skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they're losing money right now by not offering it. Right now they're losing money on their 3% mortgages. If it converts to 5% it turns a loss into a small profit.

OTOH, if you don't offer the 5%, there are 3 scenarios:

1. the homeowner keeps the 3% and you keep losing money
2. the homeowner converts to a 7% with you and get a large profit
3. the homeowner converts to a 7% with somebody else and you make no profit.

#1 and #3 are by far the most likely options, IMO.
The end result was a stalemate. Reddit did not change any of its policies. Enough of the people responsible for posting and managing content left the platform to cause a noticeable impact on it.

Here's a fun thing to look at, https://subredditstats.com/ for any major subreddit, e.g.:

https://subredditstats.com/r/worldnews

https://subredditstats.com/r/explainlikeimfive

https://subredditstats.com/r/videos

All of the most popular subreddits show a steady decline from 2019 to present, with a sharp drop in July 2023. Once this happens to a platform, it's rare for the platform to ever get those users back at scale. It's safe money that Reddit will now be a zombie platform, a la Slashdot -- still up and running with some users, but with flat or declining activity forever.
Details matter. A lot.

Do you get to choose the portfolio provider? Can you move the account to a different provider? What obligations do the providers have regarding marketing, 3rd party access, etc? What types of investments are available? What funds are available? How much are their fees?

Anyone that has done the math has found that a lot of 529 plans have such bad choices and high fees that you are actually better off in a non-tax-advantaged Vanguard Total Market fund (note that Vanguard offers a good 529 plan).
Ripgrep is an essential tool for navigating unfamiliar codebases. I also use it to quickly search many repositories for specific symbols when I research the consumers of libraries and APIs.
python is unbelievably awkward for shell scripting though
This is why I transitioned to being a technician early on, and then transition to working on hardware. I still mostly do programming work, but not for (direct) pay.
The illustrator is DALL-E.
But your writing style can probably be used to identify you by an advanced AI, so every text written by you is personal in some way.
Well, I know people try very hard to not understand. So, they don't have to feel concerned and actually do stuff to fix it. That's how people are generally, let's just ignore everything until the house is on fire...

But that doesn't make it much less frustrating. And to be honest there are more and more people understanding my view in between words telling me their stories and ultimately agreeing. I have to say that is somewhat necessary because otherwise it makes you feel crazy for being the only one that can see. Like giant permanent gaslighting...

And yeah, people are still delusional but the stats keep telling the same story. At some point we are going to run out of prison and benefits for single moms I guess...
Depending on your printer

You may be able to print directly to port 9100 of the printer using netcat
Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-Based Data Stores [video]
Reducing the number of hops needed before first data bytes is really cool. We cannot change the speed of light but we can design protocols which need to traverse the medium fewer times.
It was eventually fixed in another PR, despite the maintainer's lengthy ranting.

https://github.com/opencart/opencart/pull/12951#issuecomment...
Less good moderators + more GPT generated comments

Yeah, I can see the average quality has been going down. Also I've felt less enthusiastic about contributing. I just won't bother submitting articles, writing a more insightful comment, etc

Lately, they only deserve bottom of the barrel engagement
Yep. CC means “Carbon Copy”, as in I’m writing this letter once, and using carbon paper to make copies as I write it. So the main recipient would get the primary copy and the CC recipients would literally get a carbon copy.
which ones do you recommend ?
I think the designers had way too much fun making this.
Battery tech has deep and extensive research behind it. It is unlikely that a revolutionary breakthrough will happen at this point. Batteries have to balance so many factors: energy density, safety, cost, reliability, recharge characteristics, and they're all really important. We are in the incremental phase of battery technology advancement now. The options and their drawbacks are all well known.
I don't know about "only garbage gets posted".

In one of the craft based subs I moderate (5m subs - reasonably sized one), it's not so much the quality of posts has dropped, it's that the quantity has dropped, and dropped significantly. This seems to directly translate to garbage posts getting a lot more visibility and sticking around for a lot longer. The good quality posts are still there, but proportionally the garbage is much more visible now.

This is enough of a problem that subscribers have been complaining about it. Not much can be done until (and only if) the number of actual contributors begins to rise again.

