skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be a slight nit with this enframing of entropy. Actually, the article visualizes it quite nicely:

the assumption that the world is a closed system - depicted here by the black border around the particles, showing it is closed off from the world.

Sure, in a closed system, eventually you get something like heat death, within the box.

But life, and the world, are an open system - at least especially from the human-scale life experience. You can't say that heat death is sure to happen.

Does entropy increase at the macro level? Pretty much yeah. But to define what 'macro' is, is hard enough to make any answer dubious or uninteresting - is it the entire universe? Is it the solar system? In either case the scale at which it appears closed much bigger your life, which is coincidentally a scale at which it may seem open - bc the world is not uniform and ergodic at the living-as-a-human-scale. We each experience a different life story (another debate for the future, perhaps? :^) )

If you like you can imagine that the entropy in your own particular life could always decrease while the entropy somewhere else far away undergoes a commensurate simultaneous increase.

As I remember it, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (author of Flow) wrote in the book The Evolving Self that basically the meaningfulness of your life is:

(the flow you experience == the entropy/time 'life bandwidth rate' you experience)

x

(the good you do for others)

By going for a minimalist approach, you try to maximize the Signal-to-Noise ratio. If you'll allow for some eyebrow-raising application of mathematics to philosophy for a sec...

the Shannon-Hartley theorem tells us that the channel capacity C depends

B: the channel substrate bandwidth,

SNR = Power(Signal) / Power(Noise), both in decibels.

as

C=B log2(1 - SNR)

Here, C could stand for how good a life you're leading. So you'd either want to increase the signal, or decrease the noise, or increase B (the 'underlying capacity for enjoyment of life'). I guess it is a matter of debate whether you can improve the SNR more by tapping in more, or tapping into noise less. Probably something you can try to adaptively improve by 'gradient descent' ie 'trying out new ways of living', lol
> does Google Photos perform all the analysis on device?

Does Apple? If I upload photos from my computer it does analysis in the cloud, doesn't it?
Something I’ve found helpful: imagine you were starting from scratch today. Is this still THE problem you would want to work on? If not, move on. You’re right that 6 mo is not a lot in the grand scheme of things. Sunk costs suck, but there’s no getting them back.

If it’s still a good problem, then maybe your cofounder is right and the solution you were working on won’t solve it. If he’s the tech guy and you’re the business guy, I would assume you’ve done more of the talking to customers, but maybe there’s a tech challenge he sees. Worth investigating.

Strongly suggest against getting wrapped up in cofounder conflicts - that definitely doesn’t solve a problem.

If this is THE problem you want to work on, and you think your solution was headed in the right direction, modern no-code tools like Bubble make developing an MVP doable for a nontechnical founder. Depending on exactly what you’re building, something even simpler like a newsletter or some Google Forms integrations can do it.
Sure, I find that every time I google for how to do it :-)

In VSCode, I can browse info about packages without having to remember a thing aside from "one of the six big icons on the left is 'Extensions'". One mouse click, start typing, click anything that looks like it might be good, get a ton of info and an "install" button. There are filters! So I can simply sort by "most popular" if I want, or by name, or a bunch of other things, all without having to remember anything for this somewhat-infrequent operation, because it's in the GUI.

It's mainly the integrated package exploration that's missing. And the auto-suggestion for plugins—in fact, I rarely have to do any of the above, and just click "OK" to whatever VSCode suggests, and everything's fine.

Sublime has (I just checked) a "package discovery" command, which... opens a web browser, to the exact same page you'd have ended on if you'd started by just googling it (which is what I do). So you have to find what you want on there, then go back to Sublime and find it again.

The result is that in the best case it takes me 1% as long to install what I need on VSCode (just click OK), and worst case it takes me perhaps 50% as long, compared with Sublime. I'm also way less likely to go poke around and see if there's anything that might be useful, in Sublime.

