skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had the Atari 2600 VCS and were waiting for the Keyboard upgrade to turn it into a computer. My father was upset that it never came out and switched us to the Commodore 64 instead of the Atari 800. The Atari 400 was limited, much like the Commodore VIC-20, it was a long-end affordable computer.

None of my friends had an Atari 8-bit computer, I got on Atari BBSes with my 300 BAUD VICMODEM and debated the Atari vs. Commodore debates.
Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry unveil first wooden satellite
The interface to DSL or coax only has to be a layer 2 bridge. You can put many modems into bridge mode so they don't do any layer 3 (IP) at all. For fiber, if you don't use PON at least, even a standard SFP(+) will do.
Good find in the apg! That thing is a wealth of info. It look like contructs-to-c wouldn't make things faster, but would instead reduce the compiled code size.

If I'm understanding your meaning, you mean "interpreted" in a sense that it translates to C code, and C code is interpreted and translated into machine code. Is that accurate?

It's possible that you and I are referring to different things when we use the word "interpreted." When I think "interpreted" in the context of computer programming, I'm thinking in terms of interpreted-at-runtime programming languages like Ruby, Python, and CLIPS before you use `constructs-to-c`. In my mind, using `constructs-to-c` changes this from an "interpreted" to a "compiled" language in that the expert system you write in CLIPS code is its own language with its own data structures, algorithms, and DSL. When you use `constructs-to-c`, you "compile" your application using the programming language of your expert system, thus it is no longer interpreted at run time.
Right. Page took 10 seconds to load.
Valid points.

By the way, maybe this is naive, but what's wrong with Github Discussions?
Canonical is Ubuntu not Debian.
If I'm honest, those say the exact same thing to me, and doesn't de-power the argument
In the United States it would be discrimination if, for example, the rules were selectively enforced against people of a certain protected class such as race or religion.

HOA control is simply a covenant written into the deed of certain properties by the original developer that is then inherited in perpetuity by future deed holders.

The deeds of all properties on certain blocks in my neighborhood have a similar covenant saying that your building must be set back 14 feet from the curb in order to create a luxury boulevard-width sidewalk.

A homeowner can’t sell me the right to build up to the curb or the right to ignore the HOA because they can’t sell a right they never owned in the first place.

Freedom of association is not relevant here.
But why announce that you're running that far in advance, if not to use "running for president" as a shield against the criminal cases that everyone could see were coming?
Current gen LLMs are trained on reddit, stackoverflow, etc. Discord is sitting on little data gold mine ready to be sold to train next gen LLMs.
My sad realization is that in today’s nerd world, there just aren’t that many teenage webmasters. Unix and DNS and Apache just aren’t very sexy or fun to learn when the other cool kids are playing with LLMs and Flutter and WebGL. Obviously _we’d_ prefer if they learned to setup vBulletin and do it our way, but when Discord is free and all their friends are on it, it’s a tough sell to the other nerds.

It’s not a “kids these days” grumble, just an honest observation that some computing skills are slowly being lost generationally, and it’s hard to say that anyone’s really to blame.
I think this is a big problem we are going to face soon. And I wish I had a solution for it.
For example, recently I've been using Haxe + Heaps.io for a game I am working on. And unlike their docs on the web, which is out of date, their discord community is vibrant and VERY VERY helpful and friendly.
Which is both heartwarming and sad. Sad because all of this knowledge and advice is hidden from the public web.
I don't know what it is about Discourse, but I can never get into it. Maybe it's the UI? It feels like a disorganized mess to me.
So it's like Debian Unstable?
Surrender implies there’s something inherently wrong with these alternatives. Something a lot of people just don’t agree with. I agree with you that it’s helpful to be proactive, but the incumbents are there for a reason: at one point a large consensus agreed they were the best for doing X, whatever X might’ve been in that situation.

Maybe that’s changed. But a lot of folks don’t think so. Twitter is useful precisely due to its network effect. That’s why I’ll never move to mastodon. Doesn’t make sense for the reason that I use the tool.
I am glad the KDE/QT applications are being developed. gimp is good, but my concern is the still rumored move/merge of the gtk into gnome lib.

When I need a spreadsheet or WP application, I use calligra as opposed to libraoffice. It comes with my distro and I find these work just as well.

