skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also Hauptwerk, or if you prefer something open source there's GrandOrgue

https://github.com/GrandOrgue/grandorgue
The whole free-annual-credit-report-via-the-web-thing worked great in the beginning. I used it for years. Then, it went to shit. First, it was the barrage of ads for free credit monitoring or whatever. Then, it just stopped working altogether. It's now obvious they're just trying to make it as difficult as possible to get your free annual credit report, which, I think, is supposed to be guaranteed by law.

I actually wrote to one of the credit agencies a few years ago (forget which one), attempting to get my free report. Three months later, the agency sent me an insane form to fill out to get the report. They also started mailing me ads, telling me how easy it was to obtain my credit report...if I paid them. Nice.
If you are backing out of an offer, that is a pretty unfriendly thing to do. Not immoral, just unfriendly. Doing it to Google or Meta is fine because they very clearly aren't your friend. Do it to a startup and they will likely hold a grudge. Do it to your friend's business, and they will understand, but might be a little upset for a little while.

It's all about circumstances.
If you were willing to have a chain or giant sandwich hanging off your laptop you could probably cobble that together with an Adafruit Trinkey and the sensors along the lines of this:

https://learn.adafruit.com/diy-trinkey-no-solder-air-quality...

(might not be too terrible velcro'ed to the lid...)
You're right, I could have said that better. But you know what? Fuck those idiots sucking down that mainstream trash, happy to be exploited by Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Apple. Fuck those fucking stupid fucks
It's enough when there is only 5 minutes or less wait for access to a charger. And when a charger is available within a distance of about 2 miles in the city, or 10 miles in the countryside.

In other words when you can get ready access to a charger when you require one.
You might be able to approximate the color but you can't replicate the glow/bloom effect of the phosphor with monochrome OLED.
The day-to-day life of a SWE is like Dilbert the comic strip. You don't need to be a child prodigy for it.
Not really though, just heterodox by trans activist standards.
In the early days I used green monitors. Then I ran across the Amber ones, and I said "wow, cool", but it was not life changing. I saw the amber monitors after I left the company was working at with the green ones.

But, between the green and amber (before I left), I got a 286 PC as a workstation to connect to the mini. Its monochrome monitor was white text with a very slight blue tinge. I thought that was the best :)

Also at the time I had one of those covers that increased contrast, it attached right to the monitor (no tape).
A Detailed Guide to OpenZFS
Nah. There is basically nothing that can fail in my $800 lever espresso machine. If the boiler cracks or something insane I'll just solder it with $8 silver solder from home Depot. It's already 30 years old.
Large Language Models Like ChatGPT Say the Darnedest Things
According to the "public disclosure" they made back in March 2021 under the agreement with the NYAG, a whopping total of 3.87% of tether is backed by cash. Over 65% is backed by IOUs, i.e., unsecured promises to pay in 270 days or less, or, if one prefers certain terminology, commercial paper.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210513120449/https://tether.to...

Of course, Tether does not tell us who are the "I's" in the IOUs. They could all be affiliated entities (like Alameda was to FTX) or other crypto startups. Does it make any difference who are the entities, or individuals, that have promised to pay.
Cooking the bones makes them brittle. They break open easily when chewed, and the sharp edges can perforate the GI tract after they're eaten.
Impressive. I wonder how much easier this gets as consoles converge with PCs architecturally
Some people like the medical field, or helping people.
Anecdotal evidence: Friends of mine tried to open up a corporate bank account in Singapore for their crypto-business. Doesn't go too well.
It's not like I have a problem with symmetrical connections. I have a symmetrical fiber setup. People who need to upload will choose a plan with it.

I just think _legally mandating that every connection be symmetrical_ is a mistake. Most people don't want or need it.
Having someone edit your writing is very different than having someone produce your writing.

If I ask a human to write a 500 word essay on the invention of the computer, but give them the prompt, that is absolutely plagiarism.

