skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny that with the registry being SO AWFUL and BAD, every other platform basically has the same thing.

MacOS has the /Library/Preferences and ~/Library/Preferences hierarchies, with plist files inside of them representing individual keys and being accessible by a programmatic interface that abstracts the files away. This is the same as the Windows Registry aside from implementation details.

On Linux, at least in the Gnome side of things, there's dconf, which is again exactly the same thing as the Windows Registry, and it even has a similar implementation: a binary database file. Amusingly, the dconf wikipedia article has a whole little section full of misleading and downright inaccurate ("Most Windows applications still store their user settings in individual .ini files spread across the disk") copes to obscure the fact that dconf is the same thing as the registry.

All of this Windows hate is so tiresome. Bitter Slashdot-tier commentary from people who don't actually know anything about operating systems.

I've noticed in particular that hobbyist Linux users think that they have a profound understanding of the OS because they used a command line and text editor to do system configuration instead of a GUI, and have to type arcane incantations from Google to fix their broken systems periodically. But in reality, they know very little. See, for example, any thread with hysterical complaints about systemd. They can't even explain what systemd is, what problems it solves, and why almost everyone who actually does linux system development for a living is pretty happy with it. But they're sure it's an evil conspiracy to steal the innocence of their precious OS. They think they know a lot, but they actually know nothing.
I once worked on a military simulator, and it ran on very similar hardware, it might even have been the onyx. Actually yes I do believe thats it now that I've googled it! I worked on this in 2011-12, and I can tell you compiling stuff was not fast! It was kind of funny thinking that this had once been a "supercomputer"... now it was slower than even old desktops!
No, nobody has told me about stuff they saw in ads. Almost all the things I have ever paid for, have been found one of these ways:

• Randomly: I don’t care what toothpaste or soap etc. I get, I just grab the closest/cheapest thing off the shelf.

• While manually searching for specific traits, ingredients or features.

• Habit/Lack of choice: Coke and Pepsi are the only colas of their type available in most places.

• Via word-of-mouth by people who found them the same ways. This includes asking for recommendations on online forums etc.
"Stellantis has announced its commitment to sell only electric vehicles in Europe from 2026, following in the footsteps of several other manufacturers that revealed similar moves."

So an option in 2024 and all electric by 2026. What is incorrect in this article? If they stop selling combustion cars in 2026 they will start phasing out much earlier.
You also get to live in the house which is a pretty good return.
Are we using the "le" suffix for non-Wordle apps now? Reminds me of the "ly" suffix from the early 2010s. Hey, it certainly worked out for Musical.ly
>The recoloring functionality there would not be possible in GTK3.

This isn't true though. https://github.com/Gnostiphage/adwaita-color-gen
Stop lying. I haven't posted any misinformation. You can literally listen to Dr. Gandhi's own words at the link I posted above. She spoke on the subject at some length, and answered several direct questions from a panel of other physicians.
As a Russian that make me sad that our media uses such a very hacky work strategy, sometimes add fakes some times try to color clearly events in the beneficial side. But I think that it's clearly in Russian media and Russian political view point has some clear truths that Western media not always want to show and our media could have represented their point of view much better. But I saw fakes in western media too, and quite often, although perhaps in smaller quantities... I even know one News TV presenter on Russian central channel it's strange, but it seems to me that he never say fakes, does not try to embellish events in one direction or another, but it only airs on Saturday evenings news and then not every time.
Neural networks have non-linearities. There were hacks for doing some sort of general purpose computation using the GPU fixed rendering pipeline, but they're not enough for neural networks especially as understood today. You need general shaders, which were a relatively late development.
I'm not so sure about this, I've owned a lot of O2s.

