skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The classic theory of longer term investing is that you are providing capital to businesses and rewarded for that. That is a little bit different from being a middle man. My personal opinion though is that lending money/investing capital and capitalism in general is power. Money quantifies the potential of making other humans do things for you, it allows you to excercise power over fellow humans. Inheritance means you can inherit that power from your parents. It's not all that different from feudalism.
Pythagoras studied Math in Egypt so I agree with you in this place.

The Illiad is the most ancient writing AFAIK but I do not understand what are you saying in this sentence.
Can't wait to rid myself of Autodesk dependency.
I still use CORBA with huge success. For example, it is a backbone of several commercial systems that connect vending units in different regions and even countries.

For what it's worth, CORBA is hard to use from languages without a proper reflection. But with something like Java or .NET - it's a breeze.

And before you start asking questions why - no, REST or gRPC do not cut it. They are too primitive and come with poorly defined semantics. Their HTTP/1.1 transport is rudimental, though HTTP/2.0 made it better by allowing multiplex streams with an elusive possibility of a proper bidirectional communication. But CORBA already had all that, and more, since 2005! And I use it to the fullest extent in the distributed systems my company designs.
OS/2 is still in use and under active development, just under a different name.

https://hackaday.com/2023/02/16/arcaos-os-2-updated-for-the-...
they compartmentalize a lot of different modules into a marketplace.

Lots of the simulation/CAM suites at one time came with the cheaper subscription, now they're behind additional payments.
I wonder if the title is making a pun about eating a Jewish variety of leavened bread.
I hope someone steals from you and police ignores you.
Ukraine got invaded by a foreign power that is committing war crimes, taking territory that isn't theirs and repeatedly threatening other neighboring countries.
Why not go one more level up in your abstraction and ask “why does SWAT exist?”. Why stop at the police?

Assholes doing evil are why SWAT units exist and evil assholes use SWAT to do evil.

The big problem is evil assholes.
Only 3% of Harvard admits, according to the data they submitted for the case, were in the bottom income quintile. 70% were in the top quintile. Harvard wasn’t doing crap to fix income inequality, just keeping rich families rich while embracing overt systemic racism.
Had the same experience with the StarCraft Remaster
In my view, this could be done by massively supporting public universities, community colleges, and trade schools.

I think the constant focus on a few "elite" colleges distorts the entire dialogue about higher education. They don't represent the people. Their antics make the working class angry, and stoke anti-education propaganda.

The state college systems stand a much better chance of educating a larger number of more diverse people, especially dollar for dollar.
I’m not going to justify going in depth in topics not relevant for the job. However going deep in tech topics is necessary to evaluate experience and seniority. The “best interviews” process you described is adequate for the first eng levels but if you want to interview for senior, staff, principal; etc it gets harder and going into depth and breadth is necessary.

Heck. Sometimes going into topics “not relevant” for the job is revealing. If their cv says they spent 5yrs writing Linux dev drivers but the position is to write golang web services I may still ask about device drivers if I can get a domain expert. Good people tend to understand very well the things they’ve worked on.
I have done this recently, through upwork for a tech related topic. I am very comfortable with platform but I'm sure I could have used a different one for other topics.

Posted a job description – initially setup by asking gpt4 to help write it down, then grammarly to make it solid; setup interviews with a bunch of people; got on a call with a handful; chose one whit whom I'm working with once or twice a week.

Did it because YT tutorials were not helping, because there are a lot of them(hot topic), from many different people, with quickly outdated material, and un-interesting or annoying people(too many memes, jokes, or segways).

Now I have someone I pay to get on a call a few times per week, we go over the assignments, I ask questions, they tell me what to look out for and how to do it better.

I have accepted to pay per hour a bit above what I make on my fulltime job.
What is the best (affordable!) CAD software for a hobbyist with no experience? I was recently looking into this and the leading software was like 6,000 USD a year per seat.
Seems dead. Last commit was February 2022.
That "BlackBerry-like keyboard" is actually a keyboard salvaged from a BlackBerry Bold... the best phone keyboard to have ever existed.
> That's not quite the case.

> Proceeds to mention the few government and government related entities that can audit the system.

> I know someone...

...
Ask HN: Recommended books/resources about networking for Mac
Are there any good books about networking specifically for macOS?
There have been many Silver Bullets in software development, and they probably all had some real value. But it seems they get latched onto and over-hyped, particularly for decision makers and funders.

In reality, what is probably most missing is consistent effort toward better organization and complexity management of problems (leading to effective solutions).

Without naming current 2-letter hype trains, we're doing it again after the blockchain stuff finally fizzled. Blockchain didn't magically solve our organizational and complexity problems, and so we need a new great hope.

