skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wolfs are predators. A wolf kills about 20 deers every year. I understand that some people feel it's romantic to have these animals roam around, but to congratulate yourself on your empathy for allowing this to happen really is obscene.
It is worth mentioning that The Industry is once again falling behind The Piracy. All that warpsharping and filtering was a fad more than a decade ago, when people got big high resolution screens, but lacked new content. After a while, it was decided that mods should use their powers to stop that crap.

The answer is quite simple: any presentation is an artistic decision of “how it should look like”. Each time you put some image on screen you make choices (or someone chooses for you, and sets the defaults). Artistic decisions need taste. Many people just don't have any. Commoners who played with interesting toys, and made over-filtered rips probably thought that they really look cool, and did not understand what was lost. Commoners on this page who don't understand why objects shouldn't look like they went under a steamroller then got plastic edge embossing, and ask for comparisons probably really can't see the difference. If it sits like a duck… And the business knows well that “taste” is not important, “art” is not important, “quality” is not important — what is important is attention to the product. If it sells, it sells, no matter what it is.

The secret is that lot of people will watch 8-camrips-on-1-DVD content, and be just as happy. (You probably know a couple of such persons. You know, horrible streaming sites with more ads on screen than you can count, almost-dialup bitrates for “FullHD” and so on. “Why should I bother with all the other options”, etc.) However, there is an incentive to make them buy 4K-8K-3D-HDR-whatever TVs (which they don't even use in any new fashion), grab “newer and better” releases, subscribe to “newer and better” streaming services. Brainwashing about “new technologies” simply makes them believe that they acquired some enormous riches. When you tell them it's really crappy, you don't just argue about that specific quality, you question their life choices and beliefs.
Thankfully these days not as unheard of as it once was! https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
In 2024 all major cloud providers have NoSQL (AWS DynamoDB and its equivalents) that will easily scale to beyond this use case, managed purely by good single table design. That is the best practice for this and most basic use cases — not RDBMS in 2024.

Why? key/value data stores have consistent hashing which scales to planet scale built in. No need for sharding or caching or other bs that brings down slack and GitHub every other month.
It's not stupid if it works...
For people listing other places where Decathlon has this - perhaps France is more relevant since Decathlon is a French company.
‘Conversely, if everyone's education were free, then there wouldn’t be a good way to determine a) which specific programs ought to have different prices because of the supply and demand for that kind of credential, b) whether particular people might be better-served by spending their time in different ways, or c) when we're allocating too much of society's resources to education, in the aggregate.’

a) If the education is free, there's no need to determine _prices_ for different programs, is there? There is a need to decide how many places to offer in each programme, but this is an easier problem.

b) Particular people may decide for themselves without a prohibitive cost factor, thank you very much.

c) When has this ever been a problem? If we want to allocate close to zero to begin with, it is another problem.

In other words, free education for all is basically alright. It is hard to attract the best educational talent in this setting because salaries are usually capped and one can always make more in the private sector, but a combination of job security and high prestige is usually enough to have decent staff.
This looks really promising! I just tried it out. A few pieces of feedback!

1. It seems like the save delay is a bit too long. If you reload the page within like 1s of writing, what you just wrote disappears. Maybe make that faster and/or include a confirmation that there's unsaved changes if you try to close so you don't lose changes.

2. I was expecting some of the other languages to evaluate too (specifically JS). Maybe I missed something, but it seems like just the Math blocks are evaluable? Does it work with JS too?

Some things I love:
1. Block concept!
2. It's a scratchpad, there's no files to save. I'd love to use this as a dev journal.
Darktable 4.6 Released [YouTube] [video]
As it should, I guess: university students require less supervision.
I don't mind ads, they're not great, but they're not the end of the world either, they paid for a lot of useful services over the years.
How would a grocery store look that's designed around that? Sell only essential goods where you can control the supply chain, and sell it only in big portions so that the cost of the RFID tag doesn't matter.
Slack was an internal side project for something else they were working on, so they too weren't thinking much of it at first.
How are they not colonizing anyone when they are literally settling territory that even the state of Israel does not consider to be theirs prior to said settlers taking it? What does a war in 1967 have to do with colonizing in 2023? Or more importantly, why does Israel get to use that as an excuse for being allowed to be aggressive and do whatever it wants? Do you extend that logic to Palestinians too? Are they allowed to use armed resistance since they got kicked out in masse from their homes in the 1940s?
Isn't the TIOBE index more of an "engagement" index than a indexes "of popularity"
A good designed language will perform worse than a language where people struggle and ask a lot of questions online?
If I rant about java, because I love Csharp. Doesn't java get rated as more popular?
Back in like 2004 or so Fedora was already up to like 6 discs (can't remember if they were CDs or DVDs). A friend at school who had a broadband internet connection (rare at the time) downloaded and burnt one for me, thinking I'd still be able to install it off the first one even I'd miss many optional packages. Unfortunately it didn't work. At the end of the installation it requested disc 6. I never got the remaining CDs but I would occasionally boot it just to experience using something that wasn't Windows. That was a few years before you could get order Ubuntu on one CD for free so I could switch to GNU/Linux and never look back.
So... just go to wikipedia.
For example, if we compare the average homes in the US vs Germany, which it would be reasonable to assume is occupied by those in the average income bracket of those countries:

- The square footage in the American homes is almost double that of German homes, and European homes in general: https://mises.org/power-market/americans-have-much-more-livi...

