skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s be real the majority of these people getting laid off aren’t gonna grind for 2-3 years with low odds of succeeding. Same thing that happened with Twitter layoffs and any covid layoffs.

People wanting to build stuff to their hearts desire long left or didn’t start at google in the first place
People are still out there exchanging Covid. Meetups are a great way to catch it still.
Or... you need a person who is specialized in working on EVs. EVs are still not the majority, so anything different from the norm will need different training, and thusly higher hourly rates to work on them.

When Ford started making putting aluminum bodies on their F150s, they had special training programs for doing bodywork and repair on them. I guarantee that cost was passed down to you.

It may not even take longer to do the repairs, it might take the same amount of time once you learn how to work on them. That said, I guarantee the shops and insurance companies are recuperating the costs of that extra training.
Hi! I'm a founder of lu.ma which a lot of Meetup hosts have migrated to in the past year. We're kind of a mix between Meetup + Eventbrite. You can see some tech events we've featured here — lu.ma/explore

I'd love to see if I can help you get your community up and running again. Feel free to reach out - victor@lu.ma

In terms of funding / sponsorships, I think it's certainly harder than the market a few years ago since there is just less free money for tech / startups, but we've seen a lot of new tech communities thrive. Also, a lot of people are willing to pay to attend events!
lol u are everywhere
Canadian Ex-Googlers, we are hiring full stack engineers. Email me at collin at autocorp dot ai
I hope "render itself" was an intentional rendering pun.
4 hours is all that's necessary in a large grid that's well distributed and diversified.
humans are quite capable of generating bullshit, I don't think that's ever been in contention. doesn't mean all or even most human generated content is garbage.
I could easily imagine an email arriving at some public contact address "I'm in your wrenches, changing your torques, send 123 BTC to 45678 or else!" and some first level person just dismissing it incredulously, "yeah, right...", to the trash folder. Then when nice things do start to burn... not sure that I'd have the guts to remember if I was that first level person?

But when bit ignored that threat would be easy to deal with, just get some indicator beam type torque wrenches and occasionally check what the dial tells you about the point the trigger-type triggers.
Is it a master's in an important field or just one of those masters that's a requirement for job advancement but primarily exists to harvest tuition money for the schools?
> free people from drudgery in the hope that it will encourage the biggest HUMAN artwork renaissance ever in history.

This experiment has been run in most wealthy nations and the artwork renaissance didn't happen.

Most older people don't do arts/sciences when they retire from work.

From what I see of younger people that no longer have to work (for whatever reason) neither do younger people become artists given the opportunity.

Or look at what people of working age do with their free time in evenings or weekends after they've done their work for the week. Expect people freed from work to do more of the same as what they currently do in evenings/weekends: don't expect people will suddenly do something "productive".
I think this is hyperbole, and similar to various techno fears throughout the ages.

Books were seen by intellectuals as being the downfall of society. If everyone is educated they'll challenge dogma of the church, for one.

So looking at prior transformational technology I think we'll be just fine. Life may be forever changed for sure, but I think we'll crack reliability and we'll just cope with intelligence being a non-scarce commodity available to anyone.
Removed a dash/hyphen due to character limits.

> Ivanti said the two vulnerabilities — tracked as CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887 — were found in its Ivanti Connect Secure software.

https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/KB-CVE-2023-46805-Authen...

> …security researcher Kevin Beaumont noted on Mastodon that there will “likely be many more victims.” Beaumont, who has dubbed the two vulnerabilities “ConnectAround,” posted results from a scan showing roughly 15,000 affected Ivanti appliances exposed to the internet globally.

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111732557100241084
The main point I'm trying to make here is that even if you're in the "leap of faith" category, you still on some level have to understand the framework constructs (i.e. its API) in order to make use of it. If that API changes with a new version, and you want to upgrade, you're going to have to learn enough about that new API to make the upgrade.

Obviously you benefit from understanding the internals too, but realistically, the more complicated the thing you're using, the less of the internals even a motivated user is going to bother with.
Well, you were siloed to whatever _local_ BBSs existed and you could dial without paying a fortune for long distance calls. If you lived anywhere outside select urban centers then you were out of luck. So yeah... let's count our blessings.
I don't get why people in this thread are conflating Flatpak with different ways to do desktop UI. Even if your app is a single self-contained binary, it can benefit from Flatpak. Sandboxing, permissions management, separation from system (needed on 'immutable' and image-based distributions), unified package format (don't need to create deb, rpm, etc. for a simple GUI app), and many other Flatpak's features can benefit the devs and the users alike. That has not much to do with what you use to write UI. Flatpak can't be entirely replaced by self-contained binaries.
I agree with all of that, except that I really enjoy Reacher. And if you're a fan of the books, then it's good to see the main character played by someone so much truer to the original than Tom Cruise ever was.
it's going to bounce back. CCC is one of the biggest events which just happened for the first time after covid (also the summer camp).
i think these big events will motivate smaller events to eventually reactivate too.

