skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patriotism may not have been the motivating factor. The chance to fly fast planes or shoot things or earn a guaranteed income are all fairly enticing to people from all sorts of different backgrounds.

The Australian armed forces pretty much advertise joining the services as being paid to learn skills that are transferrable outside the services, plus some amount of pride for "doing your bit" for the country.
After trying many other tools on Windows, I found them either too bloated or too rigid. So instead, I built my own tool using AutoHotkey. The end result is a single binary that's less than 1MB in size. I can define my own prompts in a simple INI file and invoke those prompts anywhere.

https://github.com/overflowy/chat-key
It is. See:
- https://webkit.org/
- https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Origins
Your browser can also be caching the HTTP redirect itself, especially if they messed up on setting cache lifetimes on it.
I think they even perceived more. No post newtonian modeled science but the were constantly face to face with nature and matter.
Seconded re moderation.

Also, the site itself - the ethos of the owners; I used to have an account, became disenchanted with the mods, decided to delete my content, close the account.

I then discovered;

1. You cannot delete answers which have been accepted.
2. The mechanism for deleting your own content allows you to delete a max of something like five replies per day.

I then took the time to look at the T&C, and SO as I remember it simply make all of your work their property.

I deleted everything I could, over the course of a significant number of days, and left.
The problem is that "the homeless" start out as normal people - they have rational minds, have jobs/insurance and contribute to society. They can pay for treatment. Unfortunately they can have clear signs of deteriorating mental health and the system will not touch them. Then they lose their rationality, their jobs, their insurance and transition from contributing to society to burdening it.

This doesn't require a separate medical system, it requires prompt intervention/treatment at the beginning of the illness, not after many many visits.
For the first you can setup a tracer for messages sent and received. Second should not happen from OTP 24.

Fourth is the wrong question to ask: if the failure handling mechanism is invoked too frequently, fix the failures, not the recovery.

Third is definitely my fault. Bug reports are appreciated whenever possible.

But generally speaking, yes, debugging is part of every programming language, and concurrency and distribution will add to the adventure whenever used, to varying degrees depending on the programming language.
xneko was the best one.
No, there’s lots of low level software provided by third parties that Google doesn’t control.
They should have to retroactively pay back what was earned on those videos if they where demonetized for false or incorrect reasons.
Intel Releases Two New ISAs, APX and AVX10
No they aren’t; that’s been debunked: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Learning_styles&o...
The problem for me is not that SO became difficult as all popular/large systems inevitably become, it's the seeming lack of action to solve some of the issues involved.

The reputation thing is still nonsense. I can ask a noob question and end up with 10K reputation because of the likes it gets or I can answer a complicated question that takes all 25 years of experience to articulate well and get nothing. People can offer a bounty but it should also be possible to "reward" people who obviously know what they are doing and not reward people for asking questions.

The problem with duplicate questions is big, but again, the search isn't great at finding them, especially if you don't quite know how to ask the question.

They don't do much about people who just appear with 1 reputation asking something like "What does Null Reference Exception mean?". I ended up being allowed to moderate questions but the moderation queues get stuck constantly so I couldn't even help with that - after all, the crowd-sourcing is a great way to solve the volume of moderation needed and some of us are happy to help but as soon as you start seeing "Moderation queue full" after only moderating 2 posts, then you give up.
Search for "tenkeyless" aka TKL. Plenty of good ones on the market. IKBC historically had good quality.
From Twitter to X: Elon Musk Begins Erasing an Iconic Internet Brand
Equilibrium? We're in the overshoot, and have crossed safe boundaries long ago.

Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob...

Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...

Safe and just Earth system boundaries

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06083-8
I will get only two results of asking questions in SO. No answers or marked as duplicated.
Haven't used `site:stackoverflow.com` for a long time but using `site:reddit.com` to get more informative and generous answers.
Yep have done! Was hoping it was a little more accessible though. Luckily I do have some library access.
Hmmm... since VSCode is based on Electron/Chrome, it means that Chrome itself could be a webapp, and I could browse the internet using a Chrome instance that I have opened in Firefox?
Distinguish real CSAM (everyone agree to ban) and generated "CSAM" (no child had abused for it, and the border between photorealistic or drawn, and age is a bit difficult) is important. IMO latter shouldn't be called "CSAM" to avoid confusion. Should we ban it is a different discussion.
In the days of standalone applications, this was quite common. Upgrade the OS, and the software would still run. Upgrade the computer, and the software may still run. (Progress was so rapid back then that 10 years of progress in hardware would cause issues with poorly coded memory checks and timers).

