skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've ever done a social sciences study as a participant in your undergrad years you know these stats are complete BS. People just try to get it over with as soon as possible and click fast through surveys. Ratings are incredibly subjective and there basically is no objective measurement. The authors of the studies go in with preconceived notions of what the results should look like based on the existing literature.

It reminds me of a famous racial bias study taught in "Leadership" courses in which the authors found that people had slower reaction times to pictures of black people and came to the conclusion that this meant we must have some innate bias against black people. Zero attempt to control for the image brightness, contrast, or any other potential explanatory factors.
Hm… I would say in 2013 when I bought a laptop with an SSD.
Semantle: Like Wordle, but for Linguists
Computer has been fast enough for me when I no longer wanted to play AAA FPS games, i.e. probably around the year 2008. Then as the last time I actually built a computer.
Still being revised in standards committees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#COBOL_2014
A proper heat pump is never less efficient than an electric resistance.

Soil, at a depth of only around a few meters, rarely exceeds 10C, even in summer. That gives you a 45C differential for your boiler in the worst of worst cases with a ground heat exchanger, which is more than enough for best-case efficiency, year long.

This will be less expensive than a crypto in material cost very rapidly.
Related:

Apple's Mistake (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7344783 - March 2014 (56 comments)

Apple's Mistake (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6329991 - Sept 2013 (8 comments)

Apple's Mistake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1081514 - Jan 2010 (25 comments)

Apple's Mistake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=950751 - Nov 2009 (269 comments)
In practice the vast majority of MIPS code uses addu, the non trapping variant.

And in x86 land there's the into instruction, interrupt if overflow bit set, so you're left with the same options.
This article isn't an obit, though. Guckes is being elevated by a unique dedication for a prominent FOSS project, and such honors express the values of FOSS culture.
Quite so. I took the time to read the article, and it’s not abrasive or offensive. (You didn’t say it was, I took you as making a more general point.)

It’s not saying anything new either.
Well, you got the meetings with the or agencies, that’s going to cost a ton. Then there is licensing of music which is a known and respected artist. Likely a bunch of other additional costs to an ad agency to create the video and deliver to spec to the channel broadcasting the commercial. Lots of these aren’t huge, but when you get into live tv production, there are a ton of costs that seem insanely high, but it’s the business.
> happy that the person died

That's simply a lie. Her words support that she is happy about him not harassing anyone anymore, but not about his death per se. Which she explicitly emphasizes down the thread again.
And maybe there should be something more than a couple of tweets from random persons without ANY proofs? That’s just so wrong.
He was well known as an open source evangelist and as a helpful guy.

But he was also known as "sexual predator" who harassed young, underaged girls, see https://twitter.com/twena/status/1495537875651371012

I don't know if it is appropriate to make a dedication to someone like this.
I'll second this. Getting an SSD was the last big "oh shit" upgrade. Now the only things I recognize myself waiting for are really heavyweight programs, like yes, gaming.
When this was written I was an Apple fanboy.

These days, as a dev, I really don't trust Apple at all. I would never even think of making a product for any of the Apple platforms. As a freelancer I've stopped taking any iOS/macOS projects too. It's not the 30% but Apple's attitude of controlling their turf like the mafia under pretended moral superiority.

As a user I'm as cynical as I've ever been. I use macOS and Windows on a daily basis, and for dev work I generally prefer macOS over Windows. But I'm always running at least a major macOS version behind and never buy any 1st gen Apple product. I simply expect their stuff to fail in one way or another. I've been bitten way too many times to trust them. Nvidiagate, Radeongate, Yosemite, iPad 3, iPhone 4, etc, the list is very long.

Just weeks ago, my wife's Macbook Air (a 4 year old machine) started having issues with the keyboard and trackpad disconnecting. Apple's authorized repair services* say they want to replace almost all the parts (pretty much excluding the screen) and the repair cost is almost as much as buying a new Air.

* Apple Mexico doesn't really do repairs here like in the US so you're forced to go through one of those services.

Or right now, the Apple TV has been suffering issues with Atmos for the past couple of months. There's a thread in Apple's forums with 14 pages of users complaining which keeps growing even though posts are deleted by the mods constantly.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253168177
> Do you think businesses just magically get talked about with zero investment in marketing dollars?

Yes. It's hardly magic. If some business or service provides a great value or "a better way of being" people naturally get excited and tell their friends. I'm not a domain expert but my understanding is that these organic word-of-mouth referrals and recommendations are waaaaaay more effective than any other form of marketing. The other organic thing that happens is when people realize they have a need and ask their friends for referrals and recommendations. It works great if your product is great.

If you can't develop and sustain word-of-mouth organically then you have to use other less efficient and more coercive means. Deliberate marketing is commercial propaganda. Someone wants to put their hand in my wallet and is deliberately using professionally-design artificial media to trick me into letting them.