keep up updated on that developer forum. i am interested in joining (in german or english)
Depending on where you are, you can literally fly around in a GA plane with no radio and be perfectly legal. You can build your own airstrip (no approvals necessary other than any municipal building permits) and fly around with no radio in a homebuilt ultralight (no license or certification required).
What's new about that? Any bullshit product is bullshit.
Only if you don't proofread or do a cleanup pass is it dogshit.
Spreadsheet documenting these: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zAQIo_mnkk0c9e4-hpeD...
This is pretty common among more expensive brands from what I understand. When I had work done on my Tesla it was the first time I had encounter it, but the couple of repair shops I was referred to by Tesla also had individual hourly rates for BMW, Porsche, Land Rover, etc.
What always bothers me is that HN immediately starts discussing these submission as if it were a personal responsibility issue rather than a public health issue. You're not even going to make a dent in these cancer numbers by appealing to people's personal responsibility to follow a healthier diet.
Truth be told I had hoped for something a little more archaic than Windows 95.
They're free to run non-tracking ads, they're free to charge money and refuse service to non-payers, they're free to quit EU market, but they're not free to track people who do not want to be tracked (no matter if they're paying or not, no matter if they're seeing ads or not), privacy in EU is not something the users can trade away or sell in a contract, it either has to be gifted as free choice (and free to revoke) or Meta can't use it, GDPR doesn't allow for a legal option to "buy" it with discounts or free service.

GDPR is a relatively uncontroversial law within EU, it's not a narrow-niche-lobby law, it's democratically passed with general acceptance from all EU regions and diverse party groups, and there is no meaningful opposition to it from EU voters, and it works quite well for all the mainstream use cases (telecomms, banking, various loyalty programs of physical and online stores and the big retail chains, targeting for phone and mail marketing, treatment of data by landlords and creditors, healthcare data, all the intermediaries for insurance or healthcare or hiring, etc, etc) which arguably are far more important to one's daily life than whatever Meta does, and only the niche of internet ads is still lagging behind due to political reasons related to how global companies run their operations through Ireland and the tiny Irish DPA couldn't (or wouldn't, there are some perverse incentives at play) enforce things in a timely manner.

While I personally don't think that it "would kill nearly every tech company that offers services to the general public for free. You can say good bye to Maps, YouTube, WhatsApp, etc.", I'll accept that on this aspect perhaps I'm mistaken and you're totally right, however, that has little to do with the grandparent argument that it's hard to interpret - the law is reasonably clear to interpret and that (anti-tracking) interpretation has been reaffirmed when challenged in courts, and even if it turns out that the EU voters are making a mistake because they(we) fundamentally don't understand something, that's still not an accidental mistake, that is intentional choice. And IMHO it's quite straightforward that they(we) in EU have the right to make that choice even if it turns out to be stupid in the long run, and Meta doesn't have the right (neither legal nor moral) to deny EU people that choice, they have to follow the law as intended or leave.
There might be a reversal. Humans might start intentionally misspelling stuff in novel ways to signal that they are really human. Gen Zs already don't use capitals or any other punctuation.
Same. I haven't found a product that matches Meetup.com's reach. I've tried Facebook, but it's full of scammers and crazy people, too much for me to filter, but it has worked occasionally.
It also works fine for me, I've been using it for a few months now without incident, on iOS 17 currently.
You are pointing the finger at things you think are worrisome.

But for this particular issue, the problem is a recent significant change in cancer rates. That means that the cause is likely a recent significant change. The items you listed don't strike me as having changed significantly in decades.

Off hand, I can think of dozens of environmental factors that have changed: increase in acceptance of mental health leading to more Rx for same; vaping; marijuana use; a different mix of recreational drug use; less socializing leading to less physical activity; less air pollution; less physical activity as children due to attitude changes about their safety on their own in public; and a dozen more I didn't think of.

I wish good luck to the medical professionals who need to untangle this and find the source causes.
This only applies to free accounts, i.e., accounts that have M365 Personal or Family don't have the Advertising section
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...

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> Astonishingly, more than 700 postmasters were prosecuted without any executive, manager, or statistician recognizing this glaring anomaly.

I was thinking about this last night. I knew there where about 1000 McDonald's in the UK, Googling it there are about 11,500 post offices. At some point you'd have thought someone would have noticed it was a bit excessive.
Would likely do better in Portugal or Spain wrt cost of living and proximity to Europe. Wealth tax to keep in mind for Spain.