In the days of standalone computers, you didn't bother with upgrades at all. Developers would create new software for popular platforms a decade after their prime (think Apple II or 8088 based PCs) even though the rate of progress in hardware was beyond astonishing. Rather than maintaing what they had, schools could build upon it.

Of course, network security and applications means that it is a struggle to maintain what you have on a budget. Artificially obsoleting hardware only make matters worse.
It’s likely that your question was worthy, especially if it required effort to answer.
The teachers have not learned their lesson. They continue to petition a corporation instead of taking matters in their own hands.

If they wanted budget laptops, they could have bought used ones for $50 on Ebay and installed Debian. But no, they wanted some hipster hardware from an advertising company.

The petition sets a bad example for students. They learn early on that they are serfs to large corporations, who sometimes graciously react to petitions. Later they might learn that Google's only working support forum is HN ...
I think the word "to" creates ambiguity and confusion, and ought to be replaced by the word "which".
Having your cake and eating it too is a natural goal of every business and honestly it was just a matter of time till web pages figured out they can have the benefits of public data and avoid the costs. Web scraping and botting is basically a solved problem too - just put a login gate for the data which allows you to legally litigate against scrapers and bots. Done. However, nobody wants to lose the benefits of public data so here we are.
SO can still respect Creative Commons and the human at the same time by granting their wish to remove their content from SO when they request it.
> Give people freedom and let the users decide what they find worthwhile.

Well, as I already said what people find worthwhile is the shorter tweets, it's what generates more engagement. I do agree that one gets more value and depth from longer tweets, but Twitter isn't really a place for value and depth, but for shortness and content density. And also, while threads are not really the best UX, they have a very interesting advantage for Twitter: they allow users to engage and amplify the part they find the most interesting, and that drives more engagement than waiting for people to find the interesting part in a five paragraph-long tweet.

> Whether it's a mistake comes down to how much revenue Twitter makes in blue checkmark fees vs. how much revenue they lost from advertisers bailing. I'd need to see some hard numbers on that before being able to call it a mistake.

Well, we don't have the exact numbers but Elon Musk already said that ad revenue fell 50% and cash flow is negative. IIRC, Twitter was cash flow positive when he bought them if you didn't take into account some one-time expenses.
Happy with Xorg, plan to continue using it as long as possible. Will switch to slackware to avoid Wayland. May switch earlier to dump systemd. And get xv back[1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36716090
Even if the client is legit someone can just use a web extention or the devtool protocol to navigate to pages and extract text.
Yeah, forgot governments, so we can add one more to the list of 'nobody dreams working there as a tech person' list.
I agree with this! But they seem to have backed themselves into a corner where anything pro-business automatically has to be anti-privacy so they dont do it. I guess there must be some technical challenges to opening up Signal APIs to third parties?

I was against WhatsApp for Business until I had to use it to communicate with Virgin Atlantic. It was so much better than getting on the phone to call them! It probably took longer overall whilst waiting an hour or two between replies, but having a history of the conversation and knowing there's someone reading my request in full and replying properly was great.

I dont know why Signal are wasting their time with cryptocurrency projects, whilst the normal app seems pretty stagnant. I'd love a 3rd party API or bot system that was done in a tasteful and private way, but I dont believe there are any plans for it.
> And when your phone is hacked then all three are up for grabs?

No.
Perhaps it's worth considering taking them to a small claims court for this.
I have found that I cannot and do not trust either of those for anything.
After "Let that sink in", we have "I X'ed Twitter".
Interesting, at my past job we used RabbitMQ at decent scale and it was rock solid once the initial kinks around scaling were ironed out (there weren't enough resources for the amount of messages that were thrown at it).
These chromebooks remain operational. As someone who does not plan on actively using the same computer for a decade, I am unwilling to pay a premium on any future purchases so that my museum pieces remain fully supported. Mind you, I have never thrown away a computer and keep a large collection of obsolete hardware.
Is Dan Carlin considered a good source? Genuine question.
> only a fraction of biology graduates go into healthcare and biotechnology. Most end up in totally unrelated fields, not unlike art students. This is rarely the case for engineering and CS

I find this ironic, given that my degrees are in engineering and now I am doing life science...

There is nothing wrong with people getting a degree in what they like and then find a job that make them happy. I do not categorize or draw conclusions based on the degree. I care more about what the person can do. Most of the time a CS graduate isn't that much different from a bioinformatics graduate. And a biomedical student isn't that different from an engineering student when we are trying to build that bioreactor...
Partially.

I think, SO, for the most part was a genuinely well intentioned effort with really good outcomes.

Spolsky's earlier talks describing his philosophies about a good QA site, I thought, were insightful. To their credit, they did organically reach the top of Google rankings and for a long time, the quality of answers and insights on the site were really good. I learned a lot of from reading answers to various questions by Alex Martelli and Raymond Hettinger (of Python fame).

