skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is a complex topic and one that disproportionately impacts some demographics. It is related to the phenomenon of unpaid internships where getting your foot in the door requires you to be able to work for free for a substantial period of time. This has been criticized as a form of gatekeeping because young adults from already prosperous families can comfortably do this and people from the lower classes cannot.

Upper class society seems to still honor those implicit social contracts, but only if you are already part of the in crowd and your disfavor could come back to bite them.

If you are poor, my firsthand experience suggests most people are all too happy to take advantage of you and then not let you walk away. That worked for them, they want more and at the same price: free.

Money is a wonderful thing but there is no excusing a common phenomenon of well-heeled individuals knowingly preying upon lower classes for what often amounts to free therapy and other free services with zero plans to in any way return the favor.
Is this hyper-competitive or anti-competetive?

The objective of business is to win, but if a business is too dominant, then they have the ability to extort customers.

I don't see how customer extortion is born out of this. It's fair and in the spirit of a healthy ecosystem.
What examples of ad based rising companies do you see ?

My first thought was Google, and it's started to plateau in the recent years:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOGL/alphabet/rev....

Meta also took a dive, and while it was from a sharp turn of the business focus, I'd argue it comes from an attempt to avoid staying on a stagnating market.
You could be correct, I have but a very vague recollection of Pascal/Modula2... :-)

Now I still miss my favorite language, FP...
The inside shot of the phone wasn't even her -- the phone probably wasn't even powered on when she was handling it.

She just has better things to do than care about something this stupid.
I'm a professional developer and all that, I recently accidentally formatted my phone (and screamed to my stupidity). In twrp there is a "wipe" section that's used to well, wipe the phone, or optionally wipe the cache. I went in sure it was to wipe the cache, it clearly stated it would erase stuff, i still did.

Sometimes the brain just farts.
Based on my experience, so not accurate as companies tend to mix skills.

Data Analyst: Mostly Excel/Any BI tool + SQL + Python (pandas, numpy)

BI Developer: Mostly Any BI tool + SQL + Python (airflow, pyspark)

Data Engineer: SQL + Python (airflow, pyspark) + Possible Scala (for spark) + Possible ops

Big Data Developer: Python (pyspark) + JVM language (spark/flink/etc.) + Possible ops

$$$ usually increases top->bottom

For Machine Learning I think it's a completely different pic.
Micro-transactions will need to be $0.0001 or $0.00001, for it to ever gain acceptance.
Maybe, but the fact of the matter is that Apple does not licence iOS, and Apple also only seems to aim its devices at consumers and specifically "creator" professionals.

Google is also primarily a software company. Even when they made the Pixel, I'm fairly sure it exists more so that there's a baseline other Android manufacturers need to keep up with (to keep Android competitive) rather than to make a profit in its own right.

I work in warehousing software and write software for scanners, 100% of which run Android. There is no Apple scanner and I doubt there ever will be.
This site is so disappointing for the Columbus, OH area - literally the only entries I see are Wal-Mart parking lots.
I also recommend FreeTube, which sounds like a porn site but actually it's another open source desktop YouTube player: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
Demystifying the Real Threat of AI: Automatic Hacking Tools
This is hilarious , great job!!!
I know one of the goals for Lightning Network was to cut transaction fees. Did that actually work out - is it realistic to pay someone $0.05 USD-equivalent in Bitcoin using Lightning? Or do I need to use an exchange/intermediary still?
> I definitely do not remember 800x600 as spacious and comfy.

It is all relative. Someone who grew up in a tiny apartment may consider an average-sized house spacious, someone who grew up in a mansion may consider it cramped.

When all I had was 640x480, it didn't feel cramped, because it was all I knew. And then 800x600 came along, and "wow this is huge". And now I start Windows 3.1 in a VM, and "I don't remember it being this small?"