EDIT: I tilt towards rural/low density areas. Understand the cosmopolitan desire though.
Kotlin is the Dvorak to Java's Qwerty. It looks better in theory, but not where it actually counts, and not enough to justify going against the grain.
Reminds me of when I was trying to figure out the pronunciation for “synedoche” and got this as the top YouTube results.

https://youtu.be/v-n1vGeVIXo
Ahh, you mentioned harmonographs!

I was fascinated with these when I was younger. Built one (maybe two if I recall).

Had a kind of build-off with my dad when I visited him one summer. Maybe the best bonding experience we ever had.

I'll have to build another one now that my woodworking skills are improved and my Walter a little fatter.
> Transparent displays when scaled sufficiently will allow AR glasses that don't suck.

I don't think we will ever have AR glasses with transparent displays. The human eye generally can't properly focus anything closer than 10cm.

Maybe we could have a face shield with a transparent display and this way we could hold it just far enough so it can be in focus.

The only way we can make "smart glasses" is with some expensive optics.
If the people with the technical skills/certifications for a particular brand are harder to come by, I think it’s a pretty pure supply/demand thing.
> Give organs a break that would otherwise never have a break. Many benefits to speak of..

Meaning no offense but this seems like such a silly claim to make. I'm sure it's appealing to feel like you've found a way to hack the system but... color me skeptical. Our bodies evolved over millions of years to operate continuously and generally do so quite successfully for 60-80 years with no special effort required.

That said, I do look forward to seeing Tiktok videos touting the benefits of intentionally induced cardiac arrest to give your heart a break. Or holding your breath for long periods to give your lungs a break.
Well, I've been looking at Chinese EV's and basically drooling at what they're doing.

In this country (USA), an EV is a ball-and-chain over how many miles until you go before a recharge for hours.

In China, its 3 minutes to SWAP a battery. You know, the solution the manchild in charge of Tesla said wouldn't work. And here it is, working in USD 12k ev's.

https://www.scmp.com/video/scmp-originals/3168635/chinese-sm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anXQfRuAkZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoBeXHYdO0Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTsrDpsYHrw

But hey, look at the "bright side" - we now get $7500 off cars that start at USD 70k for EVs. Real 'deal'.
Some have called this the "Team of Rivals" approach to open source maintenance.
Yes, Russia army attacked electric infrastructure, that's common knowledge. No, there is no use of precision weapons to willingly attack apartment houses, that's definitely a lie.

There is a lot of cases of Ukrainian army to use indiscriminate and "dumb" weapons to attack civilian districts of Donetsk (and now, Belgorod) just to terrorize population.
"re"-read GP's last sentence.
> Now all email is used for is receiving spam from companies and con artists.

No it isn't, unless you are 12 maybe.
There is some ongoing PR, so it might come at some point :

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aop...
Go and study it for 100hrs and if you combine that with a bit of intelligence, you'll be in the same position as the "lucky" bitcoiners who get wealthy buying it earlier.

Alternatively wait until every man and his dog already have it and the price has stabilised and it's a no brainer (say 10 or 20 years)

You buy bitcoin at the price you deserve.
Love that sentiment!
The Internet Archive is in many ways one of the best things online right now IMO.
One of the few organisations that I donate regularly to without any second thoughts.
Protect the archive at all costs!
The Evil Is in the Fuzz
There’s the work.

Then there’s the meta-work. (planning the work: what to do; how to do it). This is me writing a to-do list on paper or someone else typing in org-mode. It also includes thinking about what to do.

Then there’s the meta-meta-work. Setting up clever ways to plan work. This is where you configure emacs and other systems or try to find the best system. There’s a lot of leverage here, but it should never be a continuous effort, unless you like getting paid in meta-meta-dollars.
So confident yet so wrong.

- Israel has not carpet bombed gaza. They've used a higher portion of smart bombs than any other military in history and use F16s to guide their dumb bombs. Israel has dropped more than 25,000 bombs, and according to the high estimates fewer than 25,000 palestinians have been killed, meaning each bomb kills less than one person. Israel also establishes humanitarian corridors, drops leaflets, sends evacuation warnings, allows in aid, establishes safe zones, and much more.

- Nobody knows how many Palestinian journalists have been murdered. Gaza does not have a free press. What we do know is that many militants posing as journalists have been killed. See: https://www.camera.org/article/using-journalists-lives-as-cu...

- You're upset that Israel imprisons minors like these guys? https://www.wionews.com/world/are-hamas-resorted-to-training... Save some of your outrage for Hamas using child soldiers. Also, plenty of other countries, including the United States, imprison minors.

- I can see you've been listening to lots of Norman Finkelstein? Israel does not just wake up one day and say "let's mow the lawn" - each time they bomb gaza it's been in response to something like a suicide bomb or stabbing, which has happened for decades in Israel.

