skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CS is more of a precursor to people getting MS or PhD in it but the tech industry uses it as a barometer to assess candidates. I actually like solving business problems with software so advanced topics where core CS is crucial (writing RDBMS software or OSes) aren’t of interest to me other than foundational knowledge. CS is sorta useful in writing business systems but really for CS level problems, you’re mostly using installed software, not writing your own RDBMS, or your own sorting algorithm. The foundational knowledge is helpful, makes picking up new tech somewhat easier but I’m using libraries and installed software that provides proven solutions. There is still complex software involved but it’s complexity is business complexity.

If your path is to write business software, a CS degree can be a good entry point but day to day work isn’t typically writing advanced CS stuff.

All analogies are bad, so here’s one comparing software to healthcare: a software engineer is more like your primary care doc (there are lots and they use proven solutions) and a CS PhD writing code for an OS on how to use CPU cores is more like a brain surgeon (there are few and they may have to find/create solutions).
I appreciate Blindboy's approach: his advertising is by himself for himself- an appeal to listeners to pay for what they enjoy and/or benefit from, and to consider paying for those who don't have as much disposable income. Last I knew, he doesn't hide any entertainment behind a paywall, unlike Dungeons & Daddies (who, like public radio, read/act out their adverts for others, which is tolerable because this improv group is funny, but I usually skip ahead) who have extra content for subscribers.
I don't blame D&D for what they're doing- it's a way to make some scratch, and their storytelling is worth the interruptions. Still, Blindboy's approach is the one I prefer: transparent about the costs of podcasting, and appealing to our sense of fairness and kindness.

Another podcast without ads is Fated Mates, a labor of love by an author and an editor. They might get some money directly for what they do but it isn't clear to me how, and one potential benefit is more people know about their books and editing work, possibly leading to more customers.

In the USA, there's always the public library, which we pay for collectively. One of my favorite things about this country.
Long ago I worked in places where the CEO did exactly that. "Management by walking around" (it even had the abbreviation MBWA) has fallen out of favor, though. People just don't walk any more.

This was about 1000 people.
And get rid of all guns while your at it.
Show HN: Easy AnimateDiff and Civitai inference/deployment on flushai.cloud
TL;DR -> DEMO VIDEO: https://youtu.be/SrfLtnYxHcE

Flush simplifies the process of building, fine tuning, and managing stable diffusion models. Developers can use Flush’s platform to easily create and deploy powerful stable diffusion workflows in their apps with our SDK and web UI. We have a wide host of base models to choose from, and users can also upload and deploy ANY CIVITAI MODEL (only checkpoints supported currently, adding more soon) within their code.

We additionally NOW support Text-to-Gif endpoints with AnimateDiff. We will soon be adding LORA support as well as PROMPT TRAVELING.

I’d encourage you guys to stay tuned and join our Discord server and DM me about any criticism/feedback/bugs you face.
Thanks, that’s great news.
I was just trying to clarify some muddled discussion about different layers of the networking stack. The original comment about port names instead of port numbers didn't seem to be made with an understanding of the different layers.
I'm afraid you are mistaken. In particular for pointers, const does not guarantee that the memory at the location pointed to won't change. Const only guarantees that the address itself doesn't change.
Ha! You're right that it can be a hard balance.

I think it's easier to stay on the "we can do better" track when working on a hobby project like this. At work I'm typically thinking about whether a marginal day spent polishing something is worth more than all the other stuff that we want to do.

But with Flappy Dird I knew that I wanted to push until I was either happy with the project or didn't believe that I could push the game any more.
If a patient can get California-produced insulin for $30 or insulin produced by a for-profit pharmaceutical company for $35, many people won't bother to opt for the former. This, despite the latter containing significant hidden costs which are reflected in insurance premiums.
Yeah I have some decent side projects that I think could be useful in the marketplace; however, I have no skills for the sales and marketing of it.

It seems to be common advice to bootstrap your business, but at some point you need a salesperson to get the product into the hands of users. The only exception to this is if it is something truly revolutionary like the next Google/Amazon/etc.

B2C bootstrapping seems even harder because you really need to know how to acquire users.
Unpopular opinion: Perhaps more nuanced expedients than a winner-take-all, pecking-order-setting reputation prize should be used to incentivize advancement in the sciences?
I realize Alfred Nobel most likely never set out to be the be-all end-all kingmaker of the sciences, but it seems that scientists themselves, like every other band of humans, have demanded a king to worship. The Nobel committee simply fills the social purpose of providing one.
Online safety bills are proof that everybody hates the nanny state only until it comes to having to take care of their own dang children
they're not quirky types in the least...
I cut my teeth on DWORD, PHALF_PTR, and friends, so my issue is not so much “don’t know how to grok this” as it is “we finally have sane, universal type names and you’re throwing them away.”

