skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel I'm a mediocre blind developer and it does suck, mostly just the blind part though.
I do my best not to let my coworkers know I'm blind (I work remotely.) Mostly to avoid either 'cripple porn' or being disregarded. Either way, it's easier.
yes, the key is to always have some sort of migration happening so every problem can be addressed by saying "this will be resolved after the new ERP is rolled out"
Have you see the new animated turn signals on luxury cars? I've noticed that people actually use them!
That day will be the day my Roku goes in the trash. I wonder how well they researched the potential blow back.
I wasn't aware of the other submissions. It would be fine if the threads were merged, but I feel like there's a materiality threshold under which it isn't worth their time to merge.
That sounds fascinating. Have you considered starting your own company around re-creating it?
I think you’re making my point. The Fourth Dimension is still uniquely defined for our 3-space (which is the entire universe, as far as we know). I think that’s pretty solid justification for giving it a distinct name.

Hypothetically, if there are other (infinite) 3-spaces embedded in our 4D metaverse, then we either intersect them (which would cause all sorts of problems), or they are parallel and agree with our definition of The Fourth Dimension.
SSD 101: How Reliable are SSDs?
I don’t mean to be the morality police, but that seems illegal.
The three-step cleanup of Baltimore's Key Bridge
I used to work at Accenture back when they paid workers overtime. As engagement managers got into overage (underestimated projects, often fixed fee), they would put pressure on their workers to work overtime but not log the hours. Two law firms were already reaching out to workers ~2002 trying to form a class for a class action lawsuit.

My boss came by one Friday morning and informed me i'd be onsite working all weekend and told me to "ensure not work over 40hrs" this week. This is an impossibility, I had been working late all week and was already at 45 or 50hrs for the week, and I still had Friday/Saturday/Sunday to go.

So after the discussion, I sent him an email, casual, saying I've cancelled my flight back home for the weekend, confirming i'll be onsite all weekend and that I'd ensure to "only log 40hrs this week".

He came by my desk furious and said if I "ever pulled a stunt like that again there would be consequences"

So I re-plied to the original email, took him off, put on my personal gmail and just recounted the entire episode and sent the email again.
> I both want and need as much range as possible when I'm driving my rental car.

Do you really? If so, that’s either due to where you live or work (few charging stations) or you’re a relatively rare “cannonball run” type of driver.

On my model y, I can charge up to 60% or so, and I can drive for 2 hours to the next charging station (for long trips). After that, I want to stretch, take a short bio break, and get some food or something to drink. I will be back up to 60% or more by the time I’m done, and I am usually fast with my “pit stops”.

If you mostly drive short range local stuff, then it is very easy to charge when you do almost anything else — go out to eat, get coffee, shop for whatever. If you’re renting for business, then your hotel almost certainly has a charger that will charge you enough to get you around all day.

You pretty much have to construct a very unique set of circumstances to make it such that “always charging to full” is an important necessity.

> I don't care about long-term battery degredation.

As I said before, this is a time issue, not a battery degredation issue. Charging to full during the day (while you are waiting) is almost never necessary. Full charge overnight is fine — it costs you no time.

If your situation is so different, please tell me what your typical day is with regards to driving and refueling, and I will tell you what it could look like with a model y. It really won’t be a big difference in terms of time.
A bootcamp gets you the requisite education to be an entry-level engineer at a place like Google or Facebook. However, these jobs are mostly training (like a bootcamp) for you to become a more senior engineer, where you will actually be designing systems and coordinating with others. In a senior job, your job is more about communicating with people and making predictions about what will happen when you eventually build something.

The skills bootcamp graduates don't pick up are things like math, writing, and research skills. You don't use those skills as a code-slinging junior engineer, but when you start coordinating with other people and doing things like designing large-scale systems, you may find yourself doing a lot more math and writing than you think.
You clearly did not read part 105 even after you linked to it - none of it disagrees with what I said.

