skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I am being hyperbolic and should not be when presenting my perspective. Use the word rampant was misleading.

My point is that people hail these communities as the golden child of diversity in a community, but back in the late 90s and early 00s internet nerd culture was anything but diverse. Again, I am not saying diversity did not exist, but if you were to measure the amount of say.. white males vs other groups on IRC we all know which way it skews.

My other point was that, back then it was common in internet culture to throw offensive, racist, and sexist terms/jokes back-and-forth with no recourse as a form of trolling. The people using these terms may not even be racist/sexist, but from the perspective of a minority there is no difference.

I enjoyed being on IRC, to the point where most of my free time was spent gaming but then shifted to just chatting with folks on IRC. It was great. I miss it dearly. But I do not see it as some diversity golden child we should all aspire to.
Why Big Oil won’t be Big Renewables anytime soon
> Or is the point of the "bootstrapped experiment" not to earn a basic living?

With no offense to the methods of this founder, no, I don't think that's the point of his (yet?). Maybe an eventual goal, but he clearly has no need for immediate profits, he'd rather do a good job with the product.
lol only time will tell since they basically went all-in. Do they change the name back to Facebook if they start reversing course? :P
Ask HN: What product/solution will your business happily pay for?
Was recently asked this by a young entrepreneur, so thought of crowdsourcing the question so that wider audience benefits. Please provide real challenge/issues faced by your business/corp, which could be solved by an individual or a small team.

Ask yourself -

1. Is this a problem I see my company repeatedly encounter?

2. Is this a problem which is not a company priority or worth ROI for any employee?

3. Will the company listen up if someone pitches the solution?

4. Will the business pay if the solution really fits the requirements?
It is unlikely that it is because of C++, however, we have conducted extensive benchmarking (which, by the way, is fully open-source and can be easily reproduced if desired). You can find more information about this at https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-alternative-to-el....
The generative AI race has a direty secret
If you've got WPA3 enabled on your router try disabling that. I've found a few devices which don't play well with it. If that doesn't help could be a hardware issue.
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle
Scientists fear Great Toxic Dustbowl could soon emerge from the Great Salt Lake
Space-as-a-service, satellite-as-a-service, and satellites off-the-shelf - find out about readymade satellite systems from around the world. Just add payloads...
Hi, sorry again for the rough onboarding.

Just click on login and you will receive a magic link.
In the US you don't really have the urban Tescos and Sainsbury's and so forth. You have some equivalent local markets but it's mostly fairly spread out supermarkets or 7-11/CVS/etc. which really don't count as grocery stores.
The iPod only went USB once USB 2.0 was widely deployed (the spec was ratified in 2001, the first USB iPod was 2003). USB 1.0/1.1 (1.5/12Mbps) were not fast enough for the 5GB-20GB drives of the day, especially compared to the prevailing FireWire standard (400Mbps).
For the most part, Eclipse has fallen into obscurity. But I doubt that it's competitors work any different in that regard.
Probably talking about

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/owl-f...

which is paid.

Can achieve feature parity with plain IMAP + TbSync but that's another 3rd party addon.

So "doesn't work out of the box with o365" isn't that big of a stretch, plain TB will only get you IMAP working.

That's honestly more of MS being cancer and not using standards than anything else.

They also introduced required OAUTH2 authentication last year and in a way that you need essentially org admin rights to give any other client than TB access... because you need to create fucking app in MS panels that then gets used by mail client to authorize you. It is entirely aisine platform
Patented seeds have funded GMO research which has saved literally hundreds of millions if not billions of lives through famine reduction. Yes it sucks for farmers, but I can't see how it has been anything other than absolute boon for humanity.
The missing element in the home schooling discussion --- the quality and capability of the teacher.

For example; if the parent/teacher hates math and doesn't really understand the subject, what are the prospects for the child learning it?
Twelve provocations on large language models (LLMs)
Can someone from the trans community give a point by point rebuttal to this? My kid is asking for the hormones.
It's true that most people can't afford to to not have enough earnings to pay for basic living expenses while pursuing the entrepreneurship path. The middle ground would be to keep a day job as you go along that path.
Because bigger teams can accomplish bigger things.

HN has this understandable infatuation with startup mode, but running a truly global product line of anything with a large customer base is simply a lot of work.

Apple can't be run with 5 people, it also cannot be attacked by a 5 people startup. Same for Microsoft, AWS, ... broad massively multi-product companies are very hard to take on if they have their general shit together. Ask Slack how it went against MSFT Teams, a clearly INFERIOR product. Microsoft out-scaled Slack, simple as that.

