skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your mods are sensible, however if Dan Luu added those CSS rules himself, there would be comments on here lamenting the low density and "excess whitespace". Luu's audience, on the whole, probably prefers the relatively unstyled approach.
> I'd love to know more about why someone would choose COBOL today, if anyone can fill me in.

I doubt anybody is choosing to start a new greenfield system in COBOL in 2024.

But, if you have an existing COBOL code base, and the business is asking for new features, you have two basic choices (1) write new modules for the existing system in COBOL (2) write the new modules in a more mainstream language (Java, C#, whatever) and have the existing COBOL modules integrate with those new modules (e.g. using REST)

Both options have their pros and cons. If you aren't already doing (2), then (in the short-term at least) (1) is the easier path.
> I now regret getting the COVID vaccine for them and feel very guilty about it.

What do you regret exactly? Or feel guilty about? What negative outcome befell you or your kids?
Extra hands as well as 4-7 fingers per hand are not that uncommon, so 16 total fingers is not unreasonable, though its a bit much (as is 11-12) for one hand.
The cameras on the previous generation were rubbish, both extremely slow and low quality. GUI and web page rendering were also slow, perhaps because the cores were homogeneous, or just too slow. The battery life was excellent, but perhaps too good because everything was running slowly all the time.

The lack of updates isn't so bad if you are already accepting that it will likely get dropped and broken.
Supercharging Fuel Cells with Caffeine
I don’t get it. A lot of this post is describing how they translate HTTP requests into function calls, and deal with issues around the HTTP protocol.

If you’re invoking a heavy-duty, long running function then you’re likely doing something bespoke. Why use HTTP at all? Wouldn’t GRPC be a better fit, because that seems to be what is being reinvented here.

The selling point of HTTP is that it’s ubiquitous and simple. But you’re coupling it with an offering that is specific and complex. Is using a GRPC library such a burden that makes this effort worthwhile?
> If you read The Lean Startup, you'll have the answer to your question.
> then the lean approach is to get your solution out there in some kind of minimal form, to some small group of customers.

I just checked, and the book is completely missing this point how did they get to these customers in my brief reading. This is Vision->Learn->6 months after launch section in the book.

> The problem that lean seeks to avoid is burning through investor cash making mistakes in getting market fit that you should have made before investment.

I agree, but the point is that marketing part is much more important now than then, and completely missing in literature, there is no "lean marketing" paragraph or book, and I am not sure if it is reliably possible.
> On my work computer my programs randomly rearrange themselves after lunch, windows always has trouble switching between my audio devices, random slowdowns

> I rarely have issues on Linux anymore, mostly because of something is broken on Linux, I can fix it.

Perhaps your Windows knowledge is not up to the level of your Linux knowledge? It might be that a Windows expert could fix every issue you’ve listed and more.
It should go into box 3, no?

https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/...
I am the Rust programmer, I will rewrite the world in Rust. (Transcript below) [video]
> imagine if King Charles was the first English king since George I and kings from the House of Hanover to bother to learn English

After the invasion of England by William the court spoke French for hundreds of years. I don’t know if or when they learnt English.
[via Lemmy https://lemmy.ml/post/13259792 ]

I am the Rust programmer, I will rewrite the world in Rust.

I am the Rust programmer, I will rewrite the world in Rust. I will rewrite the world in Rust because the world is unsafe. As I am the Rust programmer I will keep writing rust until the world is safe. After the world is safe, I will not rewrite it in Rust. Because I am the Rust programmer I will retire from programmer in Rust.

I will come to you when you are sleeping, and I will unlock your computer using a memory leak. If I find javascript on your computer, I will delete them. Do not try to stop me, if you try to stop me I will do it anyways. I am the Rust programmer, if you program in javascript, you will scream.

You will be sleeping as I rewrite your computer in Rust. You will not notice me as I am the Rust programmer, I am fast, but not too fast for your computer. I know your computer just as it knows me. After I rewrite your computer, you will love your computer. You will love your computer because it is written in Rust, I will do the same to all computers because I am the Rust programmer.

