skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't need to be Britannica specifically, just any encyclopedia that isn't subject to the demands of the present. Wikipedia is modified constantly because it's politically relevant on a day-to-day basis.

Older books aren't necessarily always more objective, but they tend to have different viewpoints – and being made of paper, the text can't be changed when politically expedient.

So if possible, I always recommend people read as wide a selection of information as possible, and maybe my initial suggestion of a specific paper encyclopedia was not actually the best one, and a varied selection of different ones from different eras would actually be better.

My basic point is just that Wikipedia is very biased on certain topics and thus treating it as a sacred, complete repository of knowledge to read is not a good idea.
agree 100%. there's no going back at this point and it's an inevitable problem anyway. so we need to innovate further.
The windows bluescreen in German has had grammatical errors (maybe it still does in the most recent version of Win10).

Luckily you don't see it very often these days, but I first thought it would be one of those old anti-virus scams. Seems QA is less a focus at Microsoft right now.
I’ve been thinking about this a bit and the main concern I’ve had is around accessibility. The web has had a lot of iteration over time to make it relatively easy to build applications that are well suited for use with screen readers and other assistive technologies. Have you done any testing along those lines with the Godot UI tools?
IEEE754 is always fun. 9007199254740993 is the first integer that cannot be represented as a double precision float. So in python:

>>> 9007199254740993.0
9007199254740992.0

What's really surprising is that this number is only ~16 million in single precision floats.
...and lose all your privacy as those paid internet sites siphon off your search terms, pattern match your purchasing and consumption, and sell advanced psychological profiles to Cambridge Analytica so they can turn around and use it to psyop you into voting for another shitbag Billionaire.
>I can only imagine that they make this process so difficult because they are intensely ashamed of having created this abomination...

There is no shame in that game.
How many "successful tech companies" have we seen out of the US in the past 20 years? Now out of the EU?

The entire modern world relies on US tech and the EU has no muscle or understanding for what it takes to run these companies. They are trying to regulate something they fundamentally do not understand.
No, fiver is occasionally used by beginning aviation students though in confusion (DAMHIK).
New Beginner's Guide to Storybook with React
I pay for Migadu and very happy with it
Isn't Google the largest DNC donor? Pretty sure we can trust them if so
Is Pharo/SmallTalk/Interlisp a fake OS?
I don't think anything using SHA-1 for security is going to pass an audit anyways...
Organizer of python Atlanta here. Reach out anytime.
I don't think there is a significant market for transparent displays. We have had transparent monochrome LCDs for a long time and transparent OLED also already exist as well. The use for it is limited however the tech to achieve it is a milestone allowing better processes for "regular" TVs etc.

I recall there being a game and watch Mario game with a transparent LCD back in the day. Not many things use the tech.
The only part that htmx adds is avoiding reloading the hypermedia and allow swaps via AJAX as you say. But the programming model stays hypermedia-based.

For example, your server returns markup, not Json to a React frontend or similar.

This simplifies things a lot though it also has some disadvantages.

Advantages: if your backend changes the return to extend functionality, the hypermedia will be returned with no required changes on the frontend.

On the other hand, if you want to do a data-based json API htmx is not what you want, because it conflates returning functionality (embedded in the hypermedia) with presentation, instead of returning only data.
Oh, this is about the pay vs productivity graph? I wasn't even really looking at that one. I was most interested in figures 3 and 4 showing how the increase in wages were going mostly to high earners, thus the median and lower wage earners haven't seen much in real gains. If the gains were more evenly distributed, then this wouldn't be an issue at all.
> I believe there is a difference between generas of music being "dead" and genears of music not having mass popularity.

That's fine, but there is context here. Your belief is irrelevant.

> Given that there are new artists making a living creating new compositions playing coutnry, as well as large audiences paying money to listen and dance...

Same goes for rock. Just look at the constant stream of rock music coming out of Australia in particular right now. In that vein, rock has never been more alive. But rock is still dead per the context this discussion is taking place in.

> The claim I was responding to is "Country music was never good post the Johnny Cash era. "

The claim you speak of was in response to the comment that claimed that country music rose up to replace rock – meaning, for all intents and purposes, that country music radio replaced rock music radio. The comment you responded to was asserting that country didn't replace rock, so-called "elevator music" did.

And then the best you could do was name some artists that most people have never heard of. Which only goes to confirm the idea that country music hasn't risen up to replace rock. Rather, they are both dead, as per what dead means in the context of discussion.
Space shuttle Endeavour gets new out-of-this-world display
At big tech companies, "writing a program over a few hours that is reflective of the kind of work that the company actually does" is not really a good, representative performance measure. Often times, you will be solving problems across multiple domains, outside of your area of expertise. You have to take on the role of PM, data scientist, SWE, researcher, etc.

