skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

Way back in the 90's I reached a conclusion that a programmer or sysadmin or hardware guy is now just the new auto mechanic.

'98 or so I was shopping for replacement software for my uncles business (y2k prep) and we went to this firms office, and basically everyone in the office, the owner, all the developers, the sales guy, the guy who would come out to install the hardware... every one of them could have been in their high school football team 10 years earlier. They were doing this kind of job because there was money in it full stop. They took us out to dinner and the conversation only comfirmed that snap perception. You could substitute "propane and propane products" in place of software and IT hardware without changing a thing about any of them.

Perversely today I probably wouldn't use the same comparison because auto mechanic is probably more nerdly and interesing persuit today than it used to be.

I think what I mean to say it's now a trade.

You might be a nerd in that trade just like you might be a nerd welder, but it's no longer required. You don't even have to be a wannabe nerd although many are.

Countless people in those jobs with no special love of it, and no fundamental curiosity.

School counselors told them it was going to be in demand, so they did that.

I think it's both better and worse today since then.

Obviously the sheer mass of IT work needed today, and the sheer mass population of people needed to do it, means that there are a many many people doing IT work that aten't good at it and don't love it.

Obviously today it's no longer special to to work with computers.

And there is also the ever present dislike for intellectuals in general that hurts nerds even at the same time when there is some nerd cache from making money. (actually I bet the nerds don't even make the real money any more. they get harnessed by the business types)

But I think it's also true there are more actual nerds today and they are more accepted than in the past. Still outnumbered by wannabes and everyone else, and the real nerds still not really liked or taken seriously by most, but more and better than 20 years ago.
>SpaceX readiness date will be <= X

To be fair to the FAA, I wouldn't bet on that. It's not called Elon Time for nothing.
Rust keeps making small usability improvements all the time, but the major improvements have already landed in the 2018 edition (smarter borrow checker, modules syntax, forgiving match patterns).
We also have a 14 day return window, or more clearly you have to notify that you have the intention to return it within the window. During this window you are allowed to test the thing you purchased. This applies to any remote purchase.

Returns does not have to be free but almost all stores offer free returns.
Reddit Photopea founder – I have millions of users, but no businesses use it
> becoming a big player

Are you saying they aren't a big player now?
I suppose for people like Thiel it is a good question because he's an entrepreneur/VC. Looking for opinions that no one holds but may present an investment opportunity is what he's looking for.
Thank you! Freehand, Cyber and Pixel are a few of the really unique styles.
I was an early adopter of LCDs because I hated the flicker, glow and fuzz of CRTs and felt it was leading to eye strain. Spent the princely sum of £400 for a second hand 1024x768 14" display in 1998 and never looked back.

Currently enjoying working on my ridiculous 31" concave-curved gaming monitor.
That is a nice railgun that will certainly find a place in the heart of many science fiction fans. Funny to see that the artistic prediction of the characteristic coils was pretty much on point.
Does Redhat provide OS for 2GB RAM, celeron devices? Poor comparison. And BTW, are you willing to pay > $200 per year for chromeOS (like RHEL)? Note that RHEL is also frozen, but average Joe wants all latest features in chromebook. Also even youtube/facebook needs so much RAM. Only you can survive browsing with w3m or wget - then chromeos is not for you.
Those 5 icon sets, Bangalore and Freemoji sets are all licensed under the Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 which lets you use them as you want.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Other premium icon sets aren't open-source, so using them would require a backlink or a purchase.
I have also been very confused about the popularity of TailwindCSS and similar CSS frameworks such as WindiCSS or UnoCSS.

I remember learning that HTML must not be about presentation. The CSS Zen Garden was the state of the art for web development. But as I read, this ship has sailed. The reality is that these frameworks are actually convenient to use and very appreciated by the large majority of web developers. Especially the younger ones. It's not much more than a syntax with some sugar compared to the HTML style attribute, but if it makes web developers happier I'm using it.
The heat shield isn't a blocker for getting to orbit, it's only needed to recover the second stage. Musk thinks that the Florida launch site will be ready before the end of the year anyway (and sure, add a few months for Elon Time, but they've already built one of them so the timeline should be fairly well understood). The overall economics and reliability may take another year or two to really get dialed in.
Some people (including me) felt how async was added was worrying.

Adding ".await" means when I teach Rust we now need to say "x.y is member access. Unless y is 'await'. Then it's something totally different". That's the type of strange rule that C++ has, and if you gather enough of them, languages become very hard to teach.

However, async seems to be the only big language feature which effected many things which has been added.
Application exit (Runtime error: The application has corrupted its heap memory area (address zero)!)

