skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, just be one of .0001% of workers with a rare, highly marketable skill and you won't need a union...
> the trillion dollars of student debt that can't be paid off because many degrees don't produce real economic value to justify the cost of education.

Less than 10% of student loan debt is in default, and the total debt is less than 2 trillion, so I don’t believe it’s accurate to say “trillions” can’t be paid off. Also according to the US Fed, degree holders earn on average 2x more than non degree holders. (Think about the increase in tax base as a result).

Student loan debt isn’t necessarily any indicator of failure. Debt is (perhaps) a natural part of the economy. There might be reasons that we should fund education and not ask students to borrow. But the borrowing by itself is not proof that anything is wasted or wrong.

> it’s barely changed in centuries.

What are you referring to? The fields of Bioengineering and Computer Science didn’t exist centuries ago. Physics and Chemistry have changed completely. Almost nothing in the modern soft sciences did either. Modern research funding is nothing like it was centuries ago, or even 50 years ago. I have no idea what you’re talking about.

> because the government subsidizes it so there is no incentive to change

Then it means people pay less than they would otherwise? That further begs the question of what kind of efficiency you want. What should a college education cost, and who should pay for it? How much should professors get paid, and who should pay them, where should the money come from?

You complained both about govt subsidizing and debt. So how do you envision this getting cheaper? I’m in favor of govt funding education, but that’s a bigger subsidy than today. I think the govt can already afford it (since degree holders earn 2x more than non degree holders) but that doesn’t change the efficiency of the system.
We wish we could pay FAANG salaries for working on open source! That would be a great world to live in. Currently our funding comes from corporate sponsors and individual donators so is limited in what we're able to offer for now.

Our current calculations for issues is roughly ~$50 per hour of anticipated work from an individual with some relevant skills which we're hoping is enough money to entice people to contribute.
I use it all the time. In fact I was staying at an airbnb recently and my hair dye stained all his towels and pillow cases (a week after I got it done!) so I gave them a good bleaching before I left and left them sparkling white.
There’s also the overhead of trapping (registers get saved, the CPU may switch to kernel mode). For a single integer division, chances are that adds significant overhead compared to a subroutine call (let alone inlined code)
It's Rails code under the hood. We do a little bit meta-programming but try to keep things as basic as possible exactly for this reason so we don't get in the way of the parent app.

We mitigated the "tiny stupid" mistakes like n+1 with dedicated includes option. The front-end is powered by Hotwire so a very small JS bundle.

We have a few customers that are running medium-to-large applications with Avo and they are quite happy with the results. I do admit they have started to do a bit of "magic" to support their use cases, but we're in contact with them and actively extracting things to make the developer experience better and support more use-cases. One example is the tabs and panels features that we're preparing to release next.

Yup. Boring is good. It just works!
You don't need to stigmatize college. Just get employers to stop favoring graduates, and enrollment will plummet to a tiny fraction of its current level. Meanwhile, you'll have trouble getting people to feel bad about going to college if graduates still have an easier time in the job market than non-graduates.
It's a very deep sense of humor, too, as actual 8-bit sports games were unironically marketed as "highly realistic" or similar. In fairness, those copywriters were probably referring to the simulation code, and not necessarily the graphics, being realistic for the standards ofnthe day.
> My US market washing machine has settings for "hot", "warm", and "cold"

What the hell? That’s barbaric.

> Do (eg) European washing machines instead typically have you set wash temp to an arbitrary number of °C?

Not arbitrary except possibly on high-end machines but even entry-level stuff have temp settings for the usual stuff: cold (whatever’s out the tap), 30, 40, 60, 90.
With or without caching?
> never really delivered on the promise of being small

I wonder why you say this. I just ran both qjs and node's REPL and qjs is taking 2.4MB vs 21.5MB for node. Are you referring as QuickJS running with a specific workload? Do you happen to have more info on this measurement?
> Students are there to learn, not to play a a sport

If someone wants to go to a college to learn to play a sport then there should be a college for that sport. I think perhaps that is what's perceived to be missing.

