skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I don't recall ever being on a train where the WiFi worked. If I need internet access while on the train I just tether to my phone. This usually works fine until you're in rural areas or in a tunnel. I find Vodafone gives best coverage outside of cities and towns, 3 can be awesome if you get lucky.

I once streamed a live F1 race while on the train from Edinburgh to London. There obviously were a few glitches but it really was good enough.
I hate this sort of logic. Sounds far too much like social darwinism.

Sometimes things that are worth doing are hard.
Nginx 1.25 has HTTP/3 in its roadmap, first cut from that branch is scheduled to land tomorrow:

https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/roadmap
Agreed, StarCraft and friends got a big multiplayer scene that I was never into; I'm not a good enough player.

But C&C were fun to play through, and felt accessible to scrubs like me. (To be fair to Blizzard, StarCraft 2 is the ONLY Blizzard RTS I ever completed - or at least the episodes I bought ; they did exceptionally well on the difficulty scaling for that game.)

Competitive multiplayer was always meh for us, we loved comp stomps, and I somewhat am sad that the AI was so "bad" that you never really could get a good balance between "destroyed you instantly" and "easily overwhelmed".

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/08/04/the-armageddon...
Heh - times have been good for so long, we have a generation of coders that never saw bad times.

Tech has its ups and downs just like any other career...
Demon Seed was one I hadn't heard of until earlier this year and I enjoyed it. It's an interesting 70s sci-fi/horror flick and I'm surprised it's so obscure.
It's not a random pick from the population, or the 95% male ratio in engineering would also be somewhat weird.

They have a small team: https://asahilinux.org/about/

People like to team up with others like them, so the fact that they're more likely to collaborate with other trans people is not weird at all.
Agreed, I wish I had more thing like this growing up.
I say this every other programming language thread: Please, get some code examples up front and center, simple Hello World, and anything that shows whatever strong features your language has for organizing code like classes and so on.

Python, Racket and a few others do this really well. Even on the GitHub a simple short but significant enough code snippet would do wonders.

Maybe the syntax is exactly what I expect and I'll have more interest, or maybe its way off and I don't want to bother. Whatever the case, put some sample code up front and center.
As does this one from HP. The OP mentions explicitly that they let their subscription expire, and the printer THEN stopped printing.
HP cartridges with DRM have come up a lot on HN lately.

I have a 5+ year old HP laser printer. I'm sure the toners have some form of electronic "authenticity" check, but at least they work without requiring network connectivity or a subscription, and they were also still able to squeeze out images until the very end until the results visibly started lacking color, the printer showed warning messages but didn't refuse printing (nor scanning!) or anything.

So given the many articles about HP DRM on HN now: is this subscription something new that HP introduced in the last 5 years? Or is it only for inkjet printers, not laser?

Just asking because if this laser printer breaks and I need to find a new one, can one still get one without subscription requirement from HP today? I like the hardware, but would not buy if it requires this now.
>nginx doesn't have it in the public stable version yet

It's near, roadmapped for 1.25:

https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/roadmap
> According to a Transport Focus report cited by the DfT, a survey in December 2022 showed wifi on trains was a lower priority for passengers than other features – although those included such essentials as value-for-money fares, reliability, punctuality and personal security.

This is some really twisted logic, obviously people are going to prioritise punctuality and reliability before wi-fi if you can't even get your trains running on time. This doesn't mean people don't want wi-fi on the train. Have they really come to the conclusion that removing wi-fi is going to free up money to fix punctuality?
That's an opinion.

Another opinion is that there is plenty of crap on every registry and some are better at surfacing and cleaning up than others.

Similar to the US Navy and ships that are rust-free versus those battling rust. It doesn't affect the performance of those ships, just the perception. Left on for too long could eat away the actual integrity.

Not all problems are the registry's to burden. Trust and quality decisions are very individual for example. There's no same definition used between two people.
Wow this is so cool. I've always wondered exactly what Iain Banks was imagining when he wrote the culture books, this is perfect (for me). I see Player of Games regularly recommended on here, and I suspect there are many here who'll be equally excited :-)
Imagine if your kid really liked drinking a lot of milk, so the milk man gave you double the amount of bottles one morning for no extra charge. Because its an "all you can drink" membership. This is sort of what the HP service is like

Within a membership limit, HP can send you 1 cartridge of 5 at a time. The number of cartridges are not pre-determined when you start paying
If you don't want to host Docker images, you can just provide a Dockerfile. That way the onus of resolving all the complications is on you - your user only needs to have Docker running on their system.

Arguably, it's a pretty reasonable requirement. Widely used, mature, easy to set up.

