skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the same argument made by Richard P. Gabriel in "The Rise of Worse is Better":

"I and just about every designer of Common Lisp and CLOS has had extreme exposure to the MIT/Stanford style of design.

The essence of this style can be captured by the phrase the right thing. To such a designer it is important to get all of the following characteristics right:

Simplicity -- the design must be simple, both in implementation and interface. It is more important for the interface to be simple than the implementation.

Correctness -- the design must be correct in all observable aspects. Incorrectness is simply not allowed.

Consistency -- the design must not be inconsistent. A design is allowed to be slightly less simple and less complete to avoid inconsistency. Consistency is as important as correctness.

Completeness -- the design must cover as many important situations as is practical. All reasonably expected cases must be covered. Simplicity is not allowed to overly reduce completeness.
I believe most people would agree that these are good characteristics. I will call the use of this philosophy of design the MIT approach.

Common Lisp (with CLOS) and Scheme represent the MIT approach to design and implementation.

The worse-is-better philosophy is only slightly different:

Simplicity -- the design must be simple, both in implementation and interface. It is more important for the implementation to be simple than the interface. Simplicity is the most important consideration in a design.

Correctness -- the design must be correct in all observable aspects. It is slightly better to be simple than correct.

Consistency -- the design must not be overly inconsistent. Consistency can be sacrificed for simplicity in some cases, but it is better to drop those parts of the design that deal with less common circumstances than to introduce either implementational complexity or inconsistency.

Completeness -- the design must cover as many important situations as is practical. All reasonably expected cases should be covered. Completeness can be sacrificed in favor of any other quality. In fact, completeness must be sacrificed whenever implementation simplicity is jeopardized. Consistency can be sacrificed to achieve completeness if simplicity is retained; especially worthless is consistency of interface.

Early Unix and C are examples of the use of this school of design, and I will call the use of this design strategy the New Jersey approach.

I have intentionally caricatured the worse-is-better philosophy to convince you that it is obviously a bad philosophy and that the New Jersey approach is a bad approach."

Source: https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
I think the early days were full of promise. Circa 2010-2015 crypto felt like Wired magazine in 1994 about the internet.

Unfortunately, reality is a harsh mistress.
Just looked it up, the last days hit my last AMZN shares pretty hard... Bad timing indeed!
I prefer my pizza without fruits, thankyouverymuch. Also I'm not a fan of cheese and I like a dough with more yeast to raise for longer, at least 2/3 inches. This way I can slice it and spread whatever topping I want after it cooks. I call this pizza Pane.
No - I mean people often find narcissism charismatic.
I would have genuinely laughed out loud if someone said that to my face. My reaction would have been to give him a reality check - "My man, you may know some things, but definitely don't know it all!". Perhaps, also ask him - "Have you considered that some of those people considered talking to you as dealing with a toddler who thinks he knows it all?"
> Being rich helps him achieve these goals, but so does building hype and being present in the media.

