skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nixpkgs is also critical for non-apprehensive people who nonetheless need to use MacOS and other distros on a daily basis.
One of the major dangers with interest is it compounds in bad times. Someone gets laid off for 6 months and suddenly owes more money, this is especially problematic if someone gets injured and can no longer make the same income etc.

Fees are one option. If you agree to a 2 year loan of 100$ as long as they pay you back 110$ that’s acceptable, the difference being if it takes them 3 years you still only get 110$. Obviously this runs into problems with inflation and people skipping payments etc, but it’s one socially “fair” way to handle loans between friends and family.
As with anything, "it depends." I think Nix and NixOS is great for personal and hobby stuff, but I cannot in good faith recommend it for anything professional. I personally run my daily driver on NixOS and haven't had any desire to change, but I'd prefer to never have to write an actual line of Nix code again.
Maybe it’s because the app was just an idea 7 months ago. Maybe they’re working on scaling their user base with an MVP while slowly adding new features? Also it was explicitly stated by Zuck and Mosseri that this is an instagram product and is being worked on by the instagram team. It’s not something that every Meta employee and their best friend have a hand in.
And I assume there is nothing preventing this student-loan backed tuition money from funding university endowments.
I had thought that I had private loans back in the day. Been a long time since I paid all of mine off, though, so I can't remember who they were through. (And, I fully grant that, even if I was private loans, 8% is still a non-zero number...)
> Who cares what they want? I don't.

And what makes your opinion and rights more important than theirs?

> Culture should belong to us, not them.

Doesn't culture belong to everyone, even those creating it? There is no "them", it's only "us."

All you'll do with your approach is make creators less like to ever create unique works.
I'm using alt+d what I like about that shortcut is that's on the left side and the keys are close to each other.
There are some loans the government guarantees and other loans that the government merely makes immune to bankruptcy. Obviously, they have different risk profiles.
I'd really like to know the ratio of systems that are running RHEL vs the clones. 10:1? 100:1? 1000:1?

The fear would be that stomping out 90 or 99 (or 99.9%) of your actual user base (even if they are non-paying) would you over.
Strong disagree. If I choose not to share something today, I do deserve, at a minimum:

1. the right to commercially share it later

2. the right to prevent others from commercially sharing it without my permission

3. the right to share my creations with a limited group of people, commercially or non-commercially

Say for instance, you share a creative work with someone in confidence. They should not have the right to freely copy and publish your work without your permission.

It is very common for people to create works which are private and or shared with small groups of people, and it is important for our laws to protect people's rights to keep those works private or semi-private.

Or to put it another way, a 'leak' of a private work shouldn't be a free pass for the rest of the world to share and/or monetize that breach of privacy.
The easiest way is to right-click on a search field and select "Add a Keyword for this Search"
Firefox without a command character searches everywhere; you use a command character to restrict your search to a specific category (history, bookmarks, open tabs etc).

Assumably Chromes does the same (ie without some prefix searches everywhere, with some prefix —or keypress— searches in a specific category). If Chrome doesn't do that, then Firefox's is the much better UX, otherwise they're equivalent.
The countries that have "free" university education also steer young people into career paths starting in middle school. If you're not the sort of person who will succeed at university, you get directed into vocational or trade school or apprenticeships, etc.
Totally agree. I bookmarked this guide that hit the top of HN a few weeks back, a good primer on how to get started manually programming paths, which unlocks a lot of cool dynamic SVG and animation opportunities: https://www.nan.fyi/svg-paths.
You mean, back up my claim by providing you with a link that no longer exists given a government that necessarily creates a shifting sands of information for its citizens and curates its external information? How about a screen shot? That won't work either, huh? Guess we know why they change it now.

If I could post my screenshots to here I would, but I can't.
just went through a massive layoff and reams of flags in LD no one understands, extra fun! best part LD is so expensive we have to share hot seats
Debt is being used for new investment? That can’t be right - it’s gotta be some form of credit, right? Maybe I’m mistaken.
Are you kidding me? Half the faculty at any college, no matter the price, are adjuncts, who earn $2500 or so PER CLASS PER SEMESTER, while the 30 students in that class are charged $2500 EACH for that class. It's as close as you can get to free labor for knowledge work, basically the original Gig economy; Uber for teaching.
its called $100 2 year old laptop with cracked screen
Tiny scrollbars drive me nuts. But they're not nearly as annoying as almost nonexistent window frames!
It assumes management gives a rat's ass about it.

In the original comment:

> Especially if their PM leaned on engineers to make the experiment "quick n dirty" and therefore hard to clean up.

The PM then just needs to say that they don't have the time to cleanup because they have shit to do, and there's folks out there who pretty much live for this, and are usually well seen by management because they're management's executioner: no matter how shit the idea and execution, they'll get it rammed in.
> People can choose not to make the product of their work available.

