skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very interesting. However, I recommend that you keep the pricing constant and cap the resource usage at your end. A lot of semi-technical folks would understand the value of owning data and using open source application but the "fuzziness" around pricing would put them off.
Where does your prejudice against Americans come from?
Preview - the app that made my mother ask me countless of times how to merge PDFs (and still does)
> So if let's say, Myanmar doesn't stop using CFCs. What's your solution? Send in some Blue Helmets to enforce global law?

But this is exactly why UN conspiracy theories are such a joke. The UN hardly ever enforces anything, because they can't. And the few times it does, it's typically US soldiers operating only nominally under the UN.

The UN is a bogeyman for ultranationalists, but it's mostly just issuing advisory guidelines with very little force behind them. It's not a global tyranny.
Ah I just added this to my comment as you were typing it up. I've used this feature a lot too. Works well.
The math doesn't change at all, you just need to build things so that supply keeps up with demand. It's not rocket science.
The most compelling reason I communicate with young people who I work with in this age bracket is the idea of a safe sandbox.

Programming is a way to learn a new language that allows you to build something...ANYTHING...that you can easily tear down, upgrade, keep, or share.

There is nothing like the feeling of trying to build something, getting stuck, having the AHA moment, then seeing it work!

I don't focus on a particular language, stack, or goal. I push them to think about what they want to build, break, and poke around with, find an example online, then open it up and try to modify it.

I've found that most teens want the ability the explore, on their own terms. Programming is too often told from the perspective of working adults who focus on productivity, profit, or protection against obsolescence (you better learn it b/c it will be needed in your future). At that age, most kids aren't motivated by that because it's not their context.

I completely disagree with the notion that one has to "just like it" or "find your own motivation or its not for you". This is not a pipeline problem. This is an incentive problem and the industry is mostly incentivized by efficiency, speed, and profit. I try to focus on the value.
Easy - just spend your time yacking and anoying productive people in the next cube. And then get the person in the next cube to actually make the sale.
It comes from the emoji[1], but I always think of Boaty McBoatface[2]

[1] https://emojipedia.org/hugging-face/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Sir_David_Attenborough#Nam...
Thanks for the answer, makes sense from a purely economical perspective, but I wonder if universities should fund themselves through speculation and financial instruments. Sounds way too detached from the actual purpose of the institution.

Would it make sense for hospitals to do the same? Why not theaters next? In the end, if keeping the balance in check is the main thing an istitution is bound to do, why not stop doing education (= expenses) and just focus on investments?
As in: support exists and can be reached?
That situation will be as untenable as Japan’s in the long run, as China also has its own looming demographic crisis. The government will likely open up to more immigration from Southeast Asia, at the very least.
Turned out to be useful in WWI
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Reddit is ripe for being in the parting end of a new digg→reddit event, with users leaving to a federated platform (I can only think of Lemmy). However, I don't know if it's even possible in the current state of things and given the amount of inertia it holds now. At least it should rot as the new Facebook for low effort posts.

For now the best way is to used teddit as a front-end (if you don't post) and Dawn (ad-free, non-spamming, FLOSS app for Android if you do).
Yes the can but not really without you having the ability to know. There are some security devices that implement this and the general way it works is they decrypt the data when it comes in to the proxy and encrypt it when it goes out.

The way you would know that this is happening is you would get certificate errors or the fingerprint would not match on the SSH session. Because they cannot actually break the encryption and spoof the authentic certificate.

Places where this generally happens are environments where they can be completely controlled. Such as a corporate Network where they have their own internal certificate authority which is already distributed down to all of the clients on their Network. This way they're proxy can take traffic from your bank for example decrypt it and then reissue a certificate and encrypt it with their internal certificate authority and your browser generally won't throw an SSL error because there's certificate is validated through a chain of trust. because this is a real thing that happens there are other methods that some websites employ so that certificate validation can be double checked through an embedded value in the web page. This kind of gives you the extra alert that this kind of man in the middle is happening. Because let's face it not everyone notices the little green bar or the lock icon and for the most part we've been trained that if you see the lock icon it's secure. But just because the Lockheed icon is there does not mean you have ended to end a security in all situations.

With SSH interceptions because they generally don't rely on a chain of trust like TLS certificates I don't know that they have a way of spoofing the fingerprint because that fingerprint is from the search on the other side and so if you know what the fingerprint is you will know when it's been changed. But if you're like a lot of people sometimes you just click through that warning.
Absolutely not US-specific; happens all the time here in Canada; and it’s certainly happened, even to myself - pretty recently.