Sustained innovation of a big company is a formidable moat against disruption. Look at big pharma, these companies have been around for 120+ years! Merck was founded in 1891 (from a root company founded in 1668!) and is still a 50bn revenue behemoth. And yes, modern biopharma is big tech.
I'm sure the full list of shell check rules is in the many dozens.. I was just trying to address one apparent misperception. And here I thought someone would complain about not putting $f in double quotes not * instead of ./* ;-)

Anyway, I did mention find-xargs, but it's also true your leading dash filenames mistaken for options point can cause trouble in naive invocations if find roots begin with dashes. Doubtless, a lotta gotchas..
i never heard the purpose of freelancing being free of middlemen, its being free of a direct employee relationship and having a middleman does not mean you have to be employed by them, only that the contracts, accounting, invoicing, and payments go through them. in my experience this is mostly a function of how big the company is you want to work for, startups to mid size companies are completely fine and possible to do directly as long as you trust their payments be reliable, certain clients might make sense to take the 10% to 20% cut just to not be in risk of running after your money, but usually its better to just not work with such clients. companies after maybe a few 100 employees and 10+ freelancers don’t want to deal with individual contracts and outsource ramping up and down, freelance recruiting etc. at this size they still pay so much more than small startups that freelancers get a significant extra. the only exception i know are absolute superstar consultants with an own brand around their name, personal friendships to the relevant managers or niche skills that are so specific that the agency they use cannot provide them.
Is Ubuntu Touch still active? The supported devices like on their website is really ancient: https://ubports.com/supported-products

What I'd really love is to have a straight Ubuntu Server install for old android phones with nothing but a tty on the phone's screen.
Honest Review of Stripe Support
Before I get into the story, I first want to say that as a dev, the overall experience working with Stripe is five stars. The discord dev-help channel is what every company should strive for when offering developer support. Along side the amazing documentation Stripe has put together, it is still by far one of the best and easiest integration I've worked with through out the years. I absolutely love the product and can't live without it as a online commerce founder.

Now to the story.

One of our user recently had a serious blocking bug happen to them and so far I have not been able to get a confirmation of the bug from the support team. All my attempts to get this issue resolved have been given the run-around.

To summarize the bug as best as I can:

- Stripe enables marketplaces to passthrough payment to something called “connected accounts"

- When onboarding a connected account, there is an option for the user to select a “currency” when connecting a
external bank account (for deposit) for the first time.

- This currency selection overrides the actual currency of the deposit account. So for example, I can tell Stripe my CAD bank account is actually in USD.

- Any subsequent Update/Removal/Re-adding of the same bank account will not change the currency to the correct value. I believe this may be because the account is fingerprinted and it's meta data cached.

- Incorrect currency blocks deposits, the fund gets stuck in their Stripe account indefinitely.

I have been able to reproduce the problem on my end while helping the user debug the problem. I reached out to support via the normal channels and after a long explanation, they told me to ask the user to reach out to them directly.

It's been 1 week and the user have yet to hear back from support.

Our user has been understanding, but this fund has been stuck in their account for 3 month. Only recently have they informed us that they have not seen the payment deposited into their bank.

We have now reversed the transfer (thank god that's possible), and will pay the user off Stripe.

Here's my honest review:

- Non-developer facing support is seriously lacking. In a perfect world the user should not need to interact with Stripe at all (outside of onboarding). The fact that support wanted the user to reach out to them directly seems very strange to me.

- dev-help is great. I very quickly got someone that seems very knowledgable to at least attempt to reproduce the bug with me. However, maybe due to their geolocation or internal limitation, they hit a wall and redirected me to support.

Overall, lots of things are going right, and I believe Stripe is still upholding their "developer first" mission, but as their offering gets broader and more integrated with direct users, there're lots of improvement to be made.
Macbook Air performance / fan noise...

Error
> on paper

This is the important word. Although Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft overall are profitable there are parts of it that a) was (and still not profitable) and b) was in demand in the last three years but are now softened enough that it turns "okay, unprofitable but manageble" into "this has become a money pit". Since that they are cutting off anyway, why not throw laggards and undesirables into the mix? I estimate that around half is genuine cost-savings and another half is euphemistic firing, which I'll be honest muddies the explanation up a bit.

For Google, their focus was on the cloud and productivity products. Even discounting the already-planned Stadia layoffs, it is well-known that Google has targeted 2023 as its Google Cloud break-even point. If they can't profit on user acquisition then they need to cut up costs. This is why they're now aggressive on closing up GCP products so that the core GCP product can be operated with less expense. Additionally, their Workspace and ChromeOS team were also gutted because the Chromebook boom induced by the pandemic is now over (will expand over at Microsoft's explanation).

Microsoft's cuts are also focused on productivity suites. The boom times for PCs is over so they need to cut costs there, and it shows hard. Both the Windows and 365 subteams were gutted further since that companies have now time to actually count up how many licenses they need, plus since Windows 11 is "free" the only revenue is from OEMs and business. OEMs now buys fewer licenses because the boom times is over. Businesses are not thrilled at Windows 11 and are secretly waiting for a Windows 12 or a 10 ESU. Azure is now slightly profitable but as you might have guess "slight" is unacceptable to shareholders so some were also let go too.

