skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I forgot about this soulless aspect of job finding, thank you for link
My business is running on Hetzner. And many others as well.
This was before the hike in interest rates though, wasn't it?
Although I don’t want random delay incendiary devices either, I do have some sympathy with OP. The net effect of all regulations like this means large classes of business are not feasible unless you have substantial capital. And availability of capital for good ideas is not at all evenly distributed in our society (the UK at least). This is just one more way that we are going to entrench low social mobility. Note also, it’s not just electronics regs that act in this way - our societies have become much more regulated and rule bound in my life time. Often things for good reason, but we should think about the ways in which this entrenches incumbents imo.
A report estimates that some 240M Windows 10 PCs could end up in landfills
Yeah, here is the comparison between FSRS and SM-17: https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs-vs-sm17
It would be really interesting to study The Post Office in particular. Something about this organisation attracts some very sour people. Or perhaps they weren’t always like this but have become so in my adult lifetime over the last few decades?

In the early 2000s there was a TV ad campaign for “The People’s Post Office” where the sub-postmaster role was played by John Henshaw, a character actor known for playing hard bastards and, in his most recent role on The Cops, an exploitative bent copper from Bradford. A strange but apt piece of casting.
Zara, Zalando...?
No, that's not true. Easily disproven by example: I have many times seen smart engineers with little experience design and immediately implement an extremely complex solution to a very simple problem.

Don't believe everything people say. Just because somebody called something "a law" does not mean it is true.
> let tps = if_ok!(self.tps(as_.tps, bs.tps));

Ha, that's how the question mark operator (and the previous encarnation, the `try!` macro) was born then :)
BufferdInputStream is rewritten and is only using synchronized if subclassed. In fact there has been a lot of work removing the synchronized keyword.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQJnnMIlFY&t=260s

To get the whole context, so virtual threads are unusable?

What holds a monitor by default and is there a workaround?

Found more:

A virtual thread cannot be unmounted during blocking operations when it is pinned to its carrier. A virtual thread is pinned in the following situations:

The virtual thread runs code inside a synchronized block or method

The virtual thread runs a native method or a foreign function (see Foreign Function and Memory API)

For those those that don't know what this means: Blocking network TCP IO needs a sychronized block to work = you can't use virtual threads for networking. I wish they formulated it like that from the start!

Atleast now we know what they meant with don't use virtual threads for anything but tasks <- not blocking IO with synchronization!

So for now manual NIO is still the king of the hill.

We are reaching peak humanity levels of complexity!
> A lot of great software ideas died quietly because there wasn't a sanctioned route to scale the learning curve.

A lot of great software is dismissed because people pretend there should be no such thing as a learning phase.
Time for me to move my iPhone account to a European address.
Coastline will be back to normal due to global warming soonish, very cool
Would you like to know more?

[cue Starship Troopers theme]
Anyone know if Cydia Store or whatever it was will make a reappearance?
> in Europe

Surely in reality that will mean if your account/device is set to the European region.
What a cool field! Early cryptology, cloak and dagger stuff, renaissance Venice... it's got it all.
I'm Dutch and I'd also think a "thank you for dinner" feels like: "Thanks for the meal, but not all the other things (like the gezelligheid).". The meal you can get anywhere. But the gezelligheid is the connection, the real thing to be grateful for. If you leave sooner than expected you also need a bit of a good reason. We have this rhyme (my grand parents had in on a tile in the hallway):

"Wie hier als vriend naar binnen gaat, komt nooit te vroeg maar steeds te laat"?

Meaning:

"Who enters here as a friend will never be early but always late."

I have to say, I'm like that, my wife definitely isn't, so it's not really a law of nature. But where I live (in the south) it's common for friends to just walk around the back of the house and walk into the door unannounced, it's a sign of true closeness. Though I also think that is getting less common. Idk, might be the internet diluting all cultures.
But the issue isn’t that they couldn’t clear that bar, necessarily. It’s that they may not have the capital to prove it.
We have created an uneven playing field against OLLLOO devices, and against large home grown corps which can indirectly inflate the prices for certification because the incumbency means the cost is not an issue for them.
have you tested its rv64v vector performance
It seems unlikely to me that the majority of CompUSA purchases were presents while running errands with the recipient.
For some related shameless self promotion: I made a free open source tool that let's you create Anki cards from youtube videos [1].

I would love some feedback.

BTW, the code is on github [2].

[1] https://youtube2anki.fly.dev/

[2] https://github.com/vacmar01/youtube2anki
Bought a whole rig with yoke and rudders to play the 2020 version. $3k well spent for probably 200 hours of flight time. Feel like I could Sullenberger a water landing if I had to. Delusional I know but it's a game.

