skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am deeply suspicious of this POV because in my actual experience it was precisely when we shifted from “apply this thing” to something more like real math that classmates started to give up on math entirely. They may not have liked it before, but that didn’t mean they were bad at it. The anger and resentment and resistance to math came later, when we were past arithmetic and drilling (which were also by far the most useful parts of our primary and secondary school math education, in actual life, for most people)

[edit] my suspicion is because it’s both entirely contrary to my experience, and always seems to come from people who like math so much that they majored in it and started to really love it right around the time the folks I’m thinking of above—a far larger set—have decided not just that they dislike math, but that they can’t do it and also that hardly matters because it seems to be pointless.
This makes me very sad. Used ICQ throughout Uni in 1999 and met a girl via random chat. We messaged each other for about a year then thought I’d fallen in love — travelled halfway around the world to finally meet her. It didn’t work out but what an experience. RIP ICQ.
I still remember the phone number I had from when I was 10-19, but I can't remember my sons or my mums phone numbers, or indeed any numbers I've had or used since I was 19 other than my current number that I got in my 30's. Basically, the moment I got my first cellphone in '95 or so, I stopped learning phone numbers, other than remembering my current number because I give it out regularly.

But also, I think, because my parents drilled that old number into me, because remembering it was a "lifeline".
In the US if a doctor says that, you deal with it.

With multiple doctors, you are going to hear multiple opinions.

Your situation isnt factual or realistic. It is a dirty underhanded remark.
I'm sure most people know this already, but ICQ stood for I Seek You.
I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug
Be the Change You Wish to See in the World or Trip and Go Flying
It says they won’t officially support Windows or MacOS. Some other project can try to port it if they want, right? It seems good of them to be honest about their intended level of support.

Supporting an OS the devs don’t use is a big ask.
pastries are more unhealthy than coffee? well, i guess if it's decaf without sugar maybe.
If I make a $100 deposit now, (because I prefer to wait for a review) What will be the price for the next batch?
I can't tell what you're implying by the use of the word "just".
All chat platforms (that I can remember) that were popular around that time used proprietary protocols, including ICQ. Everyone I knew preferred third-party clients to the official one, and these clients would sometimes break because ICQ kept changing tiny details in the protocol to try to force users to use the official client. It never worked, of course, because updates that fixed compatibility would usually come within a couple of hours.
I know this doesn't add much value to the discussion, but I was really proud of my UIN when I was a teenager. And this may be my last chance to flaunt it, so here it is:

1779900

So back in the day, these were known as Universal Internet Numbers, or UINs. You have to admire the sheer audacity of using that name for the user identifiers of a service you're building. I believe they were renamed to "ICQ#" later.
End of an error. I mean Era.
What You Need to Know About Real Time Settlement
RIP ICQ. I still have logs of chats from highscool. It was really my first foray into the idea of chat. I remember that I once did a presentation for a linguistics class on the use of emoji and the various shorthands that showed up in chat and people were actually interested because it was so new(1).

(1) Yes IRC far predated ICQ but the linguistic norms there differed significantly from ICQ, it was all in my presentation, you had to be there :)
Flexport (YC W14) is hiring an OR/ML guru to optimize global trade routing
> How does performance suffer from scanning a directory with millions of files, or if they're spread across multiple directories, from traversing the directories? Even if the delivery and user agents handle it well, what about the command line tools that would make one-file-per-message appealing? What if it's a network filesystem?

General purpose file systems can manage several thousand per directory; splitting up into directories is probably a good thing (I archive mine per year). Walking the extra directories adds negligible overhead, since all but the leaf directories will have a very small number of entries. To go from one million to ten thousand files per directory you only have to add a single level of 100 directories.
It does requires realistic collisions.

The point is you fly in a small spaceship in an arena, you hide behind obstacles, you shoot with a small variety of weapons and you use your weapons to either shoot the enemy directly or rearrange the map to make life difficult for your them. The collisions need to be realistic because you need to be able to predict what is going to happen when you hit things a certain way.

It is just a concept we are playing with.

Another part of that concept is that this game is meant for small kids that can't read. There is not a single letter or digit in the entire game. No menu. You just start the controller and get immediately pulled into the game.

And another feature is we wanted the game fun because the control feel fun and immediate. So we are experimenting a lot with what it means for the controls to be enjoyable.
It may appear obvious, but only a very limited subset of real-life spreadsheets could meaningfully take advantage of it. Excel does not support GPU-accelerated calculations.
We never know, but it can depend on the type of cancer and the particular cells that could have been mutated by the carcinogen. Bottom line is that humans need to figure out how to stop cancer cells from dividing so much.
On Template-Based Feed Generation
>However I hope we have planned for and train for these scenarios.

if you have enough money you could build a big enough bunker. I don't think there is a plan for the general population? there are many abandoned military bunkers around the world, maybe they become fashionable again.
Since the ask is "look (click on) my product" the first 80% of the text could be cut. HN has a URL field https://news.ycombinator.com/submit to make it easier for users to click.
Exactly right and love how you phrased it. War is also one of those areas where the concept of economic value falls apart.

