they manufactured can be seen today rusting in Ukrainian fields.
It's a common pattern. Scientists study a thing which is commonly known but perhaps not scientifically studied before. Then when they or their university PR department go to promote their work it turns into "Scientists SHOCKED to discover..."

Then people in the comments complain that everybody already knew this, then other people come in to complain about the complaints, explaining that scientific evidence for things which are common knowledge is still valuable and we shouldn't hold sensational headlines against the researchers because they're just competing for attention and besides they probably weren't even the ones to write the sensational takes, blah blah blah. It's all so tiresome.
'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cables under attack?
Their book "Introduction to Reinforcement Learning" is one of the most accessible texts in the AI/ML field, highly recommend reading it.
Dude, where are your syscalls?
I'd be worried about asbestos in a toaster of that vintage.
"At this point in time, US is the global leader in personal freedoms, culture and financial opportunities."

This needs to be past-tensed. In fact, currently, the US is the global leader in regressing with regards to these and other commendable qualities.
Erlang Patch Package OTP 27.3 Released
When I was a young student, hearing all the marketing talk from various companies about all their valuable intellectual property that is supposedly incorporated in their products and about their valuable trade secrets that are supposedly guarded from their competitors, I thought that when I will start working at such a company I would learn a lot of useful things, much above what I was learning as a student.

However, after working at many companies, big and small, I was disappointed to find out that my expectations had been naive. In no such company have I seen any useful secret. There has been only one case when I have thought at first that I have learned something not widely known, but then, through a search through the older literature, I have found that fact published in an old research paper.

The only really useful information that I have found at every such workplace in a successful company, was the know-how about a long list of engineering solutions that I could think of when confronted with solving a new problem, but which were known by the experienced staff as dead ends, which had been tried by them, but for various reasons were not acceptable solutions.

The know-how about such solutions that do not work and especially why they do not work, was much more valuable than what was officially considered as intellectual property, e.g. patents or copyrights.
The term for this process is "racemization".
Wether the US is a beacon of freedom is too much of a landmine, I'll just point out that there's about a few dozen countrjes around the world where you'll enjoy enough personal freedom.

> Culture is something that's very hard to replicate.

You are highlighting the global influence of the US. By definition, you'll get access to that global shine almost wherever you live. Nobody will immigrate to the US to watch Disney movies or eat McDonalds. On the other hand, you might need to be in Korea to get most of the Korean culture. You'd need to assert that the US local and exclusive culture is more attractive than other countries own culture, and that sounds like a hard debate.

To your point, it's easier to move to the US if you already know the culture a bit, but that still presumes wanting to move there.
Poll: Do you still write code?
Recent advances in AI promise to make most of the handy work of coding a thing of the past.

Do you still write your own code?
- Yes, it's me 100% of the time.
- Yes, 75% of the time, but productivity is about the same.
- Yes, 50% of the time, I'm also 50% more effective.
- Yes, 25% of the time. I'm about twice as effective.
- No, the AI writes it all. I'm 3x as effective. It still needs substantial polish.
-No, the AI does it all and I'm 10x as effective. I hardly need to polish it.
Firefox ESR [0] with Arkenfox [1] on one machine and BetterFox [2] on another. To watch the telemetry I sometimes force all traffic through a Squid MitM SSL Bump proxy.

[0] - https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

[1] - https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

[2] - https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox
SpeciesNet: AI models trained by Google to classify species in images
this is EXACTLY it. the rise of social media and demise of legacy media weaponized politicians to create flamewars over issues which are great for winning elections but have no real meaning for our day-to-day lives. wokeness, transgender athletes, how many genders we have on the web forms to choose from, how many "immigrants" are we going to deport... are entirely meaningless for 99.98% of the population. instead of talking about how to move the country forward the public discourse is now filled with meaningless "social wars." I do not see a way out of this and I am about as optimistic of a person as you'll find... I mentioned to my colleague few weeks back when we had to change the gender dropdown from tens of options to just two to just stash the changes till 2028 when we'll get 983 options for that same dropdown :)
Nice work.

Does it include shared folders? I look forward to seeing one of these projects include either that or NNTP support. Then we can get rid of Slack.
Database Management for Kubernetes App Clusters
"I used a hammer to make orange juice and it made a mess! Unusable!"
>I can commit small features strategically (like if a partner team isn't getting a lot of love but we're under-resourced)

Like a 10X (cost) intern?
I’m just saying every perceived benefit has some kind of cost or perverse consequence, eventually. Please feel free to point to a specific example of a policy that has been successfully implemented that contradicts this principle.
Its an 'arms race'. As crabs adapt to the current crop of cuttlefish ruses, the cuttlefish also adapt to overcome again.

