skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many times do you actually click on, or buy things from the ads you are shown?

You make it sound like we should all be grateful. Like ads are adding value to our lives. They don't. Outside of marketing, nobody cares about ads. We train our cognition to cancel out ads. We avoid them. The only people looking at ads and appreciating them are the ones, like yourself, who find them useful for things nobody asked for. I'd much rather you DON'T track me and --gasp-- DON'T show me an ad either. "But then you'll see worse ads!" Good. I'll ignore those too.

In my lifetime I've probably been shown $10,000 worth of ads on the internet, and I've probably spent $12 on them. Ironic that the only people who think that ads matter are the ones who's job it is to buy them with other people's money. Keep spending your bosses money, and I'll keep wasting it for you.
Anyone can bring a private prosecution (in England and Wales, at least. Scotland and Northern Ireland have different legal systems).

The Crown Prosecution Service can take over any prosecution at the discretion of the Director of Public Prosecutions, but they didn't seem to know (and/or care) what the Post Office were doing.
I really don’t think you’ve used Discord enough, especially when it was getting big.

The smoothness of the experience was unparalleled.
the odds of someone riding a motorcycle dying in an accident in their lifetime is 1 in 747.
Yet those opponents of the wind turbines want to have all the benefits of the modern society like medicine and transportation and that sweet electricity that enables the electromagnetic waves used for planet wide communication. It almost feels like they are shilling for oil and gas companies or for authoritarian regimes that receive their main income from oil and gas drilling.
> Honestly if I knew how to do this I would do it.

Do an MVP in your spare time.

I guess if you have a normal programming job in most countries (even in countries where programmers are not paid that well), you will likely be able to pay the bills for, say, server renting, domains, ...

For things that you will do likely badly by yourself like design drafts (if you are bad at visual design), ask some friends whether they would be willing to do it for you in exchange for something that you could do for them (so that you don't have to spend money).

Start with kinds of research that can be done with little money, but have a possible insanely high impact.

Iterate until your platform cannot be ignored anymore.
I would wage against it. It's as shitty as Blockbuster. No reason they won't end up selling for peanuts
And kill all pet cats.
Also...

Filmed reading:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4pIrkEsh7Vo
I'd assume a contributing factor is all the defense contracts Boeing has. Not sure how the percentages work out, but guaranteed orders of military equipment have to have high margin.
>Successful companies can do layoffs anytime.

Depends. Airbus probably has a strong union in France so mass layoffs especailly during pofitable times seem as likely as contact with aliens.
They're going to have a real tough time doing that when the alternative is grounded planes. Boeing has put both themselves and the government between a rock and a hard place.
Monero imo has the best solution for that. Their hashing algorithm RandomX requires a ton of memory access which significantly hampers the possibility of using GPUs or ASICs for mining, favoring CPUs accessible to the common person.
> their Supercharger cable is quite short

It really is! My port is on the front centre and depending on how others have parked, it's quite tricky to get the angle required to be close enough.

But these are just niggles. We absolutely need standard hardware.
Reminder that source hut makes a value judgement on your source code and will ban repositories they don't like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403780
They've been saying "rescession soon" for 2 years. Wasn't gdp growth like 5% last quarter? Doesn't indicate a recession to me.
IANAL but in my experience, the lawyers would say "doublecheck everything and if we're wrong, pay them so I don't have to spend a lot of effort litigating this". No, I would bet it's a combination of PR flacks and MBA/C-levels who would rather ruin lives than take a clear L on their record.
it seems like, the way you designed your system, literally any backward-compatible change to integer syntax in python would cause the same parser-differential denial of service vulnerability?
If you can think of more fun things to do with cash, I'll buy them from you.
The housing crisis + inflation spike might have contributed to the loss of this "move to a new city..." think you mentioned. Younger generations have a much harder time getting income, a stable one, and paying the exorbitant costs of living.
Nova and Sublime.

BBEdit seems philosophically opposed to adding the option for vim key bindings.

I occasionally use VSCode for specific extensions or languages.
Coal was not just replaced only by natural gas in developed countries though - it was replaced by multiple other sources.

We have constantly replaced materials with others, and availability is a factor. Stone and wood in construction are less used because we have cement, concrete, bricks etc. We replaced copper and bronze with iron and steel. These go back many millennia. We have replaced natural materials with synthetic to deal with shortages (e.g. silk with nylon).

I get the problems with electricity generation, but as a general rule exponential economic growth does not require an exponential increase in the consumption of any particular resource.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Her promise to return the "honour" looks to me like an attempt to avoid having it seized off her.

