skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The humor seems to come from there being a large body of people (mostly women, evidently?) who don’t realize anyone who’s not, like, a classics professor, thinks about the Roman Empire more than almost-never, and another (evidently mostly men?) who don’t get how someone could think about it less than at least once a week, assuming they think about anything at all.

I’m firmly in the “how do you not?” camp. The mutual confusion between these two groups is the joke, I think.

Another facet may be the implication that all these men must be obsessed with Rome or want a return of the Roman Empire or something, which is also a funny notion, but I don’t think that’s usually the case. There are dozens of other things I think about at least as often, personally, and the common thread is that they have lots of connections to various topics I’m interested in, not some obsession with e.g. Rome.

For my part, Rome is heavily connected to all of philosophy, politics, European, Maghreb, and Near-East history, literature, and film (it’s a common setting or topic, even when not directly the topic, as in the Coen’s Hail Caesar) and since I’m interested in all those things, I mean, yeah, obviously I think about it at least once a day. I also think about various ancient Greek states daily, and Sumer and Ancient Egypt at least once a week, and often much more, I’d guess. Doesn’t mean I’m particularly obsessed with any of them, they’re just strongly connected to a ton of my interests.
Star Citizen is another. I don't know if it "moved" so much as someone not connected to the earlier fandom wiki said "This sucks, I made a new one."

https://starcitizen.tools/

https://starcitizen.fandom.com/

And a recent post on reddit about the wiki's funding appears to have gotten their patreon up to $140 compared to $110 server costs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/16bo02n/star_c...
Huh. I gained plenty of weight in Italy this summer, in spite of continuing to run a few times per week and doing tons of walking. Thankfully worked it off upon returning home to the states.
Companies continue to want to pretend like software development is a factory assembly line. Weird how those sprint commitments never get hit in the same way as “we want X cars to roll off the line this month.” It must be the workers. /s
I don't think so. If it's meant to be temporary, doesn't it get called a furlough instead? That's the "we're not firing you because we want you to do work for us later, but also we're going to stop paying you" option.
> I wish I could do something for them other than post.

You can start by making pariahs out of parents of obese children. They are child abusers, full stop. Do not enable them with your friendship or business, just as you would for anyone you know is beating their kids.
I'm puzzled why Kotlin isn't getting enough attention on HN, at least as much as Rust or Zig.

Kotlin is indeed popular in it's specific domain (Android & Java). But the company is keen to position it as "write once run anywhere" space with a strong focus on multiplatform development.

1. The build system provides platform specific bindings for free (huge plus compared to the hassle of writing the core in C/C++ and then hand-writing platform specific bindings)

2. Keen focus on enabling single codebase for multiple platforms.

3. The company went so far, as to build a multi-platform UI Framework (Compose Multiplatform) that directly renders to Skia and runs on all mobile/desktop platforms. And even on browsers (with wasm)

I find it odd, that such interesting a language / compiler finds little attention beyond its domain.

Is there any reasons for this that I'm missing?
I'm so happy for you. I've known a few people with similar stories, including my mother. Before and After.
no, and there's no tutorial or anything. it's weird to jump right into the game without prior experience. you sort of need a friend to explain it to you.
How it works, is Amazon just paid a bunch of money just to be able to say that. This press release was written into the contract they signed, so us hearing about it isn't just happenstance. What happens under the hood is secondary, really.
Revisionist af. 40 years ago advancements in everything from particle physics to biology (and yes the space program too) were a staple of nightly news broadcasts. Hell there was an entire broadcast TV channel that featured programming on everything from cosmology to plate tectonics. The 80s were a thing my friend, don't discount them.
In other words, make your money and ride off into the sunset before anyone can catch on to how much damage you’re doing to society.