What does the upgrade to 2024 get me?
Let's also ban cryptography because nuclear devices/children.
So...

It sounds that you're up for a meander. Do it. I suspect that both the public interest in domestically manufactured toasters and your interest are related.

There's something basic about a toaster. The basic consumer electronic appliances.

Also... just an idea... How about a Non-electric toaster? Lighter gas. Ethanol. Just an idea.
The biggest harm is the torrent of AI generated misinformation used to manipulate people. Unfortunately it’s pretty hard to come up with a solution for that.
... was taking years to land Project Loom. So long that people started calling it vaporware. Project Valhalla is still regarded as such by many. It had to be shipped as soon as it was usable, even though a few rough edges remain that really ought to be deburred.

As you indicate, the complexity lies in not burning too many bridges with existing users and use cases. This is something that Android regularly does and which Go never really had to do due to its shorter history and up-front design.
>They are calling for all AI (above a certain capability level) to be banned. Not just open, not just closed, all.

That's not true if you read the article.
Can you own everything?
My own suspicion is that the author's native language lacks articles (so perhaps some Slavic language?), since the majority of grammatical errors I noticed at least are missing articles ("battle was fought", "knight did this" etc). And those tend to be very jarring to someone who is used to articles.
> Never accept the counter-offer. If you have gone as far as interviewing outside, you are already checked out, and you are already branded as disloyal. It's time to make your exit! If you ask for a counter-offer, it should be a move to squeeze more out of your offers, not a real attempt to "stay" where you have already decided to leave

I quit because I felt I constricted in my role. I was given the option of switching to a different role within the company and went on to have the most professionally rewarding and satisfying years of my career.
Because the benefit of the "smart" approach vs the "simple" approach is usually smaller than its cost.

The cost being: Having to hire especially talented developers and developers spending more time reading and understanding code. And there is the hard-to-measure but insidious aversion of software developers to work on code that will require effort to understand.
> People making code bugs should not be held responsible for other people going to prison for it.

Why not? If I'm the single developer and seller of this app, should I not be held responsible? What if there's also a QA person? Two of each?

Should the person selling or marketing the app be held responsible instead, even if they aren't technical? Why are the developers who didn't care enough to double-check their code free of responsibility?
In one of the books I've read about crusades there was a siege, where the people locked in a fortress were out of water while the weather was quite hot. So how do you get water when totally desperate and thirsty? They immersed their leather belts in the cesspit, then after a while, pulled them out and squeezed the water out, plus, of course drank their own piss.
Depends on what you want to use AI for - for a smarter AI we could probably do with the open source material, but better training techniques and some innovative breakthroughs in the model.

Also, an interesting side note is that certain countries may actually want their language corpus involved in training AI - so they may have copyrights that are more AI friendly. I imagine Poland or Czech Republic wanting as much as their data to be involved in training LLMs because it gives their cultures more exposure. Even more so with African countries.
I'm an academic from Europe and routinely tell my PhD students to "be more American" or "write like the Americans" to mean don't be shy exaggerating and presenting their work like much more important than it really is (or perceive it to be).

Because indeed, the American academic culture is full of BS (perhaps the most glaring example being that the cornerstore of hiring is the recommendation letter, which to me is essentially overt nepotism - and in a recommendation letter, every candidate is the best ever, Gauss incarnate, the Chosen One to break the frontiers of knowledge, because if you say even the slightest bad or ambiguous think they're not going to get hired. But everything is like that).

The thing is that in academia everything is competitive (grants, conference acceptances, etc.) so we Europeans must be Americans as well if we want to be successful, because it's hard for a paper, proposal, etc. to get chosen if you're being realistic while some of your rivals are exaggerating everything. This is something I realized when I worked in the UK (not America, of course, but more "American" than the rest of Europe) and then even more when I worked with actual Americans, and I consider this realization to have boosted my career considerably.
Thanks for the detailed response.

> It makes far more sense for the hypothesized psychopath top-dog civilization to hoard all negentropy (grab the resources) then let no other civilization emerge.

Does that mean "taking" instead of "destroying" a planet? If so, doesn't it assume that FTL travel for macroscopic objects / life forms is possible?

> Second major problem: why don’t we see a diversity of outcomes in unreachable galaxies? They are ALL dead.

Can we distinguish dead from silent?

> debunked in the literature for decades

Can you recommend a book or articles about this topic? I'm ready to be convinced but I would want to see more than a HN comment before (with all its limitations)
EV drivers discover fundamental flaw in battery tech as -30F temps hit the US
Any gals?
Buy a $140/$200 retail Windows 11 Home/Pro license with a credit card and make $7/$10 monthly payments. At around 20% APR, you'll end up with a perpetual license paid off in about two years that'll likely be useful for far longer than that.

