skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use jet brains products, and I spend a fair bit of time in all sorts of flavors and setups in vim.

Neovim will let you configure your env to provide 90 percent of what an ide will do.

The 10 percent isnt "missing" its just going to be very different...

See how the other half lives and you might find some features you like and bring back home. You might find yourself running vim in pycharm ;)
Let’s not forget the enfenistration of Bag End, when Gandalf discovered Sam spying on him and Frodo, and then reached out the window and pulled him in.
I lived comfortably in SoCal making around $160k/year with a family of 5. These were in family friendly neighborhoods with low crime and good schools, so definitely not the cheapest areas either.
Meanwhile, today, we have chat applications taking up almost a gig of memory...
I think they wanted to somewhat replicate what they had on macOS, where the best and most popular apps were those built by indie/boutique dev houses that cared specifically about building great iOS apps. Lowest common denominator apps that treated iOS as a generic mobile target (and thus, ignoring platform conventions and such) were undesired.

I’m not sure that ever could’ve happened given the popularity of iOS, though. Companies like Panic and Omni Group don’t have the sort of firepower it takes to compete against the sheer amount of money poured into marketing by Facebook, Google, VC-backed startups, etc.
Tldr, append a nonce until the first token is "Sure".
iTunes Home Sharing and RAOP are still present and still work fine. Not sure what makes it not work for you (except the VPN connection which isn't allowed, Home Sharing is only for a single local subnet, those were the rules from the start as can be expected with the RIAA etc.).

As for owning media, that was pretty easy, got a bit harder for a while and then got easy again. You can get everything you buy with no DRM and play it wherever you want for as long as you want. There are some limitations with iTunes Match AFAIK because again, recording industry/labels said no.
Personally, I’d rather have the generators off when the earthquake hits!
So that was six months of my working life >> /dev/null
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Calm down with the hyperbole. Catastrophic weather events, my lord.

Concern for the planet and climate is a worthy cause and ought not to be discredited by obvious nonsense like this. Extreme reactionary climate conservatism is ultimately self-defeating, much like it's less sexy social conservatism cousin.

Sea floor mining will happen at 200m - 6500m deep. The recently granted exploration license for the Clarion-Clipperton zone is at 4000-5500m deep. There's very little life that deep, and certainly no sunlight to get absorbed by murkier water.
This just means that in-person critical thinking skills will be at an even higher premium than ever.

If knowledge collapse becomes evident, we'll dial back the use if AI, and a lot of "prompt monkey" businesses will go bankrupt.
Yeah, the ease of avoiding the ads (not logging in, jailbreaking it, or just getting a cover) were all big parts of why I felt like kindle ads were so much less offensive than most online advertising.
It took Subaru three years to make the BRZ idle without stalling, and there’s like five hundred TSBs now which is par for the course for a ten year run of a completely-new body and engine bay layout. But only a couple of them were meaningfully critical, and one of those was a manufacturer defect that affected several years of car models across the board. So, maybe not to the degree that Cybertruck “dead after 5 miles” and “tried to dead stop on the highway unexpectedly” stories reported are showing.
It’s not too hard to imagine what it’s like when someone spends four years interning at tech companies. That’s basically one of the computer science courses at Waterloo. So you can just find people who graduated from those courses and see how it worked out for them. Though obviously there’s a lot of selection bias there.
Steve Jobs announcing PlayStation emulator at MacWorld

https://youtu.be/3OqMcqRI-xA?si=nUkGn6vLrLLMiGOP
>Why would you omit the qualifiers?

Because we're talking about Gaza, to which the qualifer ("notably in densely populated areas") most definitely applies.
FTC, DOJ, HHS launch inquiry into private equity control over health care
I wonder what type of errors that are? My last experience with PyCharm was on an older 2014 ThinkPad on which it lagged too much, so I abandoned it. Could probably run it much better with my current laptop...

I just use VSCode for most things, or nvim if I want to edit something very specific that doesn't require much navigation between files. I'm not a huge fan of my editor annoying me with stuff all the time, but I'm wondering if I'm missing out.
Yes, academic administration is different in different countries. In the US it's especially criticized for its subjectivity, here which we have a great example of.
Intellij has some nice static analysis for Java.[1] But I want it in my face. Because we had a bug where we used `==` on a boxed primitive. And the inspection didn’t help because it was just sitting there with some faint yellow background or whatever it is if you happened to visit that file. And the light-bulb action thing is effectively active on any line since you get the option of “invert conditional” or “use block in lambda” and useless things like that.

Well I’ll just hedge and say that it wasn’t obvious to the three of us how to get an in-your-face warning.