And these people have chosen to make it available. If you want to create something and keep it all to yourself, fine, do that, nobody will force you to release it to the public. But once you have released it to the public, you shouldn't be able to take it back.
There's a handy search box on the page. A query for "timeout" there leads to many calls for help, but few replies. This for instance: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1350502
One Way Tumor Cells Fight Back
A mechanism which made it through evolution by providing a survival benefit, but which is to also provide tumor cells with a survival advantage...
I didn’t say it’s a constitutional issue. It’s a political non-starter.
Canada Just Became the Latest Country to Launch a Digital Nomad Visa
> Proper solution is government to stop guaranteeing the loans and to allow people to put them in bankruptcy.

Proper thing is for the government to stop issuing the loans, and instead do need-based grants plus establish cost and quality controls for institutions that wish to be grant eligible, while prioritizing federal institutional funding other than direct student aid for institutions that, whether througj grant eligibility or their own pricing and in-house aid programs, or both, meet set financial accessibility standards.
AWS has tools to set spending thresholds and to alert when you go over. Set those up first thing. Regularly (daily) check your usage in the dashboard and stop things before they get out of hand.

You will eventually accidentally spend more than you want to. This is a feature. Just try to catch it early and course correct before annoying becomes disaster.
Yeah but I'm not so comfortable with a technocracy where universities become advanced trade schools, purely to increase your chances of getting a job. As the late Kaczynski said, students are grudgingly pursuing these subjects because it's the only way to survive in a country without real social services.

There needs to be some formal patronage of the arts, but I have no idea how to pursue that.
Same time frame for me. Adjusted for inflation, I paid $56,000. That same college is now charging almost $130k for the same degree.
Take home after taxes is only 77% at $15/hr or $1830/month if working 40 hours/week https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-york-paycheck-calculator#eI...

As of July 2023, the average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in SUNY College Purchase, NY is $2,696. This is a 12% increase compared to the previous year.
https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/near-suny-college-purch...
The advantage of the larger school in my experience, is that its like going to a dozen small schools at once. Plenty of people I know where able to transfer from one good program to another in a completely opposite field once they learned what they actually liked (usually quite different than what you imagined as a highscooler especially if your parents have no concept of the field), because the school was large enough to offer so many good options and departments with a lot of interesting faculty. The class sizes are the same between big and small schools anyhow for the most part, but you also have an easier time scheduling classes (and taking certain ones “out of season” if need be) at the larger school. It scales horizontally rather than vertically as your student body increases, big schools have the pockets to hire more faculty and support more taships than smaller schools.
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This is great, love it!

Crawling sites to index the FAQ's and knowledge bases, into the vector search, isn't as intimidating as it sounds, at least on linux systems. Sometimes a thin wrapper function over plain old wget will get you 99% of the way

wget -rnH -t 1 --waitretry=0 'https://{{domain}}' -P '{{domain}}'
tinfoil hat time: what if that was the point all along? twitter was a vital space for organizing protests - think arab spring, occupy wall street.

one of the richest guys in the world (who's also very anti-union, btw!) buys it up in a time where inequality is getting worse and worse and social fabrics are starting to tear and makes it unusable.

no more space for organizing. one fewer threat to capital.
Where’s the money going? I’m not seeing evidence for 5x better research outcomes.
> They continue to push so much coombait on IG.

Personal experience, is that this is extremely user dependent (it is a fair argument that 0 is the correct number of these accounts to ever see).

Much like TikTok [1], Instagram zones in on your preferences, and from my experience, does so with the same mechanism - time spent watching any piece of content.

The best demonstrator for this was a meme I can't find anymore, where some teens held a race to see who saw "coombait" first. Some conked within 10 seconds, some took a full minute (of relentless scrolling, that is) to find it.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/video/series/inside-tiktoks-highly-secre...
Wait, how should I use this info if I’m in my mid 20s and wanted to have LASIK? Well, I suppose I should discuss it with my optician.
Yes, you are absolutely right, but that doesn't change the fact that many extensions are written as if innocuous function calls like PyList_SetItem won't context switch. It mostly works fine since custom destructors releasing the GIL are extremely rare.
If something requires effort from each DE / compositor to implement, it's not "implemented in Wayland", but rather Wayland does not preclude it from being implemented.
> to protect their users from Meta inhaling user data, and as a source of spam, harassment etc. If Threads is not defederated upfront, it would be blocked soon after.

Mastodon doesn't protect user data in any meaningful way. That data is all available to meta if they want it.
Funny because all the other countries that use literal public funds to pay for all of college do not have this problem.
Its a clickbait article from the "better than raspberry pi" variety
Oh, good to know. I was about to pack a spike into an upcoming sprint.
I've got a few friends that work at LaunchDarkly, and from what I can tell, they've got a very good handle on the challenge. Better than the equivalent vendors in my business, anyway. I've had some great talks with the LD people, even though, strictly speaking, I don't get my paychecks from programming, per se.

