skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious about what makes that offer so special that it made it to the front page. It seems that AWS has had a similar offer for over a year now ( https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/07/general-a... ). Additionally, there are public offerings of Apple M2-as-a-service available already ( https://www.macstadium.com/m2-studio-pro-orders , https://www.macminivault.com/ ).
In my experience in a university ECE program, you'd start with understanding the high level properties of transistors, then combining transistors to make AND and OR gates, then XOR and other gates, then MUXes and half/full adders, then flip-flops and eventually into synchronous (clocked) logic.

The lab component of such coursework did start with TTL chips but the timing of the coursework was such that you'd have most of the asynchronous logic theory taught by the time the chips came out.
Back in the 90s I got my first 'real' job, and needed to learn well grep, awk, sed, col et. al. Or learn Perl. Perl kept us afloat until we had too much Perl and needed to switch to Python. And I still don't know awk or sed; to this day my fingers just go with 'perl -pie'.
Ditto - I use sed/awk daily, but I never write Perl any more (though I do use older bash scripts that call Perl under the hood).

I'm still comfortable recommending people learn sed/awk but I don't think I'd recommend learning Perl* now. It sits in an awkward spot between the simplicity of GNU utils and the expressivity of a scripting language, but doesn't do either of those things better than the equivalent sed/Python etc.

FWIW I still write Bash scripts on a daily basis, too.

* that's no comment on Raku, which I consider a separate beast.
In the 70s, NYC was a mess. Crime, drugs, sexual stuff in public, etc.
The people got fed up with it and voted for different city government. Cops got more leeway, the city cleaned up. NYC again became a good tourist destination.

I think SF could do the same thing. At least until the homeless & crime crowd outnumber the others. Only then would all hope be lost.
reviewing code is obviously fine, we all do it constantly.

mandatory code review is a symptom of an adversarial environment involving bad faith actors.

there is no quick fix for organizational disfunction, and in that environment mandatory code review will have a negligible effect.
The Perl man pages are really good! Start with "man perlintro" and then look at whatever sections in the "man perl" table of contents fit your needs.

A lot of the tutorials online in my opinion are overbaked and written for people writing large OO projects using a lot of scaffolding. But the man pages were originally targeted at sed and awk users in your position.
California k-12 public education has become a joke. Even the top rated schools are succeeding from students going to after school tutoring and not from the education in the public institution.

It’s appalling how California cares more about homelessness, undocumented immigrants, and Medicare over education. Education is the single biggest factor to driving social mobility of the poor to middle class, and middle class to wealthy.

I can only hope that in 5-10 years a new set of voters shift focus to education being a top priority.
Why only plain text? Images have a lot of value
Ultimately, K-12 education in the US is generally not great. This probably means any expert in the field is not a good educator.
If you have ever had to deal with an air conditioner isn't cooling because of low freon, you'd know that the problem is because the coils get.. too.. cold. They get so cold that water in the air freezes around the coils to be the point there is little air flow possible. Why?

When the freon is low, the freon expands too much into the coils. More expansion, more temperature drop in the coils. Additionally, the compressor has too little freon to compress to sent out to the radiator. The local coil's temperature has gone down, but the overall temperature of the system has gone up. This is the difference between weather (local) and climate (overall average). The weather of the coil is cooler, the climate of the A/C system is hotter.

Global warming is creating changes in the energy flow, both atmospheric and oceanic. Consequently, you may have locally cooler temperatures because hotter temperatures in other create blocks energy movement that would otherwise heat your area.
In my personal experience almost every large Python program is a little multithreaded.

For example, if you need to handle the external programs input, stdout and errout, most of the examples you find by googling use threads for this.
Show HN: An index of all monthly dividend stocks
In my quest for finding high yield dividend stocks, I've noticed there isn't really a good tool for finding such stocks (that I can find, anyway), only pay-walled sites that are confusing and inaccessible. This little project seeks to remedy that.

I'm sharing this in the hopes that you'll find it useful, but also to get feedback, in particular, about monetizing. While I built this to be useful, I would like to make some money on it, so if you have any recommendations, I'm all eyeballs. I fear I may have to resort to advertisements to keep the barrier to entry low.
It's still lithium, and it's still pretty awful to recycle.
The "simple" from the title I wrote as the usual meaning of "simple" in English. I had some hard time devising a proper title, so I understand the complaints.
I wish someone would figure out how to combine an e-ink and OLED display somehow.
I've been absolutely enraged at the approach to mathematics instruction my children (who have just finished 2nd and 5th grade) have had to-date. It is an absolutely mind-bogglingly inflexible system that seems designed to frustrate anyone gifted enough genetically or fortunate enough environmentally (e.g. parental/mentor instruction) to be beyond the concepts taught at a given level.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36644030
I think it really depends on the leadership.

