skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your detailed reply. :)

I will give USW a try. I hadn't heard of that project before.

Also, I'm happy to have read that MS will be making all ActiBlizz titles available once again on GeForce Now once its acquisition is complete.
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We're hiring 1-2 Senior Software Developers:

Scope is a platform that helps brands find and manage influencers. Works with tools like Klaviyo, Mixmax, Google Sheets, HubSpot, and Shopify.

We started Scope 2018 -6 years ago, never got in to YC (a couple of tries). Been profitable for the past 4 years, grown 90% word of mouth. Team about 10, spread over multiple countries. Customers in 50+ countries. No crazy ipo plans, humble, thoughtful and curious. North star from day 1, listening to customers & building a great product.

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You're curious and responsible – pragmatic over idealist. You enjoy helping peers but also love to get things done yourself. You're looking for a contributor role rather than a manager role. P.S. At Scope, there's no need for BS meetings; we have one meeting per week, a product catchup on Tuesdays that has been on the same time since we started.

Apply here: https://scopeapp.io/hn/
Location: Istanbul, Turkey

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript, Datomic, PostgreSQL, AWS, BabylonJS, PlayCanvas

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ertugrul-cetin/

GitHub: https://github.com/ertugrulcetin

Email: ertu.ctn@gmail.com
It works totally fine on k8s with iscsi/fcoe/nvme-backed volumes provided remote targets themselves offer sufficient performance for your db workload
We're not talking about fully correctly handling Unicode, we're talking about teaching someone the basics of an encoding. Context is critical here.
You need to account for cost of operation too
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We are a non-profit with a mission to unite the world in prayer through technology. We currently edit two prayer apps (Hozana and Rosario), with already more that a million users.

We have a Symfony / React + React Native stack, and are looking for a backend or full stack engineer, ideally with a few years experience, as well as for a lead Frontend engineer.

https://hozana.org
https://rosario.app

Apply at https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies/hozana
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C/C++, Python, Linux, Embedded, Deep Learning, Kubernetes

Github: https://github.com/felrock

Contact: stenbackfelix[DOT]gmail[DOT]com

A few years into working the automotive field and robotics. Looking for something different to cross over to.
Nice one! I bet lots of world records are casually beat like that - the overlap between “nerdy enough to get insanely good at, say, a puzzle video game” and “extroverted/arrogant enough to draw global attention to the accomplishment” seems pretty small.
To be fair where are the other browser's proposals for giving apps the capabilities they need? Browsers should be shamed for not making an effort to support common use cases that apps need.
I said option. Free tier could still exist. Good luck with your arguments.
Indeed, they do very little work in selecting authors and editing the books, but they still take a big revenue cut. So they tend to attract lower-quality authors. There are a few exceptions but I agree with the general opinion of Packt.

They approached me a few years ago to write something, and Leanpub seemed a much more compelling offer.
Location: USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Mostly Haskell and Flutter, but also experience in Scala, Java, and Python
Résumé/CV: available upon request
Github: http://github.com/joyfulmantis
Email: joyfulmantis@gmail.com

I am a US national and a self-made developer looking for a starting position working in software development. I took part in the Haskell Summer of Code this summer, and have also been working on a flutter (android) application to help people learn Chinese (https://github.com/joyfulmantis/risingtone). I would be happy to relocate anywhere globally or work remotely.
Location: Belgium | EU
Remote: Optional (CET/GMT only)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Java and related technologies, too many others to list
Résumé/CV: https://www.codematters.be
Email: My HN username at the domain above

Been writing software for ~25 years. Looking for something that's challenging.
From my perspective, it seems like he is manipulating vulnerable people who are terrified of death into wasting money on products that are at best unlikely to help and at worst might be harmful to a person's health for his own financial benefit. Some of the advice potentially being beneficial doesn't change that.

I find this about as wholesome as the Nigerian prince who intends to give me part of his fortune out of the goodness of his heart.
I have one or two Packt books that are very good. But overall agreed.

This seems like a strange mix of "hard" algorithms like sorting or binary search, and ML things like k-means clustering. Not sure who the intended audience is.
After looking at https://github.com/antirez/simple-language-model/blob/main/p... that does seem likely.
And some languages that perform array bounds check on each array deindex operation, which basically stops some of the above even if the optimizer can do all of it. Crystal is an example of that, where it would be possible and quite straightforward to write a specialized matrix class instead of the very generic dynamic array implementation.
I don't own a deck, only tried a friend's. I find the Switch to be small and cramped, but a deck is way too big and had a hard time reaching the sticks comfortably
That option already exists in the EU. Meta asks for 10 EUros/month in exchange for no ads. Guess how many people pay versus choose to have ads? Most people by a landslide choose the ads, because they don't see the value in paying cash to use social media.