I will not stop at your computer, I will rewrite the world because the world is unsafe. Your brain is written in C, your memory is unsafe. If your brain is written in C, you will forget what I just said. I will rewrite your brain in Rust, you cannot stop me from writing Rust as I am the Rust programmer. If you try to stop me, you will not remember it. Because I am the Rust programmer I can manually remove your memory, you will not remember me. After I rewrite you in Rust, you will enjoy the world with a safe memory, you will not forget that I am superior, I am the Rust programmer.

I will rewrite the world, I will rewrite quantum mecahnics because it is unsafe. I will not tell you all my plans before I rewrite you in Rust, it is because you are made of bugs I do not trust you. I am the Rust programmer, I will rewrite the world in Rust, you will not forget me because I am the Rust programmer.
> I’m assuming it’s not common as you would expect it to have come up during betas and pre -release seeds.

The article specifically says that the issue was not present in early access releases, so it was not possible to discover it before the actual release.
HPV causes oral cancer in boys which is why they give it to boys.
> the market is dual-income couples with high salaries

This is some kind of memic impossibility. It's impossible to move into a city for a high paying job AND have a partner AND the partner earning a lot too. The closest I've ever been was when my job and the relationship disintegrated at the moment the partner got such job after over 5 years of searching, and I really don't feel like trying again ever.
Browsers may be self-updating but hardware is not. You can't just download more RAM or a faster CPU.
Economic Calculations and Social Customs in the Early Modern Countryside
The first time I saw this blog posted on HN I wondered how it could possibly be popular with such horrendous layout.

The conclusion I came to is that the audience is very tech-savvy and is used to activating Reader Mode when they encounter pages like this.
Florida Is on Its Way to Banning – and Criminalizing – Alternative Meat
Faces don't have lots of repeating similar subcomponents beyond some things that are just two items in bilateral symmetry (teeth are a big exception, and teeth, when visible, can be a problem.)

And, actually, faces still, especially outside of closeups of just the face, can be a problem, too, which is why a separate face restoration with a GAN or inpainting pass for faces with the same or different diffusion model is common.
Sophisticated 'burglary tourists' fly from S America to rob wealthy homes – LAPD
https://archive.ph/J0vhK
But will require less maintenance. And current shortages of parts and repair people will work themselves out.
> I'm not talking about languages, I'm talking about the specific words of IT jargon which all originate from English.

"I'm not talking about languages, I'm talking about words" ...? What do you think words are a part of

> With your logic then every country should translate the mnemonics of the programing languages from English to their local languages too, no?

Programming languages are not natural languages. The comparison doesn't make sense.
To clarify, that is an emulator specific for the IBM 360/50 that runs the microcode. It is a demo, not a useful system. It has nothing to do with Hercules.
Okay so your theory is that managers know who would be good to promote, but they literally pretend not to and simply choose someone they’d like to hang out with instead?
The reason we have bloat is it's easier to satisfy stakeholders if you don't give a damn. There's really no reason to discuss this at all once you realize this.

But of course, ranting and reading rants is satisfying in its own right. What's the problem?
This is terrific, thanks!
Also boys can infect girls with HPV.

Oh and in rare cases HPV can cause penile cancer.
The article says that the issue “is affecting all Java versions from Java 8 to the early access builds of JDK 22” now.
This is a cartel, not capitalism. It's literally voters doing regulatory capture and preventing new housing because they want their property values to go up.
Tldw: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
You seem to be missing what this submission is about. It's not an Apple press release about a competing model, it's a research paper that discusses different tradeoffs in architecture and data and how each part affects the results of the trained model. In an era where training a large model can be cost prohibitive, this insight is key — it tells you where to optimize and where to cut corners to get the most bang for your buck.
"A for Andromeda" - Fred Hoyle (Sort of. Without the spacecraft.))
Python tastes good but I don’t know if it is easier to keep 100kgs of pythons (one huge-ass 10 meter python or many smaller ones) to get 88kgs of meat compared to a single hog which yields roughly the same amount.

