skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For fun, I wrote a CHIP8 interpreter in Fortran recently [1].

Fortran is still heavily used in computational chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, marine engineering, nuclear engineering, reservoir engineering, and numerous other engineering fields. Volcanologists use it to predict ash dispersal [2]. Biomedical companies use it for cardiac electrophysiology. Econometrists use it to do tax research [4]. Plasma physicists use it to design magnetic confinement fusion devices [5]. Astrophysicists use it for relativistic magnetohydrodynamics [6]. NASA uses it for all kinds of fluid dynamics-related purposes [7] (read jet engines and rockets), and so do they at CERFACS [8]. For all I know, some integrated circuit manufacturers probably use it use it [9]. It's also used in ham radio and probably some military agencies [10]. It's used in vehicle crash testing [11]. It's used in combustion simulation software [12], fire dynamics [13], hydrometallurgy (ore leaching) [14]. US Geological Survey uses it for ground-water flow modelling [15]. We could go on and on.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38920486
[2] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2008.08.008
[3] https://www.elem.bio/index.html
[4] https://taxsim.nber.org/
[5] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2021.107986
[6] https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids9010016
[7] https://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov/
[8] https://www.cerfacs.fr/avbp7x/
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE
[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Electromagnetics_Cod...
[11] https://www.openradioss.org/
[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHEMKIN
[13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Dynamics_Simulator
[14] https://youtu.be/-dvG270QttE?si=AO-ky0fGwkIEmXDx
[15] https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/m...
The University of Minnesota MovieLens collaborative filtering system had this... Twenty years ago?
> By keeping the whole WAL.

Not exactly. Pgbackrest can do incremental backups that are restored by applying file system level diffs (stored in incremental backup) to the base backup. WALs are only involved at the very last step when restore process is finalized by applying WALs that were generated during BACKUP step itself. But that's not pgbackrest limitation, that's how any Postgres restore process works.

EDIT: "how any Postgres restore process works" that restore a backup done from a live database that is being written to when backup is taking place.
People have every right to be furious about it though. Look at amazon prime: they've now introduced ads for paying customers. Want no ads? - pay more. What will stop youtube from doing the same? After all, shareholders must appeased. Where does it end?
Indeed, you can use that for a plethora of things besides the advertising.
Also many websites are using Google Analytics as base tool for reporting and monitoring activities
> This structure is too large in relation to our observable universe for it to be explainable by a mere coincidence. It's 1.3bn light years in diameter, while the observable universe is 93bn light years in diameter.

Why is that important?
I used to not mind the Youtube ads, but it became a nuisance lately. I installed an adblocker for the first time somewhere mid-2023.

If I knew that youtube would continue to show me one skippable ad for every ~10 minutes, I would gladly disable my ad-blocker for them. Banner ads and side-bar ads are also fine.
Looking at the activity on the Free Pascal compiler[0] compared to some other, non-dead languages like Crystal[1], I would say Pascal isn't dead.

They had a major release to their most popular IDE just a few weeks ago[2].

A lot of these projects built with FP aren't as visible in the HN community, because they related to different hobbyist fields, aren't keystone components in the startup ecosystem etc. But they for sure exist.

[0] https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/activity
[1] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/activity
[2] https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,65631.0...
I think you may have rather missed the point. If they set up the "fluffy bunny after school club", how much attention do you think it would have brought to the hypocrisies they're trying to highlight? There would have been no religious fundamentalists protesting outside, it would not have made international news, and the in-school Christian indoctrination would have continued unchallenged. (Full disclosure, I've donated to them in the past)
> I wonder why some people think a service like YouTube

The history of the service matters. If you launch something that says "Ad-free videos for free" and then X years later change to "Some ads + videos for free", people will have a reaction to that. Slowly change it over the years, and each iteration will have more reactions attached to it.
GTM. End running ops/dev teams since … well whenever it first came out.
They outlined the issue and even included correspondence from Unity. The first half is a story, the second half is an advert related to that story.

Frankly, I have much more of an issue with all the paywalled stories being posted here than a small company plugging its own products after a relevant post.
Same for me, but it might also be youtube, that is giving us more time.
All day cares will suddenly increase in price to the tune of the tax break.
YouTube fills the role of the scapegoat. Creators are never blamed for choosing the path that pays them the most.

Artists playing at venues that use Ticketmaster is a similar situation.

Sure, some of these artists can _choose_ not to perform at these venues, just like the YouTube creators can _choose_ not to upload videos to YouTube.