The worse case scenario is when the scenario you given: the "pet project," where a team goes nuts on a codebase they aren't maintaining, in which case it's effectively out-sourcing maintenance and tech debt.

Ideally, the home team leadership has a lot of leverage to push back on work by the away team, which means away team work is slow but at least it gets done.
His point is that most of the mass comes from the air.
I agree that learning with an Arduino/Pi Pico is personally more fun and gets you to the stage of making something practical, or at least interesting, much more quickly. That said, doing things fully at the resistor and diode level still has its place, since someone has to understand stuff well enough at that level to design the Arduinos and Picos that the rest of us play with.
What is this "sh".reddit.com subdomain that the submitted link has?
Hallelujah cry the internet trolls! Who now are allowed to post rude and vile comments provided they might be true! Downvoting their perceived rudeness would be wrong.

No wait. Nope, that’s not how it works. Downvoting for rudeness, incivility or low effort comments makes for a much better environment.
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/sfosoes-embassy-suites-san-...

Please note that we offer a fee-based shuttle to San Francisco International
Airport SFO, from 5AM-10AM and 5PM-10PM. Please reserve the shuttle using
the link below.

That's closer to south city Caltrain than the airport, and yet… nobody is taking Caltrain to Moscone. Judging by that neighborhood nobody's walking to Caltrain either. Caltrain to Moscone isn't a thing.
As a former teacher, there have always been pressure to push “new” approaches towards teachers and students. These approaches usually failed completely as predicted. The cycle repeats every 10-20 years.
Please stop adding more and more irrelevant text files Google.

It's getting annoying.

There's nothing wrong with robots.txt. Don't change what works just because you Google developer have to justify your employment
What are the alternative hypothesis?
"It sure would be a shame if we went around telling people your program is a virus. We can make sure that doesn't happen, if you pull out your credit card and pay us a three-figure sum."

A financially lucrative but morally bankrupt business model. It's basically a 21st century twist on an old fashioned protection racket.
ok, then the free version is just like the bookmarks.
They have the "threads.net" profile badge which suggests ActivityPub is definitely coming.

Also I suspect it's a high priority for Meta as it blunts any anti-competitive attack from regulators. Complying with open, interoperable standards is usually far more important than whether or not you're a monopoly. And the EU in particular already has the mechanism to demand these companies comply.

BlueSky could end up making a huge mistake by not adopting ActivityPub.
More and more I get the feeling California doesn't care about the homelessness, undocumented immigrants, and Medicare. There are just a ton of grifters who make a lot of noise on the topics, but don't push for policies that would actually improve things. Or push for them in a way that is just more red tape that hinders actual results. Education is in the same bucket. Lots of noise from lots of people with bad ideas or bad implementations of ok ideas.
Honestly, that’s not my biggest worry. My bigger worry is that now Python variables your extension is reading can be changed by another thread in real time. Before if you held the GIL, you knew nothing would change while you poked some Python datastructures.
If that's the worst thing you can find about Pascal (and it's just a style issue) then Pascal must be the best thing ever :)
If you combine these two naming schemes in the same syntax, of course it will be ambiguous. In the examples of the K combinator, they don't clash with each other though, as those are different examples.
I don't understand. How is that different from bookmarks?
They do when they decide to interview for large orgs. They do it because they get better pay. It's the same service. Why not work for a small org that pays less?
https://xkcd.com/2106/
It’s been a thing for hundreds of years. That’s why agriculture traditionally rotated crops and planted beans every 3rd season or so. I’m not sure what if anything is deferent about this species of corn, except perhaps that it is itself a desirable crop with more market value.

We stopped doing this and moved to artificial fertilizers in the 20th century because it vastly improved crop yields, and is cheaper.
In this case, there is nothing more anonymous about the Ethereum approach than a simple username/password. But there are some benefits in terms of data privacy. Most websites, especially social media, don't let you get away with just an anonymous username/password these days if you want to use their full functionality. They may want all kinds of other information from you, e.g. email address (3rd party), your phone number, ID verifcation, linked Google account with certain permissions to access private data, and so on. This data will be sent to their servers (as well as ad providers / Google) and linked with your identity. You have little control over this and can't remove it from their servers either.

With the Ethereum approach, you can control this data about yourself. For example, with zero-knowledge proofs you could prove to a service that "I am over 18 and an US resident with a valid phone number" without sending any actual information about yourself to that party. Twitter shouldn't need your phone number. It just needs to know that you have one.