An aside, but the recent book by Dawkins "The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie" is fascinating and explains how you can look at an animal and understand the environment of its ancestors. You can read it as a kind of massive autobiography of the species and detect waypoints on its evolutionary journey.
I mean if you are selling detergent, paint or soap its a different argument there.

But even in that case you still have to be darn good at distribution, financials, marketing etc.

You can't exactly dictate things cluelessly at a abstract level like managers in software do.
To me Lynx is a text browser
Yeah I was unsure if I should stick around or not.

I know someone who is a contractor and it seems having a broader range of companies on your CV looks better. At least from my perspective.
He previously worked at a company for 15 years and got an ok salary - after about a year contracting he doubled it.
ICP registration doesn't mean you can serve forbidden content without repercussions...

Bandwidth and/or latency can be good technical reasons to host locally, but unless you're e.g. streaming video, it probably won't be much of an issue.
Is Biome ready to replace Prettier and ESLint?
As an EU er: fat no on this one, sorry. Personal freedom is available in most western countries. Hollywood is in decline for a while now, with in the EU at least a lot of local productions going mainstream.

The big pros of the USA are 1) the unified market, where everyone shares the language, most laws and regulations, a lot of culture and political vision. Also 2) the ability to take risks. Starting a company is easy, and failing it is not carreer-terminating. You don't need a piece of paper for absolutely everything.

Also, I've learned first French and later English, by osmosis, as that's the language of whatever came into the country. I noticed recently I am starting to osmosis-learn Chinese now, and I am not the only one. Also, I've seen brain drain to the USA in my student years, but today, people also choose to go to China
Practitioners need to be led by a practitioner. I worked for a while with a team leader whose only connection to the team was absorbing credit, giving confusing orders and acting like he saved the day. I dont want to work with aggregator managers ever again.
It’s not just their paper printers. Their label makers recently drm to work only with overpriced Brother tape.
It's been a few years. In that time, leases will have ended, and not been renewed. Refurbs and buildouts of new space will have been abandoned. Outdated and surplus equipment will have been decommissioned and scrapped or sold off or sent to other sites where it was required. I'm sure there are some offices that are just like how they were, but also some offices which _no longer exist_, and it's unlikely their replacements will have been fitted out if it wasn't expected that they would be imminently used.
It's called forking
I propose ASML raised prices for US customers by 30%, and maybe give China some freebies to thank them for the panda's.
Yup sorry, Marshall the man, not Martial the state.
Was the US still your favorite during the Bush administration?
After thinking about what you wrote here I have some conclusion:

If someone is "good manager" that does all those things whether he writes the code or not he is going to be a "good manager" anyway. Explicitly writing code might not be best use of time but hey if person feels like he needs it that is on him.

If someone is "bad manager" that doesn't bother to deal with technical details and wants only to do "important management stuff" and thinks he can manage by proxies like counting story points or counting closed tasks, does not care about HTTP client A or B and learning the system, he is going to be a "bad manager" and will never even care about writing code.

Finally "bad manager" and "good manager" - is hard to tell because "bad manager" can be good for the company or a team as much as "good manager" and depending on many other factors it can be that "down to earth, hands dirty, good manager" might be really bad for the company or a team depending on business context.
It's also a good way of isolating proprietary applications that barf services, applications, and custom ways of keeping user state all over the system – I'm looking at you, Citrix.
Really nice- I want a distro package. Managing updates manually gets out of control fast if you run many services.
Nice, but it's so much easier and cheaper (in time spent) to just use a trusted and secure mail provider with your personal domain. Mailbox.org is my favorite - dkim, encryption, webdav all work out of the box with Android apps available.
There is also cy [0] which I came across the other day and am yet to try.

[0] https://github.com/cfoust/cy
Can You Learn Startup Lessons in 60 Seconds? We Think So
We’re experimenting with ultra-short AI-generated startup lessons—just 60 seconds each.

Inspired by top business books, YC frameworks, and real-world case studies, we break down key concepts into fast, actionable insights.

Do you think this is a useful way to learn?
Oh don't :)

I'm actually worried that some newer smart devices might be set up to use well known public wifi services that are available from consumer routers.

Just sitting here I have public "EE Wifi X" and "BT Internet" which it could connect to if configured at the factory to do that.

Then I am boned.
https://rxjourney.com.ng

A personal blog.

Stack is Django server and Sveltekit for the frontend.

I could have just used Django for everything, but I initially had bigger plans for the blog with lots of interactivity, I ended up just keeping it simple.
I had no idea. Interesting and cool at the same time!
> The people who move rarely lose all contact with the host country. They gain invaluable experience, know-how, and contacts that some of them eventually bring back to the host country.