What brought me into the talks was that the feature flag problem is a similar scope to the central one faced by CCSs (component content systems). By definition, CCS requires the content equivalent of feature flags, implemented in a variety of ways, depending on . . lots of things. That problem is this: both transclusion and conditionals necessarily couples the content to the business or product architecture. Ergo, when the product architecture goes bananas, so does your content system, and you find yourself with documents that aren't meaningful in a linguistic sense, or which just break the processor. This occurs in the content context because the natural language of a unified document is replaced in a CCS with the product or business architecture; how is a document chunked, what business needs do the conditions satisfy, at what support level are document deliverables composed. In a code context, the constructed syntax of the programming language is getting chopped by the conditionals driven from the business side; there's even more variance here regarding how code interacts with business.

So not the same problem, but the same class of problem: regular rules that have to integrate with non-regular, non-linguistic business rules.

I have a tiny chip on my shoulder regarding CCS systems, because I have seen so many years flushed down the "re-use craze" by businesses that had zero business trying to re-use anything. Feature flags are somewhat in the same bucket - a lot of things that a business wants to use flags for should really, really, really be built into the code or abstracted away - but of course a programming language has far richer ways to deal with bad abstractions than a markup language does. Which of course can be a double edged sword.
The secret sauce is orgmode in emacs.

My personal notes are a .org file that is backed up on a private GitHub repo.

I have sprawled about 5k lines at this point since around 2020.

Some things get a org-bullet (*) and a TODO.

Then I just do org-agenda and it pulls up a nice view of all my TODO items for pruning and prioritising.

Having an automatic agenda and the fact the bullets are tab-collapsible and can be used as an outliner is the only way my notes are not out of control.

My other writing is in apple notes (short lived) or exists in tickets. I’ve tried various things like zettlekasten and obsidian but nothing sticks for me.

My other daily task setting and personal planning is a bullet journal with a future log and monthly logs. Bullet journaling is how to get it all out and process and plan personal things. Actual Knowledge is in the org-mode.

For email I follow getting things done and have an inbox an @action and a @waiting folder. I keep inbox empty and the others get pruned every day.
I think it could ripple, somehow. People just giving up and stop paying, suicide, homelessness, crime, tax evasion etc.
The first bullet says:
“$23,839 is the average annual tuition among the nation’s private K-12 schools.”
First $100: selling my band's music and merch on Bandcamp (https://aversionsband.bandcamp.com)

First (hopefully not last) $1000: same same!
one day people will say fediverse versus mastodon. like i get it but these crowds are usually way more pedantic about protocols
Is it pronounced like Lima the bean (LEYE MA) or Lima the city in Peru (LEE MA)?
That's not a claim Silverman has to make. "You copied my book without license to do so" is sufficient.
Presumably they're also priced with that taken into account, so you're not exactly going to be making bank.
But if you're asking "what can you do with the equipment you have" you might not be able to do the big six. What if you only have bodyweight and dumbbells?
The EU is business friendly, they just happen to have an "ally" who engage with anti-competitive practices and funds massive amount of lobbying
The first bullet says: “$23,839 is the average annual tuition among the nation’s private K-12 schools.”

Edit: it looks like there is an error on this page. The bar chart the numbers are much higher. Anecdotally, private high school is always more expensive than private elementary. That is what the bar chart shows but not the bullets.
A no-brainer.

RISC-V is inevitable.
The problem with Java's everything-must-be-a-class OO fundamentalism is that a computer is actually has data AND executable code. Java forces everything into a noun (class/data), but some things are actually verbs. You can these because they have awkward names, like Runnable.

See Steve Yegge's rant: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
Ask HN: Is it feasible, in 2023, to run your own email service for personal use?
I tried it for a little while back in 2010 or so, and it was a big pain in the side. Lots of emails would bounce, and blocklists were a big pain point especially because cheap commercial hosts tended to have their subnets range-banned.

The setup was highly manual and involved a lot of moving parts (postfix, courier, mariadb, roundcube, amavis, etc)

It wasn't impossible, mind you, but it occupied too much of my time, and it wasn't nearly as reliable as I needed it to be. The self-hosting community is a lot bigger now than it was back then, and there are a lot of very good off-the-shelf products for a variety of purposes, and I'm wondering if email is among them.
The post mentions Homebrew, but seems to also be available under MacPorts:

* https://ports.macports.org/port/lima/
Yes, before I ran my own mailserver, I strongly preferred POP3 for this reason -- it let me get my email off of a server that I had no control over and onto a machine that I do have control over.