Logging in with your Google account everywhere is convenient because it contains all kinds of facts about you. But you have no control over what's done with that data, either by Google or the service you're logging into. With "Log in wit Ethereum" you could get the same conveniences, but you still own your data and have full control over what's being done with it or who can access which parts of it.
in a FREE market, app developers would offer two options: pay through Apple with their 30% tax, or pay directly without it

In reality they will make scummest apps possible and ignore the AppStore completely. Only very big players and those whose primary target is AppStore anyway will offer two options.
No, you're right. This is the internet, and I should know better. Absolute cynicism and utter disregard for your fellow humanity is definitely the way to go. Thank you for teaching me the error of my ways - I'll try harder to be a worse person next time.
robots.txt tells the search engine which content is relevant. That's all.
You may just have a keen level of self-awareness. If you don't have any suggestions, you can just say so. As you gain experience this will likely change, and you will have more to offer.

Don't be fooled by your peers that look for superficial things to comment on. There are many people with the same amount of knowledge as you, but who are less self-aware and are adding noise the system, because they are scared of being perceived as incompetent.

Find someone who has given you meaningful feedback during code/design review, and see what kind of comments they leave on other people's work. If you don't understand one of their suggestions ask them about it.
In a semi related point, this is a problem with off shoring mamufacting. Once your supply chain and labour base forgets hours to do something, it's incredibly difficult to relearn it.

Those skills and that value add opportunity is gone.
I’d love to hear a bit about how often you actually search, and some examples you’ve found valuable.

I have ambitions to do this occasionally, and I tracked things and took notes a lot for a while, but I never found myself using it.
This is an interesting concept. Is there something like an MNIST for this, to make it more concrete?
One of the quotes being discussed is a concrete budgetary cut. The other is the opinion of a drug warrior on the losing side of the war. Oh and for some reason you included some anecdata collected by the (I would argue) compromised reporter.
It really just looks like another form of the Reagan economics of 'starve the beast' in the end.

Kill the public education. Enrich the privatized education. How ironic
>"And the syntax is much worse, you can't even declare variables in the middle of a function it has to go before the function."

I wish people would bother to check the facts before posting. It's been available for quite a while along with many more modern features.
Maybe you missed the parts in my comments where anyone who wants to move back into society just has to walk outside and get on a bus?

And by default, I mean if you take no action. If you don’t believe me, try it some time. Do literally nothing to improve or maintain your living situation and see if that does not lead to misery.

People up inhere acting like I’m locking up addicts in death camps lol, but if you read my comment you can clearly see that what I am advocating is to let people do what they want without screwing up society at large.
It's easier to tackle the problem at the source, consumers will adapt to say making single use plastics more expensive for manufacturers, but probably not a campaign asking them to use less single use plastics.
Gitlab deploys on a Friday and is down for a few hours
I'm thinking of using it with either n8n or Directus in the backend storing data in SQLite.
I'm a doctor, not a phone technologist!

But on Android, you can replace the default messaging app, and that app can have access to SMS as a fallback, so it's really easy to convince people to switch. "Hey, uh, plain messaging is annoying some of us, please install this app, we can all use it, but it will work even with people who don't have it over the regular text service."

Can't do that on iOS.
They pay tons of people to type out conversations that they can feed into it. It's just a lot of people doing a lot of work.
It's a perfectly coherent question! I'd kindly ask that you try to comply with Hacker News's guidelines about engaging in kind dialogue, and specifically the line "please don't post shallow dismissals".

Here's what I consider to be a simpler question to answer: do you think people have the right to give birth to a child whose existence would be only horrible, endless suffering before eventually succumbing to death?

This isn't just a hypothetical: people tend to agree that a parents who are at high chance of birthing a child with a terrible genetic disease probably shouldn't take that risk (or, at least, should protect against it with some preimplantation genetic testing).

But everyone suffers at least a little bit at some point in their life. If you don't think people have a right to birth children whose lives would be pure suffering, but you do think people have a right to birth children who would suffer at least a little bit in their lives, then how do you justify one but not the other? Is there some threshold amount of misery which you think is okay to inflict on someone without their consent?

There may be some other moral framework or argument which articulately justifies this, and I'm genuinely curious to see if someone has come up with an interesting answer to the question.
> You seem to feel fairly certain that humanity is "on a path"

Look at a climate graph. That's the path I'm talking about. Look into the Anthropocene Extinction - that's us. We're walking that path; or more accurately, sleepwalking on it. It's not subjective whatsoever; there's mountains of hard data on this.

Extrapolating that into teleology / philosophy / my worldview was entirely your invention and interpretation.
> That's why the police officer has more donations than the joyriding criminal.

That implies the officer has the support of the moneyed class, not the most people.

Pitting the moneyed class against the people has historically gone poorly in France. Best of luck to them.