[EDIT] "Why aren't you way more familiar with the command palette?" ephemeral shells as anything more than dead-simple launchers make me really uncomfortable. I hate using them. Apple spotlight? I use it extensively—only for launching programs, period, nothing else. I'd much rather have a persistent shell environment I could attach from any terminal and leave open.
The absence of Vulkan on Apple platforms—something that it’s worth noting was developed after Apple’s Metal equivalent—is in absolutely no way even approaching a barrier to building a “native GUI framework”.

There literally are cross-platform native GUI frameworks. Even Electron itself is a third-party implementation of a GUI framework - it doesn’t use the platform’s web tech implementation and bundles its own.
The only trafficking I've heard conservatives talk a lot about is trafficking of kids, particularly Epstein, Rotherham rape gangs, and also deep-end stuff like pizzagate. Conservatives being outspoken about trafficking of middle class women is news to me.
I'm not sure if this is the correct advice but here is how I'd do if I were in your positions. Create a working MVP using no-code tools (they are all over these days) and try to get dedicated users or better yet some paying customers.

Now, start looking for a technical co-founder who shares your idea and vision. YCombinator's upcoming StartupSchool seems to have a dedicated focus on finding and matching co-founders. Try that.

If you are in the Valley, start pitching investors; if not, look for an Accelerator. :-)
I guess my point (wrt corporations) is that companies should turn from Growth into Value a lot sooner. E.g. I would have preferred Google to become a Value company once it became the dominant search provider, instead of constantly looking for new revenue streams.
Likewise. If their co-whatever wrote all the code, they sound like the employee. Bosses, visionaries, and founders typically don't write code, they delegate it to people who do.

Being an "idea person" is not comparable to being an "implementer." Truly exceptional individuals can be both, but I'm willing to wager that this whole venture was OP's idea, thus making him the "one true founder."

Diplomacy would be best for OP, but they shouldn't close the door on exploring their legal options. Especially if they have anything dated or timestamped that clearly establishes them as the originator of the idea or concept.

All in all, this is a valuable lesson for OP and they will walk away from the experience with wisdom to help them in their future ventures. Best of luck, OP.
IMO the killer thing that VSCode has over all the other editors is the wealth of extensions and a certain degree of simplicity. What are your plans for Zed in terms of extensibility and are you aligning more towards making something beefy and full-featured like the IntelliJ offerings or something more "lightweight" like VSCode or Sublime?
In 2019, Michigan State University's endowment was $3.93 Billion.

>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...
There are laws about reporting suspected abuse. But I think those are mostly around minors and primary/secondary schools. It's also probably hard to prove they knew, so they go after them on a failure to supervise in civil trials. The burden of proof is also much lower in civil cases.
"Don't hold criminals accountable because there will always be more criminals"
Yeah. Which Linus uses, so probably works well enough for all non UI work whatsoever. Except maybe SQL?
Yes, that makes more sense, I was mischaracterizing it. 1-of-1 is more appropriate (although the notion of a 1-of-1 multisig is a little odd at face value until one digs in).
Where does it say the OP has options and the co-founder has shares? I think he explicitly said his _shares_ haven't vested yet...
Not to mention the fact that a large part of those 83% would like to be able to occasionally travel outside the urban area.
no, it's a terrible time to bring up what is, charitably, a non-sequitur. "oh, it's ok, it just women, so let's not care if they get protection and justice under the law. and it's not even guaranteed, harhar!"

the same with the discussion about the amount demanded elsewhere. "it's just women, why so much?!"

