skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mr Thiel's answer is

"If every one of India’s hundreds of millions of households were to live the way Americans already do— using only today’s tools— the result would be environmentally catastrophic. Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches. In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable."

But this answer is completely in line with the conventional wisdom. It is not contrarian or something that "very few people agree with you on".

His reaction to it may be contrarian, but arguably not in a good way: ity is noteworthy that Mr Thiel's action plan, based on whatever beliefs that he holds, is to funnel money into the anti-democratic political right wing: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/technology/republican-tru...
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damnit hn
FWIW, the “Russia almost blew you up” is largely false. If it’s about Petrov story, there have been many like this, on both sides. Americans had hands on the keys a number of times.
the world runs on ssh terminals so I'd argue it does matter
I've had this happen to a lot of my hobby game projects. At first, the scope is too large because I have pie-in-the-sky ideas. I then recognize the large scope and try to pare down. Once I've reached something achievable, I find that it's basically a completely different game and doesn't seem fun anymore.
I found at least one article:

NHS hospital sells placentas for cosmetic use

https://web.archive.org/web/20210217162113/https://www.teleg...

Not 50k a pop, but shows that it does happen.
Try to get delivery to a nearby store, then insist the staff open it for inspection. Staples will do this.
I really like it too, will keep on testing.

Small bug I found:

use the "go" command (e.g. go reddit)
close the newly opened tab (e.g. reddit)
click "Learn more about me"
click the top left icon (Andi)
=> goes directly to reddit.com

EDIT: formatting
What vaccine passport? I am in the EU and don't have a pass like that. I have a paper which confirms my vaccination status. Why would I want a digital one?

> In the future, we may need to provide less information about ourselves in order to prove who we are

Yeah, right...
Those are just items to blame when the game fails.

Scenario: One team in the project is under delivering. Cut scope and the game fails due to missing vital features, "the game failed since we cut the scope!". Don't cut scope and the game fails due to bugs or delays "the game failed since we didn't cut scope!". Both of those are the wrong answer, its just that people don't want to admit the real answer here.
> Would you be willing to provide an example where this becomes a problem?

It's not a specific example, as much as every piece of code where mutability is involved. I don't have a LOC number in mind, but it could be for blocks/local scopes. IMO syntactic explicitness helps clarity and thus bug hunting/maintenance, and I feel tooling shouldn't be an alternative for dealing with, albeit subjective, syntactic shortcomings.

> this should be a problem for structured applications and hints at a more fundamental design problem

Frankly, I don't see how introducing an explicit hint that a variable is created can ever be a bad thing. Explicit lack of mutability is also something I'd like to have (e.g. 'let' vs 'var') - sometimes I want to make sure not to accidentally change a value. We will shoot ourselves in the foot at some point, so a syntax that allows for a check whether I can actually change a value further down can only be a good thing.

I absolutely do not trust myself. :)

When things go wrong for this reason (difficult to spot typo etc) I may waste time on investigating whether blocks are actually leaky or not etc - I have issues with Python syntax for the same reason. Going in the other direction, I like Rust's perhaps overly verbose "let mut" much better, since this has other consequences for explicitness (mutable references '&mut X' vs immutable references '&X'). No special tooling or IDE required to spot this, I can 'cat' the code in a terminal and it's still obvious.

I absolutely don't think Julia or Python should "go Rust", since their dynamic nature is a strength, especially so in academia where notebooks are popular. But a simple "I'm creating a variable" should IMO be a nice visual cue to any developer.
Although I write mostly in Rust, when I have to do some web server side work, I use Go. Go was designed at Google for their server-side applications, and it's well-suited to that. All the expected libraries have seen very heavy use and are unlikely to have unexpected problems. Goroutines handle the job of both async and threads, simplifying concurrency. Rust is overkill for such work.

Rust is for complicated problems where both performance and safety matter. Web browsers. Databases. Operating systems. Industrial control. I'm writing a client for a virtual world in Rust. It's much easier to do complex concurrency in Rust than in C++.

Use the right tool for the job.
Thank you Google search… This is not the question I asked.

It’s a large, stale market with incompetent competitors and no technology. I feel confident the idea will work and scale. The people with an anti-gun sentiment are not my customers.