I do totally agree with dragonwriter that it is vulnerable to corruption
You can bypass the phone number login using the link on the top left, and instead login with your ICQ number and password.
Also the creator of KnightOS, written entirely in Z80 assembly, more than 12 years ago!

https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/463/46387.htm...
Russia also has a veto. Either one can threaten the nukes to block a proposal.

A neutral order where nobody has nukes would be better than one where everyone has nukes. You probably can't get from here to there without the complete destruction of the US state apparatus along the way, though. The Russian one too. And every other major player.
Oh man Libre Office is trash and so are the leadership/maintainers. No tears.

I once got banned for asking to put 'text size' on the main screen for the powerpoint knockoff.

Text size seems pretty important to have. You shouldn't have to google how to change the text size.

I'm deeply convinced there is a Microsoft plant undermining everything.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/n...
This is really cool. Reminds me of the original Unix was invented in a couple weeks while Ritchie's family went on vacation to CA to visit his in-laws.

Source: UNIX: A History and a Memoir Paperback – October 18, 2019
by Brian W Kernighan (Author)
No implication. One union got a raise and the other seems to be following suit. The whole thing seems to be unfair right now but will likely be fixed:

> The University Council-American Federation of Teachers, the union that represents UC-system librarians and non-tenure-track lecturers, including Reiterman, recently kicked off an effort, including an online letter-writing campaign and a couple of town halls, to persuade the system to confront what they’re calling a pay inversion. The union’s existing contract ends June 30, 2026, but union leaders are urging administrators to pay lecturers more immediately.
I'm kind of annoyed that tar doesn't back up directories starting with a period unless you throw in a command flag.

I wish I knew this before taking a backup and reformatting.

Always test your backups I guess..
That's a great point. Dragging on any of the interactive elements currently fails. Building in the cmd+click option to bail out makes it possible, though.
>This study did not receive any funding. I wonder why?

You don't need funding to do a literature review.
The advantage flying sprayers have over a tractor is loss. Driving a tractor through a field will crush a percentage of your crop, and a percentage of that crushed crop will never recover.

Depending on the field that percentage can be as high as 10. Depending on the crop, the value you gain by aerial application can be in the 10s of thousands of dollars.
Competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi feels body is 'broken,' retires due to health
Greek history really isn't the prestige area of study it used to be. I wonder how much funding universities are going to be redirected away from liberal arts and the humanities to fund machine learning departments in the next few years? The money shuffle is pervasive.
I don't know how you came up with this mentality, but its really consumer hostile IMO. You are buying a device not a service.
It's not e-ink, but it appears to be the same as Sharps "memory" display, which means it continues to show an image even after power is removed. They have extremely low power draw when displaying static pixels
Linux as the new developer default at 37signals
Four things everyone on HN should do for a bit in their life:

- Work customer-facing food service
- Donate plasma
- Volunteer at a soup kitchen
- Take a long-distance Greyhound

There's a lot of the world and people in it that it's easy to be oblivious to, and I think doing each of the above helped make me a kinder, more compassionate person.

Or as the article puts it...

>> Their kindness that day—their kindness every day—surprised me. I guess I’d expected to be treated like shit.

And bored Greyhound bus stories are the best.
Mass market engineering (of any kind) always steers towards producing cheapest products possible as long they're still tolerably functional. In other words, the cheapest crapjob of a bugfest wins as long as its happy path still works well enough that consumers still consume, keeping the money flowing. There are no sustainable mass (large and non-specialized) markets for high-quality high-complexity products, they consistently spawn then get killed by competition from all the cheap junk.

How's the proposed 5 years 100% repair/replace/refund warranty is going to fix this core problem, rather than just generate more e-waste that's meant to get even more frequently replaced (as mandated by law, where now you're just told to fuck off) as it fails? Sure, some most glaring issues are probably going to get fixed, but the overall principle suggests that it's more likely cheap junk will get even more cheaper - cheaper to replace - than reliable, with more customer-hostile junk attached (ads to cover the costs, killing interop to sell licenses, etc), continuing the enshittification.

I strongly suspect that it'll primarily affect the money flows, not the product qualities.
all of the high end cameras have integrated wifi now
I remember my UIN but not password. Weird how that works!
> The other obvious option is to shard the mail folders to ensure there's no more than X files in each folders, but that becomes pretty complex IMHO.