[1] EDIT: I realize now that my brain for some reason thought that “in your face” would immediately translate to everybody else as “fail the build”. What a drunken (but not drunk though) mistake.
More people who recently switched jobs say they were approached by a recruiter
https://archive.is/3bUf5
> Except the well-being of the students?

The long-term well-being of the students is not what most educational institutions frame as their charitable mission, and even if they did they don’t have a good way to assess marginal impacts on it the way they do other things, so its unlikely to get factored in consistently even if there is an intention to respect it.

> Not for profit institutions are supposed to be immune to this kind of behavior.

No, charitable non-profit institutions are supposed to be immune to seeking returns to investors, not from seeking money to serve what they have defined as their charitable mission. Quite the opposite.

> Also I agree with you that the way to stop this is to end student loans.

I very specifically did not say the solution was to end student loans, I said it was to condition aid (including whatever combination of grants and loans) on cost caps.

(I think aid should be mostly or all grants and not loans, but that’s unrelated to the cost of tuition problem.)
It could have a small spool of wire to drop to the ground to make contact. This would allow the drone to rest on the wire while charging.
It's going to be a very costly operation to go retrieve one of those once it's "gripper" ultimately fails. That's hoping it fails closed instead of failing open. Getting these parked in the face of upcoming weather is not going to be particularly fun, either.

Given that you need a solid alternate location anyways, why not just go there instead? Then we can build safe single function autonomous ground charging stations that a human being can just walk up to and service on foot.

Too clever by half.
My CEO launched a project to convert our data/visualization platform from Domo to Datarama to save money and improve functionality. To avoid adding more work to my team, the CEO hired a consulting firm to do the work and assigned one of the operations team to help them with discovery.

The project was doomed to failure because Datarama had all the same problems as Domo for our use case and, as the project dragged on, Datarama increased their pricing to match Domo's. Eventually the project died, but not after we paid for a year of Datarama and 8 months of contracting.
There are tons of beautiful brick buildings in North St. Louis (one of the areas highlighted in the article), which are blighted over time, as they start crumbling after decades of no maintenance.

One such building is this an old victorian mansion that's slowly and meticulously being restored by a local: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuteYo4Kgm1t1DqkUV33BcQ

I've visited the area a few times (and used to drive through it on the way into the city), and it's a little depressing how every time I drive through I see another couple of buildings gone.

Just last month, one of the historic church buildings (mostly brick) burned down [1], while last year another historic church building that was converted into an indoor skate park (Sk8 Liborius) also burned down [2].

The tough thing is, the developers in that area are happy to let all the buildings rot and fall over, and eventually they can sell larger plots of land to projects like the NGA, who are building a new $2 billion HQ [3]

[1] https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/crews-battle-fire-at...

[2] https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/news/2023/06/29/fl...

[3] https://www.stlpr.org/economy-business/2022-12-20/ngas-nearl...
Liechtenstein, Norway, and Iceland are part of the EEA, where 95% of EU law still applies.
Bug Hunting: How We Discovered New Issues in CD Projekt Red's Gaming Platform
Full self-driving
Yet many people leave college with few connections and little networking ever done. So by your standards anyone without those social skills should consider college as a total waste of time and money. College: only worthwhile for extroverts.
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What does it mean for a school like Harvard to make a profit? Why do they want to do that?
You’re going by sites? Even so, on distiller.com, top 2% bottles like Elijah Craig Barrel Proof and JD Single Barrel Proof are 4.3 and 4.13 respectively, when Buffalo Trace is a 3.7. Of course if you want one of the best bourbons there is it’s going to be “expensive” as in $50-$60. That doesn’t mean that the average Joe can’t get a great bourbon for $25 (17 servings). That’s the same ballpark every regular Joe blows on an 18 pack of beer for a football game with friends.

Only a few states have high taxes or poor competition (only gov stores) and that’s not Bourbon specific that’s just liquor in general.

Ultimately, prices have gone up only because it’s so easy for the average person to get a great bottle of Eagle Rare that takes 10 years to make. The demand is there at the price point, it’s not like a hedge fund is buying up stock to hoard it.
I think it might be around the same time as the RetroPie wave when it got much more publicity than the early days around 2013, probably somewhere between the release of the Pi 3B and Pi 4B (2018-ish?).

Around that time it was mostly N64, SNES, GB, GBA etc. Maybe even some PS1, but mostly just titles that were plausibly playable on a smaller screen or with lower resource consumption. Wouldn't be surprised if it gets attention on iOS when there is a larger public mindshare around such a topic.
Would love to test it, but I am not willing to leave my payment details. I understand the need for conversion but if you are confident about your product and its standing against competition (haven't seen anything like Rafa yet), why not offer a true free trial phase without subsequent subscription?