I still use gimp only because I forget krita exists, will need to remember that and use it more often :)
how? by not being able to find a house that is not governed by an HOA
The purpose of this project is to develop a machine learning model for detecting anomalies using network traffic data. This model, built using the K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm, will be used to distinguish between normal and abnormal behaviors in a network
> Need it be that difficult to unselect something?

What's difficult about Ctrl-Shift-A? If it's a problem for you, it's easy to change the keyboard shortcut. You can also just click away. GIMP certainly makes some things unexpectedly challenging, but that seems like a strange example to pick.
I don’t know how you can possibly think exercises implementing ludicrous ideas are unnecessary, nor why you consider either Doom or Zork irrelevant to the IT industry.
microsoft is doing the same for tens of years now

especially in 3rd world countries, they even provide free materials and education... which is high ROI down the line
They often do.
Yes, you're right. I'm referring to the FOMO "battle passes" that often go along with "seasons". The "season pass" bundles are ok and often stick around forever.
Case Preserving and Case Sensitive are subtly two different things. Most case insensitive file systems are case preserving and whatever the UTF8 equivalent is I forget the name.
Yes Arnt, I'm the canonical one!
More importantly, it is indexable by search engines (if you use view.matrix.org). But it's not as simple to use as discord quite yet. I say this as a self-hosted matrix user, but it's not quite as simple to call someone else (until element call becomes a thing) or use custom emojis, to show a few problems.
tbh on the backend they're called guilds:

https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/guild
The power co-op cleared three problem trees after I called them out which opened things up enough that I've been able to drop a bunch more myself with no issues. Got an Alaska mill on the way to process the trunks into lumber, the greenhouse is going in this fall. My only real complaint is the bizarre amount of mice we have on the property, but that's a solvable problem.
The housebuilding crisis: The UK's 4M missing homes
This is an amazing transformation during what sounds like a very tough time.
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Subtle reminder that ManifestV2 phase out now has a timeline at Chrome[0]. The best moment to switch to Firefox is now.

[0]: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...
Most People use their laptops as laptops. 1000 charge cycles at 1.5 cycles a day is only 2 years.
>it shocks me that anyone over the age of 14 uses it at all.

Really? I'm in my mid 30s and am in a couple servers with a bunch of 30-50 year olds. I don't know of any better platform to organize and play DnD with voice chat and screen sharing. It's also great for when I play larger online games with a group (e.g. World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy) as we have a guild server to organize absences, socialize while not raiding, etc.

If you have a suggestion for a better way to voice chat, screen share, drop in and out of conversations, etc. I'm all ears.

For what its worth, all of your complaints (except for search, which really does suck) are easily addressed.
I wanted to get a Framework laptop, but the wait times were over 3 months. I don't have that kind of forward planning.

As much as I hate tech corporations, I don't really agree that the Macbook Pro is "built to work against you". Mostly it's a great laptop that serves my needs really well. It's mildly annoying that I'm paying for integration with a whole Apple ecosystem that is of no value to me (no iPhone, no iCloud), but it's nothing like intrusive marketing shitscape that is Windows.
I am a mathematics researcher. I agree with most of what you say, but

> Reviewers are pushed to accept papers instead of rejecting them, because a rejected paper makes no money

The only pressure I ever get is from editors (i.e., other mathematicians, who make all the final decisions), if I'm taking too long and they want me to hurry up.

If a representative of the publisher attempted to pressure me for any reason, then my response would be less than polite.

Occasionally I have gotten review requests from "pay to publish" journals which will publish pretty much anything, and which don't have any credibility within the math community. These, I simply delete as spam.
> It cannot be both suboptimal and cannot be without.

This is just being pedantic. When I said that I can't, I didn't mean it's literally impossible. I meant that it would be a major, intolerable hassle, and thus I refuse to accept Apple's ridiculous terms.
Would it be accurate to say that Krita is a Procreate alternative?
I lift weight 3 times a week an hour each day. Look into Starting Strength, 5x5, or any simple programs that focus on progressive overloading. I got to 405 lbs squat and deadlift at 170 lbs bodyweight this way. Measure your progress similar to how you measure your metrics in a startup
But if i can buy a new CPU for my motherboard i would be almost guaranteed to stay with Intel. Now ever upgrade is a chance to jump ship to the competition.
There are probably people on their 3rd AM4 CPU with the same motherboard.
The D language forums[1] are a good example of an alternative approach. I don't know what their server/storage costs are, but all that information from the last couple decades is easy to find with a search. The forum is fast, it doesn't require registration, and it's open source.[2]

[1] https://forum.dlang.org/

[2] https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
I’m sorry that this is the case in your country.