Internal restructuring of the company may even take you from working on backend web apis to distributed databases. It is expected that you re-acclimatize and learn quickly. Giving you a take-home test to write some CRUD app isn't necessarily sampling those same attributes.

p.s.: also not a fan of classical algorithm style interviews. Clearly, they also have a bias.
Contacted their/Stablepoint's support bot:

Today

What happened to bash.org?

Hello there!
YR

I will be happy to assist you but it appears that the support PIN you entered might be incorrect. Can you double-check, please?

Yordan R.

I haven’t entered any support PIN

Can you please provide me with it as I need to verify the account?
YR

You should be able to see your verification number by going to the client area —> Support—> And on the left side you will see your support pin.

Yordan R.

I’ve not got an account
YR

I see that the website you mentioned (bash.org) is hosted with us, it’s resolving from our server, but without your support PIN I’m unable to check it further due to security reasons

Yordan R.

OK, can I suggest you reach out to the owner of the site and, in a kind, proactive way, let them know it’s not working and the internet is upset with them?

See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950721
YR

Got it, thanks
> Nixon implicating himself

Got a link?
Why the questions? It is no one else's business why they want that level of privacy. Is it your intent to convince them that they don't need privacy?
Paying for Proton's services is a no brainer to me. $11 a month for access to VPN, encrypted email, encrypted cloud storage and more.

Will gladly pay to not have my data shared with 772 3rd parties.
That's clearly just a bumpy wall that extends past the TV?
Not exactly common, but live-fire military operations come to mind (friendy-fire or civilian-casualty incidents and the like).
Nope, no cost to attendees and free pizza/beer.

I have a stable location, plus a couple of other locations that have been offered and that could be if the current space didn't want to host anymore.

I can only assume the topics and/or speakers are just not ones that people care about. But as mentioned, Meetup doesn't really let me get any form of feedback easily.

I can fire out an email to people who have ticked the box, but I have no idea how many have and therefore the potential reach. I've sent about 3 in the past 5 years, once looking for spaces to host us, once seeking speakers, and once to request speakers again and give a feedback form to figure out what people want.

Two people answered the form.
Generally, I'm an optimistic about current approaches towards AI. I'm using ChatGPT daily for my work. I'm seeing the BS generated from it all the time but it provides many great ideas from which I create something useful (both writing and programming).

The sinus example scares me. It's obviously wrong. But what about all the subtle errors that will be generated?

Humanity's knowledge is bootstrapped from BS. But most of it is long forgotten. On the internet, the BS ends up in the training data of the next iteration.
I guess curation of quality text corpora will be an important thing in the next years.
If you don't maintain power lines, then they'll eventually cause fires regardless of where they are.

PG&E employees were caught skimming the money for line maintenance. At this point, the whole grid is falling apart.

The power poles in our area have over 20 degree bends in them, and are nearly as old as I am. Last year, we had dozens of trees take out the single digit mile line between ourselves and the freeway, and PG&E's availability was barely one nine. It used to make news if our area had a power outage over 12 hours. Now, it doesn't make news if the outage is under a week.

Other states in the US do not have problems like this. (Puerto Rico does, but it's not a state.)
I think Monopoly is mostly a game of luck. It is also pretty simplistic and unbalanced - just buy up everything you land on. Then, if not landed on complete sets, sit for an hour waiting to be drained slowly. Making feeble attempts to buy missing properties.

One rule modification can fix some of these issues: everyone is allowed to bid on a property that you landed on. It will go the highest bidder, so everyone gets an equal chance.

But anyway, there are much better board games these days.
Surprisingly affordable reproduction of the Digi-Comp I, a 3-bit mechanical digital computer
for those who missed it, the PR description is a poem https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/113465
The point of HTMX is that any element can submit HTTP requests, and you can drop the response anywhere in the document. It no longer has to be just <a> and <form> with full page reloads.
The current FireFox ESR version is 115.6.0. Extended support for 78.15 ended in 2021.

It's weird that your first inclination is a new computer or chrome. Those are two very different things, and neither is necessary.
When you initially setup a React project, you run `npm install --save react react-dom` or similar, create a HTML file that loads a JS file that you also need to write, that includes a call to `ReactDOM.render` somewhere. That's it, no more, no less.

Contrast that with rails where you run `rails new $app`, then `rails server` and everything is made for you.

Not sure why you're mentioning vite here, we're explicitly talking about React and Rails, not wrappers or tooling around them.
Good for you, but you are in a privileged position. Over here in grim Eastern Europe and outside a capital, your best chance is to find a remote job that doesn't actually suck and has longer-term prospects. Climbing to a managerial position means controlling people and being in touch with other managers posting bullshit on LinkedIn. Nobody will hire you to just write "wisdom-based" proof of concepts or whatever.
cars? displaying stuff on a transparent surface, it might be something useful.
That salary is a reflection of market forces.