After I opened the file open dialog and then clicked cancel.
My experience working in a similar domain (NLP summarization, which leverages methods like text rank which are identical to pagerank but for text summation) is similar.

Personalized page rank is not significantly better at summarization in my experience, even "queryable" summarization, but that also could be a pure implementation problem or a problem of hyperparamater selection...
The support rep is following a script cooked up to follow a directive from an MBA. Support is a cost center, subject to optimization for P&L. Reputation isn't in the analysis so the customer hostile solution is best.
Trudeau is a hypocrite of the highest order. He fully backed the Indian farm protests (which blocked roads and essential supplies), supported foreign 'donations' and criticised the Indian courts for actions against the protesters.

What is OK in India is not OK for Canada it seems.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/situation-is-concern...

Quoting Trudeau: "When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern"
https://twitter.com/justintrudeau/status/205322201187106816
https://azurecharts.com/overview is sort of similar for Azure.
We had licensed the 5 icon sets, Bangalore and Freemoji sets under the Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 which lets you use them as you want.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

I'll take a look what are the other 6 licenses and make our licensing information clearer. Thank you. I appreicate this.
Recent article on this topic, summarizing a paper they co-wrote (linked at the end):

https://theconversation.com/renewables-are-cheaper-than-ever...
Just play an emulator in VR ;)

well, if the kids just want to experience pointing and shooting there are plenty of modern VR games that provide that. And, BTW, my short description of "Pistol Whip" is "rhythm Time Crisis in VR"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwzpaReU5g
no fiddling. Just works. Do not waste time OS upgrades. Browser is the only thing to use. No wasting time saving or lost data; linux commandline rsync or time machine transfers to new computers etc.

We deployed this for home office all secretaries as it is cheap and just works.
I think in a _discussion_ forum like hacker news, being contrarian can be very much adding to the discussion. That these comments end up on the top is just showing that it is appreciated by the community. It doesn't mean that _all_ comments are contrarian.

IMO the line the author did not seam to make clear in his blog post, which leads to some confusion in the comment section, is that being contrarian in a _discussion_ format - where all parties agree it is a discussion - is something else entirely than being contrarian to proposals from random people in real life.
Try the Bypass Paywalls add-on for Firefox.
This just goes to show that the US needs better consumer laws. This shit wouldn't fly in Australia, the ACCC would be on their asses immediately.
But we never took that step forward fully. We are constantly using icons in real life (trafic signs is one example) when we want to communicate small dose of information, to everyone, in short amount of time. That's why we use icons - changing taskbar into list of words works only until there is enough space, and even then is more annoying then just finding instantly recognizable picture.
> I contend that of the 26 modern letters, at least...

Who uses only letters? You want an alphanumeric display, to show 26 (27,8,9...) + 10 = 36 (37,8,9...) characters. That's your actual everyday "alphabet".

And then you're totally screwed from the start: 0OD, 1iIl, 2Zz, 5Ss, 6bG, 8B, 9qg...
We should keep it. The benefit from switching is miniscule, and the value lost in continuity and recognizability is massive.

I'm tired of designers chasing fads.
Yep, but when they're doing a talk they're playing a role. It's like when you're interviewing, you probably turn on the BS a bit. Most people don't do talks of any kind for their company so that group is already not representative of what it's like to work in company X on a day-to-day basis. That said, some things are true. E.g. Googlers are pretty self-congratulatory although there are plenty of internal cynics as well.
Why is Firebase Remote Config a tile? The whole area can just be one tile - Firebase. Seems artificially inflated.

https://firebase.google.com/docs/remote-config/?utm_source=e...
For anyone curious about traditional ibogaine use, I highly recommend Daniel Pinchbeck's "Breaking Open the Head".
LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice, which has been dead for nearly a decade. I doubt they rewrote all of the core functionality.
I think it's less nefarious than that. The vendor did not fulfil their end of the contract, so the contract is voided and the money is transferred back. If the bank starts to go into do partial refunding they could suddenly be spending a lot more on this service.
`iterator.map(…)` must return a new wrapper type, because it needs to store the closure somewhere, so it returns

struct Map { closure, original_iterator }

This fact could have been hidden by making these methods return `impl Iterator`, but it would be strictly less useful/performant in case you needed to store the iterator somewhere, because then you couldn't name the actual type, and would need to work with an abstract one.

But I do agree that the way documentation presents traits and their implementations can be overwhelming, especially the Iterator which is a pretty large trait.
The ones who have the skills to actually use this information will end up reading the whole thing anyway, there's an element of self selection here.

You don't need to know the DRAM timing stuff, technically, but it doesn't hurt to learn something new.

