skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> will they still invest in new VC funds?

Given the Fed’s announcements have prompted a rotation out of fixed income and into public equities, probably. Equities fare better in times of inflation. Private equity is still equity. Valuations may flag.

> There just isn’t a history to know!

Yes there is. Venture capital, as an asset class, has been through multiple crashes and tight-money regimes. (Also, nitpick: the Fed hasn’t been buying $100bn/month for some time. It’s currently in the $10 to 30bn regime and winding down.)
thanks for the info!
maybe it's Jerry: https://info.woolyss.com/
Pretty much everyone has to pay if you use turbo-tax, the "free" edition is not an IRS free file offering they don't advertise that one. There are very very very limited cases to not be hit by a "surprise" you need to upgrade and pay us from with money from your tax return. A staggering percentage of people who would have eligible to file for free under the IRS program end up paying because of the dark patterns, and the misleading marketing you for whatever reason are perpetuating.

2 years ago 37 Million people filed online who were eligible to use an IRS free file offering and only 6.8% did... [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xQQkzWhMOc&ab_channel=Netfl...

[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you...
> Yes this is why anything to do with ai should be open source. It can be too powerful in the hands of bad actors

Maybe read your sentence again. Carefully...
Nobody even remembers being 0-6 years old. I have decided this is in part a sort of grace period for you, the parent, to get your shit together. For example, if you have a kid at 25, you’ve got at least until 30 to secure a stable environment for them. (You are also way more motivated to do this when the kid is there)

Certainly on the other hand, it makes some things easier if you don’t have to sweat the cost of a doctor visit, but it’s hardly prerequisite.
Of course it doesn’t. We’re talking about who is doing what today.
Hey - author here.
Would love to hear what other folks do to start projects - ours is definitely a work in progress!
Todoist with metrics.

Todoist to me is regular (habits) + irregular to-dos (e.g. buy book, follow-up on email, etc.).

Pure habit tracking apps don't work b/c you need build a habit to use the app and with the content always being stale, they have high churn.

I want an app that also lets me track personal OKRs (habits). My goal might be to do 15 pullups and my habit could be to do 5 pullups per day. I want to know how often I skip my daily pull up habit so I can know to make adjustments (e.g. maybe 5 is too many. I should start with 3.).
The scheme reminds me of ARM MTE - Memory Tagging Extension, but done in software with larger tags. In MTE, every pointer has a tag in its non-address bits that are checked against a tag for each object, stored in shadow memory.

This scheme does not even use the Pointer Authentication on the pointer as such but as a generic cryptographic hash function to validate a 16-bit tag in the pointer against a 32-bit tag in memory. This means that PAC is not strictly necessary for the scheme. You'd only need to be able to calculate hashes of 32-bit values (+ key) down to 16 bits and stuff them into the higher unused bits of the pointer. The PAC instructions only do that a little bit faster than otherwise.
Which is fine frankly. Now everyone can have their own platforms with their own rules. I really don't see an issue with it
Medieval Photoshop
Thank you! Your feedback/ideas are much appreciated!
Infrastructure at speed: 5 lessons learned from building Intercom in Europe
I actually have a 3a XL, running Lineage.

I am contemplating a switch to /e/os from the original developer of Mandrake Linux. I'm going to try it out on a OnePlus 3 at some point in the future.

MicroG is included with /e/os and Lineage remains hostile to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//e/_(operating_system)

https://e.foundation/
I think about this all the time myself.

Have you looked into StikK? They provide services like automatically donating to your most hated charity if you don't meet your goals (they provide options like the NRA and Planned Parenthood).
The bootloaders aren't unlocked, they're just not carrier locked. Big difference.
try codementor.io
I learned Java from the “Core Java” books 20 years ago. The language has changed so much since that I’m tempted to pick up another “Java from scratch” series and read it cover to cover to see how new developers are viewing the language now.
One of my childless friends like to say that children ruin everything. They're right, but they also lack the imagination that beyond the wreckage of "everything" (e.g. your former life) is a new life that could be better than the old. It took me a long time to understand that. (I probably had postpartum depression.)

What I'd tell my former self is: start doing everything in my life to optimize for my own perceived agency in this new life. I started doing the things that I'd previously delayed for "retirement" now, albeit with much smaller time investments. (Working toward decoupling time from pay.) If there are relationship issues, then start working on those, too. And, for heaven's sake, once the kid can be watched by family/friends, start doing so.

Good luck. HTH!
What’s C# and .Net really like on Linux now? I know Microsoft says it’s great but I’m once bitten twice shy after trusting that Azure would be good.