I don't remember when I switched to running all my dev envs in Docker, but I wouldn't go back.
Show HN: Gem for Rails cache, better performance and compression with Brotli
JWST spots biggest water plume yet spewing from a moon of Saturn
I've been working in this field for about 15 years, mostly full stack but focus on frontend. In the past couple of years I've been making this transition from individual contributor/senior developer to a team lead and manager role.

For me, what has worked CONSISTENTLY are 3 things:

1. Take initiative: I can't stress this enough. If you act like a team lead, people will recognize you. And if they don't, you should consider whether this is somewhere you want to be. An organization that doesn't help build its talent, is not one where you will accomplish your personal growth objectives.

2. Speak to your Manager: Assuming you are doing #1, make sure that your manager(s) are aware of your career goals. You need to get "buyin" from others in the organization that are able to carve out this kind of role for you. They will also have good advice for you. Not every manager/team lead role is the same, so YMMV in this regard. It may be that there's a bigger need for a people manager vs a technical manager.

3. Stay at a company for 3+ years: The number might be different, but in my experience this is the point, after which you have been around enough time to have been involved in many different projects. Not only will you know a lot of the tech stack and it's limitations, you will also understand MUCH of the business itself. You'll have positioned yourself at the intersection of the business and the technology, and become an indispensable part of the organization.

One of the companies I worked at was a personal finance startup, and over the years I learned so much about saving, spending, credit, loans, income and investing IN ADDITION TO the technology we were building and everything that was powering it, that I was asked to be a part of nearly every discussion.
Parallels in the ways that humans and ML models acquire language skills
https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-16/
Housing abundance beyond my backyard
Thanks for explaining. That's awful.

I wonder how common this is in tech companies where IC is a valid career path and terminal levels exist?
> Do you really believe the Patriot is shooting down Kinzhals? Consider the source. And the physics of it all. And the history of the Patriot system (inability to shoot down 1960s scuds, several friendly fire aircraft incidents). It's a 30+ year old system, after all.

Yes, its simple hypersonic ballistic missiles are nowhere near new, whats new is hypersonic glide vehicle of which Kinzhal is not. You simply aim for where the missile is going to be in the future and hit to kill it.

Also, the Kinzhal is close to 30+ years old as well as it's just a Iskander thats air launched.

> And did you see the full video of the Patriot blowing two full loads before getting taken out in Kiev by Kinzhals (2:14 hit)?:

You have the video, can you show me a single image of an exploded patriot, you cant because it missed the only damage was from shrapnel from nearby buildings and that was quickly repaired.
If the company provides Linux laptops, Docker in your stack can be the fastest road to the code "just running". Docker on Mac and Windows can be pretty awful from what I hear, but on Linux it can be a huge time saver in getting a dev environment set up. It doesn't get much easier than "install docker, run docker compose up".
"HN-malicious"

Hehe. We could probably come up with a dozen similar HN specific adjectives.
cheerz !
What do you mean "factorial in recursive style"? Like recursive with an accumulator?
There was also a grace period during which time Meta made no substantive efforts to come into compliance. If Meta had even a half-baked EU solution they would not be so thoroughly and repeatedly punished.

Yeah, standing up a data center is not trivial, but Meta also hires the best in the world. Move fast and break things. In this case they didn’t even move at a medium speed, so they get no sympathy from me.
You’re downvoted, but you’re right; “personal carbon footprint”, plastic straws, and boycotts of companies behaving egregiously etc. are all traps to blame individuals for problems caused by other actors. Empowering individuals to solve societal problems rarely work.¹

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31178680
So is Russia losing citizens.
The Supreme Court and 'The Shadow Docket'
Wonder if it would help if people bought every unit available, disassembled all the packaging (so they have to go back to HP) and returned them.

Probably wouldn’t take long to get banned from like every retailer though.

I wouldn’t really endorse this but HP stiffed me on $500 when they canceled an order I placed with an HP gift card. It just, disappeared. Their customer support never even understood the problem, they just sent different and wrong form replies to everything. It had been too long to charge it back but at this point they’ve earned every bit of hate they’ve ever got in my mind.
It isn’t flipping a bit, it’s designing an entire free to play game, getting millions of users, designing a hat, then flipping a bit. And about a million other things not mentioned.
there is glider. https://github.com/Mosc/Glider. but not sure if it's available for ios although it is written in flutter
Indeed. In the vast historiography of WW2's Eastern Front, the winning qualities of the Red Army have changed nearly as fast as the roster of writers enunciating them. German generals, American spooks, British professionals, then the post-Fall ex-Soviet source equipped historians, all with their own different verdict on what fueled that dramatic reverse[1]. With one single exception: the fact that Russians learned very, very rapidly.