The actual problem with this doc is that it was written a very long time ago so although most things are very very true still a few things (like everything on the quality of prefetching techniques should be taken with a large grain of salt)
Metastases was a close secondary contender.
Revolution of WebAssembly
The current iterations are a bit over-engineered. A fully optimised later version that's slimmed down the design might do it without any payload, fins or heat shield. Maybe.
Doesn't matter when it was added. It was still a poor idea and remains so today. The "CoC phase" will be a thing we look back to being a transient period of oddness in the software industry. CoCs are weapons used by the privileged against the unprivileged.
Mindshare is overrated. It matters for programing languages where joining the hype helps you land a new job or social media due to network effects. However, if you are selling a tool, the user asks does it solves my problems without creating new ones for a reasonable price? and not how many others are using it? So, focus on your users because they pay your bills.
The page redirects to u202E (no backslash) which is a normal word. I think it's an Easter egg.
Oh wow it's the guy that built the open source dog USB Oscilloscope! Great product :)

I'm surprised that you have to do your own customer support, though. I had always assumed that Crowd Supply would take care of that.
people should be a lot more scared of psychedelics analogs that were only tested on rats(and that might one day make the poor souls exploited during the clinical trials insane...or dead)

it shouldn't be about what's easy, or about the image of a drug.

You don't try using a more dangerous drug because it have a better public image, that's insanity, or cupidity, but not science

also the trip is a big part of what makes them interesting for mental health
it's not just about hormone releases or brain chemistry changes, it's also about life changing experiences and realizations that wouldn't happen if you weren't tripping balls for a few hours

so all this really seems like pointless extremely dangerous and opportunistic research just to get funding, not real science
yeah piracy seems to be the only way to archive some games (like download only games for Wii U). Otherwise they would be lost forever.
Someone on Reddit asked how I make a living. Might be interesting for folks here too.

Right now, we're living off our savings and my wife's salary. Both sites are already profitable, though. I've recently launched an API for NsLookup, which now generates around 100 USD / month, and both sites have ads that generate income. Not enough to replace my salary yet, but I'm confident I can increase it over time.

Ads have a bad connotation, mainly because they often track users across the web. Mine don't. For WhoIsMyISP.org, I've partnered with NordVPN, and have their ads with plain `<a href=...><img /></a>`. And for NsLookup.io, I've joined the Carbon network, which also doesn't have tracking.
Compare the number of players with leading edge fabs then and now though.
>f becoming a big player in the semiconductor industry in the next decade

Did you mean

"a big player in the semiconductor _foundry_ industry in the next decade" ?

Intel has been the biggest semi player for most years during the last three decades.
For anyone interested in the topic of semiconductors industry this channel provides some great info and explanations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbkFAO1oUu8
To me the post sounds like OP projected his problem into HN. Also, why couldn't MySQL run on that laptop?
I think it's pretty clear that conditions in many of today's farms really do cause unnecessary suffering for the animals.

If we treat animals better, we can't produce as much meat. So, in order to get the general public on board with better animal welfare standards, we need to provide alternatives to meat, at scale.

In democracies, we (a few concerned people) can't just make laws. We can only implement solutions that can be supported across society.
In a debate when someone say they understand the motivation of their enemy and that the enemy is evil, this is often not very accurate.
When one side of the political side express why someone on the other side is doing something, then it is good to take a big chunk of salt..
What? Doesnt mobile dominate web traffic now days?
Joe Rogan - tells it like it is. No forced vaccine mandates, no social credit system and paper over the mouth does nothing...
So, the distribution of the original pixels determines the distribution of the blurred pixels? That's an interesting challenge!
What's impressive that you thought there was another way for anyone to interpret your comment! What a painfully overactive imagination you must have!

And your update doesn't change anything: They accidentally gave you a wrong label and it went to a bad address.

Already not a likely situation with automated systems, and not the interaction I'd used to write off an organization...

But then according to your own comment it got returned because it couldn't be delivered... you realize that just happens right? 3rd attempt and it goes back.

So to recap:

- you badgered these people of your own volition

- package got sent back anyways

- you still got your money back in an extremely reasonable timeframe, and in fact you're making it clear they were _very_ fast with your refund

Of course now you'll inform us how you left out the part where the Newegg employees said they intentionally sent you the wrong label because they don't like you... right?
All this, plus the fact that there are lots of pathologies which can lead to similar results, so the effective target market for assistive devices tends to be much smaller than even the small market originally expected.

Further shrunk by communities “closing up” from a combination of having been burned too many times, discrimination / in-group assistance, and viewing attempts to “fix” them as ableism, accommodation refusal, and further efforts to shun them / discriminate against them / divide them. See e.g. colchear implants in the deaf community.
We didn't fully optimize it for mobile but you should be able to see the pricing here https://streamlinehq.com/pricing or by using the desktop mode on mobile. Just tap on the triple dot menu at the top right of the screen and enter the desktop mode.
By hosted, do you mean that the blockchain would act as the mail server? Wouldn't that be incredibly slow and inefficient?
Bad design by what definition? Unicode is all about unifying ALL the characters from ALL the character sets into a single one, while also being compatible with 7 bit ASCII.

