skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of good stuff from China - Mo Dao Zu Shi, Thousand Autumns, Fairies Album, All Saints Street, Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, Fog Hill of Five Elements, Psychic Princess, Fei Ren Zai, Fabulous Beasts, No Choice but to Betray Earth, etc. There is of course a lot of mediocre and garbage stuff as well, but the tropes are far less annoying and thanks to Chinese censorship there's far less pandering and it's much more tasteful on average than Japanese anime.
How can I keep Musk's posts from showing up in my feed if blocking doesn't hide them?

I think that's the real motivation, actually.
One of the goals with the non-binding vote aspect is to encourage people to fearlessly vote their first choice. They can always change it to something else at the last minute.

Then again, since this is only polling and not real voting, there's not much to lose anyway.
Look at the top world leaders, so called captains of business. Cold stone heartless sociopaths, every single one of them. Jobs, Gates, Musk, Bezos, Schmidt and so on and on.

For a second imagine what environment they went through, what battles they had to fight for decades and keep being on top. You can't be a normal balanced person with good friendly personality and achieve any of that. Even if you start at absolutely stellar lucky place, you will end up as say Stallman (respect to that guy, but you can see life path vs Jobs difference mainly due to character).

The fact that such people are celebrated and imitated and there is a lot of strive to replicate their success path is normal. Why - as per J. Peterson (topic on its own, but his psychological stuff I still respect) there is cca 1:20 sociopaths and 1:100 psychopaths in general population. Do the numbers, they are not nice but then you can understand whats happening in this world and politics much better. HN isn't representative of general population, that ratio is much worse although smart folks like that know when to be quiet and just watch/read.

I am not trying to scorn those folks, at their best they do move whole society further, and we desperately need that now. But they are overall not good people, sort of necessary evil IMHO.
I can track down the studies he’s criticising. A Google search doesn’t show up anything refuting those. What are the studies he’s citing?
Being more precise: I like Spivak not defining addition, multiplication or number. I just want the other steps explicit, like equality transitivity, enough to implement it (for a computer without "mathematical maturity".)

I feel I already know what's needed - but I didn't catch the 0.a=0 omission at first, and there's surely others I'm still missing... Part of the problem is I have too much implicit knowledge.
Maybe caprice except in the exceedingly common instances where someone is the target of harassment. I mean this is the obvious example, there are others. In that case "make your profile private if you dont want to be harassed/stalked" is not really that palatable.
Combatting Alert Fatigue by Prioritizing Malicious Intent
"Rayleigh divided the volume of the oil by the area it covered, thus estimating the thickness of the oil film. Assuming that the oil formed a single layer of molecules — a monolayer — then the thickness of the oil film is the same thing as the length of one oil molecule.

This is how Lord Rayleigh became the first person to figure out a single molecule’s dimensions, many years before anyone could see such molecules."
Ocean waves grow way beyond known limits
Mass-produced media always recycles the same thematic stories.

Western cartoons aimed at kids recycled the "power of being yourself" to death. Ask my tweens about the shows they've watched, and they'll pick apart how repetitive the story beats are between them.

The beats that anime is recycling may be different, but all of them get tiresome and feel pandering.
To put it another way, it's taking surplus value that was previously going to either the producers or consumers of the product and funneling it to Silicon Valley VCs instead.
Hey - for pricing, we're going usage based on two metrics : amount of third-party connections and volume of data transformed (for chunking / embedding). Ps: This will evolve in the next months probably!
Essential C by Nick Parlante (2003) [pdf]
I think this is directly related to https://anime.com – a new product from the Azuki team (NFT collection)

It was announced about a week ago. Surprised no one mentioned it yet.
One thing I learned from "the dawn of everything" is that societies have had diverse approaches to property over the millennia. And I've seen that it varies by country and region, even today.

Anecdote: My family went on a walking holiday in England. The entire country is crisscrossed by a network of walking paths. Many go through private farms. The same thing is rare, or even nonexistent, in the US. We were told that although we're allowed to use the land, there are certain stipulations, such as taking care not to damage the crops or disturb the livestock.