Your example of the barker with the megaphone is noise pollution and a waste of a human being. But you can go much further back. It was decadent when the Romans did it, and it was decedent when we San Franciscans did it, it's decadent today.

> its inconceivable to think any modern company doesn't spend money on advertising/marketing

You can't conceive it, maybe, but I can. There are worlds without advertising/marketing. There are marketplaces that operate efficiently on word of mouth alone. You might not believe me, but it's true, and from those worlds our modern advertising/marketing mania seems like a madness.
The number of crypto ads felt alarmingly high this year.
On the other hand, their Windows software is universally bad. The ending of Safari for Windows probably means they recognize this to some extent. My guess is they rely heavily on the quality of their libraries and tooling to make good software on OS X and iOS, and they struggle on Windows since it's an alien world.

So maybe it's accurate to say they do understand tooling, and that negates the need to understand software as long as they stick to a world they control.
I think it's easy to read this post, then look at Apple's market cap and conclude that Paul got this one wrong.

I don't think he did.

As an entrepreneur, when I held the iPhone 4s in my hand ~10 years ago, I saw only possibilities. In 2022 when I hold my iPhone 13 in my hand, I see a known quantity with all the use-cases permanently ossified. I don't dare to dream about what is possible. Only Apple can truly move this platform forward. I'll be a passive observer.

This is not how I feel about the Mac, and I think Paul's post accounts for the difference. I really feel if I have a great idea and execute I can meaningfully impact the trajectory of the platform.

There is no doubt the iPhone and the iPad will continue to be commercially successful products. But now, 14 years after the launch of the App Store, that feels like such a poor measurement of their net-new impact on society. The magic is gone.
With the notable exceptions of advanced use cases, such as web browsing and the I/O speed of the SD card, the Raspberry Pi 4 is fast enough for most common computing tasks (assuming you prefer vim over IntelliJ/PyCharm).
> FRP is a plague on the industry, and everyone is going to figure that out in a couple years.

Why is FRP/Combine bad? What is better?
Other HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30410077
Well, I (& they) personally know people who are victims of Sven’s stalker like behaviour / issues / symptoms of a bigger problem

I see that a lot of the appreciation posts are also purely anecdotal. So are we contesting whose word has more value here or what anecdotal experience is valid/invalid or appropriate to share?
> It is about as good as a response that can be considered

Just FYI, you want:

> It is about as good a response as can be considered

(Incidentally, I couldn't agree more with your comment. It was a very magnanimous response that he gave.)
Heat pumps may be more efficient, but they can't be employed everywhere an electric resistance is used. To be fair, miners can't either, but are much easier to deploy.

We don't need to think solely of miners - crypto-mining is just one form of monetizing computing. If we could have something like a reverse Amazon Mechanical Turk, we could put computing resources available to receive and process packaged workloads cheaper than, say, an EC2 Spot Instance could, provided the client can cope with the added latency. As for incorrect answers, it could use some consensus where you send the payload to two independent parties and, if they don't match, you send it to additional parties until your consensus is ready.
As far as I am aware, doing that only updates the kernel.
If you don't have declarative rendering, you have imperative rendering with stuff like `canvas.drawLine()` etc. (just a made up example). This code tends to be very annoying to write and maintain because you need to do a lot of building up of elements and tracking the state of them yourself.

What you are referring to with UIKit, NSLayout, and Storyboards is in fact declarative rendering, but the layout code can only be modified with a point and click editor. In most people's opinions, editing code directly is much more controllable and works better for systems like Git.
My cousin was a ER doctor. Last year, after one shift, he had some abdominal pain. One colleague offered to perform an echography and bam, there it was: renal cells cancer, with a size comparable to the kidney itself. Further tests revealed that it was already metastasized, and five months later he left us. He was 53 years old, he knew everything that was going to happen to him, and happen it did. It was not a matter of insurance or receiving more or less care, his fate was written since that damning echography.

This reads like a horror story but that's the crudeness of life and death for us. Only thing to do is medical checkups from time to time and try to live a plenty life because you may not be there after the next corner.
It serves as one because it communicates the fact of his death to a large number of people who probably were not aware of that, and I suspect this is the main reason it got posted here in the first place.
Interestingly the figure for "the eye has a resolution of 576 megapixels" comes from this article:

https://clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html
My Vic 20 was plenty fast for me. It needed more RAM.
Response Times: The 3 Important Limits (1993)
To answer your question, the root cause of my decision to leave the core team is a toxic environment in the meetings themselves. The catalyst was a specific meeting last summer: after being insulted and yelled at over WebEx (not for the first time, and not just one core team member), I decided to take a break. I was able to get leadership to eventually discuss the situation with me last Fall, but after avoiding dealing with it, they made excuses, and made it clear they weren't planning to do anything about it.