Scapegoat as a service.
first time I heard of nuclear being used this way. Undeniably interesting, though obvious safety concerns!
Unless you're egregiously bad at your job, getting fired for performance should never be a surprise. She says she'd had nothing but positive performance reviews until the day she was fired, so unless you think she's lying I see two possibilities:

1. Her performance was subpar but Cloudflare told her to keep doing what she was doing.

2. Her performance was fine but the Cloudflare are full of shit.

Either way it's not a good look for Cloudflare.
Ask HN: Best content marketing articles targeting developers?
Hi HN, I'm aiming to write some articles to market a cloud-based tool, targeted at developers. The idea is to have code in various languages showing how to use the tool, and why you should.

I'd like to see some examples of how others have approached this - what are some good examples of content marketing articles targeting developers?
I first became aware of Hacker News thanks to this project. Great project. There is certainly room for improvement, but it works and is fun!
>In Europe you can just use your normal banking app to transfer money to your friends electronically. The US actually seems to lag behind on that front.

This has nothing to do with the sophistication rgbrenner mentioned. What you describe is small stakes compared to the size, breadth, and depth of US venture capital (and not just for tech). Or the planet-spanning reach and universal service options at JPM or Citi. Or the mind-numbingly complex instruments that their and other bulge-bracket firms' fixed-income desks come up with. Or the gigantic pots and years of experience that Blackstone and Apollo bring to the table. Or the massive intellectual and computing firepower behind the likes of Renaissance, DE Shaw, Jane Street, and Citadel. Or the "Yale Model" of endowment investing.
With PocketAI, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo, you can transform your digital life on WhatsApp! It boasts a range of features that set it apart from the rest. Create amazing content, emails, captions, and art using DALL-E 3, 10X faster on WhatsApp. It’s like asking a friend for help and with the new ChatGPT Plus Plugins such as Vision (talk to your images), PocketAI takes your experience with AI to the next level.
Tech Modder Turns Throwback Game Boy Color into a Speedometer
Great, so this’ll happen to all of em soon. Fuck people might have to talk to their users ;-)
I came to the comments for the summary only to find out there is no summary...
I don't have much of an issue either, I was just explaining the sarcasm in the parent comment. I would have liked a format of "We launched a store and put VLC on it, and also you can get consulting there", though.
Every time anyone uses Latex on Windows it uses Perl to compile the pdf. One has to stand back and think how absolutely ridiculous that is in 2024.
I thought papyrus lasted a really long time, as long as you sealed it in huge stone tombs in the desert.

I think we should build a big library in a lava tube on the Moon to store all the most important data humanity has generated (important works of art and literature, Wikipedia, etc.). That's probably our best hope of really preserving so much knowledge.
Explain to me why is Youtube important at all? If the code runs on my computer, I should be able to stop parts of it.
Dead language has a very specific definition tho.
Interesting talk. Smalltalk (like Lisp) has indeed a very simple (i.e. minimal) syntax. But that doesn't necessarily mean that it is also simple to write and read code, or to implement an efficient compiler. E.g. blocks - as great as they are - make inlining very difficult; it eventually took 30 years to implement a VM with decent performance (see http://software.rochus-keller.ch/are-we-fast-yet_crystal_lua... for the results of https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/ and https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/ compared to Cog/OpenSmalltalk). Another language explicitly designed for simplicity is e.g. Oberon, which is statically typed and easier to implement with decent performance.

In my experience, at the end of the day, it's more the familiarity with a language that makes it seem "simple". And there is a trade-off between "simplicity" of the language and "simplicity" of the solution; if the language is too minimal, the solution quickly becomes confusing instead, and vice versa.
I'm Creating a Database for Founders to get Sponsorships. Add Your Site

You've ever seen those "Sponsor us" links on websites? Sometimes it's buried in the "Advertise" page. Great! It's a cool way to earn extra cash from your website if you've got decent traffic.

How it works? Simple. Businesses looking to advertise "natively" place unobstructive ads on your website. You charge a fee. Everyone is happy!

I love how HiveIndex (https://thehiveindex.com/partners/sponsor/) does this.

Ok ready to add your site to my database so that businesses start emailing you for sponsorship deals?

Go here: https://tally.so/r/w4rooX
Python Online Compiler with Advanced Debugger
Elon Musk Extends Support to Internet Archive Despite the Differences
Hopefully it's the people who designed the new mobile app.
> Charge at home over night

If you have a private garage. I live in a (non-US) city where there's shared garages (those who do have a garage, a lot of them just park outside) which are old and not always have power sockets. And even if they do, I don't think you're entitled to use them to charge your car. And do EVs work with standard power sockets, or needs some special stuff? I've never driven an EV.
Ask HN: How do teams manage prompts?
Suppose you are working with a large team and want to share your prompt environments, how do you share this environment with a team.

What collaborative software do you use to manage AI generated content and what are the biggest bottlenecks in AI productivity at your company currently?

How do you deal with linear chat environments, is this an ideal environment for you to work with?