If I ask Grammerly to write a 500 word essay on the invention of the computer, but give them the prompt, that is still absolutely plagiarism.
I like Benn Jordan’s videos. He provides a cutting criticism that includes data and transparency that I appreciate. I don’t always agree with his conclusions, but I always enjoy the ride.

This video starts off a bit weird where he seems to conflate a front desk job at a bowling alley with the manager position, which was odd to me. I think if I show this to somebody, I’ll just tell them to skip the first minute.

After that, I found the arguments put forward to be really compelling. I always found Spotify’s business model to be a bit shakey, but I’d never done much research. It’s nice to see an insiders perspective. I’ll probably do more research into this now.
Nvidia Corporate Timeline
Personally I just avoid cooking smoky foods because setting off the smoke detector calls the fire department after a few minutes which costs $1000.

Cook the stuff that’s easy at home. And go out for the rest.
sure, let's stop looking for better ways to do things because this one 30-year old way is capable of being twisted into what you need, no matter what it is.

I get the reverence around make but don't blind yourself to potentially better ways of doing things.

I would even go so far as to say that intentionally avoiding new ways to approach these things will necessarily blind you to better ways once they do come along, and I wonder how many good tools have died because "[x] does all I need." (replace "x" with whatever you like.)
This view is really popular, but totally wrong if you take the view of a business (or a capitalist ideologue). In that frame of reference, a contract is something that might cost money to break, not a high and mighty promise.
The problem isn't chatgpt, it's curriculum. If students were motivated to learn to write (and the skill is genuinely useful, this shouldn't be a hard task) this wouldn't be a problem. But instead for whatever reason we've adopted a coercion based system of education where we assume students innately dislike learning. Personally I think it's a good thing that chatgpt is allowing students to ignore the coercive education system.
While they are probably overpriced, if you buy from Dyson you know you are getting pretty good quality. My prior vacuums were from Shark and Hoover and they sucked in the wrong way. While I probably could have gotten a decent vacuum from one of those well-known generic vacuum companies, going with Dyson assured I'd get something much better than I previously had. If I saw a Miele vacuum on the shelf, I'd have no idea what to expect, given have never heard of the brand before.
Absolutely. Shocks can cause arrhythmias that are fatal hours or days later.
I bought a bunch of call options for GoPro, because they're switching to a subscription model and being very aggressive about it (you get a year for free when you buy the latest gopro AND a discount on the gopro, it's insane). Yet, the options just crashed like crazy over time. Irrational market.
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.ph/3FWSM
> How do the semantics change? They are arrays, they literally have pointers to their characters.

console.log("hello" == "hello")
console.log([1,2,3] == [1,2,3])

These produce different results despite the surface similarity between the two expressions. If strings were just arrays, then both of these expressions should result in true or both in false, not different values.
> If taxpayer A gifts taxpayer B $1M today, taxpayer B owes $0 in taxes to the US federal government.

If A is alive when that happens then that is wrong. B will be taxed on the amount of $1M - 17k because the gift tax applies not the estate tax.

If A were dead and gifted B in their will, then you would be correct because the estate tax applies in this scenario.

Again, since we're taking about loans and gifts while a person is alive in this thread, the first scenario of the gift tax applies.
I can say that many, many times, I have zoomed in, picked date ranges, added options, then pasted the yahoo finance url to others... and they have all those same configs passed.

It's awesome and incredibly handy.

Yahoo is on the ball here.
I'm pretty sure we all lost heh. Thanks for clarifying. Indeed, there were slight errors in my description and the other commenter was reasonable in assuming those other cards were in discussion.
You neglect to mention the inmate has to pay for each scanned card or letter, which most inmates can't afford. And you can't write on it, because it's on a screen, so if you're sending crosswords, the inmate can't do the crossword now, which is very demoralizing so they'll just ask you to stop sending them. There is another service where they can pay an exorbitant fee for a printout though. It's also very difficult to read scanned handwritten letters even if you pay for the printout. Inmates will ask you to stop sending Christmas cards because it's not worth it for you, and it's not worth it for them. It costs them more than what the card & postage cost you. Also the screens are pretty shitty so when they break down, it takes months to get a replacement.