> you probably can't get much of this with the average (let alone median, which is usually the measure for this sort of thing) US income at all.
- Housing expenditure as percentage of the household income is lower in the US than pretty much everywhere in Europe, meaning American housing is more affordable with respect to American salaries: https://cdn.mises.org/styles/max_full/s3/hsgexpend_0.png

- If we're talking cars, the same car will usually cost more in Germany than it does in the US, despite the US buyer having a higher income:
(Transportation section)
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resu...
> 've seen some comment their other family members have thought there was too much grain

I guess they never watched any actual film projected in cinemas?
It is a model that is pre-existing though. My parents paid property taxes that funded local schools that I didn’t go to. I pay property tax for my local schools, but I don’t have children.
Yeah, 31 is pretty good but the fifths being about 5 cents off kind of throws everything a little out of tune. 5/4 being less than a cent off is great though.

If I had to choose an EDO I think it's hard to go wrong with 41. 3/2, 5/4, 6/5, and 7/4 are all closer to just intonation in 41 EDO than 12 EDO.

(I've been casually involved with a local group[1] that's trying to popularize a form of 41-EDO guitar that only has every other fret and uses an odd interval tuning so notes not on one string will be on the next. It works surprisingly well, due to some convenient mathematical coincidences that place all the notes you're likely to commonly use right next to each other.)

[1] https://kiteguitar.com/
Skim the article, find graph with key piece of info that answers title, y axis label: Estimated size (billions). …
Reminds me of childhood holidays in county Wexford. We’d always be told it’d been constant sunshine the week before… as we stared out the window at the driving rain.

Wexford’s ace though so we never really minded. ;)
While the US is definitely an outlier (especially in private universities), remember that:

1. It's not just education per se, it's public _research_ in universities that takes up a lot of the funding, and that is expensive. And the marriage of higher teaching and research is a solid principle (often identified with von Humboldt, the Prussian minister of education who successfully promoted this model of a university).

2. Cheap tuition is often/usually the lesser part of funding, with the major being state budgets and donations by individual benefactors and commercial companies (or in rare cases, profits off of university endowments).
the whole article has a kind of arrogant and condescending tone.
Well if we’re having a contest for posting long movies, Siberiade is an excellent film that will take 4h35m of your time.
Is there evidence in their post that they are not American?
The only basic variant I used was qbasic, it was the first programming language I used!

It's not horrible at all if a child can learn to make a game in it from scratch.

However, qbasic doesn't have the line numbers (edit: at least not mandatory!). Never used a basic variant that requires the line numbers, but that seems like a total kludge!
The main problem today in the US education is precisely financing.

It created ultra expensive education as Universities do not have to constantly evaluate the quality/price relationship as everybody else needs to. They just raise their prices and people pay(because they do not know how much effort it will take to pay it back).

It looks good on paper until the bubble pops. The same happens with Real State.
I'm of average height and the tablet orientation was ok for me last time I bought something at uniqlo. Are you just basing this off of photos?
Engagement can be quite unrelated to what people like. A well crafted troll comment will draw tons of engagement, not because people like it.
There are two kinds of slides: the ones that you present, and the "reference" slides that are more like a business-accepted container format of text, images, spreadsheets, tables etc. where you write down facts and information.

Be aware which one you're creating, don't mix them up (although it can be okay to have the "info package" after the last presented slide).
As the founder of SEO4Ajax, I can assure you that this is far from the case. Googlebot, for example, still has great difficulty indexing dynamically generated JavaScript content on the client side.
> I had trouble noticing that an HDR video is playing as SDR (due to player or browser limitations).

Not my experience at all. Maybe it depends on the content (as I previously said), but I discovered my Raspberry Pi firmware didn't support HDR yet because the reds were washed out. It looked plain wrong.
This is utterly false for Amazon UK and disprovable by 2 minutes of searching. It’s somewhat incredible to me this claim has been made with a straight face to be honest.

USB Foot Pedal is just one random search that’ll show this.

Mens fleece hoodie, audio recorder, iphone case and electric blanket are full of random named crap.

The problem also extends past these random products and into the seller market too. Even if you search with brand names for a product you want it’ll often be sold by some random new seller preferentially selected due to price undercutting.

