skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can relate to this, though I came into it already knowing how to do the coding part. I had no idea how to do the rest of it.

My entire career was spent building valuable software for companies to generate large profits only for me to be laid off (and fired, once). After the firing I was quite angry and probably a bit arrogant.

I went on a bit of a rage.. "I built the most successful product there, I can do it on my own."

So that's what I did and I haven't worked for anyone else since (on 8 years now).
Not in the UK, no. But I did live in Canada, the US and across Europe.

Not that it's commonly used and not with 3 and 2 specifically, but when used and the pair is inverted, it's meant to convey that the former is more likely. That's just like ... common sense, really.
Allegedly the term was used so DEC equipment was classified as lab equipment and went through a different procurement process so it didn't end up in the typical computer center glassed off by IT gatekeepers and bureaucracy.
Does usb4 require any circuitry in the cable? I'd expect a 20-odd connector cable to be available for $7 (direct from china) pretty easily. I haven't bought many, but the best type C cables (usb3) I ever bought were €2.12 each.
I've built a PostgreSQL extension using Rust that integrates with the OpenAI API. This extension, `pg_summarize`, showcases how Rust's performance and safety can enhance PostgreSQL's extensibility. It starts with a simple "Hello, pg_summarize!" function as a beginner setup and progresses to a more advanced function that summarizes text using OpenAI's models. This project demonstrates the potential of adding custom functionality to PostgreSQL, making it a smarter and more capable database system.
Check out the full blog post for a detailed walkthrough and let me know your thoughts!
> It's unfortunate that the word monopoly is losing it's meaning. Formerly, it meant a business that had an overwhelming or total share of the entire market,

You're just describing the most extreme and dysfunctional aspect of a phenomenon that comes in shades of gray.

> plus high barriers to entry.

That's not exactly a requirement. A sufficiently powerful monopoly can generate its own barriers to entry (e.g. it can use its war chest to lower prices to an uneconomical level to drive a potential competitor out of business, and the threat of that can keep a competitors from even trying).

> Now it just means a big business,

It means big business that abuses its market share to make even more money due to a lack of real competition.

> or the only option in my neighborhood.

And those an be a legitimate monopoly, even by your above definition. It's all about how you describe the market.

IIRC, in the Grapes of Wrath, there's a company store that's a monopoly, and the proprietor says as much: his prices are unfair, but the transportation cost to shop at another store forces his customers to shop with him.
Maybe two things can happen:

1. We create a law that says companies _are_ responsible for the environmentally-conscientious disposal of any good they make.

2. Then we let them decide.
This makes me think about all the psych grads, that went to school, wanting to help people, but are now writing dark patterns.

But they are being paid a lot more than they would get, helping people.
Congratulations, you have reinvented Fortran 77!
TFA describes Electrolux as a mid-range manufacturer. I guess that's about right; their products aren't cheap "break-on-day2" crap, but they're not up there with Miele and Bosch.

Electrolux is a Swedish company that has quietly bought-up most of the European brands, like Hotpoint and AEG. When you buy one of those brands, you are buying the Electrolux standard of service. The service engineers are a third-party. Last time I looked, there was no contact information on the Electrolux website. And TBH, I think it must be at least a decade since I saw Electrolux-branded products in stores.

I think Electrolux' business is like those cheapo Chinese companies that buy up good bicycle brands, and then drastically downgrade the product. So be careful if you're buying white goods in Europe: you could be buying Electrolux in mufti.
Related official post on hackaday:

Linamp, the IRL Winamp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40612284
We are at a low point, where everything is gated and huge corporations will decide to scare your customers away. Of course, there are always lots of opportunities. But currently they are fewer.

Anyway, I do think we have already seen the bottom of that curve.
Multicast in Ruby (2013)
No mods. Anarchy.
Great job on finding the one thing (perhaps 2 including pocket) compared to the extensive list of past transgressions by Google's Chrome team.

I greatly disagree with this kind of whataboutism brought up to whitewash the biggest offenders.
None of the mentioned claims from the article are confirmed there.
Show HN: I Made HeyShort – Text-to-Speech Short Video Maker
I don't think I actually saw a plan to have the government nationalize the hospitals and take them out of private hands?

Nationalizing all the hospitals would put you way to the left in many EU countries. Most right of centre parties (and even some left of centre parties) in the EU are pushing for more private health care, not less.
If it makes you feel better you probably would not have been able to just pick up the dishes and use them without buying extra parts. I had DirectTV and when I cancelled they came and took the feed horn off the satellite dish but left the rest of the dish. I’m not sure how much a feed horn would cost but at least the dish wouldn’t have been immediately usable. I also was interested in making a radio telescope but gave up when I realized DirectTV took that part of the dish
Certainly a take.
The fact that doing something wrong sometimes gets you what you want doesn't make it right. That gain came at everyone else's expense.