I could never find myself any examples of that in software industry in few countries I worked in. It always came down to difference in companies, interview performance, or even salary negotiation tactics.
Has anyone remarked on the irony that this appeal to stop using discord, because it isn't searchable from the outside, is published on mastodon, which is also not searchable from the outside?

I tried to google for things I had earlier seen on Mastodon, but was never able to find the relevant post again. Even modern-day Twitter, which is impossible to just browse these days, is more googlable.
I’m sorry to hear that. I know two of the blind users personally and they are active in discord.

I agree on captchas. Rocket.Chat was the previous platform.

I will file a bug against discord on the timestamp issue.

When I worked for Washington State University, one of our tests pre website update, was the developers had to use a desktop with a screen reader and the display turned off. I think we made great websites for blind users. That was in 2003, so things may have changed.
The main complain here is lack of archive/history of what was on the internet.

Discord is a big offender, but it is not alone.

Consider: Google Plus, Usenet, Facebook.
I wouldn't put much weight on this.

It's a growth hack by OP for his cybersecurity consultancy (Mandos).

In general, you should learn about the tools after you master the fundamentals.

Understanding how OS, Networking, Web Development, DevOps, <insert_domain_here> works at a fundamental level will make it easier to become a well versed Security Practitioner.

Most attack vectors I've seen in the wild tend to be caused by some kind of misconfiguration (eg. Accidentally leaving a test app internet accesible) or sloppy architecture (eg. Not keeping an inventory of systems and dependencies).

The way to remediate that is by actually understanding how your underlying technology works.
Mentioning the Game Boy would date it implicitly, they don't make Game Boys anymore. Intel is still around.
Hello! I work for Discourse, it's open source so you can self-host most sites on a cloud provider like Digital Ocean for ~$20/mo
Therefore... what? Only independents can be attorneys general? Can be judges? Or nobody can be judges?

Your observation is true, and yet, we kind of need to keep a civilization running, and for that we need courts and stuff. What kind of plan do you have for how things would be different, and will it actually work in the real world?
The hackaday post is from this year, and talks about forum threads/guides from 2019. I would guess the author only learned about it or decided to write about it now.

Even if it's not that useful to people nowadays, it's interesting to learn such a thing is possible.
Create multiple virtual interfaces, apply different traffic shaping to them, and then use the --interface option of cURL.
the GP wasn't talking about the type of structure but the legal organization of the property ownership. Canadian provinces have a Condominium Property Act that defines the legislative framework. The implementation can vary by types of units (ranging from apartment-style to single family homes) and the ownership - typically "you own the inside; communal outside" or "you own the inside & dirt; communal outside and shared public spaces". You don't hear talk of "The HOA" but rather "The Condo Board"
I run a large discord. I am in several large discords. I do not know anyone proposing replacing a traditional FAQ with discord.

If anything, I would argue discord tends to improve website-based documentation because people ask the same question over and over again, leading to a need for a quick way to link the answer.

Who do you think is replacing FAQ's with Discord?
Yo dude.. I dare you to go touch that butt
What would you rather see people use instead?
Sensorimotor tasks are harder than we like to admit
> Every once in a while one runs into "large minded people" like Sam Altman and Vishal Sikka, who do have access to funding that is unfettered enough to lead to really new ideas.

From Alan kay in 2016 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11940998)

It is amazing to me that all these big names including Ilya, Alan Kay, Sergey Levine are not at all vocal in this regard. I would have hoped for them to be somewhat more idealistic and perhaps Ilya did show that and ended up departing but would have also expected more from Alan Kay.
I don't get this:

> The notifications,

You can turn them off

> the constant chatter, the dozens of topics

Topics are there to limit the messages to just what you're interested in, cutting down the chatter.

If you expect it to be anything different than discord, you'll be disappointed, but there are communities where discord/slack/mattermost model works fine.
A 4 K dry cryostat’s refrigeration system usually eats about 4-5 kW. Not sure what’s going on here.
It’s a change in culture, people are asking questions a lot more instead of doing their own searches for information. Then they get mad at me when I point out that google provides great results for that exact question and they should have started there. It seems to be an attempt to outsource their thinking to other people.
> different city but that still doesn't explain the salary difference

You mention city a lot.

But were all those cases within the same company?

