skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traveling alone through Europe during college as an American was one of the most amazing and life changing experiences of my life.

It was what yanked me firmly out of my US-centric world view and I realized how profound it was on my return trip back seeing all the people in line and being able to so easily spot "obvious Americans" (or at least that's what my brain at that age thought).

I also surprised myself with how confident it made me in myself and socially with some of the random connections I made that led to once in a lifetime adventures like meeting a woman on a bus in Italy, dining with her and her brother+wife at the oldest restaurant in Rome ordering all off menu+house wine, then getting a personal insider tour of Rome by night in their convertible.

Or getting lost in the Vatican, missing a museum tour, then realizing the crowd I was watching was listening to the Pope on his balcony.

Or wandering through the Lanes in Brighton at night with a pint on the street while visiting my college roommate who was doing a semester abroad there.

Or visiting our other roommate who was from Vienna and at home who gave me a guided tour of the mountains and then made me terrified for my life driving down them in a torrential downpour in his tiny smart car.

Or happening to be in Siena during the Palio horse race, completely unplanned.

It wasn't quite as extreme as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, but about as close as I've come. It has the potential to change you in ways you cannot expect.
There are some great historical nuggets in that archive, I liked this appeal to people to stop hoarding pennies and get them back into circulation.

> Creating a shortage where it does not exist can adversely affect every public spirited citizen, taxpayer and conservator of the earth’s resources. It is inflationary should merchants start to round off sales to the next nickel due to lack of pennies to make change.

> Again, I’d like to emphasize. There are plenty of pennies. But they are in the wrong places.

> It is estimated that over 30 billion pennies are in circulation—doing the job for which they were intended. Somewhere in this vast country of ours, however, in excess of 30 billion pennies are in hiding. These are the pennies I’m looking for. They are in dresser drawers, shoe boxes, pickle jars; most anyplace you can think of that will get them out of pocket and out of sight. They are unwanted, unused and unappreciated.

https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/mi...
I am telling that to the PRC.
I also dislike systemd but we can stop beating that dead horse. The big distros use it, it's here to stay. I'm using Gentoo+OpenRC for my boxen but at $WORK it's Debian+systemd. Use the energy for different battles.
> let's just set a formula for the entire column, and make it refer to another column. And let's name the columns something.

I don’t understand because you obviously can do this with sheets/excel
I'd also add

4) A social / networking experience. As an adult, rarely will you interact so often with so many people of your age.

5. A signaling mechanism. I have X credentials so give me job Y. This is far from ideal because the signal can be noisy. But it is a data point. It's similar to how physics PhD's are targeted for quant finance roles - they've signaled they can solve hard problems!
According to whom? The regulators who hid this from the public for four months?
It doesn't matter, as long as no one notices. You could say the same about counterfeit anything.
I use edge only as double page endless scrolling pdf reader. Haven't found the alternative yet
Man I want a native TUI client for Teams.
I had a chuckle a few days ago in my local bookshop when I saw next to each other books on:
-the insect apocalypse
-how to eat insects
Back in the day engines were simpler and accessible; Haynes manuals were fantastic! Are they still popular today?
Lolol

Yeah we have. It's called reading the paper and applying judgement.
“We fucking fund the people who did 9/11—still, to this day. Donald Trump literally went on national television and said, ‘They bought $10 billion worth of weapons,’ so if they chop-chop-chop an American legal permanent resident, it’s OK.”
"It's just a tiny tiny change. We just dropped the "Don't ". The shorter phrase better reflects our new streamlined business practices to better suck shareholder d*ck."
> Lambda (which is likely built atop the managed kubernetes)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34964197 (Firecracker internals: Inside the technology powering AWS Lambda (2021)) may interest you, but the short version is no, not on top of kubernetes

Cloud Functions from GCP run on top of knative, one can see it in the metadata: keys, but unknown if it's "vanilla" knative or they have their own knative provider that does further trickery under the hood
Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t think of anything in my job as a software engineer that I’d benefit from memorizing through flash cards. What are people memorizing exactly?
i wouldn’t say that. i just think if you go to a lower ranked school your path to career success more so relies on getting a technical degree but yes you shouldn’t be studying liberal arts at a no name school.
> Four different loops

I think that having four different loops is better than jumping through four different hoops for different loop styles.
Did you do WGU? How long did getting a degree take start to finish? Did you have pre-credits?
Wish I had received apprenticeship. It's far better than academics and teaches one practical skills.
sn_master is talking about a "self-contained, single file deployment" that does not need an existing shared runtime present on that target machine (or container). This is an orthogonal concern to running on Linux, which could depend on a shared runtime, or not.

Self-contained deployments are platform-specific.