I mean it depends on the volume of e-mail you get, but:

INBOX
Archive/2004
Archive/2005
...
Archive/2023

Isn't something I would call complex, and works out to about 10k files per directory for me.
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I remember a few years ago when I logged back in after all those years it asked me to change my password ... because the old one was three letters long, definitely from a different era :)
Ask HN: Would you find useful a Google Keep style app for code snippets?
I'm thinking of building a Google Keep style application but made specifically for code snippets (with syntax highlighting).

Any other devs might be interested in using such an app. Would you find it useful? If not, what would you need for it to become useful to you?
Writing fast string ufuncs for NumPy 2.0
They seem to have a union already. From what I can tell FTA, the ones who got a raise are "UAW 2865" and the ones who didn't are "The University Council-American Federation of Teachers".
What History Reveals About Interest Rate Cuts
Is Kindle on Android? Yes.

These are the apps they are specifically building. But all Android apps are availabe for it as well.
Not necessarily wrong to not try to relight them. Maybe it should have started the landing burn earlier, or maybe there was no saving it with six O2 starved engines.
For entertainment look up Germanic string and weak verbs.
Wow didn't catch that nude! Thanks I'll make another!

Also changed the copy, take a look!
Can you suggest some better tools? I struggle to find good tools.
yeah, that was my edit but I realize I didn't actually clarify that just what it was doing. But it then will just claim your account has been compromised until you give them a number :D
2854684

Not an elite 6 number UIN, but at least on the bottom side of 7 digits.
> This happens in other professions too where non-unionized folks manage unionized folks. The managers can make less because they don't have collective bargaining.

It doesn't make much sense in this particular case, but the assumption that managers should make more than workers is in fact kind of odd, and probably more of a reflection of power and hierarchies than the actual value-add of the work.
On the one hand, I can respect the authors for sticking to what they want to accomplish and not accommodating every demand.

On the other hand, that is hardly the only thing from the FAQ that raises one's eyebrows:

> we have no package manager and encourage less code reuse as a shared value

> qbe generates slower code compared to LLVM, with the performance ranging from 25% to 75% the runtime performance of comparable LLVM-generated code

> Can I use multithreading in Hare? Probably not.

> So I need to implement hash tables myself? Indeed. Hash tables are a common data structure that many Hare programs will need to implement from scratch.

As it stands, this is definitely not a language designed for mass adoption. Which is fine, and at least they're upfront about it.
If you can see them wearing a mask while driving, are they really alone?
The strategy of freezing VBA and BAT scripting, offering better alternatives, and hoping they'd go away on their own hasn't worked.
Unless your windows are tinted way past the legal limit, you aren't really alone when driving.
I made a point to memorize my wife's and my parents' cell numbers, just in case I'm ever in a situation where I don't have a phone and need to reach them (like if I got robbed or something).
I had a similar experience at another UC, where I lectured (and am now a PhD student!) -- and the general thrust here is correct: lecturers are often paid a FTE-equivalent salary that is not much higher than what a graduate student would be paid.

That said, there are a few pieces to this that unfortunately didn't make it into the article:

1) At that pay rate, the TA would have been expected to work at 50% effort (20h/week) in that position, in order to earn that salary.

2) At my UC, a "full-time" load for lecturers is 6 courses per year, or 3 per semester. (This may be different at quarter-system UCs.) That means that a course is considered 1/3 of full-time, not 50%, with an expected time commitment of ~ 13h/week over that same time period.

3) Thus from a "compensation for labor" perspective, the hourly rate for the TA is thus about 30% less than the lecturer -- of course, this rests on many assumptions about how much time is actually spent per course -- and the TA is expected to spend quite a bit more time on the course than the lecturer is. (This ignores the work needed to develop a course, of course, but often lecturers are asked to teach already-designed courses.)

The kicker, though, is that the TA is probably also getting their tuition covered, an extra benefit worth $7-15k, depending on a student's circumstances, and depending on whether you believe this tuition reimbursement is an accounting gimmick, as some do. If you do include this amount, the TA is indeed paid much more than the lecturer!
Not 16M, 16. Very different.
oh, ubuntu added ads to the motd at some point?

I was about to profess surprise, but then I remembered that Firefox injected spyware and ads as well so I guess it's a given these days :-/
> mostly just Russians wanting to practice their English

I guess that explains their recommendation of VK Messenger as a replacement.

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The authors were very publicly biased against masks before this paper. It's hard to take it objectively.
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I once heard Facebook uses production database to develop and test new feature because anything else was unfeasable. Even a smaller copy of it.

I'd love to have a confirmation from someone at Meta.

edit: found an amazing discussion about their release process here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30899362
Botched SpaceX Engine Test Results in Fireball
Formatting the Future: Why Researchers Should Consider File Formats
What's the problem they solve ? I have never put a modicum of thought into how my messages are organized on my harddisk.
Many good memories... Goodbye from 99184387
The sad thing is he never really captured the magic in a bottle again. All of the documentaries after Super Size Me were kind of... nothing. He kind of failed to cash in on the genre he himself invented.