Meta no longer grows in its traditional business in social media and fails to crack the secret to an enjoyable metaverse, with most people passing it off as a fad and even metaverse believers flocking to competitors that were already there and have better products. It's plain obvious why they need to reduce headcount.
It is more a version thing, and I always put it in the name to differentiate from Apache's Spark. That and the all-uppercase letters.
Am I the only one that found the more explicitly named definition way easier to read? Sure the definition name was too large, but the inner variables were great.
> it was they that were raising doubts about the vaccines when Trump was president

From the article and the video of the interview which the article describes: Harris is discussing the fact that she doesn’t trust Trump, and that this mistrust extends to his claims towards the efficacy of the vaccine. This does not imply that she (or democrats) were raising doubts about the vaccine in general, in fact she follows her statement that she would trust a credible source on the matter.
They get sold off to (partially) pay back the company's creditors.
Sorry for nit-picking, but gas power plants burn 50-60% efficiency when waste heat is reused, compared to 30-40% efficiency with a single cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle_power_plant

> (CCGT) plant[s] achieve a best-of-class [...] thermal efficiency of around 64% in base-load operation. In contrast, a single cycle steam power plant is limited to efficiencies from 35 to 42%
They're also a huge pain in the ass to produce, at least in my experience.

Producing hybrid corn seeds, for instance, is done by planting the two varieties in the same field, with one combine-width of rows of variety A alternating with rows of variety B. Then you need to wait until variety A is grown and ready to tassel, and de-tassel it before those tassels fully form and release the pollen that drifts onto the corn silk. This is usually done by hand, by a bunch of people walking through the field and cutting the stalk between the ears and the tassels.

Once that is done, your variety A ears will be pollinated by variety B pollen, and all of those kernels will be hybrid. But your variety B ears be purebred B, not hybrid, so you now you need to harvest the field while keeping the two sets separate. This step isn't too bad, if you did a good job planting, you just need to first harvest the combine-wide strips of hybrid corn before going back to get the B corn.

But yeah, you're looking at a lot of extra work -- and money, you need contract labor to detassel a field in the narrow window of opportunity -- to produce a hybrid seed for better yields next year, and most farmers don't find it a good use of time, which is why most farmers were buying most of their seed well before seed patents and GMO were a thing.
It doesn't help companies have so many internal tools. It seems like once a month I'm asking my team if the invite to X service is something we're doing or a phish.
Which they need to give birth.
Did that finally go out to all subs, because for a while it was only on certain subs? I don't use Reddit anymore, after they suspended my account for promoting a peaceful protest of the Billionaire's Summer Camp, where the corporate media meets every year to consolidate the industry and plan the years narrative. This, after they allowed me to be harassed, threatened with sexual violence and doxxed. Good times!
To those interested in watching the particulars of this case, this is not a surprising development. But the play-by-play is interesting. Sports announcers manage to talk continuously during a game, and don't sit there silently and say "team A won with 20 points to team B's 5 points, what a game" at the very end. Personally, I don't care for the sportsguy blathering about a game nor the end results, and prefer to read about legal shenanigans.
Having renders "auto focus" has been on my mind. Probably will be coming soon. I was focused on getting the language and runtime in better shape first.
Ask HN: If I capture Elon’s roadster in space, would it belong to me?
Hypothetically, if I spend a billion dollar and capture Elon’s roadster in space, would it belong to me legally?
ProgrammableWeb Has Been Retired
"Men want what they want and women want what they want and nothing changes that."

Well, societal/cultural pressures and customs highly shape this. One could use this knowledge to select candidates from specific bagrounds that are likely to share values.
DuckCon 2023 - State of the Duck - Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen

https://youtu.be/rdnPkLSkoyU
That's the point though, if you recreate the code you need to follow it's license, which typically involves some kind of attribution. Copilot should be forced to spit out a list of all licenses it referenced. That would actually be pretty valuable.
I thought it was the other way around? i.e. "NO", in a document that intends "NO" to mean "Norway", is parsed as "False".
On “tyrannese”: A fake interview with Wendell Berry
As others pointed out, such plants don't exist.

Plants that don't produce plantable seeds have a big advantage: some seed is spilled every harvest. Farmers rotate crops, if you have corn gorwing in your soybean field that is one of the worst weeds you can have. Not only does the corn take nutrients you intend for your soybeans, it is also providing a host for any corn disease in your field that you are hoping die off now that it doesn't have corn to live in.
So what should they have done? Conceded to a group of Epic type companies on a VIP-type basis so regulators don't eat their lucrative subscription model? Without bigco lobbying the gov I doubt there'd be as much regulatory pressure. So the best bet might have been to work with the major companies hiring lobbyists and getting PR.

