skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mentioned before by an ex-librarian in this thread as information loss, I'd go further and say we're loosing control of our language in the digital sphere. That's why I'm holding on to markup technologies (SGML/XML) as our best bet for evolving the web and other communication standards - because the alternative are memes, TikTok, and other, worse corporate attention grabs.
What’s the UK Energy Price Cap and Why Is It Rising?
Seems like not (but I was just doing lightweight googling out of the same curiosity), the last exploitable generation of AS was iPhone X, which I _think_ predates the AS macs. Also as far as I understand exploitation would require physical access to the target device.
You've been able to enable this in your account preferences for a while now, and it's also been the default on non-English versions of Wikipedia for a while as well.
>Sort of related but I, a 28 year old tech guy, am going back to school part-time to get a BEng so I can get into more aerospace-heavy roles.

Best of luck to you friend. Absolutely worth it if you can hack it. I tried at 26 after a few years in the industry, and failed miserably. Protip: pay for a good math tutor.

It's the technician life for me, unfortunately.
Right, because only extremes exist...

Or you can add, oh I dunno, two or three more sentences to maybe hint at what is novel and important about the approach?
I'll bite: how am I supposed to fix at shattered screen, at no additional cost to myself?
There is (for good reason) more focus today on diversity--broadly defined e.g. new speakers--for non-academic conferences these days. However, there were quite a few conferences in the tech sector historically that tended to have a core of "the usual suspects" with others grabbing a smaller number of leftover slots. TBH, I probably benefited from this over the years. (Conferences run by companies follow somewhat different rules but still usually have a stable of Top Rated Speakers who tend to get slots.)
C# is my daily driver. But If I had the opportunity to code in one of your languages I would pick Rust. I think its the future. But to your question of maximum financial payoff, surely there are 10X more C++ jobs out there at the ioment than Rust or Go due to the age of the language. I know C++ is long in the tooth but it isnt going anywhere and you can still land some high paying jobs if you have it as a skill.
At the beginning of the article, I though this was a spoof of all the "why you should use programming language X in your next project."
https://web.archive.org/web/20220825155510/https://www.econo...
That's what I used my $100 trial credit for years ago.
> I don't see how you can be so sure there is only cost substitution, and that there is no additional cost.

Because that's how the world works. Schools spend money to have capability to to miscellaneous tasks, things like putting up random posters. Adding one more tiny task, realistically, isn't going to cause them to spend more money, by any reasonable definition. At worst it will bump out a lower priority task (of probably dubious value), but it's just as likely someone will just spend a little less slack time staring at their phone.

tl;dr: it won't cost more, because they're already going to spend the money, one way or another.

> We even read that Chaz Stevens raised $14K to distribute Arabic versions of the sign to schools.

Which is money the school isn't spending. IIRC, the whole point of the thread required the posters be paid for with private funds.

> Someone in each school needs to receive the sign and decide to toss it.

> That's a additional cost which wasn't there before.

That person has always been there, getting paid to handle random stuff like this: there's no additional cost, it was always there.
The first steam locomotive was built by a cornishman. He was interested in pumping out mines, but not coal mines, as they didn't have coal. The resultant need for efficient use of the imported Welsh coal may have been the driver of the next evolutionary step and then allowed the miniaturisation which led to locomotives.

(The Cornish steam engines also come up a lot due to them doing a lot of improvements that Watt held back with patent shenanigans, and a collaborative approach to their improvements)

Before electricity was a thing the steam engines were also used to pump water which then ran machinery hydraulicly, like cranes. Which piggybacked on improvements in civic water supplies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Armstrong,_1st_Baron...

(Same guy had the first house lit by hydroelectric power later)
I was going to say fulfillment technology, which is a subset of supply chain / logistics.
When I'm really in flow at work, it can almost feel like a game. Then I go back to yak shaving and jira.

There are (and could be better) environments that can isolate and focus on that. The combo of interface and specific challenge can really help communicate what's magical about engineering. Ideally that would help motivate people (versus just being a dopamine hit source).

Highly visual environments with rapid feedback seem to hit that button for me. The old bridge building game Pontifex was great, as was Besiege. I'd love to see more like that (there probably are, I've not played many games in years)
Apple, as far as I know, does not own spectrum. Therefore I doubt it is an Apple thing. More likely an AT&T or Verizon thing. And the service works on the iPhone.
I think this craft is well-documented in books, even if it's disappearing from common practice, no [1]?

In general, I've found books are an underrated source of technical information like this. The library of congress is probably doing a pretty good job of preserving the knowledge needed to bootstrap civilization.

For example, I have a few books on country wood-crafting that have enabled me to become pretty self-sufficient on a rural property. Even though there's no woodworking knowledge in my circle of friends or family.

