skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm.. The price I pay for my laptops never goes down. It was 2000 ten years ago, it's still 2000. Of course if I buy a laptop with approximately the same specs, I'll pay less. But then I'd be severely behind in my computing power. Same with the batteries as they get better.
Also take into account the economic situation we are in now. What we have is not a free market economy. The government messing with the economy creates huge distortions. Under these circumstances you can't guarantee that the prices will keep falling. The prices of the Commodities are going up.
One of these days, the inflation or even hyperinflation is going to hit us. Then what?
Also, have you ever heard of the Great Reset? The plan is to slow the economies down inthe nameof Climate Change fight. As Klaus Schwab said you will own nothing and be happy.
US Company mgmt. has wide latitude in how they manage a company.

The shareholders can always sue, but that's after the fact.

So your comment doesn't mean anything.
I've tried very recently with Openlayers and their OL-Mapbox style package[0] - it wasn't too bad TBH, but not great.

Maplibre is still very nascent and needs a lot of work until it is ready to be used in anger. I do wonder if it would be better to put effort into Openlayers rather than trying to maintain this library - as others have pointed out, OL provides so much more.

[0]: https://github.com/openlayers/ol-mapbox-style
Yeah of course there's some truth that wealthy people have more money than poor people, but you have to argue from actual facts about these things. If I start a company that's worth a ton of money then it's because I'm providing a ton of value to my customers (excluding some more arguable examples like HFTs). So the value I have is exchange value in the case of net assets, or the potential for future exchange value in the case of shares. Its a reward for doing societally-valued work.

Of course there are reasonable arguments that shareholders are treated preferentially to labour in our economy and that that's as bad thing, but the basic premise of "the wealthy people have all the stuff so let's take their stuff" is just class warfare, not a reasonable argument.
It's irony.
I think the reality is that news aggregators like HN reward short-form content; a 4 minute read is going to garner more upvotes than a page that links to 18 chapters of dense technical information. That's what the comments are for though! Thanks for linking this lwn page
UK Young Adults: Changes in Sexual Desire and Behaviors During Covid-19 Lockdown
Ask HN: Geekiest Birthday Gift to Partner
What is the geekiest birthday gift you have given your husband, wife or partner? If anyone has created artifacts through software/programming please provide details. Thanks in advance.
As an added bonus, Nix can still easily output a container image for docker use containing the same shell environment.
Florida state of emergency with millions of gallons of “radioactive wastewater”
With such outright shenanigans everyone would lose faith in any US-minted currency and it would become next to worthless. America would be unable to finance any new debt and the government's ability to spend (beyond what it raises in taxes) would collapse.
It's not the conclusion, it's a conclusion: remember that one can prove everything, so yours is just as (in)valid as his.
Such quality research.
As someone with a graveyard of failed projects and a few with moderate success, I agree with this advice.

I have a day job, and run my SaaS as a side-business, so maybe not the OP’s aspirations. However, I want to add one point:

> “...happy to be reminded that others have failed many more times before finally getting their overnight success.”

Don’t build optimizing for overnight success, that’s essentially a casino.

Waiting a few weeks to see what sticks and what doesn’t is way too short based my experience.

From PG’s essays:

“Actually startups take off because the founders make them take off. There may be a handful that just grew by themselves, but usually it takes some sort of push to get them going.”

And while ideally you’d validate the product as quickly as possible, most businesses can take years to truly take off. Often involving many pivots along the way.

Maybe I misunderstood, but don’t make “overnight success” your north star.
You’re right. I made a mistake - I thought you were trying to contradict the theorem I stated. I’ve just realized you were saying something orthogonal.

As for the proof of my theorem,
By taking logarithms, the process becomes an additive random walk with negative drift (log 1.6 + log 0.5 < 0). This is well known to converge to negative infinity almost surely. After exponentiating to undo the logarithm, this is exactly the statement I made.

It does not matter how many test subjects there are ( as long as there’s finitely many) because, informally speaking , you can just wait for each of them to become irrevocably bankrupt in turn.
I never thought about this - how would you present the data to the user then if there's no application?
That's not a techno solution worth to dream about, the real techno solution is a fine grained control of weather (like https://viento.ai) and in that case the extra CO2 in atmosphere will be naturally sequestered in fields and farms in Sahara.
Absolutely! If you have any more resources on this topic (e.g. interpolating between animations), I'd love to take a look at them.
These photos never get boring. Truly fascinating piece of engineering & achievement. What’s the best way to stay up to date on every (photo) update of this mission?
Why? Who says creation and higher order thought is a good thing?
Random question.