Rumour is Apple is opening up side-loading so the "walled garden" thing might be neutered.

Not sure what other regulatory risks they have.
Are there any examples to enjoy for my amusement without installing & setting up the extension?

Edit: nevermind, just found the home page: https://www.spaghettify.dev/
Hiring many people and firing them shortly after isn't very productive use of human minds. Those people were doing probably something more valuable instead.
Yes, maybe it's part of it.

But still, I think it's possible to do better/clearer/simpler.
Yeah, it looks like Zig is a bit overly lazy.

As a comparison, what C++ does is that it differentiates between "dependent" and "non-dependent" expressions, where "dependent" means that it depends on some template parameter (analogous to comptime parameter here). "non-dependent" expressions are type-checked eagerly, while dependent expressions are only checked at instantiation time.

The design is certainly more complicated, even more so when you consider function overloading and name lookup, which can give different results if done late or early. But there are some upsides, and zig wouldn't need to deal with the additional complications of overloading.

edit: https://eel.is/c++draft/temp.dep
Wait, are you saying that there is legal precedent for training an LLM with open source code to generate proprietary code?
> Catholics also believe in demonic possession, hell, and exorcism. Not the first things a priest will tell you though.

It pretty literally is one of the first things a priest (or a layperson acting on their behalf) will tell you, in that it is a routine part of preparation for the entry into the Church, and, in fact, a (minor) exorcism is performed as part of baptism.
Sounds like the smartest next step!
You don’t really need to compare it to anything other than the 0dBSPL reference point.

Standardize a laptop setup and environment, pick a listening position, measure dbSPL. A good position might be “1m from the center of the laptop base, at an elevation of 45°, while the laptop is on a flat, hard desk”. You know, more or less how people use laptops. Obviously you can go loose or specific with the description of the listening setup. You could standardize the room, you could standardize the desk, etc. I think the desk probably should be there, since it will reflect fan noise, and closer match actual laptop usage.

You measure the A-weighted fan noise under different loads and publish something like dB SPL versus W graph.
How is it a lie to, if asked, say that you have access to a pool of consultants and freelancers? Is this not true?

It might be a lie if you say "I've worked with them 20 times before and trust them with my life and they're all currently on my payroll" but that's not what I suggested to say.
"Is there any way to fix online dating?"

What specifically do you think is broken about it?
Here's a couple of reasons:

1. The American market has a lot of incorrect perceptions of heat pumps. Debunking these makes for great viral content!
2. The IRA introduced big incentives for various electrification expenses.

The incentives are the big thing, but the public interest/controversy part is why some enhancements like heat pumps and kitchen electrification ("don't take away my gas stove!") are going more viral than, say, electric vehicles (technology connections guy has some good EV content, but it's not doing quite the same numbers)
I find APL and J to be functional enough and terse to a point of beauty once you get it. Look at solutions on rosettacode.org between Haskell and J or APL to get a feel for what I am saying. Rust's syntax is a turn off, but that is a personal bias against my C background once I embraced Haskell, J, APL, Forth, Lisp, etc...

SPARK2014 covers me for the things Rust is striving for with a longer legacy of doing so for real world systems. It's also a simpler syntax (Ada, Pascal).
A great many people are incredibly uncomfortable with the idea of death, and installations like this, and similar works of art, are a great antidote. Accepting death as the price of life might be a bit difficult for people raised in a culture that worships perpetual youth and which dreams of immortality, perhaps in the form of a digital silicon upload, but it's really a sign of maturity.

Taking a minute or so out of every day to meditate upon the inevitablity of your own death is good for one's mental health - and can be motivating. If there's something you want to do, do it now - tomorrow is not guaranteed!
This is a good question. I’d hope that just hosting a free repo wouldn’t confer responsibility.

Another thing I’m wondering about is academic code. Hypothetically the code I wrote for my thesis is available online and I was paid to write it, I guess, or at least it is part of the research I was given a stipend to do. (Happily, it has nothing to do with security!).

Nobody is making any money off it. Hypothetically it could be seen as something that is there to add (very marginal!) value to my resume or to the university by showing off research chops… I dunno. If we had a law like this in the US, I wonder if it could stay up. I guess universities would end up with an additional CYA administrative step before posting code, and a big disclaimer in all their licenses.
They make systems like that but they tend to be more commercial systems. You could get a ground to water heat pump then run chilled/heated water to the mini split heads depending on what they are calling for but even that is pushing into commercial territory. And sadly with commercial HVAC comes significantly higher prices.
I don't love light gray on white just because comment got some downvotes. Finding that you got answer to your comment is also PITA, especially if it is something older than "right now".

Old reddit + RES is entirely better in every regard. New reddit is utter garbage tho.