skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So shouldn't we look at the boards of things like the Wikimedia Foundation or the Internet Archive instead of bay area CEOs for comparison?

Sure, let's do that. Here's the highest paid employee of all three in 2021 (as that's the last year where there's data on all three):

Internet Archive: $158,777 (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943...)

Wikimedia Foundation: $406,339 (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...)

Mozilla Foundation: $337,714 (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...)

I wouldn't classify any of those salaries as exorbitantly large. Hell, I'm fairly certain at least some people shitting on them here earn more than that working at a for-profit.
What is the negative?
Use https://hnrss.github.io/ and filter via your RSS reader's mechanisms?
Of course, real billionaires probably have staff members doing that work for them.
"OS/2, runs Windows better than Windows"
If you still have that A4000 it's worth real money now to the retro crowd.
It's a waste to lose all of the software that was used to connect to usenet. Today there's a small trend to write adapters of popular boards (reddit, lobsters) to NNTP protocol, so that this old software can be re-used (so that it's possible to browse reddit through an NNTP reader).
Sorry, I did in fact mean extension pack. The FOSS one have not always been available/complete hence in past a lot of companies had no choice other than using the Oracle guest addition extension pack. Which resulted in situations like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1ttzp/oracle_is_...
Android has a similar, if less advanced, feature called "Sound Amplifier", which can be used with any headphones.

https://mcmw.abilitynet.org.uk/using-your-device-hearing-aid...

Its a bit clunky, but I think the reach is much higher as even people without access to healthcare may have an android phone and a pair of headphones.
In limited topics I took part on SO, what frustrated me the most were the "users". I deliberately put word users in quotes because I worked as a consultant and often saw guides on how to ask questions on SO (i.e. use an account with female name and picture, deliberately misspell words/interpunction). There was this Magento company and I was consultant for their (UK) client, one of the devs gave me the tour of how they use SO.

What was frustrating is that day in and day out, similar questions were asked - ones that are googleable.

One day I received a comment from such "user", under a question I answered and explained in detail. The "user" went to discredit me, without arguments or links and was pretty rude through all of the misspellings he did to avoid some automatic triggers. I replied rudely as well, asking him to read other people's answers before discrediting and providing no info.

Result was that I was sent to "cool off" for 2 weeks, and was given a speech from mod as if I was a child. At that point SO changed their ToS and claimed that all content was theirs, including answers I provided.

And that's where I departed from SO because from my experience - I was free debugging service for various agencies who went a little bit overboard with claims of their experience and in case someone was rude to me - I get no protection, however if I'm rude to "users" then I get slap on the wrist.

Working for free, being patronized, interacting with people who are too lazy to read - that were my reasons for abandoning SO.

Besides, when it started - all of the big questions about nearly every language were covered fast and there was very little to do except write SQL for other people and get praise for it as form of payment.
Blockchain technology has become a hot topic in the past few years. It represents an exciting area of innovation that now crosscuts many different sectors and it promises higher-than-average growth.

WEB3 games will make the next gaming evolution! And here's why:
1. Ownership of in-game assets.
2. Additional sources of income

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The action unfolds in the Middle Ages, the game depicts the reconstruction of events in the Khotyn Fortress, Ukraine.
The player collects valuable NFTs in the form of herbs and mushrooms, from which in the future he can brew potions to improve skills and generate profit.

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Ask a dumb question about a trendy JS framework and you get hundreds of votes.

Answer a difficult question on a barely documented part of software (e.g. low-level) and you'll get a couple of votes, at most. And you're lucky if the answer gets accepted.

There are a few unsung heroes on certain hard/obscure SO tags. They dedicate a lot of time and get little reward. Whatever follows SO should find a way to fix this.
As someone else said, usenet was replaced by phpBB forums, which kept the similar structure but were easier to moderate and easier to use too.

The real question would be why did those forums mostly died nowadays? I don't have a definite answer, but from the user viewpoints:

- Centralised services had the benefit of only creating one account (remember password managers were uncommon! People were advised only to create accounts of websites they would trust, to avoid leaking their passwords they often re-used)

- More modern UI and the "new factor"/hype definitely helped people moving

Let's not forget the move was also sometimes initiated by the webmasters, who did not want to pay and administrate it forever (Canonical example being a teenager spawning a forum about one of your hobby, then still maintaining it a decade later while having lost all interest)
Good example of what many non-techie people will never understand, or even have phones capable of doing it.
> If a judge ordered you to unlock your phone and hand over all your messages, you’d probably be sour but you should also be morally ok with complying.

No. It is not my moral obligation to obey the orders of other human beings. Ever.