Here in the states, my family "owns" the land that our house is on, but with a variety of limitations.
Not looking for favors or caring about your opinions. Oracle and SQL Server expertise would come in handy right now for a lot of people laid off and struggling to find jobs because they have narrow skills and ideas like you express.

The original question: Do you still use stored procedures. Yes, lots of people do, more common in big enterprise shops using Oracle et al. Not archaic, dead, or wrong, just another way to develop large software systems.
This is bad for anyone who recycles passwords. Most everyone I guess.

I’m sure they aren’t the only company to do so

I don’t think having an online account with your utility provider is required or smart. Good old postal mail is the way.
A $1B solar and battery storage project just broke ground in Utah
Great. Now all I need is someone to hack my account and pay my electricity bill for me.
We don't use ReCaptcha and haven't for many years. If it looks like a Cloudflare page but it has ReCaptcha on it, it's a fake.
Do you actually remember the TV season of Evangelion? Especially the last episodes seem they have finished the budget. I'm sure the films are better, but I still have to watch them.
Aka supply and demand.
"Please, keep _these_ people away from art and culture. Isn't blockchain AI enough already?"

Well, of course it isn't! They ain't vampires - these just need blood an power, and also are completely fictional.
Editor for Cobol 2024? At least in intent.
Not everybody uses an iPhone. I figured out what StandBy mode is when reading the article, but I had never heard of it before that.
a cheap FPGA kit is the best way to start learning IMHO.

Xilinx (now AMD) and Altera (now Intel) free tools are quite good.
> The Green River Energy Center in Emery County, Utah, is a 400-megawatt (MW) solar and 400 MW/1,600-megawatt-hour battery storage project that will supply power to western electric utility PacifiCorp under a power purchase agreement.
Did that code even apply to cartoons? I thought it didn't.
I think it’s misunderstanding the guy’s whole deal to expect truth or reality to be major factors in his writing. “Sell, sell, sell!” is the goal above all else. Sell whatever he’s invested in today. Sell himself. Sell!
Gamers don't need to worry about "how games are supported" as along as they work. You can run many old games in Wine even though original developers stopped supporting them decades ago. Putting hurdles in the way of that is the opposite of supporting though and that's where Apple is causing a problem. This applies to refusal to support Vulkan as well as stuff like gutting 32-bit and OpenGL.
Gotta love the fact they go “Hey, look how great France’s infrastructure is.” and then immediately advocate for yet more private infrastructure deals without mentioning that France’s infrastructure was largely government funded (using those taxes they seem to hate).
Does HN skew democratic? Maybe so. Still interesting to see the breakdown.
It’s a bit nuanced to put into a 30 second ad, but he requested his supporters to vote for Trump in battleground states and to vote for him in races that aren’t close (e.g. California).

Given his overall goal of not letting the Democrats win, this is a reasonable position for him to take. It is also reasonable for his supporters to vote for him, both to show their dissatisfaction with the other choices, but also because it sounds good for a future race if he were able to say e.g. “8% of people voted for me even though I dropped out”.
Adding the autoleveling probe and firmware made my Ender 3 usable. I still try to make sure the bed is somewhat level, but I agree that this is a must-have feature.
A wobble from Mars could be sign of dark matter
Ah, that's a good news to hear. I felt that Zig is already quite useful at least for some uses and meant to say that merit alone doesn't imply a financial success (whatever it means), it'd be another story if the financial success is not yet aimed.
Let's put it another way:

There's a comment stating that the project requires complex and involved configuration, and it's a problem. A link is provided in response that demonstrates it to be the opposite. Turns out, as a reply states, it is equally an issue, possibly because of an assumption that a VM-based language must come with a significant amount of required configuration ceremony (even though counter-points to this, like Go, exist). .NET is configurable, GC modes can be changed, at startup or on the fly (within certain limitations), compiler options can be adjusted, but the default approach is for the users to do as little input as possible unless something does not perform to their expectations.