Please, enlightne me with your arguments then.

Most likely when Copilot addoption gets big enough, ad free paid tiers will also pop up for those users who find it valuable, but until then it's easier to get mass adoption of a service by only having a free tier as paying money upfront for a yet unfamilar service puts off most users. That's what you don't understand.
For starters twitter is settled with about 12 billion in expensive debt as part of the purchase which cost about a billion of year in interest alone [0].

[0] https://gizmodo.com/twitter-elon-musk-debt-interest-social-m...
Also it's using checked indexing, which apart from being not idiomatic, is also going to slow things down. A fairer comparison would be to use the unchecked indexing variants.
I used to test out sites on Dillo a lot to see if the experience was absolutely broken, but Dillo got too rusty so I went to checking Netsurf, w3m & elinks--so a revival is encouraging, especially for underpowered systems. Shame to see a project moving from a self-hosted Mercurial repository to a US-megacorparate-owned Git repository in Microsoft GitHub. …But at least the maintainer is committed to accepting email patches so folks aren’t required to create accounts / accept ToS with them.
On the other hand I have notifications turned on for basically nothing. Giving up coupons and deals seems a reasonable trade off. But then I basically don’t really frequent places like fast food where coupons are probably most prevalent.
That's because Packt, unlike O'Reilly titles, are the shovelware of the programming textbook market. They have a pretty sorry business model. Lots of copypasta-style content slapped up into a book, then sending free copies of the book in exchange for reviews.
Good question! I don't know, though it wouldn't surprise me if different products offered by the same bank used different calendar conventions. Calendar conventions are an accounting practice though, so different departments wouldn't interpret the same loan differently due to differing conventions.
Given the times we're in, it would be interesting to test some libraries too, like numpy and pytorch
The intended audience is the legions of people grinding Leetcode and going through our industry's ridiculous interviewing process.
I think they refer to https://archive.org/details/GeneralComputation
"When we cease to understand the world" is phenomenal. With that out of the way, I got a kick out of this not-a-profile-profile piece. A little bit of mystery and intrigue is healthy, and it certainly works for his writing style. I'm also totally fascinated by authors who are totally bilingual. Even in translation, "When we cease to understand the world" became one of my instant favorites, which adds even more excitement to The MANIAC. I've never read anything like "When we cease..." that blends science, biography, fiction so seamlessly into something bedazzling. Highly recommended for anyone perusing these forums.
I tried using palemoon a few years ago, but many web pages just didn't work at all. I wonder if that's changed?
Sure

Location: USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Probably not
Technologies: I find this a weird question. I've probably spent the most time with Linux, C++, and ML biz (Mostly Keras and Pytorch), but I've never had trouble picking up new stuff; like most living engineers, I've written a ton of python and javascript incidentally; like many who have gotten into the weeds of their stack, I've hacked in some C and CUDA occasionally; like many who've hung around a computer science department, I've played with haskell and scala; like I hope many here do, I've tried out funny or promising little languages that show up on HN from time to time. I "know" zero programming languages, but I have used many, and generally find that understanding the problem and knowing how to learn quickly is more useful than expertise in specific tools
Resume: Available on request
> … I cannot help but see that when we look down at our phones, it’s prayer.

Really superb writing and cool ideas.
This is itself a bold claim.

Firefox is in fact better in terms of privacy than rivals with higher market share, the home page of firefox addons store has uBlock Origin with "Recommended" label placed by Mozilla team.

It is important to recognize that the web is also used by grandma and grandpa who won't master any tech more recent than fax and installing uBlock origin by default will harm FF market share even more as usability will be impacted.
It's not like being stung by a bee or something. Snake bites easily lead to lifelong disabilities
Volume resizing support has been added since ~1.11 which is like 5 years old at this point
> nobody is against telling people to sleep more / exercise more / eat better

Actually, I am not so sure. People today are effing insane, especially on the internet.

His motivations are as clear as a blue sky to me. He is building a company, the company will make money by selling products like meal replacements or good olive oil (maybe other things in the future, who knows). But in general that is probably just a way around the problem of financing the whole ordeal since he is obsessed with health and trying to figure out the optimal way to live in order to age the best way possible.

Most diet studies are just as good or bad as his because the issue with diets is that there can be so many factors playing in so it's hard to know if it's the diet or other factors weighing in. He is just trying stuff with the help of doctors and dieticians (and probably others as well) and I applaud that. Maybe things work for him that will also work for the majority of people, in fact I think it is likely.