there's yet to be any discussion about the merits of the case, just sideglance comments like these. try to be a little more empathetic and thoughtful.
Oh come on. The PFDs are damn near identical. The biggest difference is that the Airbus attitude indicator has rounded corners while Boeing's is squared. That's an entirely superficial difference that changes nothing about how it works or is interpreted.
Amazing! Sounds like a great foundation! Curious about UI execution in Rust
Please make zed capable of running in a terminal. If I could have a modern editor that can run in the terminal and had a nice GUI, I would definitely pick it up. There's still many instances where I'm working on a remote dev machine, on my iPad, over a serial connection, inside of tmux, where a terminal based text editor is a necessity.
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MS poured developers at VS Code which resulted in it blowing away Atom pretty soon in terms of performance. Soon devs started migrating to VSC, plugin ecosystem started accreting, and gradually people just forgot about Atom. It is not that Atom did anything horrendously wrong. If the same dev effort had been put into it that VSC got, am pretty sure it could've become almost as good now. Maybe even better in certain respects.
Just don't put too much of your heart and soul into your job. Don't believe in your employer's mission too much. Don't tie up your identity with your job too much. Don't work too many hours.

In other words have boundaries.

Have a life. Do stuff on the weekends and evenings. Hell, have a remote job? Do things in the middle of the day.

Do just enough at work to get a raise and not screw over your coworkers and no more.
I still like the quote, if we take the author out of the picture. The meaning behind the words and the meaning nowadays ascribed to it is absolutely positive imho.
So hurray, people learned from the horrors of the 20th century that socialism inevitably leads to rampant corruption, suffering and genocide? Socialism caused 100 deaths for every death the Nazis caused, I don't understand how we don't see someone advocating for it as equally appalling to someone making pro-Nazi statements.

Whether you look at the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, anywhere in Africa, you inevitably find that socialism brought horrific suffering, extreme poverty and widespread death. It doesn't matter whether the country is big or small, has lots of natural resources or none, is ethnically diverse or homogeneous, in literally every single data point we have, the empirical truth is clear, that private property and competitive businesses create better outcomes than centralized socialist systems.
This is a rather bizarre claim. Is the risk of loss truly so terrifying as to always avoid joy?
The $35/month server uses 6 cores to answer a single query in ~2.5-3 seconds. So it’s 0.33 QPS :-)

Not high, which is why it might not be working well for folks right now…

Time scales almost perfectly linearly with cores, since the computation is embarrassingly parallel.

In terms of cost, we’re still talking only 18 CPU•s and ~300KB of outgoing bandwidth, which is not a ton at todays prices.
I wonder if this can be done on sqlite?

http://static.wiki/

See the previous news article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28012829
Usually the endowment is protected though. They can only withdraw so much at a time because it lives in a trust, right?
to say it's a "political agenda" to brand SF as a progressive city is nonsense. Sure, people will use that sentiment to paint it in a bad light

Well, which is it?

but the leaders of SF very much want SF to be known as a progressive city.

This is beside the point, but whether a city is progressive or not is defined by its policies, who the people are voting out, etc., not by what people say about it.

To bring it back on topic, to point at SF and say "see, progressive cities are bad" (as people posting here) isn't really right because SF isn't as progressive as they claim.
The founder is in this thread, stating they just started an alpha release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669615
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Good for them. This could be a chilling wake up call that sometimes especially brave citizens push back against government malfeasance.
We do not have any paying customers or a meaningful non-paying user base.

It’s reasonable for you to move on.

And it is reasonable for your cofounder too.

My co-founder has written all of the code, I have been responsible for leading growth, marketing, content creation, and have been central to product development/design/mockups etc.

If shares were vested, they would only be vested in sunk costs.
sad to see it go
vscode? i've been trying to avoid it
That's unfortunate, because this is such a killer app for VR-based creation.

I expect advanced 3D workflows of the future to look less like Blender and Unreal Engine and more like Tilt Brush.

Full degree of motion of both hands is so liberating. Plus it's fully immersive. When VR UIs improve around knolling and contextual tooling, this will become more obvious to people.
FYI you can drag anything from the sidebar to the bottom pane. It's not much, but can help with the overloaded sidebar.
What's the reasoning behind this iteration being closed-source?
Considering it has its roots in the "Lebensreform" in the late 19th century, it's not that surprising that it's part of the culture. Still, American influence hasn't been good to it and it's also the reason why it's more prominent in Eastern Germany.
Atom practically invented the kind of extensions that VSCode had, and even several years into VSCode's life Atom far outstripped it in Extensions.

