skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no and yes

an activity which brings people together, including such which don't yet know each other, repeatedly, often but not required to be in person, where the people have to socially engage with each other, where there is peer pressure to not just skip it all the time because it will cause issues for others

that helps with loneliness

that it gives a framework of expected interactions and often a context where unusual but not mean actions do not or at lest much less lead to social embarrassment helps too

but here is the thing, to some degree this was/is true for a lot of traditional activities where you e.g. join club, association or similar. With the main difference being that such traditional clubs instead of being very lax/welcoming for people which are a bit socially awkward often had quite strict behavior codes. To some degree this helps people which are just not good at socializing and need some guidance to to fit in, but also often comes with all kinds of issues (like hazing rituals, or a much high chance of you not fitting in at all)

anyway my point is it doesn't have to be Pen and Paper and even less DnD, it can be all kinds of "meetup with soft peer pressure to show up" situations like

- a weekly board game meetup (especially for long running games like Gloomheaven)

- a wow guild

- some team sport clup thing (but not all, in some you just do thing alongside of others which means the extrinsic motivation to not skip it is much lower)

A main issue I see here is that a lot of the things can work over internet, but work easiest if there is a physical local close by meet up point. Like a board game store, game cafe, sport clup house, etc.

But not only has that gotten much harder due to the combo absurd high rent prices making new places hard and COVID having killed many existing places. But also the way the US seems to be doing zoning in many states (i.e. separation of where everyone lifes and where out of house life can happen) seems to be very hostile and many other things common for socializing in other countries
Didn't that already happen with US to China from the 70s
The only times I hated CSV was when it came from another system I had no control over. For example Windows and their encodings, or some other proprietary BS.

But CSV under controlled circumstances is very simple.

And speaking of Wintendo, the bonus is often that you can go straight from CSV to Excel presentation for the middle management.
Clicked the article for the book, stayed for the awesome explanation on how perspective works.
I feel your pain, the quotation marks are spot on. It does not help that they are usually former political science or media graduates who decided they will make big bucks in "tech". Very hard to work with those people, just because they entire background is do damn orthogonal to a classic engineering background.
Fair enough, it's busywork and easy to postpone. But code optimization is something that needs this kind of double-checking, so in the end you should have it for all opcodes, and then including the easy ones like abs isn't much extra work.
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Poe's law in action. I assume this is sarcasm but you never know
>All I care is that he comply with all regulations and that his bread tastes good, I don't really mind if it's not best bread in the world.

That's part of the issue. They ignore regulations and the bread has mold. But we eat it and say "well I'm not dead". Because we're being conditioned to eat, not taste. To consume, not question.

Meanwhile, I complain the bread tastes stale and moldy and I get argued down by fake bakers that "no you don't understand this is the future of bread". Well, it sucks. I don't csre how much you're paid to say otherwise or promise they it'll taste "good" (read: not crap) in a few years. I'll go to my bakery until then instead of having your bread shoved down my throat.

Make it taste like bread first instead of hyping up how it looks so close to bread. That's the whole issue causing the downfall of society.
I'm from the former communist block and let me tell you: you have no idea what are you talking about. Zero, none.

You seem to be regurgitating stereotypes.
This also has a great audiobook version. Simon Prebble really brings the characters to life.
"Sweden's sudden awakening to corruption - From small arrangements between friends to large-scale bribery and embezzlement, Swedes are discovering the extent of a phenomenon they had underestimated" - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/05/08/s...
> We obviously need experts to steer the AIs in this current phase, who said we don't?

I don't know if it's explicitely said but if you call it agentic, it sounds like it can do stuff independently (like an agent). If I still need to hand feed it everything, I wouldn't really call it agentic.
The dice example is one where we can readily compute the probabilities.

The problem with origin of life is we can't do that with the information we have. It's not that the probability is high or low, it's that it's unknown.
The killer feature of doordash/ubereats/grubhub/whatever is the ability to shop for food from a ton of different restaurants in one place with one payment button.

Back when I was doing food delivery before the pandemic, we would actively promote placing orders with our restaurant directly. I would tell repeat doordash customers that they can save 15% if they just call or use the website.

None of them converted. The convenience of the app is just too strong for people to care.
Besides the interconnection queue one of the big, big bottlenecks in building more transformers and pylons is getting enough of the right kinds of electrical steel. The south is getting more steelworker jobs right now but AFAIK the midwest isn't, for unclear reasons.
We Investigated Money Laundering, and What We Found
> JSON that's in the form {data: [...hundred megs of lines]} is annoying for various parsers.

One reason this became common was a simple protection against json hijacking: https://haacked.com/archive/2009/06/25/json-hijacking.aspx/
"A well-designed self-service GUI" doesn't exist once the company is optimizing for the opposite of what your are trying to do (cancel subscription, return item, file insurance claim, etc.)
Non-root containers still operate under a shared kernel. Non-root containers that run under a vulnerable kernel can lead to privilege escalation and container escapes.

