skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you describe what makes your code editor UX better than StackOverflow’s code editor?
Anecdotally: smaller the company higher are the titles.
As you mentioned, we give the possibility to switch to light mode and also save the decision of the user, so it will be persistent to your needs after revisiting TrueQ.

Thx for your feedback regarding the OS setting, we definitely want to implement this. :)
Depends on time frame. Plate tectonics will reset things quite a bit over truly vast time scales.

Over shorter time scales this argument mostly holds, though one can imagine an intelligence with technology but with less expansionary drive and conspicuous consumption than humans. This intelligence may use resources more slowly.
“Maybe I Could Save Myself By Writing” – As a Latinx teen, he belonged nowhere
All CRDTs are fundamentally asychronous, theres no requirement for them to be used in a Google Docs live editing type of setup, so as far as conflict resolution goes I still don’t see any major difference between this conflict resolution strategy and WOOT (aside from character vs line-level units).

It also suffers from the same problem as WOOT that while it’s mathematically (merge) conflict free, you still need to resolve semantic (merge) conflicts before the result is sensible, like in the final example.
As someone who has worked in both US and German-based startup, I agree that risk tolerance is a huge factor. Everyone from VC's to employees here seem to be way more hesitant to invest in an idea which hasn't been proven elsewhere in some form. That's a pretty bad recipe for moonshots, which by nature need to break the mold a bit.

People are also much more risk averse in terms of business model. For instance, the idea of loss-leading to gain market-share will play much better in the US than Germany, where it seems people would rather settle for modest revenue but stay in the black the whole time.

Another factor is the concept of work and work-life balance. In Germany holidays are sacred, and you won't generally find people putting in tons of overtime to get a product off the ground. That's great when you're a worker, but it does mean a slower pace than I saw in the US.
I don’t get it. I glanced through the article and it appeared to be the same kind of cooler install that we’ve been doing on the Internet for 20 years...
Academia's Secret Agents
Here, René Descartes life is examined with the hypothesis of him possibly being a spy since he was in fact accused of espionage during his lifetime by enemies in the United Provinces.

In times of war, researchers are an essential asset to a nation, not just for their own development but also to spy on the enemy's moves. Spies are usually trained experts in one certain field and often times strategic economic strengths in production, manufacture, infrastructure, or research are essential. So it has been the case repeatedly that spies are recruited from science and technology academia.
How would that stop another school using the same credentials?
Fantastic website. Great use of modern web design.

To me, the smartphone revolution with high quality "selfies" is the latest iteration of the self portrait revolution. The relentless and unapologetic posting of one's own picture on social media without pretending to convey any other message that one's own vanity is still fascinating to me, even though I take part in it.

It is the ongoing rise of individualism, ignoring or denying the possible individual contribution and dependency to the group. To show only myself, in an one-way relationship through likes and follows, from one individual to potentially all other humans on earth. Crazy.
Any software product that has significant market share internationally.
Please don't post regional flamebait to HN. It just leads to worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>First measurements of the radiation dose on the lunar surface

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/39/eaaz1334
But that is certainly not only possible, but available today in Emacs. It's here. Use it and evangelize it if you like.
I almost never think about anything as a tree, especially when I am trying to solve a problem with code.

I am familiar with the structure, but I've never found it practical as an abstract tool.
It's a complicated issue. Facebook pays well but their product is toxic to society. Google, Amazon, and Apple pay well but they can because of their moats and the lax US regulatory environment. Would FAANG be able to pay as well when anti competition regulations start to kick in and chip away at their revenue streams? Euro pay is definitely much lower (and needs to rise to meet the value technologists deliver), but perhaps its unrealistic to expect US tech comp (that's likely to compress anyway with remote work normalizing).

TLDR SV pay is likely too high and unsustainable in the long term. Equity moonshots are already lottery tickets, and you can't set public policy based on lottery tickets.
Ironically, this website does the same...
Yes he could be suffering from imposters syndrome or he could be an “expert beginner”. The only way you really know the difference is by being in an environment where you can learn from other people. Preferably people with outside of your company industry experience.
Something to consider is that as you gain more experience in a domain to start to realize how much you really don't know and understand. This is a natural progression from being more of a novice. If you see gaps in your experience, you need to fill them. I think your best options are professional training or courses or learning by doing. Building a network is also valuable, such as building a group of colleagues who meet regularly to share best practices, issues, etc.
Historically, artists never made much money selling music. Artists made most of their music going on tour, selling merch, or monetizing their likeness.

I see spotify more like as an audio-based customer acquisition channel, like the radio.