On the other hand, I also run a tiny local city sub (maybe 20k ppl) - the number of posts has been steadily growing. I can't work that one out.
Failing to either incarcerate or rehabilitate criminals is cruel for everyone. When the state fails at its most basic duty in the social contract---that we put justice in the state's hands exclusively instead of doled out arbitrarily in the street---, people will justifiably ask what's the point of having a state at all. That's a dangerous path to go down.
They seem to have gone all in with the aesthetic and used a server from the 80s too.
In a very similar situation too, but add in that both sets of grandparents have one with Alzheimers so instead of extra care givers we actually have even more work with having to actively baby sit parents. Holidays are pretty stressful and this year we threw a nice thanksgiving stomach bug into the mix!
I've noticed the same. Usually it takes the form of dumb phrase-like jokes, retorts, puns, etc, with the entire chain being downvoted and flagged. This is necessary to keep HN from devolving into thoughtless meme-style posts that just clutter the space.
Check your AWS Free Tier usage with a new API
How do you get information about insider trading? I am not versed into this but it aroused my curiosity
Same here. I'm happily spending more free time on creative and learning ventures.
It seems like that data should be accessible at:

https://www.similarweb.com/app/google-play/com.reddit.frontp...

https://www.similarweb.com/app/app-store/1064216828/statisti...

But you need a paid account to access stats older than 28 days, and this needs the 6-month view (or even longer, ideally).

Anyone here subscribe to Similarweb, and can answer for us? Or know of freely available historical app ranking stats?
> Heads up! This data is likely out of date or inaccurate now that Reddit has decided to kill the open ecosystem that existed around Reddit. I don't earn any money from this site, and if my calculations are correct it'd cost me a couple thousand dollars per month with their new API pricing, so yeah. If you can, it's probably worth leaving Reddit for other platforms - especially open-source/federated ones like Lemmy.

It shows different stats because the API changed. DAU is likely higher than ever.
"Roberts had previously told WIRED that he caused a plane to climb during a simulated test on a virtual environment he and a colleague created, but he insisted then that he had not interfered with the operation of a plane while in flight."

So they wrote a simulation without knowing how any of it works and then showed they could hack their own cobbled together mess.

"They built a test lab using demo software obtained from infotainment vendors and others in order to explore what they could to the networks."

Yep, cobbled together random non-production infotainment software which is isolated from the actual flight systems. Generally only certified to DO-178 DAL Level D/E since they are isolated in such a way that total failure or even maliciousness can not possibly cause a meaningful safety impact.

The functional equivalent of claiming you could totally steal from a bank vault because you successfully stole some pens from the counter. Just another self-aggrandizing idiot.
Ah, it's been a while. It doesn't change anything, though. They might as well have been telepathic, since it appeared they formed a sort of hive mind when close to each other.
but it has been confirmed: EURISKO has been successfully run in Interlisp Medley!

https://github.com/white-flame/eurisko
Hikaru has done multiple videos on why it’s total nonsense, pointing to statisticians from multiple universities that detail the problems in his thinking.

In short, he tries to pretend Elo doesn’t exist and there’s no way a top 10 GM could repeatedly defeat FMs and IMs rated 400 points lower.
> Having nice round numbers is of no benefit to a patient.

At our current level of logistical sophistication, the benefit-to-the-patient is that they can get their medications at all.

I agree that in a perfect world every prescription would start with a computation, based on body weight and historical susceptibility and suchlike, to determine precisely the right dosage. However, I also don't think we're there yet. I don't think that you can reasonably prescribe "take 6 milliliters of this" or "take thirteen of these"; patients would mess that up reliably even if they were in perfect health and had perfect vision and perfectly stable hands. And we can't stock thirty different sizes of pill; each size of pill takes up already-limited shelf space, increases cost of packaging and logistics, and increases the likelihood of dosing error. So doctors can't yet prescribe precisely the dosage they should be able to. I'm sure that there are cases where they do - drugs with narrow therapeutic ranges administered in hospital settings where they can be precisely dispensed by IV - but for stuff that's being sent home with patients, we're just not there yet.

(Sadly, even on-demand services like pillpack won't save us, because doctors can't depend on the availability of custom pill-stamping when they make a prescription - they have to assume that the lowest-common-denominator pharmacy is being used to fill the prescription.)

(In fact, going by the rate at which hospital mortality is attributed to dosing errors during administration, we haven't solved precision pharmacology even under ideal circumstances and fundamental breakthroughs are required that will obsolete any current approach to dispensation of prescription medication.)
The goal of any corporation, some are more successful than others.
It is peak hacker news that nobody, Nobody, here can suppress their techno optimism for long enough to acknowledge that this technology is in the direct lineage of the humanitarian disaster brought about by the Eschatron 9000.

I'm out..
It was not. I was there, it was all just moved a couple of blocks away and fenced off.
For me the most awesome part is support for both consumer audio and pro audio profiles at the same time. No messing about with JACK etc.

Everything just works. It might not be as perfect as JACK (getting some rare xruns) but it's just so convenient!
At those settings I'm getting about 40 fps. If I bump it up to ultra I get about 32 fps. If I go for retina (2304x1490 upscaled to 3456x2234) I'm down to 25fps, and when I step inside a building I get around 33fps.
Build your own hi-fi ear defenders
Show HN: 24Hour Planner
This is a small planner that I made today.
Any chance anyone is working on one for "the 80s"?
He should be fired
How quickly? What if the defect with the laptop isn't readily apparent and this is because the company has intentionally crafted their product in such a way so that the defect doesn't reveal itself to the customer until after the legally mandated warranty/return period?
The attempt to change policy completely failed. Wasn't a stalemate in any sense of the word
It's a giant GAN setup. Generator is improved by feedback from humans. Humans, studying generators, improve too - a game from a decade ago always look low resolution.
Same here... the program I use most aside from my editor.