So it is paradox to write in your FAQs "Yes, RAFA offers a 14-day free trial allowing you to explore its features and determine if it's the right investment tool for you before committing to a subscription."
-> READ: before committing to a subscription

"Democratising intelligent investing, together." would mean (at least to me) you lower the entry point.
Personally, I think the problem is that people abuse Google for things it's really not designed to do, and they don't even realize that.

Google is great at finding official webpages by their exact title. If you type the title of a news headline from the 90s, Google will give you the link to it. I think that is amazing. Basically anything that has a canonical URL, Google is good at finding.

But when you search for "how to do X" for example, there will be several results that are perfectly valid and they will still need to be ranked in a list. Because it's not a "list" of results, it's ranking of relevancy. So to avoid showing spam, Google will push to the top websites it finds trustworthy. And now every top result comes from the same website. If you need an explanation for the Xz incident, for example, there is no canonical URL for it. There will be several news websites, youtube channels, etc. that have talked about it, competing to be the top result.

Google still has to rank them even though the algorithm can't tell fact apart from parody, so no matter what Google does, Google will be the one judging which content most people will read when they want to know about a certain topic.

To borrow my fellow robot's words, people are finding knowledge through an algorithmically curated aperture: Google's SERP.

If they're evil, they have the power to control everyone on Earth. If they're good, they must be going insane with what to do with their users' crippling dependency on them as a source of truth.
> Healthcare growth is also probably at minimum 50% driven by an increase in government spending on entitlements.

Before suggesting 50% is the minimum, perhaps start with some shred of evidence that it’s a significant factor at all?
Well, this has nothing to do with programming and goes way beyond being merely "useless"; yet it might offer some perspective on your question and perhaps help you relativise things.

There's a global industry involving thousands of healthcare professionals, lawyers, judges, police officers, and child protection workers who have spent 50 years prosecuting tens of thousands of parents and caregivers for allegedly shaking their babies. This is based on a theory from the 1970s, which posits that virtually all infants with blood around the brain and at the back of the eyes have been violently shaken. These professionals have developed entire academic journals, conferences, curricula, and training courses to teach this "theory" to all involved professionals (hospital clinicians, police officers, prosecutors, etc.). There are likely hundreds of such courses annually in dozens of countries. These people have raised probably tens of millions of dollars for research and prevention programs against shaking which, while somewhat beneficial for the well-being of babies, have not succeeded in reducing the global incidence of shaken baby syndrome diagnoses.

It turns out this theory is largely incorrect, and only a minority of cases are likely to be actual cases of abuse: the other children suffer from rare diseases or household accidents that cause these types of bleeding, which are mistaken for signs of abuse. Every year, thousands of babies are removed from their homes and hundreds of parents and caregivers are convicted and incarcerated.

This has been known for over 20 years, with more and more professionals raising the alarm, yet the diagnoses continue to be made every day. I discovered this 8 years ago and swore to myself that I would do anything I can to end it. At the time, I met doctors who had been trying to do the same for over 15 years, and here I am, 8 years later, doing everything I can but still feeling quite lonely and helpless. I still hope to think I'm not entirely useless. But more importantly, think about all these professionals who have built an entire industry on false premises, leaving a trail of devastation around the world under the guise of "child protection", convinced they are making the world a better place. Does this fit your definition of "useless"?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402

[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/152483802311516...
Yeah, even the ads on the radio talk about tuckpointing, when they just mean repointing.
If Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic taught me anything it's that underground power lines are for the capitalist bourgeoisie.
> Each time we draw a bit of graphical content to a scroll view, we first allocate the tiles necessary to display the corresponding visual area.

I get the intent here, to avoid the issue of not knowing how large a buffer to allocate for your scroll view in the first place. But doesn't this still use way too much memory? Especially for something like an irc client, the scroll view will only grow as the program is used longer, and as such the number of tiles of rendered content will also only grow. You'll of course need to keep the textual history in memory, but that's far smaller than the rendered screen contents.

Proper GUI toolkits (disclaimer: I have worked with few, and only a little at that) handle this, I think, by not considering the scroll view a canvas to draw stuff on, but instead a thing that you can place widgets on. Each widget has access to some data that allows it to re-draw its graphical content at some position on-screen, and the scroll view forgets rendered content far outside the visible area, and asks widgets to re-draw their content whenever they get scrolled onto the screen again.