Maybe it could build in some kind of "donate" patreon-like feature into the app. I wish Soundcloud had this.
Indeed, had Microsoft been more serious about the POSIX subsystem on NT, and Linux would be as relevant as Minix.

WSL is about fixing that little mistake, while taping on Linux ABI as extra.
I see no reason a web-based product of European origin could not succeed in the US or Chinese markets. TikTok for example has done phenomenally in western markets despite the large cultural differences the development team likely has from many of their users.
I see your point, but I still think a difference remains. “Do you want to buy this non essential thing from me, that you can also buy elsewhere, with some restrictive conditions on license and reuse” is, in my eyes, a valid and honest proposal (potentially unattractive but that’s a different story). Take it or leave it. Exploiting a monopoly to force people, largely unknowingly, to surrender huge amounts of data and control over their computer, when there isn’t a practical choice (for most people it’s not really an option to switch to Linux or Mac, they are not fungible products) is a different cup of tea.
The problem is that EU countries tax the paychecks so much that you’ll never be able to reach US levels.
Oh man, some web stores are like that! It's sooooooo nice. Like, you place your order as a guest and at the end it's like "hey if you give us a password we'll make an account for you!"

THOSE ARE THE BEST!
Just wanting to state that we did not down vote on pier25's comment. Everyone should feel free to use the theming mode he / she likes best.
A one-time investment of $60,000, $200,000 in the worst case, isn't a way of dismissing the 'many people who complain the model [wasn't released]', especially given the alternative is 'being Microsoft', which costs $1,570,000,000,000.
I hate going to a website of which I have already signed up and the main page is more focused on attracting new signups than making it clear how to sign in for those already signed up. SIGN UP...... (sign in in tiny letters)
I think the merit of the case is not about what particular thing Assangge did which warrants extradition, but the fact that extraditions are near impossible to thwart in court as such, in many common law countries, because if you are innocent, your only remedy is to go to the country demanding extradition, and trying proving that.

This is so broken, and add extraditions to a long list of habeas corpus negating tools governments in the West now amass.
He isn't talking about just software products.

"Ek mentioned machine learning, biotechnology, materials sciences and energy as some of these areas."

Material science in particular has endless promise. With the new XFEL infrastructure there is lots of potential too. Some examples of what we could do is replace plastics with bulk metallic glass, save energy in transport with low density steel, and more broadly with eutectic systems.
This isn't mesh routing, but rather pretty much what e.g. LoraWAN does (devices send data to gateways that forward it to "the cloud" that forwards it to applications). Nothing revolutionary from a technical or protocol POV.
If people complain about the binary size and/or memory usage, one tip would be to see if it'll run with either NW.js or Tauri, should be close to a drop-in replacement.

Tauri is even smaller than NW.js (I think ~600kb hello-world binary size) but uses Rust in it's toolchain way under the hood to build, so take that as either a positive or a negative.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

NW.js is essentially lighter-weight Electron.

https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js

Would be neat if it was a straighforward implementation and produced tiny self-containing cross-platform binaries.

Disclaimer: I also have no idea how gamedev works though, so this might not be applicable
Fun project! If you wanted to make it more "autonomous", you could buy a cheap ublox neo-6m GPS chip, then the clock could set it's time (based on GPS) anywhere in the world as a stratum 1 timeserver!
It's fun. Break a butterfly on wheel.
We need an extension in the meantime.

This is bad at even at 1000px. That’s 1/3rd of an xdr pro display and my most common window width now.
Every time this pops up on HN, people post insisting that it won't all go away, that the skyscrapers will, somehow, still be there.

No, they won't. Look at any place in the world where there are mesas. All of the land around the mesa used to be level with the top of the mesa. It has all eroded away, and in only a few million years.

So, the metals will corrode, collapse, and wash away. The stone will erode away. The concrete will erode away. The radioactives will decay. It will all end up as a millimeter-thick layer on the sea bottom, one of thousands of millimeter-thick layers with nothing to call attention to itself. Microplastics will abound, but somebody needs to be looking for them in exactly that layer, the way we found iridium at the K-T boundary layer, after specifically looking. There is a huge overabundance of platinum (parts-per-billion) in layers only 12900 years old, just discovered in the past decade, and only because we are really interested in that layer. (It was the start of the 1300-year Younger Dryas cold spell whose end is the start of the Holocene Epoch.)

Will anything last? Big mining and quarry pits will fill in, but recognizably. Big mine tunnels will fill in or collapse, but recognizably. A rectangular mine shaft dug down through a thousand meters of sedimentary rock will have no other explanation.

Some structures will be buried, instead of eroding away. Those will be deep underground, and then might be exposed again through subsequent erosion or uplift. Again, a brick chimney found buried will have no other explanation, though people will try.

