skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was fun. The dense text, all caps, line numbers in the left column, peeking and poking in memory, simple variables, it felt as a direct connection with the machine. The step to assembler wasn't that big. They shared some aesthetics, and certainly the spaghetti structure. And it possibly made me appreciate the algol-inspired languages more.
I built a recipe detector. You can, you know, train some sort of AI model to do this like with fasttext, or maybe roll it old school and do naive bayesian inference, but as it turns out, you can also:

https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/ma...

It works annoyingly well.
Expecting a random software developer to be aware of this is beyond unreasonable.
*months, not minutes. sorry for autocorrect (i wasn't using english keyboard.)
It looks like they also sell it on USB https://www.shoplinuxonline.com/debian-fullusb.html
Ownership in the Digital Age
"Nylas is a sync engine though so all client data will end up on their servers first and then will be served to you."

That might hold truth for the old Nylas. The new Nylas is coming soon with a lot of cool things.
It's been a long time since I programmed in BASIC, but I have gone memories of it.

My very first computer was a Commodore Vic20, whose User's Manual was essentially a BASIC manual. One of the very first programs I learned to wrote drew a simple bird on the screen made by characters and made its wings flap. I was mesmerised.

Boy, how much I enjoyed that manual!

Edit: bids -> bird
> b&w film isn't real, the world isn't black and white.

What does that mean? Then color pictures are not real either because the world is not limited by 10 bits of color. Makes no sense.
It has BSIM that can fuzzy-find what libraries are statically compiled, so you know what version of a library that might be compiled in and if there are changes to it. Interesting that it is not only local but you can use an elastic search for that, I am guessing NSA has a pretty big elastic cluster with just binaries of libraries.
Yes, it's slightly worse for local results. But pretty good for most other searches.
It's a great language if you want to write a compiler for fun: You can add the different statements incrementally, so you quickly get to a point where you can compile your first program and then add more and more features to compile more and more.

Also, when I was implementing FOR, my first naive implementation was compiling the body first, then append the loop related things that check the conditional and jump backwards to the start of the body. "Hang on, what about the case when the condition is initially false?" I thought, only to discover that the BASIC standard actually specifies that a FOR loop runs at least once, even if the condition is false! Officially, the language is advertised as for beginners, but to me it looks like it was meant as a lingua franca of computers, as in not only easy to understand, but also easy to implement.

Here's a BASIC compiler for the HP 15-C calculator written in Idris: https://gitlab.com/michaelzinn/voyc/-/blob/master/src/Compil...
Gangnam Style has 4.9 Billion views now. I remember how big a deal it was when it broke 1 Billion!
Tax rates are based on income. The less you earn, the less taxes you pay. So in that sense, you could argue you don't pay for the higher education you never received.

But beyond that, there is a deeply flawed logic behind indicating the tax would be "regressive" just because you personally don't benefit from it. So long the taxes are reasonably efficiently allocated (by macroeconomic standards, not by business standards) and increase a societies overall well-being, the vast majority of people benefit from it, either directly or by proxy.

There are debates to be had which kind of "services" benefit from this scheme of financing the most, but being from a country where higher education is publicly funded and having benefited from this accessibility of higher-ed as well, I can see the merits of this scheme in the context of higher-education.
as the article points out, many contemporary and even earlier languages supported structured flow control, records, local variables, and subroutines with arguments. and of course lisp was basically javascript

basic had the advantage of being implementable in 4 kilobytes of ram and being memory-safe
Since you like data, take a look at the stats: while horrifying and I wish it were 0%, campus violence is probably pretty insignificant and maybe even lower than what occurs in the general population.
We don't. People will upvote useful things.
TL;DR: The eliminated labour they are talking about is the physical act scanning the bar code of each piece individually - instead, they are using RFID, so you can just stuff all the pieces you're buying into a bin and the machine will detect everything automatically.

I used that kind of self-checkout before and honestly find it less revolutionary than they make out to be here. It's still a hassle and there are lots of tasks which are still "transferred" to the shopper, e.g. folding up all the clothes correctly and making sure that everything is in order.
My understanding is that that is a punishable offense in most states, so that's a matter of consistently enforcing existing laws rather than introducing any new ones.

