skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Finland this is commonplace with ”open university” courses which are just the typical unis offering single ECTS credit courses for a small fee or for free. They are fully fledged courses though. See for example: https://fitech.io/en/ or https://www.mooc.fi/en/

It’s no MIT, but they can count towards an eventual completion of a degree, and if completed with good grades, after 20-40 credits or so you can get admitted directly into a full-time program without any entrance exams or such.
A slight problem is that the benefits of the increased efficiency go extremely lopsidedly to those who own the new means of production. And notably by the merit of ownership, not by e.g. inventing or building the new systems.
The first video is actually very informative. Apart from that I am damn sure it is popular because of the YouTube thumbnail.
we do otlp (delta) -> otel collector collector -> other process that does temporal aggregation
Our grocery bill hasn’t budged. No meat and no dairy maybe? I’d like to see data on the inflation across sections of food to understand this more.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34986267
If someone wanna build an XMPP modern open source UI, we could could cooperate with building the missing features on the server side with MongooseIM.

The open source clients are currently pretty outdated. Matrix protocol has nice UI clients though, but not XMPP.
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> Only STR and FMT get good perf because they are specialized by the compiler.

Sort of. The specialisation happens for any user of MethodHandle.invokeExact, which is what those processors use (i.e. the compiler doesn't specifically know about STR and FMT), it's just that the MethodHandle API for template processors is not yet public. I expect it will be made public later on.
US' largest radio and podcast company Audacy files for bankruptcy
The ICO calls this a soft opt-in and it’s perfectly legal.
> ... is the Uber driver – a job that requires a tremendous amount of knowledge and skill

My doctor friends who studied for about 10 years would like a word...
A bummer it seems like we're losing both Ubuntu and RHEL at the same time...
there's overhead every time you turn a number from native into a human readable decimal representation, and telemetry is mostly numbers.
A Deep Dive into Building a Minimalistic Task Scheduler from Scratch in Golang
I hope it's a trend too, but for a different reason. All these services keep info locked away behind a login wall, and it's making it incredibly difficult for newcomers to find the info they need online due to its inaccessibility to search engines.

If forums become the norm again, and people are logical enough to keep them viewable to guests, that issue goes away and we'll be able to actually find useful information online again.
He pretty much derailed the D forum forking thread into remotely related tech discussion. This was weird to observe tbo, in the end my take is that he doesn't seem to bother much and would rather continue living in his version of the story.
Yes, I see news.yc proxied through Cloudflare.

Also: https://www.nslookup.io/domains/news.ycombinator.com/dns-rec... / https://archive.is/R9BE8
Cannot establish database connection… It probably is…
People are working on this. In particular Retro Guy has one very good web front end that is really the only viable replacement for Google Groups at this point. Look for Rocksolid Light (rslight) on gitlab.

The source code is here:
https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light

The live demo site is here:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/index.php

It has a retro look on purpose. There are several themes included and it is really easy to create a new theme CSS file.

You can run a peer to carry text groups on a raspberry pi or a cheap VPS. Visit the rocksolid.* hierarchy on Usenet if you have questions about running a peer. Please don't ask questions about Rocksolid here on HN, as that would not benefit the people learning in the newsgroups.

Disclosure: I am not the maintainer of Rocksolid Light and I am not promoting my own product. I just like the software and I think the maintainer has the right ideas and right attitude of retro-styled usability in his project.
That’s not true.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-pr...
It is plain from the stories of fox news orphans that information diet can ruin good people, but I refuse to believe that people aren't different.

I rebut your thesis thus: Oskar Schindler.
In this case Mexico is a sovereign country so the Jones Act won’t apply.
Even better than fat jars are jlink‘ed images, maybe even wrapped in a nice shell using jpackage. Bundling the JDK and stripping it of unneeded modules eliminates so many types of issues. All courtesy of your JDK.
Try V https://vlang.io/ ;)
> I don't think many people thought C++ was dead 20 years ago

Sure they did. Bjarne was in that camp. That's why C++11 came out, and the C++ of 20 years ago is dead.

> Same with Java.

It was very common to hear comments like "The JVM is great, but Java is terrible. Use Scala, Clojure, [language of the month]."

> People looking for a C++ replacement have definitely moved on to Rust, Zig and maybe Go & Nim. Not D. I don't see how you could seriously argue otherwise.

Do you have some numbers on how many moved to Zig and Nim? I'm not looking for "I've seen comments on the internet" but actual numbers. I'd expect it to be rounding error relative to the population of C++ users. And I seriously doubt the numbers would be very high for Go.

