skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disbox – Use Discord as a file storage service
This is a toolkit problem then. Apps that use an X11 native UI toolkit like Xaw or Motif will respond to the -xrm flag.

It's not the fault of X11 if third party software refuses to follow existing specs.
https://youtu.be/dKG9HGPjMrg
https://youtu.be/cikuNhTjCe8

The missile should continue up not fall back down.
> Would you say you know why it was a success?

Oh, no. But I can say that the game is still objectively incredible. I recently did a full play through of the Steam version with the 7th Heaven upgrades, and enjoyed every minute of it. And I don't think it's all nostalgia either.

And yes, the music is incredible, as evidence by the fact that the Shin-Ra Orchestra still tours.
I also see this loginwall sometimes when trying to click through to related images or tweets. The workaround I've found is to open the click in a new tab. It seems if there is no browser history, twitter is less aggressive about throwing up the login wall
And drowns those treading water.
I tend to tell potential new hires about our revenue, funding raised, valuation etc. You wonder if there needs to be more education on equity or if these people just went for the high base salary.
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The thing that's holding us back on switching fully to OSM maps is geocoder data. Any lines on the OSM of geocoding?
Implementing this would be a good learning experience that will greatly increase your understanding of fopen, fseek and how block storage works. It would be an interesting experiment to benchmark reading a million files with tags at the start vs the end, and maybe compare using spinning rust storage to a modern NVMe drive.
HackerNews is the most 'social' network I do these days. Facebook and Twitter trigger some very unhealthy buttons in my brain, so I stopped using social media.

Frankly I need to back off on HN as well.
That's just a mainstream punk aesthetic though
A blue collar person with tattoos that is also WELL READ instead of JUST moshing though? That's punk.
Hard to kill because they're financially independent. We believe enough in the technology we're building (gpu-powered graph ai & visualization) and the missions we're powering (security, fraud, anti-misinfo, healthcare, etc.) that we turned down large initial funding as it would have broken us. So awhile back, being cockroaches meant running as cost-effectively as we could (and still do, in fact, just not as extreme) as we figured it out, and now that things are working, it means prioritizing sustainable growth vs financial games likely to fail.

In contrast, popular models prone to failure and largely fueled by market phenomena like low inflation rates include ad-based social media ("we'll turn on revenue in 5 years, no, really!"), blitzscaling ("we'll eventually figure it out!"), sales-driven growth ("our federal team will make our $ back in 3-5 years, no really!"), acquihires ("with enough AI talent we'll just sell our staff!").

I like venture capital, such as for deep tech and true growth, but the reality is most tech VC funding is more about financial engineering that assumes most of the portfolio fails. They push for commercial scaling too early and wipe out, which is fine for the rich VC who just needs 1-3 bets to win. Fine for them, but sucks for most founders & employees unless they job hop every 2 years. If we take VC $ again, it'd be on our terms and with a clear payback/growth return.

A great way to kill an otherwise great idea & company is putting VC $ in, which puts a company on overdrive and financially implodes before it has a chance to figure things out. They're addicted and likely can't stop relying on VC without layoffs (or less likely, succeeding), at which point many of the A players leave as well and hard to recover. Instead, if a cockroach raises > $2M (so commercialization phase), that should generate enough sales revenue that they can keep organically growing in 18-24mo later even if a follow-on round doesn't happen. You'll hear such cockroach founders saying they don't even touch the money for months. Numbers-wise, most Series A companies fizzle out, which is because of this unicorn-or-bust structure.. and especially whenever the market is not on a bull tear. With a bit more time, they probably could have figured it out... but they blew it.

Some articles:
- Paul Graham's article on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html .
- https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-build-a-cockroach-startup-ins...
- https://medium.com/the-mission/be-a-cockroach-not-a-unicorn-...
Crash at Crush
I doubt there is a conspiracy to stop house building, there's just planning laws that prevent and slow down development. The public want to two contradictory things, homes their children can afford and banning anything that could reduce their house price. Hence politicians look for scape goats like foreign Investors. Two conservative governments in the uk have tried to simplify planning law , and failed. We try all sorts of hacks like "affordable housing" legislation. The fact is, we make it hard to build where demand is greatest.
I wonder where all those machines ended up. Would love to get one and play with them.
> He seems like a caricature of a Silicon Valley programmer who got lucky and made a bunch of money who now thinks that makes him a genius