Anyway, the mechanisms I have listed can still drive adoption of self-driving cars and reduce the number of human-driven cars on the road which also reduces the number of fatalities if the self-driving ones outperform humans. And if we look at QALYs instead of fatalities there may be additional benefits.
"keep the network healthy"

You guys know that every single playform eventually go downhill in content quality as the user base grows, right? You are wasting your time. You'd better open up now or never. Nobody will bother looking at your product in a year if Threads gets bigger and better.
> transcoding

Afaik a transcoding session holds the entire CPU core, for example malformed gif avatar typically can lie down a single-server web-forum for a few seconds.
That kind of makes sense, but it would have only been necessary to use this on some VFX shots.
Well, film scan quality has reached its peak. If they release a great copy today, no one will need any “better” one. What will they sell in 5 years? So they cripple the public copies to be the sole owner of the high quality one, and continue to sell “adjustments”.
Worst engineer I knew was an L9 at Google. But he was brilliant. There’s no right way to be a great engineer. If someone tries to tell you there is, they’re full of shit.
thank you! only one more day left :)
A single SSD can serve over 100k ops/s. Pubsub systems built for the finance industry operate in excess of 60M messages/second [0]. I understand having multiple machines for failover reasons, but I can't help but feel that the majority of scale-out is due to the people who are doing the development not having the skills to properly optimise their systems.

0. https://youtu.be/8uAW5FQtcvE
I will keep my mouth open thank you very much.
I think so, YMMV but the form-factor [1] of a calculator is beneficial. For example, if you are used to financial calculations on a HP 12C [2]. The calculator is small, is besides your keyboard, you just press a button (ON) to start it and a few keys combination for having a result, then turn it off. All while you, for example, are focusing on a document in your computer. Like a second or third monitor is complementary.

It is obvious that nowadays you can do the same in your computer but touching physical buttons makes also a different experience.

[1] https://magnetseven.substack.com/p/merging-craft-and-functio...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38739673
For this example he does, he's saying [0, 999] is the possible space, but the distribution in that space is not done uniformly.
A bit like acrobat reader created the research paper.
Try reverse image search for a cartoon from DeviantArt, 99% links in the results redirect you to unrelated pr0n sitez. We're talking that kind of spam
Man, folks on HN seem to be developing cognitive issues. Please go reread my comment above.
> memory-safe

you are forgetting peek and poke.
What's a viable business model for web search other than ads (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Naver, etc.) or paid search (Kagi)? If paid search is the only option left, is it okay that poor people can't use the web? Is it okay if poor people don't get access to news?

Oh, and they don't get to vote because voting day and locations can't be advertised by the government, especially in targeted mailings that are personalized with your party affiliation and location. The US Postal Service will also collapse, so those mailings can't go out, even if allowed. At least the rich can still search for their polling location on the web [<- sarcasm].

None of that is okay with me. More/better regulation? Yes! But our world doesn't know how to function without ads. Being absolute about banning ads is unrealistic and takes focus away from achieving better regulation, thereby playing into the hands of the worst advertisers.
This is not just a problem with the tech industry. In society in general there is only a weak correlation between skill and reward in lots of places and the variance in outcomes is very high and is dominated by factors like the socioeconomic background of your parents, race, gender etc that you don’t control.

However since you don’t control those factors you are better off improving your skill, which you do control. Maybe later you will be put in a position of importance where you can make optimal decisions that end up widening the funnel and reduce the importance of those things by hiring and promoting the best people for the job and caring about good dev practise.

I’m not buying your idea that 10/15 years ago the industry knew what it was doing and cared about quality though. I’ve been a professional software engineer for 25 years now and software quality as a whole has always been dire. There definitely is a minority of folks who care about it as there always has been so gravitate towards them.
Emphasis is mine:

> We caught the issue almost instantly since we were watching the deploy, and were able to stop updates before any other devices picked it up. But those that already got it were down.
It's just semantics at this point. You say pull I say push. A 24V supply can push twice as much current (through a resistor) as the 12V supply.
The 1902 original of the linked film was "actually shot on Biograph’s proprietary 68mm stock" i.e. could be considered very high resolution in any historical timeframe, even today ("The IMAX of the 1890s")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ud1aZFE0fU
Internet would be a better place without websites like Pinterest and Quora.

And articles like this, about a presentation older than 10 years.
Expensive universities is a low-AI phenomenon
Anthropic is in talks to raise $750M in funding at an $18.4B valuation
It should be pretty straightforward for you to show you have any moderation whatsoever, I dont believe you do. The whole of the site is full of rubbish.

If I were the Turkish government I would never even do the favour by banning the site, cause that draws attention the site doesn't deserve. I dont care if it's most visited site whatever, it's just useless.
i don't think the dartmouth system had those, and anyway it's not the same problem as risking a crash every time you index an array
I got caught without knowing how and why. I think you should show the player the conversations the other agents had with one another after the Game Over screen, so that we can trace back to the mistakes we made. Otherwise it looks pretty random, you are playing and all of a sudden you just lose.
About 4: I swear by "dog fooding."