The FAA only cares about parachute types for reserves.

They only regulate actual jumping in a handful of situations all involving controlled airspace and large crowds or near/in clouds. Solo jumpers are not interesting for them as long as no one on the ground gets killed and property not destroyed.

No special training or certification is required by the FAA for skydivers (except tandem instructors), and for pilots.

Training types are extremely thinly regulated (really just a couple of gotchas to keep aircraft from crashing).

And base jumpers started as skydivers originally, and the original equipment was skydiving equipment.

Different sport now? Yes.

You should read it, it’s pretty short. The CFR I linked summed it up pretty good.

If there is a specific area you think I’m wrong, please do point it out.
I often feel that the underlying cause of problems like this is that programming is dominated by male primates.

If your code is short, obvious, and working - then you are an expendable nobody.

If your code is 10M lines of incomprehensible shit - then you are an irreplaceable demigod.

Doesn't matter if both programmers' code has the exact same functionality.
I tried to place out of an intro-to-programming course in a back-to-school bout of scholastic achievement. I wasn't allowed to test out of it despite the coursewor being rote and that anyone with 2 seconds looking at my CV could see I did not need it. Anyway - they released the assignments on day 1. I turned them in on day 2. I still had to go to class. Stupid.

My "filesystems and database design" class was basically howto use mysql. It's a shame, I was more interested in actual file system and database design

Just stupid stuff like that made me drop the academic bullshit and skip into the real world.
I think SGI failed to understand that there was a point where desktop PCs would be good enough to replace dedicated workstations. Continuing to make hardware that's much better than the best PCs wasn't going to save them after PCs crossed the good-enough line - whatever they had, would be relegated to increasingly rarefied niches - the same way IBM now only makes POWER and mainframes - there is no point of making PCs, or even POWER workstations anymore for them, as the margin would be too narrow.

SGI could double down on their servers and supercomputers, which they did for a while, but without entry-level options, their product lines becomes the domain of legacy clients who are too afraid (or too smart) to port to cheaper platforms. And being legacy in a highly dynamic segment like HPC is a recipe for disaster. IBM survived because their IBMi (the descendant of the AS/400) and mainframe lines are very well defended by systems that are too risky to move tied to hardware that's not that much more expensive than a similarly capable cluster of generic and less capable machines. As the market was being disrupted from under them, they retreated up and still defend their hill very effectively.

The other movement they could do was to shift downwards, towards the PC, and pull the rug from under their workstation line. By the time Microsoft acquired Softimage and had it ported to NT, it was already too late for SGI to even try that move, as NT was solidified as a viable competitor in the visual computing segment, running on good-enough machines much, much cheaper than anything SGI had.
Is it worth it? Roku has shown you their intentions. Believe them. Sell it now, and buy a TV from a company that makes money by selling TVs.
I might be wrong but I think Apple TV is more or less the only device left that approaches that criteria.
That parable came to mind immediately. There is in fact a god that labels unanswered nagging as acting unjust. A lifetime ago in seminary I knew a guy who rage quit after spending months contemplating the implications of that passage and observations about how common it is to see others unanswered prayer. Don't know what happened to him but he would just mutter that his beliefs didn't matter since "jesus defacto makes the claim he is unjust and defeats himself", the problem of suffering indeed.
Apple TV. No ads.
The other year I bought a TV with Roku that bootlooped whenever it couldn't download screensaver ads for more than a month.

Roku is evil.
Hmmm, maybe check his LinkedIn where he brags about the successful transition and ERP migration he led at that company.
Not that complicated, just a combination of cache invalidation and naming things.
Between this, and their binding arbitration debacle a while back, I will never use their products. Had a Roku back when they were first released (and before they became awful as a company) but haven't used it in years. No interest in giving assent to corruption and corporate overreach.
So now the assholes who think it's OK to give my phone number out to all these cloud companies will be sending them photos tracking my life, too.
Or to put it in other terms, the boxer who throws the fight also gets paid very well.
Higher education in the US is hardly about learning the skills for a particular discipline or trade. The American university system is a class differentiation mechanism, and students are paying for access to the managerial professional class, often the highest class one can achieve without family connections.