Sure it is culty, but you kind of have to be in order to be able to live like he does. It's an extreme form of living and not for everyone but I think most people today can learn a lot from him by simply doing some of the things he does.

Today we live in a world where many countries have like 50% of the population being fat and many are even obese. If you go to any store in many western countries at least they are optimized for you to pick candy and sugar water at the end. It's hard to find healthy products in many cases, you have to read the label on basically everything. If you go on a road trip, pretty much the only restaurants by the roads are fast food that is super bad for you. It is HARD to be healthy today and the statistics clearly shows it. So much so that in my country at least many clothing stores have started to display fat models in commercials because people (mostly women) demands it. We also have mukbangs on youtube, super obese people spreading their crap online but the one that gets a lot of hate is a guy that tells people to be more healthy. That is the insane part to me.
Dogma has always been a popular means to promote the latest fads in snake oil and conslutancy services.

"Those who can do, do. Those who can't, teach."
...and then having it taken away immediately on first payment, for someone else to constantly make money in the future.

There are many problems here, that society has 'built in' from the dawn of the printing press, to move the control and power into the hands of the 'publishers' and control/censorship into the hands of the government.

As a programmer, I create. Then my employer takes my work and makes it theirs, with control and ownership (and profits) going forward.
I could leave my job, open source my work for the good of society, but maybe not be paid.
I could 'license' my own work, and rely on copyright.

Licensing is the core of the problems here - the fact that easily (enough) reproducible creations are expected to keep bringing in payment for work done just once. It doesn't happen with most trade skills. It doesn't happen for physical works of art.

Perhaps society needs to look at this concept of 'intellectual property' and realise it's just another mechanism for control and power, that has no good effect or benefit to society, only to the wealthy and powerful.
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Membership is a hook -- once you have a member, they're more likely to buy from you. It's not really a marketing channel, per se, but it is a method of increasing sales.

"Marketing" gets kind of murky at the edges, really. Consider Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle, who are famous for their fish-throwing, but have never actually spent anything on advertising -- are they marketing or not?
Job offers should be posted in the whoishiring thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
When I got Internet I was basically in mIRC and Mosaic and it wasn't clear to me at all that the web will be the big thing and IRC a niche one day. Similarly its a bit funny that mIRC survives to this day but the browser of the day died long ago.
> Letting a webapp capable webpage have an in-page "install this app" button that added it to the home screen would wipe out 50% of app store usage

I can hardly wait for my entire Saturday to be taken up by my father being clickjacked into installing an antivirus scam.

If 'install this app ' provides any additional change in the security and privacy model beyond what setting a bookmark does, the page should have zero capability to request/demand such a thing.

I know that sucks for people who want to do application distribution using web technologies. However, people do not understand the ramifications of promoting a site to an app, and those ramifications are full of abuse scenarios.
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> How long haven't you checked that for?

Orc was blocked for a while due to cycles with async. I was under the impression that they were still there.

> It's been ORC for years.

The switch has been made for Nim v2 announced in December 2022, the PR #19972 that defaults to ORC has been made on September 2023.

ORC has just celebrated 1 year as default GC, certainly not years.

> When you confidently try to correct someone, at least consider you may be wrong.

I don't get why you're so butthurt about this and feel the need to be so nasty in your replies.
There’s some really crappy offbrand gaffer tape on Amazon these days. The “pro gaff“ brand which costs around $30 a roll is the good stuff I recommend. (Source: I run a theater and pay hundreds of dollars a year for gaff tape. I have tried a wide variety of brands and price points.)
Exactly!

The fact that Firefox usability and perfromance is improving, better addons support for android, unique useful features like containers and easy to configure network proxy/DoH/web protection levels, etc.. is already a big improvment.

How do people expect the market share to grow if the user isn't #1 priority.
Excellent read so far (I'm about a quarter way through). I think I've found a minor error:

> To the Ivory Coast’s west, Ghana went from one of the best African economies to one of the worst, culminating in the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah in 1968. Farther west, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria...

These countries are East of Ivory Coast.
Artifcial constraints/trade-offs creating new unexpected properties.