Everyone that ever left a grocery cart in the middle of the parking lot instead of putting it away "successfully" got something they wanted.
Good, but both DataFusion and DuckDB need mature open tooling for distributed multinode processing too. Without this they can never hope to usurp Spark.
You know, the issue at hand is that they _ALL_ do it.

But some tell you they don't and do it anyway in ways that make it not as easy to detect.

And it's those sneaky ones that are really, REALLY bad, no matter what others have or haven't done.
Thanks, I love the many versions of this song, fun to jam :)

BTW this is how these exchanges looks like in my browser:
https://imgur.com/qLwS1jV

Hi Dang! What's up with all that? I emailed and everything.
Sounds a bit pessimistic. It has never been that easy to create music, videogames, produce videos, comics, and distribute them. Nowadays basically anyone can do it, so the amount of content available is gigantic. Moreover, alternative ways of getting money have appeared: patreon, kickstarter, various donation websites, partnerships...

On top of that there are still countless communities, free of any monetized algorithm, thanks to forums and things like discord.

So I think that it's more "tenable" than ever, and I don't thing that the cultural situation is worse than it was before, actually I think it's way better. It's just so easy to find a new think to dive into, connect to other hobbyists, discuss it, and for the most motivated, create content.
GitHub Actions CI/CD for Rust Guide
So *BSD is a joke because all the apparatus, "compliance processes" and "standards" are not followed? Is that the gist of it?

Never mind the actual security and quality of the code and professionalism of the people involved. The dances are not performed and the compliance Gods are not appeased.

btw: https://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/
If it was one layer of poor management, you could get away with not caring because eventually the higher levels of management would notice and act. But once you have 2+ levels of management allowing each other to get away with being poor leaders, you are in a deeply flawed organization and it is absolutely time to care about it.

Caring about it can result in a few different paths:

1) You can care and accept the reality of it (easy, but stagnant)

2) You can care and act to fix things (difficult but rewarding if you succeed)

3) You can care and choose to leave the organization.

It is up to you what actions to take, but I have to recommend caring enough to deliberately choose one of those overall paths. Personally, I have almost universally regretted staying in an org if multiple levels of management are problematic. But everyone's situation is different.
This attitude is bad, but it is kinda justified. If you spend any time in the "indie hacker" entrepreneur space today it is oversaturated with people trying to root out every single angle they can possibly try to address with their tech solution. They are all listening to podcasts, newsletters and buying courses about how to be a tech entrepreneur, but the people selling the 'how to get rich' info are the only ones consistently making money.

Total admiration for the author, it was very savvy to identify that opportunity and they put their money on the line. The modern self-made entrepreneur is less appealing. Success stories nowadays are like "We dropship japanese candy boxes" or "My Crypto Substack has 5k subscribers".
My personal experience, not really and I have had a few outages.

But I saw a post were this did happen to someone and they had to do a re-install. But they did say that had a full backup.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40701868
That detail is actually a little odd. Without making a research project out of it--and possibly not taking into account various splits properly--it looks like it was into the 2000s before AAPL shares really took off. There were way better investments during dot-com--assuming you dumped them in time of course.
It's entirely a matter or perception (and prejudice, most likely).

For example, if you watch any talks by Joe Armstrong you'll immediately perceive it as a kind, funny and down-to-earth guy.
Very silly, even generals from hundreds of years ago spent their time and efforts on war games in order to hone their skills.
Maybe it speaks to how many can learn much more easily if it is in service of an overall bigger picture or goal?
I for one would appreciate a list of "software products that the world needs and if you made this then you could make some money".

(Not a video game)
1) Cases are relatively cheap, nice looking and tiny.

2) USB is grouped together and HDMI is on the side. I guess you could have all ports on one side or on opposite sides but that seems like a non-issue.

3) Pi5 is usb c and does its job. The optional 15V kerfuffle is a bit annoying, yes.

4) Why would you want to use a microSD card instead of just using a usb stick?

> If you don't need GPIO for a project and physical volume isn't a prime concern a <$100 mini PC is a far more convenient option today

Agreed, though then going up further up in volume to itx or matx might be even more convenient.
In a way, Aus and NZ are taking advantage of other countries’ paltry consumer protection laws. I’m sure manufacturers have not priced in the cost of handling consumers in those countries who use those protections. If they ever do, you can bet they’ll spread the cost to all territories.

It’s silly that the US doesn’t set up similar protections. While manufacturers race to the bottom, we (consumers) could race to the top.
That's not an iron law, though. Some consumers will always choose based on price, but for others, it is a function of experience. I, for one, am happy to pay a bit more for a higher-quality product, but my experience tells me that a slightly higher price is indicative of marketing rather than product quality.