Even if tuition costs more than can be earned back in wages, it’s still a good investment because the alternative is lower class jobs or unemployment. (There are a few counter examples of professions which pay well and don’t require a university degree).
Spent months building an application that I knew would never ever be used by anyone. It was actually highly stressful as for some reason it was considered a big opportunity and I was pressured to deliver quicker. I was young and didn't know how to deal with that.
My recollection of that time (I was at SGI when Belluzzo was there).

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremyallison_wither-google-f...
Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV
Stuff at Google X
A stealth attack came close to compromising the Internet
Isn’t he hidden away somewhere without extradition treaties? After seeing what happened to SBF, he’ll make damn sure he doesn’t go before any courts.
AI agent automation, and general workflow automation.
Mono is basically dead. This uses dotnet 8[1] which is cross platform (has been since 5.x and "core" 1.x-3.x).

[1]: https://github.com/zoriya/Kyoo/blob/master/back/Dockerfile#L...
You can change how inspection errors are shown under the Color Scheme settings. You can make it bold, striked out text with a bright red background if you want. I seem to remember at some point you could also make it blink, though I can't find that anymore (probably for the best).
We tried this but didn't make an exception for outlook or teams so it was useless.

I'm not going to turn that sandbox on when I'm not at work.
The First Ever F-Word in a Video Game
Yes, but Roku has metastasized: be sure not to buy a TV with bundled Roku either.
In the late 90s, SGI demos were much more impressive than what you describe. It was used by technical folks to do real stuff, with stringent criteria.

More importantly, the things that made Quake III so great were state-of-the-art for gaming. But those things couldn't render lines quickly and well (a mainstay of CAD at the time), or render at very high resolution (which IIRC was 1280x1024 in that era).

Here's what Carmack said abotu the SGIs a few years before:
"""SGI Infinite reality: ($100000+) Fill rate from hell. Polygons from hell. If
you don’t trip up on state changes, nothing will come within shouting
distance of this system. You would expect that.""" SGI was also key for map builds before PCs were capable.

But yes, 1999-2000 was just around the cusp of when SGI went from "amazing" to "meh".
I will never buy a device with Roku on it again. And even when I did, I used it as a dumb monitor which had no access to the Internet. Now I have an LG OLED TV and even that has no access to the internet.
A quick google search for “lavender christianity” shows many many people have associated them together, possibly with some historical or primary source inconsistencies, however it’s very obvious connected. In addition to search engines a conversation with any LLM has them immediately explain the connection.

Now you might be correct there is some mis-associating from a purely academic standpoint and that actually makes it even more interesting the IDF used it as a name, considering the other name is “The Gospel”. Isn’t the message to Christians - “you’re idiots and we kill our enemies using AI systems named to make fun of you”?
Jupyterlite looks pretty cool, thanks for making me aware of it
probably got hired by the vendor
When was UltraHLE? Like ‘98?
because they developed the tools and technologies that made their OS

Not quite. They used quite a few FOSS to build their products then pulled the ladder up behind them. Remove the app store requirement and the market will indicate just how useful the app store monopoly is to the end user.
Shallower than usual. Very shallow quakes happen at 10 km to 20 km depth. This one is at 5 km.
That wording sounds so gruesome.