YMMV depending on the craft, but the scope of knowledge documented in dead-tree mediums is both vast and deep.

[1]: For example, I found this with 40 seconds of effort. I know it's old, but that might contribute to it being more interesting: https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.easystepsinarch0...
I've fielded a couple of copyright lawsuits and won them, obviously the lawyers of the defendants thought they had an excellent case. I may not be a lawyer but I do know a thing or two about copyright law and as far as I'm concerned if you claim that you have created something because you took someone else's copyrighted content and pushed it through a machine of sorts that does not create an original work. There is plenty of settled caselaw around this. So that much we can establish off the bat. Which means if you use this to create your own copyrighted work you may have a problem anyway. Whether or not it is infringing or not is largely a matter of the length of the segment produced and whether or not it matches the original in some non-trivial way. The mechanism in the middle doesn't really matter.

If Microsoft/GitHub want to field the argument that they own the rights to all of the code uploaded to GitHub then I'm perfectly fine with that, the only problem I see with that defense is that it will likely kill GitHub overnight.

As for the jury argument: that's fine, but juries aren't lawyers either. I'm not sure if that should weigh as a positive or a negative for Microsoft.

Finally, regardless of the legality: there is such a thing as ethics and in my book you don't appropriate a large body of work from a whole community without so much as a by-your-leave. There have been other threads on HN regarding this and it is interesting to see the various opinions, even so if Copilot is challenged legally than I'll be cheering on the party bringing the suit.
So what? Publishing will be paid through grant money. Researchers just need to plan for that.
How do you build systems to solve problems while creating guardrails against unjust enrichment? Success should be rewarded, but not too much, and both what is success and how much rewarding is what’s up for debate.
Indian wheat crops were down less than 3% from previous year.

Still 3 million tons higher than the 5 year average.

Overall foodgrain production is expected to hit an all time high this year (315 million tons).

“Record production is estimated of rice, maize, gram, pulses, rapeseed and mustard, oilseeds and sugarcane,” the ministry statement read. [1]

I understand the news makes it seem like the world is falling apart at the seams, but the apocalypse has been cancelled by reality, this year, yet again.

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/business/commodities/india...
I wonder if that is the case outside of the English-language world.
it's not 0 or 1

it's cutting most animal farming and keeping/improving biodiversity
Ketamine is a magical drug, I've told this story a hundred times on HN but it cured my depression overnight.

I was given a large hit of it by a doctor after a horrible accident, I went into a K-hole and had a spiritual experience, but even more profound was the effect it had for 4 to 6 months after.

It was like a veil had been lifted from my mind, the simplest pleasures of life made me happy, like smelling fresh coffee or feeling the sun on my skin. I had been living in misery for decades and suddenly I was awake and lucid and happy.
The AI Snake Oil book project
Ok, but the point is the same - a huge amount of human records and skills are scored against a moving backdrop of human scores that are current competitors.

Federer getting grand slams - all against local in time competitors - is impressive. Had he played 50 years ago, he'd have likely gotten more. Had he played in 50 years, likely less, expecting competition to improve.

Same for NBA records - all against a moving, relative backdrop.

Same for wrestling, baseball, hockey, and on and on and on.

Just because your score is relative to others does not make reaching some milestone, especially this one, less impressive.

Also, it's easier to have a higher ELO if others do too, not the other way around.
> That's precisely all that's been criticized here.

At least for me, the scare quotes around "defense" additionally imply that the US isn't really getting anything defense-related in return for the high budget - as if the money is just being wasted with no ROI.
nitro is KVM based
Don't be ridiculous 'bow' (of a boat) can't be confusing at all: that's a word that's pronounced differently, but spelled the same :D

How bout 'A bowed bow fired from the bow requires that we take a bow to receive a bow'
A similar argument could be made for China. They had expertise and capital, but not the incentives to jump to an industrial economy.
Every MacOS update, I do run a sudo command and get the password prompt. I cancel, and instead do...

sudo cp ~/Dropbox/etc-pam.d-sudo /etc/pam.d/sudo

Type the password once and you're done. I've been carrying this around for quite a while. No need to edit the file every MacOS, just copy it.

But once it did utterly go south when Dropbox's "load files on demand" functionality replaced the file with a bunch of zero bytes. That wasn't fun to fix. So maybe Dropbox isn't the best storage place.
Smartphone screen size is 6.1 inches
Latin never went anywhere! Carpe Diem, ad hoc, et al. I love learning more about Latin, and while it would be cool to be as fluent as possible as a speaker, I really love parsing and consuming Latin texts, I learn so much not only about history or religion but also just about our current society and language habits.