AppleCare is so much better than it ‘officially’ says it is.
Escrow. You're talking about escrow.
That still doesn't mean no resources are spent producing the electricity that powers your electric car. (Which is what you claimed: "And to answer your question: none.") Just fewer resources than would have been required it electricity production had been as carbon intensive as today.
>But as a general rule, I think we must not discard a technology just because it's old.

I forget who had the quote that went something like:

"If SQL is so great why have people been trying to replace it for decades?"

(the failure to replace it is of course the punchline, in case anyone misses that)
There's also https://remix.run
If your server ip shows up in the wrong log you will get legal correspondence almost certainly for police to check whether you are the origin server. Caching would be another issue.
Played this at university, can confirm it ends in utter chaos.
Im pretty sure I saw this in eBay's TOS: Consider yourself lucky to be empowered by eBay to make us money! If you are lucky, we may send you some money too. If you ask about your money you will be told to fuck off.
Select them then open them? Or select, right click, open with.

I suspect I’m missing your point somehow?
There are two main source of profit in the modern world. The first is exclusivity of market opportunity, through monopoly (including those "partial" monopolies provided by network effects), copyright, patent, regulatory capture, etc. The second place that profit comes from is in taking on liabilities that either you will not be required to pay, or not be able to pay. Uninsured borrowing doesn't really evoke the kind of evil that is really at play here, but it's an appropriate term.

More subtle is when the people making decisions (ie in the c-suite, board) have payoff curves that are substantially different from the company's payoff curve. Risking train derailment strikes me as being in this category. These schemes can be deeply convoluted. The author implies that there is substantial, uninsurable risk to cities that is implicitly taken on by any freight carrier. Holding everything else equal, increasing revenue while increasing the potential damage to a city is a potential source of profit.
In my experience developing salesforce stuff in the past, forcing people into the wrong services while charging a fortune for the headache and lockin is their entire business model.
That is what it says:

"In the case of someone like Margaret Thatcher, it was a deliberate choice to give her a Tory safe seat."
> People use Erlang, more times than not, because they want a fail-safe runtime

I disagree; 99% of people running Erlang runtimes are running them in use-cases where it'd be fine if any individual node crashed and got restarted.

(E.g. running a Phoenix web-app as a K8s replicated Deployment, with no durable internal state, only the mesh-replicated Phoenix.Presence data that can be recovered from peers after node restart; where, for users, even having a long-running websocket is just an optimization over long-polling, and so it's no skin off the clients' backs if said connection gets dropped once in a blue moon, requiring them to reconnect to another node in the cluster.)

I agree that you should only be using NIFs after you've exhausted the other options — "C nodes" being my favorite of those, personally.

But downplaying NIFs ignores a whole other segment of use-cases, where you're not adding native code to Erlang, but rather you're starting with a "core" of native code (e.g. an HFT trading engine), and then building an app by wrapping that native code in Erlang, where the code presents itself to Erlang as a NIF.

If efficient shared-address-space high-throughput interaction between your native "core" and your higher-level "glue" is the whole point, then Erlang+NIFs is a pretty great way to get a bunch of advantages without losing much. It's a lot better than what you get from the alternatives — where those alternatives are "loading the native core as an FFI module in some other dynamic language runtime."
I studied both engineering and management as part of the same degree. I can tell you everything the techies think about MBAs is correct. (The undergrad management degree overlapped with the MBA quite a bit, esp as the MBA was only one year).

Somehow if you take two thirds of an engineering degree and two thirds of an econ/mgt degree, two thirds of the work is the engineering degree.

Most of the reading in management is discovery channel style: lots of interesting things, there's no doubting that, but not real skills. They raise simple ideas to a level of respect that is not warranted by the content. Eg Porter's Five Forces can only really be a superficial checklist for strategy, it doesn't actually tell you anything about what matters in some industry, and you might come across some business where those five items are not so clear cut. Same with SWOT analysis and various other acronyms, they are simply trivial things that cannot stand next to the content of a technical degree.

There's also an inherent problem with MBA training: it assumes that there's a general training that is useful to every business. If you're going to apply the material, every grad will end up putting a round peg in a square hole. Fortunately there's not really anything to apply, you get the cool jobs because you're showing that you're smart and ambitious, not because you are qualified technically to do it.

Engineering on the other hand is quite hard to BS. We built a crappy radio in the first term, but it was a radio and it played the radio when you turned it on. You had to understand how radio spectrum worked and how to solder the little RLC components together to make it work.
Getting that kind of raise in the current environment is a huge accomplishment. Congratulations.
I mean look at the rise of things like Hotwire. We are seeing developers go away from JSON everything to let me just send an HTML partial over the wire instead, that and things like Phoenix Liveview: let me send what needs to be changed in the DOM as a websocket message and save on data.