A deployment that depends on a shared runtime can be cross-platform, since all the platform-specific parts are in that shared runtime installed for that machine's platform.

Which does .NET do? all of the above.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/
Their cultural technology grew to allow them to concentrate power beyond a stable level, result, turmoil. Even the most powerful guy in the civilization could get assassinated.
That's kinda the point, one man's safe space is another's hell. We either learn to live in harmony or will continue to yell at each other for eternity.
When It wasn't intuitive to me or for the other side, I used some sneaky ways/tricks:
Asking them if they're from here? if yes - ask a favor. and then ask some other questions about related stuff... if no - "then where are you from?" "and what are you fucking doing here?"

complementing them - on anything.

Don't care. you'll never meet them again (if something goes wrong) so if you want something, ask for it. if you have something stupid to say, say it, it's better than nothing.

I did it at the train, bus, street, hostel.

it seems that everyone in their headphones and doesn't want to talk, but people actually like to discover, to learn, to joke. It's just a mask.
I'm surprised you didn't include anything about meeting people for work, romance, friendship, or other social benefit, as for many, that can be a huge part of college.
And radon kills thousands of people a year through lung cancer. Alpha particles are bad inside you
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> and not in concentrated form the way nuclear output or nuclear power plant waste is

So we're back to square one: it's not actually concentrated. The report says "the levels of tritium in the water are below federal thresholds".

These aren't barrels of green goo like in the Simpsons.
It’s so strange as my library has ebooks. The libraries were still available in pretty much the same way.
>Keep in mind college is 4 years of education on a daily basis.

For some, but for most, I bet it is a lot less. There are entire degrees (and schools) designed to require little more than for people to show up somewhere a few times per week.
Re: critical analysis. I agree with you that inconvenient truths now get muzzled because they don’t fit an acceptable meta-narrative. This is very problematic for society and when taken to the maximum, can lead to thinks like Cambodia’s attempt at restarting society by killing all those who didn’t fit the model they were looking for.

> If that's what you are hungry for, college is perhaps even your least likely bet.

I’m not sure what one would be hungry for that couldn’t be met in college. Analyzing cultures for weakness? Doesn’t sound like a particularly meaningful or commonly needed study.
And habitat loss? Crop monocultures are not great for most insects (or animals or birds).
The Friendly Orange Glow (which a few of these reference) has easily the most information I've ever seen about PLATO in one place. (Perhaps more than you'd like, if you don't care for the university politics surrounding it - but hey, it's comprehensive.) For anyone who's at all interested in PLATO, I'd recommend giving it a read.
If you laptop is gifted, you should try and let it pass the bar exam. I kid I kid.
This can be a form collusion that runs into anti trust law. There’s even a court case about this involving public defenders who were hired as independent contractors being unable to unionize for this reason.
This game is on my radar, but as I understand it it really wants a lot of players at the table and my group is typically capped at 4.

Glad to hear it referenced though.
Using sweep accounts is considered an investment (of client funds), which must be clearly stated in TOS. This also pulls tons of regulations for the company. There is also a higher chance that one of the sweep account investments goes badly than a bank collapses where you hold client funds.
> under the guise of "becoming a lifelong learner" or something,

That's "finishing school for the [wannabe] elite" who find out at the end that they weren't ever in the elite.
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> It also grows the intellectual souls, exposing people to far more depth of thought.

Have you even seen a college classroom in the last decade? The STEM classes absolutely have dedicated learners, but most of the people in those other classes can barely write their name on the corner of the page and the classes are designed to cater to their abilities because if they flunk out, they don’t pay next years tuition.
The skin effect happens exclusively on alternating currents, and you will need a fairly high frequency for it to become a problem on the size gold bars usually have. So, no, it's completely irrelevant here.
Some windows updates fail when it doesn't recognize the bootloader. That stumped even my friends that work at MS on the OS team!

Then I had to disk repair to put the windows bootloader back, then update windows, then restore syslinux bootloader (then moved the windows out of the partition into VM image)
Both AWS and Azure's managed SQL Server database solutions are hobbled like that. They can be replication targets but not sources.

At least RDS for SQL Server lets you do native backup/restore, so while it's slow there's still a good way to get your data out. Azure SQL, you're stuck with something like the Elasticache solution. (Or theoretically BACPACs, but they aren't transactionally consistent and don't work for large databases.)
I sleep at 16c, but I'd say it's more a personal preference. As long as you feel cool while sleeping and after waking up then you should be okay.
Nobility implies sacrifice. Cassius, Brutus, et. al sacrificed nothing except the hard-fought stability and foundational reform that Caesar was in the process of providing. If honor can be accorded to jealous rentiers guarding latifundia and Old Money engaging in institutional revanchism, then yes, America should learn from history and what happens to tyrants given time.