I am happy to try different languages but I will never again support a Windows Server over a Linux VM.
funded != did the work
For those looking for the solution, it is QkxBQ0tCT0FSRApIRUxJQ09QVEVS (inspired by the author who posted one of the words).
77% of Americans don’t have paid family leave.

McKinsey is over complicating this. I guess it’s harder to tell businesses their employees need better benefits.
every B2B startup I hear about these days. Selling CRM,
project management and time tracking tools to (mostly)
other VC-funded companies is just a way to skim more
cream out of the economy

I think it's OK to an extent. Not all of those apps are good, but the best of them do enable businesses.

I am dismayed by the lack of real, society-enhancing
jobs available to highly skilled tech workers

I think the root problem is a lack of developers. The resulting crazy high developer pay scale prices smaller orgs completely out of the game.

We need to increase the supply of capable developers.
If you are able to race at dusk or in the evenings with medium external lighting, tracking different colored indicator leds doesn't require extensive or expensive hardware. This will only really give you a 2d overview, but some information on altitude can be gleaned from the amplitude of the light from each drone.

A quick example on how well this works, this is a few roombas bouncing around [1]

This is what that path integration can look like rendered in a video [2]

[1] https://transistor-man.com/PhotoSet/roomba_dance/animated/da...

[2] https://vimeo.com/645355520#t=30s
a weather app or service that allows you to look at least one year-long time lapse of global satellite and radar loop.
Most services that i looked into offer up to 12hrs, but not sure why.

Something like this, but up to date:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w3o6_cn-O8
> There's also the thing of most people seem to need hierarchies to feel secure. I don't quite understand it but I'm probably just weird.

Social organisms usually have some sort of ordering hierarchy. While most of the 'alpha' and 'sigma-grindset' nonsense is just that -- nonsense -- people are hierarchical animals.

It also means you don't need to give a damn about stuff that's above or below your paygrade. You do your hours on X, and other teams can worry about Y.

> a lot of devs have very little experience of what life looks like with engineers at the helm

A lot of devs have very little experience in a lot of fields. The best programmers I've met started coding at 15, went to MIT, and have been in software their whole lives; they have no paradigm outside of what they've been exposed to during their college-intern-jr.dev phases. Most of em that I know haven't ever worked a job flipping burgers or washing cars, either.

Makes it hard to break out of that mentality, and also means that a lot of very smart coders do piss-poor jobs managing & leading. Inevitably the shitty engineer-managers fail, and the business types are dragged back in.
> It was replacing very competent drivers having a perfect knowledge of the town and of the optimal paths with drivers with absolutely no competence needed

So the drivers were replaced with organic hardware (other, non-knowledgable humans) and their knowledge was replaced with software (google maps, or whatever Lyft/Uber use for maps)?
Yeah... Maybe that's why another person in this thread had such an easy time flashing a 3rd party OS using the WebUSB installer and not even opening the terminal.

+1 points for Google for cool stuff like Project Treble (gotta keep techies on board)

-99 points for Google for abandoning Flagship devices for 99% of users that techies might have sold to family and friends.
That's the issue, only flagships. All the more affordable and mainstream models don't get any meaningful software support.

Apple has some horrific practices that I don't agree with when it comes to repairability, but at least it treats its products the same way. The iPhone SE from 2016 still runs the latest iOS version, same for iPhone 7.
Very nice.

Perhaps your Twitter-share-path-to-virality could be an image of green boxes (a-la Wordle) with the lengths of the words in decreasing order?

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Perhaps also with the score of each word if that's not too much of a giveaway.
Sorry, I should have worded my comment differently, I didn't mean to sound accusatory or dismissive.
I am certainly no authority on what rules other people should have. But I also think history would have been very different if women had had the financial independence they do now, plus access to the birth control methods available these days.
Great question and feedback! We use GA to track how many reminders are created by our total user base to get a better understanding of user behaviours.
> By demonstrating that the product you're maintaining indeed still works?

... The post you are replying to was a rhetorical question because the answer to your question famously is "No, absolutely not".
Ambiguities in the intended language aren't literally "still there" in the PEG, but realistically they are "still there" as a source of problems: naive PEGs can remove ambiguities incorrectly in less than obvious ways, and figuring out what's wrong can be more difficult than hitting a brick wall with other parsing approaches.
> "Metro" was never "dead on arrival" it was murdered by very vocal minorities of users and developers and subsequent over-corrections that could have been better solved with smaller tweaks.

Sure, you can believe this, and I'm sure the good folk at Microsoft believed it too. They were wrong, and so were you :)

Metro not only messed up people's workflows by taking over the screen, it itself was massively inefficient for any kind of work due to low information density. The Microsoft Store was a cesspool of scamware because who the heck would develop exclusively for an unpopular platform beyond scammers trying to trick grandma. Good riddance.
> Can you come up with a better solution?