When I was a little kid, I thought our house and backyard were enormous. Then my parents sold that house and we moved to another city, and I haven't been inside it for over 30 years now. I bet if I went back tomorrow, it would look a lot smaller than I remember it being
Don't even get me started on the car crash that is the Microsoft Word ribbon
https://archive.is/vFPjX
>That looks perfectly usable to me.

It really isn't, though.

Word 97 has a single row for each toolbar. It is very easy hand-eye coordination (anyone remember that term?) because the toolbars are very orderly and organized. It just takes practice, which most of us did.

Word 365 and its Ribbon bar has 1 row splitting to 3 rows combining to 2 rows splitting again to 3 rows and then combining back again to 1 row. And some icons have text, most don't.

Also, the menu bar doesn't fit and runs off the window/screen despite having less than Word 97's menu bar.

WHY?!

That is utterly hellish disorder and requires the eyes to scramble all over instead of moving along one straight line.
> But with the advent of Minisforum, Beelink and all the other random options on AliExpress I would gather it's been getting harder and harder to command a premium price because it says Intel on the box.

It was my impression the NUC sold by Intel was always meant to be a proof of concept for the NUC-class device to inspire third parties to make them. Intel getting out of the market now that it's proven sort of makes sense.
Canonical has it's own religion though, so you're trading one problem for another.
Argh as a Mac user I was thinking about getting a NUC for gaming as the Iris chipsets were getting more powerful.

Can you guys recommend something NUC- sized that runs Windows and could handle, let’s say, GTA V?
No, a fundamental property of theft is that it is the taking of that which does not belong to you - which clearly includes piracy.
That's a completely nonsensical argument. OpenAI and Anthropic are THE duopolists in this market, period. Nothing else comes close on most metrics.

Saying "it's simply a design choice" is like saying that wearing wooden clogs around the city is a "design choice" because the only other two companies that know how to work with more advanced materials refuse to sell you shoes because of a moral reasons.
Does bubblewrap have network isolation? I have multiple DUT which require their own ip address. I use libvirt-sandbox at the moment but its clunky.
With 10 yrs of experience maybe you can call some contact and remove the first round coding exam?
I think the world will just go faster. Faster innovation, faster turnaround. Doing more faster. Which will be great because this world is now running from one urgent crisis into another. We need to be able to react quicker.

I've been working on some business cases for AI and one thing I'm sure of: it's going to cost a lot and it's not going to save us much money directly. It's more of a total game changer.

It's for sure going to change the company. Make us more effective, doing much more with the same resources. It's up to the leadership to translate this to more turnover or get left behind. Because some of our competitors sure will make the most of it.

Of course it's an easy step to use that higher productivity to simply cut personnel. But I think that's not really making the most of this. It's a short sighed bet. It lacks vision and basically aims at keeping the the same, giving up innovating with the rest of the world for some cost savings. The company will do well for a few years financially but then get overtaken quickly by the ones that do have the vision to go all in.
"Pretty wild" - standard emotional manipulation. Not appropriate on HN.
This is a heavily optimized system library - you don’t use mutexes here. Rust wouldn’t help here, if mutexes would be fine, they would have been used. Especially that this is the result of C++ and Java code simultaneously.

Hell, it’s probably one area where rust’s benefits are a “hard sell” — you would have to constantly be in unsafe rust manipulating pointers manually as the compiler can’t reason statically about what a layer built on top does without a huge runtime cost (huge, as in you really don’t want to lock/unlock, or even refcount in these hot paths).
20 years ago? Advertising has corrupted every public medium since the dawn of print media, arguably even before that.

In the 19th century, it was quackery and false advertising in newspapers, making snake oil salesmen rich.

In the first half of the 20th century, advertising started using propaganda tactics to psychologically manipulate consumers, as pioneered by Edward Bernays[1], making tobacco companies rich.

Radio and television amplified their reach and power, fueling modern consumerism. People were hooked on tobacco, corn products, sugar, fast food, and a million other mass produced products. Whether the products were harmful to society was irrelevant. The spice must flow.