I've seen quite often that someone picks up a request (issue, story), and interpret its in the first way that comes to mind. That's natural, if only because users rarely express their needs clearly. What helps is using your product as a user would. Understand your users tasks and needs viscerally. That makes it easier to get a welcome result, and shorten the prototype-critique cycle.
No. You can easily do your own research. Do a test drive. Or, if you want to verify from the comfort of your home: Hours and hours of videos to watch on YouTube just for "Tesla Wipers" alone. You then can cross-check with a search term like "Ford Wipers" or "Mercedes Wipers" to see if this really is a subject any owner of a different car brand has to deal with.
Yes, obviously there a grain of irony in the reply. ;)
> google bots scour the web relentlessly and hammer sites almost to death

I have been hosting sites and online services for a long time now and never had this problem, or heard of this issue ever before.

If your site can't even handle a crawler, you need to seriously question your hosting provider, or your architecture.
More commonly, if you are a woman running alone on regular routes at predictable times, broadcasting this fact is likely to put you at significant risk.
Yes. Thank you for spotting this auto correct error.
Yes the cheap stuff isn't good anymore and the good stuff isn't cheap
They don't? If I google the name of a TV series to get more information about it, several streaming platforms that have it, including Netflix, take the first spots of the results, although I have no interest in that spam because I intend to pirate it.
Source: https://github.com/willin/alias
Sure, but weakening the magnet lets it return to more or less "normal" functionality, not requiring you to reach over and stick a pin in a very small hole every time you want to change the disk.
As I always repeat:

Convenience (instant reward) is to humans, what light is to bugs.
How about eBay?
Interesting! What’s the business model?
His electric vehicle battery died. A year later, still waiting for a replacement
Yeah I live in the UK and was absolutely confused by the comment, Amazon UK is like 98% Chinese no-name brand garbage

For example if I search for 'projector', I get the following brands:
XUANPAD, MAGCCUBIC, LQWELL, VOPLLS, CLOKOWE
My theory is the majority of the bad tech decisions made at these companies is mostly due to the high turnover rate of employees in these company.

The average tenure of a software engineer/developer is just 2 years.

People come and go and the next thing you know you're using 6 different database with services written in 5 different languages.

Instead if you kept the same 6 engineers around for decades you could probably scale to 100m with those same engineers.

It one of the reasons why it seems like Google can never release a product. They can't keep people around long enough to see it through.
> all I see are temporary garbage re-skins of the same products from half a dozen suppliers that likely won't exist next year

The answer is to only buy stuff on Amazon that is sold by Amazon.

If a product is only FBA (Fulfilled By Amazon) or just a plain third-party listing, then go buy elsewhere. Those listings are where the garbage is.

Sadly Amazon have made it more difficult to search for these. It used to be the case that you could tick a box to filter by seller and accordingly tick the Amazon box. They have now taken that filter away.

I'm not going to post on here how to do it (because they'll probably kill it off pronto), but if you spend a few minutes with Mr Google, you will find one or two work-arounds still exist which are not difficult if you are technically inclined, although admittedly could be tricky to teach a granny to use consistently.
Straight from ChatGPT:

Yes, it is indeed possible to write LaTeX code that produces different contents when compiled to HTML versus PDF. This is typically done by using conditional commands within the LaTeX document that check for the output format being used. These conditional commands can then include or exclude specific content based on whether the document is being compiled to HTML or PDF.

In LaTeX, the ifpdf package is commonly used to check if the output is being compiled to a PDF. For generating HTML from LaTeX, tools like TeX4ht or LaTeX2HTML are used, and they often define their own specific commands or provide a way to detect the output format.

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It gives simple code that uses:

The \ifpdf ... \else ... \fi command checks if the document is being compiled to PDF. If it is, the content between \ifpdf and \else is included. If not (which would be the case for HTML), the content between \else and \fi is included.

The content outside the \ifpdf ... \fi conditional will appear in both the PDF and HTML versions.
They also used to be "pretty jazzed about Elixir" and had it in their stack [1], at least while Steve Cohen was there (btw, Steve is also the author of lexical[2] - one of the newer Elixir LSPs out there)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160203120655/https://engineeri...
[2] https://github.com/lexical-lsp/lexical
> What actually chills my blood more than anything is the thought that a lot of people think this all looks pretty good. You see this mindset at work whenever an AI fetishist posts a stable diffusion image of a woman with 13 fingers, 40 incisors and comically huge breasts. There’s an entire portion of the population that takes overt pleasure in the over-smoothed, perverts that prefer all media to be fast, high frame rate, and scrubbed squeaky clean.

This appears to really be what this post is all about, and to the extent it's what it's all about, the author is fighting a losing battle against taste itself.

People's enjoyment of something comes and goes. Art has had its pointillist movement, its cubism, its dadaism. If the people are comfortable with, or even enjoy, this style, and it's cheap to do, it's going to happen.
A while = a few years?
Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker
Just use Russia VPN. You may rent any of the Russian VPS or purchase a commercial VPN. It seems YouTube does not target advertising to Russians.