These "honours" (knighthoods, peerages etc.) should now be referred to as "disgraces". Liz Truss handed out an honour for roughly each four days of her incumbency as Prime Minister, nearly all to crazies from the extreme right of the Conservative Party. We already have way more peers than can actually be stuffed into the House Of Lords.
Emirates with the B777 and A380 models only. Landing in Dubai and seeing that uniform line of B777's was something else.
You'd think they could give you a pamphlet with the key to cover the basics.
Ah crap. I use Robokiller.
scheme (at least as of r5rs) doesn't have keyword parameters
Early on (late 90s and early 00s) there were a lot of command line to gui kinds of tools (there were also a lot of tries at web-ifying, CLI tools also). I can't remember the name, but there was even a terminal emulator that tried to present commands as dialogs.

* There is no enforced standard for commands other than using a file name to invoke them.

* Different languages and frameworks have different and multiple ways of parsing command lines. For example Gooey (a python gui tool) works with scripts written with the argparse library but dodes not work with optparse.

* The terminal is not the shell. That means that to present a gui, you'll have to launch something that runs outside of the terminal to present the gui.

* It's common for developers to write command line tools with out understanding the shell and os's input and output system beyond reading and writing files. I routinely have to teach jr developers about stdio, stderr, pipes etc...

That said, there's great potential to take advantage of shell autocomplete files to make better guis for commands: https://blog.deepjyoti30.dev/tab-autocomplet-cli-apps . Someone probably already has done this...
NIO now has 9 battery swap locations in The Netherlands. I'm not sure this is better than charging points, but at least we'll get some data on it. Tom Scott has made a video[1] about it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w
MOND and Planet Nine
True, but considering the popularity and age of The Matrix, I'm guessing most people assume the hot tech company is referencing techno futurist movie from the 90s and not a charlatan from the 70s.
People get shocked by it? I find that shocking. I though everyone in Britain new about it.
After the latest bullshit from the BBC I can't trust anything they say, I need to check their sources on everything and honestly it's so tiring I just ignore their stuff. There are better sources for news. Like, credible sources
I disagree, they have the best mid-range (300-500€) phone, and iPhone is not even proposing anything in this range
you are living in an alternate reality if you don't agree with the fact IRC is mostly dead.

no enterprise is using i seriously, chat platforms of course don't use it, and niche/hobbyists have long since moved to discord and reddit.

Of course there's holdouts, but I think it's fair to say 90 percent of IRC type chat hosts are dead/gone.
Airbus isn't in an advantage there. They also employ a bunch of suppliers, outside the original companies that formed Airbus. However, they might be in an advantage because that's the way they grown from the start. Different countries, different continents, different languages, final assembly plants, all sorts of aircraft...

I met a guy from EADS once, while it was still called EADS, and I was far too young to understand the complexity of what he was talking about. But from what I understood they really do put a lot into managing their supply chain management (very meta), a team he was in. It was a behemoth of an organisation back then and this is just one guy, but I had a feeling they were very open minded.
Yup: that's why I put in quotes... I'm literally using "h?" as a Bash alias, as GP said.

It may be a bit weird to use a question mark as part of a Bash alias that said: sorry for the confusion!
A lot of the changes just don't make any sense? Some of the features removed:

- Using your voice to send an email, video or audio message. You can still make calls and send text messages
- Rescheduling an event in Google Calendar with your voice. You can still schedule a new event.
- Asking to take certain actions by voice, such as send a payment, make a reservation, or post to social media. You can still ask Assistant to open your installed apps.
- Asking to meditate with Calm. You can still ask for meditation options with media providers such as YouTube.

All of these seem to fall under the umbrella of "features that actually make the assistant an assistant"/connecting the assistant to other apps, which I imagine is exactly the opposite of where the Assistant trend is going, especially with LLMs. Just speaking to a device about which action you want to take and not needing to think which app you need to open and navigate feels like the UX of the future, whatever this is seems like the opposite.
It seems irresponsible that Ben Recht should draft this article without giving the authors a chance to provide input. In proper journalism, writers reach out to the person they’re reporting about or on for comments. It would certainly have saved Recht the embarrassment, and now he wouldn’t be unnecessarily doubling down on incorrect claims.

Recht should probably correct himself here (maybe by writing another article in collaboration with Gelman etc.), and people should be okay with other people making mistakes, and accepting apologies or mea culpas. Information is complex, and there are very few geniuses capable of understanding or synthesizing everything in isolation. It’s best to assume good faith work and collaborate to promote collective understanding.