If you want this to be a moral issue you must first prove that there is a moral basis for compliance and I've yet to hear one. Pointing a gun to my face and telling me what to do doesn't sound moral to me. You can ask. Nicely.
The Winged Hussars have got to be a close second, https://www.military.com/off-duty/2020/06/09/5-reasons-winge...
I was banned from the school computer suites several times for (ab)using net send. Good times.
More than 600 points and no comments? What's going on here?

Maybe it's something like that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902
Same here.

A can of peas already has half the required daily intake and in terms of salt content it's on the low side.

I also crave meat much less now - apparently it was about the salt all this time.
Actually it would be useful to present the problem using your framing - in the press, blogs, everywhere. The other side is already bending over backwards to stretch the meaning of words (their introduction about DRM being "the backbone of the open Internet" made me me sick).
The motion sickness really depends on the refresh rate (so currently on the price). Very much like with phones, the faster the display gets the fewer people will experience issues.
Sigh don’t take it personal.
Just name stats playing bros. Hang in there we know u guys received money from him
I’d say the peak of Github copilot adoption might have been during that month as well, IIRC the VS Code extension got released late March
That's ~15 seconds EACH TIME you want to add the next ingredient and forgot the amount compared to scanning a receipe list which for a split second.
Vertigo is not technically a fear of heights though?
Where are those persons saying that with global warming Antarctica would actually get cooler?
How did you make the 16mm film prints? Video to film negative transfer wasn’t cheap, AFAIK.

I could imagine just pointing a 16mm camera at the Amiga screen as the most basic transfer option :)
That's not very convenient. I want docker to be able to use all my cores when I build an image.
I think this article would've really been improved by a screenshot for each game mentioned, where available.

But, the descriptions are quite nice already, so thanks for that.

Edit: looks like there might already be said images, just not loading for me
Well, perhaps because Chromium is the most well-hardened browser engine on the planet, for better or worse.

I might user Firefox personally, but I'll have my company use Chrome.

Other Google products (Maps, Docs, Gmail) are excellently engineered and usually ahead of their competitors in terms of reliability and feature set.

It's not hard to understand why people use Google products despite the occasional moral qualm.
In Python you'd maybe think, smart, then my counter is a fast local variable. But you look up (slow) the builtin hasattr and the module global f anyway to get at it. :)

I looked at python dis output before writing this, you can look at how it specializes in 3.11. But there's also 4 occurences of LOAD_GLOBAL f in the disassembly of this function, all four self-references to f go through module globals, which shows the kind of "slow" indirections Python code struggles with (and can still be optimized, maybe?)

You could scratch your head and wonder why even inside itself, why is the reference to the function itself going through globals? In the case of a decorated or otherwise monkeypatched function, it has to still refer to the same name.
Ugh, couldn't there be some kind of HN auto-close feature on titles including "exponentially", as there is for the "keto" and "gummies" spammers?
Hi, great project! I was wondering if you are planning on extending support for dynamodb
Because what Germany is currently doing is working out so well. Looking at the emissions, Germany is an absolute clown show. But you can always bet on one thing: The politicians who _now_ make the wrong decisions will blame the bad outcome of their removed-from-reality decisions on the last government.
> CIS IS a slur, used to marginalize non-transgender people. I totally disagree with banning the term, but labeling it under "hate speech" alongside anti-transgender wording is perfectly logical IMO.

Do you then also consider "hetero" to be a slur?
Daily standard deviations for Antarctic sea ice extent for every day, 1989-2023
> So the admins added a button that you could log someone out if the screen had been locked for more than half an hour.

In our CS labs the PCs re-imaged themselves on boot⁰, from a choice of OS images¹, so you didn't have to worry about causing corruption of the machine by just power-cycling it to get around the locked status. This meant that locking a workstation to reserve it didn't work.

My workaround to that² was to set the wallpaper which displayed behind the unlock prompt to an image of a bluescreen indicating a hardware error and move the window containing the lock prompt to the for bottom right of the screen, so it was just a single pixel and not easily noticed. Hey presto: a locked machine that no one wanted to claim by restarting because it looked faulty. Obviously anyone with half a brain watching me unlock the machine a short while later would immediately work out the trick, so the knowledge spread soon enough and the ruse stopped being as effective. It was very effective for a while.

--

[0] from the same shared network drive, which was initially a problem (this was the first year that lab had been in operation) if several machines re-imaged at the same time as head thrashing caused IO throughout to fall through the floor. Later revisions of the setup helped by tweaking cache settings, and giving the server more RAM, so that the second and subsequent read of an image in a given period would come from cache, also the images were compressed for the same reason and also to reduce the second bottleneck: the glut of traffic through the server's single 100mbit NIC.

[1] usually just Windows NT and the local Linux build, but sometimes other options were present

[2] which I used very occasionally, partly to not be a dick but mainly so as to not give the game away to quickly
First thank you answering openly.