Lots of colleges have mixed curriculums. So if you go to college to major in some sport and minor in mathematics then... shouldn't the college have all of the tools to allow you to learn your major? And if you go to college to major in mathematics and minor in some sport then... shouldn't the college have all of the tools to allow you to learn your minor?

Perhaps the real problem is a college that has their own tools -- their own sports complex, their own stadium, their own laboratory, their own microscopes. A college shouldn't be able to opt-out of using government-owned stadiums or government-owned laboratories. Except... how will the schedule of the college work with the public? It seems like there could be a lot of conflicting schedules and events; public stadiums need to be available to the public and not monopolized by the college. Public laboratories need to be available to the public and... wait do we even have public laboratories?

There's lots of problems with our education system. This is just a symptom :)
Hey! Minor bit of feedback on the homepage UI; I saw the pricing calculator and the big number wasn't obviously my savings (I assumed it was the cost). I'd make sure that for anyone scanning, it's clear the large $$ amount is savings vs the actual cost!

(Also, while I do think it's important you come off as cheap, I wouldn't lead with "saving money" as the main reason to use your product. It looks like you've built something really interesting, and you don't want early customers to only use you because they think you're the cheapest option!)

Overall, this looks really great... good luck!
Ahhh, okay. That went right over my head. Thanks.
> if you just know how to talk to people and learn about them!

dating is a two way street. If the other party just gives one line answers and does nothing to try to move a conversation forward, then it just becomes a job interview. You can't just magically get someone to open up when they refuse.

It doesn't help that, at least from a guy's perspective, it seems about 80% of women are really just trying to get instagram followers.

Dating also becomes a problem once you finally meet. You will never be more interesting than the smartphone in front of the other person. That person has the entire world in their hand. You can't possibly compete with TikTok or Tinder. You go to the restroom and the other person will go swiping on Tinder.

I really do believe humanity is doomed. Like really, actually, doomed. The internet is too much for our monkey brain.
I'm not really clear on how to find out what issues have currently active bounties attached to them. I followed some links to this github query: https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ai...

but all I see there are issues that appear to have already been paid for.
while true, climate change has been helped immensely by bad human political (in)decisions.
75k a year of college is affordable for a household income of 150k? Really?
> I heard in an interview that 50 years ago, people used to basically used to fall in love with heir neighbours and coworkers.

Dating coworkers is now forbidden in many companies, especially if there are differences in hierarchy. In some countries it becomes a possible legal liability for the one in the higher position.

Some large organizations that require traveling even forbid dating the “local population” when deployed abroad.
We were discussing encouraging syntax highlighters to add something like this:

https://l.sr.ht/Q_D-.png
I use VMs when reverse engineering malware.
This must depend a lot on the place.

I did a data science take-home that asked you to scrape some documents from the web, group them by topic, extract some information the clusters, and visualize it. This could be a few hours of work, or an entire research career.

IMO, a good take-home needs to be aggressively scoped. Ideally, I think you'd explicitly ask for --and expect--a "bare minimum" solution and a list of potential improvements. That list would be great fodder for in-person interviews too.
This is too bad. The sweet spot was "hard,intr" at least when I was last using NFS on a daily basis (mid 1990s). Hard mounts make sense for programs, which will happily wait indefinitely while blocked in I/O. This worked well for things like doing a build over NFS, which would hang if the server crashed and then pick right up right where it left off when the server rebooted.

Of course this is irritating if you're blocked waiting for something incidental, like your shell doing a search of PATH. In those cases you could just control-C and continue doing what you wanted to do (as long as it didn't actually need that NFS server).