Yes!!!! It's called central banks and monetary policies. Seriously.
We need to get back our democratic control over it, and make it work for us again. We have to stop wanting to fix our societal issues with technology: we can't fix our money with crypto-currency any more than we can't fix mass surveillance with encryption.

If anything, crypto currencies are a concentration of what is worse with our existing financial system: even less democratic control, no regulations and therefore all sorts of scams, and we can't tune it to make our economy work.

In a world ruled by crypto, our governments would have the perfect alibi for failing: it's not their fault, their hands are tied, they can't get the money for the projects that are needed. This has happened plenty of times in the past when we were using gold and such. And that's just the credit crunch problem, there are many more.
Feynman’s advice to W&M student resonates 45 years later (2020)
Marginalia puts a smile on my face.

Just knowing that there is one Swede with one tower PC doing what almost everyone on HN thinks needs redundant datacenters, sysadmin teams, ux teams and what not gives me some hope for the future of the web.

Oh, another reason: every time I use it, either searching for something or using the explore function it proves that the old web isn't dead.

And sometimes it gives very good results that I wouldn't have found otherwise (ln topics like linux, git etc).
Yes, and I have unlocked my 3a and wiped prior to Lineage.

I have several Android devices where this is not possible, and bringing this requirement to the rest of the Android ecosystem is our "right to repair."
I like it. I wish there was a visual cue showing me on which line the tile would fall.
It's a good point, but I think this is still a valuable exercise. The strategy shouldn't be "listen to what people say they want and then build that", but instead listen through what they say they want and into their problems. If nothing else this may lead, eventually, to discovering a class of problems you weren't aware of.
This is about as laudable as removing someone's cast from their broken arm early just because you "believe in the future."
I always thought that the word "vintage" came from the french word "vingt" (the word for the number 20).

So I was going to answer "of course, 2002 is vintage, it's 20 years old".

But I checked and I was wrong, it comes from the wine world.

Thanks to you, TIL
Are you sure thats not just 'looking at the past through rose-tinted glasses'? I loved PalmOS/Graffiti as well back then, but I am way faster nowadays just writing naturally with my S Pen and Samsungs handwriting recognition.
If it’s like every other Trump-branded venture, he’s happy to get paid to lend his name and equally happy to leave customers and business partners in the lurch as soon as he sees something more interesting.
Nebula[1] comes pretty close to what I want, actually. They are targeting a niche, like you suggest, mostly educational video content. I don't know their business model. Anyway, I should put my money where my mouth is and try it out.

[1] https://nebula.app/
I’m not defending either standard Unicode identifiers or C Unicode identifiers (which are, incidentally, very different things, see WG14/N1518), no :) The Agda people make good use of various mathematical operators, including ones that are very close to the language syntax (e.g. colon as built-in type ascription and equals as built-in definition, but Unicode colon-equals as a substitution operator for a user-defined type of terms in a library for processing syntax), but overall I’m not convinced it’s worth it at all.

As a way to avoid going ASCII-only, though, excluding only things that look like syntax might be simultaneously not going far enough (how are homograph collisions between user-defined identifiers any better?) and too far (reliably transplating identifiers between languages that use different sets of punctuation seems like it’d be torturously difficult).
Robots and Pizza and Crypto = New Pizzabot at Aldi's Australia
Grocery store chain Aldi launched Pizzabot, a robotic pizza making vending machine that will soon accept "Pizzabot" cryptocurrency.
Yeah, but you might also realize many of those activities were (unbeknownst to you) essentially performative displays to attract a partner, with little inherent worth.
Last I knew, Verizon insisted on locked Pixel bootloaders.

Assuming this remains the case, do not buy Pixels from Verizon.
after some loong wait-and-look-at-trends, i switched to sailfish last year.

linux / qt and all. good.

Android-app support.. ~ yes. good. If app doesnot work it's mostly because it wants to googleize me.. and fail. i can live with that.

Some websites won't open because somewhat old webkit - the hell with them.

No native clients for this or that.. meh. i can live with it.

it's essentialy like a computer in pocket as it should be. everyday things. ssh and what not if u really want.

Not an eye-enabled-wallet as all else has become..
Most everyone knows the "capitalist's answer". But it's specious, as it assumes a large scale check that requires P = NP.

In the real world market inefficiency creates local maximums, which can then be leveraged to implement policy. The most lucrative policies are to make those maximums even stickier. Advertising itself is a prime example of this - in a perfectly efficient market, once a brand became well known you'd think that additional money going to advertising would be a waste - causing the company to be less competitive and they'd dial it back. But instead what saturating advertising actually does is crowd out any new competitors that might come along. So as a customer, you're effectively overpaying so that you can have less choice!