But the point still stands that people have been saying this about D for a gazillion years. It might be more credible if they'd at least change the story up a bit when they say it.
Hard truths that can help laid-off Big Tech workers land jobs in startups
Well for vBulletin specifically it's that the software was bought out by a company called Internet Brands, who got rid of the original team and screwed up the last three versions of it.

vBulletin 4 is okay, but 5 and 6 are poorly coded, extremely inefficient and full of bugs even today.

Some of the original team went off to create XenForo, which has basically replaced vBulletin for most large forums now, though that itself has its own issues.
> This is all to say that it seems the fundamental social contract of capitalism - that the benefits of innovation are redistributed to everybody through competition and growth, employing more people in new industries and lowering real prices of machine manufactured goods to almost nothing - seems seriously threatened going forward in the AI and super-internet-company age.

This isn’t the social contract. There are two classes, workers and capital owners, and each tries to get as much for themselves a they can. But the capital owners have an advantage since they can more easily band together. This has been pointed out since Adam Smith (or that’s the oldest one I know).

But of course it is correct that normal people have benefited from capitalism as well. But you can’t disentangle that from the centuries of class struggle which fought against the tendency of capital taking all the gains for itself. But this fact gets whitewashed as a “social contract”, i.e. a cooperative arrangement, when really the only reason why the so-called middle class thrived in the 50’s USA was because of concessions between the two classes after the struggles of the 30’s and 40’s.

(A sort of We Were Friends All Along history.)

Which is just to say that there absolutely never was a cooperative balance between these two classes under capitalism. There have just been different degrees of imbalance and then class struggle in order to try to correct for that.
As someone who occasionally dabbles in Mathematica for creative coding, using WLJS finally made me enjoy writing Wolfram code.

Their free "cloud" is so slow I'd find writing BASIC on a C64 more enjoyable while their desktop offering costs so much money that it crosses into the territory of hardware budgets.

Aside from the occasional missing widgets and bugs, it's fast, modern, and entirely local. If anyone wants for any reason wants/needs to use Mathematica, I'd recommend this as the least bad way to do so.
At least per my calculation 40 < 70.

In my country at least the 40 hour workweek required a civil war and a couple of general strikes.
> The progress in ≈7B models has been nothing short of astonishing.

I'd even still rank Mistral 7B above Mixtral personally, because the inference support for the latter is such a buggy mess that I have yet to get it working consistently and none of what I've seen people claim it can do has ever materialized for me on my local setup. MoE is a real fiddly trainwreck of an architecture. Plus 7B models can run on 8GB LPDDR4X ARM devices at about 2.5 tok/s which might be usable for some integrated applications.

It is rather awesome how far small models have come, though I still remember trying out Vicuna on WASM back in January or February and being impressed enough to be completely pulled into this whole LLM thing. The current 7B are about as good as the 30B were at the time, if not slightly better.
We are still using our ISDN phone behind a FritzBox DSL Router. S0 Bus still works nicely and is much easier to setup compared to multiple VoIP phones in your house. Particularly supporting multiple phone numbers is nice. Actually all our phones we use are pre 2000s. The newer ones we had never lasted both in terms of design and tech. I think at work our Alcatel phone system also uses a modified version of the s0 bus (with numbers tied to the port )
Dreamworks: AI Will Take 90% of Artist Jobs on Animation in Just Three Years
Kwirk – Gameboy 1990
> So there is this tendency of social activists towards conformance and centralization in the direction of authoritarianism. But on the other side, total denial of any systemic social problems that results in increasing inequality leaving more and more people fighting for scraps as monopoly powers increase.

Basically, from both ends of the spectrum here comes the tendency of concentrating and monopolizing power politically or economically. We are losing agency as individuals actors in the society.
That example is really difficult, because between the lines it sounds like it has been working sufficiently well despite the cowboy style, substituting methodical error-avoidance with that special kind of brilliance of super deep code knowledge and remembering all the pitfalls. Very difficult situation.

Regarding "rewrite in Rust", I believe that it's a smaller part of the appeal of Rust than it appears based on the amount of code actually written: the main excitement is from people who never really ventured from heap+gc languages into manual memory management but who love the idea of being able to write gc-less native code. And many of them would rather write it slowly, one borrow-check at a time, than with all the memory bugs they created dipping their feet in naive C/++. Those people rarely write much Rust, but their excitement infects some in malloc/free land and for them a rewrite is super attractive because it skips the entire explorative part of software development that is really not the strong point of Rust.

(yes, this is pure projection, not only was I describing what draws me to Rust, I also failed to pick up on the codebase of my previous boss, too much "how can we make this entire thing less slow and error prone" and too little "cram in requirement X, even if it might turn out to become requirement Z because it pushed the codebase over the edge to terminal unmaintainability")
I remember enjoying The Incredible Machine games as a kid. Those games are pretty old now but their creator made a game called Contraption Maker[1] which might be worthwhile. It has good reviews on steam.

