skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh fuck.. Just what we need.. Big money, tech, media companies being even more terrified of anything related to sex and nudity!

Also that argument is insane and dangerous in so many ways? What's next, employers being held culpable for the things employees spend their money on? And on another level.. Policing money is the VERY LAST thing private entities should be doing in the first place. If they aren't directly alerted/warned by law enforcement or some other overt way, then it shouldn't be their business.

Not that I feel too bad for the companies, they have their self to blame in a way.. Once you start playing money police games, well you get this. To be fair though it isn't entirely their fault.

That kind of mentality is a nice size part of why the government as been so idle on issues of ensuring equal access to banking and transfer services by organizations largely held up and protected by the government. Doing so would make it difficult for them to cut off people and orgs the government wants without official reason. Since the system now is set up to allow the government to pressure or threaten institutions to do their bidding in a way that now court would allow for any other issue!
I’m in almost the exact same position, minus the knocking VCs. For a while I felt like I should look for funding and more growth to be a real „company“. Over time I realized that the path this would probably take me on isn’t really for me: I deeply care about delivering a quality product and managing my own time and priorities and I’m pretty sure that would fly out of the window. A VC funded competitor exists and is bigger, but the market is big enough for both (and others). I enjoy being the „weirdo“.
Thanks for sharing your story! How did you find the various tutors, and what percent of the teaching do you do yourself? About how many hours a day are you actively working with your child? Do you expect to homeschool indefinitely?
I'm a solo dev doing $700k yearly across two saas products. I'm also the founding engineer at Reforge (e.g. I've done the VC game from A16Z).

There are two things I look at when raising VC.

1. What's the TAM of my product and will a capital injection get me there faster?

2. Do I actually want to raise capital or do I want to work at my own pace?

The last couple of years (after Reforge), I've just been working at my own pace -- healing from my last VC run.
This is an interesting concept. Reminds me of changingminds.org which I am guilty for reading hundreds of his pages.

An idea I had was a way to login and keep track of what pages you’ve already read or how many times you’ve read them so you could rank your favorite articles and revisit them as a refresher.
Akka is an ecosystem on its own. There's no Akka in Spark, Flink, Kafka, nor at the other end of the Scala spectrum, in FP libraries in the Typelevel or Zio ecosystems.

Akka is a part of Play though, which has been abandoned by Lightbend.
Two hundredth is far from a drop in the bucket. It's huge. You would just need fifty things of a similar magnitude to be done with the issue.

A lot of actions which are definitely worth taking (all of them are anyway) have a far smaller impact.
It's really nuts, computer programming has this gigantic language translation component to it, so asking somebody to translate from English, to another human language, then to a computer language, is fraught full of peril and basically fails most of the time.

The only teams that can pull it off have people who are really talented in the company's native language, and computer programming, and communicating with non-native language people. Those people are super rare and are not paid nearly enough to encourage more people to seek out that niche.
What I'd like to see is progressive energy cost (or rebate or sth). Have low cost for an amount per person that is sufficient to jest your average house to, dunno, 15 deg C and cook 1 hot meal per day. Have ~market price for the rest.

Neither are you, then, forcing people into living in cold damp mouldy houses, nor are you subsidizing people's gas heated jacuzzis again market forces.
Hey Jeremy, what sorts of apps have you found most useful with your daughter? You mention using a few math ones that you found to be a good fit for her.

PS. thanks for the excellent fast.ai course!
Exactly, it's the opposite of what OP said. With some companies you are actually more likely to be given a credit card if you have demonstrated a shitty spending history, since that's how they make money on you. Paying everything off on time and never accruing any interest is not a way to earn any money.
Robotic surgury. Robots will be ubiquitous in the operating room, and more than just the "dumb" teleoperated ones we have now, but ones that watch what's going on and help.
This is clearly obfuscation. There is no way they have "negotiated" half a trillion of anything.
The EU’s AI Act could have a chilling effect on open source efforts, experts say
Are the TAs grad students? I got $10/hour and nothing else as an undergrad TA.
A friend of mine in the logistics business says that we’re still at 10x what the per-container shipping rates were in early 2020 for some routes, and that fuel prices and personnel are now becoming a significant part of the overhead again.
It's amazing to me that some people use money as their primary measure of talent. I suppose this explains the popularity of KK.

If she had 10 times the money, I wouldn't find her big fat ass to be any more or less talented or interesting.

But the beautiful thing about America is that everyone is free to apply their own standards --- for better or worse.
I learned SQL in the late 00s. I like SQL. It's not Stockholm Syndrome either, I don't think. SQL isn't stylish, and it isn't beautiful, but it's pretty clear in spite of that. More than that, SQL is a lingua franca for databases, and it's very powerful -- this is a pretty difficult thing to beat, and the only thing that I've seen that can do it is LINQ, which isn't a language so much as an API for constructing query ASTs.
The Longest Escalator System
> People, especially parents, with religious faith do not view it this way. It is not "force" to hand down our faith and inculcate our children with values based on loving God and loving neighbor.

