skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make no secret of the fact that I am judicially illiterate, and I can see that so are you.

You can read any of the famous dissenting opiniona of a suppreme court justice, and see that they highly consider 'how will society be affected if we choose A vs B'. Thats is not a matter of law.

Furthermore, there are constant argument about how much legislaring from the bench supreme court should be doing. And about the fact that lawmakers are sleeping on the job forces SC to do so.

Lartly, supreme court unding their own decision on abortion, the law hasn't changed.
Short Text for Individuals?
Is there some way to send short texts from one individual to another individual? Say, between two friends. Or from one guy to 10 of his friends?
In other words, a much simpler, B2C version of the short-text things that B2B businesses use (Twilio, SlickText, TextMagic, etc.)
It's me making a comparison between humans and AI and you obliquely insulting me for suggesting the humans are guilty of the same flaws as the AI.
>Well, to be fair, they did conspire to disrupt transportation of goods and services -- and as far as I can tell succeeded in large measure in doing so.

Can't you make the same argument for all protesters? Or do also think that when your preferred side is protesting, they should stick to holding up signs in free speech zones?
Mozilla and Google dropping JPEG-XL support because "too much complexity". Software engineers using "too much complexity" as an excuse for something they don't want to do is such a classic move.

Browsers are already absurdly complex, and are constantly receiving HTML, CSS and JS features that significantly increase complexity. Are we really to believe that adding support for a certain image format, which is basically as modular as it gets (decode the file into a buffer), is too much complexity?

Obviously, this is a case of them showing favoritism toward codecs based on the IP owners of those codecs.
I sort of want, one day, to read the same article targeted at Delphi or Turbo Pascal. lol.
> One of the diseases of current academia is use of an extremely stilted language, perhaps intended to paper over some logical cracks.

One word. Derrida.

ChatGPT and its successors may put a big dent in the pretentious blithering industry. It's now too easy to generate a pseudo-academic style. Large language models are really good at this, because they have so much obscure text upon which to draw.
Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything - Mark Rober [video]
Pagers?
But in that case it should have a note saying it's finished or in maintenance mode (e.g. https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus); include references to replacements, offer paid support if you really need it or still use it, keep an eye on issues, and update dependencies.

Else, ask for a new maintainer. While code can be considered done (especially if no new features are added), it should never go unmaintained. If it's actually used a lot of course.
It's "indoctrination" to point out arguments that fall apart under a modicum of critical thinking?

You could easily argue that education involves learning to construct solid arguments that do not fall apart.
> "Ksha" (क्ष), "Tri" (त्र), "Gya"(ज्ञ) in Brahmi script character ?

You claiming these to be the part of Sanskrit sound system which is incorrect. Show me an authentic Sanskrit alphabet in which these sound listed. For your information these letters aren't representing unique sound so they can be expressed as combinations of 2 letter while writing.

क् + ष = क्ष

त् + र = त्र

ज् + ञ = ज्ञ

All the various Sanskrit sound combinations and its nuances cannot be written down in any script, not even devnagri. Basic sound such as अ can have 18 different variations when spoken. Which script will have the capability to represent such richness. Hence it is an oral first language.

> * Hathi Bada Ghoshundi is Pali in Brahmi script again which is a Buddhist language not Hindu, there is no actual manuscript of this photograph so it could be a hoax. None of the Museums have the inscription for all we know it was on wood. and it got destroyed no one actually ever dated it only this photograph exists.

Make your mind. It is a hoax or it is a Buddhist inscription? Refute Heliodorus_pillar too as hoax.

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

> You must stop with these claims and point to some actual archeological evidence.

If Brahmins came late then birth based caste system was a Buddhist invention?

https://www.jstor.org/stable/29757366

You also didn't refute Buddha's statements from Ariguttara Nikaya (II.35) in which he clearly seems to discriminate based on the birth. On the contrary you also did not produce evidence of birth based caste from 4 Vedas, 18 Upnishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata, or Bhagwad Gita.
Nothing you said there disagrees with anything I've said though. HN is much more accepting of sexism and racism than most parts of reddit for example, and that makes HN much more interesting. I don't think that HN would become better if we moved more towards reddit style mono culture.

For example, I would have gotten banned from most subreddits for what I said here.
Thanks! I did a quick search for “HustleGPT” across HN and didn’t find anything so just posted. A little but deeper digging would have likely found this older post.
> “JavaScript doesn’t do my weird fetish” (e.g. type annotations)

Interesting that the author thinks type annotations are just a weird fetish.
https://mises.org/wire/why-arent-there-more-free-market-surg...
It is generalized, you can chain together infinitely many blocks.
Split cash across multiple banks. This is standard practice for most, but harder to do for a startup: more time consuming, harder to manage, etc. If it becomes existential tho (what it looks like), probably worth doing even with the added effort.
Fully agree. And to continue this, I think one step that would be accepted across the aisle (in lieu of total debt forgiveness) is to either severely cut or get rid of interest rates on school loans.