Sure, the _t suffix may be an eyesore but I’ll take size_t over “size” any day.
Jesus...50000 modules creates 40 seconds in overhead!!!
I feel like you’re valuing hypothetical kids who would get tricked by nefarious school counselors over real kids who are abused by their parents and kicked out onto the streets for being queer.
Sounds interesting. I'd like to jot down important notes from time to time. However, I have a couple of concerns: 1) I'm accustomed to using Apple Notes and 2) What about security? I'm hesitant to trust highly sensitive information to a new app
Right , not to mention that often times non technical stakeholders may be confused about the amount of progress that has been made.
Non-sequitur to the article, but are there any good utilities for blind users to use on Linux?
If only there was a non-X-thread version of this that was readable (as the threads are now hidden for people not logged in).

Of course, the author is free to choose to publish his views in any way they see fit. Except this way it gets a "meh" from me at most (and even that only because of the intro in this post here), since it's functionally hidden, as good as if it didn't exist.
The nukes are the only relevance the UK has in the world. Its the UKs last remaining bit of imperial honor it has left.
We've had these at some intersections in the Netherlands for at least 15 years.
Apparently this changed about ten years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20110716214404/http://www.mtq.go...
That’s it! I have come to use this without thinking and I have not noticed any discomfort.
Yeah, like a kind of a robots.txt or nofollow. Heh. Although the naming is a bit ironic if that's the case. Perhaps _noai, _noMine, could be better? All seems kinda awkward tho. Hehe :)
I would more-readily give money to support artists if they were very transparent about their finances and how much they wanted to earn.

Say my (made up) target is $50,000 a year, and if my patrons reached this goal, any further donations would cause everyone's to decrease so the ceiling was maintained OR the overflow would go, transparently, to other artists I supprted, like runoff voting. I don't like the feeling of throwing money to already-popular people if they're already earning enough. I know my local food shelf needs to help, and many other causes that align with my values.
This is why a healthy market needs more than competition, it needs to be easy for new competitors to enter the market and make a buck. New competitors will enter the market and undercut prices to help themselves grow.
I didn't know there was a rename. Hopefully they can keep up calling out the old name to let people know!
This is a difficult question I've been pondering between the UK/USA.

Who has more authority over their children and in which domains?

Medical providers, can they ruin kids' lives in various ways? It's easy to manipulate worried parents.

Schools, do teachers have authority over their classroom, how much? Can they override parents, for example when rescuing them from anti-LGBT?

Nobody trusts churches anymore, so that's not really a problem.
Many of the plants mentioned in this story are no longer rare or expensive, depending on how easy they are to propagate.
For example, the article mentions a “Pink Princess” Philodendron. These are not difficult to grow, but the pink variegation is notoriously unstable. In 2019 I sold a small one of these plants for $125. Today you can buy a similar plant for $20-40 on Etsy from a reputable US seller.
Ask HN: What's the best way to add search to my website?
I have a quite unique website https://ray.run/

I tried to create a website like the ones I remember browsing back in early 2000s. It has questions from the users, discord forum archive, dev tools, videos, etc.

I want to find a way to add search for users. I see it on the other websites, and usually they use Algolia. However, my community is entirely free and their product is paid. What can I do instead?
If you want "passion" look no farther than the game industry. that "passion" lets them pay workers less and work more, despite being overall more engaged and working across multiple disciplines to ship a product.

And even despite all that engagement, the "passion" doesn't make you save you from layoffs. Even Epic in all its billions made from Fortnite money decided it didn't care. Nothing is sacred. I don't personally mind some inefficiences and the occasional incompetence (though, in games there's rarely IME intentional incompetence. Of course a designer won't understand performance impacts on a game, and a programmer won't necessarily have the best UX for artist tools in a first pass). But companies some 20 years ago at least pretended to have loyalty and reward tenure and that's all but gone now. Why put your heart into something that you know will break it 2-3 years down the line? or 18[1]?

[1]: https://gamerant.com/blizzard-layoffs-18-year-veteran/
If the bill capped the total cost to 30 dollars he would not have vetoed it. The reason he vetoed it is because it would ultimately just trigger insurance companies to raise prices to cover it across the state. That goes against trying to keep healthcare affordable.
If you're stopped at a red light, you are most likely driving below the speed limit.
Looks like Google has a way of doing it https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/controlpanel/cre...
It would be interesting to see open source versions of this kind of stuff that can run on other platforms.
The modern system favors executives as opposed to owners. The executive class has figured out how to extract a significant chuck from to owners share for their own coffers.
This is such a weird market. Most embedded devices are purchased by randos who don't know what they're getting themselves into.

By contrast, security cameras are disproportionately purchased by, I'm guessing, security professionals. Often the security staff at large corporations that are buying cameras in volume. If there was any camera that was otherwise competitive and had mainline kernel drivers and open source firmware, would anybody even buy anything else?