This is much more important variable than the city.
> “e” and “E” are the same character

They don't look like the same character to me. A character is a written symbol. These are different symbols.

What definition of "character" are you using where they're the same character?

I haven't ruled out that I am wrong, this is a naive comment.
You mentioned HOA-type stories, and seem to have spawned an enormous discussion about HOAs. Just want to point out that this has nothing to do with an HOA. Second paragraph:

> When the town of Seaside, California ordered homeowner Etienne Constable to build a fence to conceal the boat in his driveway, he erected the fence all right. And then he hired his neighbor, artist Hanif Panni, to paint a mural on the fence—realistically depicting the boat itself.

So all the discussion about contracts entered to into freely with respect to HOAs simply don't apply here: this is the government imposing the requirement to build a fence.
Arizona State University was an early (first?) adopter in providing broad access to ChatGPT Enterprise, but the implementation has not been as smooth as I hoped. My wife works at ASU, and from our discussions, it’s clear that the rollout has been somewhat disorganized.

The promotional announcements led me to expect "ChatGPT 4 for all!" Yet, the distribution of access has been ambiguous, leaving many staff members, including my wife, in the dark. There has been little to no guidance on how to effectively integrate ChatGTP into their daily tasks, appropriate use cases, or any potential costs involved.

The gap between the initial excitement generated by press releases and the reality of the rollout's execution has been significant. Even now, the specifics remain unclear, despite my efforts to assist my wife in navigating this whole thing.
> Seems to me I can still have demand for more dollars.

Only to the maximum capacity of your ability to fulfill the wishes of other people. A dollar is, after all, an IOU. For someone to willingly give you an IOU, you have to give them something first. While a single dollar may not satisfy you, there is an eventual limit to how much you can meaningfully give. Of course, as IOUs can be traded, the value is also subject to the properties of supply and demand.

> The difference matters when it comes to determining prices.

That's fine. The law of supply and demand isn't some kind of enacting force. It is not a law in the legal sense, if that is where you confusion lies? It is an observational law. The observation does not concern itself with the exact mechanics of how the price is determined, it merely notices the relationship of price as a function of supply and demand.

> the government typically sets commodity prices regardless of the supply or demand conditions.

And you will notice that the law of supply and demand still holds.
Everyone saying use forums.

Like yeah, forums are great if you want to search something and find. But...
Have you actually make an account and ask about your problem?

Because I have, in reddit, specialised forums, and other forums, make an account and try to post.

You have stupid limitations with your new account, most of them, do not impede you asking your question, but it does at linking image, video, or link that would help explaining your problem.

You have to create an account for that specific forum.
If you are on Reddit you need to deal with automod, who deletes your post the second you press send. Often without a warning, a real reason, other because you asked for help, please check the wiki. (Yes, my problem is not there)

Then there is the second part, the community. Most of the time, if you overcome that situations, your post get no answers. Sitting there until it reaches the end of page 1 on the forum, and then it is forgotten forever.

Discord is easy, you go, connect with your account, have some rules displayed, accept it, send a chat message, you might get an answer or not, most of the times you do, although is not helpful.

So yes, Discord is a sinkhole of information. But the experience is way better, even if it is a shitty mess.
In their example Photoshop was "brand name", while Gimp was "low quality" and Krita was "high quality".
"Add to all the broken basics, the fact that your data is now locked away in a vault that will absolutely disappear at some point in the not-too-distant future, and it just makes no sense at all."

Who cares? Why do you want to record every single thing forever? Do you write down every single thing when you converse with someone in real life?

And you really can't figure out how to use Discord, when a 14-year old apparently can? Maybe it's time to retire.
The West needs to wake up and treat Chinese companies like China treats non-Chinese companies. Raid their US offices, take all of their IP, and then tell them that they have equal access to our markets and there's nothing wrong.
The number of bits used per weight during training, could be included in the regularization, perhaps?

For instance, one could extend dropout regularization to several levels, where each weight could have random chances to include the most significant 2-16 bits part of the time (and still 0 part of the time), and where the impact on the gradient of having fewer bits could be used to tune the ideal number of bits for each weight.

Then one could add L1 regularization for the total number of bits used to squeeze the total down down to whatever size one aims for.
TEMPO is one of three similar instruments, GEMS for Asia and Sentinel 4 for Europe.
> which is where most OSS discussion hosting would exist

You can host it yourself for much less than $50/mo, some people run small instances on a raspberry pi (I work for Discourse)