If it involves more then negligible amount of spanking in the "how to train your baby" style or emotional manipulation, it absolutely is coercive.

As in, there is such a thing as healthy amount of teaching your faith. There is also religious based abuse. And then there is someone saying "glaring deficiency of public school is the inability to train your child's character for most of the day" which do suggest overbearing amount of it.
Honestly I don't know why anyone would lock all their money up with a single bank. Accounts are so trivial to open and manage nowadays. Diversify not just your investments but also your fiat holdings.
Wait till thunderf00t sees this one.
You should be able to click on the buttons with a left mouse click. Currently worlds that are exported as HTML doesn't contain any editing functionality except being able to interact with voxels.
Biologics in Healthcare. Most traditional cancer treatments will be rendered obsolete, many forms of cancer will be cured with a "simple" (in use only) injection or pill.
Some are, almost all in the introductory classes (including me) and many in the upper division classes are undergrads.

(u)GSIs at Berkeley are paid particularly well compared to other schools, I think in large part due to the TA union (UAW 2865).
No, but there is a "rule of thumb" that a hospital will prefer private insurance patients to medicaid patients (due to reimbursement), and private insurance patients will go to hospitals with newer and nicer facilities. If you want the elective hip replacement patient, then having a newly remodeled orthopedic ward / office building is critical. Patients probably can't tell one doctor or nurse from another, and hospitals don't advertise on actual quality measurements like staffing ratios...
> If I contributed to the project, I did so under the premise of the LICENSE that was active when I contributed. If I didn't like OSS, I wouldn't have contributed to a OSS project. Them changing the license is a middle-finger to me as a contributor.

Whatever you contributed is still available as OSS (the previous version with the old license). Just fork the project and compete with them if you think you can do it better. Lightbend seems to think they can't keep developing OSS Akka in a way that would make them money and thus the change.
Building on this, I see a lot of areas of code that are effectively untouchable because of how much energy would need to be invested to understand the code and its context before making a change. So if a change has to be made to fix a bug or add a required feature, it's done in the most low-impact way, which only makes the code that much harder to understand in the future.

Meanwhile, I can't get refactor-only commits through because nobody wants the code to be touched unless absolutely necessary.

We're in the middle of migrating a massive PHP codebase to Java. The code I'm talking about is newer Java code. In a few years, people will be wondering why the Java code is as much as a mess as the PHP code and, if I happen to still be around, my response will effectively be "I told you so" (in kinder, more productive terms).

I've basically determined that my only option to ensure continued or improving code quality is to combine refactoring and bug fixes in the same merge request, while still keeping them in separate commits. That way whenever I touch a part of code for bug fixing or whatever else, I leave it behind in much better state than it was before.
Provided we don't let the timber rote outside or burn it, having to rebuild regularly could actually be a good thing.
I was wondering about that, too. Assuming that Clasp doesn't need a Lisp for bootstrapping [1], would bootstrapping without a Lisp take comparable build times for other Common Lisp systems?

[1] It would be nice if the readme explicitly listed build dependencies.
I don't think it did well anywhere. Just another wacky item from the Commodore product lineup.

Even the C128 was used in C64 mode by most of its owners.
Game UI in the DOM. When you need to update something 60 times a second all performance matters.
Rare fossils reveal basketball-like skin on duck-billed dinosaur
So radical that playing alexis weissenberg's rendition of Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3: No. 2, Prélude in C-Sharp Minor leaves chills down my spine to this day.
Ok, I found a hanger wire in my closet and have plugged one end to my computer power hole and the other into my wifi thingy power hole. Now what?

- someone in a much to near future
SQL does reusability using VIEWs and functions.
A secure honeypot framework low code
im only an observer on redit (lisp and common lisp) and the community seems to be quite good and supportive. there are a few members who, while very helpful, can be somewhat terse, but thats only a minority. the latter might be a bit of a turn off to some people but ive personally grown above being easily offended. overall i would say its an enjoyable community with a lot of new prominent members doing some exciting things
segue (the word is from Italian), not the two-wheeled self-balancing scooter
My understanding of yak shaving is that if you need to create a system for selling ads then you'll start by developing a graph layout algorithm that produces a set of optimal layouts for routing power in a data center (because you don't want to be called out if your system doesn't scale.)
What makes Quake so portable? Developer seem to be able to move it to just about any platform.
Good advice here.

> If you hit a ceiling (without growth) then you may want to consider looking for/accepting outside capital.

One other option at this point is to sell the whole business. For bootstrappers allergic to VC or lacking the drive/skill to scale further/faster, can be a nice outcome.

