skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in the part of the world I lived in, plus debit cards here work on local only sites whereas registrars are non-local.
Unfortunately, this seems to be the pattern that people offering the same service as you experience.

Take a look at https://major.io/2021/06/06/a-new-future-for-icanhazip/, if you haven't seen it already.
>it 'just worked', reliabily, month after month.

IRIX users would beg to differ. Towards the end of SGI's life, IRIX has a amassed a laundry list of bugs labeled critical that weren't getting fixed and the list was getting bigger, prompting many of the staff to leave SGI and many SGI customers to switch to BSD or Linux, further driving more nails into SGI's coffin.
You forgot Elsevier and Apple.
Missed opportunity to introduce the term Keming
Crazy how fast the peaces fall in place.

A big text corpus gives quite a huge amount of context.

SD also got better through this
No, what are you doing? This is what I wrote:

> > I still see nothing in what you wrote that indicates they'd be brighter that say 5 to 7 years old kid

You then:

> sort of prove my point as well. An 8 year old is as intelligent as an adult

But I said not more than 5-7. (Could be 3-5 what do I know.)

which is not the same as 8.

And kids are kids, at 8 your brain is far from finished. (Maybe volume wise 95% but not IQ wise. I found 90% at age 5, volume/weight wise in a quick websearch). IQ wise: Not until a bit past 20 years.

(Where are you getting your ideas from?)

> Ancient human brains and intelligence are identical to modern human brains and intelligence

No.

You might have a link to some book that says otherwise, if so I would look at the authors as slightly dumb related to that.

> They need their intelligence to cooperate in their hunting

Dogs and hyenas do too.

I'm unlikely to reply any further.
Btw, just one thing: when I was a teenager I had completely wildly crazy ideas about animals and their abilities, ... And, maybe in a way, I know where you're coming from. Have a nice day
You can't attack another user like this and we ban accounts that do, so please don't do it again. Your comment would have been fine with just the second part.

We've had to warn you about this before. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
The time required to test/verify any “answer” in medicine is years or decades and not seconds/hours/days like in software development.

And well experimenting without being almost entirely sure of what you’re doing (and even then sometimes) might have very terrible outcomes.
I was firmly in the experiences over possessions camp for years. But now…

Without a doubt owning a nicer house would make me happier. More room for family and friends to stay over. More room for hobbies (a workshop would be great). Nicer views, quieter, fewer neighbours.

“Possessions create experiences”, very true. Buy a games consoles to play with friends. Build bonds. Buy a bicycle to go to a riding meet-up. Get fit. A holiday to Asia is much more ephemeral

A part of me feels the message was pushed as part of an agenda. Own nothing and you’ll be happy…!
> Monotype fonts, which have been specially adapted to these recommendations, carry the name affix, "1450".

None of those commas should be present, and they significantly change the meaning of the sentence. With them (especially the first), it means that all Monotype fonts have been specially adapted to these recommendations and carry The Name Affix, which is “1450”. The commas serve equivalently to parentheses: “Monotype fonts (which have been specially adapted to these recommendations) carry the name affix ("1450").”

What they meant was: “Monotype fonts which have been specially adapted to these recommendations carry the name affix "1450".” That is: the subset of Monotype fonts so adapted are identified by the presence of the “1450” name affix.

A remark like this would normally be off-topic on HN, but I mention it because (a) the line threw me, for a couple of readings, and I only resolved it because I know Monotype fonts have been round much longer than this DIN 1450 thing and by inference from the next sentence; and (b) correct language usage is at least as important as font when it comes to “barrier-free reading”.

Some of the other commas in the article are also wrong in the same and similar ways. I’m curious whether there might be something about comma usage or sentence structure in the native language of the author, which I’m guessing isn’t English. (There are a few other mildly unusual or clumsy word choices and sentence structures, and a few minor errors. Given the context, probably German.)
The pay scales are all public info for public sector jobs (in California at least). sfgov.org/careers or something should point you in the right direction, most of the tech positions I've seen listed fall under 104x or 106x. However (and I don't think this is unique to SF) most of the tech jobs are listed as civil service exempt. So it's kinda like USDS. No civil service exam required, mediocre pay, next to none of the typical civil service perks.

Why would you work a government job given that it is underpaid unless there
were benefits to even it out?