Edit: ah okay, so this is related to politics somehow, and expectedly the discussion is devoid of reason. Or sense, apparently—see one comment in the blog where “the consensus is that there is no consensus”, whatever the fuck that means.
Airbus can outsource to US firms as well as Boeing can. Boeing and its shareholders deserve to lose business and market share.
Depends on what you plan to do with it long term I think. If you have no plans to make it commercially viable, then I agree with the other poster who recommends using it as blocks friendly for ToR exit node operators and/or similar style services (e.g. public nitter instance). You could delegate /24's as-needed for individual sites. Exit node operators tend to be technically clueful, so they will understand what will need to be done to make this work.

However, that will likely put that /22 on quite a number of blacklists out there for an indefinite period of time.

Other than honeypot stuff or more grey area things like botting/scanning having a zillion IPs really isn't super interesting unless you have customers for them, in my opinion.

If I were in your position I'd simply lease them out until I have a real use-case for the block. This can also carry reputational risks of course as well. IPXO is a market I've used in the past to accomplish this, although others do exist.

I do think having a block of IPv4 and an ASN is definitely a nice strategic asset to keep around if at all financially viable to do so. The cost of ARIN/RIPE registration isn't crazy, but is more than an individual would typically want to carry. Leasing out your unused strategic asset to at least pay for itself until you might need it seems prudent to me.
I'm pro-nuclear but reality is you can commission, operate and decommission a PV farm or a wind farm in less time than it takes to build and start a nuclear reactor. Excessive regulation is the reason, but it exists for a reason, too, and that reason isn't ecoterrorists, it's a rational fear that a major ef-up will make a piece of any country inhospitable for all intents and purposes forever.
I can't think of an instance when it's been given back. You get a notification that you're being considered for an honour; if you're going to turn it down, you do it at that stage, before it's been conferred.
Datapoint, at Costco in Texas Kirkland eggs are still $5 for a 24 carton.
> I have a feeling this will soon enough lead to some protectionist measures and new sanctions based on some suddenly discovered anti-competitive behavior.

American competitiveness and freedom act.
> The main things I see lately are...Microsoft is buying up AI companies and injecting ads/spyware into their operating systems. Also Microsoft is getting big into cloud.

Thing the markets would care about, thing you are personally bothered by, thing the markets would care about. Got it.

No, the advertising and telemetry in Windows isn't a reason for the markets to value Microsoft highly.
This was a regular court process, with an independent judge and jury. It’s just the prosecution was run directly by the post office and not the public prosecutor.

It still had very bad outcomes, and clearly with the prosecution not being independent enough, but it wasn’t an entirely closed process.
The post office was acting as victim, investigator, and prosecutor and simply lied or withheld evidence to ensure that the defence had nothing to work with and the jury had nothing to contradict that view. It's absolutely batshit levels of corruption and there must be severe consequences.
I'm confused. Are Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Phoenicians" now suddenly "europeans" just because they are part of the school curriculum that europeans teach to their kids?

Most of the "foundations of western civilisation" is not actually european and that's a well known and accepted fact. Yes, greeks and romans sure, but where did the greeks take the alphabet? It's not controversial, everybody knows that europeans didn't invent writing nor civilization.

It's also unsurprising that the first ancient civilizations to have been discovered by europeans were a) closer to europe (at least in the same continent) and b) not covered by jungle.

If there are people in Europe who are ignorant of that, well that's unfortunate. But the world won't become a better place if all we do is to shame those people with self-flagellatory insinuations that they should re-think their place in the world or whatever. That doesn't work. The natural tendency of people who are looked down upon is to react and entrench themselves even deeper in their positions.

I'd vastly prefer if we just teach to marvel at the beauty of our world and hopefully people who are willing to open up their minds will be attracted to the diversity and depth of our collective human experience and become less and less parochial.
Civil aviation is beer money to Boeing. They make the brunt of the money in military. That’s also where the margins are.

The US government will never let Boeing go bankrupt, the impact on their supply chain (specifically nuclear) would be too big. And Boeing know it.
blew the doors off the sales targets
Bambu Studio is now available as a Flatpak for Linux
But it will be eventually, and we're already seeing spasms in capitalism, which requires growth and more growth. Something will have to give.

I honestly don't think economists are the best at prediction. Or at dictating how society should function.
absolutely agree, and that's why I always look out for alternatives like safetwitch, or nitter for twitter
I'd be interested to know how many are former Boeing customers. The implication is that people are switching from Boeing to Airbus but it's quite possible a lot of these airlines have always been Airbus customers.
VSCode's command palette is a great example of this-
1. fuzzy search through different options
2. Show lots of suggestions as soon as you focus in the text box
3. have a ? or other "learn more" option available

I still think it leans very technical though, users would greatly prefer buttons. There's a good reason that powerpoint doesn't have one of these
It's important to note that it seems like she's made zero sales in 4.5 months when there is a 90-day onramp period. At the very least that sounds like a good basis for reviewing her performance and depending on the org might even be enough by itself for termination.
> The EU patent office at least had the brains to reject the patent for obviousness.