The internet was another major frontier, where ads could precisely target specific consumer profiles. Adtech was born to give this power to advertisers by facilitating data collection and creating the multi-billion dollar dark data broker market.

Adtech was then (ab?)used by local and foreign agents to spread propaganda, disinformation, and conduct psyops at an unprecedented scale, disrupting democratic processes, toppling governments, causing social unrest, and boosting intolerance, xenophobia and racism on a global scale to levels unseen since WWII.

And we haven't seen the worst of it yet. Once everyone has their own personal AI that is trained on the most intimate details of each personality, ads will become even more personal and manipulative. Advertisers are salivating at this opportunity, and adtech is surely experimenting with this right now.

So, no, I refuse to participate in this perverse system, and subject myself to being psychologically manipulated. Companies and creators who depend on advertising don't deserve my business, attention or respect.

[1] This man was evil beyond words. See Adam Curtis' The Century of the Self.
"Green energy cheaper why not using it" => it's not cheaper under a broad enough definition of cheap.

Junk bonds have high yields, why don't why all buy them?
Most advertising is wasted money anyway. Companies keep paying for advertising because they believe it works and out of tradition.

If Coke stopped advertising (and I think they, or Pepsi did), they would have no significant reduction in sales.

Ads should be for new interesting products, not things people have already made their decisions on.

This fake advertising economy is one of the ways the first world keeps money cycling internally, stopping it from being distributed globally.
This is brilliant. Often, people will come up with clever-sounding ideas for how to "fix" some part of the internet. "Just let people do X and it'll all work out!" The movie generated by this project is a perfect illustration of what happens: you'll get some excellent results from a small subset, the bulk of people will contribute in some small but productive way, and you'll get a small-to-moderate sized group whose members metaphorically relieve themselves all over your project.

It would be cool to do some followup projects. "Ok, that was try 1, now we'll add some basic moderation." It would be great to see visually how well that would work. "Ok, how about meta-moderation?" For a fairly niche project, my guess is that that would be enough to get to a presentable product without any fullscreen "Poop!"s. Then you do "ok, that was cool but the quality was kind of poor, let's incentivize with small amounts of actual cash."

It would be fascinating. Call it "How the Web Melts, Illustrated".
https://archive.is/wYj4S
I don’t think US competition law should be based on your personal taste for video games!
Word 97 has the most important feature, a certain helpful paper clip.
I believe iCloud can be configured to be E2E, but it is not E2E by default.
For me, it's asking about std::launder.
Deficit spending doesn't make matter out of thin air. The things that are bought on credit are real, tangible things that exist.
How about this: make a bloody separate safe space for kids. This should go for AI, this should go for web search (maybe), this should go for YouTube, etc. Don't force adults to the lowest common denominator of safe contents, don't make it likely that children will see something they should not.
Do you know which one(s) are accepted by cloud vendors?
I’m going to tell you to go read some Marx and HN is going to downvote me into oblivion. tldr: it’s not software per se, it’s capitalism. No, not every company burns out its employees, but the ones willing to do so are more profitable than those that don’t creating an overall race to the bottom. All quite predictable, as indeed Marx did.
She's not proud of anything, she literally just doesn't care because to her this program has absolutely no relevance to her life beyond a brief cameo in a music video a few decades ago. It's like saying you don't know what a fuel pump is and you really don't care.
to get to sustained ~1kwh with not optimal wind conditions you need 2kw or 4kw or maybe even 6kw models. those start to have 10ft rotors and 30ft towers. i live literally on the edge of the city (my fence is city limit, after this nature preserve) and to put something like this in backyard... will be strange.

additional problem is that that there is starting speed. the bigger the system, the higher starting speed .

i have weather station at backyard, so i have wind speed data.

so it just doesn't work out in different ways.

i'll be glad if somebody will explain to me that i am wrong and i missed something
IBM mulls using its own AI chip in new cloud service to lower costs
Nah, no contacts in this company, or the ones I applied to.