How many Europeans who emigrated to the USA in the late 19th and early 20th centuries returned to their countries after making it big in America? Is any of Europe's economic development since then attributable to them?
Well, then I simply don’t agree that `git log --oneline --graph` is “really, really bad”.

Clunky? Sure, but it suffices to visualize simple branching patters. And no visualizer suffices for gnarly graphs (like a long-lived topic branch that has repeatedly merged in upstream), because the building a mental model of a complex history is difficult even if you can see it.
the grilles are BMW’s answer to Chinese customers customizing their cars like that.

Let their ugliness for ever and eternity be a testament to how whole swaths of western economies for over a decade confused „productivity gains“ with „skimming off China‘s growth“
That’s not my argument at all. You’re responding to a straw man interpretation of what I wrote.

I’m saying that for a country like the US, the idea that brain-draining the best from the rest of the world will have unmitigated positive outcomes is false.
And in the case of Microsoft: often the invoices, expired credit card notification from Microsoft itself are considered spam in o365... Had some inconveniences because of this.

But hey, at least it has a Copilot bar thoughtfully filling that useless vertical space on my screen!
> There was already relatively deep penetration of this stuff in the corporate world and universities way back in the early 1990s.

Anyone remember Novell NetWare?
Terminator? You can split/configure your terminals anyhow, and save your setup for future reference.
> Why is that a waste? I'm an EM and code both at work and on nights/weekends. During the work day, I spend most of my time helping other people directly (code review, talking through designs, 1:1s, xfn collab, etc.) To build larger things, I do them nights and weekends.

Please take care of your health.
Humans need sleep,
Even when you think you don't.
Try to get enough sleep.
Try to have at least some time during the day where you don't have any mental stress.

I have these videos that keep showing on my Instagram suggested reels that remind me that in a hundred or two after I am dead, literally nobody will have any clue I even existed. If hard work makes you happy, that's good. Keep working hard. However, definitely make time for sleep.

Controversial opinion: you shouldn't need drugs (caffeine) to help you wake up.
Maybe you’re missing part of the point… you can’t send an interac transfer from a US bank account, so unless you have a Canadian bank account, you can’t do it !
They are quite good for potatoes.
Abiogenic synthesis of "primordial soup" is fairly straight forward, see the Miller-Urey Experiment. A soup of random amino acids and whatnot might be created in a number of ways on Earth, so it's a stretch and not very interesting to suppose that such soups didn't exist on Earth and were brought in by space. The interesting panspermia hypothesis is that actual life came down from space. Finding amino acids in space could be evidence for that, but if the stuff found in space is mixed chirality that undermines those chemicals as evidence of life in space. Mixed chirality implies a mundane abiogenic origin.
Source of your claim? I'm monitoring blocklists of about 20 different VPS providers, most of them are completely clean, some are in one policy blocklist because they don't allow outgoing emails and only couple are on 2+ blacklists (of 67 monitored) because there's some noisy neighbor on the /24 subnet.
Then the answer is to stop counting baby deaths. Can't complain about the statistics if there are no statistics.

https://apnews.com/article/census-bureau-commerce-department...
Agreed. The content is debatable, but the title "Dead planet" is one step away from calling most people "zombies" or NPCs.

If you reach that conclusion, it's a cue to look back and work out where you went wrong. And not to give offence unnecessarily.
Biggest iceberg runs aground after a near-40-year journey from Antarctica
The Cyber Resilience Act – Where to Find a EU Authorised Representative?
If your company is outside EU and you are developing software and selling it to EU customers - you need to find an Authorised Representative in order to comply with CRA requirements (https://streamlex.eu/articles/cra-en-art-18/). But do you know any service providing Authorised Representative services for software manufacturers? We could not find any!
> if anyone knows where that claim comes from originally, would love to know.

ChatGPT is built by OpenAI which was funded by Microsoft, hence it must be in their contract to use Bing to train ChatGPT
I loved how diverse those back stories of each characters were. A bit of cyberpunk, a bit of politics, interesting concept of time reversal.
Mice perform 'mouse-to-mouse resuscitation'
You are probably on Debian, this adds a lot of complexity.

My exim config became10x smaller after I started using upstream directly.
> how exactly are we converging on a consensus if not from some preexisting sense of the good?

Well, there is this mechanism of imprinting our current moral settings (both declared and actually demonstrated) onto mostly blank-slate minds of the children, so that the next generation has mostly the same morals as the current one but with minor differences: so the ethics can "evolve" in time but that doesn't mean there is any end-state "consensus" they're trying to reach.
Thank you!