This helps, and actually, the one-click patent has shaken up the courts a bit. The company I worked for was sued by a competitor over a baseless patent infringement. I compiled a three inch thick document full of references to prior art, and we hired an industry expert to write this up and act as an expert witness. When they saw the name of the expert witness and knew that we were going straight for invalidation, they folded and we settled out of court. I can't talk to any of the specifics, but it's a much different world now, even with first-to-file. But, you have to be aggressive in your defense.

I don't know the merits of this case. The article is lean on details. But, unless the patent covers something quite specific that is definitely being used by the TPUs and isn't obvious, invalidation is a great strategy to bring the case to a favorable out-of-court settlement. Gamble the value of the patent against the value of claiming that you got Google to settle for an "undisclosed amount". Even settling for $1 and an agreement not to sue each other further makes the patent valuable enough to sell to someone else as a defensive patent.
That's going into the required reading folder for new devs at my company. Thanks for writing that!
Show HN: Lit-torrent – Basic BitTorrent client in your terminal
Hey everyone!

Quick overview of the project. lit-torrent is a BitTorrent client that implements the original BitTorrent Protocol [1] (not fully as of now) built in Go that you can run in your terminal.

I've been working on lit-torrent for the past couple of weeks. It's far from feature-complete but I wanted to get something out before it was fully "polished". A nice end goal for this project would be a fully featured BitTorrent Client TUI that runs completely in your terminal.

My main reason for building this was to get a deeper understanding of a peer-to-peer protocol, take a deeper dive down the stack as I mainly work on the web/mobile applications layer, and pick up Go.

Try it out, would love to hear any thoughts or feedback you may have!

[1] https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html
I think Prolog is still used in some niches. But that definition is apt. Fortran is far from dead. It might even be on the verge of a renaissance.

Numpy took inspiration from Fortran and MATLAB. Most scientific computing libraries use Lapack and BLAS libraries under the hood (which were written in Fortran).

Honestly, I think if Fortran had a few intuitive higher order abstractions/libraries - one wouldn’t need to mess around with C++. And now thinking more about it - it would be very cool to have a Numpy to Fortran transpiler.
> he just didn't anticipate the Haber process, nor the on-going improvements afforded by foodstuffs from the new world.

... which is why historically Malthusians have been wrong.

A Malthusian bacterium writing at the time before photosynthesis would have concluded that life on Earth was doomed. Chemotrophic bacteria were gradually consuming all the left over high energy compounds from the Earth's formation and eventually this would run out, leading to a population crash and the end of organic life.

Their math would have been correct.

The thing they are leaving out of their models is adaptation and intelligence. Life isn't guaranteed to always find a way, which is why shorter term stagnations and die-offs do occasionally happen, but given time and resources it eventually will. Life will probably keep finding a way until the heat death of the universe.

The bumps in the road are part of the process. In evolution they provide the constraint that stimulates learning through natural selection. In post-evolutionary cognitive intelligence (humans and eventually AI) constraints give rise to signals such as price signals that tell the system that it needs to learn, change, and adapt.

This isn't a justification for total rose colored glasses woo-woo utopianism because as I said bumps in the road do occur. But it shows why simple Malthusian reasoning hasn't historically been accurate and probably will continue to be mostly inaccurate.

Malthusians are like perma-bears that are always calling for a recession in the market. Occasionally they're right, but there's a joke in finance that these are people who have "predicted 54 of the last 3 recessions."

A prediction method that's wrong that often isn't actually worth very much.
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Are new programmers learning perl? That's probably the real question. I think the answer is no. So it'll be dead as soon as all the people coding in it today retire.
> compose and edit the whole text in your mind before writing it down

yeah; doesn't that basically mean you have to have "inner speech"?
The recent wave of generative AI hype has nothing to do with this hiring climate for developers.
Minor point, but on a recent project I stepped around Clap, looking for something that was small, focused, and fewer silly edge cases. Argp works really well. Highly recommend.
This morning, I opened a help page for a B2B product. There is a wiki with all API calls, but not a hint as to how to use them, and there are some pages for people who use it via their frontend. To get some bearings on the API, I opened the latter, and the first topic I opened said:

"We at [...] understand that being able to accurately manage [...] while fielding is essential to a successful project."

The entire text was two more sentences and a video. That's just taking the piss. Just say "watch the damn vid." if you really want to add text.
Uber drivers are not representational of all drivers