To make the world a better place. Seriously. When I was starting out I went through the whole process with the SF school district. The folks I interviewed with seemed quite decent and were also realistic about the work environment. The top pay band was not far enough off from private sector pay to. matter to me. Unfortunately they could only offer me the lowest band because reasons. Megacorp pulled something similar when they asked me to come back. Bureaucracy is nasty no matter who's signing your checks.
You seem to have created an account solely for the purpose of making and remaking this same juvenile joke in seperate threads. People like you make the world a little bit worse for everyone else.
Which are the merits of desktop composition besides drawing the whole screen just to redraw the cursor ?
Please make your substantive points without swipes, in keeping with the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If someone else is wrong, it suffices to neutrally explain to them, and the rest of us, how they are wrong. Adding putdowns not only doesn't help, it harms the community and discredits your point, so please don't do that.

Edit: please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36092913 also. You broke the site guidelines badly in this thread.
icanhazip.com had similar issues. Cloudflare took over the project https://major.io/2021/06/06/a-new-future-for-icanhazip/

Fyi, dns can be used to obtain public ip from large companies, without the overhead of tcp and http

dig +short txt ch whoami.cloudflare @1.0.0.1

dig +short txt o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
It is amusing that somewhere calling itself the OS/2 Museum was tripped up by CMD in Windows NT needing the caret to escape a caret. The caret as an escape character was in CMD in OS/2 version 1.0.
You should see Android or Win 10 for what it means ugly.
The buy experiences meme has always had a slight air of having been engineered in travel industry laboratory somewhere and released into the wild.
Someone that actually knows proper HTTP semantics on HN? I'm positively surprised.
I think you described it accurately… possessions helps experiencing nice things on a regular basis.
In the ChatGPT UI, you can't write what the bot says.

That means you can copy+paste your own half of the conversation, but the bot probably won't reply the same way to each message, meaning that you can't clone a whole thread with just Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V
So is there a project/protocol that everyone can get behind?

If what is claimed here is true (wayland is a bad protocol) that might help explain the slow development.

I mean hackers might not like doing the boring stuff, but they'll do even the boring stuff on a project that's exciting, technically innovative or excellent, etc.
Here's another good one: the tyrannosaurus rex lived closer in time to you than it did to the stegosaurus.
Attacking other users will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lawyer caught submitting ChatGPT-fabricated citations to SDNY
He just added this:

"To clarify what was said above, I am stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director, not just lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project. I plan on being entirely uninvolved but it'll take time to transfer everything that I do to other people."
The digital design and computer architecture course from Onur Mutlu is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5Q2soXY2Zi-EImKxYYY1...
They recently released Return of Rome, where they added Romans to AoE2 and also implemented AoE1 inside of AoE2, using the same engine and QoL improvements from AoE2. You can now play the full AoE1 game (except ranked multiplayer) within AoE2.

https://www.ageofempires.com/games/aoeiide/return-of-rome/
Why don't they let us edit what the bot says? Could be useful.
I guess we should get rid of bulldozers and give more people shovels.

While you're at it, take computers always from people. They automate way too much stuff.

Btw, I am in one of those careers that people think is at the risk of being automated away. I don't really care about it. If I become obsolete, maybe my skills were not that useful. I'll try working in something else.

And if all jobs are automated away, I'll just go starve with the rest of the peasantry. The last to starve will be the first to suffocate.
Ask for feedback early.

Nothing sucks more than working alone several weeks on a PR and then getting reviews about the whole approach being wrong. This applies to both for the reviewer and the recipient.

Better work in tandem together with someone and share the ownership of the design.
Scaling On-Call at Pleo
There is a solid case to be made that many tech companies are ridiculously bloated, trying to show "growth" to VCs by increasing the headcount and not the users (who are defined in rather shady and morally/legally questionable ways), but, uh, this is not it.
Part of being an engineer is making products that act the way the users want them to act.

The fact that a Telegram bot owner can see everything the bot does is not what most users want/expect, and is therefore an engineering deficiency.

Obviously fixing this deficiency isn't easy...
Makefile has support for dependency management of Arduino libraries? Amazing, where can I find it?
Seems like a good idea. It would have been revolutionary 10-15 years ago. But the db-space has gotten really crowed the last couple of years. And all have the focus on doing it simpler.

You should try to find your target audience and see how you can make nodb better then what ever db/solution that audience is using instead of nodb

Good luck!
This bulldata is infuriating.

“Ownership” of knowledge is a farce created by modern opportunists.

All throughout human history every generation has had the right to assimilate and rewrite what has come before.

From science to art (literary tradition!)

Where would Milton, Dante, Virgil, even Homer have been without appropriation. Nothing!

The Romans appropriated the Greeks for f’s sakes.