The whole platform is rotting from the inside out.
Most of the time, a degree is a waste of the student's time. Not to even mention the money aspect. People mostly do them due to peer pressure not actual value. Basically higher education should be reduced 75-90%.
> Now, we have 2,3,4 hour movies that meander endlessly.

And they all suck too. No wonder nobody goes to watch movies anymore.
I disagree.

Nobody is stopping users from selecting one of the many YouTube competitors out there (eg - Twitch, Facebook, Vimeo) to host their content. We could also argue that savvy marketers/influencers use multiple hosting platforms.

YouTube's data is critical for YouTube and Google, which is basically an elaborate marketing company.

Governments should only enforce oversight on matters such as user rights and privacy, anticompetitive practices, content subject matter, etc.
You think it implausible that somebody might grow weary of discussing such dreary things?
It’s actually the law to go the speed of traffic.
tax rates should be based on income

and you're paying for a service that's free to all. it's a principle. whether or not you use it doesn't matter, that would be selfish.
This is the natural order of things.

Without predators deer/boar/etc populations explode and need controlling through hunting. This is exactly why hunters are unhappy where wolves have come back: the wolves eat the animals the hunters want to shoot.
Lol I love people who take outliers to make a point. Look at the median length instead if you want something meaningful.
There were many kinds of BASIC created over the years. Some were incredibly limited interpreters for computers with 1kB available working memory, and decades later others were full-fledged desktop languages with structured programming and objects and GUI event loops.

Is TypeScript in 2023 the same language as JavaScript in 1996? The various BASICs were even more different than that. It’s impossible to say that they were all categorically horrible or perfect. But they did enable millions of people to discover computing, on everything from ZX-81 to Windows 95.
Theoretically, practically, the Garmin connect developer programm is only open for businesses and not hobby projects. From my past experience this is also enforced, no hobby projects.
The most effective slide design are those silly meme pics. They are really good at the two points of the article: Focusing on one purpose per [pic] and reducing distractions on your [pics].
If her position was simply that she still has copyright, then getting a new deal with Kosta Boda would be straightforward. That's something she could have done at any point in the last 40 years. The company even made her such an offer, for double the original royalty plus a lump sum, which she rejected.

The article is pretty explicit that her intent is to use the new law to rewrite the original agreement:

> It wasn’t until Wolff read about a change in Swedish copyright law at the start of this year that she came up with the idea of approaching the manufacturer about retrospective pay for her design.

>"Loot" is rather strong when she is seeking a low (in terms of royalties enjoyed by others) sum of €1m

Which candle holder designers are taking in royalties that make €1m look "low"?
Sedat, you’re a legend, and a machine, great to see you here or anywhere. Good luck with the legal challenges.
Israel has no “military thirst for blood” and is protecting its citizens from literal massacres, thousands of rocket launches and hostage capturing, and infiltrations by terrorists, and inciting jihadism across “still civilian” population.
Wokeism is sad.
BASIC was a product of its time.
> It is hard to attract the best educational talent in this setting because salaries are usually capped and one can always make more in the private sector, but a combination of job security and high prestige is usually enough to have decent staff.

"Non-capped" salaries usually mean low median salary and very high salary for a few people with 'star' status for whom strings get pulled. And - that status, even in academia, is rarely due to stellar intellectual achievements. Rather, all sorts of fashionable business-related gurus expect to rake in large amounts of cash.

A unionized academic faculty in universities, and a not-corrupt-and-bought union, allow for decent faculty salary. Add the benefit of relative autonomy in choosing one's research directions, and a tenure track that one actually has a chance of getting into, and it's an extremely attractive proposition.
We should petition for "fukka-"
Tell me you're out of touch without telling me you're out of touch.
Great writeup, thoroughly enjoyed! The provided "lab" is especially appreciated.

I'm curious if you had reasons to not use veth in noarp mode.
The hierarchy within the info page is where it’s useful. You don’t look for gnupg by going into GNU Utilities, you go to gnupg by typing "info gnupg".

Within the gnupg manual you can look at a section like “key management commands” or something like that. There are a lot of different commands in gnupg, it’s nice to have a separate page for each, and be able to browse.

By comparison, the OpenSSL docs are man pages, and it kinda sucks to browse the OpenSSL docs. (I’m gonna say, categorically, that both OpenSSL and GnuPG have bad UX. It kinda sucks to figure out what you’re doing in either case, but at least the GnuPG manual is easier to read.)
Two people can love one another and it can still not work out.
I have a secondhand Dell Poweredge T320, with a single Xeon E5-2428L CPU, its server-class, but in a tower format (the T in T320), so it's the best of both worlds, and the CPU is low power (the L in the name). Cost me 400€ with 24GB RAM and some disks.

