skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this is what regulations like EU's and CA's should be enforcing. Imagine if the choice was: We have this data about you (a comprehensive list of all the fruits of our creepy stalking: a,b,c,d, etc...), if you let us violate your privacy in a myriad of ways, we will let you have this little trinket for free. Otherwise, it will cost you x. How many people would select privacy violation?

Unfortunately under the GDPR we are not going to find out how many people would choose this option. It isn't legal, in the EU, to refuse someone access if they say no to your data collection.
Destructuring (/pattern matching) itself is supported by several languages (although more in general, its flexibility depends on the language). It makes sense to support it in modern languages, as it's practical and intuitive.

IMO it's a significant syntactical improvement, as it considerably reduces boilerplate assignments.
Disney Raises Prices for Streaming Services by as Much as 27%
Thanks! That's useful to know. Unfortunately it looks like a lot of them are non-commercial which rules them out for me but there's a couple that look like they might work.
For a while I was only interested in newer Java releases just to see if Runescape ran on it :p

The usefulness seemed to cut-off with Java 11 though and now the RS Java client is being deprecated.
I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with the 8. However, it is just as valid to talk about unpatched security flaws.
It just seems like spending that cash on oh, I don’t know 5G cell phone coverage would’ve been a much smarter investment long term, but I’m not a C-suite executive, so what do I know.
Ask HN: Seeking Feedback: New App Idea to Connect Parents and Children for Play
Hey HackerNews community!

I'm excited to share an app idea that I've been brewing up, and I'm eager to hear your thoughts and insights. As a parent, I've often found it challenging to connect with other parents in my area for playdates and social interactions for our kids.

*Introducing "PlayPal: Connect for Kids"*
The concept is simple: an application that helps parents find and connect with other parents in their vicinity who are interested in arranging playdates for their children. Whether it's meeting at a local park, a kid-friendly restaurant, or any other suitable spot, PlayPal aims to make it easier for parents to create these valuable social experiences for their children while also building a supportive community for themselves.

*Key Features:*
- Geolocation-based matching: Discover nearby parents who are looking for playdate opportunities.
- Customizable profiles: Share information about your child's age, interests, and your own preferences.
- Secure messaging: Communicate with other parents within the app to coordinate and plan playdates.
- Ratings and reviews: Build trust by leaving feedback about your experiences after playdates.

I believe this app could help parents like me overcome the challenge of finding like-minded parents for our children to interact with. However, I'd greatly appreciate your feedback and insights. Do you think this idea has potential? Are there any existing solutions that I might have missed? What features would you find most valuable? Any concerns or suggestions you have would be incredibly helpful in shaping this idea into a practical and successful app.

Thank you in advance for your time and expertise! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Would you happen to know why your customers choose to self host? There's a myriad of potential reasons, and I'm curious which ones are the primary ones.
in my non-expert opinion, kotlin also added bunch of creative, unobvious and opinionated constructs to not be qualified as "simple lang"
https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2021...

Here they rank it 30/50 in reliability and performance metrics.

If we're sharing anecdotes, I've never lost power for more than a few seconds in the past decade or so, and before that it was pretty much only because of hurricanes or tornadoes in the area.
The idealistic purpose of distributed ledgers is to democratize money creation. Right now money creation is in the hands of a financial elite who, perhaps with best intentions and perhaps not, observably engage in considerable self-dealing. I'm willing to bet the average person would be flabbergasted if they understood how bank loan origination actually works, to say nothing of how Treasury auctions are structured in a way that makes it impossible for them to fail.

We can imagine a world where some, for example African, community could monetize its own productive capacity in an internationally current way that doesn't put it in debt bondage to bankers in the USA or China while costing them a double digit vig. I think that would be an improvement over the status quo and some form of cryptographically trustable distributed consensus is currently the most plausible way to get there. Any centralized ledger, no matter what form it takes, indisputably privileges its controller.
It looks like it's 40th percentile, which for the whole metro region, yea $1.5k for a studio makes sense even after you add in utilities. So much closer to median cost.

$1.5k with $100-$200 of utilities, renters insurance, etc in Seattle proper gets a little more difficult to find. You could probably do it up north past greenwood, over in west seattle, or similar. If you know how to dodge the craigslist scams haha.
> I mean, it's pretty much by definition, right? The ones that don't want to be mothers aren't because they had the option of an abortion or used effective contraception.

I doubt that not wanting to be a mother automatically means that you have the knowledge, and/or a safe way, to prevent or terminate a pregnancy.
This study took place in Australia.
This is a good point. You won at gambling, therefore everyone should gamble.
If I’m reading this correctly this could be an open source model that may compete with the likes of copilot?

That is something I’d be very interested in if they can get the compute requirements down to those of say a standard 13B model. Then I could fine tune (correct term?) it on my offline data and hook it into something like fauxpilot and my IDE.