The only blocking plates on the rear cover of an O2 usually cover the spot where the Flat Panel Adapter or Dual Monitor board goes, and it's not installed by default, or the spot where a PCI card would go, which, well, it's a PCI card.
How do you install vscode extensions in WSL? If vscode is inside Windows, then don't the extensions get installed in Windows as well?
SpaceX's Starship: America's Secret Weapon
I think it's fair to give (a lot of) credit for the Netscape work, but people like Andreessen at some point have so much money and clout that in particular in the VC field they can literally make reality as they wish and turn everything into a successful exit or just absorb an almost infinite amount of failures that nobody else would get away with.

I put a lot more weight on what people do when they had no name than what they did in this industry with its personality cults once they got the ball rolling.
And 30% making decisions for all of Canada is being argued as a good thing and fair, that my framing is unfair?

Thank Goodness we have the Senate that requires passing these measures, these harmless ones like this one because it basically does nothing, but thankfully would have voted down the Emergency Act being extended for a month - which is why Trudeau the night before revoked it himself.

I hope you're against Bill C-11 - the internet censorship bill as well? Did you hear their illogical conclusion for why they're doing it?
> Sure, their primary problem was extravagant hiring

I think their primary problem was a huge valuation—with correspondingly huge expectations—but no real revenue. If you're pulling in $600K revenue, but valued at $500M... you're gonna have a bad time.
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How I Cut AWS Lambda Java Cold Start Times in Half
For now, it provides the most honest feedback with less spam. For now.
This does seem like a 1990s story.

I'm just barely young enough to have missed it. Friends who quit school early were in on it.

I don't know if this was the case at Fast but in a lot of cases back in the 1990s a lot of the engineers knew everything was screwed up.. and they just didn't care, the money was good while it lasted.

The experience almost always helped people get ahead, no one ever gets punished for doing good work at a company that fails due to bad management and investor decisions.
"Supply is a lie".

You know who calls for "more supply"? Real estate developers, speculators and investors.

This is how they distract from fixing the real issues in housing prices.

Adding more supply won't bring house prices down, it will just give housing stock for investors to buy.
I totally agree that living in the past was horrible for many people and i'm extremely lucky to be living right now - where i'm personally sceptical is when heavy medication or surgery is the answer, especially for youngsters - that to me is a sign of something very wrong with society if required to be broadened too much in scope.

Personally i see the heavy use of SSRI's and Ritalin etc. for kids through the same lens where societal or psychological changes should be the focus, or a culprit found instead of patching up.

The answer can't be that in the future out of a class room one half will require some dependency from a medico industrial complex, that's dystopian to me.
> startups should implement levels once you hire 2 engineers

I think OP is cracking a joke about a $600k company having six levels of hierarchy.
Houses do have utility. Doubling your money in an asset that provided living space for 30 years instead of paying rent is pretty great.
It was a common practice in the 90s for creative engineers to use extremely expensive "supercomputer" workstations to pay for productivity gains & live on the bleeding edge (e.g. Silicon Graphics workstations, NeXT workstations, and so forth). Question: What is the equivalent way to do this today? That is, is there a way to pay a lot of money to use a computer which is 5-10 years ahead of its time?

Ok so I'm pretty biased here, but I think the answer lies in VR computing. There's no doubt VR computers are more expensive than their PC/laptop counterparts, but they allow you to adopt a bleeding edge technology which is essentially 5+ years ahead of its time in terms of where it is on the "commodity computing" frontier.

A good quote from Alan Kay I find pretty inspirational on this front: https://youtu.be/id1WShzzMCQ?t=3345 Here he basically advocates for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a computing machine, in order to compute on what will be a commodity product 10-15 years into the future. VR computers aren't this extreme on the cost curve, but I think there is something to this point of view which I find really inspirational.[1]

[1] Caveat: I'm one of the founders of SimulaVR (https://simulavr.com), so admittedly am very biased here. But I do think VR provides a way to convert money into "better compute" in a way that hasn't been available since the 70s-90s super workstation era.
I do think there's a degree of "as simple as possible, but no simpler". But also to be fair, Rust's target use cases lean harder towards max performance and max correctness, at the expense of learning curve and (sometimes) dev time.
Building Games in ECS with Entity Relationships
You can do that with Auothotkey easily:

This is PoC of the top of my head

~LButton Up::
If ( A_Cursor="IBeam")
{
Send, ^c
Tooltip, Copy Selection`n%Clipboard%, 0, 0
}
Return

CopyQ will save your history and everything you select will go there automatically.