In fact my current editor, VS Code, also does searching powered by rg behind the scenes:

/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules.asar.unpacked/vscode-ripgrep/bin/rg
There's a short story along these lines I remember reading somewhere, but I could never find it again. It describes the experience of someone whose brain is separated from their body but kept connected to it via a remote connection. Over time there are various experiments or different situations, like going into a cave to experience higher latency, maybe controlling multiple bodies at once, replacing the biological brain with an equivalent simulated one, and some others. I wish I could remember more of the details...

Any chance it's one of the ones you mentioned above, or another someone recognizes? I was able to find that the phrase "brain in a vat" refers to this genre as a whole, but haven't yet found the particular version that I faintly recall reading.
Get your Mac Python from python.org
Foundation Kit was “ok” with GNUStep. I’d expect that would be a good place to start.

As for AppKit and now all the other frameworks that have been added, it’ll be an uphill struggle.
Win32 has been Win32 since Win95 (if you don't count Win32s). Additions have occurred, but much of the base has remained the same.

In that time, Macs already changed processor architectures several times.
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38381573
If you are an Emacs user like me, you must try out the consult-ripgrep command from the peerless Consult [1] package by Daniel Mendler: search your whole project with ripgrep and get a live preview of every matching candidate all inside of Emacs!

[1]: https://github.com/minad/consult
EV is still playable on the macOS classic emulators. I suggest giving it a shot too.
Archive specifically hates privacy. They want EDNS info and if you don't give it to them they will serve you garbage. They probably hate privacy because it makes it easier to deal with bots, so it's not really archive's fault, nor is it the end users fault for not wanting to share PII. Ultimately there are a lot of bad actors on the internet and that makes it hard to have nice things. It works for you because you are willing to have your rights eroded for comfort (a totally valid choice).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
That’s really interesting data. But isn’t it possible less popular subreddits have picked up the slack?
Let's also not forget this: https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all
It depends on what you do. Browsing with Javascript off is great, Youtube works fine. Also, most software is not yet fully optimized; if you want to see what both phones can do when it is, have a look at SXMo: https://man.sr.ht/~anjan/sxmo-docs-stable/
Personally, I used to spend over an hour a day on Reddit. Now it has reduced to 10 minutes a week. Even when I go there, I see less quality posts at the top than before. So I think the blackout definitely had an impact, and Reddit is slowly going to become irrelevant.
Do "Gray Rhinos" Pose a Greater Threat Than Black Swans?
It doesn’t matter, because importantly, now they can game it however they need for their IPO. I stopped posting and know many others who did. The platform lost a lot and the front page is noticeably more trashy/Facebook like than it used to be.
The J1772 Adapter is included with every Tesla vehicle delivery. It’s not just theoretically possible to use another one, it’s literally enabled by the manufacturer themselves. The adapter locks into place on the vehicle. You could leave it there permanently if you wanted to.
As someone who uses zsh + spaceship, what benefits would I gain moving to fish as my main shell? I don’t write many bash scripts so the scripting side is less of a concern.
Working as intended. The science is settled, the majority opinions are the correct ones.
Yeah mine too until Rust. But part of that sensibleness was making it backwards compatible with C, which entails a mountain of inherited design mistakes.

I wonder what his blank slate language would have looked like.
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Box of floppies on many disks. They were so common. I had many of them. Floppies were a very stubborn technology. They wouldn't die as much as I wished them to. And for the longest time, they were the only way to flash BIOS on many systems.

Floppies, CDs, DVDs, PCMCIA cards, modems, CGA cards, MFM controllers, mechanical mice, ISA bus, parallel port, internal combustion engine... Things I used a lot. But do not miss at all. Good riddance.
That's a complete mischaracterization of the law, at least in the US.

If a trail has been setup and maintained for the public good, new owners cannot remove the public access. They are _legally required_ to maintain them.

Just as they are legally required to maintain the sidewalks in front of their property.
Suburbanization is pretty much the exact opposite of hunter-gatherer life.
Check out my note-taking app on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.nuttyartist.notes
Or just change DNS...