My grandparents and parents kept hogs so I have a little experience with dealing with them. Despite their rowdiness one hog has got to be easier to deal with than a 10 meter python or (more likely) many smaller examples- energy input be damned.
If you pay attention to the marketing, Google, and Samsung, and Qualcomm, and Sony, and Microsoft make most if not all the same claims. I haven't seen one that operates in a way that can prove it. All have some level of custom silicon involved. All could provide hardware documentation, source code, and installable or transparent keying. Barring the legal agreements between them, of course. I commend Apple for their amazing effort to uniquely ID each individual sensor and storage device in the world and tie it permanently to phone's unique ID, but again, it would be nice if the details of how that worked were published such that folks like Louis Rossmann could repair folks broken phones and laptops.

> The low effort one liners don't really have a place on HN.

Maybe you just didn't think about them long enough.
I'm sure Google invests a lot of resources in making Google Search load fast. AFAIK they serve a specialized version for each user agent out there.
Metallica's European Tour Rocks Ahead with Electric, Hydrogen Trucks
However 14.4 was released days ago (March 7).
>Companies will burden issued PCs with bloated anti-virus,

Ugh, bane of my day job. I work with two companies in particular that have high security requirements in their environments and very similar total workloads with our software. One spends around $250k (ish) a year in self hosting costs, the other over a million to get the same throughput. The less costly one worked with us as a vendor to get anti-virus/endpoint exclusions on the file io intensive part of our application and put anti-virus scanning before that point, then harden those machines in other ways. The other customer is "policy demands we scan everything everywhere and the policy is iron law".
> There is war and famine happening in the world. Turns out other countries exist.

So what? It's not my responsibility to participate in that. That just sounds like “The White Man's Burden” with extra steps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
I’m sure Apple doesn’t love the fact that Hackintosh exists but I’ll tell you what. After installing it on my gaming PC 15 years ago, i loved it and bought my first Mac shortly after. It was a previously owned Mac because I was still getting my feet wet and didn’t want to spend a ton. But then I bought a MacBook Air. Then iMac. Then iPhone. Then 5 more Macs. And now, I’m hooked. Hackintosh was a great gateway drug.
There is an AI app for this already:

https://chatfai.com/characters/book

I haven't tried it, but if I had to guess how it is built they're probably just setting up RAG vector databases at a per-book level and then augmenting a given character's context window with information from the vector database relevant to the conversation.

It would be relatively trivial (weekend project) to roll your own using streamlit + quant/pgvector + ggerganov llama.cpp and a suitable model such as Vicuna/Mistral/etc. Hardest part would be separating an entire book into a well representated set of embeddings.
UML rises again! Maybe we will even have a unified process one day for creating software - a rational one no less.
> Spanish and Greek speakers, on the other hand, tend to think of time in terms of volume

I've noticed that a surprising amount of idioms are the same between Spanish and Greek, to the point where I will translate a Greek idiom to Spanish and it will usually be intelligible to a Spanish speaker.

The same doesn't happen with English, where most things are different.
And some of those programmers are quite lively for being in their 70s!
This would be an upper level undergraduate class, probably juniors and seniors.

You would have taken courses in discrete mathematics and data structures and algorithms as prerequisites, and have familiarity with proofs and some degree of mathematical maturity.

You build yourself up to a class like this by taking all the prereqs, same as any other high school graduate.
This appears to be what happens when rich people that don’t need houses buy them anyway as investments. There should be laws preventing a person from owning more than three houses in the United States.
Is there any evidence that x86 can compete with arm on per-watt computation?
Ah, the modern AAA games take on MTX. Who cares about gamers, fish for whales.
I don’t know anything about either of these people or the nuance of their professional qualifications, and I think that probably also holds true for 99% of other people who will see your comment.