The compound interest working against students is a major part of the predation in these loans.

But banks need to make money? Have a one-time interest tacked onto the total loan amount that doesn’t change over time.

This incentivize banks to not loan out as much to just about anyone, and thereby forcing schools to spend less on frivolous staffing and social issues/needless expansion.

Then, slowly reduce the federal student loan amounts to some arbitrarily low amount, something enough for someone on the median salary to comfortably pay back if they went to a state school.

Blue collar jobs are in desperate need of apprenticeships. And there’s good money to be made. But it is legit hard, physical work. And work that needs to get more respect, because without it, water doesn’t run, lights don’t turn on, roads crumble, and buildings aren’t built.
Genuine question, why are you version matching PHPUnit? It's arguably one of the most backwards compatible software packages still being actively developed. I have multiple projects using phpunit version (*) with no issues.

I will readily admit that 99% of my assertions are some variation of `$this->assertEquals()`
> Eg I had a class that really critically analyzed native American cultures. Today the class would be considered racist, it would have to a priori be an admiration of those cultures, rather than a critical analysis.

This is bullshit. The difference is that today, your own culture e.g. (non-native) American society till the modern day is considered fair game for analysis, whereas 20 years ago there was probably a fair bit of "they are savages to be studied, whereas we are civilized" complex going on.

Guess what, that tends to temper critical analysis of other cultures as well, and focuses on understanding without judgement. It is dishonest to cast this as "a priori admiration".

> The good news is that its much more accessible now days to learn how to think outside a college system. If that's what you are hungry for, college is perhaps even your least likely bet.

An unnecessary dichotomy. The Internet is not blocked at a college, you can continue to study outside things while you are at college. The problem for most people seems to be that at a college, these ideas will be subjected to rigorous intellectual analysis, whereas on the Internet it's easier to hide in echo chambers where everyone agrees with you.

> I say this as a person with 3 degrees...colleges were more old school then than now.

I think this is little more than viewing the past with rose-tinted glasses. Guess what, things change, and usually in a way that society is better off. I highly recommend against the Internet as a substitute for actual college education because it's not "old school" any more.
Yeah, I'm not sure I follow the logic of "transfinite set theory isn't useful because any applications it has could be replaced with finitist math", when this is something that no one wants to do.

Reminds me of that famous old HN comment about how Dropbox is pointless because an equivalent service could be set up with Linux utilities. Sure, but there are reasons people don't want to do that. Most people prefer the ease of use of mainstream foundations.

To be fair to the original commenter, I would be willing to bet some money that, say, large cardinal theory won't inspire any applications in the next 20 years. But next 100 years or 1000 years, I wouldn't. Maybe there will be some weird cross-fertilization with other more applied fields that leads to something.
My takeaway here though is that while I don’t condone the practice it also means that consumers are not willing to substitute/bargain shop. I’m pretty sure you could charge $25 for a dozen eggs at whole
Foods and most shoppers wouldn’t think it’s worth their time to even try to comparison shop
Lots of examples (e.g. maximum number of nesting levels), see for example:

http://www.tendra.org/tdfc2-config/chapter2

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/epfz/5.3?topic=reference-limits

One aim of finite implementation limits is to define which programs are guaranteed to compile successfully, so that you don’t run into the situation that a program compiles on one implementation but not on another implementation, which would raise the question of whether it’s the program or the compiler that is nonconforming. If both are conforming, you want the program to compile 100% of the time. This isn’t possible if programs can have unlimited complexity.

The mindset is similar to embedded programming, where you have limited memory and absolutely don’t want to run into the situation that there’s not enough memory left to perform the operation that needs to be performed.
This seems like a good time to trot out Microsoft’s mission statement:

> Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

It’s disappointing to see them working against their own mission like this…
You know, being part of any culture (and not just leftovers) would be nice these days...
I bought an early 80s one as a winter beater in the 1990s. The reliability wasn't great. You could fix quite a bit on that car with just a 10mm Allen wrench, which was just as well because you often had to. Only car I've ever had where once you turned the windshield wipers on, it was 50/50 that you could turn them off again (water leakage at the bottom left windshield corner dripped water directly onto the fuse box, which contained, among other things, the interval wiper module). I always carried a can of WD40 for its original purpose (look it up) to be sure to get the car started on damp days. The worn gearshift linkage had to be adjusted just so to be sure to be able to get into reverse and 5th.
It drove great though, much peppier than a 70hp engine had any right to be. And my sisters had a first-gen GTI for a while and that thing was hot. Even the turbodiesel version was fun, sort of like the bottom half of the RPM range of the GTI. Lots of grunt, but halfway around the tach it was over.