However I can see that it would be difficult to implement interruptibility in various layers of the kernel.
"The world" may keep changing, but "my applications" will continue to bend over backwards to accommodate every scenario I can imagine.
Indoor Farming Is a ‘No-Brainer.’ Except for the Carbon Footprint
Seems wild to build a new python NLP library totally disconnected from the current ecosystem. Particularly spaCy, but really any of NLTK, gensim, huggingface. Would love to understand the context of that choice.
What would be the impact on the earth's tidal system if it had either rings plus the moon, or rings instead of the moon?

Are rings uniform on their gravital imprint on a planet?

Meaning - would tides cease if we had a ring(s) instead of a moon? It would apear so, and thus, wouldnt this impact the precession angle? However, we can see by recent posts of tracking saturn that it appears that saturn has a precesssion period of a very short time - a decade or so - as opposed to the earths 26,900 year precession...

(and whats even more crazy is ancient civilizations who knew of the precession and built calendars around it.) ((The pyramid of Chitchenitza is a calendar, detailing the various galactic cycles.

Source, I toured these and learned from the Mayan Elder; Hunbatz Men.

https://www.council-of-world-elders.de/en/members/hunbatz-me...
I can just ignore the victimhood culture. Worst possible humans can play around being victims all I care. I might dislike them and ignore what they say.

What actually worries is the cancel culture of lunatic lynch mobs continuously attacking people contacting their employers and trying to get them fired. I think good solution for this is to mandate real names and identification details in such contacts and then make each and every communication public. Thus opening chance to at leas civilly prosecuted these monsters.
the .import command used for actually loading the CSV is kinda picky about your CSVs being well-formatted. I don't think it supports embedded newlines at all.
I'm not debugging safari bullshit when chrome and firefox function fine.
> I found one possible answer online -- Euro washing machines may actually have water heaters built in, while American washing macchines may just use the existing house "hot water supply". So Euro machines can heat to desired temp, while American ones just have to take what they get!

Ah so it’s the same deal as the dishwashers, I should have figured.

> Euro houses don't usually have a central "hot water tank" like US has? Why THAT is would be yet another question...).

Commonly not, although it does absolutely exist water is frequently heated up on-demand.

However a better reason might be the same as the kettle thing: the US being on 120V, so getting hot water out the furnace or hot water tank is waaay faster than heating it up on the spot.
> 1. Is the language for this open source? If not, is that planned?

It's a language I designed specifically for this platform and is not currently open source. If it proves popular I'm certainly open to it.

> 2. Is the language compiled or interpreted, and what targets? Is it the execution environment a VM that runs in the browser similar to Scratch?

It's interpreted. To improve the performance at some stage I'd like to compile it directly to JavaScript rather than run it through my intermediate layer.

> 3. Is this a charity or for-profit? If the former, how will it be sustainable (i.e. donations, premium memberships, etc.)? If the latter, what are the plans for monetization?

It's for-profit. I'm planning a freemium model so there would be additional features (when I build them!) and access to more advanced tutorials.
GitHub Copilot is free until August 22
They are orthogonal tools. They blend together nicely. I use both on our infrastructure.

Jumpstart is an amazing starter kit (starter kit doesn't do it justice) that gives you accounts, billing, notifications, etc. and Avo takes it over and gives you the ability to build your admin panel/back-office fast AF. It's like you replace rails_admin from Jumpstart.

I've spoken with Chris Oliver and started work on adding Avo to Jumpstart and to have it as an alternative to rails_admin.
Built something like that at https://taloflow.ai/is-aws-down

Looks like there’s been some errors too
Ehhhh… I think it’s good (for us) that they do this, but I don’t think it’s a free ad (contrary to popular belief, not all news is good news, and this is bad news) and any sort of conversion rate on recruitment is probably vanishingly small (which would normally be fine, but incidents like these may turn off some actual customers, which is where actual revenue comes from).