This effect becomes even more relevant as the costs of production drop to zero, as an upstart competitor cannot get a leg up by optimizing production - in other words, the brand itself is a larger component of the "value". And on the larger topic, these days large corporations are declared "too big too fail" and bailed out by the central bank, rather than letting market mechanics assert themselves in even the most pressing cases.

Effective libertarianism involves recognizing that corporations and government are not dichotomous types of entities, but rather that both lay somewhere on a continuum of coercion. If the companies offering a product or service effectively move in lock step on some policy, then your main ability to reject that policy consists of going without that product or service. This is perhaps easier, but of the exact same vein, as needing to physically move to reject specific laws.
I'd love to see a library like this with compatible implementations across multiple languages. I'd particularly like one that lets a JavaScript frontend and a Python backend work together to manage a data structure.

The best trick I've seen for encouraging this kind of thing is to offer a language-agnostic test suite. I had a glance through some of the Automerge tests just now and, while they're written in JavaScript, it looks like it might be possible to extract most of them out into JSON or YAML files which could then be easily used to exercise multiple implementations.
Mathematica is one of the greatest software applications of all time but hearing Wolfram talk about it will make you throw up in your mouth
By being open source = democratising

Bad actors start using ai to do bad things. Good actors use ai to counter bad actors.

Or is that not what you meant?
Textile Block method, so an obligatory 'Blade Runner' mention: https://www.fancypantshomes.com/architecture/frank-lloyd-wri...
It supports WebSockets, HTTP/2 (including gRPC) and HTTP/3 (with .NET 6+).
Maybe you should build hardware! There are plenty of businesses built on hardware. What's keeping you from going that route?
I don't quite understand these lines:

#define ;

#define do

I was under the impression it was "#define CNAME value" – what does it mean when there is no value? A trip to Google didn't turn up anything for me, so I'm wondering if a C master can weigh in. Thanks!
I haven't written benchmarks yet but it is something I am working on. The reason that performance is mentioned in the README is that I haven't spent time on improving it yet.

The biggest blockers in terms of performance are:

- Communication with the internal Rust engine is performed over HTTP instead of FFI.

- You cannot select a subset of fields (every scalar field in a model is selected)

- You cannot skip pydantic validation which while fast is unnecessary in some cases

With that said Prisma Python should be reasonably fast but I would expect it to be on the lower end of the spectrum compared to other Python ORMs. I have ran some load tests locally and creating 500,000 records took about 90 seconds.
If someone following satnav is a software driven human, what's someone following a paper map?

The quote takes a very dystopian view of the augmenting of humans with technology, sure there are people who will blindly follow the directions/"knowledge" of a machine, but just as many will be consciously and intelligently using the machine as a tool to further their own goals.

As above, so below. The comment mentioning people above/below the API doesn't remember how much background stuff us developers use every day to be capable of so much more (and also less) than the developers of yore.
> The only implementations are basically run by dominant elites, who emerge as the ruling class, resulting in exclusive political economic systems.

This is mighty reminiscent of basically every other system of large (super-Dunbar-scale) society control, from the ancient priest-kings, through the Roman "republic" and imperial systems, medieval feudalism, and late-stage capitalism.

When control of the political system (how society allocates resources) can be used in a self-dealing manner, and resources can be used to control the political system, the steady state will tend towards the pattern you noted above (especially when those resources tend toward power-law distributions).

Notably, the argument can be made that the situations where political power has reverted to a wider base (including the establishment of modern democracies) has come about when social or technological changes destabilized the economic distribution structure. Examples include the workers' movement you cited, the growing late medieval era's growing merchant class (whose willingness to be taxed to fund mutually-beneficial programs and corresponding demands for control over those programs helped trigger the creation of European democracy), and the western Roman Empire's decaying ability to use the funds of expansion to exert social control in its occupied territories.

Lastly, it should be noted that, as brutal, illiberal, and inegalitarian as the USSR ended up being, the society they replaced (the Tsarist Russian Empire), being an industrialized dictatorship built around an enormous serf class was probably worse on all three counts.
Idk...

Top 5% rating cutoff for lichess blitz chess is currently 2200. That corresponds to the bottom levels of master/pro players in classic odb chess tournaments. A lot of pros play online, so benchmarking is decently reliable.

"Not that good" is subjective... but to me, this is serious levels of chess play.
If it's so easy, then I don't understand why they don't just have a high level OS version that they can make available across all of their devices? How much overhead can there really be?

(I really would like to understand better.)
I think thousands are still in the minority. And even among those you'll have some that give up on giving up.