Globally there’s nothing stopping this idea from interfacing with governments or other buyers abroad but initially the market is US.
I tried it awhile back, but it's also extremely slow on an M1 and I found the UI issues even more annoying than the ones I was used to in OpenOffice.
They can but the idea is to protect against opportunistic theft by luggage handlers. A broken lock also makes your insurance claim a lot easier.
Here’s also an amazingly detailed writeup of one such optimization attempt, GCR on-the-fly decoding:

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/gcr-decoding/index....
But he might require you to sacrifice your first born at an altar to Him... You know... Just to show how pious you are first... Then he'll say "Stop, I was only kidding"...

Funny guy.
Who will now be prosecuted for threatening with prosecution?
html: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2202.06991/
Who was assigned to think about security when creating Unicode?
Eh, its probably never going to happen. I'm sure less than 1% of sites would serve a favicon via data uri not to mention racing the favicon along with the domain on first visits speeds up the process.

Favicons are already transferred a lot. Back in the day having notifications / unread counts in the favicon itself was very common. It would show up in the tab bar and also the bookmark icon so it was a quick micro-communication channel with a website before all the modern things.
I mean the question he poses may sound naive, but we have suffered propaganda because naive question were not asked. I get the criticism as such questions can indeed distort a discussion. But I don't think that is the current problem with disinformation.
Well, I'd say not everything is linear. All I'm saying is, this is nowhere near as arrogant as the OP made it sound.

The difference between 0.2 million and 2 million for a board of directors is literally a rounding error.
> It seems wildly impracticable to productionize at the moment (excepting Google, perhaps).

There were a couple related papers [1, 2] from Google on learning to index a few years ago. In fact, I'm a little surprised they weren't cited.

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3183713.3196909

[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.12501.pdf
https://app.streamlinehq.com/icons

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30356944
Worked with Akamai in a company I was working with. That company is so rooted into the 90s that the Spice Girls look fresh and modern. :P
Indeed it has long been known that the awake human brain operates near a critical point. Unfortunately, their significance statement is very generic and doesn't really summarise their main contributions.

The abstract has more information, describing how this paper adds to the picture a mathematical determination of that critical point, and the insight that low-frequency oscillations play a key role when switching consciousness states.

The level of the experiments is quite high, also they use primates (humans and macaques), some of them epileptic, and they administer psychedelics. All this sets the paper apart from lower-tier work.

It doesn't strike me as a real ground-breaking paper, but still an important contribution to the field. And the methods are impressive.
Out of curiosity, why did you move to AWS?
To Dox or Not Dox: Is Anonymity in Crypto a Farce?
Stock markets allow for price discovery. The market gives a verdict on what it thinks stock in a given company is worth, and it's there in public for all to see.

They also allow liquidity. A public company can't stop you from selling your stake, or buying more. This is something you'd definitely value if you've ever been screwed out of equity at a startup.
They have had "edge workers" in some form or another for 20 years. Most of the common use cases for things you'd want to do at the edge could be done in their config programming language. Now they have VMs/containers in 15k+ locations.
Lovely. Can you share some numbers about revenue? I'm really curious
Has anyone here actually tried the "<search query> reddit" search lately? Click on a reddit link and it takes you to a page that forces you to open it in an app. This has made me stop using reddit completely.
Fuggedabout it. That would undermine their whole business model. Knowing Apple, I wouldn't be surprised if they remove WASM support from mobile Safari on the grounds that it's "bad for battery life".
The reason I can't go about my day on mushrooms or LSD has nothing to do with the psycadelic effects.
Take a look at the most voted Python questions on StackOverflow.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python?sort=MostV...
The inevitability of nautical references terminating at "Titanic".
As unintuitive as it may seem, 3D printers are actually way simpler to DIY than 2D paper printers. An almost modern 3D printer could have been put together by a hacker in their basement in the 90s. The only reasons they didn't trend until the 2010s is that patents prevented them from being commercially possible until the 2010s, and then it's taken hobbyists many years to gather the knowledge about what to do and not to do. The mechanical construction is not complicated, and the necessary components and materials have been around and readily available for decades.

2D paper printers, on the other hand, are way more complicated and require specialized components that make it very unlikely for anyone to be able to DIY a working laser or ink jet printer. If you want a "free" paper printer, then a much more viable alternative is to hack a "closed" printer to work as you want. With 3D printers, if you want a "free" printer the most viable alternative is actually the opposite: you can just build one yourself since the construction is so simple.
1. Subscription: Moving to a subscription was a hard decision and we thought about it for 2 years, but it allowed us to focus on producing more content and improving workflow features like a figma plugin, global color editor, CSS color editor etc. I wrote all about it in a Medium post.