New tech and patterns are exciting (probably mostly because of the promise of making our lives easier), but eventually one stops accepting them with big expectations. Ultimately it seems like instead of addressing the real difficulty in our technical solution development we create new distractions and use them to hide ourselves from the bigger problem that we can't seem to deal with.
The beauty of 3D printing, and the community is that you could have saved yourself some time and downloaded one of the many, many versions of this available online already.

I want to love FreeCAD, but it is hard to work with for complex designs compared to other tools; topological naming has been an absolute nightmare, but I persevere, it's improving slowly. At least now I'm less likely to have to throw away hours/days of design because I got into a mess.

As a Linux user, my options are slim, so I keep learning FreeCAD, and SCAD, but I'm always a little jealous when I watch a YouTube tutorial of how to do something that takes relative ease in tool X, but is an order of magnitude more complex to do in FreeCAD.

FreeCAD getting a benefactor that can propel it ahead would be huge; donations are great, but my measly donation is barely going to cover the cost of a bug fix.
"In order to revive Stinger production, the company has recruited retired engineers who will train current employees in the manufacturing process."

I wonder what the compensation packages look like for these roles. What does coming out of retirement for an assumed well paying job for up to a couple of years??? do to someone's retirement financial plans? What if you're on a fixed income from the gov't, and now you have a salary again? Is paying them under the table viable?
Make Your VS Code Extension More Helpful
http://68k.news

gopher://magical.fish

gemini://gemi.dev
Reading on how rust does it some. First search I'm finding is https://maxuuell.com/blog/how-not-to-shadow-variables, which amuses me to see that you can just redeclare variables in the same scope. That feels like a footgun in itself. The rest of the footguns listed there seem about right.

Is that how other languages are starting to do this?

And agreed that not polluting the scope is good. That is why mutating the variable was the preferred way for a lot of folks.
`vmIdleTimeout` in .wslconfig might be an option? Win 11 only though
There hasn’t really been a market for paid browsers since the mid 90s.

If you’re giving put your software for free reusing OSS components makes a lot more sense KHTML -> webkit -> blink
Personally I don't waste time keeping up with the news, but you must know that thousands of news sites and news aggregator sites exist. Take your pick. If anything important happens every news site will report it.

The last thing I want is notifications of news, but many/most sites will gladly do that in exchange for your email address or phone number.
IPv6-only has become a thing
You need an massive amount of money indeed to have a free product that matches the Autodesk commercial offer in CAD tools. Like some EU grant or something. I know FreeCAD is used by corporations such as Behringer, are they even giving back to open source? I doubt it, but it's apparently good enough for them...
It seems to me that the main purpose of having a college degree is signaling that you're not too stupid and too lazy, although it depends on what degree you got, in which college and which country.
Of course you're supposed to have learnt something while you were there, but for the vast majority of my peers, what they learned about physics, electronics and control theory while pursuing our computer engineering degree, was mostly useless. All my acquaintances ended up working as software developers, and I know only one who writes firmware and needed to have some electronics knowledge.

So I don't get why many companies still require a degree for software developers. Some of my best colleagues don't have college degrees.
Companies could use IQ tests to filter out stupid people and then proceed with a regular interview for those who passed the IQ test. Lazy people are very few in my experience and they would get filtered afterwards, but companies could just pay people less for the first few months to compensate.
Maybe they could apply the process I described just to applicants without degrees.
Holtz is talking about drivers too, not just user space libraries.

> The software is terrible! There’s kernel panics in the driver. You have to run a newer kernel than the Ubuntu default to make it remotely stable. I’m still not sure if the driver supports putting two cards in one machine, or if there’s some poorly written global state. When I put the second card in and run an OpenCL program, half the time it kernel panics and you have to reboot.

He also talks about user space stuff but clearly he thinks the whole stack, above and below this kind of library also needs a lot of work.
> The off-script big-brain move in this case isn’t abstaining from voting, it’s discussing changing the voting/election system to break the two party dominance.

You are not interpreting OP in the best possible light - or even remotely accurately.

OP didn't say not voting is big brain galaxy stuff, nor did they exclude the idea of changing the voting system.

To me, when the choice is between pro-war, pro-oil, pro-corporate theocratic fascism from wealthy old white guys, and pro-war, pro-oil, pro-corporate cynical neoliberalism, not voting for the lesser evil can be seen as simply not voting for evil.

After seeing what the Dems did to Bernie, I can't ever vote for them again; not even if Trump is the alternative. Nope. Not doing it. I have a line, and I won't be forced to vote in a system that's killing the planet. Will I work to change that voting system? Happily. Will the Democrats? Hell no.
No, the revolution happened. The US just decided it wasn't interested, so it moved overseas.
Worth mentioning the USofA is much worse per capita than the UK after adjusting for population size differences.