I had a look at some of the recent code models (wizardcoder,strider etc) but it seemed that you need a really large model to be any good and quite a few of them were trying specifically for python.
Yeah, kinda disappointing that the CitizenLab folks are exploiting the (I presume) non-mastery of subtle English of the developers to create a "clickbait" title.

If they were English speakers they would've written something along the lines of "We thank you that you respected the vulnerability disclosure policy and notified us. We expect you'll continue respecting the policy and not publish this vulnerability before we resolve the issue and after a period of time where the updated software has been uploaded."
Verizon and ATT executives thought they could try and compete with Apple/Alphabet/Microsoft/Amazon/Meta.

Being a dumb pipe has less profit potential than being a multimedia utility ad delivery platform business.
Teach the poor camera how to operate autofocus
Too bad that common vision isn't a Desktop that isn't absolutely garbage.

Maybe they should spend more time hiring people that actually make competitive applications against Microsoft than die-hard nutjobs who think waiting a year to work for an open-source company is a good idea.

Microsoft might not have 70% of the desktop market if they'd done that.

Apple managed to claw back 15% of the desktop market to 20% with their BSD-clone OS, and it still has garbage software compared to what's available on Windows, but at least it's a start...
The crypto scams highlight the consequences of lacking regulation. Incorporating lessons from a century of financial turmoil could make crypto viable (implementing laws and regulations as code), though potentially less attractive to those seeking an alternative.
I'm really interested in intuitive what I call futuristic software, async, multithreading and parallelism.

I am interested in CRDTs, database technology, alternative forms of GUI and decentralisation to a certain extent.

Do you find the ideas of Engelbart's Mother of all Demos interesting?

Do you like data structures and algorithms?

Do you enjoy writing a satisfying SQL join?

Or writing a beautiful Kafka or JavaScript or Clojure pipeline?

Or writing a beautiful easy to read bash pipeline?

I feel think Windows has a certain nostalgia of Windows98 and Windows XP with its icons and Visual Basic.

I actually really enjoyed the early web with free 10mb webhosts and random internet services.

Do you enjoy data structures or representations that make the computer do exactly what you want?

Do you enjoy automating things elegantly?

Do you enjoy designing server or software architectures or infrastructures?

I also believe God and want to do work and things that loves people, kindness and compassion.
That is what I was thinking: either the car has built-in GPS now, or people use their phone with Google Maps or another nav app, and I haven't heard of those offering custom voices.
What surprises me is you’re so bold about painting teenage girls with an extremely broad brush in your top-level comment, then go on to detail all the ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic complexities that make generalization irresponsible. It’s like, you keenly observe the complex tapestry of human existence in this comment, but say “many (most?)” teen moms are planning their pregnancies in your original comment.

Why the disconnect?
I have a few hand-written node apps with a small express API.
Can I deploy those on elest.io without having to worry about the underlying OS and its security and network setup? That would be very interesting for me. Kind of like a simple and cheap webhoster with php: Upload your files, forget about the rest. Is it that what you offer?
More than one in each set. But no, singling out isn’t a thing I do, unless there are memorable bits in the process—-and you always learn something by it.
No disrespect. This article isn't terrible (and I did learn something practical), but isn't the underlying purpose of this post to advertise whatever service assemblyai.com provides?

Why is it necessary for MLOps product websites to have blogs? This content could also be posted on Medium or the author's personal project website and serve the same purpose (arguably helping the author's brand more effectively). The only downside would be that this startup would not get the indirect advertising.
Which is bonkers because I was using touchscreen joysticks on my iPad touch before 2010 to play wolfenstein
> It makes sense to support it in modern languages

the problem is that Java not modern language, but carrying all legacy features from last 20 years, so having all legacy features + new modern creative ideas make Java very complex.
Scala

obj match {
case Point(x,y)=> println(x+y)
}
It's one thing, on a team meeting, to somewhat embarrasingly say "I'm going to go off-video because I haven't had breakfast yet" and it's quite another thing to be eating when on a call with a client.
They're converging on Kotlin, but of course 75% of the difference between Java and Kotlin consists of Scala features that have been laundered of their dirty "academic" origins for acceptance in polite industry.
Except that it allows for an arbitrary modulus. For instance, you can have:

type Whatever_Name is mod 10;

Removing restrictions is nice, lets the language and its type system actually express parts of the program logic unlike the inexpressive type system C provides.
It's a step that is, if not impossible, at least statistically infeasible…
How does this compare to offering IUDs to a third group?
Flyrboard.com, a Better Craigslist
A classifieds website to post and rank events, announcements, launches, and more.
tl;dr in context of the top-level comment: 80% of births to women under the age of 20 in the U.S. are unplanned. So nothing even close to “most.”
Web browser sandboxes are broken all the time using conventional bugs.
Sounds like Kotlin is exactly such SimpleLang.
Is that evidence for or against climate change as the cause? As far as I know global warming has been happening for 100 years, it didn't exactly sneak up on us
Presumably, the poster is referencing the patterns described in this talk: https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kubernetesclu...