It's also less than 0.4% of their employees there, according to the numbers in the piece. That doesn't feel newsworthy...or was Apple really never firing people in theseast years ?
Probably up through the PSX, at least in the US:

- hardware to dump your own cartridges is available and doesn’t require breaking copy protection (which at that point was more around locking out publishers that didn’t sign license agreements rather than unauthorized duplication), and popular older systems are fairly well understood at the interconnect level at this point

- PSX games themselves don’t use encryption to protect games, just some chicanery around CD standards so burners of the era wouldn’t make unauthorized duplication as much of an issue; additionally, the Bleem! case officially recognizes PSX emulation as legal

Once you get to the PS2/GameCube/Xbox generation, you start to run into systems that include encrypted executables that make DMCA-compliant emulators basically impossible.
From what I've heard, surgery to treat hand osteoarthritis is a dying sub-specialty because the drugs are so effective now (and the surgery has never been a very good solution).
Are the more registries of Hacker News readers
I just built a Hacker News reader (https://brutalisthackernews.com) to meet the challenge of building a site with only Vanilla JS and no libraries and to complete an art project based on glitch art, cyberpunk, brutalist web design.

I have noticed that https://hnpwa.com exists, but the GitHub repo (https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas/blob/master/CONT...) is archived, and the site appears to be no longer active.

Are there any new sites like this to submit HN readers?
"This is the Silver Back Gorilla of nerds. The internet final boss."
https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1774071339671794134
It can be useful, although the usual caveats with LLMs apply. for example I can get a description of the contents of a window or control with one keystroke. Here is what it says about this HN page:

The image shows a screenshot of a text-based discussion on an online forum. The discussion involves several users exchanging thoughts on various topics related to accessibility for visually impaired individuals, multimodal language models (LLMs), and coding. It features typical forum elements like usernames, timestamps, and reply links.

[... summary of the comments]

The color scheme is predominantly white with text in black, usernames in blue, and links in light blue, creating a contrast that's commonly seen in web-based forums.
Qodana Community for .NET is currently in Early Access: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/qodana/qodana-dotnet-communit...
…it doesn’t /s
You're doing important work. Thank you!
It’s trivially easy to take that same PSX disc, make an image of it, and load that into an emulator today.
"Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, a cryptocurrency fugitive being held in Montenegro and wanted in both South Korea and the US, may end up on trial in New York after the Balkan nation’s Supreme Court overturned earlier decisions, including those to hand him over to his native country.

In case of dueling demands, the country’s justice minister will eventually decide where to hand over the suspect, after courts determine whether conditions for extradition are met, the Supreme Court said in a statement on Friday. It also sent back the case to Podgorica-based High Court for that legal assessment.

The top court in the Balkan nation of 620,000 acted after Montenegro’s top prosecutor challenged Kwon’s extradition to South Korea, citing procedural errors in the verdict. Kwon’s legal team has pushed for extradition to South Korea, where sentences for white-collar crimes tend to be less harsh than in the US. Montenegro’s government intends to approve extradition to the US, a person close to the matter, who declined to be identified as the decision isn’t public yet, told Bloomberg in late February."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-05/do-kwon-m...
In the 1990s people who wanted to advertise in that town had to do so in local media. Now they can ad tech and the Daily Mail will arrange for it to be served.
Love the work you're doing. I'm looking for a part-time role. Based out of NJ, USA. I haven't worked with Crystal but have extensive Ruby experience. Sent you an email!
OpenAI is now hiring AI Engineers
That's what I use on my TVs, and the TVs themselves never have access to the internet. The only ads I see on AppleTV are from whatever service I'm using...if I paid for an ad-supported tier. I don't.
Except links to the site still go through, but links to the specific article are blocked
Social connections/networking are part of it, but so is the social/professional/international cachet of having a degree. Many people who express (quite legitimate) doubt about the value of their degree as an educational experience are oblivious to the numerous filters that get in the way of people who don't have a degree.
100%. There are revenue management consulting firms that boast of increasing price realization by 15%+ by managing admission rates, communication patterns, and "scholarship grants" to optimize bottomline price.

When the marginal cost of each student is probably $20K, anything over that is awesome. So even if you give a $30k "merit scholarship" to a full pay student you are making bank, as you are still clearing $50K+ as a university.