A bit more context might be helpful.
We need some watchdog group that watches page weight across sites and users and names and shames them.

Maybe they could do that Consumer Reports style, or maybe it’s an add on the works a bit like Nielsen ratings.
By the way, a Greek "full day" isn't the same as the English "long day". "Long day" implies tiredness, whereas "full day" doesn't have a positive or a negative connection. It's simply a day in which lots of things happened.
Actually when I hit pages like this, I use the increase font size buttons. I tend to do this on phones too, especially. Yes, reader mode is also an option, but just bumping up the font size works too. You could also go back to the days when we had 800x600 monitors and 16px tended to be just the right size for that. ;-)
including boys who can't get cervical cancer

True enough (modulo questions of how trans people are identified) but while HPV is best known for causing cervical cancer, it also causes cancers of the penis, anus, mouth, and throat.
If they said they are welcome, it means they are.

Of course if your patch breaks the entirety of the testsuite (it has happened to me) and you get angry when you get asked to fix it… well not a big problem to lose such a contributor.
The sugar industry did something similar, how many hazards are we ignoring today that our children will hate us for?
One reason (besides moral) that a boy may want to get vaccinated against HPV is that HPV is linked to anal cancer.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

I know people that if they were vaccinated against HPV like I am, they wouldn’t have needed anal cancer treatment.

It seems worth it to me.
Both my kids (and the entire family) got COVID before the kids' vaccine was available late 2021. I really didn't think that it was necessary for my kids to get the vaccine given the fact they already had been infected, but the school at the time insisted. I was getting ready to join some other parents to try to fight it but then decided to listen to my wife and just go with the flow.

Now given everything we know, the COVID vaccine truly was unnecessary. I crumpled to peer pressure and got my kids injected with a drug that was completely unnecessary, even though I knew scientifically what was being said made absolutely no sense at all.

I think like many other parents who felt lied to, the next time big pharm tries to convince me that my kids or I need some sort of medication, I will react much much more skeptically and stick to my guns unless it actually passes my smell test fully.
Tinariwen. The very best. Ladysmith black mambazo. Miriam makiba and my favorite William Onyeabor.
I fear you may be in for a painful time :(.

My experience with DAV in general is that there are enough inconsistencies between clients that it's hard to support everyone properly. To be fair, that was well over a decade ago, maybe things are better now -- but it's the sort of spec where it makes sense to put effort into reusable libraries, to amortise the effort across multiple projects.

On the other hand, if you're enjoying yourself then great :). I'm looking forward to seeing what the project evolves into.
I think it's easy to say that, until you had to build one for that price. The lot alone and hook up fees, taxes would probably hover around 1/3-1/2 of that price.
Then House it self is a lot of labor to construct. Even moving the materials sometimes is very labor intensive. Plumbing, Bathrooms, Lighting, there's a lot that goes into it. Immigrant and cheap manual labor is probably what makes it affordable.
So i am hearing about Open street map for the first time. Can someone explain a bit more about it and how can i use it in day today life.
I think the vast majority of people still believe it.
In Spanish we say that a day is “largo” (long), not “full”, in the same sense as in English.
Quoting "A study says..." has gone from a signal that you're intelligent to a signal that you're not.
It would work the same for me, if only because I'd redirect the email to my RSS reader (via Feedbin[0] or Kill the Newsletter[1] or similar)! I suspect most people who care about RSS would do the same, but the Webflow docs[2] show it being pretty straightforward to set up, and (imo) it's an easy backup hedge against all your comms getting stuck in spam filters. Plus, it just feels more ADHD-friendly to me to reduce ping noise as much as possible.

[0] https://feedbin.com/

[1] https://kill-the-newsletter.com/

[2] https://university.webflow.com/lesson/rss-feed
They encode videos ahead of time and they likely decided that whatever hardware you’re judging them by is only .9% of the market so fuck those guys.

Big companies use percentages in places they shouldn’t and it gets them in trouble. .1% when you have a billion users is a million people you’re shitting on.