In a lot of ways, whether he or anyone there ever realized it or not, but his influence on today's Youtube cannot be understated.
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Yup... still remember it! Crazy!

Sad to see this go.
I can't think of a historian, skeptic, or sci-fi author who's had a level of power enough to disprove your statement.
It didn't even occur to me to check that but duh of course they do, everything has integrated WiFi nowadays. Does the software actually work well or is it a jankfest?
Wow, after all this time I thought everything was gone.
But sure enough, my login for worked and they are all there, all my contacts.
Farewell from 252972013
> Scrum is just a way of operationalizing the basic principles behind the Agile Manifesto while putting them in a way that can be communicated and understood outside of dev/product organizations.

Scrum in practice is processes and tools over individuals and interactions.

> No Scrum Master/Agile Coach/Product Owner, etc. worth his/her salt will tell you to slavishly stick to every piece of Scrum as long as you get the basics (see the manifesto) right.

This is the no true Scotsman fallacy.
When I was 7, my dad wrote a "game" in BASIC on the Commodore 64, and one section required a "secret" (you could see it if you listed the program...) code to gain access. The code was 32744. I have not used that game for more than 40 years, but it'll probably be one of the last things I remember...

> I can still remember my high school's phone number though - for some really odd reason as I can't have phoned it much.

Any chance it was a number your parents made you learn, or on a phone list next to / on the phone?
Cancer deaths as well? Otherwise it could be an artifact of better screening.
> Just using them as a DNS service provider is enough

With a cname you yield the control of one domain name, by setting an NS record you're literally passing over any and all control to cloudflare.

That's at a level of entering a shop that advertises itself as "diverse" and then complain that the male cashier was wearing makeup...

It's not like cloudflare makes it a secret that their goal is to take care of everything for their users. It's kinda the while point of using cloudflare, because theyre so easily to use... Because they're doing everything for you.
But I don't think there is anything special on there being oxygen in the cloud of gas that formed the solar system. The distribution of elements following a supernova probably follows some law, and oxygen is low enough on the periodic table that probably quite a bit of it is expected.
see you on the flip side
You can bypass that second screen as well (or at least, it let me do so for my account).
I've heard of this kind of thing happening when faculty are based in a developing country and they hire a post-doc who has to live in, say, Switzerland.

When they live in the same place, definitely smells a bit weird. But hey, could have been worse, she could have taken an unpaid professorship [1].

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-21/ucla-recru...
Now I need to build a regex for zalgoifying text in Excel.
think it is also dying out among many other languages like portuguese
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RIP ICQ

Spent a lot of my childhood using it.
Either the parent edited their post, or you misread it by 6 orders of magnitude.
It was really cool watching the ~daily updates on this on Mastodon - seeing how someone so skilled gradually pieces together a complex piece of software.
Not quite Open Source (1999)
Ninety games in 11 months: is the Caitlin Clark Experience sustainable?
Commercial pilots are sent to the sim for training about once a year. Hard to train for a bird strike otherwise.
It's election season in the UK! and tech will be decisive – make an impact

Newspeak House in Shoreditch, London is running a hackspace for anyone who wants to work on election tech.

It'll be open almost every day until the election on the 4th July

We're also maintaining a repository of election technologies with lots of ways to get involved: https://electiontechhandbook2024.uk/

Join the WhatsApp group to stay in the loop https://chat.whatsapp.com/KjM4onZAg4U60FAm89XRQW
try seeing it from the other perspective: i am tasked with doing X, but i have to spend all day every day discussing X, and Y and Z with the higher ups and other teams, so that i have to get an assistant to actually do X.
[audio] Continuous vulnerability scanning in production - podcast
Speaking for myself, it would have to be on some level better than putting code snippets in Obsidian and syntax highlighting it there. Obsidian is free, cross-platform, available as a native app, and syncs it's files as pure markdown. It's pretty hard to beat.
> Give 100 random people 10-20 shots in a short period of time, and they will also have a break from reality.

Source? Remember that you are replying to a comment with 5 studies linked.
The fact that he force fed himself kinda weakens the point though, doesn't it? Force feeding yourself 5,000 calories a day even when you feel sick is obviously going to make you sick.
Why else would you want control over something though? If not to make sure you get what you want. Which is driven by a fear of not getting what you want?

(A side note from an angry control freak thinking about this thread).

At that point I tend to agree it boils down to control which boils down to feat and it’s just very hard to admit.
> Originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, the client was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.Ru Group (now VK) in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ
Potentially habitable planet size of Earth discovered 40 light years away
there was a big market for short numbers back in the day. i remember buying a 6-digit icq number for a 10€ paysafecard when i was like 14 in a "hacker" forum lol
Does Obsidian have code search features?