I am thinking if I get a London role I will take it 100%.
If I get Manchester I will have to weigh up the two some more.

Can I ask - did you use to live in London? Is it feasible for two 18yos to rent together in a not shit place for like £2000 a month? I'm not really familiar with the city
> and have been calling themselves the real America ever since

This isn't really the situation with Taiwan though. The main reason Taiwan is still officially called the Republic of China is because changing that will likely trigger the PRC.
So industry experience is more valued than a proper degree in CS?
You'd need to be able to 3d print POM, though (or use CNC).
I have 25+ years of dev experience, and currently work as an engineering manager for teams who write code in a language I've never used (but in a domain I understand well). What do you think I'm missing?
NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon
I do wonder what he was imagining that would look like, given go has basically no ways to abstract over control flow.

(rust, meanwhile, had macros, and people settled on the try! macro fairly quickly, which is basically just bundling up 'if err != nil' into a smaller package, and that eventually turned into '?' because try! was still a bit too unwieldy. Go doesn't have an way to do the same)

addendum: Having read the blog post, it seems like it's basically arguing for interfaces which essentially buffer error reporting. I've written code that works like this before, and it doesn't really deal with control flow well at all: it's basically only a solution for the case of having a straight-line set of function calls, and some interfaces are commonly used like this, but it's only a fraction of them and you introduce more likelihood of errors if you then try to use them in more complicated situations (imagine his proposed option but you want to make a decision based on a value in the middle, or run a loop. It either stops working entirely or you have to decide on a 'safe' fake default value to return in the case of an error fall-through that doesn't break the logic, which is usually impossible.
From your link:

> The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a policy blueprint crafted by former Trump administration officials, states that “COVID made telework ubiquitous, but the law and regulations are still stuck in an era when telework was unique.”

And yet we have stories like "Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights":

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43253562

So at the same time we have the administration saying "RTO" and the admin's playbook people saying (in the past?) "we have RTO, why do we need space?".
...and about twice what it was 50 years ago. How have Sweden, Japan, France, etc. managed to keep income inequality around postwar lows while America hasn't?
Ask HN: How to Build a Community Group?
I've developed a command-line tool, and recently, some users have started trying it out. Now, I'm considering creating a community group on Discord or Telegram to foster discussions and support.

However, I have no prior experience in managing a community. What are some best practices? What should I do, and what should I avoid?
> an accidental shiboleth that trips up Russians pretending to be American online is they'll mention unprompted "warm water port" as a notable feature.

That's just reddit paranoia. "Warm water port" is a term of art which means a port that stays free of ice. It's not about comfortable swimming temperatures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port#Warm-water_port

Reddit just uses this as an excuse to say that anybody discussing reasons Russia might have started this war, other than "they're being evil for the sake of being evil, just like in my manchild Marvel/Harry Potter/Star Wars movies" is secretly a Russian bot, because even if you know such reasons might exist your willingness to discuss them, or unwillingness to go along with a simplistic groupthink narrative, is something which must be suppressed and punished. The cause is more important than your desire to have an honest conversation!

Anyway, this kind of language policing and "shibboleth" crap lame slacktivism. Go enlist. Ooh, that's probably a shibboleth too. Beep boop, Imma robot because I don't walk in lockstep with Reddit!
Digg Returns: Relaunching in Bid to Bring "Good Vibes" Back to Social Media
Seconding for mailu. I've had a mailu server running for at least a couple of years that requires very little on-going maintenance, but I don't use it daily or for anything personally mission critical.

When I do need it, however, it's there, humming away happily.
Astro SSG deployed on git commit trigger to CloudFlare Pages. I write my content in markdown and commit to GitHub. Astro does the work on generating the static site. 100 score on PageSpeed Insights.

And apart from the domain, it’s free.
I live in Delhi, India air pollutants here are very high, and based on my observation of plants, they've not been happy so I guess there might be some truth to the article.

My plants here are neither healthy nor dying, they're in a very sub state
It’s been a year, it’s still great. I already wasn’t sure they would survive before the acquisition, so the move doesn’t make that much of a difference in terms of stability.
> The new model seems to prove that longstanding rumors of diminishing returns in training unsupervised-learning LLMs were correct and that the so-called "scaling laws" cited by many for years have possibly met their natural end.

The commonly-cited scaling laws[0] predict diminishing returns from scale. Fairly uncontroversial for instance that going from 1 GPU to 2 GPUs gives a larger improvement than going from 101 GPUs to 102 GPUs. Same with, say, computer graphics.

I feel scaling laws are getting conflated with the theory of an exponential "hard takeoff" of self-improvement (which isn't particuarly well-founded in my opinion).

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361