So why doesn't anyone fill that niche? Perhaps in part because the market is so consolidated. There's little incentive for the small handful of major players to cannibalize their own products.

So we end up largely with two options: the cheapest version of the thing that is possible to manufacture, and an extremely high-quality artisan product costing multiple times as much.
> I don't know what Windows does.

Windows does not allow overcommit. The commit limit is the total size of RAM + the size of the page file, attempting to commit more than that will fail.
I did not give you a "maybe" answer, you can, I am certain of this, but I will also verify it for you when I get home and reply in this thread.
I'm right at your starting point. Can basically build anything but committing to an idea is the sticking point. What product would you want to start with today?
KSA is also heavily investing in Hydrogen and Solar Capacity.

The PIF is one of the largest Hydrogen investors globally [0] helping fund massive projects domestically and in Japan, South Korea, India, and Malaysia.

They have also become a massive investor in solar capacity domestically [1] and in India [2] to diversify away from resource extraction.

The next decade of green technology will be R&D'ed in Japan, USA, and South Korea, funded by US, Saudi, and UAE investors, and deployed in Australia, India, and ASEAN, as most PLIs in these regions are aiming at making the cost of Solar and Hydrogen competitive with coal in industrial usecases like steel and casting - US$1.50/kg.

Really looking forward to Idemitsu Kosan's (Japan's primary energy conglomerate and minority owned by the KSA) work on productionizing both Hydrogen Fuel Cells [3] and Solid-State Batteries [4] in the next 5 years.

[0] - https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/95987/billions-saudi-publi...

[1] - https://www.pv-tech.org/acwa-power-and-saudi-public-investme...

[2] - https://climate.enterprise.press/stories/2023/09/11/saudi-an...

[3] - https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/japanese-energy-c...

[4] - https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/39865919.html
> Over a decade later, the fob got destroyed in an unfortunate boating incident.

I kind of feel you dropped the lede here. Need to hear this story as well.
People buy what is advertised to them, let's be real. Yes, Samsung offers such devices, and I for example have an Active Tab 3 as my daily driver (despite its issues, such as the screen being glued to the case, and the glue is not water-tight when it gets even remotely warm).

But most people are going to buy what their telco offers on sale, and that is iPhones and Samsung Galaxy S series. Everything else is specialty that you need to buy in cash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Today most white people are descends of that guy, but go back to 1732 when George Washington was born and you’re looking at a much tighter family tree.
Part of me thinks that the law should be changed so that IP covers works but not "universes". E.g. only Disney would have the right to distribute A New Hope but anyone could create their own work set in the Star Wars universe.

This would better match the way that popular culture has worked throughout most of history where anyone could create a story about King Arthur, Robin Hood, or Sun Wukong.

There would probably need to be some sort of protections to prevent corporations from simply scooping up independent artist's work. However, that seems like something that could be worked out.
Prolog variables are immutable by default. Data structures are the same as the immutable functional programming counterparts (no arrays, and tree based everything). Recursion is the only way to loop. Map, filter, fold(l/r), reduce, accumulate, etc, are staple predicates.

As I said, 80% of your code, or more, will look just like a functional programme.
Has this penetrated Aldi's, which uses in-house brands for the majority of their products?

Is Aldi's a good way to avoid these monopolies?

From the article, does Aldi's avoid?:

- Late delivery fees from vendors (or is it better than Walmart?)

- Slotting Fees

- Sundry wholesaler and retailer fees

- Price dependence on Tyson and other abusive suppliers
> I'd say using an entirely different collection type than the rest of language (STArray instead of [a]) is already a big complication

Haskell uses many different collection types, just like any other language. Why not?

> it's actually even slower than the original not-quicksort implementation above, because it actually has to make a copy of the original list, and then return a copy of the mutated array.

Sure, but it could also not do that, if callers are happy to provide a mutable array, just like any other language ...

> one of the best sorting algorithms ever devised is not actually usable to sort a [a] in Haskell

Indeed! One of the best algorithms for sorting a mutable array can't be used on an immutable data type, just like any other language ...

None of this invalidates your original claim that "It's significantly easier in C than it is in Haskell" of course.
Arguably the issue with "quicksort in Haskell" is not that it's "hard" to implement, but rather it defeats the whole purpose of using a "purely functional" language.

The pragmatic way to look at Haskell is not that it's purely functional, but rather, you could write <del>imperative code</del> Monads if you wanted, and that gives a "functional by default" environment, whereas most imperative languages default to mutable objects etc that are not friendly to functional-style programming.