Being not one generation separated from Russian émigrés myself, that resonates with my outsider's view of the national character: charismatic, paranoid, chimeral, but deeply brilliant. It's unfortunate that these qualities somehow never gave rise to secular skepticism, but perhaps such a large land mass doesn't have much room for that kind of civitas.

[1] Or not so dramatic at all. With better numbers, historians of the 21st Century have become increasingly certain that the reverse was not so dramatic, and that German victory in the East might well have been impossible. It never feels like that at the time, of course; go ask any unfortunate American veteran how in control of events they felt on the streets of Fallujah.
You don't need to know anything about how they're represented to know they can't represent all decimal values.
Not only that, it should be the net income of only the EU subsidiaries. It's completely irrelevant if the privacy of a Thai or a New Zealand citizen was violated to the EU. AFAIK that makes it about 11%.
Safari added support for HTTP/3 in version 14, released in September 2020. That’s why it isn’t listed as an experimental feature any more.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-not...

You can check with Cloudflare’s test page here:

https://cloudflare-quic.com

Alternatively, open up developer tools, go to the network panel, right-click on the headings and enable the protocol field. It will tell you which protocol was used for each request made by your browser. Obviously the server also needs to support HTTP/3 for a request to use HTTP/3.
Elephant: My Plain-Text Life OS
> It’s really not uncommon for some trials to fail to differentiate from placebo when it comes to depression studies. That doesn’t make this study “rubbish”, it just shows that you need to examine the body of evidence rather than cherry-picking studies that appear to match the outcome you want while dismissing those that say the opposite.

But this study doesn't say the opposite. It fails to show an effect. That's different from proving the absence of an effect. Every Ph.D. student in an empirical field learns this in their first year. I'm surprised this study gets so much attention.

You can make a study verifying that a pound gold and a pound feathers accelerate downwards at the same speed in a vacuum, and perhaps you messed up the vacuum, so they actually fall with different speeds in your study. Doesn't prove gravity is messed up. You just failed to prove that it's not. Can have many reasons. Same with this study.
Not really.

Statistically there will be weird coincidences completely naturally. It's also quite arbitrary which we see as meaningful. If say, Linux networking has unusually many people called "John" that probably will be unnoticed because nobody pays that much attention to common, unremarkable names. If they all randomly turn out to have green eyes, then that's more visible. It's completely subjective which of those is more remarkable.

There are also likely social effects -- people stick together, and some side interests align with some fields. Eg, I think it's reasonable to guess there's going to be more furries than average in VR development. Part because VR allow you to look like whatever you want a lot of the time, part because people will invite their friends in.
I also think that having a messy personal life that you CARE ABOUT is really important for fostering good people management skills. I’ve never had a good boss whose primary identity was work.
paywall proxy: https://12ft.io/www.ft.com/content/ccf49fa9-d2d6-4a72-bcf1-e...
Monumentally stupid. In the post pandemic wfh Era, the way for trains to be viable is to offer amenities which let you "work from train". People still like face to face over zoom, but not enough to overcome the friction of commuting to a meeting place. The only way to reduce that friction is to turn commute time into viable productive time rather than a time sink.
If you like C but don't want to manage your memory yourself, why don't you take a look at glib/gobject?
If the money would actually fix punctuality I suspect many would hold this as the correct priority -- I'm just not remotely convinced that wifi money would do that. If delays were really happening for want of such a pittance, they wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
Show HN: We found the grave of hacking legend Mel Kaye
For 40 years, since "The Story of Mel" was published, the existence of the hacking legend Mel Kaye was in doubt. Until today. We found his final resting place, which unfolds the life and work of the Mel (Melvin) Kaye (Kornitzky), who hacked a blackjack game for the LGP-30 and RPC-4000 some 70 years ago, in Glendale, Los Angeles.
Free-to-Use Tools for Your Next Web Product
In my experience as a non programmer, the best devs are hobbyists. Having taught myself Python so I could empathise with my team I can confirm that the passion and enthusiasm for programming as a hobby can be strong indicator of a high performing engineer.
Except Timnit Gebru did quantifiable research on AI bias and was punished for it.
More afraid of US agents than Chinese capitalists?
Do you think the same about OP's statement that I reflected on, stating "you can either have a news/information source with a left-wing bias or a total cesspool of untrustworthy information with a glaringly obvious agenda"?

As a point of reference, if you search high traffic websites with "Left bias" and also with "Right bias"[0], it will turn out that the average factuality of the sources are higher on the "Left bias" news sources.

This makes me think that the point of reference, the "center", is now off-center, to the right. To the point where actual reality seems "left". "Facts Have a Well-Known Liberal Bias". Considering this, sources even further to the right will of course have worse information, same as they would on the far left. And this is for news sources - what I added was that I observed the same for wikis.