> Unknown to most, Kubernetes was originally written in Java. If you have ever looked at the source code, or vendored a library you probably have already noticed a fair amount of factory patterns and singletons littered throughout the code base. Furthermore Kubernetes is built around various primitives referred to in the code base as “Objects”. In the Go programming language we explicitly did not ever build in a concept of an “Object”. We look at examples of this code, and explore what the code is truly attempting to do. We then take it a step further by offering idiomatic Go examples that we could refactor the pseudo object oriented Go code to.
Well paying engineers is more of a function of US dynamics in tech. Engineering salaries are down to earth basically everywhere else.

They’re proles by the definition of how they earn their labor. If the pool of labor expands beyond the available roles, those high salaries would crash down.
I can't wait until major frameworks (such as Spring in version 6.1) support virtual threads. Reactive programming (e.g., Webflux) would become a niche (unless your use case truly requires streaming with a high number of TPS).
Example-Based Procedural Modeling Using Graph Grammars
Out of lazy curiosity, what change in particular prompted this?
Give each one an office? There's little difference with WFH except the commute, which in general is not a plus.

The thing is, if you only talk about the annoyances of an open office, there's no comparison possible.

There's one type of office plan that i find horrible though. Cubicles: the combination of annoyances from noise and feeling isolated, without the benifits of immediate feedback and more ad hoc communication.
Cairo’s a couple layers down from what you’re talking about. It’s the actual glyph rendering.
> Believe it or not I have a job where I'm paid for, among other things my opinions. Demanding I show up and provide a service for free is not likely to be met affirmatively.

You're giving your 'opinions' for free here almost every day, so you are already wasting your own time regardless.

> USDC doesn't need a blockchain lol

It does and it is on many blockchains. Works anywhere, worldwide, instant, fast and cheap.

> if you just want a USD balance you can just open an account with Circle and move it around between accounts at Circle free of charge.

Not everyone has a US bank account and can have one to do that, especially those in other countries outside of the US and in countries that have devalued currencies. The whole point as to why USDC exists.

So regardless of your complaining and as expected, all talk and zero action.
This feels like Option/Optional all over again.
Avoid foraging. That will remove a whole class of unnecessary hazard. There is near zero benefits in foraging. Any nutrients can easily be gained from modern processed food and supplements. The cost savings in foraging cannot be justify with death or hospitalization. In fact the time wasted foraging can easily earn hundreds of dollars to but more expensive organic food. If it is for apocalypse scenario, learning to be weapon expert have way higher retur s than be a greatest foragers. Unless it is purely for thrill x factor seekers? Then dying is necessary to induce the excitement of knowing one has probability of dying from foraging.
> Telemetry is always going to be useful.

Useful for what? We've had an explosion of telemetry and "analytics" the past decade and software quality and functionality has only gone downhill. In some fields we've outright regressed compared to early 2000s tooling.

A simple example is that despite all the telemetry, manpower and tech innovation, every single mainstream communications product out there is inferior to pre-Microsoft Skype (despite the latter being built with much less manpower and running on much more primitive hardware & bandwidth).

Of course, not all of this devolution is to blame on telemetry alone, but I disagree that telemetry is some sort of requirement or game-changer when it comes to software quality. We've successfully built good quality software before it and within reasonable budgets.
…«The WHOLE WORLD (WW) is monetized.»…
we make a lot of crazy stuff here and I respect your opinion (:

did you check out https://www.seanceai.com it's even weirder, I admit, but people seemed to like it, search for "Seance AI" on Google

Could try again generating the PC, please?
I know quite a few of them in Australia run … windows, I think CE. You see them crashed all over the place here.
> email for the customer to send

Send where, and what happens then, and how does all of it work with no database?

Three days later, customer wants to know what's happening with the order.

Can you describe all the use cases, and how they work without a database?
What are you willing to spend on a car? If you're buying new I don't think cars that are half the price of a M3 even exist (after the tax credit). Even if you're not eligible for the credit and are comparing against a $40k M3, there's only a few cars still below $20k.
A Mac studio will "run" the model as a glorified chat bot but it'll be unusable for anything interesting at 5-6t/s. With a couple of high end consumer GPUs you're going to get closer to 20t/s. You also be able to realistically fine tune models, and run other interesting things besides an LLM.
Exactly :) It was still a brat comment though. I'd forgotten about that. Thank goodness we grow out of some things.
Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content
Python does so via its "f-strings": https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#fo... although as the link implies, that's done at the grammar level, and not via a static field that is a StringTemplate.Processor as it is in Java https://openjdk.org/jeps/430#The-STR-template-processor
Why are we so anxious to prevent pregnancies instead of addressing the economic issues that make so many hard working people unable to afford raising kids?