But then the more modern languages are catching on with immutable by default variables etc. so in the end the differences between newer languages may not be that great after all...
Rust doesn't generally have a garbage collector though. This doesn't apply to the general case (ie. unless you go out of your way to add a GC into your runtime)
Putting an event loop in your event loop
I tried to use AI to read an AI book
Australia's most venomous spiders are actually small.

But yes, pretty much everything in Australia will try to kill you: it has world's most venomous snakes, world's most venomous spiders, saltwater crocodiles, sneaky dropbears, dengue fever carrying mosquitoes, world's most venomous jellyfish and sea snakes, and, of course, the IT consultants who will eat one alive.
I teach in a private school; none of the things you mention frequently impact my ability to be successful in a classroom.

Sure, I'd like to be paid more, and I'd like easier interactions with parents. Or to live in a culture that prioritized education a bit more.
Further, even if the study had held up, there is a vast difference between memories retained through an individual metamorphosis event, and passing memories along to offspring resulting from sexual reproduction. The OP fails to recognize this obvious point.
You are right, the seek slider was never common. My initial comment was more general.

I too wish for a motorized light switch. One day I want to make one (I feel that I am slowly reaching the required skills and tools to build it). Of course, the house insurance might not like it.

edit: To be clear, the motorized volume knob was common on consumer devices. It is merely a potentiometer with a motor attached. As far as I knoe it had no sense of position, just turn it until it reaches a hard stop, and the motor is too weak and simply stall. Motorized sliders were and are still common on mixing tables, for sound and light control, and those seem to have positional accuracy. It is quite fun to watch a mixing table move by itself during a performance. I have never seen them used for seek control.
While I agree... it has been much better supported than the alternatives. I've tried several other SBCs and they have all had issues that I didn't experience with the RPi. Not that RPi hasn't had issues of its' own. Namely in power requirements, the USB-C in physical but not electronic sense for power, to overloading most USB power supplies in practical use in Pi 4B models.

I switched to the cheaper Intel mini pcs when RPi supplies were short, and scalping made it much more expensive. A whole PC with more ram, case, psu and faster storage that was faster for under $200 vs $150+ for an 8GB RPi 4 board only was a no brainer.
stock splits don't change the value of your holdings
I have a few ideas mentioned in this blog, you can check them.
https://grexa.ai/local-seo-link-building
The Kindle version is $36
The problem is when IOService has edge cases. When building the mock, does it address the edge cases? When you want to find bugs by testing, the tests need to test the real world. So to work, the mock for IOService needs to model the edge cases of IOService. Does it? Does the developer know they need to model the edge cases, or the mock is not helping with finding bugs? Do you even know the edge cases of IOService? When IOService is a database service, does your mock work for records that do not exist? Or return more than one record?

It depends. Mocks are used to remove variables from the experiment you are running (the tests) and see if it behaves under very specific conditions. If you want to test how the code behaves when a specific row is returned by the database, but instead the dependency returns something else, then you are not testing that use case anymore. Reproducibility also has its values. But yes, you can definitely make your mocks return errors and fail in a myriad of ways.

Not to say you should mock everything. Of course having proper integration tests is also important, but articles like these will rarely tell you to have a good balance between them, and will instead tell you that something is correct and something else is wrong. You should do what makes sense for that specific case and exercise your abilities to make the right choice, and not blindly follow instructions you read in a blog post.
It's not often that clicking on a too-large-for-the-viewport image with small text makes the text smaller and harder to read.

For some strange reason it was assumed that if you clicked the image, you wanted the image to shrink to fit in the viewport without any sort of zoom, readability be damned. Instead of zooming in on the image to reduce cognitive load.

My brain responds in a predictable way when I encounter visual anti-patterns such as this: I close the page.
If you're able to advertise available GPU compute in some public forums then it's enough to tell us about the demand of MI300X in cloud ...
> Entertainment is now a content factory for consumers.

When was it not?
Exactly! We need a president who would appoint a radical trust-buster like Lina Khan to the FTC.
Are there any public stats on this kind of demographics?
Other than IP and the content of comments, I can't think of how would you get that data in this kind of site
The terminology is a bit loose but it would probably be more customary to write "buy as many as nine additional units." If I invite you to "my apartment" the implication is that I'm renting although that's not an absolute.
We're currently building a new AAC device which allows users to write/speak quite a bit faster, and we're encountering exactly the hurdles you mention. Would you be willing to exchange some helpful pointers about how to bring an AAC device to market? Contact info in my profile.
While monopoly originally referred to a single company having an overwhelming share of the market, its colloquial use refers to any company that has enough market share to abuse its position to harm customers. This is just because it's easier to convey the point by saying monopoly than deal with all the dumb questions that get brought up by using oligopoly.