Uniform firearm regulations in the UK reduced the per capita post war firearm incidents, now similar campaigns are targeting knife crimes.

It's a layered approach - anybody that believes there's a single solution would be foolish.
Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView makes for a great functional stack but it doesn’t have strong typing. It does, however, have very good type analysis tools if you’re willing to put in the annotation work.

Though honestly I can’t really recommend any functional language stacks beyond that. I use Haskell/Elm stacks a lot but I regard Haskell’s backend development APIs as … immature. Stable effective but batteries aren’t included and you’ll often have to write those. I don’t usually need much out of my backends so it usually suffices but ymmv.

Scala’s got it better here but the tooling is tiresome to work with, though the community making strides. I can’t say much about Clojure’s options but it’s not strongly typed anyway. Still you could easily rock a JVM stack functionally.

If Elm is your jam there are some active/upcoming backend solutions coming out of that community like Lamdera and Roc.

PureScript isn’t any worse a choice than Haskell, has more effective JS targeting and good integration with the NodeJS ecosystem. It can serve as your full stack, though I can’t speak to its efficacy/maturity as I’m only passingly familiar with its ecosystem.

I’ve never investigated OCaml’s ecosystem but it could be worth a look. It’s been having a moment, though not exactly in web stuff.
Build a Webapp in Ruby Without Rails: Serve Static Files, Render Dynamic Views
Everyone learns better with a teacher because no matter how you think you learn best, getting feedback from someone who actually knows what they are talking about is required.
Chrome is probably the most destructive google product
I’ve always pirated AutoCAD and will continue to do so. I use it occasionally and just for hobby stuff, nothing commercial. So why would I pay out the ass for that? Same story with Photoshop. Ohhhh it might contain malware… I don’t really give a damn because to me it’s the only option, paying $10, $20, $50/month for software I hardly use but still kind of need is not an option.

Run pirated software in a containerized/VM instance of Windows (or even macOS) and you’ll be alright.
I think that is absolutely not true.
Ok so you want to find out about new products or services from other customers. So how do those other customers find out about the product? At some point there are no customers or so few that you never run into one of these customers. So what does a small company do at the stage where they have no word of mouth?

Imagine if it were your business for a second, you’ve created a new website or a new physical product and you want to get more customers or users, what do you do? It’s not going to sell itself if nobody knows it exists no matter how good it is.
And yet, it’s not running fine.
Mobile OSes were always more of a cost center than a product in its own right.

In these cases OSS tends to be way more competitive.
"Atrophy", not apathy, though the atrophy may be due to apathy.
The demos on the Jolly Roger site are hilarious. The bot sounds so realistic, and the bot even had the audacity to ask the scammer, “Are you a real person?!”

“Hold on, there’s a bee on my arm”
Hilarious but technically not really impressive in terms of being in context, which would have probably doubled the wasted time.
Where did you get the 5 hours from?
My father's business partner was one of the founders of Iona Technologies, the makers of the Orbix Corba Request Broker. Back in the mid 1990s they had visions of being bigger than Microsoft, but events and progress overtook them, and the company was sold for a pittance in the mid 2000s.
> On average the amount of trickery in advertising will cancel out and decisions still get made based on the quality and usefulness of the products.

That, in general sense, violates second law of thermodynamics. More specifically, it also feels like going against some physical law with Shannon's signature on it, though its formulation escapes me.

Point being: even in cases where this "cancelling out" happens, it's not a free process. It uses energy, it uses natural resources, it uses victims' attention, it generates entropy. The more advertisers scale it, the more waste it creates.

As for "made based on the quality and usefulness of the products", that's actually the first victim of advertising - all real information gets lost in the sea of lies, while victims' attention is saturated, so they have very little headspace to evaluate competing offers.
That may be, but it's fairly well documented that 1:1 tutoring from an expert is absurdly[1] more effective than e.g. classroom teaching. If it wasn't for the fact that it's just as absurdly expensive, it would definitely be the norm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
I think the big problem with profitability comes directly from why the userbase grew so large to begin with. People use it as entertainment, and are uploading content that is expensive to host. Video and images are magnitudes larger than simple text and links to that content. If Reddit didn’t take it upon themselves to host media, they wouldn’t be in such a crunch. They also wouldn’t have grown so large, true, but there was no question of Reddit’s sustainability then. With mainly text and links, weathering the slowdown in growth storm would be easier.
It depends on the matter, purely technical & learning subjects is fine.