The answer with Latin is obviously the cases, imho Spanish would be my vote for a lingua franca – simple, phonetic, sounds beautiful with any accent sung or spoken, and already has massive influence and history.
Clip Studio Paint (drawing desktop app) becoming a subscription service
I think the knee-jerk is against any alternative to Office, not against Office. Statistically speaking, trying to use anything reasonable that doesn't genuflect to Microsoft's monopoly is what seems to be met with a knee-jerk reply such as yours. As in, there's probably more people who don't care but hate the complaining about libre stuff than their are advocates for libre stuff.
tldr;

"But the T2 also contains a vulnerability, known as Checkm8, that jailbreakers have already been exploiting in Apple's A5 through A11 (2011 to 2017) mobile chipsets. Now Checkra1n, the same group that developed the tool for iOS, has released support for T2 bypass."

"Computers that have the Apple T2 Security Chip": https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208862
Even in 2022, this is a Noble's wage where I live.
I've engaged in debates on HN about the definition of "open source" in the past, so there might be some disagreement about the meaning of the title.

I've settled on using "OSI open source" to avoid this, since those discussions are uniformly tiring and unproductive.

That said, I agree with parent: the repo specifically has a section regarding copyright and it simply says that all rights are reserved[0]. This is proprietary software, disallowing copying, distribution, and derivative works. It's weird, since even cloning the repo appears to be a violation of their stated terms, though they supply instructions for building the software yourself that of course requires copying the code to your machine first[1].

Copyright is weird.

[0]: https://github.com/numworks/epsilon#copyright

[1]: https://www.numworks.com/resources/engineering/software/buil...

Edit: Figured it out. License was changed 13 months ago: https://github.com/numworks/epsilon/commit/b1ea81f067f5fef3f...
There’s a whole lot more to it then what Autodesk offers…
Of course there are ditch diggers. You can't dig everything with a machine.
> Working in that space since almost 5 years after product development

Doing construction work, or software development for construction companies?
This plane is now flying LAX, JFK, Edinburgh, and Lisboa.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N195DN/history
If you’re quite experienced in a certain tech (nothing special, for example just Rails) 150+ is quite doable even subcontracting or on long 6mos+ engagements where you don’t worry much about finding clients

I subcontracted for about 6mos with a late stage startup at closer to the 100/hr rate, then negotiated up to closer to 150 for the next 6

I wasn’t doing anything special, literally just another dev on a given team just without benefits and without having to attend company events or having a boss

And this was my first ever contracting engagement too (was all fulltime before that)
‘Levitating’ nanoparticles could push the limits of quantum entanglement
Show HN: Binary Serialization with TypeScript
Based on the Borsh serialization format I have created an easy to use TypeScript library that lets you conveniently serialize your classes into a compact binary representation. Later, you can deserialize this directly back directly into classes or using other languages, like with the Rust implementation borsh-rs. One of many reasons for using this library compared to using JSON is that you can have messages behave like Rust enums, rather than plain JS object that you have to do type checking with in order to determine what kind of object you are dealing with.

TypeScript: https://github.com/dao-xyz/borsh-ts
Rust: https://github.com/near/borsh-rs
> Historically very little software bothered to check

For some reason, most IRC servers tend to do this.
iirc that's one of Michael Shellenberger's points in Apocalypse Never.

i feel like he has a specific agenda so it's hard to take everything he says at face value but that point seems reasonable.
Simply changing a game's locale to the target language you are trying to acquire is such an amazing immersion experience with the language -- and this wasn't even intended as an educational tool!

If playing Skyrim, you hear the target language constantly, utterances are subtitled so written and heard language can reinforce each other, and practically everything you look at is labeled in the target language. Best of all, you needn't feel so bad for spending all that time playing games!
You're supposed to carry around a purpose-built business card holder case. After the meeting, you carefully place the cards into your case and take them with you for later reference.
Screamer, PC game from 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamer_(video_game)
The fact that these grandmasters would get destroyed by engines means that no, we are not even close to chess being solved for human gameplay.
There are industries that employ 13 period accounting. I encountered it in the bar and restaurant sector. Weeks are accurate, repetitive measures for them. Months and quarters are too variable to be of much use. However the practice does make for a lot of adjusting entries, prepaids and accruals to align with the actual calendar and billing cycles. Somewhat of a pain...
I worked for Ember for a while which was a startup that produced a ZigBee chip. It'll be hard to target cutting edge nodes but it can work. I left when they were eventually bought by Silicon Labs.
> Why aren't there C conferences?

seems a question that could give birth to Chuck Norris style jokes.
Totally possible when you've got your account with a Russian bank in this case, otherwise: I doubt it.
> we're all ostensibly observing the same phenomena

Then why was there no Industrial Revolution when many other civilizations for thousands of years observed these same phenomena? I don't know the answer but it is curious. I do believe when you look back you can see connections - it might be trite at times but James Burke's series 'Connections' tries to tease out the road to a current day technology going back through the past and all the seemingly unrelated things that needed to happen to finally arrive at the solution. Solutions always seem obvious in the present but usually they aren't quite so obvious in the past.
I don't know what level of misunderstanding it takes to think this.