But after I started running my own server, I prefer IMAP so that all of my email is in one place regardless of what machine I'm using. And it still lives on a machine that I have control over.
Sure, but at this point why pretend we're discussing a copyright reform? You're effectively asking for abolition.
I've done side jobs for previous employers, but was never ambitious enough to develop a side gig.

All the hustle porn on HN amost makes me ashamed to have only one job right now /s
Before federal loans were all direct (Ford loans), there were federal loans issued through third-party lenders (Stafford loans) that otherwise worked the same way with the same kinds of loans (subsidized, unsubsidized, PLUS; for a while, both Stafford and Ford were offered at the same time, with identical terms.) These are collectively “federal” loans (and there are still balances on loans originated as Stafford loans) distinct from “private” loans.
Another problem with student loans is that they are frequently issued for way more than bare minimum required to pay tuition and study materials. This extra amount just exacerbates the problem and gives universities room to get to that money via tuition increases. Students may legitimately use that extra cash for living expenses, but most of the time it is just fun money expense.
According to other comments, apparently there was a banner, but it was tiny and green instead. Pure genious.
I generally watch things on 720p, and it's been crashing frequently. Setting the resolution to 1080 usually solves the problem, but transfers the problem to my wonky internet connection.
In your post, you said "private high school."
Harvard admits 2,000 undergraduates per year, but it has almost 3x as many graduate students as undergraduates. As far as private universities go, Harvard is a really big school.
Re: Hyrum's law
This is why user facing code should have (at least) two classes of tests:
1) is it doing what the developer intended it to do
2) is it doing the same thing it did on the last release version with typical user requests?

That sounds the same, but it is not.

The first class is a set of simpler "happy paths" of intended specific behaviors.

The second class is like wargaming. A good way to do this is to replay user requests against your API and see that they return the same results release to release. You may also uncover interesting unintended behavior / conversations to have with users this way.
What poor habit and what argument?
Notably, a famous article discussing dishonesty was found to contain fabrications, they wrote

Isn’t that self-fulfilling and as deconstructional as can be.
Meta has no incentive to add Mastodon/ActivityPub integration ever.

Things like mastodon represent a Jailbreaking of the captive user. If the goal is to monetize the consumer as the product, you could do no worse than to free that consumer from the cattle yard and offer them the ability to graze at their discretion alone.
I suspect this isn't free software anymore.
>acquiring the material illegally is the thrust of the issue

'Acquiring' is more difficult to pursue legally. It's easier to go after distribution. In this case, Meta or OpenAI did not distribute anything because they are not chumps. They can go after whoever posted the dataset containing books. Not sure if that is eleuther or just some random person on the internet. In either case, the strategy of going after the rich companies won't work.
Baseless speculation is common in HN so it doesn’t surprise me.

Apple creates e2e encryption on a new product and HN screams that we still can’t trust them and we need to live in a fairday cage with zero human contact to truly not be tracked.
Or in this instance when Meta does a reasonable thing and the same people scream that they’re still evil and we can’t trust them and we’re gullible for thinking it’s a good product.

Some people are so anti establishment that they can’t acknowledge a good thing when they see it, I’m afraid.
Using redundant systems helps detect (dual redunant) and even correct (triple modular redundant) physical faults in the system, where one system will provide a different answer than the other(s). System redundancy does not detect/correct for design flaws, which are a common mode failure. Catching design flaws is currently done by testing (compared to known correct answers) and peer review (by domain experts). Someday, mathematical proofs might be used (known as "formal methods"), but currently these are only possible to use on very small software projects, such as the seL4 project that formally proved correctness for around 10K lines of code.
What I love most about the lawn mower analogy (which I apply to any company) is that sometimes it can also be useful.
So they are saying it is related to a success fee of about 72m, plus fees for services rendered, totaling 18m. Musk accuses them of unjust enrichment, but it sounds like a pretty clear cut case of the old management doing what was right for the shareholders.

Musk tried to back out of the deal and even paying your law firm a bonus for winning the case, it was a wise move by the shareholders, board and employees. By spending the money, they ensured Musk complied with his contractual obligations when it was very clear he wouldn't have closed the deal otherwise. By taking him to court vs renegotiating, they likely kept billions of dollars of value for twitters shareholders.
People are allowed to be selective about how they make things available, and they're allowed to stop putting the effort in to keep them available without forfeiting their rights. Again: we aren't entitled to access this stuff, except by contract, which spells out our remedies when they exist.
Ah, I suppose it can get wordy in Java. I'm more used to C# where you can alias the class name if need be.
Even if you can't discharge the loan in bankruptcy, if someone can't pay, you as the lender have a problem. The balance in your favour might keep increasing with the borrower totally screwed, but that doesn't really help you if nothing is being paid.

Have to wonder how this interacts with the US healthcare system. As people get older they are more likely to have health problems that prevent them from working and cost a bunch of money.