I think their calculation (to the extent you can call it that) is that in the interest of PR and damage control, it’s better to get a thorough postmortem out quickly to stem the bleeding and keep people like us from going “I can’t wait to hear what happened at Cloudflare” for a week. Now we know, the customers have an explanation, and this bad news cycle has a higher chance of ending quickly.
These are all great questions! Our team is collecting feedback and our own experience and hoping to publish a retrospective some time down the line about how things are going. Stay tuned!
Yeah, actually rather strange that Rowan here hasn't given up his peerage and left that awfully fascist police state...
Memory Safety in a Modern System Programming Language Pt. 1
The last, lonely woolly mammoths faced a 'genomic meltdown' (2017)
Really glad to see someone else say this.

I’m not against porn, but believe for some (many?) people it can develop into an addiction, and/or warp their view of normal bodies, and reduce their capacity to relate / be intimate / empathetic.

For some people, I think viewing porn is mostly harmless; for others, they are not able to consume it without negative effects on themselves and their potential partners…

I’m also very progressive, sex positive; i find its hard to discuss this with friends or strangers because theres such a stigma against decrying porn. It’s difficult to discuss with nuance.
Thank you for the kind words. I appreciate it!
The crucial question, to me, is: would the fork have happened if Vitalik had not been part of the DAO? I don't think there's any chance he would have entertained that.

There have been many large ETH compromises since then, and the idea of forking for any of them would be considered outrageous.
Replying to self (too late to edit), yeah I posted in haste; YMMV and clearly many people prefer a dedicated webcam per se.
Speaking about sex to fall in their laps. I remember 2009 or so even sort of cute guys were having girls approach them.

Now the looks required for that have basically skyrocketed. Being kinda cute doesn't cut it nowadays. You have to be tall broad shouldered and have a decent career.
is there anything like Avo out there? This is great work but I'm not a Ruby/RoR dev
Fastmail allows for wildcat (J)IMAP addresses. It a *.example.com MAIL record in dns with a supported (J)IMAP server.
They literally won't sign an NDA, especially at that early of a stage.
> Erectile dysfunction was much less common

I have no doubt that self-reports of erectile dysfunction were probably less common at that time.

I will say that information about it was certainly less common, and the stigma associated to it was stronger and more prevalent.

> I guess it's uncouth to suggest that physical acts are more enjoyable with more physically attractive and capable populations

On "capable": Erectile dysfunction can be caused by low levels of testosterone, as well as sexual desire. However, sexual prowess doesn't orbit around the male penis as much as our fathers thought. That is but one dimension.

On the subject of attractiveness: I question that men with high levels of testosterone are actually more attractive to women. High testosterone has some obvious advantages (higher strength, bigger muscles, stronger sexual desire) but it also bring some things that are not so universally appraised (more body hair, less head hair, stronger body smell, mode violent behavior, less empathy). That group of traits, and the fact that we live in a more informed society, might be making high-testosterone males less attractive to women, overall.

Perhaps that is what is making the testosterone levels go down - the same thing that is making us taller: artificial selection. My (totally unverified) impression is that this is what happens in Japan. Most famous male Japanese actors tend to look "effeminate" to me, as an European. There seems to be very little "strong jaw, big muscles" amongst that group, compared to Europeans or Americans.
Great!

How does this compare to react-virtualized (https://github.com/bvaughn/react-virtualized)? Does it handle tables (rendered with table elements and not div)? Does it support column virtual scrolling?
If the issue is open it hasn't been paid for, we close issues when their completed. Let me know if you have other questions.
It's a very long distance friend who lives as far as Pluto :-)
GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial
this was a thoroughly enjoyable and informative read. I'm just old enough to have been around for the 90s Amway stuff and although I'd heard a bit about it I was never exposed to it directly. the author does a great job here of laying out his perspective on things and the

Amway : Christianity = web3 : crypto

analogy is an interesting one.
WordSet: Stolen Without Compensation
In 2015, Huawei had the Honor X2, a 7 inch, 16:10 screen phone.