Misunderstanding the airline industry, or the country, or how airports operate, or what really.
Amazon DynamoDB now supports bulk imports from Amazon S3 to new DynamoDB tables
Not sure if it'd be worth it, but it's reasonably clean C++ code, which is not terribly difficult to maintain & integrate.
In an ideal society, the number of people who want to learn as much as possible about the world would equal the number of people in the population :D

There definitely needs to be some sort of government-imposed improvement on the cost of higher education. In many European countries, university is free; if only we in the US could do something like that. However, I'm pessimistic about that ever being possible, because 'Murricans hate the idea of paying for anyone else in any way, even if it's only like $12/month from them for everyone in the country to get an education. (BTW, that figure comes from my recent calculations during conversations with folks about the recent student loan forgiveness announcement.)

Basically, an educated society is better for everyone, but people in the US are generally selfish and childish enough to get actively angry if they're asked to help other people be more educated... or to help other people for any reason. It's like most Americans, or at least the most vocal, live in a society but think they are isolated from the world on a self-sustaining desert island or something.
Awesome, this one works
> Since you're advocating for others to take this risk, why haven't you done it yourself

35% of my paycheck is spent taking risks.

My taxes fund risky business loans via SBA.

My taxes fund risky first time home buyers via FHA.

My taxes fund risky PPP loans that got forgiven via COVID laws.

My taxes fund Financial institutions making risky decisions leading to bank bailouts.

My taxes fund risky bombing of brown people in middle east for literally no reason risking losing costly military equipment.

My taxes fund losing literally billions in the middle east wars with ZERO accountability.

My taxes fund old peoples healthcare and welfare who spent their whole lives, not exercising and eating poorly.

Student loans shouldn't exist.

And universities should just be either funded as much as all these other areas or subject to the laws of supply and demand like the rest of the world.
I think there's a number of little regional rail companies popping up now that the bigs have gotten to big to care about those customers; I bet they're reinventing where they have to and would possibly even be willing to fund some knowledge collection and sharing efforts.
It's also on Stadia, and also in the Odyssey (Ancient Greece) game.
Is Imperial hugeness a key factor? If so, why not the Achaemenids, the Chinese?

Why assume that a massive empire in necessary though? It doesn't take that empire-scale resources to build any of these. These aren't really more resource intensive than a Mill to invent or build. The steam engine, which Bret focuses on, is a pretty localized device... unlike textiles and metals which can be exported easily.

Even if export is a key driver, there were plenty of small or decentralized civilisations that could have easily leveraged massive economic zones. The Phoenicians, for example, could have conceivably built the export economy Britain ultimately built in the 18th century.

BTW, I didn't mean to neg on the author. I enjoyed the essay a lot. I felt it was a discussion piece, so discussing.

Personally, I'm inclined to think the "when" is more important that the "where," if it isn't mostly a matter of chance. IE, if England hadn't industrialised first, another country would have.

Once you have a widespread mentality that produces thoughts like: "I'm going to try building an automatic loom," I believe that many of the challenges early modern engineers overcame could have been overcome at many times.

The steam engine might have required symbioses with coal fuel and coal mining needs, but metallurgy (as others point out) and weaving (the flying shuttle) don't. If you are a well resourced blacksmith you can have a crack at metallurgy.

I think that in 18th century england, enough people were educated in engineering. In renaissance Italy, Da Vinci was pretty unique... and the only textbooks he had were Aristotle and such.

Why are there more startups in 2022 than in 1992? The culture had yet to develop.
Oh I’ve had that experience, and I’m just bipolar.

Ketamine has been known to trigger hypomania and mania in patients.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33587793/

10 mg of Prozac will do the same thing to me, but that’s just my genetics.
For some reason this often doesn't work for me; it seems to randomly only respond to my Watch to authenticate this, but not TouchID...
I imagine it means to own a specific corner of a market, rather than a jack of all trades.
I guess they're technically a startup, but people working part time together for equity with no outside capital isn't what what we normally mean by the word.
Arabic, like all Semitic languages, has this feature as well and I agree it's amazing! There are a few examples on wikipedia for those that haven't encountered this before [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfix
I work for an EdTech company called Prodigy Game ( https://www.prodigygame.com ) - we have Math and English adventure games that help students in grades 1 - 8 learn at school or at home. While I don't think this is a good substitute for teachers / is going to disrupt the entire education space, I think it is an excellent supplement to what is currently in place, and can really help kids want to learn outside of schools. I'd be happy to see more products grow in this space for sure!