- I see you think you're familiar with the Hannibal directive. Can you link me to the text of this directive? The principles are tactical rather than strategic and followed by many other militaries, including the US.
I don't know if I'm the only one who finds it odd to see people use stock market identifiers instead of company names in normal conversation, but seeing NFLX instead of Netflix made me think the NFL [1] had expanded their own streaming game and was getting into content creation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League
One obvious way to fight this on a personal level is to have no TV.

Yes, do have a big screen to watch movies if you like them, but never turn on the TV reception. Stay away from the on-the-air rage machine, the same way you can stay away from the social media rage machine. Also saves you a lot of time not watching any commercials.

I did not have a TV for last like 25 years, and never missed it. All the news you think you care about are often not; you can get your news fix by looking at the news online a couple of times a day, for a few minutes. You can dig any topic deeper if you're really interested, again online.

I see only one sane use for (cable) TV, and this is sports and other unique live events. Fortunately I'm not into sports, and most live events I care about are also broadcast on YouTube.
Context / Plug: I'm a founder of a Meetup competitor / successor called lu.ma

I think Meetup got in a hard position because they didn't have very many paid events and their communities tended to churn off of Meetup. It's hard to make money as a community organizing tool so they tried a bunch of different ways of making money, including charging guests + showing irrelevant ads which both don't work.

Also, Meetup was in a very weird spot before the pandemic. They were bought by WeWork and then sold off in the WeWork crunch. I doubt any of the original team is still there.

Anyway, lu.ma is free to use for free events so if there's anything I can reach out with, feel free to ping me at victor@lu.ma
The user presses the button and it torques exactly the same, to the spec, every time.

Again, this isn't a network feature.

Automation in factories decreases human err and increases the quality and speed of output.

Right, this is something that has been done already without networking.
They recently added automatic mail forwarding, so I pulled the trigger as well.
such websites still get made all the time, they're just not useful for Google to surface. https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
Aaron Swartz did nothing wrong!
Before the JS hipsters arrived on the scene attempting to implement Java on the web again. There was and still is nothing wrong with full page refreshes and javascript augmentation per page. HTMX is an aim to get back to that and Web Components are looking good as well.
Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't.

Sometimes you will, sometimes you won't.

:)
Same was said about Japanese cars in 70s

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/adventure/red-li...

There is no theoretical reason why Chinese manufacturers cannot attain the same quality level over time (maybe even short time) as everyone else.
looks very nice.

can ask users at https://montaigne.io if they want it.
Didn't they go well beyond CS2 though? Why did you pick such an old version? We ran Adobe on Intel Macs well before SaaS. In fact, we were running Adobe Premiere before Final Cut was released.
A few years ago, I read all of bash.org from beginning to end. It took about a week of transit rides.

There were a lot of laughs, but a huge proportion of it was slurs directed at Black people and women. It's probably time for it to fade away.

The quotes I remember the most were (paraphrased)

1. Best ebay review ever -- bought item for my brother who had cancer, item never arrived and my brother died

2. Something about writing a warranty about installing a cinder block in a window and then throwing it through a window at the Sony headquarters

3. "There's no such thing as a sin on the battlefield." "Opposite over hypotenuse. dipshit"
Project Mojave was Microsoft’s attempt to correct this issue. It didn’t go well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ihorvo2tEuA
Indeed. I am definitely not an aviation expert or professional but I do have a pilot's license and some hands on familiarity with how this all works.

It's not easily automated. That's just factual.

It's not impossible but it's way trickier than people who have never thought about this much are letting on. The accuracy of GPS is absolutely irrelevant for example.
Supply chains are global. Germany still has an edge on machine tools and precision engineering.
Necropolis, Ziggurat... Imo the best games nowadays are often those that no one heard about. Popularity wasn't a good metric for a very long while. And thankfully games like "New World" and "Starfield" are helping a lot for general population to finally figure this out.
With mobile phones being used more for social/texting than calling, where are they commonly being worn on the human body?

https://www.ewg.org/research/ewgs-guide-safer-cell-phone-use
Htmx posits that current browsers aren't "truly" hypermedia since only anchor tags and forms can initiate GET/POST requests. It is more of a tech demo showing what client with ANY tag being able to do requests would look like.

That's why whether it is library/framework is besides the point. The author posits that these features should be in the spec, and tries as closely as possible to show what something might look like if we had it in the spec
I found this podcast with Jesse Jenkins to be a really helpful start to understand non fixed energy resources.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-sun-isnt-alwa...

I thought that the most cost effective way to supply energy would require a certain amount of base load. It seems like this is a misunderstanding because of how much cheaper and more available these non fixed resources are than fixed resources. Energy this cheap gives us a huge incentive to change our energy use patterns to match power abundance rather than to take energy demand as a constant.
Sure, often hosts and organizers employers use the events as a recruiting strategy and to promote their engineering brand and so on