Otherwise known as the AirBnB playbook.
Monetary Bizarro World
It depends on how popular the library gets before the plug gets pulled. If it's popular, it can survive because it's Open Source, and it actually has an advantage over actual proprietary platforms.
I have a 4000 lb 4-door sedan that gets 38 mpg highway, real world, not a hybrid. So this is really table stakes.
It was the exposure of Microsoft's business practices to daylight that had the greatest effect, IMO.
Actually, go ahead and do. Maybe you get serotonin syndrome, maybe you save your life.

We’re an aggregate organism and some of the individuals will always be on the edge of experimentation. It’s just the nature of the thing.

Be yourself. Be free. Some of us will die, some of us will be ruined, but the rest of us will be more informed.
Valve blocked my anti-war game
When the war in Ukraine started, I’ve spent some time making a game both to cope with overwhelming emotions and to reflect on absurdity of propaganda. After spending $100 on the usual submission fee, Valve decided to stonewall my game, Belarus Simulator, behind their review process, without any deadlines or reasonable communication.
This is how I feel about pretty much all the most data-hungry services. It's never been about an improved use experience, because the quality is not there.

I can't count how many times I yelled/cried about Spotify trying to learn every mood I've ever felt (and what song would have been perfect for the moment!) only to play the same 4 songs over and over because I listened to one of them on purpose a week ago. (I no longer use Spotify. We'll see if Tidal falls into the same trap.)
Am I the only one who sees this random thread of anonymously sourced content from Blind with a lot of salt? It lacks any credibility.
The point is that the problem of mega corps is greatly overstated, and isn't really the root of the problem anyway. They are just an easy scapegoat.

Take them away and private "mom & pop" land lords quickly fill the void, and usually are much more stringent about who they will rent to and what they think a fair rent is.
Thats a striessand effect waiting to happen
What evidence is there to indicate the board of directors or CEO of one of the world’s richest and most profitable businesses is controlled by much less powerful and less wealthy Wall St investment firms and hedge fund managers?
The paywalls and full screen modal cookie preferences pop ups aren’t helping either
I heard from someone who actually works in the industry (as engine developer) that companies usually don't use Unity out-of-the-box and write their own tools and extensions (e.g. memory management) and change parts of the engine as the needs vary greatly depending on the game they are making. Not sure how common that really is though.
Why does Saint Helena have import duty, or are they talking about packages not coming from the UK?
I always considered fandom a great resource..

.. for practicing your element blocking technique in uBlock Origin.
I don't see anything particularly strange about them. This recent commit, for example, fixes some typos and changes some formatting a bit. HN seems to be taking a very conspiratorial turn in its thinking recently.

https://github.com/apache/openoffice/compare/d98be9a24613ebe...
It's probably safer to lower this one's ranking, rather than absolutely block it. There's more than a handful of things for which fandom.com is the correct result—the only actively-maintained wiki.

Trust the search engine to do the signal/noise calculations for you. You are no longer on Google. Kagi is your agent, not your adversary.
Because there's more to life than maximizing pay.
Perf "between Nvidia’s old P100 and V100 GPUs"... yikes. So on a budget it's better to run a 3090/4090 and if you've got cash to spend you can just go for A100s.
If we're going to say "Americans want and expect more space", then we also have to be honest about the consequences that people who can't afford that minimum of space will either have to move or be homeless.
Why We Can't Get over the Roman Empire
Not at the time. Now there's a guide structured as quests, as well blueprints in the crafting ui
Tokyo capped out and is now declining in population because there isn’t a backlog of millions of people who wanted to live there but couldn’t or had to move out because rent is 3x in Tokyo compared to Osaka.

Rent is maybe 30% higher in Tokyo, even less if you live on the end of a train line. Can you imagine how many people would move to Bay Area CA or New York City or Boston or Seattle if their rent was only 30% higher? Pre pandemic my 3 bedroom in Boston area was 3500/mo. Since the pandemic rents have gone even higher. We have bidding wars of people trying to win a rental unit. Bidding wars. It’s ridiculous.