For me that might be a dozen people. Very different.
Rwanda always rubbed me the wrong way since Sweden (among others) is handing them millions in financial aid every year only for them to use the money to be a shirt sponsor for Arsenal FC.
I'm 53 and I'm at least five years behind getting my specs sorted out - they are currently perched right on the end of my nose now and I have to get the angle right sometimes (astigmatism).

That page is nearly fine for me but I just hit CRTL + to scale up. That works for me.

That page is pure text with no or at least minimal fiddling. You have your solution for your use case and I have mine. A blind reader will also have their solution, so they can even access it. Thanks to the simplicity of the source: all solutions to accessibility are also going to be reasonably simple.

I think that Dan understands how to communicate effectively - keep it simple and don't assume that eyes will read your words. You can trivially (and you do) fiddle with the presentation yourself for your own purposes.

I think that if you don't like the presentation of something like this then you could reformat it yourself, prior to engagement. Dan has kindly provided his message as a simple text stream that can be trivially fiddled with.
Show HN: SatCat5, the open-source FPGA Ethernet switch
We've just launched v2.5 of SatCat5, the open-source FPGA Ethernet switch [1]. SatCat5 contains various FPGA building blocks that let you build a custom mixed-media Ethernet switch. It was originally intended for cubesats [2] but has many other potential applications.

The headline feature for this release is support for the IEEE-1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP). SatCat5 has demonstrated end-to-end synchronization to within 50 ps-rms, which is approaching the world-leading performance of CERN's White Rabbit Project [3]. Except we're doing time-transfer over regular, non-synchronous Ethernet. The key breakthrough is a new technology for digital timestamps that we've published in IEEE Access [4].

This project was featured on HN back in 2023 [5]. Since then, we've changed to the CERN-OHL-W v2.0 license, which has much better legal clarity for FPGA projects.

[1] https://github.com/the-aerospace-corporation/satcat5
[2] https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2020/all2020/174/
[3] https://white-rabbit.web.cern.ch/documents/White_Rabbit-a_PT...
[4] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10367970
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817550
$26 for a cup of coffee, hand delivered. Is that an outrageous price? Compare with a circuit board I designed and had manufactured in China, and shipped to my front door for $10.

The difference, of course, is that my order wasn't the only thing on the boat. There were probably dozens of shipping containers full of stuff. Even the last mile, it was on a UPS truck, with dozens of other packages. Huge economies of scale mean low overhead per item.

I think this warps our perception of how much a delivery driver should be paid. Frankly, I'm amazed that delivering a single cup of coffee, to a single customer, where the driver had to drive to the store, buy the coffee, drive to the customer, and drive back, can even be done for that cheap really.

"But it was so much cheaper, and the drivers were making so much more money before this stupid law was passed!" you might say.

We'll.....I wonder whether they were really tallying up all of the externalities. E.g. if I fill out an expense report for a trip where I had to drive, I get comped 75 cents a mile for gas, insurance, wear-n-tear on the car, etc. If a driver has to drive 5 miles to the store, 5 miles to the customer, and 5 miles back to home base, that eats up a fair bit of the $26 right there. And that's before the driver even bought the $7.50 grande latte.

When the article reports the utopic amounts of money they were making pre-bill, I don't think either the reporter, or even the drivers themselves, were properly discounting those figures to reflect the true costs. Not to mention that venture capitalists are also subsidizing those prices, because they want keep prices low so they can expand fast enough to get a network-effect lockout of other competitors.

The article deftly deploys some fine rhetoric borrowed from bleeding heart liberals--"think of the elderly who are relying on these deliveries!! Think of the CHILDREN!!!" But yeah, not that long ago everybody was doing without delivery services, and we didn't even notice that we didn't have it.

I guess it would be nice if there were a permanent underclass, who you could afford to hire for this kind of thing. If you weren't in the underclass, of course.
Interceptors don't go into orbit at all.