For example, I'm currently using a retail Windows 7 Home Premium ($200) license upgraded to Windows 8 Pro ($100) in 2012 to run Windows 10 (free upgrade) on a fairly recent PC that's fully supported by Windows 11 (another free upgrade whenever I choose to do so).

On the linked page, Microsoft is only giving away an evaluation copy that, per the license terms[1], can't be used "in a live operating environment", which presumably includes ongoing use as a development system.

With that said, a $10/month consumer Windows Pro subscription for VMs and PCs that don't ship with OEM Windows, while niche, would probably net Microsoft at least as much as retail sales to the same market, so you're not wrong.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/UseTerms/Retail/Windows/11/U...
And there was a HN post 8 hours before this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38998419
No shit. We could send them to scrappers in Africa so they could make a buck but that's verboten now too.
Show HN: FigureToCartoon: Transform your images into various cartoon styles
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Well, software doesn't need any traditional maintenance. It doesn't wear out. Any maintenance is new development.
Some smaller news places like this one decided it’s easier to block Europe than comply with regulations from Europe.
I would guess that the type of grammatical errors depend a lot on the mother tongue of the author though, e.g. one can see German, French, Spanish, etc... shine through in an English text by the types of errors, for instance as a German I like to write overly long sentences, split by commas. ;)
Imagine never needing a mechanic again? We can
> the obsession with things like "child-bearing hips"

I am unaware of this being a past obsession, do you have a source?

I thought it’s a modern meme. Oxford lists earliest use as 1910: https://www.oed.com/dictionary/childbearing-hips_n
It was billed as a twitter alternative
pie you have pumpkin with
> I wish we could go back to a time when everyone takes their own risks and has to do their own research

Apart from all of the other obvious things people have mentioned, what this hyperlibertarian perspective fails to take into account is externalities. I might have done my own toaster research, but did my neighbor? What happens when my neighbor doesn’t do his own toaster research properly and ends up burning down both of our apartments? Insurance can’t cover everything that will be destroyed.
If you do WiFi, do it right. Nobody wants to install a toaster app but many Devs would enjoy a little API for their toasters
Accounting 101 use journal entries to correct mistakes. Dont edit original records...
Have a transaction log...
A big problem is they don't want to do the work to understand that, which is the exact outlook the PO had...

"We need some software, ok let's get a big reputable company in to do it for us, we shouldn't get bogged down with all those horrible technical details"
The fear is that you won’t get better model from training on synthetic data from a worse model,
and you will miss a lot of modern day knowledge.

Imho the first is not necessarily so, but the second will be a real hindrance. You can talk about the pandemic with LLMs because they were trained on people’s
comments on the subject, but if we had training limits you wouldn’t be able to do so.

Otoh with many cases a sufficiently smart AI can just reach out to the open source material - e.g. if you want to know about modern day politics of Europe, you can read reports of commissions, and if you want info on a new framework/tech, you can just read source code or scientific papers
Here are the judge's instructions to the jury for one of the trials:

"There is no direct evidence of her taking any money [...] She adamantly denies stealing. There is no CCTV evidence. There are no fingerprints or marked bank notes or anything of that kind. There is no evidence of her accumulating cash anywhere else or spending large sums of money or paying off debts, no evidence about her bank accounts at all. Nothing incriminating was found when her home was searched." (The only evidence was a shortfall of cash compared to what the Post Office’s Horizon computer system said should have been in the branch.) "Do you accept the prosecution case that there is ample evidence before you to establish that Horizon is a tried and tested system in use at thousands of post offices for several years, fundamentally robust and reliable?"

My word against yours wouldn't be enough to meet the standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt", but the Post Office's word backed up by a computer system? It seems that was convincing enough for the jury. They gave a guilty verdict in the above case.
Can you connect the dots for me back to OP's application response rate? It's not exactly clear how 174 relates specifically to response rate.
Here's a TUI / terminal editor I'd like: VSCode clone. Reads the same config file JSON formats from the same locations, loads and renders the same color schemes, runs the same Extensions Host, exposes the same API to extensions (with some things like WebView, CustomEditor and such throwing NotSupported obviously), keeps up with changes in all those formats.

Major visual difference would be that whatever the editor font settings dictate, would apply to all the UX not just the text-editor tabs. But that, who would even mind.

The extensions compat would have to be NodeJS-based I guess, but the rest wouldn't have to be written in JS/TS I suppose..