… okareaman typed into a web browser, the very technology Andreesen became wealthy pioneering.
I use it all the time for discovering new movies and similar movies to those I like
Oh, did you mean for that to rhyme? Shorten it a bit, and folks would remember it more easily. ;-)
Staying employed for another few decades without losing seniority in an industry that expects you to stay current on all of the latest hottest fads is a problem the engineers actually had.
Its nice to see the emphasis on safety: nuclear sciences can (and should) be explored by young persons in a manner that won't turn your garden shed into a superfund site. Safety first, kids. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
https://www.tetsu.eu

collection of web resources/links I deem high quality
OK, those are all good points. But I think it's misleading to present an analysis that groups everything by state. I think what I want is an analysis that brings in state-level variables like you mentioned but doesn't just spit out a score for each state.
You don't just execute a .wasm file, it requires a runtime which will JIT compile the code into machine code and handle the (wasi) system interfaces (e.g. read, write, stat, etc).
Thanks for the heads up, looks like "Enforce HTTPS" became unchecked for GH Pages. Digging in to why.
The taste is also highly effected by what the animal is fed. Cows fed on fresh gras will produce the most wonderful flavors in the resulting butters and milk vs those fed with dried gras or feed.
> 250 MHz in 1993 is insanity, considering that was the 33 MHz 486 era.

More precisely, it was the start of the Pentium era. The First Pentiums with 60/66 MHz were released in March 1993. But interesting enough, it seems the R4400 were already 64-bit.
There is often an overlap with this issue and undiagnosed ND conditions such as ASD or ADHD. It may be worth investigating.
Mercedes-Benz EQA
Mercedes-Benz EQB
Mercedes-Benz EQC
Mercedes-Benz EQS
MERCEDES-BENZ EQV
MERCEDES-BENZ eSprinter
MERCEDES-BENZ eVito
... are already being sold.

Are all being sold. EQE will be released this year. Smart is already all electric.
Sorry. Not sure what I can reasonably do to help there if Windows font rendering is just bad. Is it even something that Frank upstream could do anything about? (He's been responsive to our past bugs.) FWIW, I've heard that Windows font rendering can be good, so there may be settings you aren't using or something.
>I live in Germany and pay twice as much as what I would pay in France per Kwh

A feat achieved because France front loaded its nuclear capex. The plants they have are paid off but aging and almost at the end of their life while Germany has been ramping up new generation capacity.

Once Germany is close to 100% green energy their electricity prices will go down a lot.

>Nuclear is both cheaper and less polluting, but I guess it doesn't matter because one dude on twitter posted a big number chart due to a temporary anomaly

It's only cheaper if you already built the plants 40 years ago.

This spike is a sign of things to come. Most nuclear plants in France have about 10-15 years of life left and building a whole set of new ones will cost about half a trillion dollars and take... well, about 10-15 years i suppose. Dont think that wont get bundled into your electric billm

Of course, France could set about extending the life of these plants but that would significantly impact safety.
Burkina Faso's ex-president handed life sentence in absentia over Sankara murder
> I mean, I have conversations like that with people at work and I've never heard anyone say "salary" is the most important. Usually it's feeling proud at having solved a hard problem, or being proud of having shipped a product used by real customers. And I don't see either of these things on this survey.

I'd have thought that's pretty much exactly what "feeling productive" means? Compare to the inverse, largest cause of dissatisfaction being "not feeling productive" (or was it "feeling unproductive"?) and sucky environments. It's hard to be -- and therefore, to feel -- productive when you're struggling with a spaghetti-reinforced mudball.

I'd say what you are talking about is exactly what this survey found.
It'd be harder to control perceived performance of user facing applications though. If I can set the timeout, I can guarantee that something happens within X seconds, instead of within X iterations which could have different performance machine to machine.
The European W boson is 143 yoctograms while the American W boson is 5 heptilionths of an ounce, a small but significant difference.
Amusingly opening a private window avoids that. I speculate they left that loophole so that people who get into slapfights and block each other can still view each others' tweets.
The article talks about all threats, not just climate, and notes the
same pattern of avoidance and rationalisation as you mention in your
comments. My focus is on 'cyber' [1] where I see looming catastrophe
for all the same reasons - that there's an entire industry depending
on convincing us that nothing is wrong.

Another respondent mentions the structural group dynamics in regard to
the HBO Chernobyl dramatisation (which I have on good authority is a
realistic take on Soviet era dynamics).

Feynman was always pointing out the gap between the world as it is and
the world as we wish it to be to suit our expedient economic and
political ends. His magic-show with the O-rings at the Challenger
hearing is a masterpiece of calm iconoclasm of smug idiocracy.

But there aren't enough Feynmans, so reality is not taking precedence
over public relations, especially in tech. There are plenty of people
right here who are happily, silently going along with creating our
societal downfall through reckless projects like a "fully cashless
economy" and an unnecessary, unchecked, and largely unwanted "Internet
of Things".

But you cannot convince people whose salary depends on them not being
convinced.