Does it? I know literally nothing about the personality of the Wright brothers. Or Henry Ford. Or Thomas Edison. Their legacy is their inventions. Hype and media coverage are temporary at best. And unfortunately, Musk's hype and media presence tends to show him at his worst. I'm not sure whether Musk fans realize how many non-fans actually despise the guy. If anything, he's wrecking his legacy. Shut up and build stuff.
That’s pretty evident with his technobabble. He uses just enough technical buzzwords that impress non-technical folks and acts like he is an expert in every topic he talks about.
I've not read all of anchor's material but I don't recall them publicly stating that the 20% APY was only going to las till they had burned through a specific amount of money. Do you know, was that stated publicly?
That's a false dichotomy - there is a whole range of options between 'lying to save someones feelings' and 'being rude'.
The main thing that soured my opinion is that he supported Bitcoin and other crypto. The environmental damage from crypto is larger than the environmental savings for all electric cars. Elon Musk went from being one of the best things to happen to the planet to someone doing less than nothing for it.
Show HN: Generate CRUD apps using SQL, REST and now Firebase
The same as elsewhere. The fact that he is an eBay employee is irrelevant.
Knocking VGM, yet most innovation is happening there. Lol.
I guess this is another part of his 'lower the price' plan - potentially also exposing just how much of the actual content is bots - which is gonna drive the price down
Russia and China are not allied though. In fact militarily they are against each other due to India. Russia is selling India weapons that India then uses against China in their ongoing border conflict. This is also why India did not really join the sanctions against Russia.
I also quit it and whenever someone links to it, I get a physiological reaction, like nauseousness and just have to close the tab. It's toxic fumes all over. Not possible to curate. I have blocked some words and mostly follow researchers but the controversial politics are shoved in my face. Everyone bending over backwards regarding Ukraine-Russia, some are still ranting about masks pro or contra, performatively being very concerned, some gender stuff, people at each other's throats regarding privilege and inclusivity, people bragging, humblebragging about their careers, self-claimed gurus telling their communities off, hot takes, then people complaining about too much bragging and calling out hustle culture and toxic positivity, others one upping these in some way or agreeing and fuming together. People only seeing other people as caricature stereotypes, like ah you must be a techbro, you must be an sjw, everyone assuming the worst, everything too serious and no lightheartedness.

It's pure monkey emotions and it brings out the worst of otherwise intelligent people. I've lost respect for several highly regarded scientists through this.

Twitter should just run itself into the ground.
This sounds you like have hyperopia. This thing you call "focus" is in part accommodation, another part is probably mental concentration. This accommodation ability deteriorates when you are older and develop presbyopia. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accommodation_(eye)

What my sibling said too: brightness will lead to sharper vision due to the pin-hole effect.
I edited ly comment, it's not Berberine it's Bilberry
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6296196/
I think it depends. I suspect working at ThoughtWorks is hard, going from client to client, and losing contracts when the market doesn't look good, but also there is no Martin Fowler of Duke Energy.
Hi HN!

I'm one of the creators of Budibase, and today, we're excited to launch the latest release of Budibase. Budibase is a low code platform for creating CRUD apps and an open-source alternative to PowerApps, Retool, and Outsystems. Detailed description below [1].

The Github repo is :https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

And our website is:https://budibase.com

In this release, we’ve launched several new features:

Automation looping - running an action more than once by passing an array or string to it.

Firebase integration - Connect to Firebase and instantly build CRUD apps

Portainer template - We've added a portainer template file, which can be pulled into Portainer to allow rapid deployments.

Budibase Devtools - see all of your components' current state and bindings and will help everyone build robust, scalable apps.

You can find the full release notes below:https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/discussions/5849

Happy to answer any questions. We have a lot more to build and love to hear use cases and feedback.If you are interested, try it out

https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

https://budibase.com

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[1]We believe low-code platforms should seamlessly integrate with a company's tools and operations. With Budibase, you can create apps using: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Rest API, OracleDB, and now Firebase. Or you can start from scratch with Budibase's built-in database (built on Apache CouchDB). Right now, Budibase supports Open ID Connect and Google Auth.

It also supports automations using Slack, Discord, email, Zapier, Integromat, Webhooks, JavaScipt, and you can run scripts, queries, CRON jobs.

To design your apps, you basically add pre-built components [forms, tables, charts, buttons] to screens, then bind data to those components using Handlebars or JavaScript. Budibase apps work across desktop, tablet, and mobile.

As you create more apps and automate more processes, the reliance on Budibase grows. So, we think it's important that you can 100% own your data and self-host Budibase on your own infrastructure (Docker, Digital Ocean, Kubernetes). Deploy Budibase with our pre-packaged Redis, MinIO, and CouchDB or connect to your own existing Amazon S3 compliant buckets, Redis clusters or CouchDB instances.
£2000 isn't much to spend in total. That's one semi-decent synth that'll be on a par with a decent VST.
He sounds like someone who knows what they're looking for and is diligently inspecting the service before spending money on it. It doesn't matter how insignificant the amount of money is, it's important to be clear on what you are actually buying and if it's actually legit.
If Twitter is true to their word that bots are less than 5% of the user base, then they should not have a problem providing evidence for that. It's an entirely valid question not just in Musk's interest, it's in the interest of every shareholder.