I don't mind the idea for a SPA for a big social media type of site, but for ordinary sites, I feel like it's overkill in most cases. If you enjoy it and it works best with your team and workflow I'm not trying to knock on you. I just prefer not to add more layers and points of failure to my web application.
Virtual offices are not remote-friendly workplaces
I know invoking astrology is a good way to discredit oneself, but that particular historic perspective attributes the origin of proto-scientific knowledge to the lost races from before the last cataclysm. This is generalizing a lot on my part, but trying to reveal the identity of Hermes Trismagestis will take you on a tour of the ancient world that crosses continents in ways you would never imagine. This is all to say that the Babylonians and Egyptians were extremely revered and cited this entire time for their scientific knowledge TO THIS DAY (take a look at our nation's symbolism).
> Sounds way too detached from the actual purpose of the institution.

I literally don't understand what you mean. The purpose of the institution is to educate people (and other stuff.) They do that by investing money that they were given for this exact purpose.

What on earth could the problem with that be?

No only are they providing education to people, often for free, they're also lending people money to build and develop businesses along the way.

I think you've got some idea they have their billions in a Duck McScrooge style vault? They don't - being invested means they lend it to people to build things. It's all being actively used.

> Would it make sense for hospitals to do the same?

Many hospitals and health organisations have endowments. For example the Wellcome Trust has an endowment of $37 billion. I think they funded my wife's PhD in cancer.

> Why not theaters next?

Many art institutions have endowments. For example the Getty uses a $7 billion endowment to fund the arts so they're preserved for and accessible to people like you.

What is the issue you see here? If they kept it as cash in the bank it'd depreciate rapidly and they'd end up with none left.
Well yeah, eBay couldn't do it before they had their own payment system. They outsourced that stuff to PayPal
I think it would improve everyones quality of life if they suddenly didn't have to pay back their loans, however there is also the downside where the rest of society now has to pay for your mistakes.
You have quite a few options. Switch to Icon view and enlarge the icons, switch to Gallery View, or use Quicklook:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201732

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-view-options...

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/view-and-edit-files...
Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of the Moment (2021)
I’m not talking about a social security number you input, I’m talking about a universal authentication system tied to individual SSNs among other things. Anyway theft of identities are far less common than scam calls, so your point isn’t even valid to boot.
And I'll go the other way - children should not be taught towards programming.
After 20 years in front of a computer, I find that working in front of a computer is one of the worst jobs in the 21st century.
Yes. This bullshit you describe was real. I remember having managers in 1998 using Microsoft Project and HUGE plotters that were used for nothing but printing out massive Gantt charts. And, of course, having DAILY meeting when we were behind so that our manager could show with great accuracy how behind we were - and complain he needed more people to manage so he could build his fiefdom.
That same UP line goes east into Illinois. They aren't running 3-mile long trains out here at the edge of the Chicago metro. I wonder where they draw the line.

I actually thought that this article was going to be about the inability to hire train crews. The commuter rail in Chicago is run in partnership with the freight lines. The one I use is operated by UP. I've overheard that the reason they haven't added more trains is that they can't hire more train crews. On my line, there are 21 trains in and 21 out on weekdays - a fraction of the pre-pandemic service levels. They are getting to the point where many trains a so crowded that people have to stand in the aisles and really need to add more service.
At some point in 2013 I watched Lecture 1 of Harvard CS50 because everybody said that was the best starting point for people interested in web dev, product development, tech in general.

I just wanted to make a website to start off with, just a bunch of linked pages. I already knew a tiny bit of HTML from college, but that was years ago and I wanted to know what had changed. So you can imagine my confusion watching that CS50 lecture as it was seemingly covering everything EXCEPT the stuff non-technical end users are familiar with: websites, apps and games.

Yes, yes, I now know that CS isn't about coding but about underlying fundamentals. But that doesn't change the reality that CS50 online has been viewed many, many more times than people who've sat in a CS class, and those people likely had similarly simple goals as I did.

Long story short however, I took a video course on webdev and learned far more in terms of immediately applicable skills. Again, I wasn't trying to get hired at FAANG. I just wanted to get to the level of 'webmaster', where I knew just enough to handle markup, hosting, SSL and CRUD functions. Learning by doing has been far more rewarding than following online courses.
One massive I'd add to this list that got added recently - being able to copy and paste text out of images. I'm so often sent a screenshot with a url in the url bar, I can now copy and paste that screenshot of a url. It's been massively the past month since I noticed it. Not sure how long it's been there, I assume not long, maybe last OS update.
The big MVC frameworks are in a great position to take advantage of the move back to hypermedia as a major network model for web development. We are seeing a swing back to this model with modern hypermedia-oriented libraries like unpoly, hotwire and my own htmx, where javascript is used to augment the hypermedia model rather than replace it with a client-server RPC-style network model as with most SPAs.