Strictly speaking, one is all you need, but some people ("people"?) need more convincing.
The mismatch between the periodic from-scratch rendering (push) approach of IMGUI and the request/response (pull) model of current accessibility APIs is a tractable problem. Imagine a streaming protocol that allows the application or GUI toolkit to emit the contents of an accessibility tree, either in whole or as incremental updates, whenever it renders. An IMGUI could produce this data each time it renders, even if it doesn't have a retained tree in memory. It would be up to the consumer of the protocol to create and update a retained tree from this stream. That consumer could be a library running inside the same application, which could then implement current accessibility APIs such as UI Automation. Or, if the protocol caught on and was supported by assistive technologies (e.g. screen readers), those ATs themselves could be the consumers. Indeed, I believe that applications pushing their accessibility information to ATs, which can then create and update their own retained trees, would be a better alternative to the pull-based request/response model that you mention.

IMO, the bigger problem is the one that Raph pointed out: widgets (including simple ones like static text) need to have stable identities throughout their lifetimes, even as their state, contents, and locations change. It seems to me that IMGUIs, or at least some of them, make this particularly difficult.
Actually, the question is if you knew that Brendan Eich was harmed before you claimed he wasn't harmed at all.

Pretending the victim wasn't harmed and then asking him "what he learned" and "what his regrets are" is pretty malicious.
One building of it opened in 2013 (and another in 2016 AFAIK), but it is currently still under construction (in the Google Maps view, the entire construction site south of the completed buildings are also slated to be Google DCs).
I had to turn off notifications in my browser because every page would pop the question. Like. NO! Notifications are evil.
After just 1 year of college experience, I got accepted into a company as a senior engineer. At some point, I debated whether or not I should write that into my resume and decided against it.

Even though I proposed and started my own project inside the company, I would not call myself a senior engineer. Funnily enough, the value I added to the business may have been more than some of true seniors would have brought…
The compelling reason for me is the mirror test, and what you can infer from it. The tiniest bit of self-awareness lets you pass the mirror test, as toddlers demonstrate. Apes pass, elephants pass, and magpies pass. Monkeys fail. What's different about monkeys? They have smaller, simpler brains. If a monkey by all appearances has no concept of self, an ant with 0.008% as many neurons assuredly doesn't.
If you are saying beauty has some degree of objectivity because we share some common genetics that predisposes us to develop similarly, I understand what you're getting at, but it's still completely subjective.
Cats supposedly fail the mirror test, but I think they're just disinterested. There are a lot of videos of cats being shown live video of themselves and their owners, with the owner's face modified to look like a cat. In many of these the startled cat immediately turns around to look at their owner, seemingly indicating an awareness that the video they were being shown contained themselves and that the weird cat-like human creature seen in the video was behind them.

Compilation of such reactions that was posted on HN a fee days ago: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jto2peSOLac
Or EU could stop ruining the market with all their current programs and deregulate. Most "startups" in the EU are nothing more than grant chasers. There's very little private VC money because of all the grants. Even legitimate projects that take these grants aren't necessarily any better for it because of all the overhead they introduce.

It's most pronounced in new EU countries that get flooded with these funds.
There is a common misconception about immediate-mode APIs, there are in practice very few implementations where rendering is done directly.

A structure is built every frame with all the data to render later, as a batch.

And of course if you need a magnify lense the obvious way would be to render it as a post process.
Store a cookie. Invented like 50 years ago.
https://archive.is/FN2IQ
Also, at least in the US during non pandemic times, if you live in any major metropolitan city and your skillset is in sync with the local market, there are always openings for framework/“full stack developer” roles.

You just have to keep a strong network of former coworkers, managers, and local external recruiters.
Very true. I went to a large tech company after the small one in search of that. Unfortunately I didn’t see anyone in roles potentially ahead of mine where I’d look at their job and think “that’s what I want to work towards.” Now I have found that in my current role and I’m settling in for the long run to get there.
Many years ago there was a similar leak and I noticed a directory of GNU utils and wondered exactly what is asked towards the end of the article. I don't think the utils were actually used in the Windows version this was included with, so I and colleagues at the time were wondering why it was even there in the first place. We figured they just preferred unix-ish tools over their Microsoft tools for developing the OS.

Everything about this is so familiar I'm wondering now if this is that same leak just getting a second wind... a sort of reprise.