Plenty of us are "happily Stockholmed" by the overall DX of VSCode but were there a Electron-less but otherwise 99+%-compat-and-keeping-up-with-vsc rendition (TUI or native GUI), we'd jump on it nonetheless.
The US maintaining its lead is a national security issue. Larry Summers is now on the board of OpenAI. The copyright holders are not going to win, or they are, the training will continue anyway, but the technology will be (for now) kept in the hands of the military and IC.
That's my point. If consumers are willing to go directly to Facebook, and Facebook are willing to serve them directly, why does Apple need to get involved?

On the other hand, if consumers want Apple involved, they wouldn't leave the app store, they wouldn't download the app, and the app will fail when there's no users.
When I applied for a passport around 20 years ago my local passport office used an old fingerprint reader that often failed to register fingerprints. I was told to try different fingers and when all attempts failed I jokingly offered my toes for scanning. The officials operating the system told me that won't be necessary, because "the system has provision for people without hands"... needless to say my hands are still attached to my body.
I'm down for modeless TUI editors. This idea that because I like to work in the terminal I must prefer modes is accidental.

I used micro for a while, which was quite pleasant, but didn't have all the LSP goodness.
Show HN: Open-Source Observability for the Semantic Layer
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Think of Datadrift as a simple & open-source Monte Carlo for the semantic layer era. The repo is at https://github.com/data-drift/data-drift

Datadrift started as an internal tool built at our former company, a large European B2B Fintech. We had data reliability challenges impacting key metrics used for financial and regulatory reporting.

However, when we tried existing data quality tools we where always frustrated. They provide row-level static testing (eg. uniqueness or nullness) which does not address time-varying metrics like revenues. And commercial observability solutions costs $manyK a month and brings compliance and security overhead.

We designed Datadrift to solve these problems. Datadrift works by simply adding a monitor where your metric is computed. It then understands how your metric is computed and on which upstream tables it depends. When an issue occurs, it pinpoints exactly which rows have been updated and introducing the change.

You can also set up alerting and customise it. For example, you can decide to open and assign an Github issue to the analyst owning the revenue metric when a +10% change is detected. We tried to make it easy to customise and developer friendly.

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I didn't even realize it was a Monday because of the holiday :P
Birds aren't real? How a conspiracy takes flight [video]
the other end of GDPR
Management but no leadership

The CEO managed the crisis, therefore she was rewarded. The government should have shown leadership and demanded answers after the first few years of warning signs. Yet it took 20 years and a TV drama to force them to show any leadership
Nitpick: you mean that it grows linearly, not exponentially.
This story has finally been getting the air it deserves.

If you want a summary and insight into the staggering scale of the injustice, this article from Private Eye magazine is worth reading:

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justi...

This BBC radio programme, started in 2020, also gives a lot of good information including details of how suspected sub-postmasters were questioned by the Post Office.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m000jf7j
Less harmful would be to ban large models from being not open.

If you ban open large models in US, you'll cripple US and make few megacorps very rich, very quickly. You'll drain talent to other (also competing) states. Truly bad actors won't be affected, if anything they'll get advantage.

People draw weird analogies equating llama2 to nuclear device etc. nonsense but the closer analogy would be to ban on semiconductors of certain efficiency for US itself.

Similar idiotic argument as for banning cryptography.
Thankfully C++ modules are on the right path to improve the story on the C++ side.

Using C++23 standard library, alongside modules, and cargo/vcpkg binary caches for 3rd party libs is quite fast.

Rust well, until cargo does offer the option to use binary libraries, it will always lag behind in what C++ tooling is capable of. Maybe if scache becomes part of it.
This is an example of what I mean about education and democracy. In terms of history education and basic economics this is the same as flat earth theory in basic physics. Russia is absolutely not communist. In fact it is ranked higher than some western countries on some well known business rankings.

https://archive.doingbusiness.org/en/rankings
Yes, they do. You can see the "UL" mark on the product label
What were the key insights or surprises you got from that 13,000 word piece?

For background, I contributed to Anki long ago, wrote regularly about SRS in the late 2000s and got deeply into them for language learning for a few years. Later, I mostly stopped using them since I found extensive reading both more interesting and a better return on my time.

I’m interested in the topic but am not new to it.
Finally a real Twitter competitor.
Usually you’ll be sued for your profits and ordered by the court to stop selling during legal proceedings. And if you don’t, triple damages.
I bought this product for my husband and he loves it!
That's all well and good, but "eventually" doesn't pay the bills right now.
This isn't veggies, so what's the actual benefit of freshness?

Also not clear on the backup risk - why would a disk snapshot stop working because you've updated with blah?