Styrolite is a container runtime engine that runs containers in a virtual machine guest environment with no shared kernel state. It uses a type 1 hypervisor to fully isolate a running container from the node and other containers. It's similar to Firecracker or Kata containers, but doesn't require bare metal instances (runs on standard EC2, etc) and utilizes paravirtualization.
This is the way. jsonl where each row is a json list. It has well-defined standard quoting.

Just like csv you don't actually need the header row either, as long as there's convention about field ordering. Similar to proto bufs, where the field names are not included in the file itself.
How do you know someone's into crossfit^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H FLAC? :D
I had to pay $3K cash to get an MRI of my knee one time, wonder how much for the brain, maybe the same?
It was a bit too easy but I think something like this but as a wordle-type game with daily challenges could be fun.
>Why are you assuming they would fair any better in trade school?

Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but if they find themselves in service work, they should do anything they can to not be in that position. Some people just don't have any other options due to aptitude or attitude, so that's where they stay. That's not a great place to be in the US for the limited existence we have on Earth.

Something I learned in high school sports, particularly wrestling, is you have to always work to improve your position. That lesson holds very true in life.
> And sorry, I'm not familiar with that terminology (sidecar)

You were familiar with it earlier – you couldn't have sensibly replied otherwise. How did you manage to lose it in the meantime?

> That can be as simple as doing `bar.mapError(barError -> fooError(cause = barError))` and that's it.

At the end of the day is that really any different than: `err = errors.Join(MyError{}, err)`?

But you've still just moved logic around (e.g. into mapError/Join). You've not changed what needs to be done.
> “Our current administration” idk wtf you even mean

This is a very common colloquial phrase assuming you are from the US - it refers to the President and their administration.

Can you answer the question now?
> Yes, that might be surprising to left-leaning US citizen who are aware of the recent floodings in WV and the lack of national help: the abandonment of rural area seems somehow worse in China.

I can't say for sure how things are is particularly favorable for a specific side, many will be quick to judge with intent to merely confirm their pre-existing conclusions, but the real question for me is: what are these places going to look like in 50 years? Is the US going to sober up and become a first world country again? Is China's modernization going to continue and reach the country sides (e.g. not a bubble)?

My best hopes is that peaceful prosperity arrives at both places.
Looks good, but curses and I have a hard time.

Ages ago on a mini I use to program, there was a very simple library I could call to format a screen. You told it modifiable field type and its text plus position on the screen. The screen was fixed at 80x24 plus no popups.

I wish there was a simple wrapper for curses like that :)

In the DOS Days, zortech c had a nice set of functions for screen input, disp_*, those were easy for my simple mind to understand to.
> Don’t want to belittle the achievement

You literally did.

> as it sounds like on the first read

That's your interpretation, the title literally says: "Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 "
> The early success of the iPhone spooked Verizon, which put a huge amount of resources behind the Droid campaign, which is when Android really took off.

Citation please. Android was already becoming quite a topic before Verizon jumped on the bandwagon.

Finally an alternative to WinCE without getting stuck with Apple. I don't remember anyone claiming that Verizon caused Android to "really take off".
> Knowledge retained by the older generation of engineers, technicians and workers were completely lost when they passed away.

That has happened quite often in the past [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_inventions
I find it curious how the AVIF deterioration resembles an old physical photograph. I wonder why that is. Do you know of more comparisons like this? I’d like to observe the effect further but don’t have the availability right now to pursue it.
I always love the look of a well laid out TUI. In uni there were color IBM terminals everywhere and that bright, colorful UI is burned into my mind.

What I would like is a (n)curses library that uses a graphics back end instead of a TTY, preferably written in Go. I want a GTUI (Graphical-Text User Interface 8-)

Side note, Anyone know a site that curates a list of TUI designs? And not just good ones but examples of bad and weird.
This isn't true and sounds like something written by terminally online reddit libertarians.

The Black Swan documentary is primarily about sleazy private sector actors in Denmark. The only remotely state affiliated individuals in the documentary is a business man who was a former small city council member and a bankruptcy lawyer who has previously contracted for Danish government organizations. The system worked fine and the Danish equivalent of the FBI, the NSK, already had ongoing cases of investigations into a lot of the uncovered material.

The only "common" tax fraud in Denmark is when a house needs some minor fixing before being put on sale. Many Danish people will pay their friend's friend to do it for them "under the table" and not as formally contracted and taxed work. This is becoming increasingly harder.

However this is far from the massive systemic corruption in many other countries.
"Loneliness epidemic" is a funny turn of phrase.