2. Thanks for letting me know that the licensing isn't as clear. You're absolutely right in assuming that your customers can continue using the icons even if you cancel the subscription.
Congrats, 12 years is a long time. Hope you don't need to start over seeing as there are diskette and even tape icons that might cause millenials and up to scratch heads. But then it looks you're enjoying finding new graphic representations for UI concepts ;)
A Philosophy of Data Collaboration
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/devel but I would agree it's probably not common enough to be included in the word list, I'll remove it soon :)
I spent $1M to make my machine translator. Thoughts and Results
There are video games for really young kids as well. It's silly to imply that being very young absolves one of paying for entertainment.
Wow, they all look very good. I totally love the streamline freehand icon set, bravo!
Which open source license are they released under?
I may not be following you, but are you saying that when you change search engine in your App, it also changes the default search for iOS and Safari system-wide?

Or you are just talking about within your iCabMobile App itself, like anyone can do in their own app?

As far as I know, all the alternative browser and search Apps (including ours for example) are wrappers on top of Safari on iOS. And they are unable to change the iPhone's system-wide search or browser. That's the search engine accessed, for example, when a user swipes down on their iPhone home screen, and enters a query into the "Search" field that appears. Normally, that's Google and Safari at the iOS system-wide level.

Or are you saying that you are able to change these including adding alternative search engines under iOS Settings > Safari > Search Engine?

I'm curious how you're doing this if so, and I'm sure lots of other people would be too. My understanding is that App Store Apps or Extensions can not normally change the iPhone search engines, but I'd love to be wrong about that.
It took almost exactly 1 hour to make each icon. 12*365*24/104600 = ~1.005 (1 hour and ~18 seconds)
Maybe it's just me, but personally I simply don't use saas services unless I really have to or very much like to use it regularly.

For the business (I run a small consultancy) the story is different though. It pays for several services on a monthly basis somewhere between 50 and 100€ / month, if they provide value.

The business can afford it and if a service helps the business paying for it is just fair.
Create sequence diagrams with ease.
Finally. Something that ain’t corporate Memphis! Nice work
From what I can see following YouTube videos is that there is a ton of innovation and small business activity around guns in the USA. Maybe approach one of the bigger companies in that space?
I've had the opposite experience recently.

Last month a fan failed on my 2080 Ti, which I bought in 2018, I contacted the retailer and they said they've started to replace fans on GPU's themselves because of the shortage situation. Great, works for me.

A week later I got an email saying they're replacing it with a 3080. Slight upgrade at no additional cost.
I pretty much always have an open terminal window running dc for doing quick calculations throughout the day. And I do my taxes every year in dc!
What do you need funding for? How much does it actually cost to build this thing?
You would have to live outside US and it’s territory before engaging in such tertiary funding.
Because there's another meaning of "remotely," as in the phrase "that's not even remotely true." Not having anything to do with physical distance, and referring to metaphorical distance from the facts.
Please read the article
I've been really enjoying https://www.youtube.com/c/ArjanCodes and frequently watch one over my lunch break.

He covers a lot of programming principles and good practice with realistic examples (i.e. _not_ "class Animal")
Please also make the open-source licensing clearer. I couldn't figure out which license they are actually under. It refers to CC 4.0, but creative commons currently has 6 different licenses in version 4.0.
This is why file names in applications shouldn't be considered "just a sequence of bytes forming any name". It should be a tiny subset of valid strings for some definition of "valid". Even if file systems or shells allow anything in a file name, you don't need applications to allow everything. A system SaveAs dialog, or a graphical file explorer should just refuse to open or rename a file to contain U+202E or even something remotely nonobvious. Power users always have a backdoor (open a shell and rename the file) while "most users" should be presented with simple/sane/safe behavior.
Solve Four Wordles at Once
Maybe you're a part of an a/b test? Reddit has always worked fine in the browser for me.
It also had its own desktop/file manager back then. Good thing they removed it, although I often thought it could have been a nice optional feature to make small dedicated office machines that would load a very light OS image with the bare minimum necessary to run it without an underlying desktop manager.
I found this annoying and spammy. It took me almost a dozen clicks to find out where to buy the premium license, and there it says "contact us for a quote" instead of saying what the price is. I'll defer to others about whether this type of post (on the other site we used to call it a slashvertisement) is appropriate for HN but I'm personally not keen on it. I think if I wanted this type of product I could find it myself.
But that also creates security risks especially relating to information exposure. The ID provider will always know which services you use, how often you perform logins etc.