ETA: It is entirely possible that the shooting of Nahel Merzouk was completely legal and the law says there should be no repercussions for the officer who shot him. That's rather the problem: the people, it seems, are tired of the arrangement the law presents and feel powerless to change it.

That is not a stable arrangement and historically, France doesn't alter such arrangements bloodlessly. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/07/french-rio...
>Poverty or a poor upbringing is not a badge of honour, but many people see it as such and maybe you've become accustomed to easily shutting up anybody by saying that they have no idea what it's like being poor

I don't view it as a badge of honor, but I know that its almost always privileged people that suggest locking the lower classes out of information. That pisses me off like nothing else. People are all for the poor until it comes down to actually finding solutions.

>As for getting the devices for free, the same argument could be applied to online content

Not particularly unless piracy gets involved. If we lock everything behind a paywall, going to the library or downloading information won't do jack.

>I find your arguments about "classism" a bit strange. Is it "classism" that some stuff is more expensive in the supermarket? Is it "classism" that the plumber charges his hourly fee to the poor as well as to the rich? That an iPhone costs a thousand dollars?

I am talking about information. Not physical goods. You are applying the logic of limited physical goods to online services that are virtually unlimited. Bandwidth is cheap.

As for if #2 gets implemented, I guarantee you that this will not work. Paid content will not be cheap. Never has been and never will. In your other comments you bring up that you foresee services being a mere 10$ a year. The price hikes and predatory practices that online services have had prove that at best you are naive. If #2 happens, I fully support people doing #4.

Now there are other options. Look at Coffeezilla on YouTube...doesn't run ads, but runs entirely off of donations. Other youtubers do the same thing. They set up a patreon, give benefits and incentives to do so, and for those that can't afford to support they watch for free. PBS had a similar thing going when analogue airwaves were legal for TV and still does to some extent with their streaming service. Some shows you have to pay for but the important stuff, such as newshour, are completely free for everyone to watch.

For large scale digital projects, some features could be locked behind a paywall whereas the majority of content is free. That is how Discord makes its money. The ad/paid dichotomy does not exist...there are other options that allow people to freely access content and communicate with people in ways that normally they would not be able to afford.
While CDNs are useful, you really shouldn't need them to handle HN traffic.

Someone posted what the otherside of a hug looks like[0], and it's somewhere around a unique visitor every 1-2 seconds, which really shouldn't be too much of a problem for... well anyone. The poster themselves got through it with a $7/month heroku server (albeit not without some manual intervention).

And, y'know, if sometimes a hobby project gets taken down, that's fair. You could end up getting 100 requests in a single second on a server you strung together off blog posts as a learning exercise over a weekend. But any time any professional organization gets taken down by the amount of traffic HN generates, I'm always a little embarrassed for them.

[0] https://herman.bearblog.dev/the-hacker-news-hug/
Silly me, I thought you were one of those well-meaning but misguided fools who imagined a girl needed vacuous pats on the head while not being taken seriously at all in order to encourage me to stay and add to gender diversity here, and never mind that I've been a member for 14 years and seem to probably have the most karma of any openly female member here.

My mistake. Carry on.
Many larger solar installs would have a 2nd or 3rd powerwall
Oh cool. It looks like in that thread they were discussing what the ffts would look like after n-iterations so that’s what this fork is doing.
Yes and hopefully it won't be a thing (just something that happens enough that it's not nobody - I would walk from some of these hotels south of the airport to the Caltrain station, and take Central Subway or walk to Moscone when I arrive at 4th and King). But the extension to downtown is attempting to make it a thing. They're hoping that people who take it downtown will take it to go anywhere that they consider downtown accessible. Part of the plan is an underground passage to the Embarcadero BART station. I think the planned budget is ridiculous but I think it would be used at least enough for it to be considered a thing.
The bar for US public school education is abysmally low to begin with. One would have expected Silicon Valley to be better than that, not one of the worst in the country.

Source: Someone from the Midwest who went to a public school
Because their actions are endangering others. Our rights to self determination end where we infringe upon the rights of others. Public drug abuse has deleterious externalities. So just do it in your home, or go get a free home to do it in, no questions asked.
I certainly have, and might have written a few of those myself.

But this doesn't make this approach inherently wrong or obsolete. The programmer is wrong for trying to use the tools beyond their capabilities. Where that line is drawn is subjective, as is the concept of maintainability, but if you feel that you're struggling to accomplish something, and that it's becoming a chore to maintain, the path forward is choosing a more capable tool, like a programming language.
I'm also curious why no other companies have encountered the same issues as us. Does it mean that only we need to save this traffic? However, based on the currently active libraries like React Query and SWR, it seems that nobody is interested in solving similar problems to ours.