Do the manufacturers not realize this?
He probably doesn't use Emacs. :)
I should really check out Ender's Game one of these days.
To my great sadness, I have known too many people who I consider to be addicts and abusers of drugs, both illegal and prescription.

Except I've never met anyone with an abusive or addictive relationship to psilocybin. I just haven't seen it. Seriously, when was the last time you heard of a family giving someone a mushroom intervention?
Agree, I did program on the Commodore 64 and later Amiga extensively and I too couldn't afford many games. However I'm not sure if I was the typical kid -- in the late eighties and nineties many of my friends had consoles and I had no interest in them because I couldn't program them.
The florin was a very late addition to the system (1848) and a very conscious step towards decimalization; the first two major designs said literally "One tenth of a pound" on them. It's surprising there was no obvious pressure to squeeze the half-crown out of circulation to pave the way towards a decimal model.
Calm down people. NYC already bans right turns. It’s not a big deal.
This broadly seems -- for a blind user -- like the monitor periodically taking a break for a sighted user. Seems like it would get real old by, like, the 3rd time or so.
> The phrase clicks in your head and the electrical signals are picked up and decoded by the bedside computer.

It wouldn't even have to click in your head if a brain scan could model your entire consciousness and then simulate every possible interrogation method until something works.

Even inputs that aren't currently possible for the body to report. Entire new levels of pain, intoxication, or anything.
Json doesn't support polymorphism and circular/shared references, those scenarios are more suitable for fury. And json is a text protocol, which is inefficient compared to fury binary protocol. Taking jackson json lib as an example:
1) Fury is 41.6x faster than jackson for Struct serialization
2) Fury is 65.6x faster than jackson for Struct deserialization
3) Fury is 9.4x faster than jackson for MediaContent serialization
4) Fury is 9.6x faster than jackson for MediaContent deserialization

For http rest api, json is more suitable. For RPC/bigdata/game/scheduling, fury may be better
It’s parents’ anxiety, irrational but not something one can easily snap out of…
One must ask themselves why a REST testing tool has venture capital and needs to be closed source (despite their website proudly claiming "Open source"). I'll pass on installing this onto my computer.
Please understand, I am still in a position where I am writing new code for a platform which only has one compiler, a proprietary fork of GCC from nearly 20 years ago. I assume other C programmers might have similar situations.
I mean to each their own, but in my own experience, I value being able to easily and reliably copy-and-paste code snippets across projects (and I have a million of them, across several evolutions of my own personal coding styles and conventions) or files without worrying about whether the typedefs are in scope, polluting a namespace with possibly conflicting names or macros, etc.

I also have often found myself publishing “for my own use only” code as open source later and like to keep things understandable to maybe help teach someone something someday.
Should perhaps be

int Foo_bar(const Foo * self);
Pulling at straws. This is already the law in NYC. It works great.
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one of the finest!
I mean, being a bit glib here, but a lot of programming is dealing with someone else's type system.

Moreover, for those of us who write C fairly often, the mnemonics here are familiar.

Actually, as custom type systems go, this one is pretty elegant. Reminds me of Rust.
Nice explanation! It's the second order effects.
That seems like more of a communications issue rather than a technical one.
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The article addresses (somewhat) the dichotomy between this goal and the work the EU is doing to end ubiquitous end-to-end. Well.. addresses by having one paragraph which talks to it, but it doesn't exactly raise confidence they understand the problem.

I think they still believe in "evil bit" packet flagging somehow. Sorry did I say evil? I meant good. the good bit, the "I am a journalist" flag in TCP.

As if a list of "recognised" journalists is not simultaneously an invitation to surveil and harrass people, for those of a mind to do so.
i used to read a lot of those as a financial journalist, afraid not exactly what i was hoping the top answer to be for an industry such as this
Having to buy yet another adapter cable to make things work wasn't great. Nor was having to use a hub because FireWire and Thunderbolt at up space that could have been USB cables.

At least you get minimal functionality (why are you hoarding data less cables?) Better than having to go buy one because you have a billion micro USB but no FireWire to hook up that drive.
I used the BLS's consumer price index -based calculator: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

The Federal minimum wage has not changed since 2009, but the CPI captures effects like per-state minimums increasing, less people working minimum wage jobs, etc. No "adjust for inflation" calculation will capture the "pain" that every individual experiences from making a purchase, but this index is pretty close.
Yeah, you are right. Fury supports polymorphism and circular/shared references, which are not supported by json/jackson. I did a benchmark with jackson before, here are the results:
1) Fury is 41.6x faster than jackson for Struct serialization 2) Fury is 65.6x faster than jackson for Struct deserialization 3) Fury is 9.4x faster than jackson for MediaContent serialization 4) Fury is 9.6x faster than jackson for MediaContent deserialization

see https://github.com/chaokunyang/fury-benchmarks for detailed benchmark code.
I’m seeing the price per vial of generic insulin lispro (Humalog) for roughly $20 a vial. I’m not sure how many vials a person needs but that’s not completely nuts.