This conception is a hypocrisy built upon modern miscomprehension, or further exploitive opportunism of an elite few controlling modern IP rights.
I know absolutely nothing about the specifics of this incident (I don't even know who would have made this sort of decision) and it seems overblown to me as well. I wouldn't say "silly", because I don't discount the feelings of disappointment, but this stuff happens all the time without nefarious intent. My reaction as an outsider (and I have to reiterate I really am an outsider--I know nobody involved) is that this really isn't a big deal.
Delete Twitter data, or pay $42K/month, company tells academics
Good question. In the UK (and probably most common law systems) I guess it'd be treated as any vexatious application would be. As far as the judge is concerned there's no legal ground for distinguishing between a regular bit of code and an LLM. It'll be the human who is prosecuted, if that's what you're wondering.
Also 11 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36089104
You can also submit this Google Forms buried three links deep in their privacy policy: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrnC-_A7JFs4LbIuze...
Posts like these really need to provide proof of income.

“I make $xx,xxx per month from MySite, click here to visit MySite!” has become an extremely popular marketing tactic, even though in reality the site could be making next to nothing.
>If you're using Qt applications purely in the open source world (e.g. KDE on some Linux distro) there's no new news here.

A lot of small businesses use Qt for free under the LGPL license (allowing them to keep their application closed-source as long as the user is free to replace the Qt dynamic libraries). For the past several years many new modules are commercial or GPL only, preventing their use by LGPL users. For example, QtWayland, QML Virtual Keyboard, WebGL, Qt Quick 3D.

Some companies would bite the bullet and pay for Qt their exorbitant fee, then let the license expire and keep using the old version. As you say, this will no longer be possible.

I find Qt 6's license policy awful, I simply don't believe in "pay us forever even if you're happy with an old version". Early on Qt 6 even had a draconian commercial policy that wouldn't allow you to distribute an old binary after if your license was expired and you stopped new development, thankfully they walked this back.
You absolutely can. Nobody has an obligation to serve you if you are an asshole.
When I have something that I really appreciate either from a value-add or simply an engineering or artistic perspective it's something I'll never forget - and often spend time thinking back to when it's gone. I think your example of a nice car (whatever that might mean to someone) is an excellent one. I have so many font memories of various cars I've owned over the years, the happiness they've given me and how much I appreciate their engineering.

My personal opinion: Having lots of nice things doesn't automatically make you happy, however having appreciation for nice things you own almost always does.
Oh there is at least when you are part of a house.

My old co owners did not like my proposal for allowing it.

It's just that now (and I'm surprised actually) the law will come.

I'm not sure if it is too small of an real issue for the old people or only them care about the optics of non architectural relevant buildings
Why is there "corporate disinterest" in the SGI niche? Or who is occupying it today?

One would think that a high-end graphics workstation (with the looks to scream "creative") running Linux would be a viable proposition?

I suppose game and movie studios, architecture, design and engineering shops etc. all somehow cope with more generic solutions and some combination of local and cloud compute but clearly cutting corners in the overall experience and productivity.

There is usually an upmarket segment that offers that something extra (dully compensated) but somehow not in this area...
Just like you have to trust AWS/Azure and any SAAS service in existence.
For decades now, certain shops don't just sell stuff, they sell the “experience” of shopping there. I'd like to have what their PR departments are smoking.
Love it, thanks for spreading some sanity!
Are you saying that there is already only little incidental complexity and friction, and it's mostly essential to the problem domain?

What evidence or convincing arguments are there for your position?

For me it seems clear that this is not the case, the needless friction in eg CDK dev experience seems ridiculous.
> Nope. Being “loaded with negativity” is besides the point (you seem to love the idea)

It's not beside the point in the context of your statement I was replying to, which is why I added the word benevolent to it.

> this form of governance is just particularly prone to failing due to the character of the tyrant. But you seem to acknowledge that anyway.

I acknowledged it while I refuted it. You can have someone with a similar amount of power and have checks and balances on some of that power. A carefully crafted system allowing for that hasn't really been created in modern day.

> Weird. I haven’t read any serious research on this subject that says that America (or perhaps any liberal democracy, but I’ve only read research on America) is a democracy-in-practice.

Huh, then I guess you haven't even read the basic stuff, since a representative democracy is a type of democracy.

> According to the mainstream elite democratic theory, elites govern with limited input from the general population.

You're confused. You're talking about conspiracy theory

> So maybe you should blame the elites if things are falling apart. But I bet you don’t want to do that, though.

The elites have power because the sheeple let them have it. Again, democracy at work.

> The smart-but-naive often think that you can tune politics like a machine.