What is meant to be the benefit of not explicitly writing down types in python?

I have used C, C++, GL, and C# most of my career, but recently I have been helping a friend of mine who is learning to code with her python assignments.
Things still have types when the code runs, and type errors can cause all sorts of bugs and problems, but the types are not actually written down by you in the code so u have to remember them all. It just seems to add so much more mental load on the programmer + potential for weird hard to find bugs not being caught by compiler and slipping under the radar.
It seems objectively worse to me. But I assume there is supposed to be some benefit. What is it supposed to be?

PS Bonus comment: whitespace controlling the flow of the program? Lets make characters that are invisible really important to how the program runs. Thats just plain dumb, that could only be the result of a weird fetish of the originator of the language.
It's legal for both cardinal and ordinal numbers, as well as slightly more exotic number types.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_plus_one
This is a a great tip. I also saw someone on the Graphics Programming Discord doing this. Time to chuck out that last row!
“In Search of Stupidity” has a chapter on Borland if I remember correctly.

Basically they decided that they did not want to serve millions of developers that loved their product but to instead focus on fewer, bigger enterprise accounts.

This left the market open for Jetbrains to take over the loved-by-devs position and they learned that the books were right: in tech, the low end always eats the high end.
Perfectly fair within comment, nonetheless my point holds thread-wise.
Some constructs are more natural (e.g. easier to read and write) as statements, others as expressions. It's never good to have rigid rules about programming style as each problem domain is different.

There are many situations where you want lots of branching because that's the problem domain, and trying to hide the essential aspect of the problem domain isn't helpful for code readability or maintainability.

If you are writing an interpreter, case statements are a natural thing. Yes, you can write that intepreter with expressions that are statements in disguise, but just because something can be done doesn't mean that it should be done. An interpreter is just a dispatcher waiting for some trigger from the outside and then firing off a command handler depending on the trigger. Just like a UI. GUIs are are also natural things to write with event driven patterns. If user clicks on box A, then do X, if User clicks on box B, do Y. That is a big case statement in disguise except the underlying framework handles that for you and you just write the code for X and Y. But if you didn't have that UI toolkit doing heavy lifting you would find yourself writing event loops and case statements to implement it as the most natural (non-ideological) solution.

Similarly, there are many situations where you want to handle exceptional conditions separately in a clear way that allows you to easily understand what the exceptional logic is and change it without touching the main processing flow at all. It all depends on the problem domain. Or the problem domain may require feedback where the handler tells the dispatcher to change the dispatch algorithm.

On the other hand, fluent APIs work well with streams of data that are processed sequentially. There the natural approach is to apply a sequence of functions to the stream. You want to avoid lots of nesting of case statements as the code would be ugly.

It boils down to minimizing complexity. You could write that event driven dispatcher as a function that takes as its inputs all the possible callbacks and the state of the world and spits out a specific callback. But that would be a more complex program that is harder to read and write, and thus is more error prone, regardless of the fact that in theory it is easier to refactor and unit test by dropping in a different function. In practice, it is not easier, it is harder. So when someone like Guido says, "it will complicate things", no it doesn't boil down to "I'm unfamiliar and don't like it", what it means is "I've spent a couple of decades writing code, have been up and down this road more times than you have, and I know it's a harder road to travel".
My father had Esophageal cancer. He underwent radiation therapy and round of chemo. Cancer spread and his esophagus was badly damaged from radiation.

I was lucky enough to see a prominent oncologist. He went through his file and gave me a few options. Since his esophagus was badly damaged all of them included drilling a hole in his abdomen through which he would be able to eat. Well, I should't say eat. The nutrients would be pored in. Oncologist said it's a procedure he would not wish upon his worst enemy. In those exact words. Knowing my father he would never agreed either.

So we switched to palliative care. We never told my mother and grandmother.

He died in his home early afternoon on New Year's Eve in 2012. surrounded by his family. He was 55.

I often think that, in a way, I killed my father.
I am just wondering how someone can build something that people actively hate? And then for people to create a thread where people are tearing the app and the person apart? This just gobsmacks me. Especially since, I'm building things and no one really seems to care enough to do anything. So they've obivously manage to stroke enough emotion that people care enough to write about him and his products.
Oh man, that takes me back.

I used to love looking into my father's spare electronics cabinet when I was a kid, full of chips and resistors and capacitors. I vividly remember the LED drawer, with a hundred red, green, yellow LEDs he used in almost all of his projects, and just one or two of those opaque, white LEDs which I knew shone blue light, and I've never seen him use, as if they were a rare and prized possession.