Those games are obviously quite dissimilar to Factorio but I feel like they tickle my brain in the same way.

Autonauts[2] is also pretty good, although it requires scratch like programming and might be a little difficult for that age range, not sure.

There are some other games in the genre but these are the ones I've tried and remember.

[1]: https://www.gog.com/en/game/contraption_maker

[2]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/979120/Autonauts/
Maybe, but on a maslow pyramid of healthy democracy, that would be a tier above an informed electorate and critical thinking skills.

If you figure out how to develop those, please include Britain on your speaking tour.
> Dynamic Programming is not Black Magic

But who said otherwise?
>There has been a recent example of that in the UK, where a number of politicians and professionals (central bankers, economists) have said an important objective is to reduce wage inflation.

The objective isn't to reduce wage inflation, it's to reduce general inflation. Restraining wages is one way of doing that.
Marketing is the act of bringing a product to the market in such a way that it is received well.

Product, price, place, promotion.

All of those are marketing.
Yes, even the product itself is marketing. When people claim they are not doing marketing, but going by word of mouth, they are using the product itself as marketing.
Pretty sure the source engine used to have single-threaded audio for a long time. They worked around the buffer underrun problem by inserting calls to their sound update function at multiple points during the frame, like during rendering. Completely avoids the locking problem
I receive a lot of physical mail from HelloFresh and there's no clear way to opt-out. I've never (willingly or knowingly) signed up to their service or any marketing bits.
> Ransomware ?

I have no idea. All I know is that a while back I read a report that estimated that the total volume of illicit trade using cryptocurrencies in 2022 was around $20B, and the volume dropped due to sanctions imposed on Russia and subsequent crackdown on crypto as a way to sidestep them.
> They movie just focuses on something different from the book.

1. It's not a book. It's just a short story. It's only 16pp long or something.

2. The central point of the story is: brilliant linguist learns to write an alien script and it teaches her to see the future. That is the core plot in a sentence. The film loses that.

Don't get me wrong: I liked the film, as a modern SF film: i.e., brain damaged into mindlessness, but still quite pretty.

It's like a version of Hamlet in which he lives happy ever after, though. It is missing the point in the most profound possible way.
Interesting! For a while now, I’ve started working on a similar project with the same general idea, although I settled for SvelteKit and browsers instead of native apps:

https://github.com/project-kiosk/kiosk

I just can’t keep motivation up long enough to finish it…
Past performance is no guarantee of future success. And the low hanging fruit has been picked.
What companies are hiring for this kind of stuff? Do they pay well? Serious question. Email on my profile.
I love how that very same page has correct "most watched talks across 100+ software engineering conferences" to compare to

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In case someone doesn't understand the normal convention: "+X" is "additional X", while "X+" means "more than X". And lately people keep misusing them
It's not a novel.

It's a 16pp short story. Read it, then reply. It takes about 15min if you're a slow reader!
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Cars suck, man
What diversification in investing is about
If I sent someone a picture of a raw steak via a dating app, it wouldn't "just be a picture of a steak". There's nothing inherently wrong with pictures of steak, but the context is important.

In the context of a dating site, sending someone a picture of a steak is inappropriate and creepy. Is the user trying to communicate that they see someone as a piece of meat to be used for pleasure? Is it a threat ("I'm going to cut you up")?

Likewise, there's nothing inherently wrong with a picture of a penis. But seeing first hand the aggression and intent to humiliate or victimize that's behind a dick pic is what's disturbing. See enough of that every day and you'd lose your faith in men. That's the problem for the moderators.
> the maintainer was quite enthusiastically opposed to changing the DB layer or making it pluggable

Sounds very reasonable. I am pretty sure that SQLite isn‘t the problem. It is actually faster than traditional client server DBs in many cases.
Obviously, large data files will need large memory, but aside from that, music and spellcheck take little memory, and web browsing takes so much

For 90% of browsing like searching and reading articles or watching video or using email, all of those worked on the almost same functionality 10 years ago with a fraction of the memory.
$18 per month is exaggeration
Crafted by first creating a language, then a framework and then the "news" application.

The holy grail of NIH :)
> Industrialization led to us all having enough free time for vacations, the internet and hacker news.

Attend a May Day celebration sometime. (Not to be confused with the American Loyalty Day or Veteran’s Day or whatever it is now.) It is one of the few times that you get reminded that things like the weekend being free time is not something that comes automatically out of a factory.
I wouldn't call that marketing if you truly dial random numbers. Meanwhile if you put your number in a phone book, I would count that.
I think the Rust in Firefox is probably the strongest in that list. Rust in Linux is just advocates trying to get adoption (not regular kernel contributors electing to use it).
1. Start The Boring Company

2. Buy The Weather Company

3. Make Boring Weather Products

4. ???