EDIT: Found this, you might want to check it out: https://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/5139-auto-copy-select...
Idaho is the same way.
He is very smart and incredibly successful. He comes across, at least to me and online, as terribly obnoxious. But he's not talking to me with his tweets, he's talking to his peers, who are other VCs, CEOs, founders, younger and emerging politicians.

He's also very nerdy - and how could he not be if he was building browsers in his 20s while I was chasing skirts or trousers at that age - and I don't get along with super nerds outside of work. It's okay at work, they tend to do better than other psychological types. Is it me or him, then? I don't know, but I muted him, his takes have zero to negative effect on my mood.
I like this post, because I avoided unit tests for so long lol. After finally doing them, I did notice that I would at least format my code better and this had other benefits. There would be cases I missed, made me start thinking about edge cases further in advance, as well as made it easier for other to read.

I think the primary point is made

> Or just write simple, single responsibility code so it can be tested easily

there it is.
Right, Andreessen wrote it himself without the help from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and it was a totally new idea since three other GUI browsers didn't exist and he never saw the source code for these other browsers that didn't exist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwise

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW
This is terrible, people would just never sell their homes.
ok fair enough. There is no issue with proving arithmetic consistency on a finite number of symbols. Incompleteness entirely relies on the unbounded induction step.
Hah, I grew up in the Atlanta area. I actually returned there briefly for some work parties late last year.

I knew I had begun to adapt to Florida weather when Atlanta winter had me paralyzed.
>In the central valley of California, a house cost $130k in 1993 and today sells for $400k

Holy shiz, is California real estate really that cheap?

400K is a very basic house in the outskirts of a city in Austria(Europe), and tech jobs here pay 1/4 of what you can make in California. I feel we're being scammed over here with housing and wages.
ipfs + the cloudflare gateway is great for that, I use it for sharing files here. You don't even have to install anything and can use EG: https://anarkrypto.github.io/upload-files-to-ipfs-from-brows...
>Brits don't have much propaganda for the American system, and I doubt the British psyche frames every aspect of British life in reference to American life.

The rest of the world actually pays more attention to america than america does to it.

A lot of brits have family and friends in america. Theyre at least dimly aware of the insane medical bills and bankruptcies.
it post-dated and took inspiration from Mozilla's asm.js, which was highly influential on wasm.
Well I guess in that framing, I as a renter am expressing that I am not willing to bear this tax burden, and so will be voting accordingly.
HN is very diverse and international. Calling it "white guys" is equally problematic and ironic given the context. The world is concerned about US's toxic culture being exported out using SV based social media companies: https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/12/social-me...
Thiel Blasts Dimon, Buffett, and Fink as 'Finance Gerontocracy' at Bitcoin 2022
Congrats on shipping! Also congrats on your servers being overwhelmed! Clearly there's a demand here
So it’s a bit in the future but managed postgres is something I want to offer through nimbus[0]. In the Meantime if you’re interested in other managed services, please sign up!

[0]: https://nimbusws.com
Macroplastics kill fish and birds. Microplastics attract and concentrate other pollutants and additives like BPA have known adverse effects on human health. Even if inert (a stretch, TBH) zooplankton consumption of microplastics causes them to eat less, accelerating deoxygenation of global oceans[1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22554-w
The Hardware Development Revolution Hasn’t Arrived (Yet)
Theories about "decline of maleness", great replacement theory, "decline of western civilization", are all very linked to this sort of stuff. Granted, that is very possibly not a goal of Swan's work, but these are the type of people who often cite it.