The worst thing is the lies about why they're doing this. They think we're stupid. They don't really care about prisoners getting sick from possible drugs on the letters. If they really cared about this issue they would screen the letters for drugs, which would be easier & cheaper than scanning and reprinting them, or they would provide healthcare in prisons (they don't), or they could even stop corrections employees from bringing in the drugs in the first place.
The amber was a newer Dec unit, at my work. the greens were Vt100 class and the amber was a vt220/240 -So the primary drive here was that it was a less flickery, cleaner (less pizza stained) keyboard and faster unit.

Personally I think green is fine. I never felt 2nd class using the green or grey/white units like the ADM5/ADM3A.

Using a decwriter demanded a bit more thought. I think my coding style got worse when I stopped having to plan my intent inside my head a bit more.
The main issue with French press is that it's unfiltered and filtered coffee is considered healthier.
I would be more interested to know how he is performing in his classes. If he is doing fine, then there really isn't an issue. There are plenty of devs out there who don't spend their free time writing code and your son can easily be one of them.

Is he generally pretty active about driving decisions in his life or does he just roll with things in a passive manner?
Wow this takes me back! I remember hanging out in the Pasadena Public library as a kid using these amber terminals to look up info in the digital card catalog. I would play around with them for hours on end.
> I am not a developer or cs engineer

So you're saying you're less qualified than your son when it comes to determining whether someone might do well in CS?
It seems to me like the selling point of this tool is that it is language agnostic - you don't have to write all your jobs in Python.

There are a lot of language specific tools like this. I love Ruby's rake.
I'm not gonna brush off the idea that it's tough as a gay person or someone who thinks gay people have the right to exist to get in with a crowd that often thinks lgtbq people deserve to die
None of this will work if you run the generated text through a smaller model designed to rewrite it.

I'm betting on schools using expanded remote proctoring software to monitor and record students' homework process and flag potential irregularities for teachers to check. Whether it's positive or negative for students' education, it will be less disruptive to schools than eliminating homework or significantly altering the curriculum.
That’s all fine and good but if old established cities—which by definition are desirable else they wouldn’t be so established—just cannot change like you’re describing, then they’re doomed no matter what. Never said it’s simple, just stating a fact, and even if some people don’t like it then they have to choose what they value more. Seems like most of these cities just refuse to choose, which is a choice in itself, and then default to the status quo.

Personally if you don’t want to change the physical form of the city too much, the least disruptive approach is to build a lot of efficient transit towards the outskirts. It’s what Tokyo does and it scales to 40m people mostly living in low rise homes, no out of place towers necessary.
Twitter “severance agreements” silence former employees for life
I wish my gas stove had touch controls. It’s so much easier to clean.
Many of my peers do not code in their free time and have done very well in their internships and now in their full-time jobs.

I have periods of my life where I don't code at all in my free time but I still really enjoyed studying CS.
Very well written article. Delves into some details of things like exception handling semantics without going too far in the weeds. Thanks for sharing.
We'll let the market be the judge of that.
Why do you think it's supposed to be fiber? I've never once seen comcast or any other cable internet provider claim they're fiber.
I’m truly interested in data about the relative quantity of no2 produced by stovetop vs other sources. If that information is contained in the featured article I missed it.

My understanding, from something I’d read previously, was that no2 was not a big concern, and that amongst sources of no2, gas ranges were less of an issue than heaters and water heaters.

What I know is that no2 is higher outdoors. I just wonder if the danger isn’t being overstated, relative to other dangers.