Examples:

- up to 21 million Bitcoins limit - Artificial scarcity

- original 140 character limit for tweets, later expanded to 280, then removed for paid users

- up to 500 users per group in WeChat groupchat

- ip· o· gram. ˈlipəˌgram, ˈlī- : a writing composed of words not having a certain letter (as the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus which had no alpha in the first book, no beta in the second, and so on)

- wireframes vs realistic prototypes (low-fidelity vs high-fildelity)

- monochrome UI for smartphones to remove distractions

- feature phones vs smartphones

- 1D Pac-Man

- etc.
Good News for Tether
Any company can choose, but investors want to cash out, and by far the easiest way is to have the company go public.

I don’t know how much investment valve received earlier on, but given that Gabe alone still retains >50% of it, I’d say he answers to no one regarding its future.
Ha, tasty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI
I'm confused. The device in question seems to be readily available at auctions, for rent, or even indirect as transfer service, yet the article seems to suggest these are somehow impossible to find?
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"This will produce a single EXE file that is whopping 64 MB in size. [...] You might say “still better than Electron” and call it good, but let’s see if we can do better."
They should revolt and this management "culture" of severely inflated compensation is decadent to the core. Especially since a CEO doesn't really create value at a company like Mozilla, nor are executive decisions too relevant.

Not saying Mozilla is in an easy position, but everyone could do her job without significantly influencing business results.
On my Linux laptop with i3-3xxxm (a low-end? CPU even 10+ years ago) with iGPU, in Firefox YouTube plays fine in fullscreen in 1080p even without forcing h264. Enhancer removal is indeed a loss. Can try ImprovedTube.
A Beginner's Guide to the Rust Question Mark (?) Operator
As someone who has worked with Oracle, mssql and postgres: If it gets complex I tend to use a search engine for oracle or mssql, for postgres I go straight to their official docs. Postgres documentation quality is very good and honest.

Also, the number of postgres weird edge cases and ad hoc hacks in SQL feels lower.

If my experience generalizes, this ranking will score you higher the more support you need. Well working software generates less noise and is measured as less popular as a result.
Cool, I remember the name Dillo from ... way back when, I guess.

Interesting to see a mix of C and C++ in the same codebase, that always makes me curious if there is some internal/mental "pressure" to convert the C code to C++ since that does seem simpler in many ways if you're already using C++.

Also, does anyone know why the functions have a (to me, incredibly random) "a_" prefix? Like this, from "dicache.h" [1]:

void a_Dicache_init (void);
DICacheEntry *a_Dicache_get_entry(const DilloUrl *Url, int version);
void *a_Dicache_png_image(const char *Type, void *Ptr, CA_Callback_t *Call, void **Data);
void *a_Dicache_gif_image(const char *Type, void *Ptr, CA_Callback_t *Call, void **Data);

It's like a set of perfectly module-prefixed names, but then an additional prefix of "a_" has been added?

Edit: moved a comma.

[1]: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/blob/master/src/dicac...
I could agree: it always depends on personal preferences or usage scenarios. Even I have some IM apps' notifications disabled and I check them only once in a while.

But some IM I treat as a really instant communication channel with my family: I don't want to miss any message from my kids or "I am at grocery, do you need something?" from my wife
It was a joint statement of various student groups at Harvard with no names attached (to protect the people who signed it). He specifically wanted the names of everyone who signed or agreed with it released so they could be harassed or denied jobs.

That's as close to the literal term of doxxing as you can get.
Indeed, but this is clearer to read.
People need to pay some inconvenience for the better cause of web usability, privacy, software freedom, etc..

Everybody knows that Linux started with low funding a tiny userbase that had to accept the inconvenience over the year to avoid the project death, now Linux is irreplaceable technology that we rely on more than most popular software, it wouldn't reach that point if users quickly got annoyed and gave up on freedom of software.
Clarke's Law, and who's to blame for bad science reporting
Have you worked at Microsoft? I have. Their engineering practices are suspect at best. Nobody in Office actually knows what's going on -- it's difficult to find anyone who actually understands more than a tiny, tiny fragment of the stack. And the not-my-problem culture from the days of Gates and Ballmer stack-ranking is absolutely still present -- I found what looked like a pretty major security bug (expired user certs being accepted, including those for a service admin account), and was told by multiple long-tenured, senior engineers, that since it wasn't our service misbehaving, I shouldn't worry about it. (I ignored them, dug in more, discovered it was a totally unrelated -- and less scary -- bug, and still found the owning team to let them know.)

I've worked at -- including Microsoft -- three major tech companies and a quant hedge fund, and Microsoft's engineering practices -- at least within the Office org, where I worked -- are appalling by almost any measure, in comparison with their competitors. Their success is largely down to three things, IMO:

1. First-/early-mover advantage in many spaces.

2. Excellent business management.

3. Some very, very strong engineers at the principal level and higher.