Swan's work is dubious on other scientific grounds, however. [0]

[0]: https://www.science20.com/gregory_bond/just_a_dud_swan_book_...
How a Parachute Accident Helped the Early Development of Augmented Reality
There was never any valid justification for the police to harass a man going for a stroll. Real adults actively resist overbearing authoritarian governments instead of meekly submitting.
> Various articles have been written, comparing the performance of Javascript versus WebAssembly ("Wasm") in the browser.

Nit pick: Every word in this sentence in the article is a link. This way of linking multiple related resources is so hard to keep track of and navigate. I need to hover over or click each word to discover the resource.
Yes this is true with all interpreted languages. But if you consider the use-case the OP was contrasting with (Docker) that not only has the Ruby runtime, but an entire Linux OS as well.
What of the errors in this comment section? Could the people here do no better? When the topic of discussion is related to computing, rarely do I see this many errors - assuming this observation is correct, is that interesting?
As someone who friends come from various backgrounds that I never would have met had segregation not been lifted: No.
Do they use mil spec Western electronic components? I thought they made their own.
Real estate investors have to pay capital gains on properties they sell, do they never sell their properties?
> the Russell-Whitehead project of reducing mathematics to pure logic is generally considered a failure

sigh I find these discussions tedious, but oh well...

I've heard this before and it seems wrong and rooted in a misunderstanding. Can someone (not necessarily the person I'm replying to) explain why you believe this?
Man, depending on the era, I think each of these items is enough to start a religion.
This is a big lesson to heed. Sure, sometimes a startup really needs extravagantly scalable infrastructure. For the 99.9% of startup, no, you don't.

So the odds are you don't. Keep it very simple, very small. I can't highlight this enough. A few boxes will get you very far. If you ever actually hit the limits, throw a big party to celebrate success and only then start to think about making your infrastructure a bit (just a bit) more complex.
Ah yes, category 5 hurricanes in the UK, tell me more about those.

Fukushima was lack of maintenance. TEPCO was made aware several times of the risks.
British charity hunts for team to run Antarctica post office
I went through the first 8 results or so, and none of them actually provide a quote of someone saying that. Rather, they seem mostly critiques of the mantra, which I assume was being used on Facebook and things at the time most of those articles were written.
Extreme Programming seemed to be en vogue among the early adopters that led to "agile manifesto" in late 1990s.

That said, it looks like somewhat typical case of discussing a bit of design, with main artist sitting at the workstation, while the other person came from elsewhere.
One important benefit of Windows is that nobody has ever told me "submit a patch" after I complained about some part of Windows.
> I found some unsettling information about the founder of Fast, Dominic Holland.

This thread [1] touches on what some of that stuff probably was. Sounds like the CEO was a charismatic scammer.

[1]: https://nitter.net/jack_raines/status/1511737489190494208
Interestingly, I think login walls are to stop spam. It interests me how many design decisions by youtube, for example, were to stop spam and getting rid of fake views and likes. Not directly for the user's experience.
The quality of the experience is also going down. My feed is rapidly approaching 50% ads by pixel count now.
Not really. Opal is a source-to-source compiler that compiles Ruby to JavaScript. Ruby 3.2 compiles the whole Ruby VM and runtime to wasm, which then runs Ruby inside a real Ruby VM nested within the JS VM.

A good analogy is that Opal is like PureScript, whereas Ruby 3.2 is like GHCJS.
For the purposes of engineering salaries, CPI is not an accurate representation of the change in what $100M can buy.
I feel the same way about LinkedIn ;)
> Corrupting this process by discriminating on the basis of family ties, personal friendships, wealth, race, or gender, is simply cutting your nose to spite your face.

Right. This is the precise argument in favor of diversity: that we have, for centuries now, been discriminating on the basis of race and selecting inferior performers over better choices because they were white, or male. The purpose of social justice is to bring us closer to meritocracy.

>Social justice teaches us how to distribute the pie fairly, so that no one is left behind.