This was back in the day that 43Gb was still considered huge (and the uncompressed archive is significantly more massive!), so there wasn't much incentive to keep it around. So unless I wrote about it somewhere, I probably wouldn't be able to find out if it was the same version as this.
The corollary of working for smaller companies is once you are working there for a while and are contributing significant value... it is easier to get significant raises because your owner is thinking about "life without you" if they don't pay you well. IF you are really valuable to the company, you have a great chance of getting paid well, in proportion to your value.
This falls into over optimization for me. The kettle takes 4 minutes, I grind my coffee and prepare for the ritual of making it. The laundry can sit till I have the time to deal with it. The dishes can sit until I have the time to put them away. At most I’d pickup an hour this way. (Incidentally all of my appliance have their noises turned off.)

I also think it’s not tech companies making these devices, they are low margin commodities. And since you’re competing adding a luxury like a notification on your phone, versus 4 minutes of your time. It hard to justify the larger margin.
These are the stories that non-engineers like to tell themselves to feel smarter. Especially managers like to think they have more common sense than engineers.

But reality is that engineers are the ones who know most about the subject, they know the details how everything interacts with each other.

I had meetings with managers that thought their common sense could help me, only ending up me explaining the most basic of concepts to them.

Same with the NASA pen story vs pencil.

Most projects fail because of stupid managers that don't trust their experts. Not because engineers can't see the forest through the trees.
Who popularized using the terminology of "moonshots" in VC / investing? Started seeing it a lot post 2015 or so.
https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/eic-accelerator

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/finance-funding/gettin...

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/finance-funding/gettin...

https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/erdf/

https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/cohesion-fun...

https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/social-fund/
I’ve just recently learned that a vegan diet does not reduce plaque. It’s quite weird that plaque build up is a thing.
Same rules applies to all apps. It's curious to have 1 star when competitors have 4 or 5 stars.
European tech ecosystem is a bit weird. I went through hundreds of job openings and pretty much all of them ask for experience with language X and framework Y for N years. I have yet to seen a description that doesn't care about what languages the candidate know. Its almost as if companies don't belive that engineers are capable of learning a new language or framework

Also I noticed there is too much focus on agile, scrum, DDD, etc.

And the pay is too low compared to living expenses. There are a lot of software engineering jobs that pay higher even in India.

Only good thing is you get to live in Europe and travel.
I'm talking about reputable mainstream sites, which seem to at least maintain a guise of plausible deniability
> Why the hell is the "Sign Up" more prominent than the "Sign In/Login" button. I'm going to be signing in every single day, I'm only signing up once.

Agree! imo is just a blatant reminder that they care more about getting new customers than servicing their existing customers.
Hmm... I honestly cannot perceive this as the "absolute" list of greatest albums, as was stated before every listener formulates their own opinion based on preferred media communication. Furthermore (as was stated), this list does not include any entry from pre-1960 or a country outside of the Anglosphere. Consequently, such a skewed artistic representation does not provide an appropriate framework to evaluate music.The spreadsheet might be interesting to observe/record crude statistical variability among certain artists, yet not a consensus of the greatest albums of "all time".
I see 2 (but am not sure how problematic they really are on a larger scale): The GDPR and upcoming upload filters/required user identification due to the copyright reform.
Given the worst-case assumptions of people arguing the cloud is required[1], it's a one-time investment of $60,000, $200,000 in the absolute worst case.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24601264
Being Visible
Under the Gaze of Big Mother
Show any unicorn financed by the horizon billions the EU wastes on these programs. Never was never will be one. It just does not work
I saw ssh keys and was ready to get on my moral high horse about ssh certs, only to read the article to be talked down. Nice guide!
Pikchr – PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation
Yeah we all choose what we want to focus on, and I try to focus on things I can control. And I believe if everyone did, the world would be a better place.
Has anyone methodically looked for artificial materials like microplastics in the geological strata?
Thanks for posting. I will not forget my 20 francs when I go to space.
> An iPhone SE's logical width is 320px.

I always forget about this one. Thanks for ruining my afternoon.
I can attest to many mortgage payments successfully made thanks to Java.
True that rating systems have been hacked. Maybe it really boils down to only following reviews from people you trust, which could be selected professional reviewers.
I don't see where is the monetization potential of GPT3. Creating more spam? Making poetry in bulk? Being SOTA in language tasks doesnt make it useful per se, as NLP measures are rather abstract anyway. As for its technology, it's huge but unless they are hiding some secret sauce, it's a straigtforwardly transformer-based, which means someone somewhere with cheap electricity is already training it on a dump of the entire web. Where's the moat here? Perhaps in some future version that they 'll keep secret? Well it will be a sad day for humanity if they keep its development in secret, given how much its development has benefited from open science around the world.
Looking it up, I still have no idea what it means. The best I can gather is its beautifully wholesome. Other sources say beauty, but it seems like such a specific word for a form of beauty.