But I believe you and I have a pretty different understanding about "constructive criticism". I don't believe "non-supportive and constructive" is enough in this case. I don't even believe that to be possible.

You can't "construct" while you want to "destruct".
Better LLM response format – A simple trick reduces costs and response time
I've composed a post that could be of interest to those of you working with GPT (or any other LLM) and seeking JSON as an output. Here's a simple trick that can help reduce expenses and improve response times.
> The most similar thing to newsgroups today is Reddit, and I really enjoy following some communities.

Which in turn will die and give way to Lemmy (generally ActivityPub).
It’s always good to be sure and double-check periodically but it sure is tiring that we’re still kind of in the proof phase and not fully in the do something phase.
Hi, I've just published a blog post regarding mondayDB architecture, which is monday.com javascript-based database engine that shifted the entire company data paradigm.
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You used to very much need it as it improved performance, display resolution and I/O significantly.

Oracle could not milk VirtualBox for money so they used this as a way to extort unknowing commercial users.
This looks really good - and easy to configure! And love that it's open source.

For those using Elixir and who want to work with Postgres CDC at a lower level, I've put together a little CDC library: https://github.com/cpursley/walex
when you buy a new machine in europe, then the seller has to take back the old one for free. this at least applies to household appliances. i think it applies to computers too, but i am not sure.

i think that approach solves the problem. it pushes the cost and responsibility of recycling or disposal to the seller of the new device. they will factor that into their calculation so the consumer pays for it.
https://archive.is/FDlDZ
Wait it's not?

> It's the sensation that you, or the environment around you, is moving or spinning.

Hmm I guess in that case then VR in general is the vertigo simulator regardless of what content is being played. Inner ear accelerometer disparity with the game world is guaranteed and something that makes some people hurl a lot.
like cigarettes, another dumb behavior of humans
> The proposal allows anyone to become an attestor. There would not be a single attestor who you would have to prove your trustworthiness to.

And websites get to choose which attestors they accept. For an attestor to do what they are expected to do, they need control of everything from the TPM up. This means there will be effectively 3 attestors - the major operating system vendors.
It’s noneoftheabove that stands above the don’t look up.
> Judging by all the hate Mozilla gets around here, it would be nice to at least see some credit given where it is due.

They get hate only for bad or useless things (like the famous "independent voices") but a lot of love for the actual work being done, especially Firefox Containers, enormous performance improvements etc. I'm using Firefox on a daily basis and just the Containers feature make it so much superior to Chrome.
You're the Best at Something
Or you can enable Lacros and it will continue to get Chrome updates separate from the OS. Or you can install Chrome OS Flex and it will continue to get Chrome OS updates directly from Google, with no support guarantees. Or you can install Chromium OS and update it yourself.
Fear of Happiness
Ooof, that’s quite serious.

Would be nice if there was a list of self-help/psychology books that are properly based on proper science.
> The Belarusian app is indistinguishable from the original, as it is built on Telegram’s open-source code. However, it promises something that many social networks fail to provide – security for its users.

"TG is by default a cloud database w/ a plaintext copy of every msg everyone has ever sent/recvd." https://nitter.net/moxie/status/1497001286444617746

I also don't trust their encryption when you do turn it on.
I tend to dislike this method as it's unclear what or returns unless you already know that or behaves this way. x if x is not None else default is cleaner in my opinion
Which might be wrong of course. The legal argument that this smells of monopoly abuse and might be a factor in the coming forced split of alphabet could actually stop such proposals most effectively.
Off-topic I know, but does anyone know the reasoning behind Elon taking $44B and running Twitter into the ground?
At this point, the "open-source" parts are just legal arguments that they can throw in courts whenever they are attacked for antitrust behavior, nothing more.

They know that making it so tedious means it will only be used by a handful of hobbyist and nothing more significant.
> you do realize that most of the world doesnt live in cities, and therefore has has to own a car ... right?

You do realise that, literally, most of the world lives in cities?

"Mid-2023 approximately 4.6 of the more than 8 billion people worldwide lived in towns or cities. This represents 57% of the global population. By 2030 this figure is set to reach 60%."

https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Countries-Regions/Internat....
Yup, all those. Also, at least for me:

- it was slow

- it wasn't consistent; not unusual that thread replies would be out of order

- it was text only (essentially)

- posting and downloading binary files was even slower and cumbersome)
Abstract: Forecasts by economists of the economic damage from climate change have been notably sanguine, compared to warnings by scientists about damage to the biosphere. This is because economists made their own predictions of damages, using three spurious methods: assuming that about 90% of GDP will be unaffected by climate change, because it happens indoors; using the relationship between temperature and GDP today as a proxy for the impact of global warming over time; and using surveys that diluted extreme warnings from scientists with optimistic expectations from economists. Nordhaus has misrepresented the scientific literature to justify the using a smooth function to describe the damage to GDP from climate change. Correcting for these errors makes it feasible that the economic damages from climate change are at least an order of magnitude worse than forecast by economists, and may be so great as to threaten the survival of human civilization.
There's a year old issue https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/3227 with no visible progress and a medium priority label. I hope it gets more dev focus soon.
Right, but was that the purpose of the $44b takeover? No it’s just something Elon did, in an interesting reverse on his whole “free speech” thing.