The fundamentals remain the same: they are workers who support families of arbitrary needs and complexities and not just themselves. Are they expensive to the bottom line? Good -- they _allow_ the bottom line because they are the ones generating value.

Not the shareholders and upper managers calling for layoffs to maximize their stock prices who you seem to appreciate more.
I've been thinking about making a cross-platform mobile app but don't want to think about react native, touch javascript, or fiddle with xcode any more than I have to.

Is it accurate to think that I could instead use godot to create a cross-platform app to eliminate complexity from react native while creating something that is performant/native across ios/android?
>I'd say the golden age of journalism ended in the mid-1990s in the US.

The mid-1990s saw US journalists hounding Richard Jewell, faking car crashes, and amplifying the Satanic Panic.

I like to use satire as a lens of truth for people with rose-colored glasses. Anyone who thinks airport security is a joke needs to watch Airplane and Airplane II and anyone who thinks journalism used to be good "back in the day" needs to watch Robocop and Network.
The cool part about Proton is they bundle a lot of their services. You aren't just paying for email—you're paying for VPN, encrypted cloud storage and more.
Great question. We're talking about systemic 'deliberate avoidance' with so many of these mistakes. How can we legislate to make sure there are penalties for this kind of malicious inaction? Government's also have to take a huge proportion of the blame.
> GUIs and proprietary protocols have killed Emacs

For me, corporate environments killed tool choice... Locked down corporate Windows with the full O365 bubble (locked down too - so no integration with anything outside) is a hard current to swim against and I gave up resisting.
These systems exist (they cover certain subsets of airport operations). They were disabled at the time of this incident; there was a NOTAM in effect.
That’s gonna be an expensive window.
Before the "AI" takeover, it was already full of SEO-mandated human-generated bullshit, so we haven't actually lost that much in the last couple of years. I've been saying it for almost as long as I've been in the industry, which is well over a decade now.
Mechanical Engineer here - this is the million dollar question.

We currently use antiquated systems, or bad software based on antiquated systems.

My approach - don’t rely on software. It’s a mentality, not a software. Your CAD should be organized in a future proof structure. Your analysis should reference the hardware by diagram. You should be able to easily find the analysis with nothing more than a hunch. Your drawings should be organized and the numbering should make sense. Create a part numbering schema that gives some information more than just the part number.

Ask yourself every day - if someone asks me where the work I did today is, would I be able to quickly find it?
... and wand. https://i.imgur.com/SQjQz.png
I really enjoy using VSCode, it's highly configurable and ubiquitous. However, I do get concerned about handing so much control over my editor to Microsoft. While VSCode is ostensibly open source, forking it may become just as hard as forking Chromium.
So, all the junk that made Instagram worse.
There’s undeniably a lot of plain stupid luck where some people bought, forgot, and now it’s worth millions. I feel like every asset has people who blindly love it (Tesla for example) and will insufferably spout their nonsense to anyone that’ll listen just to drive up the price of their favorite stock/crypto/whatever. I don’t think there’s anything we can do to avoid that.
Ultimately cryptography, up to and including the use of decentralized ledgers, will help mitigate some of this, by carving out ground facts that can be mutually agreed upon without risk of AI interference. The people who hate AI the most often hate crypto too, so it will be interesting to see how they resolve this.
Transparent OLEDs have been demo'd for ages now. They are a flashy demo, and show off R&D and production capabilities. They haven't really materialized into broad consumer products though, perhaps due to limited market & practicality, custom nature of applications, performance, or cost.

To make transparent microLEDs appear in your local Best Buy, something should be different about them vs OLEDs - so I don't trust these to make it out of CES either.
> Or more accurately if it won't be clear when you get there?

I love how all the replies to your comment completely ignore this point.

If implemented as the other commenters naively suggest, it would cut the runway acceptance rate by probably 90%. Planes are normally sequenced so that each one touches down just seconds after the previous one turns off the runway.

Otherwise, the horn would be constantly blaring for the entire approach, which would do exactly one thing: train pilots how to ignore the horn. Exactly like gear warning horns in planes without a radar/lidar altimeter (based on airspeed and manifold pressure). So many gear-up accidents happened with the pilot reporting that he was distracted by the warning horn on final. Why? Because there were so many false positives that the horn became nothing more than a nuisance device. And now you’re in exactly the same situation as before the incursion warning system, but the pilots on approach have to communicate over the incursion horn all the time. Great idea, guys! Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Those aviation folks sure are stupid, aren’t they?