Perf became the biggest problem however, which VSCode took over.
why would you make your claim about that apple is ahead if you don't know the answer to this question?
Growth should probably be more precisely defined in the vast majority of cases to avoid confusion and misunderstanding. In terms of systems, the quantity that grows or shrinks should be concrete (i.e. not a rate, certainly).

For example, human population. Let's say the birthrate in a population is growing, so a naive conclusion would be that the population, a concrete object, must also be growing. This is not true if the deathrate is growing by the same amount. Now, this is the standard kind of thing you see in a intro to differential equations course: a river feeds a lake at rate X, and another river drains a lake at rate Y, and so is the lake growing or shrinking? Ooops, we neglected to take evaporation into account, so we get the wrong answer.

Economists are among the worst offenders in this misuse of concepts. Take 'productivity growth' - this is actually growth in the rate at which product is produced, right? If productivity is flat and market demand is flat and human population is flat, well, that means everyone is getting what they need, if say the product is cell phones, for example. If everyone has a cell phone, and cell phones are replaced every five years, then what is productivity growth? Maybe you can make the cell phone manufacturing line more efficient, by recycling the materials from old cell phones into new cell phones, or by automation etc. Nevertheless, the desired rate of cell phone production is fixed, and everyone has a cell phone.

Of course the market should be broken up between different producers to encourage competition, but here growth in production of a better cell phone with higher demand is counterbalanced by shrinkage in market share by another producer, as net demand is flat.

Unfortunately, if the cell phone makers form a cartel, and raise their prices in unison, some economist will call that 'economic growth' based on the fact that they're extracting more money from a market with fixed demand, which is just ludicrous - but that's modern neoclassical economics for you.
This is fantastic. I use code mirror for the editor on https://boot.dev and really like it. I'll need to take a look at upgrading to 6
Precisely.

This is a responsible way to handle the ceasing of maintenance while allowing any and all interested members of the Atom community to fork and maintain versions.

I have a much more optimistic view of development communities than you do, and I expect to see Atom endure in some forms.
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I have never found a git integration that I liked more or found more simple and intuitive than Atom's. I found that even folks who were new to git would quickly become comfortable with managing git interactions via Atom.

VSCode's "Source Control" on the other hand is a such a big UX dumpster-fire that I cannot bring myself to even try using it any more....
It’s already here. They went with the name GitHub Codespaces.
I have to agree. I'd rather open the terminal and do a git push or otherwise run a command rather than having every save get deployed.
Speed. I used Atom for a couple years, but quickly switched to VSCode once it was viable as it was the first electron editor to actually be "fast enough" for me.
"Ah my apologies it seems like we have a bit of a layer shift, I'll schedule you for intensive care right away..."
Well, unless it is paid, I don't know how would you continue to toil for years making great editor. And unless it is free, gain a good market share to continue to support.

I hope you would have some solution to this conundrum.
Can anyone recommend an explanation of this concept geared towards people with only a superficial knowledge of encryption?

This seems to be some kind of search applied on an encrypted dataset, is that right?
This kind of implies what the UK wants actually matters. If the entire EU requires a common charging cable, companies will be forced into it and UK consumers will reap the benefit regardless of the UK regulations. The UK isn't going to get some extra investment because they don't implement this. Not to mention, it will be implemented to some extent in part of the UK (Northern Ireland) due to the agreement in place with the EU.
> What "special status"? It simply is how the world is, as we've seen over all of history.

And we are trying to move into the future, not the past.

Are nuclear families really so important and successful that we need more of it? Is this really an undebatable absolute truth that should be forced on people? Let people decide on their own if they want to spend their new found free time on families or something else.