The funny experiment: you may surf YouTube from Russia, then turn on a European VPN, and whoops!.. Non-stop advertising!
Similar story:

His electric vehicle battery died. One year later, he's still waiting for a replacement (cbc.ca)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743448
Construction, mining, and oil extraction are also very much an active part of human experience. Doesn't mean that people need a degree to do it. In fact, people in these industries often work highly skilled jobs where they are required to operate heavy machinery where one mistake can kill people, and all with only a high school education. Degrees are completely unnecessary, and anything that can be learned in a university can be learned outside of a university.

It's nothing but an arbitrary choice that there is an art degree, but not a heavy machinery operation degree, and not the other way around. This is all class based gate keeping, and should never be formalized and funded by tax money.
Best of the best at a time when almost everyone was doping like mad. Worked with EPO pioneer Dr. Conconi. He was never caught but chances are he wasn't clean.
> The question being asked

Where was that question asked?
Similar story:

Vancouver EV owner shares cautionary tale after car deemed 'total loss'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741746
I started out on the C64, but that manual, too, received much love from me. I read it until it pretty much fell apart. Oh, well, the spiral binding might also have had something to do with that ;-)
Lol, what an website. One paragraph of the article, one Google ad
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
And I believe the problem isn't so much that those legal opioids are dangerous, because in theory you still have a medical system to curb access. It is that they are addictive, and that users who get addicted will either abuse them or switch to illegal drugs if they can't access them.

I am not against drug legalisation, on libertarian grounds. If you want to kill yourself, kill yourself, it's your life not mine. But I don't buy that banning drugs results in more harm that making them freely available.

And it's very paradoxical for liberal societies to want to ban or heavily control the use of alcohol and cigarettes and to consider legalising hard drugs at the same time.
This was an unhelpful way to highlight these issues. You can, but please also boycott sentry.io, github.io, gitlab.io, itch.io ect while you're at it, rather than blast a Tetris website?
The biggest achievement of BASIC was probably that it was the gateway drug into computing for teenagers throughout the 80's, because every popular home computer came with a BASIC builtin, available right after switching the computer on.
If people didn't like engaging with troll comments, they wouldn't do it. It's not required, and they aren't getting paid.
This is why a company is a “person” and it’s own legal entity. To abstract ownership from responsibility
It was okay. Just don't use it to build large systems. It is known to create an unmaintainable mess.
More discussion over on the official Whitehouse post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38736919
HD600>HD560s>SHP9500 according to budget.

If there's any money left, it can be allocated to a dac/amp combo, but priority to headphones, as they matter the most.
You personally benefit when that generation pays your retirement:

You’re investing in society, with an expected payout in the future (via retirement benefits).

What’s crazy to me is we have a whole generation who failed to pay for maintaining the machine — but who expect to be paid out anyway.
>one of the best things that came from Eastern Bloc is a high-quality (free) education anyone could have.

It was not free at all. It was payed with confiscatory taxes, total lack of freedom to choose anything(some guy will choose what you will do the rest of your life when you are a kid). People in charge made sure their children had the best education with schools that were only for the children of the people in the Party, or the people that lived in the big cities like Moscow, Leningrad, with internal passports that forbid people to move from second-class cities to first class, like in China today.

Not to talk about the fact that over 30-40% of the "high quality education" material and time was actually indoctrination in Marxism like also remains in China today.

By the way, in the Eastern Block something like 90% of the money went to internal repression(secret services and Police) and the military. Prestigious engineers could only work for the military.

And no matter how much educated you were, they could make you lose your job if you did not behave and make you into a garbage collector.

I know because I had family members that came from the Eastern Block.

And in the rest of Europe, the education in cities like Prague or Warsaw, Budapest was way better before they became occupied.
hel is decent and portable.

If portable isn't needed, about the same money buys that topping, with digital encoder for volume, higher specs and better measurements... but no mic input.
The OP forgot an important point:

0. Move to the United States of America

If you miss that one the rest is pretty pointless, unfortunately. For example, in (at least most of) Europe you would be much better off studying blogposts titled “How to Become a Mediocre Manager”.
In retrospect it has been multiple years since I last tried, my bad.

I have to say this really is weird, because there are reputable and high quality Chinese brands that just aren't participating here.

Why is it all crap? Where's the Xiaomi & Hasee tier of products?
Still, the amount of servers is most likely a side effect of using Python as well.

The scaling issues we had with Tcl in the dot-com wave with our AOLServer clone, is one of the reasons why I wouldn't use something like Python.
Word2Vec is mathematically equivalent to the gravity law of mobility
GitHub Actions Feels Bad [video]