[1] https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/why-we-cant-teach-cyber...
Wrapping RE2 with a fallback to the existing engine to try to maintain compatibility was explored; that, like the timeout approach, is pretty clearly a stopgap measure; actually implementing an RE2-style algorithm without the compatibility and toolchain warts of RE2 for Ruby's existing code and functionality is a bigger but more permanent solution, that I don't think has really been ruled out of explored.
I live near Atlanta. There are definitely seasons even this far south (although our "winters" are kind of a joke).
One of the things that has always confused me about twitter is that it seems to be offering a threaded conversation model, yet it tries to "flatten" the conversation and render things in a linear timeline. I've always struggled to understand the full context of the tweet I'm reading (that is, where is this tweet in the full conversation?). Do others also struggle with this? Am I just Doing It Wrong?
> Very few people are actually jumping between apps and so they don't know the swipe left/right gestures.

I mean, maybe that could be an indication that cryptic and completely arbitrary swiping gestures without any sort of discoverability or visual feedback might not be the best interface for fundamental user actions like navigating the history.
When I hear baby-boomers arguing against the numbers, statistics, and facts and saying things like, "don't touch my equity! You just have to be patient! It'll work out for you, too!", I sort of think about this - that this is a huge intergenerational transfer of wealth.

Of course some millennials will enjoy a windfall when mom and dad eventually downsize. Not all, by any means - but some.

I hope you're lucky enough to have some house-rich parents! It's always good to be an aristocrat!
> Many things in the military are rock-paper-scissors considerations

Hence the importance of combined arms operations. Sending a column of tanks on its own is just a case of scissors...scissors...scissors. Pre-operational training is also essential. It's too late, in contact, for infantry to figure out how to fight alongside tanks.

Lots of armies seem to discover this the hard way in a war, adapt their tactics accordingly, only to forget it in time for the next war. Incidentally, this also explains the western Battlegroup concept. It's the smallest integrated unit with a sensible mix of different arms, usually structured around an infantry or armour battalion depending on the circumstances.
> That is just a pointless law, if it requires 3 bids, but you can ignore them.

Whenever taxpayer money changes hands it is very political. You elude to that a little bit in another paragraph, but governments can't just go out and buy things - their decisions will be held responsible politically so everything has do be done by the book. If someone goes off the rails, it potentially represents favoritism and people will protest. I see a lot of this happen in some of the more local politics I am involved in rather than the more routine world of software procurement, but people in my hometown are getting into quite an uproar over the local government trying to give tax incentives to develop an empty lot that costs millions in municipal taxes for yearly upkeep and appraisal.

This presents an inherent conflict of interest, because the RFP process is insane. Therefore there is always a compromise that needs to be made for government workers to investigate and decide on project requirements in a fluid manner, and the need to document those requirements, set them in stone, and allow bidders to respond to them in an impartial way. The compromise is that there is usually an RFI stage where the procurement officers are "gathering information" but that is where they are really deciding what they are going to buy before they formalize the RFP. I think this is fundamentally broken - we need to recognize that procurement involves some deferment to experts who know what they are doing, and we need to trust them to make good decisions about how to do their jobs and get the software they need. But there is still a huge skills gap in a lot of governments over technology expertise, so the more a beaurocracy leans on responses to prescribe solutions, the slower this will be solved.

> We just did all of the actual work. We probably didn't get all of the actual money.

Idk about your personal situation, but a lot of these times when you look at the RFP, there is a usually a clause to provide documentation, and training, and helpdesk support in perpetuity. Consulting and contract work is a field unto itself, and the big players are big precisely because they can organize large multiyear projects that will fulfill these requirements that cannot fail. I help run a partnership program at a software vendor, and we tell the smaller companies the same thing - don't market yourself to the government, market yourself to the consulting companies because that is who will be paying you at the end of the day.
Management probably really screwed this up if they were really only making $600k/yr.

Places I've worked yearly contracts for B2B have been in the $100k-$5M/yr range.

The customers paying $100k/yr barely get any integrations and feature changes... they go for the ride. The customers paying $1M+/yr get features on the double.

If Fast was doing integrations and customization for customers that were paying $1000 or less a year something was very very wrong.
Housing Policy Nirvana:
1. ban supply (1920s - today)
2. ban demand (today - future)

problem fixed!

Srsly, why can't we concentrate on policies that unlock supply. nothing else matters.
Ukrainians use ‘Find My’ to track Russian troops who stole devices
The idea there is that 'something which has faded out but can be recalled easily' is a fairly common UX/UI design pattern, and so a user will unconsciously know it's there and can easily rediscover it by accident. Plus, everything else on gwern.net makes some sort of use of hover, so it's not like you expect hover to be useless!
> What would it take for you to start building homes? It’s an enormous risk, requires tons of upfront capital, specialized labor and supplies.