On personal & spiritual development it's very useful.
I think it's fine to scrape a couple pages per month for research but reposting the content or re-UXing it is annoying
Just import the PPZR Piorun instead. It is much more modern and more effective than the Stinger, for example with much better flare evasion. Stinger is from the 70s.
Solidworks is good but not affordable.
Sure, it’s essentially that intelligence appears to be substrate independent. That is, it is not the case that mammalian brain matter is some completely unique material in the universe naturally imbued with “intelligence,” but that it’s a physical structure that does a thing called “intelligence” under the right electrical, thermal, and chemical conditions.

The brain is obviously immensely complex and we’re not close to producing a computer like it any time soon, but there’s no reason to believe we never could in principle. E.g. you could imagine a machine that ”scans” one structure of molecules and “prints” an identical structure of the same compounds. If you were to build this machine and apply it to a brain — copy the exact configuration atom-by-atom — you’d produce an identical intelligence as the initial brain. There’s no known law or fact about the universe (or intelligence) that precludes this. [0]

So if that’s true, and it’s true that there are strong incentives to eventually develop human or superhuman intelligences, then we will one day develop at-least-human intelligences (assuming we don’t get annihilated by a meteor or nuclear holocaust). The worst case scenario is we have to build a facsimile of a brain, which would likely take a very very very long time indeed, but it could be the case that human engineering (as opposed to natural selection) can find a much shorter route to the same destination.

Regardless of which route we end up taking, regardless of how far down that road we are, regardless of whether our current route is a dead-end, the route and the destination do both demonstrably exist: natural selection "found" one route inside the skulls of some hairless apes.

[0] Note you’d presumably also produce an identical consciousness, but this can of worms need not be opened! That’s a separate topic so we’ll steer clear for now. It’s likely this route to intelligence produces consciousness but potentially some (or most, or all other) routes do not.
CMU CL in turn has it's lineage from Spice Lisp: a dialect that originated 40+ years ago on pdp-10. It's even less chance to have residual code of that still around though.
> Now, in the suburbs, still they feel comfortable walking alone at night.

Where does one walk in American suburbs?
Anything and everything related to Youtube is broken.
YouTube and Google is the cradle of evil.
I dare you to prove me wrong.
Usually they are either former government employees or contractors who incorporate their own 1-2 person “engineering consulting firm” that can then sell services back to the government at high rate.

The financial benefits are usually quite extensive for the engineers involved, because there is nowhere else to obtain supply of the needed skills.
Maximum Canada: Canada has a nation-building population strategy. Does America?
I self-host code-server and I haven't had _many_ issues, but I'm also using a keyboard -- Magic Keyboard? Yeah, I think that's what it's called.

For background, I have a bunch of VMs on a Proxmox server and I set up code-server on each in a custom Ansible role.

It's very nice to be able to edit config files, etc on each machine through VSCode, and have a terminal emulator built-in.

It's not perfect, and I don't use it much since I also have a laptop, but it allows me to do quick tasks on a specific machine quite quickly and painlessly if I just have the iPad at hand.
I'm not even certain optimisation matters. I can crash my machine (AMD graphics) with a stock Debian install by letting something attempt BLAS on the GPU.

The situation is starting to improve though. Installed a bunch of libraries from https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/5.4 jammy main and the crashes got less frequent. I don't have a lot of faith in AMD to deliver reliable BLAS libraries at this point, but it could happen. The hardware is there, I just don't think they're prioritising supporting the right places in the distribution chain or supporting consumer-level graphics.
Eh... It's absurd if you actually know how packages work or have ever built a package. A Linux end user, just starting out experimenting with different distros trying to install random packages they find online and not reading the right high-level documentation (like that debian link above) could very easily have the (false) experience that there are three kinds of Linuxes inside of which packages are largely interopable: RPM, DEB, and pacman . And to be fair, if they don't mind really messing up their system and bring enough different versioned dependencies in, this is kinda true, at least until they try to update. SUSE completely breaks this illusion.

This thread brought me back to when I was first messing with Linux distros, I used some insane program called something like 'alien' to try to install .deb packages into Fedore Core, with no idea how wrong minded that whole enterprise was
> The 87% of Americans without student loans are no longer forced to pay for the 13% who do

I only wish they would strike down the bank bailout with the same reasoning.
I just get a 'something went wrong' message from this link. Is that because I'm not logged in, if so why don't they say that?
How do you define stealing? Is the AI data obtained from accessing private data? Data that users did not make publicly available but kept to themselves on their own devices?
I have found ChatGPT quite useful in teaching me new things. I know it might hallucinate, but human teachers are not always right, either.

I think in the future, the main value of going to college will be socializing, networking, and learning "life" skills through interactions with others, dorm mates, etc. The teaching part will be already taken care of by AI.