Emojis made it into Unicode because Japanese had custom emoticons, that just had to be brought into Unicode. Then someone discovered them on iOS and they skyrocketed in popularity.

If you want everyone to use Unicode, you truly have to account for everyone's use cases. No exceptions. Even if it means including Emojis, Ancient Egyptian hieroglpyhs[0], or such an irrelevant thing for every language using the latin script as a "RTL override character".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs_(Unicode_...

I'd say it's perfect design, with pretty good implementation too.
What a show. I could watch the twin booster landings all day. Not that I have or anything...
Ah yes these things are not scientific studies. Just read them as tech culture with diagrams and numbers.
Is there a reason why you've chosen the chat style interface vs the standard search box at the top and results at the bottom layout?

This is not a comment on the search results itself - always appreciate the efforts to break out of the standard google results and surface other sources, but I found the interface confusing and the previews were also taking up a lot of space. A compact view would be better - or giving the option to turn the previews on / off.
That btw is an anecdote from the association mining community.

I spent a lot of time learning about association rule mining in my AI courses, including the implementation details of competing ways to mine them. The technique seems extremely useful and fascinating (I jury rigged it for on the fly league of legends champ recommendations to maximize calculated win rate change given limited information), but I almost never see it used in the real world or even see it talked about anymore.

What happened to association rule mining?
Gartner puts them at Nr. 2 in 2021 after Samsung Electronics. However it should be noted that for Intel this seems to include total Revenue while for others it seems to be just their pure semiconductor revenue. If Intel were to sell their chip manufacturing as a subsidiary to themselves at market price, that subsidiary probably would be way further down the list.
You can locate sounds within 20-30° or so, which is pretty good for navigation at least.
Rip, Lorinda. I'm using bc almost daily.
6 months of working at a hypergrowth startup
A long time ago I worked in an EU R&D project where a third of the funding (~7billion Euros) was managed by a scandinavian telecom manufacturer.

One year after the start of the project, this manufacturer had done nothing, so the project leader made sure the work was transferred to a German SME which looked more active.

After another year, still nothing was done, so the project leader became very anxious.

What happened in the last 6 months of the project was that students did the work. But they probably were not aware that EU paid 7b for their work.

I got the impression this kind of behavior was not that uncommon.
The fields of microarchitecture and compiler design (specifically relating to microarchitecture also, i.e. we didn't go with Itanium or RISC) could really use a new batch of textbooks.

Hennessey and Patterson is still good but there's only like 1 alternative, and the most up to date "complete" book on memory I'm aware of is from 2007 (Jacobs et al).

Also: I've read about memory quite bit, I get it. What I don't get, and am thus asking for recommendations for is: "What every programmer should know about storage".
No one says they would drink fracking fluid.
Progress bar would be nice, without these comments I would have no idea whether to wait or not thinking that maybe it got stuck in a loop downloading the same thing over and over again or something.
Ever actually tried? I've contacted well-known people in their field (most recently Hugh Darwen for an obscure database question) and I find them very willing to help if you don't waste their time. Stop with the it's-all-stacked-against-us-don't-even-try bullshit.
I certainly have some nostalgic for light gun games but there are plenty of far more immersive gun games in vr, and ducking with your body is fun
Flywheels are quite limited in their storage capabilities. Because there is a limit to their RPM before they tear themselves apart from centrifugal forces. They are really interesting for energy storage on the scale of seconds, to smooth out spikes over that range. Much less interesting for storage on the scale of hours to days. Where batteries and hydrogen become more interesting. Pumped hydro is also quite nice on those scales, but cannot be implemented everywhere.

Hydrogen is much less efficient that batteries, but much more scalable. That makes it attractive for taking in large amounts of over-produced electricity, and for use-cases where you need hydrogen anyway rather than meaning to turn the hydrogen back into electricity.
You can get an idea of your computers memory hierarchy in your browser here:

https://chipsandcheese.com/memory-latency-test/
Not OP, but I can answer - also was very happy with Linode for boxes, but there's a lot more than just boxes these days - queues, streaming, metrics, monitoring, containers, etc. Once an application moves from 'runs on a fixed number of boxes' to 'autoscaling, automatic healing/recovery and distributed databases', the overhead of DIY gets high (and I'm paid to do that!).

My clients pay a fairly high premium for AWS because it allows them to move _faster_, not that it's _cheaper_.