No. The purpose of social justice is to ensure equal opportunity, not equality per se.
So the apathy is pre-existent, and they leverage this weakness - yes?
> I’ve heard rumors of a leading investor putting together a fund

This is textbook "how to repackage an anecdote to be more palatable to HN readers."
Didn't one of Go's founders specifically say they didn't want to take advantage of existing type theory, in the name of "simplicity"? Meanwhile Rust is building off the ML/OCaml tradition. No wonder the language building on a 40 year body of work feels more consistent.
omg. i have magazines from this era. what were you using it for ? tell us more!
All good points. As a daily user of Org mode, I couldn’t agree more.

Hence, we are working on building a parser that also acts as a canonical definition here: https://github.com/200ok-ch/org-parser
> Working around this with creative misspellings or euphemisms makes me feel like a kid trying to swear on Club Penguin or something.

It's been bizarre watching the increasing prevalence of these types of behaviors the last few years. There was a period of time when I remember seeing a number of consumer tech youtubers discussing supply chain issues but having to avoid using the words "COVID" or "pandemic" for fear of demonetization or being buried by the algorithm. You see similar behaviors everywhere on TikTok, where a whole new vocabulary has sprung up to talk about taboo topics. "Unalive" instead of "kill", "seggs" instead of "sex", and so on. My understanding is that some of the TikTok vocabulary originated among kids communicating over school-monitored channels.

The most unsettling part is that it seems like in many of these cases nobody can point to concrete evidence that a word is actively being punished by the algorithm. The simple existence of these black-box moderation tools has a panopticon-esque effect where people will preemptively alter their behavior just in case.
Diabetes successfully treated using ultrasound in preclinical study
Do you mean Power Animator perhaps and not Maya? I believe Maya, Power Animator's successor, came later around ~1998.
Pfffft. There has been plenty of polls made on HN, and the thing that comes out every single time is that most of its users are white and living in California. It is peak cali VC techbro bullshit echochamber.
I was going to say this. I tried LinkedIn a few weeks as an intern ~10 years ago (oh man I feel old now) and was extremely underwhelmed.
Pink Floyd re-form to support Ukraine
I never said it was an "elaborate scheme orchestrated by all the homeowners." It is a natural result of people independently acting purely based on their personal incentives.

Homeowners don't need to orchestrate and elaborate scheme, they just vote for the politicians who will prioritize increasing home values because that will help them financially. That politician will enact policies favorable to homeowners because that is what their constituency wants. That will encourage more people to become homeowners because people see homeownership as a financially beneficial endeavor. That will increase the power of homeowners as a constituency which will lead to more politicians courting homeowners with favorable policies making homeownership more attractive. And on and on the cycle goes until it isn't "feasible and profitable to build new homes" because we have made it difficult and expensive through all our pro-homeowner policies.
- context collapse: different personal identities collapse onto one social media

- content collapse: different mediums (tv, radio, newspaper) collapse onto a feed

- reality collapse: different forms of content, fictional or real collapse onto a single stream: propaganda, marvel universe, GPT-3, Dall-E, etc.

Could be a nice sci-fi theme.
I found this statement really bizarre:

> Not horribly confusing and overwhelming for people that don’t use it regularly like Reddit, be it the old or the bad design.

I've always found Twitter to be horribly confusing. It's mishmash of replies, re-tweets, and completely unrelated other tweets has been there for years and never made any sense to someone who doesn't have an account.

I don't have a Reddit account but know enough to use old.reddit.com for everything. It's ugly, but it's not at all confusing. It's about as straightforward as it could be.
On top of that, inline CSS has been a thing since... GTK2? I'm not sure what the parent is getting at here. Yes, they added a new way to do a thing. That alone does not an upgrade make.
I have a feeling that since the industrial days we're also very removed from physical reality and only skilled at handling forms and vague concepts. People back in the day had first-hand knowledge of lots of thing in the world.