Seems to be a growing number of firms specializing in small saas acquisitions too (Tiny Capital comes to mind - no affiliation).
Is everyone mad at Cloudflare? The people I know whose employers are Cloudflare customers say this affair has made no difference.

I suspect the set of customers and the set of angry people may not a large intersection.
Do you run it all by yourself or you have a team in place? If it is solo operation, perhaps middle ground would be to develop it into self functioning company first. There are many obvious reasons why you would want to do it (and why you wouldn't). Perhaps one less obvious one - you will get tired of it eventually. And if it can't survive without you - you will hate leaving it to die off and you will hate keeping running it...
Filecoin/Storj are build strongly on reputation.
A new node will not get data or important stuff.
filecoin needs very very good hardware.
> AppleScript is an amazing facility and undervalued strength of macOS.

True and false. Apple event IPC is pure awesome. The AppleScript language is a dumpster fire. AppleScript remains because Apple’s own alternatives, JavaScript for Automation (aka JXA, which you mention) and Scripting Bridge framework, are even worse.

Sadly, the whole AE/OSA/AS platform is the walking dead now. Following two decades of ignorance and mismanagement, and in the wake of JXA’s 2014 failure, Apple finally fired the PM responsible and disbanded the Mac Automation department back in 2016. Whether they actively pull its plug or just let it fade away in its own time, Mac Automation as we know it is, as far as Apple’s concerned, a failed product for a non-existent market. iOS is the only market of significance to Apple now. This sucks, but so it goes.

Apple is now moving to App Extensions and App Intents for user-level IPC, which has maybe 1% the power of AEs but is cross-platform and far easier for App developers to implement; and for front-end they have cross-platform Siri with Shortcuts providing just enough customizability to make it useful (Apple hopes) to the other 99% of users for whom Swift, AppleScript, and all those other text programming languages are “too hard” for non-programmers to use.

(They’re wrong in this: text is easy; it’s languages designed by and for programmers that are hard by design, Shortcuts—ironically—included. A modern version of Papert’s Logo would smash the problem. But Apple’s own thinking is not exactly… advanced.)

…

For those who wish to see what could have been:

https://appscript.sourceforge.io -- appscript (Python 3 works; the others are bitrotted)

https://hhas.bitbucket.io -- SwiftAutomation (probably still works)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodeautomation -- nodeautomation (works)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/appscript/files/ -- ASDictionary and ASTranslate tools for translating AS commands to their Python/JS/Swift equivalents

All 100% capable alternatives to AppleScript for app automation, and the programmers who used them loved them. But given how thoroughly Apple wrecked the whole platform I killed support after 2012.

Now even stalwarts like Python and Ruby are gone from macOS, and the enormous JavaScript market is 100% owned by V8’s Node.js, which says what Apple priorities are regarding scripting and scripters now. Not that I can blame Apple, but Mac Automation’s failure was always a people problem, not a tech problem, not that they know (or care) the difference.
I just asked my Russian friend how much do they pay for heating. He said he has no idea about his own place but has a bill for a small 31m2 rental he has and it was 1290 rub per month (charged year round). Average UK house is 1582 sq ft i.e. 4.74x bigger so would be 6226 rub or 86.93 GBP per month or 1043 per year. Meaning, the Brits are now paying only 1.86x as much (1940 GBP annually) and are about to pay about 3.3x as much (3500 GBP), meaning heating currently takes a smaller part of their incomes (UK nominal GDP per capita is over 3x Russian) and are about to pay about as much. Is it really that much to be concerned with? I haven't heard about anyone complaining on their heating bill in Russia.
> If I contributed to the project, I did so under the premise of the LICENSE that was active when I contributed. If I didn't like OSS, I wouldn't have contributed to a OSS project. Them changing the license is a middle-finger to me as a contributor.

No, you contributed under the premise of the LICENSE that was active when you contributed _and the CLA they made you sign before they accepted your PR_, which said that they're allowed to change the license later on if they feel like it. If you think that the company changing the license for future versions is a middle finger, you shouldn't be contributing to projects that make you sign CLAs.
Dumb, or courageous? Do you not benefit from the people around you who studied liberal arts? Who is going to make the Netflix shows you watch after you get home from work after spending 8 hours slinging JSON around and making bank? No, seriously, these people are going into fields that we benefit from and yet refuse to pay for, and if they didn’t our society would be worse off. Why do you consider this a dumb decision rather than a sacrifice they shouldn’t have to make?
Jumping on the nitpick train: SSDs are less randomly write-access memory because of the requirement to explicitly erase an entire block before you can rewrite it. RAM doesn't have this constraint. It has other constraints, like writing and refreshing rows at a time, but combined with the difference in erase cycles causing wear in flash, you do end up with a significant difference in just how randomly you can access these memories.
The recent Canada convoy protest was both in NA and a mass protest. How much change has that brought?
According to the thread, they've already returned from their travels and visited several different local bank branches. Not sure how long the CFPB or OCC takes to respond, but they do take complaints seriously and they can cause serious problems for banks.
I wonder if our entire health care problems in the US stem from the medical cartel itself. You have medical schools limiting seats, you have physicians and head physicians and medical groups lobbying for changes, and you have inflated doctor salaries…

A sane approach might be to let more people graduate medical school and increase the number of applicants…
If you follow the authors advice to its logical conclusion then all changes to the code base are narrowly focussed tweaks - where does the longer term thinking come into this?