The only questionable thing here is that Musk either does not grasp (or care) how influential his tweets are. He's tweeting as if he's just a random person with an opinion, but in reality his tweets tank stocks, pump (or dump) crypto, and activates a lot of harassment towards anybody he criticizes. With this in mind, the question about bots should have been asked behind closed doors.

Usually, I don't at all have the impression that there's some evil master plan behind it, they are spontaneous clumsy tweets based on whatever is bothering him.

Which in this case are bots that make Twitter unusable for him, or anybody else with a large following. Twitter very much deserves scrutiny and heavy criticism as it comes to bots. Look at Musk's tweets, within seconds there's hundreds of bots replying all with the same avatar and a slight misspelling of a user they're trying to mimic.

It's a stunningly primitive pattern, and yet still Twitter is entirely incompetent or lax to address it. For years. These bot replies come in from their API and work based on accounts or simple keywords.

Don't try this on somebody else's tweet, but you can test this yourself. Type "I need help with my metamask password". The moment you hit send, the notifications come rolling in.

Setting aside Musk's intentions with Twitter, I am fully in favor of the wake-up call. The bot problem. A mysterious verification protocol. Weird boosts and declines in followers. Unclear censorship and shadow banning protocols. Twitter has some explaining to do.
Who had been deplatformed that isn't objectively a terrible person and wasn't violating the ToS for a long time?

It's weird they would push such a dishonest narrative.
There is a valid argument that this person's appointment, her role, and her office are taking things in a bad direction. The DHS is already policing disinformation, by the way -- and they should police it when it comes from other nation states as an attempt to destabilize the US. They should also help companies like Twitter identify concerted attacks from hackers or foreign governments.

But it's currently unclear what this new appointment will actually do, and that's a problem.

Your facile sarcasm isn't making your point. It just makes it seem like you don't have any point other than, "Everything is wrong when the mainstream believes it!" ...which is obviously ridiculous.

The NY Post is not a neutral or factual reporter of this argument, and they have editorialized in a way that is politically-motivated and also plainly false.
Cell phones are really good at interfering with just about any audio gear at close range
He sold at the peak, near $900.

Given that the stock is near $700 right now, it's looking like a good deal.
Use unchecked_unwrap in rust to go fast
Did they think they would get away with it or did it just become a game? I assume in the US, the punishment for this sort of thing is pretty severe?
IIRC C++ backend dev is mostly used in HFT (think of the stock market) so it's a relatively niche, if well paying, market (NY, London, Chicago, Amsterdam)
Buy a decent Bluetooth DAC and plug in your favorite IEMs then never worry about that stuff again.

Even a $30-50 DAC with good IEM will sound so much better and if you have Bluetooth issues, it’s not a huge replacement cost.
It will, but the upkeep is extremely low. It takes roughly 15 minutes to set up a DigitalOcean box with Dokku (I think they can even install it automatically for you if you set up a cloud-init script). What I'd honestly do if I was managing a LOT of sites is write a tiny bit of terraform or something to stand up all those sites, and then delete and recreate all of the servers on like a quarterly basis so they all get patched. Slightly more upkeep, but an 8gig/4CPU DO box costs like 48 bucks a month, which is a hell of a lot better than Heroku at that price point.
Software eng. unsatisfied with $ -> leaves company -> makes dumb clone, steal subset of customers from former co -> iterate, grow, might end up becoming a threat

Hardware eng. unsatisfied with $ -> ask their friends in the other 2 cos in the same niche how much they are being paid -> cry

Bootstraping a software business is trivial compared to any other eng. business. That, plus the internet's existence, is what makes dev so well paid.
> Different people like different weather

Not really, rather people get used to where they have to live and then rationalize the fact that they "like it" because they don't really have a choice.
this is most stable weather not nicest ... "We’ll ignore any other weather characteristics like humidity, rain, wind, diurnal temperature difference, etc."
Her actual quote in this article is:

“Verified people [could be allowed to] essentially start to ‘edit’ Twitter [in] the same sort of way that Wikipedia is so they can add context to certain tweets.”