Perverse outcome of this is that the richer students will get more "merit aid."

Also, Ivy leagues + Stanford and MIT are a cartel, and don't give merit aid. So they use the "need based" aid system to even more increase their price realization from the richest folks.

(Ask me how I know: parent who went way too deep on this, and is now stroking a $85K check to an ivy.... lol.)
I wouldn't be that absolute about it, but nothing comes to mind as missing or broken from the top of my head so far. That being said, it does look like it would benefit from some more support: https://github.com/astroidmail/astroid/issues/669

https://github.com/astroidmail/astroid/issues/744

...How's your C++? (;
Proof-of-principle demonstration of 3D magnetic recording for hard disk drives
Bill Lumbergh approves of this!
why will the ocean absorb more heat from the sun if 'sea creatures that rely on sight will starve'?
https://bsky.app/profile/cmhenry.bsky.social/post/3kpftv6thu...

Posting the raw text of the article in question in a GitHub gist and linking to the gist is also banned
duh, Generative AI!
> They used quite a few FOSS to build their products then pulled the ladder up behind them

Not only but also.

> Remove the app store requirement and the market will indicate just how useful the app store monopoly is to the end user.

Android suggests: fairly important, even though it could be replaced.
Which perhaps they even expounded on by using “Lavender” which potentially is something Christians may have mis-associated with Jesus’s birth (see parallel comments on Lavender). The message to Christian’s is clear - “thanks for all the funding, you’re a bunch of fools, and we are killing our enemies in your name”
same, but at the same time, positive reviews tend to be low entropy, little is to be gained from positive comments that isn't already captured by the average score. You get a few detailed ones which go into specifics as to why they thought this was thing was good, but negative ones tend to go into way more, and more reliable, detail. I do understand where you're coming from though.
He didn't go insane, but the doctors he challenged forcibly had him committed

> In 1865, János Balassa wrote a document referring Semmelweis to a mental institution. On 30 July, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra lured him, under the pretense of visiting one of Hebra's "new Institutes", to a Viennese insane asylum located in Lazarettgasse. Semmelweis surmised what was happening and tried to leave. He was severely beaten by several guards, secured in a straitjacket, and confined to a darkened cell. Apart from the straitjacket, treatments at the mental institution included dousing with cold water and administering castor oil, a laxative. He died after two weeks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
It's time to goto war with Roku and their penny grasping scumbag management.
Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science (2011)
This is the funniest thing I think I've read all day.

Thank you.
> “The good news is Facebook can't have any say in what we write, when we write it, or how we write it,” Smith said, “And they have increasingly little impact on who actually sees our stories. So we're able to get stories in front of people through, not just other social media platforms and through our website, but also through our newsletter. And so I just don't think that Facebook can effectively silence a news organization, and certainly doesn't have the same kind of impact that it would have had two years ago or 10 years ago.”

I think it's unlikely they even noticed in the first place, but let's grant the implication that Facebook did this as a reprisal. It's petty, but also completely within their right, and sort of a natural reaction.

I'm glad they have (or believe they have) other ways of getting news out to people beyond just social media. The lesson to learn, imho, is that it was a bad idea for the news industry to completely hitch its wagon to social media in the first place. Maybe it seemed necessary at the time, but it was a bad idea. It wasn't so much a risk of being at the mercy of those platforms, but a fait accompli, and meanwhile their other audience-building skills atrophied. So, while the website and newsletter are probably good to keep up, I would not be so smug about having other social media platforms to turn to, as they are not really the robust solutions they may seem to be.

And I'm not a Kansas Reflector reader, but my guess is Facebook actually did influence what, how, and when they wrote articles, assuming they are anything like literally every other news outlet in the entire world.
"I want to hire you, Joe Banks. I want to hire you -- to jump into a volcano."

Joe had just seen a Dr. Ellison. Coincidence? Yes, absolutely, of course it is.