The current status quo is only poor and rich people have children, but the middle class often cannot afford to, and we try rationalize that by saying the poor children will make up for it, but children raised by poor families are much more likely to be a net cost to society, not to mention the moral failure.

Even if for environmental reasons, the results of not acknowledging the real problem have been disastrous. We know that people struggling to pay rent will never prioritize environmental causes because they simply can't afford to, so addressing the economic issues will need to be part of the formula anyhow.
Show HN: Hacker News home page spoof
i'd forgotten i'd written this a year and a half ago, and when a friend passed me the link to it just now, it seemed hilarious to me. probably some other people will enjoy it too
I used to expose my services to the internet. Now I use WireGuard through OPNsense to connect remotely. The attack surface is small and I’m still even able to stream videos that are located at home.

I’m not a security expert but it makes me feel like keeping software up to date is less urgent. That lets me stick to one version for a while once it does everything I like. The stability of experience and ease of use is greet.
My parents said almost no one was rotund in their day and anyone was was probably bullied relentlessly. Not a good social condition to be in.

Semaglutide, metformin, and gastric bypasses help as bandaids to the problem of a shift in the corporate food supply chain but aren't panaceas. Olestra was a flop. And nothing can change that excess calories makes for an easy life of a cancer cell. (I suspect we evolved to depend on the cellular stresses of periodic famine and caloric restriction to kill cancer cells much like the way some chemotherapy protocols halt cell division.)

Within 20-40 years, food will gradually become unaffordable and calories scarce as crops fail worldwide and turns to desert. I suspect many people will become farmers and do so indoors, with limited vertical farming tech.

The final destination: the big bone'd will likely be the last still standing if they're in otherwise good health. This is inevitable without major geoengineering now.
I have done that numerous times. Even sent a screen recording of the Cloudflare spinner of hell. The response is always the same: you must be running some shady software on your machine.

Cloudflare is acting as judge and executioner, and site owners never accept that the product may be faulty.
That's the downside of this. If my political group advocates for a minimum wage of $100k, and I put out a tool that says you need to make $100k or you'll die, then I am a very good boy and will receive many Twitter likes, as well as possible citations in Slate and Vice.
>They would gladly click on a "sell my data" over a "pay money" button any day of the week.

Even though many people assume it's this way, this choice hardly ever happens in practice. You allude to this yourself. In reality, the choices are usually between paying for something and they still sell your data, and getting it free and they really sell your data.

The majority of paid services have privacy policies, terms of service and user agreements that spell out how they sell data just as much. At best, you might expect that they are a bit more selective in who they sell to, since they're not as desperate for cash flow. However the impact to you is greater - they now have your credit card, address, full name, phone number (all vulnerable to hacks and leaks) and it's harder to lie about these things than with a free account. So the data they collect is more valuable, hence the temptation is higher as well.

Moreover, the paid services have consumer-hostile subscription systems rife with dark patterns. It's needlessly tedious to cancel a service if you decide you don't like it, and even free trials demand a credit card.

Transparency is very low about what is actually done with your money as well. Many services operate at a loss, and the customer charge is just a fig leaf while the real money comes from investors. Arguably, the paid model is a sham for some companies and their real exit is to collect data for a years and then get bought by some data aggregator. On the other end of the spectrum you have people fishing for suckers with ridiculously inflated prices.

For these reasons the choice of paying money is tainted by lack of trust, it is not just consumers being stingy and entitled. Lack of trust can quickly bog down any market.

I don't really blame the industry here, though. It's a bit like California in 1848 - you can hardly blame people for picking up the gold that's just lying around. The real problem is that we don't have the tools, infrastructure and regulatory frameworks that let users see and control how their data is used. If people really want to sell their data in lieu of payment, then let them. But currently, most users are not aware exactly what data gets collected and how much it is worth - they're not able to rationally decide that paying $5 for an app is better than being mined for $20 worth of your data.
> Most women I know would consider this the blessing of a lifetime.

Most women you know want a mountain of boxes of clothes & shoes that are probably not their size nor their preferred style?
IMO L1 charging is fine unless you live in a very cold climate or your commute is 50+ miles round trip.
Thank you very much for the very informative response. As with any offer I think it's crucial to know what's at stake. You're very admirable for turning down tens of thousands, but if it had been tens of millions I'd have been questioning your judgement, as morally odious as the buyer might be.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14808881
matplotlib is not needed, SymPy fallsback to ascii plotter and this is what I use on phone with termux.