I know it's common today to use the word "epidemic" as a hyperbolic way of referring to any phenomenon that seems to be increasing in occurrence, but its literal meaning refers to phenomena that propagate rapidly through networks of interaction between individuals.

So a literal interpretation of "loneliness epidemic" would describe a situation in which people are catching loneliness from their contact with each other.
Contribution of OS to slim nature and passive fanless cooling of MacBook Airs
If you recall Jobs' iPhone keynote in 2007 - he quoted Alan Kay saying that companies who are serious about software should make their own hardware. As we see MacBooks today are slim, fanless, passively cooled. That is indeed an engineering feat.

Question - how much of it is due to innovations in the OS - like optimizing code, multithreading architecture novelties, etc., and how much of it is pure hardware engineering like shoehorning lots of components in cramped space? Does the passive cooling without fan dependent on the OS in any way - that it runs in such a way that the machine is never heated above a certain threshold and hence fan is not required?

MacBook folks often say that Apple devices are col because the hardware and software are "intertwined". How exactly?
> Example: When encountering a memory error during a Docker build, it increased the memory settings rather than questioning why so much memory was used in the first place.

AI really is just like us!
>I think there's diminishing returns.

This is definitely true. I think pre-graduate college is pretty eye opening, at least when I went. In most high schools, they just cover the top layer of knowledge; in college they go quite a bit deeper. "They never taught us that in high school," is a saying that applies.
Jonathan Blow has been talking about this problem for a while now. I especially love his talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"

https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko?si=HgGG5PWyu7CBxYxt
yes, but the implementation may, as far as you know, look like

if (userRequestsToDeleteAccount || user.deactivated) { user.deactivated = true; showDeletionSuccessfulPage(); }

In this implementation, the user believes their data is deleted, but it has not.
Nvidia to anchor coreweave IPO at $40 with up to $250M share purchase
Question: is Perl the only runtime the Debian build process relies on?
The best part of newer windows is the upgraded WDDM. It smoothes out so many glitches with the display system. But you'd need the updated kernel for that. For that reason and other advancements I think it's probably better to just use Windows 11 and strip out the things you don't like.

I like the Windows 7 theme much better than later versions, though.
> One of my banks charged 1eur per instant payment up until recently

Illegal since 1 January, which is why they stopped. Hence why I'm saying it's free.

As for not all banks supporting it, if I'm not mistaken it will be mandatory by the end of the year, and the majority already do.
Super interesting and solves one of the main gripes I have for even the simplest tasks where I need to ask multiple times to make things consistent. How does it perform for mono-repos where different directories might have different standards (not ideal but unfortunate reality)?
Waymos drive in a rather different environment. They do not drive in poor weather or on highways. They also drive much more cautiously (read: slower) and slow down others. Net effect on safety is not that easy to measure.

Not crashing yourself is not enough. You could accomplish that by driving 10mph always, but you'd be causing accidents all around you.
I don't enjoy the keypresses of building useful features. I like identifying what needs to be changed, and how, in abstract terms. These tools quickly help me verify those changes are right.

If I need to call the VideoService to fetch some data, I don't want to spend time writing that and the tests that come with it. I'd rather outsource that part.
This is different. Apple just allows 3rd DJ software to use their streaming catalog.

These software are designed for "live" mixes, not like a DAW where you can build it up one by one and "render" it.

Technically you don't need hardware for DJ software, but I would say is frustrating without. Here is a free example software (without apple music integration) https://dj.app/
I found the same code in several different places. Wikipedia was the place I ultimately copy/pasted it from.
Schrödinger's Cat at Work: Performance vs. Perception
gVisor emulates a kernel in userspace, providing some isolation but still relying on a shared host kernel. The recent Nvidia GPU container toolkit vulnerability was able to privilege escalate and container escape to the host because of a shared inode.

Styrolite runs containers in a fully isolated virtual machine guest with its own, non-shared kernel, isolated from the host kernel. Styrolite doesn't run a userspace kernel that traps syscalls; it runs a type 1 hypervisor for better performance and security. You can read more in our whitepaper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04580
How long does it take to manually dry a normal load with that thing? My dryer takes at least an hour to dry a modest sized load of normal clothes so I would expect a non-powered one to take many hours, but maybe my modern dryer is really so bad it doesn't save much time.
One of my big objections to this - aside from the fact that I’m not quite agent pilled - Isn’t learning to code one of the best ways to learn to think and break down problems?

Like, what methods are you going to use to practice these skills. It doesn’t have to be coding; but so much of learning is by practicing skills adjacent to your goal.