These older frameworks have been honed to a razors edge for producing hypermedia (HTML) server side and delivering it to clients efficiently. As people begin to realize just how much you can achieve with this approach (and the simplicity it brings back to web development) I expect interest in these frameworks to soar.

Bullish on 2005 tech books!
We'd need some regulation for the regulations. My son's laptop battery died last week. Today, it is considered non-removable. But, he did remove it, after removing about 20 screws, carefully prying open the case, removing a few more screws and layers of insulation inside. Eventually, he was able to remove it and test that the battery was the fault and order a new one.

If we require labels, without the necessary strictly defined definitions, today's non-removable battery becomes tomorrow's "removable" battery. Because, hey, it is possible to remove it. Good luck getting everything back together if you aren't an engineer or extremely careful in how you disassembled things.
We had books in the pre-internet era warning us of the corporate dystopia we potentially faced. Well, we're here. Massive benefits, but all control by massive multi-trillion dollar megacorps - easily corrupted.

It's like that scene in Spirited Away where Chihiro's parents start "pigging out".
I never realized how much I used it and relied on it until I moved to Windows over the winter break so I could game with friends. One of the many reasons my next computer is going to be another MacBook most likely. I really miss that thing.
No need, the way the phone system works enables any call call center to spoof any number.
I agree about product owners. I have never seen one that could really guide a project from start to finish. They either don’t understand the tech sufficiently, or they don’t understand the business case or they aren’t engaged enough.
If they're really generating "insane profits", how do I invest in them and get myself a chunk of those "insane profits"?
Preview is very much part of my daily tools: signing/splitting/editing PDFs and images (even animated GIFs!) etc.

The only thing that bothers me slightly is the weird “File” menu: along with some other macOS apps (Textedit for example) they renounced the old “Save as” in favour of “Duplicate”, “Move”, etc. I never exactly know what happens with those commands.
The link appears to be invalid (points to captcha)

Possible alternative: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-08/day-trade...
I don’t exactly disagree, but what I mean is that in learning Elixir you’ll learn about the BEAM and by the time you need to peek under the hood, it’s just syntax that’s different mostly.
Cassandra already does this[1] (and a whole lot more besides to introduce chaos to the simulation), and just accepts that there's a huge penalty of pausing and scheduling threads.

I'm really looking forward to being able to use Loom to run much more efficient cluster simulations.

[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/CEP-10...
Do you also not see the point of art?
Only if they MITM the TLS connection. And if they do that, you'll get a big scary message from your browser before you connect to any sites, unless someone installed a rogue root CA on your computer.
Preview has other interactions with iOS and iPadOS, too. If you enter markup mode you can draw all over a PDF with your phone or tablet.
I think the author was trying to explain the risks they are taking and saying that it's only a matter of time until we start to see disasters similar to the one in 2004 but 100 times worse.

https://cen.acs.org/articles/82/i27/TRAIN-DERAILS-CHLORINE-L....
a few other people have made a few suggestions about interpreting the data, but i would also like to add that the writer is specifically citing "Monster Trains" and that may or may not affect the interpretation of data.

still, awesome that you went to check the source.
Tesla sues former engineer, claims he stole Dojo supercomputer trade secrets
EDIT: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31315994, which points to https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-08/day-trade...

Thanks, rvnx!

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Why in the hell does Bloomberg care that a robot is reading their shitty, half-researched-half-rumor articles? I'm guessing that "unusual activity" is the Pi-Hole on the network. That or the Safari "hide a bunch of shit from trackers" settings. In other words, the only "unusual network activity" is Bloomberg trying to shove crap down the pipe, and my end rejects such "activity".
And how do Bob and Sally use their totally offline cold storage for.. uh.. anything other than paperweights?

Oh, right, they need to unfreeze the wallet using something like metamask and then execute a transfer, running against a service they can't audit... and hope there are no scams in that process, and that metamask isn't vulnerable, and that they only click the right authorization prompts..

Of course this assumes they aren't transferring from a known terrorist or a company ignoring KYC laws which might also land them in hot water.
And paint had lead, too.
Biden deal with ISPs: Low to no cost internet for 40% of US
Reading your comment made me realize that you're right, there really isn't such a hard rule even with physical exertion. Even putting some motivating music on might make you push for an extra rep or two. If a gun was to your head maybe you'd do even more. The extreme end might be phenomena like "dead man's grip" where inhuman strength is shown while on death's door.