Edit: the "special status" is loyalty, and loyalty is bad if we are trying to live in a meritocracy.
Does VS Code support more refactoring and code generation now? I last used it heavily over a year ago, and at the time it seemed like anything beyond moving files and renaming things wasn't really doable. Meanwhile, in JetBrains's software I can extract and inline variables and functions, change signatures, split things out into other files, and more. I think I tried a plugin or two which were supposed to handle those things, but they either just didn't work at all or weren't reliable.
Nathan, I remember your passion for this project from its very early days. It has already borne fruit that has grown into a garden in the form of Electron, and I'm excited to see you are reimagining Atom in the form of Zed.

Best wishes for Zed's success!
Same, but for 12 years and I agree, even though I've done a lot of high-level architecture in the past few years. Some of my job consists of engineering no-doubt, but until I've graduated with my engineering BS, I'm just "developer" unless someone gives me a title that says otherwise.
Boy...15 years ago I was reaching to this and hpricot almost every week to do some cool scraping/parsing of some kind. I always loved the bs API
Given all the Deutsche Bank weirdness, like repeated money laundering problems, dealing with shady Russian oligarchs, and multiple deaths and suicides of executives and whistle blowers, how much of this is keeping some people happy who know which closets the skeleton's are in?
Vivaldi will try to keep V2 functionality as long as its in codebase, meanwhile implementing own (lame static, pretty much 100% same thing V3 offers) adblocker.
> custom native UI framework

Cool project, but this is clearly a contradiction.

wxWidgets? That offers a native UI. Wherever possible it uses the UI controls from the underlying OS/system to render the interface.

Looking at the project page it describes "a GPU-powered UI framework that met our needs."

That's not a native UI. That's a non-native UI compiled to native code, ala something like Flutter.
Apple watch activity detection is kinda crap.

- Sleep detection sort of works for going to bed, but doesn't recognize a lie in after sleepily hitting the button and dozing off for another hour. It also doesn't recognize being awake in the night, unless I actively get up.

- It detects maybe half of the walks I go on, and usually well after I've already triggered cyclemeter. (So, there's a simple heuristic that I'm on a walk -- I've told it so)

- It interprets the cat headbutting my wrist as a cue to change the watch face.
i'm just referring to the acoustic isolation from the mechanical coupler. obviously (?) the passband for telephone comms is far short of ultrasonic
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Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. I won't touch VSCode with a 10 foot pole. Pick an editor that will last 40 years and isn't run by a mega-corporation that wants to eat FOSS so they can get us to buy into their subscription ecosystem.
OK? You ignore the larger point by disagreeing with the terminology I chose. Reducing car usage in the US by 70% would be an absolutely massive win
Chrome has an incredibly responsible practice, of reporting well ahead of time their "Intent to Experiment" & "Intent to Prototype". (Safari just drops festures.) Chrome runs Origin Trials so prpblems can be found & developers understand they are using experimental, liable to change features. Chrome engages the TAG & security folk actively as they're working. It files requests for position. Chrome wants & believes in an alive standards making process, in advancing, carefully, cautiously.

People do push back against changes sometimes on Chrome. And sometimes they get plowed over & ignored. But damn is it rare. Really really rare. The community is extremely open to debate & critiques, is ultra-public, ewth foredes ribed planning & accountability & transparency far surpassing any other software development effort on the planet.

Backwards Safari holds the web back, yes, 100%, but risks like :has() are not to what Im talking about when I say that. This thread was trying to mamipulatively shade on Google for not going fast on one specific feature, and I've been explaining how this specific situation is very complex. I'm glad Safari pushed for it, even though it is a hazard, this is not Safari holding the web back (although it should be regarded as an experimental feature at this point), but this mini PR-campaign to shine up Safari & berate chrome: it's disingenously ommited & talked around a lot of problematic details about this 8 year old drafted idea.