[0] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/filtered-search/?bias=Left&tr...
I could add an example to the git README. Currently there is an example on:

https://ki-lang.dev/

https://ki-lang.dev/docs/dev/intro

For a more indept view of the language you will have to see the docs. An overview might not be bad indeed.
> “we use a niche video conferencing tool / document signing tool / dev tool , please folow this link to install it”?

Nope. That's a nonstarter.
Yes, at least relative to the visual novels I've pl-- seen-- um, experienced?

I wonder why I seem to have struck such a nerve for multiple users here on HN just because I said I wasn't a fan of a genre. I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition!
tried to build it, but it has some unorthodox ideas of filesystem structure; this gist I found gives a quick summary how to install it all in a single folder:

https://gist.github.com/baruchel/0653cc7c041d58d21b202c8e94e...
> >Ketamine is a life-saver

> Anyone who talks in such terms shouldn't have their opinions on medicine listened to.

Criticizing hyperbole by using hyperbole is a questionable strategy.
“HP Instant Ink” is the name of the product.

When we use “Windows” we don’t complain that they’re not real windows. When we use a Mac, we don’t complain that it’s not real Macintosh apples. It’s just a name.

As the parent commenter says, you pay explicitly for a quota of printed pages, not ink or anything else. Therefore, they do define a price per page, anywhere from 10c on their cheapest plan down to 3.57c on their most expensive.

Is it a shitty practice? Certainly. But you explicitly dont pay for ink, regardless of the name of the product.
I just think of it as performing a subquery for every row of the main query.
X Corp
well there is still a difference. Under the 100 page plan, you can print 100 completely black pages using the max amount of ink for the plan

or you could print 10 pages with a single sentence in them

HP sends you new cartridges depending on your use. So the second person in my example would not get a new cartridge, while the first would get 3 in the mail the next day. Both are paying the same monthly payment.

Its a dumb idea, but some people opt-in to it. And from my personal experience people end up with lots of extras being shipped to them. They can have 5-6 full cartridges at home at a time, for future use. HP doesn't want you to get stuck without ink, so they overstock you. Cancelling can cause people to take advantage of that overstock
This is one of the tacks I have to take with my partner sometimes because she will hold on to stuff she thinks she can’t get again. She’s getting better at getting rid of stuff we don’t need.
That statement you made seemed reflexively progressive to me rather than an actual thought out position.

Question: why does everything have boil down to a mortality lesson? Why can't white guy from the other thread have a little gripe? What's the purpose of scolding him , telling him that his opinion is wrong, and then treating him like a kid by sending a link to a cartoon that casts him as a snobbish, indifferent, predator?
https://archive.md/P28Wb
I suspect there is an age trigger in Ubuntu (and distributions that use Ubuntu as a base, like Linux Mint) that sets up this ad for older installs of Ubuntu so you can pay for extended updates for 10 years.

Remove the execute bit from these two files and you shouldn't see the message again:
sudo chmod -x /etc/update-motd.d/88-esm-available /etc/update-motd.d/91-contract-ua-esm-status
> A DfT spokesperson said: "Our railways are currently not financially sustainable, and it is unfair to continue asking taxpayers to foot the bill, which is why reform of all aspects of the railways is essential.

Well, yeah. Public transport never going to be as sustainable as private transport, that's why the government is funding it in the first place. It's partially to provide tax payers with a service, and partially to offer an alternative for those who can't afford other options.

Whoever put punctuality, personal safety, and train Wi-Fi in the same part of the questionnaire was setting the research up for killing the Wi-Fi. Obviously people prefer not being stabbed on the train above Wi-Fi and "arriving at the destination on time" is the main purpose of the whole field.

"We want commute to be worse and more expensive" is a bizarre take to have as the department of transport.
You're not paying for the cartridges if you buy the "Instant Ink" thing. The plans all talk about pages-per-month. No subscription, no pages.
Fair enough. I think we can agree that the average VS code developer is more technically savvy than the average Android user?
The joke is Chinese go to America for college to study under professors from the former USSR.
That actually seems fairly interesting and unusual—in Linux terms, Windows NT (and its progeny) started with the moral equivalent of the x32 ABI[1] on its only 64-bit architecture (Alpha) and only afterwards introduced support for true 64-bit apps. Which is very reasonable!

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/
Very nice, this is definitely the best UX for reading comments. Just one question. Is there no way to implement account log-in that integrates well with keychain? Thanks for the nice app!
so there should be one country on the planet, because ultimately only US has enough force to defend..

totally flawed logic
I think in this career it’s possible to optimize for 3 levers - WLB, money, and fun work. If you truly want to code a lot, a startup is the place, but you will earn less money and work more hours. Big tech offers big money and good WLB but often at the sacrifice of interesting work.