Like, sure, in law school they teach you to break down cases, but to get into law school, the LSAT doesn’t ask you about the law? It asks you about logic problems

This is like saying don’t learn math because you can just use a calculator. While technically true, I think learning math teaches you how to think about problems.
Secure enclaves would appear in most computers. Nothing would be run without everything being encrypted.
Using linkhut to signal-boost my bookmarks
When I was 14 I went to live alone in a motel room in Vermont (long story). I had little money left for food, and one weekend had to go without food at all. But I had a bag of sugar, so I reasoned that I could live on sugar alone— it was calories after all.

I discovered that eating nothing but granulated sugar for 48 hours made me quite sick.

Watching companies force chat interfaces into everything is like watching a bunch of kids discover that you can’t live on a diet of sugar. They won’t listen until it makes them good and sick.
Could it, in fact, be possible that engaging in social interaction can reduce one's feelings of loneliness? Perhaps we'll need a multi-million-dollar research study to know for sure.
You don't even have to go back that far. I have shirts from Target I bought in the late 2000s/early 2010s that are still in great condition despite regular use. They've outlived plenty of newer clothes. The entire space got enshittified in the last decade especially.
I have never seen anyone use auto in code newer than the mid-70s, apart from C++ programmers accidentally using it in a case where it happens to work.
30 min -> 15 min is absolutely frightening lol.

But agreed on your first part. When I actively rush to get home, but have the car I passed 10 mins ago show up behind me at a stoplight, it makes me realize it’s not worth it.

I view traffic as a form of a packet delivery system with a bit of time tolerance in either direction. Trying to rush through is fruitless and dangerous.

But you saying you cut your drive by 50% makes me question everything! Is it a busy commute?
You have been successfully trolled.
This was inevitable and we'll see it playing out all over Europe.

You have a desire to be relevant in an important technological shift.

On one side, you have big tech companies laser-focused on attracting the best talent and putting them in a high-pressure cooker to deliver real business outcomes, under a leadership group that has consistently proven effective for the last XX years.

On the other side, you have universities, led by the remnants of that talent pool—those who were left behind in the acquisition race—full of principles and philosophical opinions but with little to no grounded experience in actual execution. Instead, you find a bunch of PhD students who either didn’t make the cut to be hired by the aforementioned tech companies or lack the DNA to thrive in them, actively avoiding that environment. Sprinkle on top several layers of governmental bureaucracy and diluted leadership, just to ensure everyone gets a fair slice of the extra funding.

I'm surprised anyone is surprised.
Oh, do I agree…

Don’t trap me in a chat window https://austinhenley.com/blog/trappedchat.html

Natural language is the lazy interface https://austinhenley.com/blog/naturallanguageui.html
> resources were denied or otherwise withheld between teams as a part of internal competition, service to the organisation was routinely forgotten or ignored, and changes in direction seemed to occur every quarter, if not every month.

Government funded

Loosely defined goals

Little oversight

No accountability

Yup, given the inputs, your description checks out.
Some about being pedantic, but what’s the value of I,C, R1-Rn here? Seems like a distraction!
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
DG 6503 images: https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Data_General_6053

DG story is fascinating. Founded in 1968 by ex DEC engineers. Annual sales of 1B in 1984. But then started losing to DEC's own VAX.

VAX is it's own ball of worms - the designers of VMS, the OS, ended up at Microsoft designing Windows NT. But a bunch of VAX customers ended up up installing this weird thing they got on tape from a friend instead of VMS, called 'UNIX' which confused DEC - why would you want a VAX without VMS?

And now half of everyone that's reading this on a desktop is doing so on either iOS, macOS or Android (UNIX or GNU variants) or Windows (Windows NT successor).
> A main issue I see here is that a lot of the things can work over internet, but work easiest if there is a physical local close by meet up point. Like a board game store, game cafe, sport clup house, etc.

I agree with this. There is something different about in-person activities than online ones. (And I say this as someone who gets most of his socialization done online.)
Funnily enough, I have a very common name and take quite a bit of relief in knowing that were someone to even attempt to look me up, they would see a number of authors, artists, politicians, etc. long before anything of me ever appeared. I've gone searching once or twice out of curiosity, and didn't find anything relevant on at least the first two or three pages of Google, Bing, etc.

I suppose the difference is that when I make any sort of professional blog, etc. I do so under online handles in place of my legal name because I see the content as being the important bit, not the person it's coming from; the credibility flows from the information provided, not the name it's tied to.

...Well, provided it's not xXx_DongMaster6969_xXx or whatever. :)
(disclaimer: I work at Netlify)
It's not a 1:1 channel, we're pushing for as much work in the open as possible, and extending the OpenNext group to more members.

IMHO one major challenge is the amount of work one has to do to build an adapter, if we can make the spec leaner and move logic out of e.g. the CacheHandler, that's gonna make it easier for you to create your own (or you could state that some features/modes are not supported - but for that, you'd need to have a very good idea of what these even are)
Why is app router so bad?