So she is not saying that content should be swapped without warning. She's describing essentially annotating tweets with community-edited Wikipedia articles.

Again, not a feasible idea, but she is at least correct that Wikipedia is both community-moderated and also remarkably low in bad information.
Unlike Intel-based Macs, M1 runs very cool, and even under heavy all-core load doesn't need more than a slight breeze.
Germany: Crypto held for more than a year will not get taxed
The German Federal Ministry of Finance has published a document defining and framing the different types of cryptocurrency gains.
A new video today on Web Audio (Creating Music on the Web - Ben Morss and Hongchan Choi - ADC21):

https://youtu.be/GfC2WTStW8M
Currently being in my x-th, and out of order rewatch, of DS9 I kind of blame Star Trek for that. Technobabble, check. Geniusus saving the day and universe, check. Moral superiority, check. Throw in some Tony Stark vibes and you have it. And social media influencing.
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IDK. In the olden days, desktop printers sometimes had embedded font faces or PS1 fonts would be sent to the printer, but any vector file for large/high-res print quality had to be "ripped" or rasterized first, usually with a dedicated card. These cards definitely had signature looks and feels to them, but so did the fonts. There were differences between the way an Adobe Times New Roman would rip versus the one that came stock on your Apple IIsi.

Pinpointing a version of Windows, if it was printed from a stock OS font, could be as simple as comparing tiny differences in the vector files and knowing if one pixel would rasterize at 60% black versus 50%. To the extent that the rip goes through a graphics card, it would be knowing whether that card rendered the 60% as 58% or 62%.

I'm pretty sure if you scale it down, the printer driver will do an extra layer of downsampling and add its own anti-aliasing; but the printer hardware doesn't do that, it just sprays the dots it's told to spray, and in general the drivers replicate the pixels that are sent from Photoshop or in this case, MS Word, which uses something like QuickDraw used to be on a Mac, an embedded system process, to rasterize the fonts.
Same here, for me I started to lose interest for him when he started to sell the boring company as a solution to traffic jams.

The solution already exists and it's called "public transport".

I suspect this might be due to being surrounded by people who are too impressed by him to called out an idea when it's not sound.

Then the memes, then the crypto tokens, then it just got all weird so I stopped listening.
I think it's not just that they're good enough that it's worthwhile discussing how it fails. It's also that it's the same way it fails as has been the weak point of AI generated images for years.

It's great and I love it, but the wow factor is fading and the easily recognizable problems remain.
1kb is likely a lot more than what is shown here; I made a "tiny" but very complete React Router package which is very complete and minified+gzip it's just 1.8kb https://crossroad.page/
If I recall properly, the command circular buffers of 2^n bytes ("queues" in vulkan3d) are VRAM IOMMAP-ed (you just need atomic R/W pointers for synchronization, see mathematically proven synchronization algorithms).
There is a "GPU IRQ" circular buffer of 2^n bytes coupled with PCIE MSIs (and I recall something about a hardware "message box").
The "thing" is, for many of them, how to use those commands and how they are defined feels very weird (for instance the 3d/compute pipeline registers programing).

Have a look at libdrm from the mesa project (the AMDGPU submodule), then it will give you pointers where to look into the kernel-DRM via the right IOCTLs.

Basically, the kernel code is initialization, quirks detection and restoration (firmware blobs are failing hard here), setting up of the various vram virtual address spaces (16 on latest GPUs) and the various circular buffers. The 3D/compute pipeline programing is done from userspace via those circular buffers.