I get it now, as the blue LED technology is so much more recent than any other LED technology. They must have been much more expensive than the other ones.
But why do you claim the article "leaves out" German grammar, if the mention of it is clearly there, as an explicitly called out base, in the very first sentences of the article?

"With its German grammatical structure and the bulk of its vocabulary coming from German, Yiddish is usually classified as a Germanic tongue. [...]"

Given this unambiguous note at the beginning, I find it easy to understand that the author of the article wants to focus on an aspect of the language that he sees as less blatantly obvious, and thus potentially more interesting to a reader. Would you find an article explaining that "the Sun is bright" more interesting than exploring some nuances of it, e.g. how the Sun can become less bright during a rare event of an eclipse?

Now this makes me confused if there's some "intent" behind your comment, given that it takes a demonstrably incorrect claim and builds a vague accusation on it; not to mention that even if there was any truth to this false claim, a sprinkle of a good will assumption can still lead the reader in a direction of completely benign motive.

With that said, given that I prefer to start with an assumption of good will, I hope and suspect you probably just skipped or forgotten the first paragraphs of the article; I just wish you made sure to re-read them before jumping to accusations.

edit: looking into the history of your comments, I would recommend reconsidering if a more constructive and less trolling/inflammatory approach could make your contributions to the community & discussions a better long-term strategy.
> Not sure why anyone would get involved if they didn’t plan to cheat.

Some markets are full of dumb money. Some people are mistaken about whether they are the dumb money or the smart money. Some people really are smart money and they can make large, fast nearly riskless returns on invested capital.

People make money in large liquid markets with many sophisticated participants all the time. This has need true as long as stock, bond and commodity markets have existed, in markets with and without bans on insider trading.

> How long before there’s a bomb threat at the CDC in order to win a prediction bet?

How long before there’s a bomb threat at Pfizer to make a short part off big? Criminals and terrorists are not generally known for their skills at long term or strategic planning.
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This appears to be basically a callback scheduler with support for callback threading and sequencing. A fairly simple thing to code.

The catch here is that if you ever end up needing something like this, it's far more prudent to write your own version than to learn someone else's solution.
Is there an article or discussion about that, with examples of such behavior?
My guess, Internet commentariat shifted away from live-and-let-live attitudes like (actual) liberalism or (actual) libertarianism. Don't know why, but I see an awful lot more busybodies on here, reddit etc than before. I suspect regression to the mean, aka eternal September, since the Internet and Internet social networks stopped being niche thanks to social media and the startup boom.
How do you feel about reading before bed? I'm usually tired and just want to call it a night. I've found reading in the morning (during breakfast to be a different but sometimes more pleasurable experience).
Surely they would. We already learned that members of their own security team don't seem to see any problems with employees abusing privileged access to mandatory Chrome extensions to agitate for unionisation (at Google of all places!!). Twitter employees screwed with the account of the president of the United States.

Ideological employees of big tech firms taking a sudden disliking to someone or some group and abusing privileged access is certainly a threat that ever larger numbers of people are talking seriously. In particular, it is a concern for industries that do things activists don't like, such as working with immigration control (though perhaps that's no longer an issue now Trump is gone).
I’m all of these types of write ups I always miss two things:

1. Being an expert in your area and focusing hard on solving the problem.

2. Patience and time. Things take much longer than you think.
If a good ImageNet model gets 88-90% accuracy on the test set (so, 10%-12% error rate) then if it turns out that 5.8% of the test set "gold standard" labels are actually wrong is a very big deal, it would mean that half of the measured differences aren't actually real but an artifact of the original human labelers' mistakes.
The older I get, the more I understand why some people refuse to go to the doctor for any reason. They are not stubborn fools, they are perfectly rational.

Some people don't even want to know if there is a 10% that they will die, they's rather just die than face their own mortality. They know their nervous system can't handle that.
Maybe this guy has no nipples.
For making a dent in global warming we'll need to have billions of tonnes of this "N-(2-ethoxyethyl)-3-morpholinopropan-1-amine (2-EEMPA)" stuff..

I wonder if this won't be an environmental hazard in itself. What do we do with it after it's captured its CO2? We can't just dump that stuff in the sea.

I wonder if CO2 capture does not cause more problems than it solves. Even if we magically could capture CO2 as pure carbon and let the O2 back into the air, we'd end up with enough carbon to fill all the mines we've emptied over the years. Where are we going to leave all that without making a huge environmental mess? And how do we transport all that there? And that's not even considering the energy usage and possible reagents.