A later version of the Golf had its ECU mounted in... the rain gutter! What a logical place for that. Cars have come a long, long way since those days. Certainly my mom's somewhat recent Jetta seems as reliable as other modern cars.
Someone in this thread wrote this:

"California Universities just had the most applications in history. UCLA 145k applicants, UCSD 130k applicants. Respectively they are both down now to about a 3% and 5% acceptance rate due to the spike. Might be Covid holdovers due to a gap year, or with the economy as it is, out of state applications have dropped."

If it's true, that's crazy. Up until this year, I think the lowest acceptance rate was Princeton at 3.9%.
No, it is not audited regularly.
Youre really asking for examples?

- couple years off traveling the world all expenses paid

- buying a small lake cabin near family and friends, or down payment on a very nice place.

- 10 years of international, three-week vacations

- retiring 10 years early because over 40 years that'll be almost 1.3 million.

- you could get the college experience but for twice as long by not paying for classes

- take less expensive classes, live at home, and work more, and end up with much less debt, then spend 80k on your first house down payment.

Im not trying very hard, but I had way more fun after college than in it, it seems obvious that there might be better ways to have fun with 80k, that's all. Maybe I'm wrong.
I still have Windows for multiplayer games (everything else is done on Linux). When I built this desktop, I had to buy a Windows 11 license. It wasn't free. My laptop's old license did not transfer.

OEMs have to pay Microsoft for Windows licenses on prebuilt Windows computers.

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>>Why do they allow the Crap And Turds department to piss all over their work?

>Because Windows is a free-in-practice product and it needs/wants a revenue stream.

Windows is not free. It's because 2 revenue streams are better than one revenue stream. If your goal is to make money, why wouldn't you? (To answer my own question, it's short term thinking that will eventually drive people away from your product).
Or in term of electrons wasted talking about coal when the problem is nuclear plants leaking like newborn babies (again)
Fuchsia/Zircon is the other notable one.

HURD and Plan 9 are one step in this direction but with less focus on capability-based security.
Yes. But I can't see that, the sensor will still output values regardless of being clogged up. Not sure if I can open the device without destroying it, haven't tried. The power runs all the time as long as the USB cable is connected, but it's only a Serial-USB converter.
Brave has vertical tabs nowadays, though they're still behind a flag. But they've gotten pretty and stable enough that I don't miss Edge at all.
How much data do you need?
Funny when this applies to Americans and not immigrant enclaves within America.

Failure to integrate is a huge issue, and it's currently tearing the UK and Sweden apart
I agree, just pointing out the reason/gateway drug.
I'm using this one, though I don't remember where I actually got it from:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4563
Instances can still do cross-AZ traffic, this just prevents the incoming load balanced traffic from crossing AZs.
Google doesn't want it so they FUD against it.
Communism does not lead to deaths and genocide. Concentrated, uncontested power does.
I think we need to treat apprenticeships better. We need a stronger blue collar sector. At the same time, I'm worried about this trend towards anti-intellectualism I'm sensing these days.. It smells fascist, and that is bad.
How would you go about it?
Major newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post have pretty good stories about what's happening in tech. (The Times also has a pretty good newsletter called On Tech.)
Arbitrary code execution during compilation – rust
POC to demonstrate how to delete files when cargo build runs
this is also one of my biggest pet peeves too
I disagree with this - subscriptions align the price to users services with the cost to create them. Better than pricing Windows XP at $300 or something like they used to, then using that one-off cost to pay for ongoing support, security fixes, driver work etc.
>You might argue that they're acting in the interests of the people (in their own judgement), but it would be indisputably undemocratic nonetheless.

That's a fair assessment of my position. I view the criticism that the most successful populares consul of Rome was "undemocratic" while being consul and dictator of a Republic constituted and elected on the basis of property and nepotism to be entirely ridiculous when the "undemocratic" criticism is the removal of Tribunes doing things directly in opposition of the actual interest of the plebs. Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy enriching themselves as career politicians while the cities and countryside decay meet with my equal disdain.

In short, if isolated demands for rigor abound when dealing with procedural rules and precedent, I will ally with those trying to prevent fires rather than those that simply talk until time runs out (but Cato was a virtuous man).
Looking at the general mood people had towards computers in the 60s, it's clear computers and any computer technology seem to follow a three decade trend of speculation, readjustment and push back, then full adoption.