It's been running for over 6 years I think. It's only noisy for a couple minutes when starting up, then it's pretty quiet.
Jack Lance was a genius game designer, I'm going to miss his yearly pi day puzzles so much
Then maybe they should choose to adopt some non-dreary political beliefs to embrace that they can rationally and honestly defend without lying and gaslighting, so they don't get so weary of people being offended and disagreeing with them. Then they wouldn't have to play the victim and complain about cancel culture so dramatically.
Especially for prestige. And there isn't a way to make this cheaper as the exclusivity is part of it.

I quite like the German system here, there isn't a large prestige difference between universities. Of course there are some that have a better reputation for some topics, but it's not so much that it would seriously affect your chances to get hired later. You can get a pretty good education for free, and there isn't as much effort and drama around applying for universities like in the US.
The interesting takeaway for me when I see "one engineer, two engineers" is not only "I could have built that stack" but "I did actually build that stack back then"

Like millions of other devs, I have made a (decent) living out of this career, but you do wonder what might have been.

I think there is a new stack - a new Dev Manual - of what to do and build to keep it simple today (Hadoop is involved :-)
Yes, if they're properly prepared.

But if they aren't properly prepared they'll require individual tutoring. There are probably some university students that can't even do their calculations mentally and sit there writing furiously when doing problems on exams. Obviously that should have been dealt with when they were 13 or something, but it rarely has.
This lament is about as interesting as complaining about kids not knowing how to use rotary phones.
Face Replacement? Where did you see Face Replacement?

Denoising and Upscaling are both being done by AI these days, often in the same steps.

There is NO WAY that True Lies wouldn't support a 4K transfer. No way. Any 35mm print can be a great base for HD/4K, even one from the 1950s-60s, as shown by Criterion.
People are not passive perceiving robots reacting to pre-processed data inputs. “Thinking” doesn't happen only on “complex stuff”, it continues all the time, but we're used to things we're used to. When you call something “real”, it just means that your idea of what is “real” matches, and that your imagination (which actually does all the work) starts working. However, there is no rule that it should sleep on other kinds of content.
> All the "But it works in my Tesla" fan boys are part of a religious cult and are simply lying. Whenever I checked, the "works for me" replies stopped when I either did a test drive together or asked for a video showing that things like wipers and assistance systems really work.

So all those fanboys are lying, but we should definitely trust your take on this?
This guy needs a union to get his shit together.
Mine is in the 50-100EUR range per year, powered on all the time.
Dell Poweredge T320 with Xeon-2428L and an SSD.
I just want a word wrapping tool like `fmt` or `fold` that can (1) handle colours, and (2) handle emojis.

There is literally nothing out there that can reliably do this. Par (https://manpages.debian.org/par) seems to be promising, but still gets lost on some example texts.
Wtf are the Ads that replace the images attached to the forum posts?
The Beatles project was a pretty good transfer, I'd say. It's the needless use of the same tech to create these horrific transfers of Cameron's work that are creating controversy.

The Matrix was also destroyed in its 4k transfer by ridiculously bad color correction.
When I read the first line I thought you meant Pinterest itself :D
> But 4k 60fps footage gives us a true sense of "being there" and in that reality and I think that's damn incredible (and I'm thankful for it).

There is a difference between making things watchable and making things look worse with shitty colors
Definitely!

It's a breeze to set up with any frontend framework, but will work especially well with Next.js (built by Vercel).
The first thing should be to incorporate modern technology to cut costs. That means the internet. All publicly funded education should be required to offer their classes and degrees remote. This will barely raise costs and will lower tuition to trivial amounts. At this point there won't need to be any debate about how to fund higher education because with economies of scale permitted by the internet, the costs aren't enough that anybody will want to argue over them.

Don't want to offer your degrees to anybody who is willing to pay the price and can pass your tests? Then you are welcome to decline all government funding including student loans.
1. There are more taxes other than income tax. Corporate income tax for one. Estate taxes, financial speculation tax, VAT - each world state and its own system.

2. Even regarding income tax - in most world states, tax is not flat, and most workers pay little income tax anyway (sometimes even 0, if there's a threshold for non-zero tax rate, or tax credits for various social situations etc.)

So not regressive. Also, like other commenters mention - if you don't attend university, your children, or other relatives and friends, might be. Plus, we all need the higher education system to function, for modern society to function, so it makes sense that we contribute to it through some mechanism.
There was never a time when the industry “knew what it was doing”. Everything you described was exactly the same 20 years ago. Nor is any of it specific to the software industry.

It’s just normal experimentation and churn, driven by capitalism chasing profit at the macro and individualistic drive for more influence at the micro.

Same as it ever was.
Do we actually need social “science” and other soft degrees, though? Aren’t these non-rigorous paths the sort of thing people can learn on their own (for free)? How are other nations tackling these sorts of advanced hobbies?