5. Profit
DJI announces FlyCart 30, personal transport drone and delivery platform
Technically, though that was Sticker Star, and modern Paper Mario from that game onwards is a very different beast.

Those games lose the interesting stories and character design and mechanics that made the first two so beloved (Super Paper Mario is its own thing), and are heavily criticised by the fanbase as a result. Sticker Star is usually seen as the worst in the series due to the awkward puzzles, bosses where a single arbitrary item is needed to win and the generic characters and settings, but Color Splash and Origami King get their fair share of criticism too.

My advice to anyone reading this is to skip Sticker Star, maybe watch a Let's Play of Color Splash and try out Origami King if you're willing to accept it'll be nothing like the first two.
> Well, it wasn't actually 128k. Technical reasons limited it to 112k. That's why 56k instead of 64k modems.

That’s not fundamentally true about ISDN - in North America, at least, most basic rate connections and every single PRI I ever encountered had eight-bit-clean channels and were true 64kbps.

With modems (I assume you mean analog modems,) that was only part of the reason. There were others that would have been far more difficult to solve in practice, and there was largely no point in doiny so as xDSL technologies came around at roughly the same time.

Multilink PPP worked quite well, even beyond bonding two channels.
As I read the article and the comments, all I can think of is all the bribes. The cartels don’t have to rob it. They will just charge protection fees.
In a democracy, if the majority of the population is unable to earn a living they can just vote themselves a living.

Such a system also happens to be in the interest of the haves because they need consumers to purchase their products that they generate with machines.

If you can mass produce the production machines to the extent that everybody can have them, you can create a post-scarcity society[0] which is the only condition under which communism is a workable system.

Another possibility would be that the market simply produces other jobs that currently don't exist for all of the people put out of work. So far, that's what has happened after ever "job destroying" technological innovation.

[0]: Post-scarcity means the price of everything falls to 0 or very close to 0 because it is trivial to create.
Ubuntu is a shadow of its former self and its mission. Nothing of value is lost.
It might be important to take a step back. If you are a practicing Buddhist and read OPs comment, you may be right. Most are not, and they can't be shoved into the deep end of this philosophy.

Having said that, taking small steps is important. I feel OPs point is valid, in the sense that happiness comes from within, not external validation.
The last thing I can think of to work is putting nuclear safety in the hands of the public, one radioactive choking hazard at a time.
We have never signed up to HelloFresh but they have sent us mail through the post!
A Unique Approach to Creating an Azure VM
What would they like to say? The data suggests that it also takes approximately 10 years to form the skills one needs to drive. Hence why insurance rates typically decline to a meaningful degree when one turns 25.

But, like all things in life, there are tradeoffs. While road safety would no doubt improve if everyone had to spend 10 years learning and developing driving skills, there would be a lot of social consequences to keeping people from driving until so late in life. Consequences we have not been willing to accept.

We could just as easily allow medical professionals to practice without such lengthy requirements. Anyone can become a shoddy doctor. It is not hard job to do poorly. But we've selected different tradeoffs there. It is not as socially impactful if a doctor can't practice until later in life, and is arguably more socially beneficial to see them wait until their skills have really developed.
For foreign travelers I can see how missing a reference can lead to a fine.
> This is how airline travel, an inherently dangerous activity, has become so incredibly safe

Indeed. The tragedy with Boeing though is that they seem to have greatly regressed when it comes to safety. We all thought planes plunging down to the ground, doors getting ripped off of the fuselage were a thing of the past but they have reappeared.
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I read something called "learn to say no" on HN a while ago, trying to find the same one again might be tough but that was the gist of it: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=learn+to+say+no
As a general rule, I don’t share account access. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve made an exception to that rule and it was always for something relatively benign like Spotify. Privacy isn’t the only reason to avoid sharing, either.

I don’t even like that when my family picks up the remote, Apple TV assumes it’s me using the TV. They watch something and mess up my Up Next history and recommendations. I wish it supported using a PIN. I’ve thought about getting rid of the remote to force everyone to use their phone as a remote, because then it detects who is using it and automatically switches accounts. But that means everyone has to have an iPhone and have their phone charged, etc. Getting rid of the remote just for my convenience seems too inconsiderate.
Sure. But the existing option is the inventors who started the project from nothing and have committed decades of their life.

Just like politics like you said, outsiders often think it's easy to come in and fix everything.

Dividing the community makes sense if things are going off the deep end or no longer being supported. It doesn't make sense in hopes of getting a slightly more efficient approval process.
Or more likely, the battery will be thrown out with the same 2 year industry enforced device cycle and gets "disposed off" in some way where all of this radioactive waste ends up polluting some third world country.