As far as hamfisted comparisons between Trump to Caesar go, Trump is no Caesar. He lacks gall, youth, tribute, loyalty, and competence. The only connection he has is the theatricality of those that floundered in the wake of Caesar & Augustus.
The motto is now

Don't!

Be Evil
What debacle? The more popular candidate won
No one cares specifically about _your_ diagnosis, obviously we don't know you. You put yourself up for discussion when you posted your stance. You yourself called it a soapbox. Now people are using you as the obvious example and satisfying their curiosity.

According to your initial post, you should be glad for the questions so that you can combat misconceptions.
In React I think it’s pretty fair to call it server-side rendering, to distinguish it from the usual client-side React render which manipulates the DOM. It’s just like that, except it renders to a string that can be returned in an HTML response (or streams: https://react.dev/reference/react-dom/server/renderToString#...).

It might be a little clearer now to call it “pre-rendering,” to distinguish it from React server components which also run on the server but which are quite distinct from SSRing client components.
> The only way to get rid of it is a Powershell incantation that removes the entire Widgets feature. Better than terrible news, but still nuts.

You don’t need PowerShell to get rid of Widgets. You can disable it with three clicks: right click on the Taskbar, go to Taskbar settings, and toggle the switch next to Widgets at the top of the window.
I completely agree re: Potemkin village tour of recruiting, but, those townhalls are not a window into company culture at all exactly because they get leaked.

The only way to get a candid view into company culture is to have insider friends that can tell you what it's really like to work there.
For now the Fed's newly created bank funding term loan mechanism is plugging the hole by having the Fed take underwater bonds at face value.

SVB was solvent two weeks ago with mark-to-maturity accounting of their underwater bond holdings. SVB, from a bank accounting perspective, became insolvent when they sold the long duration bonds for a loss. At market prices of the bonds, SVB could not continue within bank accounting regulations. I suspect they will recover 90%-some.
OK, but what if Caesar lost his popularity? (The crowd was fickle, after all.) Would he have accepted being voted out of office? Or would he have used the army to remain in power?

The question is not whether Caesar was popular. The question is whether he could have been removed from power by political means if the people had wanted to.

The Republic didn't die with Caesar's assassination. It died when he took his army into Italy.

Or it died earlier than that. You want to say it died with Marius and Sulla? Sure, I can go there.
I am the parent of this thread and been heavily downvoted for my initial comment. I agree with you. If the worker was already on maternity leave they should get stay on maternity leave for the duration of the leave regardless of layoffs. What I was referring to an employee that had been already laid off by google, and at some point after needs to go on maternity leave. I'm not sure google should be obligated to support maternity leave in that case as the employee is no longer subject to company benefits (with the exception of access to COBRA/health insurance)
When I hired people at a former company, I secretly thought of job candidates like you as undervalued stocks. Just being honest, don't mean any disrespect — I mean undervalued in the sense of not being appreciated by other companies, not in how much we paid people.

I myself have degrees, but not in anything like software development, and I think engineers who don't have degrees but do exhibit all the other characteristics are just as talented, often more driven, practical, and reliable. Self-motivated, rather than something they fell into. Thinking of the five best engineers I've worked with, two of them didn't go to school at all, and two had degrees in things like music or political science. I've had poor experiences with people whose main qualification is an engineering diploma from a name brand school.

Of course there's a middle band in there where it gets more complicated, but generally I think smart, scrappy companies are eager to hire people like yourself, and I like working for that kind of company, personally.
I remember getting local admin on my high schools nt3.5 box with l0phtcrack just to setup a http proxy so I can read wwf.com at the library. Fun times.
Chrome has two-page view for .pdf files.
Real-Time Video Processing with WebCodecs and Streams
4) if everyone wasn't locked up in college, they would meet other young adults in their neighborhood and social/hobby clubs and entertainment venues

5) in the modern day that can solved by testing regimes. A self-educated quant could take an online qualifying test, and in-person final exam, to get a job in finance.
> That's exactly my point.

In your own, exactly what point did you tried to make? Complaining that x and y technology users joined the "whoops" crowd when those technologies are in fact well established and proved to be effective if not nearly optimal in some applications, what do you perceive as "whoops"?

Frankly, it didn't seemed you had a point to make other than parroting cliches.
How many of the safety assessments take into account the fact that the nuclear waste is almost never buried away and in a dispersed matter and instead it's kept near the nuclear power plant in dry/wet pools because of NIMBY?

This has the effect turning the nuclear power plant into a giant dirty bomb. Almost all the problems at Fukushima were caused exactly by these used fuel pools, and not by the nuclear material in the plant itself.