If I’m implementing a new feature, should I also disregard the need for refactoring?

A more nuanced approach is needed. You need to learn when to make changes additively and when to reshape the code to fit your new use case (and how much reshaping is required).

As an aside: I think tech debt sprints (if needed regularly) are often a sign that you aren’t developing software sustainably day to day.
Hopefully this is the beginning of a process that leads to such an unworkable situation that things move the other way. And leave crime up to the police and government and not PP, backs and CC companies. With any luck we might even be able to get some kind of safeguards. "Financial Services Neutrality Act" maybe?
Gender Studies and Literature will never not be useless professionally. That said, there is immense value in having some number of scholars study those fields in great detail and we would suffer as a species if we let our knowledge in those fields rot.

Would it perhaps be prudent to cap the number of participants in those departments to match the number of real-world vacancies available?
My personal experience is that it would be great if REPL can provide some quick references for APIs, etc.
> They have no clue that most of what is playing everywhere is sponsored ads, and content promoted by the people who upload it.

I'm always horrified at how bad people are at even recognizing an ad when they see one these days. I thought maybe it was just banner blindness, but I don't think many people even understand what an ad is.

Once I had someone argue that windows 10 didn't contain any ads at all and as proof they sent me a screenshot of their start menu which sure enough was filled with ads. It was struggle to get them to accept that all the icons for apps that weren't installed and services they didn't use were ads. I've seen people insist that Netflix didn't have ads just the full screen banners for whatever they were promoting you have to scroll past to get to your list/continue watching or the "suggestions" they throw up after a show ends. If it wasn't interrupting what they were watching every 10 minutes it didn't count to them.

For as much as advertising has found its way into everything, people seem to be getting worse at realizing when they're being manipulated.
I’ve built web games.

Don’t bother trying to render the DOM 60 fps, it’s unnecessary. Render your actual game with canvas and use regular react for your UI. If for some reason your UI needs to render that often, move it into canvas too.
If you need to know the price then I doubt you are Akka's target customer.
In school we were socialising for 6+ hours a day, every day, plus any time after school or on weekends, alongside our school work. We also had hundreds of peers that we could make friends with if we wanted to.

Compared to that I'd absolutely say homeschooling (even with occasional events and activities) is quite isolating.
Defining parts of the language as executable code instead of prose is attractive. One drawback is over specification - the reference implementation may have inessential features that a prose version could leave to the implementor - but overall I think that risk is minor compared to having executable test cases/examples embedded in the standard.

Arbitrary size integers written in lisp is a thing. Maybe gambit and sbcl? Can't remember offhand. Calling down to llvm.sum.i64 or w/e is very similar to calling down to x64.
Ikarus
Just use the subscriptions tab.
I believe Solid does have batching, and continues to work on the problem?
As I said below.

Hopefully this is the beginning of a process that leads to such an unworkable situation that things move the other way. And leave crime up to the police and government and not PP, backs and CC companies. With any luck we might even be able to get some kind of safeguards. "Financial Services Neutrality Act" maybe?
Well, basing a series on a well known work is a tradeoff. You have an automatic audience, but they have certain expectations and if you fail to meet them the backlash is harsh. Would it be higher rated if it wasn't based on Tolkien? Probably, but vastly fewer people would care about it. End of the day you have to respect the source material.
I'm sure the typical student takes 280 credits per year...
Works like that in Sweden as well. However once you are in, there is nothing stopping you from applying to courses outside of your program. For example I was in the mathematics program, but took 'extracurricular' courses at the philosophy, economics, computer science and electrical engineering departments. It is also possible to apply to change program once you are in.
I'm an avid Julia user and I 100% agree with that. Traits are far superior. They would not be too hard to add to Julia. However, I think the chances are slim of it happening in Julia.
I agree with most comments that it’s ok to prefer not being VC funded. Looking at what other possible outcomes you may have by taking an alternate route: if you take VC money and the company self-destructs, you might end up with considerable capital (depending on how things ended) at the expense of the business and your clients.

But that’s a gamble. If you think the current MRR is sustainable then I would personally stick with it (I assume you’re a solopreneur)
are you talking about something similar to micropython for micro controller?