Apple's management culture is they're basically running an army of orcs. Anyone who threatens the authority of the mid-level bureaucrats - they'll sic the orcs at you.
Is the idea that when you are in the top nlines and hit Ctrl-L you'd still like it to screen center? I know that feeling!
> This will be less expensive than a crypto in material cost very rapidly.

That I never doubted.
They should definitely fix that, however "don't travel much" and "over 50 (countries travelled)" are opposites.
> To answer your question, the root cause of my decision to leave the core team is a toxic environment in the meetings themselves. The catalyst was a specific meeting last summer: after being insulted and yelled at over WebEx (not for the first time, and not just one core team member), I decided to take a break. I was able to get leadership to eventually discuss the situation with me last Fall, but after avoiding dealing with it, they made excuses, and made it clear they weren't planning to do anything about it. As such, I decided not to return. They reassure me they "want to make sure things are better for others in the future based on what we talked about" though.

Seems incredibly disrespectful.
I don't think it's possible to overstate how popular Coinbase is. I used to assume it was Binance that was #1 because they have a slightly more active social media presence, no it's Coinbase by a big margin. Coinbase owns the US adult market, which has much deeper pockets compared to Binance. Also it is why those YouTube livestream scammers so much too, by targeting those deep pocketed Coinbase users.
it's easy to forget that modern buildings have much more complex loads, higher stress weights, and the added benefit of us being able to calculate strength.

it's kind of similar to the idea a 'craftsman' house used to cost the equivalent of 50k, and now a house is 500k. That's down to electrical service, having gas, appliances, modern codes, and more. shit, it's been so effective at reducing random fires that fire houses now have to include EMS for a reason to exist.

it's cool as shit that a bridge over an ocean can last 100 years, do you have any classic examples of bridges or buildings in continuous use for thousands of years? of course not, it would wear out. the buildings that last are directly proportional to how used they are, unless maintained like a religious building.
The stage is git's killer feature to me. I'm very iterative, so I tend to change a lot of tangential things as I narrow down the best implementation of my code. Knowing that I'm free to change whatever I want and only commit the parts that I've determined are good is very liberating.

My workflow is basically just change whatever I want to get to my goal. When I finally get the behavior I want, stage the changes and stash the rest. Once I've verified that everything works, commit the stage and drop the stash. I don't have to think about anything not directly related to my commit. Feels like with tools like jujutsu, pijul, mercurial...I'd have a lot of manual cleanup to do _before_ committing...and then what if I accidentally clean up something I didn't realize I needed? It's gone. Whereas, with git I can just pop the stash and stage whatever piece I missed.
Old ideas: I've built a few but never put in (proper) sales/marketing effort.

1. aggregation of status pages. This was free. It had all the popular SaaS ones and was kept up-to-date with polling scripts written with a variety of heuristics or explicit scripting.

2. "20,000 foot view" distributed log events. It was a distributed 'key-event' log that integrated with logging so that you could put in a request-id or user-id and get the high-level 'human-rate' events in a time interval. Each high-level event had a link to the Loggly search. It could also present the events in a sequence-diagram view through the chain of connected services.

3. Hosted (private or public) exact github repo trigram/regex search using Hound-Search (aka etsy/houndd). The automated provisioning using cloud vms (not K8s) was pretty neat to set up.

4. Others. Tried making some info aggregators for products or movies to make it easy for me to find things I liked. Not complete enough to be better than existing web sites.
Interesting. Ben Thompson’s Aggregation Theory is more predictive of Apple’s domination of mobile applications than this. Perhaps this is just porn for developers because it makes us feel powerful. The truth, though, is that the developers go where the demand goes.
> because of languages like Java or Go

Sounds like you haven't spun up a large project recently :) Anything Maven build times are terrible and Go isn't much better once you start bringing in a ton of dependencies and codegen frameworks for stuff like protobuf and dependency injection. Java builds can easily take 30 mins and Go at least 3-4 mins.

Don't even get me started on MacOS Docker IO performance. Every time something gets faster we fill it up with more inefficiency.
Potentially. But, families can also travel to places where they don't live. They can also engage in activities that are of interest to customs officials, regardless of their residency status.

Rather than guessing, it's prudent to simply ask the question, no?
That sucks. And yes, your last line is spot on: use it while you have it.
Middle management does have a lot of autonomy and leeway to operate as they see fit at Apple, which could explain the lack of oversight.
Third. Still using my 2013 mb air. I’ll probably replace soon but not because I’m having performance issues.
That is part of the marketing angle too. Now there are tons of stories about the site being down.
The segment registers were less prominent on the 80386 in protected mode since you also have paging, and each segment can be 4G in size. On the 80286 in protected mode the segment registers are still very much there (no paging, each segment is still limited to 64k).
> > Everyone who writes about programming the Intel 286 says what a pain its segmented memory architecture was

> Actually this concerns more pre-80286 processors, since 80286 introduced virtual memory,

86 had segments, 286 added protected mode, 386 added virtual. I would agree, though, 286 wasn't as bad as people make it sound. In OS/2 1.x it was quite usable.
I'm not conflating them, but taking the counter argument to an extreme. The question was tongue-in-cheek, I wasn't expecting a "yes".