And then you have Ukraine where dry storage is shelled with artillery.
The Scream Guide – When Scrum would require too much change
What Gets Lost When You Rescue Markets
Works on contingency? No! Money down!
If you're looking for a longer PLATO read, check out Brian Dear's definitive book: The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System https://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Orange-Glow-Untold-Cybercult...
Surprising to me that there's 0 Nix meetups in the Bay Area, as listed on that page. There should be one!
Nah, not a positive sentiment, "a different place" is more of a neutral sentiment than anything, but if I had to guess it's more of a doomsday prediction and stinks of nihilism.
> this completely cripples them in the future when they could otherwise have had great careers

> It's good that students are turning away now

Conspiracy theory: the powers that be, are not dumb, they know this, and rely in this to increase their stability by eliminating the competition and the ambitious. Scared people make bad decisions; their replacement for neutering-via-college is not likely to be as easy to deal with, so I donno about "good" as an adjective.
I'd like to post my perception since I was a 90s hacker.

Inclusivity is arbitrary here - no one in the scenes that I was familiar with were excluded because of race or sex - it's just that certain demographics weren't attracted to that 'scene'. Those like me, ADHD, awkward, and not extremely socially capable at the time, were however sometimes excluded. There were still the cool nerds and the lame nerds. I was pretty involved in the scene, being a staff writer of 2600 (several articles published under various handles, my name listed in the cover for a couple of years), and spending some time talking to "famous" people.

Later I grew up, spent 4 years in the military, then used money I earned to finally go to college, graduating eventually with an engineering Master's in my 30s. As I grew up I realized that the whole 90s / early 2000s hacker scene was mostly just a social clique. I learned that many people who were revered had marginal skills. I learned that the paranoia and self-aggrandizement ("The FBI totally monitors #2600 to learn our skills") was really just immaturity. The whole thing eventually seemed lame as I grew into an adult. I realized 2600 was really just a money machine and a manipulative scheme. Phrack went downhill quick, sadly (I also published there).

Still, this was a classic and wonderful time. Even I made friends - some that I talk to now, 20+ years later. I learned a lot. I got started on a tech path that took me very far and into regions of tech I'd never learn about otherwise like radio and telephone. I'm still a hacker, but legally. I don't miss the "scene" at all, but I do wish I was more included in it at the time. As this article illustrates it must have been great.
Can someone argue convincingly that this is ethical?
I don't know much Go but what does it mean to "accidentally" append to an immutable array? Are there just no particular guards for arrays and they are saying something which should be treated as immutable?
> Lying about it comes across badly.

I agree 100%.

It makes me wonder about the leadership that they made this decision, are going through with this legal situation, and keep trying to push this story.
In other words, the people who are afraid of reputational loss are the ones who have benefited the most from the broken system of academic publishing.

I won't cry for them.
I'm not sure about today's 2023 models but I keep a Haynes Manual in my 2011 Mazda and it is very useful.
Good. Needs to happen. Was talking to our HVAC repair dude. He makes as much as I do with a high school education and two years of trade school. Adjusting for age, he definitely makes more than I did at 34.

No reason to send kids who want to work with their hands to four year colleges and saddle them with 100k in debt when they can work through a trade school, be done at 20, and have no student loan debt.
Most probably it could be:

1- it is not water, it is deuterium (AKA `heavy water`, the hydrogen atom has an extra neutron, this way it is heavier and it can carry more heat) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium)

2- the water used to cover the still radioactive uranium that has been used as fuel

So... thoughts and prayers :/
> without some sort of extra verification it’ll soon be impossible to tell whether audio/video sample is authentic

This is true and has been true for some time.

The general public hears a clip and condemns a man on that basis, without asking for context.

I'm hoping this revolution will cause a shift. An audio clip or a video clip, much less a screenshotted reply on social media, will be widely considered meaningless unless a string of contextual evidence is provided alongside it.

Wishful thinking? Probably.
People Building AI Don’t Know What It Will Do Next
It's pretty dated at this point (and I don't know of anything recent like it), but playing M.U.L.E. is a little education in microeconomics all by itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E.

Ok, I see that Planet M.U.L.E. is a recent remake that may actually be alive and kicking, good deal!

http://www.planetmule.com/
That's only because almost everyone desirable goes there. If people stopped going, they could meet elsewhere.
Transformer models work on data. Text, images, and motor control can all be fed into the pit.
That's exactly what I do. 1/2 of my garden is wild with wild flowers, habitats for insects and birds and on the other half no pesticides are used, I just weed by hand. Great diversion if you're stuck with a programming problem...
Even in the late 90s when I was studying Topology there was a bit of furor over the lack of application...

Until, suddenly, it was quite applicable in evolutionary biology and knot theory in context of D?NA enzymes.
Try dumping liquids on another car on the highway then explain to the cops it was just “trolling” and see how that goes for you.