Also I don’t see your point about houses being torn down. If anything that should make it more expensive (since buying used and not rebuilding is cheaper). Realistically rebuilding is vital (in conjunction with subdivision) because that’s how you increase density
The over-proliferation of xplatform framework complexity has come full circle and now it’s easier and more productive to just ship SwiftUI & Jetpack Compose
This language was on the tip of my tongue, thanks for sharing. I thought it was relevant too. Specifically: https://www.unison-lang.org/learn/the-big-idea/

> Each Unison definition is identified by a hash of its syntax tree.
> Put another way, Unison code is content-addressed.
How to Become a Patent Attorney (UK/EU)
WaveShare screens are very reasonably priced and are starting to have 3+ color options. Using a RasPi and Python one can simply display any image via Python Imaging and some code to transmit the data via the connector pins. The image remains fixed on the screen even when it's powered down.

I got a little screen and the demo code worked, didn't know Python well enough at the time to keep running with it (part of the motivation to learn Python in the past year). Might need some work to build a case/enclosure, but beyond that it's a little piece of hardware that does what you wish. I'm thinking similar things, some specific cases in mind.

(I can be hired to do work like this for $15/hr for the first 90 days, contact info in profile).
Historically "AI" meant what "AGI" now means today. That's what they're referring to.
Amazon makes billion-dollar AI move with Anthropic
Parker probe observes powerful CME 'vacuum up' interplanetary dust
Um. What has been your exposure to Christian theology?
Man, 36 is young. I'm a self-taught programmer who started as an engineer, and although that obviously gave me a huge leg up, I started at the bottom as a Junior dev. I was about your age when I took my first coding interview.

The harsh truth is actually that you could do a computer science undergrad, complete a master's degree, and start a PhD, and still be younger than I am now!
He meant "you".
I see you're not a rocket scientist.
I’d prefer to see more people raised to join the middle class rather than comments like this with sympathy for the overlords stamping out the last vestiges of the middle class.
Thanks - edited.
I often find that the tooling I have at work helps speed up the development of more complicated solutions. So saying that FAANG solutions are easy to use and you can be fast at is easy when you have that FAANG support. Even just non-FAANG but large enterprises allow for that, but for startup's is easy to forget how the environment (including tooling) helps speed up all of that work immensely.

So yeah, I find a lot of the more complicated solutions to be simple, but mostly because it's well supported and not by just me.
I went from being worried to thinking it won't replace me anytime soon after using GPT4 for a while and now I'm back to being worried.

Because the pace of development is intense. I would love to be financially independent and watch this with excitement and perhaps take on risky and fun projects.

Now I'm thinking - how do I double or triple my income so that I reach financial independence in 3 years instead of 10 years.
They also spun up a Starfield wiki, still no salvation for the Fallout players out there https://starfieldwiki.net/
Ugh.

I always hesitate before browsing to a Fandom wiki because the user experience is so full of dark patterns. I guess this is just another facet of that...
I graduated in the mid 2000s and even then everyone knew to job hop to maintain competitive compensation.
I do love Portland, but I think within the city we're too uncritical of what goes on here; maybe it's a counter-reaction to sensational national coverage but, imo, equally unhelpful. Dense housing development is being pushed to Eastside (https://projects.oregonlive.com/maps/density/) which has caused the city to remove trees to expand roads because they built it on roads that weren't ready for it, East sides tree density is 2/3 of what it used to be, single unit housing development has stalled quite a bit, and homelessness/camping enforcement downtown (https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/4c37f1c3b4d14f3599c...) is pushing the activity associated with it to Northeast and Southeast. If the tale of two Portlands wasn't already a story when I got here, it's definitely in its second chapter now.
NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is in danger of never launching
That is precisely the premise of the novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts. ChatGPT
and its ilk feel to me like the aliens in the novel. Extremely intelligent, but not at all conscious / sentient.
We're expensive ladies.
Ckan works for me if it’s a different mod manager you use. I’ve been using it for like at least 5 years without issue.
He/She is implying that it's below what's typical for a suburban home.
Here are the houses in question:
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/169231004512229387...?
Amazon to invest up to $4B in OpenAI rival Anthropic
Depends on the surgical approach. Roux-en-y for example leverages much more than just stomach volume restriction.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK553157/
> the company itself as "Ohana," a Hawaiian term referring to family.