> Running .net implies a lot, brings a lot of conventions and configuration with it, that's very dense. Dense and powerful and useful. But is it's own universe.

> that it presents itself as a neutral blackbox binary [0]

> .NET has orders of magnitude more carried assumptions & confirmation than Python. [1]

This was posted without verifying whether these statements are true or not, presented as fact. It is not unreasonable to be upset if it happens every single time. You could compare this to how Ruby community feels that whenever Ruby-related projects are discussed, someone is bound to come and point out how it has terrible performance and is therefore unusable (I was guilty of this as well). Emotional embellishments and holier than thou attitude are insufficient to reframe this. When facts change, I change my mind, and if a statement turns out to be incorrect, I stand corrected, and it has been a great boon for acquiring all kinds of tidbits of technical knowledge here so far. At the end of the day, this is an informal setting, therefore the rules of HN and internet etiquette apply first and foremost.

[0]: instead of easier to use pre-built docker images, quickstart guide ends up pointing to just cloning the source code, and doing build+run (dotnet run -c Release). This is as far as it gets from a blackbox binary.

[1]: it only makes the assumptions that are safe to make, which are the same most other platforms are subject to - that certain POSIX and Linux (or macOS/FreeBSD) APIs and glibc or musl are available, that the runtime is present in the $PATH (or not, if an application is published as self-contained or natively compiled), that sort of thing.
Typically, if the check comes from a title company or other settlement agent account, Chase will make funds available immediately (based on my experience with Chase and accepting funds from said agents for real estate transactions). There is a lot of cashiers check fraud occurring unfortunately, so no longer considered good funds by default.

When in doubt, ask for a wire.
> I feel like you could have picked almost any other harem show and been better off for your example

agreed. redo of the healer or bastard would fit "trashy male power fantasy" a lot better.
While I don't know anything about improving air quality, I've found potted plants to be relaxing. Something about being around plants makes my brain happy.
I doubt Adam Smith would agree with anything the Adam Smith Institute says.
> "extract profit from this" means providing goods/services that people are willing to pay money for

This is definitely not accurate: a functioning market drives profits toward zero. Therefore "extract profit" is always synonymous with "break the market" i.e. monopolize through regulatory capture, trade secrets, network effects, proprietary protocols, or whatever else.

To quote Mr Thiel [to a venture capitalist, at least] "monopoly is the condition of every successful business".

Fwiw it might be fair to say extracting revenue means providing something people are willing to pay for. Not profit though.
Hm, given how many requests Meta and Google disclose annually

I dont think a warrant canary is really useful, it implies “we just got 1!” instead of “we just got an additional pile of 200 secret requests from G-7 national governments, one of which is already trying to incarcerate us for not being so forthcoming about compliance”
Fastly is an interesting choice.
In the US, Chicago is also like this. I've been to a "shopping mall" that had ten stores but was spread among four floors.

Chicago used to have a number of "vertical malls." I think Water Tower Place (7 floors) and The Shops at 900 (7 or 8 floors, IIRC) are the only ones left. Unless you also count smaller places like Block 37 (4 floors).

Some are now shadows of their former selves. Some sit empty (Chicago Place), or in various stages of redevelopment.
I saw this the offer day I thought I was going mad!
The underlying paper is https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02345-1
I mean rationally I kind of know, but it's hard enough to get something hardware-y designed, built, tested, debugged and out on schedule and in spec when you have every scrap of information in front of you, let alone when it's a black box and you hope that there's no special sauce in the protocols.
Bojack deals with very heavy themes (depression, self destructive behavior, etc) in a scatological and satirical manner.

Without listing specific cartoons that you watched, it's hard to know where you "went wrong". Part of it might have been a culture gap - pop culture heavy cartoons wouldn't really appeal to somebody who didn't grow up in the US.