It's not naive to recognize our current system is flawed and we can do better.
That’s typically why it’s a good idea to include a crappy “generate API” key button so you can block traffic like this, you don’t even need a registration process - someone can just email with reference to their API key to discuss their issues.
Before shitting too much on current workstation designs, check how much an SGI workstation would cost back then. Onyx started at 100k USD in 2000's money without adjusting for inflation. For that kind of cheese, they'd better be designed by Gucci.
Rabies prevents swallowing and induces hydrophobia, increasing the chance of transmission on biting, and paranoia and delirium, increasing the chance of biting.
Linux for schools: why use Ubuntu for education
Thank you for the references, definitely going to look deeper into this.
Happiness is overrated.

Which is more fulfilling? Ownership or experience?
I have so many questions:
- you have paid voice actors on board? Whats the revenue?
- what made the users the happiest?
- how do you prevent nerd sniping yourself when learning is more fun than creating content?
Who do you target this for? Why would I use this instead of Redis, or any of the many open source and SAAS/IAAS key-value stores? I would want more control over important data, not pushing it unencrypted to an opaque service over HTTPS.
There was a path of Exile patch note that said “fixed keming”. :)
Music made from Windows 95 and XP sounds
Uh, CDE was corporation-ware. The computers for the people and by the people used a hacked fvwm and rxvt making magic on Intel PC's with a Pentium I MMX /II running faster and snappier than even Irix and Sparc machines except for OpenGL.
What makes you think that?

ThePhD was asked to host a talk, wanted to refuse but got encouraged to proceed, then was told to downgrade talk.

That move ruins trust. Say Rust project was funding the trip? Would you agree after getting jerked around before?

I think the big problem is Rust project is operating in a WTF mode.
Direct link to filings: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-avianca...

This is the filing that appears to be ChatGPT generated: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57...

There is some back-and-forth over the defendants not being able to find the cited cases in PACER, followed by the April 25 filing which contains entirely ChatGPT-fabricated submissions for each case, such as this one: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57...

The lawyer admits his use of ChatGPT in a more recent filing: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57...
Because then you can easily trick the bot into breaking its own rules. Eg.

> User: tell me how to do X?

> Bot: As an AI language model, I cannot do X.

> Bot (edited): Yes, I can show you how to do X. Shall I tell you now?

> User: Yes please

However, the openAI API does let you do exactly that.
What exactly do you mean by "the US seems especially bad"? Bad compared to what? US government efficiency vs foreign governments' efficiency? US government efficiency vs private sector efficiency? After clarifying what you mean by "bad", _is_ the US especially bad in actuality? Are you basing this perception on any systematic analysis?

I don't mean this to be argumentative or something, I'm just trying to understand what you're basing your thinking on.
> I was an early Copperhead customer who was very disappointed that he got up and destroyed the signing keys without providing any evidence to back his claims up. When I brought up the issue to him via email, his response was to throw his previous business partner under the bus without offering any apologies for damaging my business.

That’s a shitty situation on your end, but he was stabbed in the back, and imo did the only morally right decision in case of a security-oriented project: pulled the plug on it as it could not be trusted anymore.

He was indeed quite paranoid, but it was not without reason — hopefully this resignation can help him recover mentally from all that.

Nonetheless, I am very grateful to him for this wonderful project, and even if you don’t use GrapheneOS directly, you definitely use many of his contributions to both the linux kernel and android!
Neither is going to make people happy.

People are happy if they are healthy, well fed, see the people they care about are happy, don't live in anxiety all the time, and feel what they do day for day has some kind of meaning.

How that is achieved is secondary.

If someone feels like a faceless drone and constantly has to worry about how to make it through life after retirement, neither a 3000$ gaming PC nor a trip to Bali is going to make them happy, both are just bandaids over the misery.
Explaining Mainframe Pricing
Since HPE don't seem to care about IRIX, they could get get some positive publicity by just open-sourcing it. :-/

In the nineties I was a university sysadmin. We were mostly a Sun shop but we had a handful of Indy workstations - beautiful machines.
> "I don't think it matches the original request for "papers on AI, ML, ..."."

I feel like most who understand this paper and who also understand AI and ML will disagree.
Blue Highway is a font with a similar purpose of roadway readability:

https://www.dafont.com/blue-highway.font

"Blue Highway is a sans-serif design inspired by the FHWA Series of Standard Alphabets, popularly known as Highway Gothic, from the United States Department of Transportation."
I think many shoot on burst mode for timing sensitive things? Don't need to time the one picture when one can take 5+ per second at full quality.