First decade: philosophical fervor, extreme optimism and speculative wonder into how the future will change

Second decade: Post-bust adjustment, pessimism, bias towards return to normalcy

Third decade: Full integration, time before feels alien

1960s: computers are a world changing, mind opening key to an unimaginably bright future

1970s: computers are just another tool and overhyped, not a change to the status quo

1980s: computers are inseparable from almost every part of our day to day lives

1990s: The internet is a world changing, mind opening key to a unimaginably bright future

2000s: the internet is just another tool and overhyped, not a change to the status quo

2010s: the internet is inseparable from almost every part of our day to day lives

2000s: AI is a world changing, mind opening key to an unimaginably bright future

2010s: AI is just another tool and overhyped, not a change to the status quo

2020s: AI is inseparable from almost every part of our day to day lives
That's funny, I've always wanted to open 90s-style Internet Cafe here in the bay area. Maybe not so much Prodigy, but now that my generation is all in their 40s and 50s, I figured it would be fun to combine really really good internet access with retrocomputing resources. I don't know if anyone's done that before. And I doubt it would be profitable. But I'd enjoy it.
Why use Chrome when you could use something like Ungoogled Chromium if you don't need backend services, or Brave if you want an end to end encrypted independent sync backend?
Kebabs are alright but the Europeans need to find out about burritos, they don't even know.
> Last year I was working for Bank of America and there inclusion and diversity are critical to the culture of the company as a first principle.

Do you even believe that BS?
Maybe if we weren't all stuck in a made up race for coins to buy things we--

What innovation of the last 20 years has improved our lives, and how many hours have people worked to make those innovations happen. Are the better cars worth it? The phones? We have had already 50 years where nothing new was required to really improve our lives. Most of us have all been working like rats, digging holes and filling them back up, for nothing. If you are not a teacher, a doctor, a nurse, or working in the primary food supply chain, you have been tricked into walking the thread mill in return for a fancy colored hat. So many jobs can just be not done, and then there would be just two types of bread instead of 20 types of breakfast cereal.

I struggle putting it into words, or finding a hard logic reasoning, but I'm convinced that the vast (80%) majority of us are only working because our system distributes wealth according to coins that we get for working; and many of the jobs are about making other people buy more stuff, pumping the work around. Remember when science fiction thought us that we would let the machines do our work and we would leasure?

If I only could just sit in my house, that I maintain myself because it is low tech, eat plain food, chat with my neighborhood, do light exercise that doesn't require special equipment, bike around, walk the dog. How much work is there really to be done.

Some animals dont breed in captivity.
Great. I need to subscribe to read the article.
Shame; those dollars aren't going to improve my lifestyle the way that faster passenger flight would.
// The difference is that today, your own culture e.g. (non-native) American society till the modern day is considered fair game for analysis

These was definitely no shortage of ability to analyze and criticize western civilization in a college 20 years ago.

// An unnecessary dichotomy. The Internet is not blocked at a college

You are replying to a comment about what is accessible. College does not preclude internet. College however is an extremely large resource and time commitment. Therefore ability to learn outside of that is a great addition.

// Guess what, things change, and usually in a way that society is better off.

Agreed. Hence the article we are all talking about - people wisely chosing to forego college as a default.
Could VANTA have applications in storage? Perhaps long term read only data storage?
The only subscriptions I have is my rent and a very specific podcast I chose wisely. Everything else was avoidable until now.

While it's true that one is forced more and more into subscriptions, there is still choice involved. I recently looked for a coin tracking tool, trialing about 5 different solutions and in the end went for the one that offered a lifetime deal.

Some businesses are waking up to this fact and potential competitive advantage, as are some indiehackers already.
I'm guess asking: Why is 4 years of dedication to a sport (in at least the D1 context) not considered an education on its own?

List the degrees achievable from a typical college, and rank them in terms of usefulness outside college. Then fit 4 years of a D1 sport into that list. I have a hard time believing the usefulness of 4 years of a D1 sport would be at the bottom of the list.
lol. I think that would be Bitcoin.
I've done a bit of both so to speak. I studied History and Philosophy of Science as an undergrad, but have worked as self taught software engineer for nearly 30 years.

I don't think that jargon is created to confuse or obfuscate, most likely the opposite. My favorite example is in sailing. Every functional part of a sailboat has a name, because precise communication between crew can be critical and saying "pull the rope, no the other one, no the other other one" doesn't help. But telling a non sailer to tighten a jib sheet seems unnecessarily persnickety.