I'd happily buy one again if it had modern specs.

https://m.gsmarena.com/huawei_mediapad_x2-7075.php
A lot of folks I know, like BlueJeans[0].

I have not used it, myself, so I can't report on its effectiveness.

[0] https://www.bluejeans.com
Milo was also the name, of course inspired by Milo of Croton, that the owner of the business and virtual shop "Ironmind", Randall J. Strossen, published for 25 years (1993-2018).

The journal covered "physical strength" and "strength culture" topics such as Olympic-style weightlifting, strongman, Highland Games, powerlifting, general weight training, and fitness, arm wrestling, grip strength, stones and stone-lifting, and similar subjects (this is from Wikipedia).

A beautifully crafted magazine that included scholarly presentations of obscure exercises and training routines, biographies of strong people, competition results, and extraordinary photographs.

It also listed the name and brief biographies, up to at least 2005 I believe, of people who managed to close the infamous #3 and #4 CoC grippers (I closed the #3 many years ago, so there is my photo somewhere).
For many years, #4 was closed by only one man, Joe Kinney [0]. I remember buying the VHS of his training sessions and having some "torture instruments" built by my local welder. Good times.

[0] https://ironmind.com/news/Joe-Kinney-I-Think-My-Body-Knew-It...
I believe it's better than having nothing. I think there's a lot to be done in this space and having someone or a team working on it full time is the way to go.
It's not an absorption chiller. It's an ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) system using R134a as the working fluid.

Perhaps you were thinking of the absorption chiller that keeps the Ice Museum at the resort cold. That's a separate system.
> 5. If possible, it should use some form of solar energy, such as that of the body.

Still working on making my skin glow, got any tips?
but can you then set those wildcards to bounce later?
A bit clunky, but works.

ps | awk '$1=$1' OFS=, | duckdb :memory: "select PID,TTY,TIME from read_csv_auto('/dev/stdin')"
Hi man.

I admire you greatly for fighting your traumas. Going to that dark alley to mop up what would feel like the sea.

I am really noone to give advice but I will try to give you what guiding words I have.

Try to find your strength. Look for the spark. Use your powers to do good. Leverage the perspectives you've gained in life. Noone can do so, and noone has them, but you. Try to find a way to use the bad to do good.

If you manage to do this, you or others might find yourself a gem too valuable to have even dreamt of finding.

May God help you.
It's also somwehat moot. Unions in the U.S. get their workers better pay and better benefits pretty much regardless of corruption and did so even at the peak of their influence and corruption.

I think it's reasonable to argue against corruption but if you're argument against almost any human institution is just that it is corrupt, then you are arguing against the majority of human institutions ever. Which simply isn't practical.
The problem is a whole slew of users don't know how to enter their email appropriately, and you basically just lose them if you rely on "email -> verification code" to verify their email, but if you tell them they did something wrong right at that moment, they may be able to fix it.
How to Build a Notion Clone with Strapi v4 and Next.js (Part 1 of 2)
https://issuehunt.io/issues

https://www.bountysource.com/

https://huntr.dev/

Taken from https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+bounty
The problem is your "constant time" operation now spends some time doing work and some time not. When it's not doing work, the CPU can perform work for other processes or threads and this is, at least in principle, measureable. Thus you haven't eliminated the side channel - just changed the way someone can measure it.
On my phone at the moment but I've used it for over a year so it's been at least worth $240 to me. I'll update this comment with more info (both pros and cons) when I'm on a computer.
Whether you consider it an outage or not seems to be a political / PR thing these days. I used to work on a SaaS that relied on a handful of big customers to make payroll. If their favourite stuff stopped working, hell ensued. On the other hand Atlassian pretended nothing was going on for a while recently, because they could afford to lose 400 customers.
i guess im very pedantic - i don't want to make a rule to delete a email. i want it to bounce and never see my inbox and have the sender see that it bounced.
I started a Twitter for shitty upwork proposals
Send me bad proposals you've received so we can laugh about it together