A secured password manager is the superior option, especially since you would not compromise every service in case your password is known by third parties.
One of the oldest math precision calculator was written by a women programmer. That cool. What other well know programs were written by the women authors.
> every method on collections like `map` or `filter`

I think you're remembering the various iterator adaptors, but they aren't methods on collections, they work on Iterators as their name implies. Somebody else explained why these methods can't all just return "Iterator" (that isn't a type) but just thought I'd mention you won't find map and filter in Rust's Vec or HashMap types, those methods live in the Iterator trait.
Disney appoints executive to oversee metaverse strategy
Can anyone explain what this is all about? I’m looking at the link and threads and have absolutely no idea what’s supposed to be significant here
Thanks for the video! How come we lost the `lowercase` command? I know you can use `tr` or `sed` among others to accomplish the same but I would still love to have a `lowercase` command :)
Fantastic but I still can't find a reasonably priced mini PC like the Intel NUCs.

I've purchased three NUCs over the years and have decided the next mini PC will be AMD. Though prices are not comparable.

I don't fancy supporting Intel anymore purely based on the underhanded PR tactics they've used against AMD, and power usage.
John Carmack? Fabrice Bellard?
When redacting individual words, you probably don't want to use the same size black box as the rendered word, since someone might be able to figure out what word it was based on the length of the box and the document font.

Also, consider removing metadata from digital files using mat2:

https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2
So, ignorant question here, but isn't the cord blood supposed to go into the baby?
> I'm always delighted by the light touch and stillness of early programming languages. Not much text; a lot gets done. Old programs read like quiet conversations between a well-spoken research worker and a well-studied mechanical colleague

Much of this was of course due to the lower performance of computing at the time - compilers just weren't highly sophisticated, and it made sense to code simply so as to leverage them as much as possible. That same attitude also extends to old-style "system design", which was often bespoke in a way that would not be very well regarded today. A hardware-portable compiled system like early Unix, designed for practicality and real use, was a huge novelty back then.
My argument is no matter what they're going to assume they didn't send out a pre-physically damaged product...

So if they even pay attention to the sticker at all... they're going to assume you tried to get it repaired before they're going to assume they intentionally sent it out with a "this isn't fixed" sticker.

No one here is sitting in their RMA department which is why it's better to just say "they didn't inspect it well enough" than to start conjuring up specifics of their process... which is why I didn't bring up the sticker in the first place.
Thanks. Please consider indexing your sets on iconduck.com
Sorry for the imprecise phrasing. During training, patterns are stored in the network parameters. The query will naturally be similar to one or several of the patterns stored, which are then returned (in hopfield-speak "completed").
It was different prior to the mid-90's and the 80's (despite much more primitive tech) were even more fun. Two things happened around the same time: Bill Gates became the worlds richest man (and a household name) and a bunch of college dropouts started becoming overnight multi-millionaires (at least) with the dot com explosion which was well publicized. Prior to that, sure there was good money to be made in some areas of tech[1], but many were driven by interest rather than a career path and most non-tech people just regarded computers as those things they didn't understand. Most business people regarded computers as fancy calculators that did the accounting and it was hella-hard to even get them to learn about spreadsheets. So geeks were pretty much left alone and programming wasn't seen as the mail room job on the path to getting rich it is today.

In that environment, a lot of adults were willing to give technically minded kids at least some amount of their time because the only reason most of us (kids, at the time) were asking questions was because we just wanted to understand how all this stuff worked for fun rather than working on a get rich quick scheme. I also suspect the adults found this enthusiasm more interesting than the general disdain they probably experienced at the office.

[1] As in, put in some time and develop an area of expertise that someone valued... then you could start making money. Most college grads were viewed as fairly useless for their first few years out of school and their salaries reflected that.
What the hell. This feels basically native?!

I had no idea WebAssembly was this far developed. This feels like electron in reverse, and GOOD.