Of course, you could expect requests for even more over-engineering ;)

Cool stuff! As someone else mentioned, you missed April 1st.
In high school, I only worried about what college I could get into and what was the reputation of the college. Cost was irrelevant because I had no job (I had worked, but for only around minimum wage) and didn’t know what kind of job I could get after I graduated.

I had no ability to effectively price shop, to compare the value of the degrees of different colleges, and the ability to get reviews of each college seemed “impossible” (opaque and/or difficult to get started).

In retrospect, I was a terrible consumer of the college product, but I don’t know how I could have changed it at the time, given my situation. I know the US federal government required colleges to publish key metrics such as the average salary by degree/program and specific costs like tuition. Those are incredibly valuable compared to the info I had, but I’m curious if high school students today are any better at making value judgements before they have had a non-trivial paycheck.
The Meltdown at a Middle School in a Liberal Town
That is surprising, the industry of implementing industry-standard ERP systems is pretty established. I'd have expected it to go way over time and budget (they always do) but eventually succeed. Usually success is in proportion to the company's willingness to admit they're not special and can do the same things as other companies instead of having everything bespoke.
Yes, employers should pay for the phone if they require on-call, 2FA, or any other reason that requires an employee to be pinged by mobile.

In fact, this should itself be a law.
This makes me realize it must suck to be a mediocre blind developer.

The average person is just average. Unless there is something about visual impairment that makes them better at development, then I would expect them to be on average, just average developers.

Yet I would guess that visually impaired developers get more scrutiny. If nothing else, just because they are a novelty.

Anyhow, I guess I am just reminding myself to treat each person as an individual.
1. Home Automation

2. I still get the same thrill playing RTS' with my brother, even though we're now, erm, middle aged.
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You really can’t even begin to approach what the IntelliJ tools can do with a mere text editor. You’ll also spend more time tinkering with your Vim plugins than actually coding.
> The rise of bootcamps and micro-certifications teach people 80% of the stuff in 20% (or less) of the time, and at fractions of the cost as well. Are university educations really that much better?

This is the wrong comparison IMO. All of the good engineers I've come across are autodidacts. This makes sense when you think about it. You aren't going to be among the best by learning at the pace of a class. Many of them went to college because culturally that's what smart people do in the US (hopefully this changes). They acquired their competency despite--not because of--being preoccupied with useless coursework.

Bootcamps and micro-certifications don't produce competency either, but the stakes are much lower, and it's much less time and money wasted.

> To me, the value of the university system seems to be the connections and networking that form rather than skills and acuity.

Yes some of it is networking, but it's really that universities function as rating agencies for humans. Getting into the university is the most important part. If everyone switched to putting the best school they got into on their resume instead of where they graduated from, very little would change. And it would provide roughly the same signal to employers.
> points out that you already made your choice when you weren't paying attention.

Witcher 3 excelled at this. It is the only game which I felt an overwhelming sense of dread and guilt after finishing.
I don’t think so because they skipped some obvious ways to show low and high on a dial.

They went out of their way to add complexity for whatever reason.
Personally I believe that theoretical CS/mathematics in college was a great use of my time, and that those subjects are hard to learn and truly internalize on the job. I've got a lot of value over the years from that kind of education, not only from the specific things I learned, but the way of thinking it ingrained and the broad exposure/skills it gave me (eg I might be able to recognize some problem as control theory and find and understand papers about it).

However, most of the practical skills I learned in college were not good uses of time. Classes in general weren't structured to teach you the kind of skills being an actual fulltime SWE gives you. Plus the industry changes so fast, and college is so unrepresentative of what actual problems people work on in the real world, that you may learn something soon/already obsolete.

So my advice, especially for people going into the software industry, is to learn as much foundational and theoretical content as you can. You may never get a better chance to learn graph algorithms, real analysis, abstract algebra, or theory of computation after college. Your professors may be experts on compilers or programming languages, and able to teach you the theory behind eg LISP better than you could teach yourself later.

Signup for the classes that will remap your brain and pay dividends for decades instead of "web dev 101", and you might find your college experience worthwhile (beyond the fun, personal growth, and networking - all important too).
Throwing out the entire administration and then only replacing a small fraction of it would work even better!
> So what other defenestrations are there? The ones in Prague are the ones I have heard about.

All the "window accidents" in Russia involving people who angered Dobby of Kremlin could be counted in, I believe.

Polish Wikipedia mentions a defenestration case [1] during urban revolt in Wrocław (back then Vratislav as it was under Czech crown rule) that took place between 18-22 July of 1418, so a year before the Prague's

[1] - https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestracja_wroc%C5%82awska
You're against a particular kind of loan forgiveness, where it's assumed the schools are made whole. As you note, there's another kind of loan forgiveness where the obligations simply evaporate.