How do you manage prompt clutter, do you find yourself looking for previous prompt conversations?
The price might actually be adequate - they're not getting 200+ dollars in ads for the average user (IIRC it was something like 50+), however, these aren't average users; if someone is the type of person who's willing to pay 200+ dollars for Facebook, then showing ads to them can easily be worth 4x as much as the average user, that is the kind of disposable income for random conveniences that many advertisers want to get and are willing to pay a premium for.
Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative
to be fair, you reach a certain point when the only options left for DDoS protection are Remote Triggered blackholing on your edge.

This results in an entire /24 network not being routed to your network and being dropped by your peer instead.
Yes I'm sure all those using ad-blockers are thinking about YouTube origins 20 years ago. ;)

If they changed their policies the right response is to stop using the service.

Someone gives me something for free for a few years, and they stop doing it. Do I really have the right to make demands?
and a market for books published before 2022 (minus self-publishing on Amazon) :-)
They also completely ran the android app into the ground.
Right, if they have the chance to utilize information they've already collected to their benefit in any way, it would be seen as a "dumb move" by many to not capitalize on it
Its their own fault for getting everyone hooked on free videos. If they started with charging model, no one would be complaining now.
Does it not matter what the consequences of failure are to determine how much effort should be put into handling failure?
That is some mental gymnastics. I turned my air conditioner on today while making a coffee. That is one thing. Rich people puzzle games burning $200k of electricity which is probably like 100 suburban mcmansions use in a year is a another.
While I don't think the term will switch at this point, you are dead right. From early on it reminded me of the anecdotes where people with a severed corpus callosum would have their left brain suddenly explain why they had just laughed, completely unaware their right brain has just been shown fake poop.

Confabulation is a great word for it, and has a similar quality.

But I suspect we'll end up having grown past the issue long before we'd see the term switch given the entrenched usage by now.
This sounds too good to be true!
This is a simple cat-and-mouse game, but what are the major possible escalations in the future?

How expensive would it be for YouTube to encode the ad directly into the video stream?

If that ever happens I can't see any blocking solution other than have an AI pre-screen the content, identify ads and jump over them.
Historically, it has been easier for vendors to work in their own walled gardens, and get customers locked in, than it is to collaborate on open standards and APIs.
There's quite a genius workaround to this - it's actually possible to link a credit card to your google account and buy something called YouTube Premium. Actually removes ads, even on TV, insane!

i used an ad-blocker on YT since forever, when they started blocking them I bought YT Premium over VPN in a cheaper country. not sure how google is supposed to serve 4k 60FPS videos to people all over the world without them paying. i pirate movies and shows at home so it's not like i don't get it. but the entitelment about watching YouTube for free is a bit weird to me. it worked for years, we were able to cheat the system by just blocking ads. now they're starting to prevent it. too bad for us. but ya just gotta deal with it.

i'm unhappy about it too, but i can't really blame them.
I think this is meant for pacemakers and such. Very little risk of it leaking since there is usually so much paperwork associated with corpses.

This won't work for populations that have been deemed expendable via mass bombing campaigns, so probably won't be certified for use in those sectors.
> does it support slicing and broadcasting

Slicing: yes.

Broadcasting: I think only so, that you can operate on arrays by scalars, the scalar gets broadcasted.
I think OP's point was that SEPA and IBAN are completely different things.

SEPA is the Eurozone area that treats all transfers as domestic - usually free or near-free, and fast (max 1 day normally, max 10 seconds for instant transfer).

IBAN is just a numbering scheme to uniquely identify bank accounts worldwide. It has nothing to do with transfers. The closest thing would be SWIFT, though that's just an information protocol and says nothing about fees or times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
Mojeek search engine (major update evaluation)
For any company with a complicated cloud footprint, how do they avoid "denial-of-money" by having the attacker pick some externally reachable piece of the cloud setup where the attacker can take actions that the company pays for (e.g. download large files from a cloud storage bucket, generating huge bandwidth charges)?
YouTube went slicing the salami to display more ads over time. It got to a point where I decided to pay them for the "Premium Lite" subscription since the only feature I wanted was "no ads", I didn't care about downloads, YouTube Music, or whatever other offerings they have, I just wanted no ads and was happily paying for it.

Then they killed that subscription tier, I just got an email with 30-day notice that my Premium Lite subscription wouldn't exist anymore and I had to upgrade to Premium, that was the last straw and I'm happily using ad blockers and will continue using it for as long as they work.

I tried to pay for it, they fucked me over, I have no ethical issues with using an ad blocker, it's the only power I have left.