For the record I favor a law requiring venting in rental units and new home construction. I wish that was what got passed because it seems like the health impacts of nonventilated cooktops of any sort, including electric, is a larger concern.
More SF/London anecdata: I got reliable low-latency 100Mbps via BT FTTC in 2011 (in SW12), which was better than anything I had ever gotten in the US across 3 states I lived in until 2018 at which point I got 1 Gbps AT&T Fiber in the East Bay which has been fantastic.
When I was doing contract work and a manager asked to join in meetings, I would say "I can come for xx minutes - 15, 30, whatever seemed reasonable to me based on the topic. If the discussion was productive, I might stay longer. Most of the time, the discussion was pointless and I'd leave. The worst was standing meetings (recurred every week at the same time). The agenda hardly ever changed and not much of anything ever got done, other than discussing the same list of problems every week.

Long team meetings are a total time suck.

Edit: you could just leave after it gets stupid, and if asked why, tell them you had another meeting! If you just leave, how do they know you're not having a "bathroom emergency"? Sounds like a good excuse to me. And if you do it enough that they press you on it, it seems reasonable to say "I didn't have anything more to contribute to the discussion so I thought my time was better used working on my current project." Seems a manager would be hard-pressed to argue with that.
i do this on a site i threw together to annotate youtube videos with timestamps

https://youtubenotes.com/

i used sveltekit and vercel
On a single “burner”? Yes, it’s more than enough. More only assists in boiling water faster.
I thought game developers are using libraries like DirectXMath, or GLM, or the equivalents provided by game engines?
UPS and the package wars
There's a couple of reasons for the current situation in terms of the plethora of tools.

One, Python and its packaging story is old (remember, Python predates Linux). That has given folks plenty of time to either come up with their own solutions since Python predates widespread internet usage (PyPI has not always been around).

Two, a lack of standards. Tying back into the "old" point, not everything was initially designed. There has been work to chip away at this and get more standards behind things, but getting folks to update their packaging code is *hard*; most people copy their packaging code from their last project and don't really try to update it. Getting changes to propagate through an ecosystem as large as Python's takes years; a decade is the typical time frame considered for complete uptake.

Three, the lack of standards means tools come up with their own solution which then isn't compatible with anyone else. That means when someone innovates, it can very quickly get locked up behind a single tool. That means folks end up reinventing the wheel for various reasons (e.g. lock files). Different approaches leads to different opinions, which leads to folks choosing different tools for different reasons. And when that happens, there ends up being a lack of consensus.

And four, this is almost entirely driven by volunteers with very few people paid in any way to work on this stuff (I think there might be like 2 people who contribute to pip, 2.5 folks for PyPI).

And good luck telling someone that their preferred workflow isn't the "chosen" workflow that the whole community is going to switch to. People don't like being told they are going to have to change, especially if they believe their approach is superior for whatever reason. Multiply that by the size of the Python community and you can see the pitchforks quite clearly on the horizon.

Now that isn't to say work isn't being done to improve the situation. The PyPA side of packaging has been working on standards for quite some time and is getting some traction with them (e.g. pyproject.toml is a great example of that). But we do have some more standards to work out. We are also regularly discussing how to come up with some singular tool/UX that people can get behind for most use cases, but see the above comments about the size of a challenge that it is and thus why it hasn't happened yet. But people are aware and trying to figure all of this stuff out.
The Yen has fallen like 30% against the dollar over the last 3 years. That would be quite the haircut...
I built a tic tac toe game for my daughter a while a go that stores the game state in the URL as a proof of a similar concept. https://letter-press.netlify.app/ttt/
Way back when I was a student living in an old rented house in London, I went into the bathroom to find the bulb had blown. It was a pull cord switch, so I didn't know if it was on or off, but knew I wouldn't be so stupid as to stick my fingers in the bulb holder while changing the bulb, so no big deal if it was still live. Standing barefoot on the enamelled metal bath, I bent the cable so I could see how to screw the bulb in, and the ancient insulation on the cable split. I came to, lying in the bath with a huge bump on the back of my head. I knew exactly which path the current had taken because it hurt all down the right side of my body, but fortunately it mostly went down that side, not across my chest. So much for British bathrooms having pull-cord switches so you can't electrocute yourself.
If you need a standalone terminal, the Fabgl library has a VTxxx emulator that runs on an esp32.