The objections to "overtourism" are in small part the same ones to gentrification, which essentially boils down to a large amount of migrants moving into a community and "disrupting" the local lifestyle. I'm not saying this isn't a problem in many cities, but that a) it's often viewed in a xenophobic light instead of accepting that communities change rapidly due to globalization, and that this change is not always entirely negative, and b) that efforts to regulate this should come first and foremost from governments, and not expected from companies whose only goal is increasing profit. This is the same way it has worked for the tobacco, pharma, food and many other industries, but it's clearly not working well for the tech industry, as governments struggle to catch up to the sheer amount of rapid changes affecting almost every part of society.
My understanding is Swift doesn't have the same level of openness and community involvement as Rust. Apple has a lot more control over the language.
Yes, every serious lab that researches drone control uses similar systems. They are the best way to go. Buy a kit, put up your sensors, calibrate, and enjoy precise tracking.
And your smugness has blinded you to the fact that they've defeated the "whole point" if the QR code doesn't go anywhere. People aren't talking about it outside of geek circles, and even here, dang had to intervene to clarify WTF Armstrong's talking about:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30417859
I clicked on this thread because I knew exactly what I wanted to comment about, and was surprised to see that Chris mentioned exactly it in his message:

>After several discussions generating more heat than light, when my formal proposal review comments and concerns were ignored by the unilateral accepts, and the general challenges with transparency working with core team, I decided that my effort was triggering the same friction with the same people, and thus I was just wasting my time.

I stopped paying attention to Swift for this exact reason. I have actually submitted and implemented a feature in Swift and I think it was one of my most frustrating experiences with open-source projects. It seems that almost every thread in this forum devolves into people fighting over the most irrelevant details, and my proposal specifically took months to be submitted into review because a couple of users simply refused to back down from how they personally wanted it to work, ignoring the actual problem the feature aimed to solve. After a long time deflecting the comments, the feature was accepted the way I originally intended and I never entered the forum again.

Example aside, it doesn't take a proposal to see that almost every thread in the forum looks like this. Open sourcing Swift has benefits, but I think when it comes to the actual progress of the project, this particular democratic process was a mistake.
From their readme:
> mold is a faster drop-in replacement for existing Unix linkers. It is several times faster than the LLVM lld linker, the second-fastest open-source linker which I originally created a few years ago. mold is designed to increase developer productivity by reducing build time, especially in rapid debug-edit-rebuild cycles.
Yeah. Someone could make a case study out of this for why marketing should not have final say on the names of technologies.
People are talking about other ads.
"(standard super bowl ads tend to be gimmicky, celebrity cameo driven, going for a laugh etc)" - interesting that one of their competitors, who happens to be growing much faster at the moment, had one of those "gimmicky, celebrity driven" ads. Said competitor, FTX, also had much more of a positive response to their ad and, as far as I could tell, had far, far more of a response on social media to their ad. (I will admit, a not insignificant part of said response was due to their Twitter giveaway.)
That would actually be an interesting direction. Swift would be an amazing server side language.
Almost as if something about cryptocurrency would consolidate enough money in the hands of the few for them to start running ads about it, yeah.
Nobody is talking about the ad organically. The CEO wrote a Twitter thread, so a handful of HN users are talking about it for the next few hours, then nobody will be talking about it again. It was a total gimmick that very few people even remember.
I couldn't find any, but you can emulate Palm on Android with the website CloudPilot.

Once I also built a proto-Grafitti symbol recognizer with a neural network in Python. (It doesn't support the Graffiti "X" because it requires two strokes).
Thank you. Still not over one of these. To the point that I recently reached for the phone to give that person a call and only after getting the 'number not available' signal it clicked again. Cognitively I've long ago accepted it but in times of half-attention it goes off the rails so easily.
For me the first version of photo editing happened in Russia. Enemies of Stalin were erased from photos and from Russian history.

Copy pasting images is kind of different. Photocopies have been part of the comic book trade way before using computers. I see these techniques closer to it.

- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photo-book...
Pixhawk exists. https://pixhawk.org/
$5k in ad development, $95k in meetings. Maybe the next iteration they'll add coinbase as a scrolling ticker at bottom.
The source is some random person on Twitter saying he is? Really?
What happened to SiFive?
What Is Encryption?