Yeah they’ve invented newer more expensive types of insulin that better control blood sugar, and they are continuing to invent newer types that are even better. Which I think is great and allowing there to be a financial incentive to create new and better insulins.
Racism is a big part of it. Every race thinks they are superior and somehow other people are stupid, orks, apes, subhumans etc.

When wars break out though it generally turns out that people are equally capable of killing each other and logistics is what makes or breaks any prolonged conflict. Technology helps as a force multiplier but it won’t save you if the logistics break down and you run low on ammo or manpower.
All this pain when most of the time folks could just fire up Postgraphile or Hasura, point them at their Postgres database, and go sip mai tais by the pool. I honestly don't understand why folks insist on writing their resolvers by hand in 2023.

"But I don't want folks having direct knowledge of my database schema," I hear as a retort.

1. Most of the time for most projects, the GraphQL schema or REST API is a direct analog of the database.

2. You can always make a new Postgres schema with views to expose just the data features you want with annotations to show where the foreign key relationships should be. Still worlds easier than writing and maintaining resolver and data loader logic by hand.
Well ... Name a language is which you categorically cannot "shoot yourself in the foot"!
I don’t have many favorite comments on hacker news, especially not if this kind, but this one goes on that list. Thanks for sharing.
What would most likely happen is that insulin factories would scale up production and price would go down in the long term (economies of scale and increased competition). That's what free trade pretty much always does to prices.
Is this recently posted thread about diamonds self-healing related?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785458
My guess would be this:

> Another possibility, which could prevent the need for immunosuppressive drugs, is to encapsulate the transplanted cells within a flexible device that protects the cells from the immune system. However, finding a reliable oxygen supply for these encapsulated cells has proven challenging.

Hemoglobin is a large molecule. It is difficult to create a barrier that allows it to pass without also allowing in anti-bodies. Trying to extract the oxygen outside of the barrier and that pass just the oxygen through is theoretically another approach. But at that point, doing the same thing with water instead of hemoglobin is just easier.
They either don’t know they’re not complying or they hope no one will notice.
Incredible. Two years later and Americans have forgotten the Saigon like scenes in Kabul and we're back to being invincible.

We haven't won a war against a peer enemy since WW2 and lost most of the wars against non-peers since then.
- Responsible for .nz tld are staffed by 4 technical employees doing 24x7 on call support

- Engagement surveys captured staff feeling fatigued and under resources at entire org level

- Hard to hire for roles due to specialisation

- Team moving away from BAU work to projects

- Issues raised by external partner but team had other immediate work pressures

- Had to contact ex-employee that use to worked there to help resolve

- Once a year critical take just done by one team member

- Many IT operations tasks have sufficient external dependencies that it is impossible to tell – for certain that the task will be successful in production without doing the task in the production environment. - We've all been there.

Sounds like InternetNZ should actually outsource all of this to an external party and just focus on governance work.
BCD modes only take a few gates to implement; their biggest cost is probably the instruction encoding space they occupy. On a chip as small as the 6502 it makes sense that some users would want to avoid the expensive decimal/binary conversions and do arithmetic in decimal.
Yeah, old C compilers would only look at the first 6 characters of a name, and the rest were insignificant. That's how you get nanrs like "strcpy" and "malloc" instead of something like "string_copy" or "mem_allocate" (I still think "memory_allocate" would be long enough to be annoying to type).
Polars uses PyO3 too, looks quite simple.
Yeah, maybe it’s not inconsistent any more. But meanwhile, systemd has gotten really nice, even a good version of rc.d seems awful by comparison.

I had the same feeling when Apple came out with launchd in 2005. It felt like such a massive improvement over the existing state of things. Systemd also feels like a massive improvement.
Here’s a link debunking the tulip mania myth [1]. Put shortly, the myth was created as a moral campaign against speculators. Interestingly, one of the propagators of the myth was complicit in pumping the rail bubble, which did far more economic damage.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
Ex-vice presidents are SUPER cereal about this one existential crisis
I've had nothing but trouble with plant tissue culture. A lot of mold contamination and never any growth or rooting.
My house is full of all sorts of semi-rare plants now. It is a whole weird little subculture on social networks.

In fact, I just picked up two nice big leaves (with a huge root ball) of Monstera Thai Constellation today, for $40. Lesser versions can go for hundreds. Feeling pretty happy about that one.
Why does everything on the web have to be attempting to create an everything service with 1 billion users? Can’t we just have some fun?