I think we should really reduce our energy usage instead. Every tonne of CO2 not emitted does not have to be captured, and the effects of not producing it are positive for the environment in more ways than just global warming.

Of course we're already on a path for significant global warming, but I think we'll just have to deal with that as we go. I don't think we'll manage to do significant CO2 capture before the effects are irreversible anyway.
Theoretically, yes. But much like sales tax, employer payroll tax is passed on to the employee. Unlike sales tax however, this cut isn't as transparent due to the salary itself being preemptively calculated in such a way as to offset the cost to the employer. In other words, the "true" gross income could, all things being equal, be upto 6.2% greater then what one is getting.
Would inside a chimney work?
Success by which measure? I fear that a solo entrepreneur making a B2C product that also alights with their passion is firmly in the danger zone - you’ll want to keep making crap that’s no one will use while your passion clouds/hides any signs to stop.

Would love to hear ideas for dealing with overcoming this potential major issue. Perhaps if it’s only a side project that’s safer?
Tutorial on declarative and reproducible developer environments with Nix: https://nix.dev/tutorials/declarative-and-reproducible-devel...
I think that this days windows has keyed events which are the equivalent of a futex.
I didn't know about BVH! Right now I'm using COLLADA (.dae). I'd like to decide on a single file format and write my own parser for it, but I feel like there must be a slightly less complex format than COLLADA that still does everything I need. I'll probably spend some time comparing it to e.g. FBX.
I like the formula, though I'd maybe instead aim for 200 mid tier streamers with good growth potential for the same money.
The conclusion is that if the set containing "the pope and bertrand russell" has only 1 member, then it must follow that the pope and bertrand russell are the same person/member. An implicit axiom is that, since the pope is in a set, it exists (or at least in that set), so that other conclusion of yours does not follow directly.
> ... money is the first derivative of customer satisfaction not the metric

This is a great sentiment. The product and problem need to come first. So besides being a business person, you need to be a product person too: design, copy, UX etc.
> I'm pretty sure we're just meat sacks and when my heart stops beating that'll be the end of all that I am, and that scares the shit out of me.

Should one be "pretty sure"? I take it you are assuming that materialism is true, that the mind is ultimately dependent on a functioning physical brain for its existence, such that if the brain permanently ceases to function, the associated mind will permanently cease to exist.

But, what if some day, in the infinite future, random processes cause atoms to spontaneously reassemble into a working brain, and not just any working brain, but a proper continuation of your individual particular brain, in proper continuity with your last conscious moment before death? Would that not be a genuine personal afterlife? You can say the probability of such an event is unimaginably small, but can we say that it is absolutely zero? And if it is not absolutely zero, then given an infinite future, any event with non-zero probability will almost surely eventually occur, including that one. Following this line of thought, you can arrive at the conclusion that an afterlife is possible, maybe even likely, maybe even highly likely. But unlike religious conceptions of the afterlife, we cannot be confident that it will make any sense – it is just as likely (even more likely) to be the absurd hell of a solitary hallucinating Boltzmann brain [0] floating through the cold blackness of space, as the final triumph of the just and the good which the Abrahamic religions promise.

In an infinite universe, how certain can you really be that anything is ever permanent, including the cessation of one's existence? Faced with the potential infinity of the future, being certain, even just being "pretty sure", that any end is permanent seems to me to be having far more confidence than one rationally ought to have.

If the choice is between a religious afterlife which makes sense, and a non-religious afterlife of infinite absurdity, maybe we ought to hope that (some) religion is true?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
I've heard of an actor who got so into role-playing, he forgot he was an actor playing a role.

He was meant to slay dragons, but terribly afraid of getting eaten in the process.

It kept him up at night, he asked people how to cope with the stress and got plenty of advice, to which he replied the suggestions don't address his actual problem.
> Sleep deprivation is nothing to fuck around with. If you're emotionally unstable, it'll usually make that worse.

Exactly. My experience has been exactly the opposite of lessening depressive tendencies.
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This seems to align with what the article says in:

"[...] it is estimated that the Germanic element makes up some 70 to 75% of the overall lexicon [...]"

and:

"[...] note that early Yiddish developed from Middle High German dialects [...]"
Phones & tablets have the additional advantage of being able to get your attention regularly and reliably. They can train you like an animal: open this chest in 40 minutes and that one after 2 hours. This is very useful when you're trying to create & enforce a habit (and once you're well locked into the habit spending real money for that stuff starts to seem more reasonable).