This could have just as easily happened to you if you'd moved to Japan and been exposed to shows like:

- Failure Frame (PARALYZE POISON PARALYZE POISON LOOK LISTEN LOOK LOOK) - if you get this joke, you get it.

- Faraway Paladin (devolves into some of the cheapest flash animation YTMND level I've ever seen)

- Diabolik lovers (...)

Conversely there's a lot of good anime out there as well:

- Cowboy Bebop

- Mob Pyscho 100

- Hells Paradise
There are more sailors than ships. In this context, something like 10000 applicants for a single rrb vacancy. You don’t want the railways to be nepotistic. Nor do you want legacy admits. Nor money power to dominate. What’s left ? Well, how about - leetcode has 6720 permutations. Find the 100th one by hand, when ranked alphabetically.
One of my friends got this question last week at a bog standard Java IT job, in Bangalore, with over 1000 applicants. Its a fair question, just a little bit of math and arranging alphabets. Doesn’t mean he has to devote itself to handcomputing permutations for the entirety of his life. Its one day of interviews and you get to know if you are selected by 4pm same day. Perfectly fair imo. The standard gs interviews during my time took 12 separate rounds with 12 teams, were completely non-transparent, and you spent a whole month not knowing whether you are in or out. I would rather permute leetcode. Similarly, let the railway board applicant sweat a little. Its a government job for life with handsome pension to boot.
Ask HN: Cheap way to run a small newsletter?
For a newsletter of around 1,500 subscribers mailchimp wants £34 a month.

What cheaper / better alternatives are out there for less than 2,000 subscribers? Are we using Amazon SES + an open source tool, what’s good?
Idk if it counts but there is VL, a node based visual programming language for .NET.

https://visualprogramming.net

https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/getting-started/dotne...
Yes, there are some wrinkles in upgrading packages on Arch, like you said. I've had to manually install archlinux-keyring with pacman. Ive had to manually upgrade yay because a shared library it is dynamically linked to was upgraded. I've had to rm -rf my gpg cache due before.

But my post was primarily focusing on the experience of building / modifying packages. To elaborate just a bit more as an example, the Debian docs claim one can use this environment variable to control certain things when building a package.

DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS='nostrip noopt debug'

What they don't mention, is that these environment variable values are only enabled on a case-by-case basis for every package. Which means, you can't just expect to be able to easily rebuild an arbitrary package without cleaning first, i.e. doing an incremental build. You have to look at debian/rules, which is highly unstructured (unlike PKGBUILD), uses tons of DEB_ makefile variables which I have no understanding of.
And they called it “our favourite anime characters”, as if we’re supposed to believe the blood-sucking money-addicted pariahs at a16z are fans.

The whole article reads like a book report from Steve Buscemi’s “how do you do, fellow kids” character, with a few choice phrases from a “most popular anime quotes” buzzfeed article. I cringed.

It is unsurprising that both “contributors” have “web3” listed as one of their focus.
I sequence my own genome in my own private lab. At least weekly. The rush when the sequencing begins. I almost can't help but sequence all over the place.
Labor organizers mostly make things worse for laborers. Capitalism has brought much prosperity. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest"
Is AI Analytics Improving Financial Reporting?
I work closely with a financial reporting group, and AI analytics keeps coming up as the next big thing. While it’s great for speeding up processes and reducing human error, I’m curious—are the people doing the day-to-day reporting actually seeing the benefits?

Is AI truly helping, or is it just adding complexity without solving the root issues? I’ve looked at a lot of competitors, but I want to hear from the experts in the trenches. Do you think AI analytics is making financial reporting better, or are there still big challenges? What’s your experience?
Anime today isn't what it was a decade or two ago. While tastes and styles change, and I accept that, what this article defines as anime isn’t anime in any traditional sense.

The article claims:

"Anime is where the future of creation and play is happening—whether through mobile games, fanfiction, roleplaying, or AI interactions. We believe anime will become a dominant format for content engagement."

But is this really "anime"? In my opinion, no. Vtubing and AI tools aren't anime.