I'm sure they made some mistakes along the way and those contributed to the current downfall. My larger point, however, is that this and other tools and sites which make things "easy" have contributed to a decline in the quality of (especially new) programmers and that has indirectly taken a toll on the site.

To extend your chef analogy, the rant would be "Here I am trying to create interesting dishes with modern ingredients but people these days haven't tasted really food and can't digest anything other than a quick burger, canned soda and frozen fries."
I think this point is made in Succession where Tom (who is, of course, the most social climbing member of the clan having married into the Roy family and is the only person in the show who actually makes a point that being rich is awesome) comments on the "ludicrously capacious" bag of the friend of his sidekick.

What is deeply amusing is that the whole "ludicrously capacious" meme has taken off to the point where you can buy large bags with "ludicrously capacious" on them.
Exactly, the agenda is everything. It's very difficult to convince a megacorp to act against its profit motive. The proposal exists within a cultural and economic context, you can't just ignore that.
Mark Zuckerberg wants to build WeChat for the West (2019)
LOL. It's not "called the XY problem" just because some Dunning-Krugerite decided to make a website on a budget TLD.

Here, I'll coin a name for a problem I see much more often, which is called the XX problem:

1. User has problem X, and asks for a solution for it.

2. People viewing the question decide that the original user actually has problem Y.

3. Those people tell the original user that they actually want to solve problem Y, condescendingly flame the original user for not asking about problem Y, and if they have the power to do so, edit the original user's question to be asking about problem Y.

4. Those people use poorly-thought-out pop-social-psychology to justify their shitty behavior.

5. The original user still doesn't have a solution to problem X, and they really needed a solution to problem X all along.

It is not without irony that examples of the XX problem are sometimes also examples of mansplaining.
https://archive.ph/OwXXy
The last one is especially hilarious since ads are the most common vector to install malware.
Having dealt with this in the past: they just drop updates. That includes dropping support for the browser.
They take so many active anti user steps.

Pocket, cliq, Push Notifications for Mozilla Blog without user consent, Mr robot, Firefox Suggest etc they are littered with mistakes and scandals and have never improved their governance or process.

I can give them a pass on technical decisions like Thunderbird or breaking extensions but when it's purely commercial it has to be judged differently.
If you live in the EU, you could do a GDPR request to delete all your data. https://meta.stackexchange.com/legal/gdpr/request
How else will we stop pizza places from generating twelve years of receipts overnight before their appointed visit?!
I remember lots of things like this, from the sunos days.

There was a program that would sort of melt your screen.

There was another one that would animate a little character at the bottom who would then push your desktop off the side of the screen.

and there was a way to take all the workstations in the group, and play sounds on them.

So (nearest I can vaguely recall):

for i in machine1 machine2 machine3 ...
do
rsh $i "play applause.au &"
done

sunos came with sound files for laughter and applause, and it was amusing to have all the machines in the group laugh or applaud like a crowd.

(well it was amusing the first few times anyway...)
The Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs (2012)
You’re right, both morally and legally. My friend a government law professor told me that in the EU you could probably even construct a pretty solid case arguing this.

The argument would be that If there is not a single slip of evidence tying you physically to the money Except your PII Then the banks anti-money laundering should have catched it. That gets their attention right away since the fines in that cases are proper billions.

If they don’t settle, you go for the kill and settle that PII is not uniquely tied to legal intent (heck, it wasn’t you! The intent is missing and that’s what you point out as well.)

The problem is that that case will take you 7+ years, all the way to the various supreme courts (local, European). It’s why Max Schrems is a hero, except banks are worse adversaries than government regulators.

This whole digital world has had some impact on our two thousand years plus of contract law. It’s sad judges don’t go back to the basics in these cases. Show me the contract (into the abyss).
When I lived in the student dorms at uni, each room had it's own telephone, and the numbers were somewhat consecutive in some kind of order. So drunk students were playing tic-tac-toe in the middle of the night by calling the rooms on the other side of the street trying to get a row/column of lit windows. ;)
Mmm! thankyou - I will give it a go.
Yes I was thinking about that, it should be quite easy afterwards.
Hilariously, the accepted (I assume by default, not by the asker) answer is flagrantly breaking, like, half a dozen rules and guidelines… but because it’s cynically and unhelpfully crapping on a newbie, it stays up. Or maybe there’s a good reason for it to stay up, but at a glance it sure isn’t a good look.