Again, I am certain this is incompetence rather than conspiracy
Playing it safe spoil precious months or years of potential
"Pick promise over proof" - questionable title, but surprisingly accurate.

David Heinemeier Hansson is an author especially known for his book Rework, and as co-owner and CTO of 37signals.

He writes so well, it's an experience.
RAM is really cheap when you're not buying it from Apple.
> And those people can look for questions where the "right way" is justifiably unusable, or pose those questions themselves

Can't be done, will be marked as duplicate.
Yes. You can install Linux, or even Chrome OS Flex or Chromium OS.
Yes, and documentation that is actually usable. I don't enjoy the standard JavaDoc pages but I do enjoy the, for example, GoDoc pages. I think the programming community did a good job in establishing user-friendly documentation.
See? The best way to get good answers is to give bad ones and get corrected.
Maybe with a configuration management tool like Spacewalk? https://spacewalkproject.github.io/
But it's pay to play over there.

So in short, gambling.

And the house always wins.
I wrote this for abusing qemu in the same way: http://git.annexia.org/?p=supernested.git;a=summary
As a long time Linux desktop user, I almost never use desktop mode on my Steam Deck as I prefer to use it just for games. If I want a desktop interface, I just reach for my laptop instead.
I hope he consumes very large amounts of milk, beets, carrots etc. which have some sodium in them. Or at least some processed foods...

> I think it's cool

Maybe, but it's definitely not the brightest idea one can come up with.
over 20 years I completely recognized a warming, and I'm doing my best (no car, minimal consumption/spending, CO2eq footprint about 5% of average person in Western Europe), not many people are doing this, but there are plently benefits, not just environmental
Current devices look too inconvenient to use IMHO. I expect to be sweating due to the headset, and to be exhausted after use. I just checked, the pico 4 seems to be around 450€ in Germany. For something that doesn’t seem to be convenient or comfortable, that’s way to much. I already have a nice setup to play games or consume content I enjoy, and don’t really see how a VR would fit into this. I expect to use it a few times and have some fun, then forget about it.
I don’t think the paper rigorously addresses the case of infinite computing power.
Here in the UK the educational system is equally stratified. Now, it is true that excluding the very few admitted for sporting prowess (rowing at Oxbridge) the typical student at an elite University is of a higher calibre than the typical student at a non elite University. This is due to selection.

BUT, children of the affluent are able to access much greater educational opportunities than children of less wealthy parents. This means they have a better education and are better prepared to pass the entrance procedure at the best Universities, while equally capable but poorer children are disadvantaged from the outset. However strenuously denied, the suspicion that "people like us" are being selected is difficult to avoid.

I went to a second tier University where many of my fellow students were affluent but not good enough for an elite University. Even then it was clear that their life experience and future expectations were vastly different to my own. I have, I believe, succeeded on my own merits in the UK tech industry but even so I have ended up financially and socially below where the affluent kids started.

In a class based society birth and/or wealth are a far greater determinant of life success than talent or any other attribute. In this, the UK and US are identical.
I wonder how you feel aisearch.vip compares to your Bing experience. Send me a message via Side Menu-> Contact and I will give you a grand for free
It died because running a communication platform for humans on the internet is hard.

In particular it died because whatever moderation it had (almost none TBH) was no barrier to bad actors, so it drowned in spam and troll posts.

Then the centralized social platforms took over with their network effects and moderation paid for from ads.
I still use SO as much as I ever did, but I rarely/never ask/answer/comment because it’s very often already answered. The answer to my question is often 10 years old. So my activity these days makes less traffic (I don’t need to visit to reply to a comment etc) but it’s still useful.

Another reason I rarely ask is of course as others have pointed out: the amount of pedantry is around 10x the amount needed to keep the quality of the site high, and often enough to make the quality worse. Often these days I ask a question, and get attacked despite it not being a dupe or off topic or low quality (I’m a top 1% account as I assume many of us are so I know my way around). Then a perfect answer comes and I can’t accept it because it’s already jumped on by mods. Somehow a useful exchange with a reasonable question and accepted answer has been completely drowned by mods. It’s infuriating.