I don't care if you truly feel like family where you work - please stop believing this bullshit. The socialization and fraternization of work is big fat lie that routinely gets employees to act as volunteers.

Your CEO is probably a socio- or psychopath and will say and do whatever benefits them the most. Even if they are not, they ultimately answer to investors/shareholders, not their "family." If you were truly family to them, they would take a pay-cut before sacking you.

Again, the concept "Ohana" at work, as a matter of fact, is NEVER true.
OpenOffice is dead but who cares? ASF doesn’t really spend any funds on it, it doesn’t eat away any attention, doesn’t really fork the community because nobody really cares about ooo, at least there is something stable there. I don’t know, there are things that gets me from my chair more.

Like the weirdness with “libreoffice versions” forced by collabora. (I understand, collabora spends a lot of money developing libreoffice so they want some money back on support, but it is so hard to understand those versions…)

edit: ugh fixed the company name. sorry
Get a post/implant put in. Lasts way longer (for your lifetime if you're careful with it), and if part of it does get damaged, chances are it can be repaired.
Maybe to an extent but Facebook still shows plenty of news links, I don't see any of them on Twitter.
PID controller only appears in the Hacker News title, the URL just says control challenge. Also, why would you allow people to write arbitrary code if you just wanted a PID controller, then you should just allow them tuning the parameters and not write the complete thing themselves.
That's not an issue for a device like this. The typical use case is refreshing the screen once every 5, 10, 15, etc. minutes, which takes a few seconds (including connecting to wifi, downloading the data, etc.), and then spend the rest of the time in some super low power deep sleep mode, drawing maybe tens of microamps. Or maybe checking over Bluetooth LE whether to trigger an update, once every couple seconds. This will never get hot enough to the point where it would matter.
They're moving to Apache, not AGPL?
> Note that the postcode (‘zip code’) ‘STHL 1ZZ’ applies to the entire island, and also that the ‘South Atlantic Ocean’, while strictly unnecessary, does seem to help prevent letters being routed to California, South Carolina or Australia!

Took me several paragraphs to realize this wasn’t invoking my beloved Beaufort County
You gotta stop bucketting people like that. People may not know terms "cookie permissions" or "app permissions" but they sure as fuck understand the idea of user tracking or handing a company access to your mic/camera. And to say they don't care about these things is simply not true.
I know two guys who were in non-tech field their whole life and successfully switched to software engineering in their fifties (so about 15 years older than you). They started as QA engineers and then switched to software development after a few years.

So I don't think it's impossible.
The guy seemed really at ease most of the time. I didn't get to cross paths with him too much, so who knows for sure.
I'd imagine the priority for the service provider is new product lines built around wifi sensing rather than the marketing about bandwidth. It is /really/ hard to come up with new applications that require so much bandwidth constrained to a one room, especially given we aren't even remotely tapped out on compression fanciness for visual media in mass deployment (see e.g. the recent obscenely low bit rate videoconferencing codec work from Nvidia)
Distributed Compute Platform Bacalhau Launches Next Release 1.1
Bacalhau 1.1, an open-source solution for distributed compute, has been officially released, bringing a wealth of new features and improvements. This update enhances fleet management with the new --target=all option, offers richer node configuration, and ensures more secure communication with support for TLS. Additionally, Bacalhau now provides external job storage for preserving job information across server restarts, clearer error messages, better GPU utilization inside Docker containers, and experimental features like long-running jobs and pluggable executors. For a detailed exploration of these features, check out the '5 Days of Bacalhau' blog series.
Fextralife is worse than fandom, by far. The forced twitch view botting along with the horrendous site layout make it one of the worst wiki sites that exist.
>"But I'm curious if Getty is actually going to make meaningful payments to the creators of the images that went into the training set, or if this is more of a "we could continue to pay our existing royalties to content creators, or we could keep most of the money for ourselves by selling access to a model trained on that content" type of situation.