Even more problematic, the coast guard plane entered the runway just seconds before the JAL flight touched down. Even with a warning system for a plane on approach, there probably wasn’t enough time to execute a go-around.
The equivalent of "locals don't go to this area after dark"? I instinctively like it, but only because I flatter myself that I would be a local. I can't see it working to any scale.
Slackware does not have containers.
Probably referring to the SaaS turn?
You state that as if your link does not substantiate what I said earlier. For the benefit of the people who don’t click on the link you cite, it simply proves as I said, that they never made an aggregate profit over their lifetime and you are linearly extrapolating the past (“starting to become…”) coming into the high interest rate environment where peers like $FB and $SNAP crashed and Twitter would surely have too.
A School of Strength and Character (2023)
If they can make them small enough and cheap enough, they could be used in simple AR glasses maybe.
Not actually a real thing.
> Getting laid off in your 40s is a death sentence. You’ll never make as much money again, and you’ll be lucky to find employment.

This just isn't true as a broad statement, although I don't doubt it's true for some parts of the industry. Big picture, though, older engineers are no less employable than younger ones. In the right company, experienced engineers are valued more highly, even.
I suspect that it was common, at least to that pilot's ear, that "line up and wait, you're number one for takeoff" had been heard together so many times that when he heard only the latter his brain "helpfully" filled in the former. Some terminology change is occasionally warranted.
Do applicants get bonus points if they mention that your steps are incorrectly numbered? :)
I'm guessing ads
And network-connected wrenches aren't necessarily internet connected either. Back when I worked on critical infrastructure, we had a lot of networked machines that we simply air-gapped from the internet.

What I linked isn't connected to a network at all, what is your point here?

In most cases now, this is a task the technician has to do, regardless of the wrench they are using.

Then how would a network connected torque wrench make sure that airplane bolts are tightened better than a digital torque wrench? I think you're losing track of the context of this thread.
Nextdns.io is a great (free) addition to this.
no, presuming that other people working on things are both cynical and deceptive; it's projection, imo.
I think the market will be basically more engaging (and annoying) advertising in all surfaces like windows on buses and commercial buildings.
I Oversee the project and can see all invoices from the contracting company. Even so, This is the cost of one developer in the US, which would never be able to complete this project in a year.
imo mistral-medium is worse than mixtral. Do you have API access?
It's hard to say exactly how much a sub-postmaster makes but from a brief search it seems to be in the range of £30k-£35k. It's not like the kind of money these people had down the back of their couch.

If there is absolutely nothing to corroborate the money going missing, no evidence presented for where or how the money was stolen then there shouldn't be enough to send someone to prison.
But you can distill a wall of PR fluff to a concise message with ChatGPT... The problem is the average user thinks "long text = good" and their bosses often agree.
It is even worse in certain Asian countries. Your entire identity and self-worth is defined by your work.

I'm just glad that I'm being able to completely disconnect from work, when I check out. My tittle means nothing. Where I work means nothing. I do enjoy my co-workers, that's about it.
You don't think perhaps that having a mass storage device available to the tool is going to encourage engineers to find uses for it?

Updating the tool firmware, say - especially since with OTA updates unavailable for reason of the tool being forbidden to incorporate a radio, there's no other way to update the tool's firmware, not without complicating its design to expose a port rugged enough to survive the hard-knocks life an industrial tool is guaranteed to lead.

You might argue that this isn't worse than the current state of play - which would be true, but irrelevant, because in order to justify the massive cost and complication of this proposed design, you need to be able to show that the result is to a comparable extent better. You have yet to do that, and I doubt it can be done at all.
> And it almost never matters.

I take issue with this. Drift from floating point inaccuracies can compound quickly and dramatically affect results. Sure if you're just looping over a 1000 item list, it's not going to matter that JavaScript is representing that as a float/double, but in a wide variety of contexts, such as anything to do with money, it absolutely does matter.
Same and I'm not even a native English speaker. My comments are probably full of errors, but I always make sure that I pass the default spellcheck. I even have paid for Language Tool as a better spellcheck. It's faster to parse a correct sentence. So that me respecting your time as you probably don't care about my writings as much as I do.
My point was not that they should talk about the Holy Roman Empire with their family, but that they shouldn't share information with strangers that they wouldn't share with their family.

If you don't want your family to know something, you shouldn't tell it to OpenAI either.
It’s simple:

- get a sample the size of HN’s readership,

- apply the odds of each person having a license,

- bias slightly because of the audience’s demographics (which skews wealthy and technical),

- then consider that pilots are more attracted to aircraft-related stories,

and suddenly it’s not surprising to have dozens of qualified people in a thread like this.
> Maybe you failed to explain it, probably, or configure the IDE-features of Emacs? I mean, that's the point of VS Code and Emacs and others like them. They can have IDE-features, without being an IDE. And those features can have value it used well, elevating these apps above your normal plain text editor.

Lots of assumptions to try and cling on to some kind of point, I guess.

> There is no significant difference between them, and no reason to distinguish between them when talking about users and their preferences. One can move mostly freely between them with little to no hindrance.

Wrong.