The article describes a fan’s journey as starting with popular IPs like Attack on Titan or One Piece, then moving into deeper social engagement with UGC, VTubing, and cosplay. They argue anime has evolved from passive to interactive.

This shift, however, feels like a corporate "anime-as-a-service" model, exploiting aesthetics rather than preserving the original spirit of anime before the 2010s.

And of course, the 2010s anime is nothing compared to the 00s which, really felt like the height of anime with fansub communities and then The 90s where the community really started cosplaying and trading by VHS tapes while being blinded by the futurism of Japan.

This article really paints a dim future to what brought me joy and what pulled me into IT/Tech/NetSec/Programming and I couldn’t even get out of the first few paragraphs before I wrote all this.

But I’m flabbergasted. Anime as a service is here.
duckdns.org is a dynamic DNS service used for servers that don't have a static IP. That is, this is being hosted out of someones house, and I wouldn't expect it to able to handle HN's load.
That's not alchemy.

When we are successfully turning base metals into gold, hit me up.
My own observations in my country:

- in recent year or two, saw lot of people in the streets wearing clothes with Japanese words. Saw such clothes in stores. I thought initially that they were fans of Japanese culture, but it seems that it is just a fashion trend and they probably cannot even read them.

- when entering a bookstore or a school supplies store, there are notebooks and sketchbooks and other goods with anime-style characters, translations of novels. Novels are now even in some supermarkets. Again, it started recently.

- that anime-styled Chinese RPG game is somewhat popular among young people, and when reading laptop reviews there are comments like "Will (anime-styled Chinese game) run on this?"

- I am not sure if we can count anime-styled avatars on social media because I don't remember if they were always widespread or only recently

Hope these trends will continue. I wonder is it our local (Russian) trend or something global?
On top of my head I remember Uchuu Kyoudai and Rocket Girls for space exploration anime using even theoretically shorter term technology than Planetes. Futatsu no Spica is similar to Uchuu Kyoudai, but is not really scifi as it's 99.9% drama on earth, so it doesn't really count. The anime also stops at a weird place,

In special, I was reminded of Rocket Girls by the Polaris Dawn mission recently. EVA from a capsule, highly eliptical earth orbit, all private mission, etc.
I'm not offended. I'm uncomfortable being trapped in an enclosed box in which I'm reliant on another person (who clearly distrusts me) taking 4 separate actions for me to enter and exit. The article points out that shoppers at Walgreens would rather go to another store than ask and wait for for a staff person to unlock their razor cartridges or whatever. This hardware store has effectively wrapped their business in such a barrier, and I would rather go to another store than ask and wait for a staff person to unlock 4 doors for me.

Also, implicit in all of this is that:

- you are submitting yourself for judgement based on how you look for them to decide whether you're likely to be a paying customer. I doubt whether any set criteria are used, but I fully expect that race, age, gender, and a range of class markers are involved.

- though they the business are distrustful and unwelcoming of you the prospective customer, you the customer are forced to be entirely trusting of their staff. They start the interaction off by broadcasting the presumption that you may be a threat, and establishing unilateral physical control to restrain people on entry or exit. I read this as both hostile and inequitable.
Why Ethereum's Rollup-Centric Roadmap Is Not "Done" According to Vitalik
Pixels Have an Area
The interesting thing about Jobless Reincarnation is that, even though the Anime was a late comer in the Isekai genre, the original work, the online novel, is actually a precursor if not the starting point of the current wave of Isekai works.
This morning I was reviewing some code that a JR engineer submitted. It had this wild logical conditional with twists and turns, negations, and weird property naming..

o1-preview perfectly evaluated the conditional and determined that, hilariously, it would always evaluate to true.

o1 untangled the spaghetti, and, verifying that it was correct was quick and easy. It created a perfect truth table for me to visualize.

This is a sign of things to come. We are speeding up.
There were many ventures in the past that got investors without a current profitable going concern. Oil & mining speculation, chartering boat crews to go on exploration expeditions and more.