Adobe is also dealing with this question with Firefly. So far they plan to pay creators annually, but how much each artists gets and how the amount is calculated is yet to be determined. Since a model is only as good as its training data, hopefully this can be a new revenue stream for artists?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/13/adobe-starts-paying-bonuse...
When mass production of sodium ion 150 wh/kg cells huts mass production down to 40$/kwhr, this type of car will get even cheaper.

It seems nuts with all the issues car companies are having with EVs, but an EV is a simple motor (much smaller than an ice), brakes, axles, batteries and wires.

Domestic/ incumbent manufacturing really needs to stay on top of the segment because if they don't the Chinese are going to utterly invade America with it. The Chinese are basically designing the cheap urban car that can scale and purchase to a billion to 2 billion people in China and India.

That's why I think the sodium ion battery with a density sufficient for a 300 mile car hitting mass production at CATL and others is such a big deal.
Amazon will invest up to $4B in OpenAI rival Anthropic
Spies exist. You never are sure how many the enemy has or what they are leaking - even if you do learn, that is a snapshot in time: tomorrow they may get another spy and then you are back. As such you are risking the enemy learns the nukes don't exist and then the whole thing fails.

We now have treaties to inspect each other's nukes. So unlike other things we have a good idea of what how many exist and are working - or at least a floor on the number (that is either side may decide to risk the treaty with secret nukes elsewhere. Between the potential of the program being discovered and the costs I doubt it, but I must allow this for completeness). As such it is generally believed that Russia's Nukes are in mostly in good shape - those who should know all seem to be acting like they are.
https://archive.ph/o0CKw
Interesting, apparently it used to mean either, without prescribing a timeframe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layoff

I think the meaning has fully shifted to imply permanence, for at least a couple decades now. The word that comes to mind for a temporary situation is furlough, although I’ve mainly heard that used in a government context.

Maybe the difference is that most people now change jobs often enough, that the government is the only entity that would promise to re-employ those they temporarily couldn’t pay.
For the record, Oracle didn't kill OO on purpose, they just fumbled with it. Despite what they might have pretended in sales demo at the time, they've never been in the business of building office suites, let alone opensource ones, so they didn't really know how to deal with it. In the end they even did the right thing, by passing it on to Apache, when they could have just quietly strangled it in a basement.

Ironically, one of the most anti-Microsoft companies ever unwittingly managed to do Microsoft a massive favour.
You can enter a DPA (data processing agreement) with OpenAI that forbids subsequent training on submitted content.
Well, it depends.

Clearly, you can be a company like Microsoft where nobody is challenging your dominance in PC operating systems, and you can make huge sums of money. So competitors certainly aren't vital.

Or if you've cleverly sewn up a market with patents or trade secrets or a giant first-mover advantage or network effects, and nobody's got any chance of challenging your dominance in your specific market niche - again that could be highly profitable.

On the other hand, if you're selling ten-dollar bills for five dollars, you might have millions of satisfied paying customers, but no competitors because nobody else thinks your unit economics make sense. Or if you run a DVD rental store, you might be profitable and have many return customers, but you might not attract competitors because they don't think DVD rental is a growth business.

So some people consider a lack of competition an ominous sign.
I took various drugs as a teenager but I fell in love with mdma - specifically building a very strong, close nit friendship group with my girlfriend and 2 friends (and another group occasionally).

It helped my girlfriend (now wife) move through some childhood trauma as well as eating disorders too.

Wasn’t so much into clubs - had a few parties in woods which were mind blowing (fire jugglers in fields was a highlight).

Downsides were more that I didn’t put as much time or care into side projects whilst at university- and having to deal with dodgy people to get hold of it.

Zero reasons why it is illegal (class A, no less), but alcohol is fully accepted.