If I am not too much mistaken, on lastest GPU "everything" should be in 1 PCIE 64bits bar (thx to bar size reprograming).

The challenge for AMD is to make all that dead simple and clean while keeping the extreme performance (GPU is all about performance). Heard rumors about near 0-driver hardware (namely "rdy" at power up).
Cubasis on a phone or tablet is way more capable than this drek.
I have a manager that used to work at eBay that is literally the worst manager I've ever had in my life. I wonder if there was a certain culture there?
> Just a feeling of exasperation when seeing the product.

Well maybe you're not the target market then? It looks like a no-code rather than low-code effort, and I'm hazarding a guess that you're a dev and so ...

> It was never my intention to be "shitting" on anyone.

I'm sure that you didn't.

Here's the thing: this is a "Show HN" - somebody has been brave enough to show their new thing to the community. People vary - some are much more sensitive than average, particularly in a community like this that self-identifies as not-average, and will take the mildest criticism very personally.

If something's not for you, there's always the option of not commenting, or at least starting out by saying something encouraging to soften the blow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments
> Evidence: nobody else has done it.

Er... what? He's focussed his attention on some specific problems and made good progress solving them; people have been doing that for as long as there have been people.

Sure he's had great success and clearly does a lot of things well. He's not singular in that.
No it isn't. Sunlight is an important source of Vitamin D, which affects immune system, hormones, and mood. There are special lamps to supplement this, but it is not so trivial as turning on "lights".
Isn't that the gap the likes of Next.js are filling?
Ideally, I'd say yes, but you might still want manual confirmation.

Many checklists involve things a computer can't detect without a lot of hardware support.
I think this kind of psycho is the norm in the upper echelon of government and business.

We shouldn't think it is only eBay that is rotten.
I am sorry you go through this. I wonder where you are as in suburban Sydney I have never had this issue for 9 years of parenthood. And I have taken the kids all kinds if places even in the centre of Sydney. Had more issues walking dogs than taking kids out.
> what kind of psychos are working at eBay?

People who presumably got rejected by Amazon for being too evil even for them...
This is a very naive approach. Some market corrections happen very late (decades later) and some never happen.
Positions requiring specialist, uncommon knowledge or long training are often "penalized" in many sectors. It pays more to be a typical "CRUD writer".

And this is not specific to IT - many academic researchers have to make ends meet with almost minimum wage.
I think the tomato is not totally necessary. You can get a pizza with a white sauce (Bechamel?), ricotta, and garlic at some of the places around here. I don't think it is a weird American chain thing, if I remember the story correctly my mom first encountered it overseas...
There is snow in Japan close enough pretty much everywhere in the country if you are willing to drive a bit. For example, there's not much snow in Osaka but a lot in Kyoto and a lot around Nagoya, which are close enough.
82F is a lot. Auckland has solid 7 months of 23C - just perfect for jandals and tshirt.
The cats not having space suits is a fun detail; it seems to 'understand' clothing on things and some other features now; but it doesn't understand why the astronaut has the space suit or that the cat would obviously need one. I wonder if 5 year olds notice that.
"Hardware". It's DSP. It doesn't even have an analog filter, right?
Or "React Routing in 70 lines, with 50 lines of documentation".
Neither of these things are possible in a sandboxed browser: the syscalls are blocked, and the filesystem isn't (fully) accessible.
> Not to take away from your point, but a standup with eight devs really shouldn't take 30 minutes.

I have never heard of a standup taking less than around 3m-4m per person. I'm sure it happens, I have just never heard of it happening.

My experience (and the experience of almost every developer I've ever interacted with) is around the 3m-4m per person mark.
As a community grows in size, necessarily the dynamic changes. A company where everyone knows every other individual and what they're working on will necessarily have different dynamics than a thousand-person company.

Whether this counts as being "ruined" will certainly depend. Having worked both at early stage startups and large tech companies, there are definitely trade-offs that come with size, and I can imagine some being attracted to one environment and not the other, but I think a lot of that is a matter of taste.