Works for me using ControlD
Pyrrhic victory for Reddit Corporation?
Using ML to make the worlds best/worst keyboards
Some jurisdictions have laws about needing to have actual sales (within some time window) at the reference price, not merely being available at that price.
Glossary – Python 3.12 Documentation
and now is fun with Wireguard: if they only access to the internet is the DNS udp, you can easily route all traffic on it :)

I set it up and it works, of course, then I tried to use it with public limited wifi (hotels, airports) but still have to find what I thought was more common: a connection where the only open DNS traffic is DNS
You are either admiring the .html extension or the monthless date?
End result was: mastodon networks got a huge amount of bored redditors.
What makes you so giggly? Fairly reasonable post IMO.
Define irrelevant, because if it has eyeballs...
If anyone is wondering why this is posted in a GitHub issue, the author attempted to disclose this privately but was ignored before finally receiving the response "ur a fucking tim.e waster!"

https://0xbro.red/disclosures/disclosed-vulnerabilities/open...
Demo Rust Rocket – major update for Rocket 0.5 async, sqlx, db pools, etc.
Imagine going to Oktoberfest and being told you're freeloading by listening to the bands playing.

As mentioned before, this idea that we owe our time and money to someone giving away something for free is a scam on the same level as diamonds being a girls best friend.
Yann LeCun on why AI must be open source [video]
It depends on the terms of the shipment; if you're paying the shipping company, you can choose who can redirect it.
The subreddits I used to visit are in a zombie state. It was like they killed 20% of my internet experience. More time spent here I suppose is better time, but Reddit was a good general purpose community until then. I guess the younger users fled to tiktok and the others to facebook?
Building a NetBSD Ramdisk Kernel
> Consoles with built-in RF cables, like the Color TV Game 6, often have scars like this, and it seems particularly common on the Nintendo consoles. This is because the RF cable contains plasticizers to make it more flexible; the problem is, people often wrap cables around the console for convenient storage. This is fine for the short term, but if they’ve been in the closet for almost fifty years, well, you get burns like this or even worse. Be careful how you store these!

Yum endocrine disruptors... I find that when I apply office or duct tape to plastic erasers or PVC cable sleeves, the plastic and glue will "diffuse" into each other, producing a disgusting goop that sticks to fingers and is a pain to clean off. I also know that rubber feet and "soft touch" surfaces can turn into goop over time, but I don't know what process is happening there.

I hear that the plasticizers leaching out of plastic into air (or decomposing) is why old electronics' plastic cases and parts become weak and brittle over decades.
Be the change you want to see.

Join the few of us working on open source software and hardware for classic Amiga.
On the talk of metros... Stockholm metro is really sublime.

We love to complain about it but after being in Paris and NY... wow
Hi there, Isaac here. Early days of GPTK this was definitely a concern, so we required you to download the dmg from Apple's website yourself, but around beta 4, with feedback from the community, they changed the license to allow for redistribution in cases like this.
This, but not sarcastically.

Governments are not and cannot be the ultimate moral arbiters.
Sooooooooo many porn games on these Japanese systems, it's shocking really.
God floppies were the worst. When you're on disk 18 of 20 and you get a bad sector... good times.

Oh, and the once or twice a month you had to clean your mice balls because to much crust was building up inside them.

As many complaints as I have about wireless and bluetooth they are still far more reliable than most of that 80s-start of 2000 stuff unless it was eye wateringly expensive equipment.
10 or so years ago I spent a long time customizing a DAW workstation on Arch using JACK and Ardour and a lot of other utilities.

It had a steep learning curve and a lot of configuration but I loved the freedom JACK granted to wire applications to each other.

Is anybody using PipeWire in an audio engineering setup? Or would JACK still be the preferred method here?
A Guide to Enjoying Discord
A GeoGuessr Like Experience in ChatGPT
On 23.10 they use pipewire 0.3.79 which I think is the latest stable release before this brand new 1.0 release.
Is it only me or is that background color of the FAQ with the black font totally unreadable?
> trashy/Facebook

Don't mistake "bad for people like us" with "bad for business" — Duolingo appears to be doing fantastically well as a corporation despite having deliberately made themselves into something I found painful to use and therefore stopped using. Facebook is rolling in money despite being your example of bad. Tabloid newspapers sell very well.
Ok -- "avoit" instead of "avait" is indeed a different spelling -- but "f" in original text is not a different spelling, it's a different way of writing the same letter s (a different shape, but the same letter).
I think many people in the US have a state ID/DL and a passport, these days with TSA Precheck/global entry often people have a fed ID card as well.
> For iterating over an array:

Bash array syntax is error prone and hard to read, and the expansion of arrays still depend on the field separator and must fit in the environment.

Most of the time you should just rely on that field separator and do it the simple way:

for i in "$f"; do echo $i; done

Much more obvious and more shell-like. That's how all bash functions process their parameters.

Set IFS only if you really need to. But in that case also consider something like xargs where you are not limited by environment, have null terminated fields, and offer parallelism.

Arrays are only useful when you need multidimensionality, at which point you should probably look at using data files and process with other tools such as sed. Or start looking at something like Perl or Python.