That's the core issue, they slowly degraded the experience to show more ads while also removing ways to pay for a no ads feature without the cruft of other unnecessary features, I won't pay for them.
Direct democracy works perfectly fine, thanks for asking.
Greetings, a Swiss
That’s quite the read! I didn’t appreciate how much effort went into making the Win95 compatibility layer.
I'd rather have to charge the smartphone battery everyday, than carrying radioactive material in my pocket.
CNNBusiness: Fear and Greed Index
One recent example would be Zeekill, who ran a lot of DDoS attacks:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/02/finlands-most-wanted-hac...
> The quality of your average tech worker has completely nosedived in the last 10-15 years

I find this opinion hilarious: Almost 30 years ago the second most popular software product was Windows 95 (Doom was the #1), which couldn't run for a few hours without BSODing. Almost 20 years ago the average tech worker was building atrocities with Visual Basic, MS Access and PHP.

Meanwhile today it was announced that Google decided to lay off several compiler engineers working on LLVM, but sure, please tell me more about those low quality bootcamp kiddos that are ruining everything...
There is a huge amount of perl on your average Linux system, and it's integral to the GNU Autotools suite which is still widely used in many critical system components. I have trouble imagining it going anywhere at this point.
> and it's really just a list of file names in the order you want them

I want the user to see what albums are there and be able to play individual albums because I separated each album per folder.

m3u playlist is a all-in-one-list thing, right?
Hmm. Even if it emits only alpha radiation which is super easily shielded, wouldn't it cause some other emissions through bremsstrahlung? Not sure if I'd be happy with this.

But for implants I see the benefit of course. Never having to replace anything
Most of lulzsec, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec
Ads didn't bother me until they started to force me to watch annoying video ads that interrupt my flow. Internet is not a bloody television, I don't like to be interrupted, it is incredibly irritating. What made the matter worse, the ads they showed were local companies or for products I actually cared and as such it did damage to the advertisers - and this was the main reason why I started using an ad blocker - to stop advertisers to damage themselves.
This assumes "professional quality" was somehow higher in the past when it's really just looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses. There was plenty of crap and even bloated software written in the past.
For the life of me I don't know how people don't think twice about subscribing to Netflix and others while consider it unreasonable to subscribe to YouTube. It's easily 10x the value.
I really want one of these overpowered handhelds so I can run https://jovian-experiments.github.io/Jovian-NixOS/ as a semi-portable daily driver
which is true in the sense that capitalism (so far in history) has disenfranchised those who do the actual labor which generated the capital.

How can society be democratic if the workplace is not?
The ISPs can tell that someone is missbehaving when their upstream informs them their IPs are taking part in a DDoS.

This information can trickle down from the tier one that presently just blackholes the victim.

Nobody says that infrastructure that was designed in the late eighties can't be improved upon with additional functionality, namely passing top down information about missbehaving network ranges and or IPs.

As an ISP you already see devices on your network sending traffic in unusual patters, and when receive the warning that they are part of a DDoS you shut them down. If not, your whole range goes down, etc.

Let's add a fourth to the three-napkin protocol.
That means being taller, affable, attractive, and hygienic will get you more promotions, ceteris paribus.
> Is it worth it, to set back Iran's nuclear program only for two years?

Dr Jeffrey Lewis (an American expert in nuclear nonproliferation) answers this with a no. Not on monetary grounds, but on the grounds that the setback is only momentary. (While as he proposes diplomacy can bring lasting change.)

I recommend his podcast "The Deal": https://www.middlebury.edu/deal-podcast

Season 1 and season 2 are entirely about the promise and the collapse of the nuclear deal with Iran. Season 2 episode 4 talks about Stuxnet.
What's with the title, the current battery produces 100 microwatts, and there is no "smartphone" in the title.

And I assume the "63 nuclear isotopes" mentioned in the article refers to nickel-63, not actually only 63 isotopes...
I don't care one way or another about the TIOBE index, but that video is obnoxious and isn't making an argument or presenting data. Not sure why anyone would be convinced by this.
I ask my guests to open a PR or github discussion if they want the smart door to toilet open. The config is right now hardcoded and it has worked very well to keep guests away from my home to give me focus time.
I made something similar recently: https://qlab.netlify.app

It’s a quiz app where you can select any topic.
check the license, though.

https://www.wolfram.com/legal/agreements/wolfram-mathematica...
You really need to train your reading comprehension
That's the slippery slope people who want to take away rights exploit. Sure, you can believe women shouldn't vote. You can even go around telling people you believe women shouldn't vote. But just because you can say something, doesn't mean you should. If you say you don't believe freedom and democracy are incompatible, I am absolutely going to judge you for it because it's a stupid belief for which there is no evidence. There are several free democratic nations, a much larger number of unfree democratic nations, but there are no free undemocratic nations. And it doesn't take a degree in sociology to figure out why that is the case.