There's also no incentive to build affordable or well-constructed homes. Many builders will try to maximize profit by investing the bare minimum (i.e., cutting corners) and creating the largest number of dwellings possible. Mattamy Homes is infamous for developing large neighborhoods with pretty homes that practically fall apart in a matter of months if you look at them wrong.
Remote and office work are not the same in my experience. Your expectations need adjustment, if only because they conflict with the reality that you have observed.

Moreover, senior roles absolutely require you to initiate. If you are in a junior role, proactive behavior will help you advance past those who wait for things to come to them.

In general terms, initiating is an active behavior, while expecting others to initiate is passive. If you want “hands on” from others, tell those hands that you need their engagement.

In general, I strongly advise against passive behavior, unless you want your career driven by the good graces of others.
In Czechia, we don't have enough wind or sun for generating much power, and the available space for hydro isn't ideal either.
Twitter seems to be slowly asphyxiating itself in a number of ways: login walls, artificially curated timelines, and turning a blind eye to spam (it seems to be okay as long as it's terrible autogenerated NFT "art"?) all make it a thoroughly unpleasant service to use.

I'm at the point where I'd rather not have it, but it's effectively the LinkedIn of my professional sphere.
This both enriches Google, impoverishes name-brands, and allows new entrants to compete.
At this point the granularity of subreddits often make Reddit the main forum of note on many subjects.
Is 100 = 100.1 a hundred percent wrong or 0.1% wrong?
I worked at a consulting firm in the late 90's (right before Dotcom collapse) and we got a new CFO who bragged we were all going to millionaires shortly. Most of us engineers thought he was nuts as consulting firms are not exactly money engines. We survived past the March cliff in 2001 but in mid summer we died at 4:30PM with 20 minutes notice to leave the office before the locks were changed. I never trusted a CFO new hire again...
I was responding to OP's question about how to react to the statement "Buy physical copies of any book you plan to read in the future. Do it now." I don't think OP needs to worry about it because Andreessen likes to be a cool kid on Twitter. If I need a physical copy of a book to read it then I have bigger problems than figuring out a way to read a book.

Btw - I made a bunch of money in the dotcom bubble of the late 90's and early 2000's without even trying that hard. It was like buying Bitcoin in 2013. Maybe you've forgotten that AOL bought Time-Warner for $182 billion in 2000. It was ridiculous at the time and seems even more astonishing in retrospect. Good times.
One of the video ports. I think digital video port.

The base model supported audio and "moose cam" (A webcam, in 1996!). If you paid extra you got video.
I switched from Azure to DigitalOcean to Hetzner. Reasons were as you stated, simpler cost model, simpler technology.
The Threat of Nuclear War
If I'm about to embark on something where PyCharm's local history isn't enough but I don't have an atomic commit ready, I just use PyCharm's Save to Shelf action. Same as a stash but I mapped it to Ctrl+S when I'm in the commit window. 90% of the time I don't screw it up anyway.
is this not the halting problem? You can guarantee a certain depth isnt reached but you cant guarantee a recursion will unwind or anything like that
Unless every single one of those CVEs was actively exploited at the time a fix was committed to the kernel, no. Just no.

Even then, no.
My anger about housing prices led me to create Real Estate Rebellion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/realestaterebellion/
A lot of home owner occupant tax advantages were specifically introduced to disadvantage landlords. If you get rid of them, it may make the problem worse because there will be no way out of the rental trap. Separately, there are many tax laws that are written specifically to benefit landlords, and these disadvantage renters directly. The whole ‘fair share’ of taxes argument presumes that the aggrieved group would pay less if others paid more. This wholly unsupported. Government extracts what citizens will bear.
I agree censorship is another issue but keep in mind language models are getting better and better, soon you wouldn't be sure if you're talking to a real human or bot used to influence your thoughts. Arguably on twitter where posts are limited in length and users don't interact as directly that threshold is already reached.

We need this if we want to keep communicating and exchanging ideas with strangers online. What to do about sites silencing users is another issue. Imo these (social) media corps need to be regulated and forbidden from arbitrarily banning users. Same as water or electricity providers can't just cut off people they don't like. Users being given the option to block other users is enough. If there's anything actually criminal it's a matter for the courts.
asm.js was first mentioned in 2013. asm.js was eventually superseded by wasm and is pretty much the beginning of wasm as we know it. Didn't watch the talk, but could asm.js be the thing the presenter was talking about?
IMO British Columbia is way under-developed. There is literally 15 or so Switzerlands worth of some of the most beautiful and desirable real estate North of Vancouver that could be developed in similar way to the cities in the Swiss Alps. The Okanogan is not really all that mountainous but is basically unpopulated, etc.