I actually think SO is a great site and resource, but I also think a lot of that is despite the bitter old timers in the community, not because of them.
You're right, godaddy is hostile. Never should have used in the first place.
I remember, as a young italian studying about risorgimento, asking my mother why did the people in venice and milan not want to be under the austrian empire.

My mum told me "it was an oppressive government". When I asked to elaborate she said "they used to read people's mails so that they knew whom to arrest."

In italy you can end up in jail if you open mails… and yet somehow we are completely ok with the government reading every electronic communication?
I had something like that, that is how I upgraded myself from a UNIX zealot into a Xerox PARC one, as I discovered an alternative universe.

Additionaly the campus library was a treasure trove from computing books all the way back in time, and many of us dived into them.
Idiomatic translation: Well, that was a failure.
No, it provides power to power flight control systems, linked hydraulics and e.g. some flight instruments. You can't generate the power needed to re-start an engine from a RAT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine
Nuggets of wisdom there. Worth re-visit even if you have read it earlier.
Here's how they respond to 'constructive arguments': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855429 . Especially this part: https://danshumway.com/blog/chrome-autoplay/
Ask HN: Documentation of SQL Server Compact Edition File Format?
Just curious, is anyone aware of documentation of the file format for SQL Server Compact Edition anywhere on the internet, or open source tools for querying this format? I saw that the format is eventually likely to be deprecated and was wondering how hard it would be to write a library for reading them.

Thanks!
Perplexity[1] for research when writing articles and video scripts.

It’s like vanilla GPT-4 but provides references.

[1] perplexity.ai
Save the Web
> All users had admin rights and each one thought that they could make their models run faster by bumping up the process priority as far as it could go - which of course interfered with the realtime processes needed to manage the effective running of the computer

It amazes me what the bios and OS or OS api's let you do, even on modern devices.
Kagi Enrichment APIs: find non-commercial websites and “small web” discussions
I honestly feel that Google and increasingly LLMs are the challenge here.

Behaviour of users on SO has always been, well, as all the complaints here suggest. It's never really bothered me that the top answer's someone going off on their favourite approach, most questions have multiple answers, and I've learned a lot about coding from reading the top few and trying to understand where the answers are coming from.

The discussion's as important as the answers sometimes, and that's why a potential collapse is a problem.
It is interesting how a tech-oriented community still replicates monkey or chicken behavior against unpopular individuals.
Seriously. When someone tells you that they don't have a hidden agenda, it means they absolutely have a hidden agenda. Normal people don't say that.

> and make sure their ads and tracking cannot be avoided.

Exactly. Their ads.

They are totally fine with people applying content filters for other companies.
Those ads existed regardless of observers. The buyer of a billboard can go see that the ad is on the billboard, or that it plays on the radio.

This is quite different than the current design of online ads, where which ad to show is only decided when the ad loads and reloads.

Not that it matters that much - online ads are a total scam anyway. Particularly google's search ads, which 9 times out of 10 is just a copy of the first search result - but now in a version where they get money for the click.
Getting his software stuck and then kicked off the computer is his self interest?
Basically what cool kids do nowadays with gRPC, I was doing with Sun RPC.
Since I was at college in the second half of the 90s, we still had unix text consoles for reading emails so my favourite prank was to tell others in my dorm that I had worked out how to remotely log in from the dorm (we had to use a computer room back in them days!) and with my 10 line Turbo Pascal program created a fake login screen like looked identical to the normal one. After capturing a password, I would explain to each person that maybe it wasn't quite working so "sorry", so they were none the wiser that they had given me their passwords.

I didn't do anything with the passwords, it was just interesting how easy it was to get away with.
Like others have said i think this might already been explored. However, I like the view that you have to let the machine to be able to 'do nothing'. Which is what resnet was first for. But i'm willing to bet this so called wisdom can still be squeezed for performance, because people tend to not think about it.
Chrome should be split from Google for anti-trust reasons
Because rich conservatives don't want the poor class to have a decent education… too dangerous.

Sex education is just part of the trend.
Might help with the detector - but not the flames :)
Traditional cattle ranches are much different than factory farms. Cattle that grazes on open pastures are generally much healthier. An animals quality of life determines how healthy they are—and subsequently, how healthy they are to eat.

Factory farms are where most people get their meat in America.

Imagine how healthy you’d be if all you ate was oatmeal, a hormone cocktail (to make you grow faster), and some vitamins. Then imagine living in a cage with dozens of other people, having scarcely three feet between you and the next person. Would you be healthy?

That’s what people are eating.
The advice is relevant then. You can argue about the stated agenda and use cases instead of assuming a hidden one.

Whether there is a hidden agenda or not, the authors of the spec can just reply, "that isn't the agenda" and ignore everything in your comment that followed from it.