I'm not exactly the most successful socially saavy engineer with a bunch of industry connections. I'm more just a lone wolf programmer. I like to think I'm really good, but guess not?
The Rhovas programming language is now 5 years old
I'm not sure web3 is going to be adopted more than it already has, so I wonder about the longevity of projects like this.
I don't think it necessarily is. If they sell software to Samsung or others and those people do the heavy lifting to get the hardware viable, which I think it s a long way away, probably about a decade plus or minus 5, then Google can always swoop in later and do a Pixel like they did with Chromebooks and smartphones. Google seems to not want to be in the hardware R&D for this stuff and that's fine. Let Sony make sensors and LG make screens and Qualcomm make APUs and all that. Once things settle, Google can pick and chose where to later dive in.
We have to remember we were also using CRT monitors, which don't have "pixels" per se like the LCD monitors of today do.

800x600 on a CRT back then really did feel as big as 1920x1080 today.
I’ve got two AMD based Beelink boxen. They’re fantastic and at the right price. I hope Intel exiting this market doesn’t mean others will.
So one of the main features of a Mary/Marty Sue is that everyone seems to really like them and be invested in them immediately. Rey has that (Finn latches on to her quickly, Han starts treating her as a surrogate child very quickly, Leia hugs her instead of Chewie, even the antagonist Kylo seems to have an interest in her, etc.) but Luke doesn't have that.

Leia seems to think he's a bit useless at times during the escape, Han thinks he's a backwater rube, but these characters grow close over the course of the story.

I admit that a lot of people do leave off the "is treated as super important and great by everyone immediately" bit when they define a Sue a lot, but I think it is a significant part of the definition and I also think it is a big part of what people don't like even if they often fail to articulate it. There's a "look at how cool and perfect our character is!" feeling you get when sequels introduce new characters into an existing setting and all the old characters fawn over them immediately that just isn't fun to watch.

Lastly characterizing Luke as "immediately using the Force" is bullshit I am sick of seeing. Firstly, we do see him practicing and failing at it on the trip to the Death Star, secondly he only uses it in incredibly vague terms to blow up the Death Star in a way that is way closer to "having faith" than "using a super power" in the context of the story. Luke sees Obi-Wan do a mind trick in the first half of New Hope and we don't see Luke even attempt it until Return of the Jedi. The first time we see Luke use a force ability outside of the Death Star run, which again in terms of how it is presented isn't really the same as other times the force is used, is to move his light sabre on Hoth. This is months after New Hope and he still really struggles to do it. But even if I cede the blowing up of the Death Star as Luke using the force instead of trusting in the force, we still see him actually practice trying to still his mind and use it before it happens, which isn't something we get for Rey.
Could be, but with 4 in a row? I'm inclined to think something is wrong with my code, that's why I put an example up.

People are biased, and I'm biased as well, so I hope other people can see past it and see what's wrong with my code.
You joke, but this is exactly what I was hoping Brave was doing:

- become the gateway for advertisement money

- make it opt-in and share the revenue with users that see the ads.

- make it easy for the users to redistribute this earned money with the content creators they like.

Yeah, you are going to tell me that this could be done without crypto, and I will respond that micropayments are still not solved.

I will accept a criticism about Brave sticking with the token, though - they could've gone with a stabletoken and their business model would seem a lot more legit.
Disk I/O was slow. But GUI's reacted on miliseconds.
If weddings were monopolized by General Vowes then it would have been a duty of FTC to look into it.
I'm not sure your last claim is true, or at least there's no citations.

I never used Word until recently, or any wysiwyg Word processor really.

The ribbon is just confusing. It so happens many of the functions I use are not surfaced, so I have to remember which tiny expando angle to click and that a function I use often is demoted in a ribbon to a smaller icon.

It is pain. Some functions are more visible and surfaced at the expense of added friction in the others. Which functions are surfaced is guess work and statistics. Outliers suffer.

The old menu styles made each function roughly equal in their level.