So it's pretty cheap to make a terminal from an old monitor,
ps/2 keyboards and mice.

http://www.fabglib.org/classfabgl_1_1_terminal.html

There's also a LilyGo esp32 with all the right connectors already there for ~$12USD

https://www.tindie.com/products/lilygo/lilygo-ttgo-vga-v14-c...
Hodlnaut is in Singapore. Makes sense banks there would want to avoid crypto companies after this huge failure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodlnaut
things like this convince me that humanity is doomed.

A) your car was tailgating if you couldn't see those stones soon enough to stop before hitting one.

B) the asshat who placed those stones will do things like this the rest of their life, and/or will encourage others to do so. that kind of thinking doesn't get corrected, that kind of thinking learns how not to get caught.
Sounds like he's a normal college student who's doing well in class.

Most professional programmers would rather spend time on hobbies than working, too.
You have zero visibility into the operations of traditional private businesses. With Binance, you can at least view their wallet balances, in the 10s of billions. You can also estimate their annual revenues. I would recommend doing both. You may find it illuminating. Really, we should all try similar research before commenting on crypto. It would make for much more intelligent discussions.

And I don’t mean to pick on you. But too often I read comments here like: “I don’t know much about crypto, but I’m confident that … (insert choice assertion)”.
I found that most Wasm interpreters are not particularly good at calls. Wizard is not as fast as wasm3 or wamr in raw speed, but is much faster on calls, particularly because it does not copy arguments (value stacks can be overlapped). But Wizard's primary motivation is to be memory efficient, so it interprets in-place. It also supports instrumentation.

Nice work!
Well, there are limits to the lengths of URLs in much of the internet’s infrastructure, so better compression could still be useful.
I associate amber monitors with three things:

* DEC terminals at my school, all our grades and stuff lived in a VAX and the office personnel accessed it through VT220s or maybe VT320s

* the InfoTrac at the public library, late 80s early 90s. This was a search engine for newspaper and magazine articles that you could find in the microfiche section of the library. It basically consisted of a PC -- maybe XT or AT class with the entire search database on wonderful new things known as CD-ROMs. Text mode only, the amber monochrome monitor was hella stupid burned-in.

* one time my dad set up a Northgate 386 for his company with Xenix on it and it had an amber monochrome monitor.
Speaking from very recent experience, referrals are by no means enough to get an interview. I found they helped but I think school name (if you go to a top 5 or so) + quality of projects/past experience are also very important.
Twitter thread by researchers: https://twitter.com/CSMaP_NYU/status/1612449687218397194
That README is quite the novel. I guess I prefer overly verbose documentation to under though.
I'm very curious how this cooperation will work.

From the announcement one can guess that the Japanese side will contribute with the Mitsubishi SRZ-1200 reactor [1], while the US with several SMR designs, of which NuScale will clearly be one [2].

But other than that, how exactly will they cooperate? Will the US build any large reactors using the SRZ-1200 design? Will Japan build any small reactors with the NuScale design? Or this is just some meaningless expression of common interest in the same stuff but not much else?

[1] https://www.mhi.com/news/220929.html

[2] https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-cost-ref...
I mean, you can go from poorly-sized EC2 instance with autoscalinggroups constantly interrogating remote databases to full serverless with databases hosted on AWS, and 90% is an easy target.
Nah I live in a carefully crafted bubble in west LA. Rest of the world kind of sucks when I leave it.
It will never be possible to get a consistent grind with blade grinders unfortunately.
I already pay for GitHub, am fine with that and they manage. So yes.