I could customise the ribbon, but then when I Google how to do something, my menus don't match the examples!

Madness
How has that worked out with porn?
The following is personal opinion based on publicly available figures, IDK how accurate they are.

Skyrim has supposedly sold around 60 million copies over the span of 12 years. Let's be generous and say those sold at an average of $60 each (probably less in practice due to sales, etc.)

That's $3.6b USD in raw revenue. Pretty sick!

On the other hand, as of 2022 (Skyrim numbers are 2023), Call of Duty as a franchise had generated over $31b USD in raw revenue. 10x that of Skyrim, Bethesda's biggest title.

So in terms of scale, I don't see how making Starfield exclusive can possibly be on the same level as the idea of making the whole CoD franchise exclusive. Certainly it would be impactful but I can understand treating them differently.
If MS doesn't care about winning the console wars why don't they just stop making Xboxes entirely?

Microsoft's subscription push can't work without winning the console wars since Sony isn't about to let them put GamePass on PS since that kills Sony's revenue model. (That would itself be a very interesting antitrust case.)

So they still want to win the console wars, they just want to monetize that victory differently. But pulling things like Starfield - and eventually COD - off of other platforms is 10000% still aligned with "making as much money as possible."
This seems kinda fishy to me, and I can't quite put my finger on why. For a project that has a readme dedicated mostly to showing how popular they are and how many GitHub stars they have, it barely describes what it even does beyond the vague notion of hosting "memos" locally. The project is only a year old, but it has 160 submitted issues and over 15k stars?

I'll pass for now. I get the feeling this is a fairly competent web-based project but with the intent of gaming GitHub in order to bolster someone's resume. That's just how it looks to me. If the creator(s) is reading this, please consider adding real documentation so the legitimacy of your software is obvious.
I think Microsoft’s reason for why they feel they need this is exactly the reason why this is bad.

Shouldn’t Microsoft build a compelling cloud gaming service that both customers want to pay for, and publishers want to publish on? Microsoft should build good gaming hardware and services, and people buy them based on the merits of those products rather than acquiring companies just to prop up their efforts and otherwise restrict consumers.
FYI you have 2 months to migrate your account before they delete it. You will have to repurchase the game on a new account if you ever want to play it again if you don't migrate it by September 19th.
Put the credits on a blockchain. Allow hosts to accumulate and sell them. When you're in the VC meeting for this keep using the phrase "blockchain meets the road". Once the VCs run out of money to give you, make sure you give your company a big genesis block and buy some tokens with your personal money. PUMP! Profit. Selling the company before the house of cards comes down is a bonus if you can time it right.
Huh? This is exactly where Rust would help. In Rust the caller of the constructor would either have to add mutex if they needed concurrency, or just use the constructor without mutex overhead if they did not.
ah I switched to yt-dlp, but forgot why
I spent 10 days in death valley offroading. You aren't signing up for that if you stay on trails, even ones that are marked for 4x4s. We did 700 miles INSIDE death valley, yet all on real dirt trails. Would I leave an official trail in death valley? No. Is it perfectly safe as long as it's not 110+, even if you have a mechanical failure? Yes.
Not hearing anything has little if anything to do with you. Sadly, most companies can't be bothered to follow up in any way. Consider it a signal as to how much a organization values communication and culture, etc.

I understand. It's disheartening. But it's not you, it's them.
Sadly it is still a thing and only gets worse with each iteration.

Why is insert cross reference smaller than inserting a bookmark or hyperlink?

Who knows!
This is so true. I love going on an internet journey and ending up on some present-day Japanese website that looks like it was created in 1997. The modern UI/UX cancer hasn't metastasized over there yet.
Also they are comparing draft vs. print layout. Computer display didn't used to have enough pixels to approximate paper, but when they did programs switched to print layout because people liked what-you-see-is-what-you-get. You can still switch back to draft mode where paper margin is collapsed and the content fills up most of the space.

This is what a more fair comparison looks like. https://i.imgur.com/wAqSvrV.png