skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oddly enough Andy Glaister, creator of the PDS cards, and I, (Andy is two months younger than me) have very similar early careers of creating video games, heading in to local computer shops and buying C15 tapes, then duplicating them, photocopying the labels, and collecting some nice royalties for an 11-yr old. We had never met up until we both independently moved to the US and our paths crossed for a short time (Activision, other companies). Life is weird.

I'll go hunt for your other comments down thread, seems you and I also share some disconnected history of developing games.
> Being unemployed is not better than making a low wage.

You're presuming it's a binary choice; consider the systemic effect might not make it a binary choice.

Let's accept that it is a binary choice, then no, it's not necessarily better to be making a low wage, because that presumes a value for your time that is effectively zero. In truth, with your own time, you can find ways to feed yourself, provide yourself with shelter, etc., and when you are working you can't do that stuff. Let's assume though that one wouldn't take a wage that was a net direct loss like this, there's still the possibility that a low wage might be tactically beneficial, but strategically & systemically quite harmful.
I think Flamingo might be a bit better, but I continue to be amazed at the accelerating pace of AI models, especially LLMs, these days. And they all seem to incorporate transformers, too, which makes me very much appreciate Vashwani, et al's 2017 invention of them. There could be a better model out there to discover, but so far transformers truly feel like the key we've been looking for to unlock AGI, or at least something very close to it.
How profitable is kick starter? I've not kept up, but it's certainly not discussed much these days

According to Wikipedia:

Net income:
$1.3 million after tax (2019)[1]: 1
Eh, I'm not sure that is an accurate description of what has happened.

"Minority unions" as AWU has structured itself are not a typical part of the "union's lifecycle" - usually a central union organization will organize a vote drive but at no point is it a "member's only"/minority union at the company. There are notable exceptions like UAW Local 42.
You should try spectrwm, a "fork" of xmonad not written in Haskell. It effectively replaced i3wm on all my laptops.
If you think that’s bad, you should see the software running on millions of home routers in the UK.
TheGuardian.com is worth it, in my opinion. It's not expensive, and it gives world news, not just national news. The proofreading on the website is not impressive, though, compared with the weekly paper version (to which I also subscribe).

I've also had WP and NYT subscriptions, and I think these are fine choices. One thing, though: I found it quite difficult to cancel my NYT subscription. Subscriptions are like hash functions -- easy in one direction and hard in the other.
It also has the consequence that from the perspective of the employee getting optimized, what Amazon is doing is exploiting them more, faster, better, and for less effort on Amazon's side.

Let's not forget that each of us the people are more similar to the employee than we're to Amazon. Though I suppose a lot of people who never have had to be an employee anywhere (e.g. due to being born into enough wealth) wouldn't see this as clearly as a more typical person; compound this into the fact that most law makers (specially senators) are from very wealthy backgrounds already...
Everybody wants to make it into the "Too Many Cooks" credits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8

(Is that RMS with the machete?)
And in the context of SpaceX, how exactly has he been "an asshole"?

People don't have to like him, but it doesn't seem he's actually done anything other than make people work hard at their jobs...
> sacrificing power-user functionality if necessary?

Scratch "if necessary". Power users have privilege, so deliberately throwing them curveballs for the sake of equitable outcomes seems to be the GNOME way.
Ill never forget my first mouse.

~1988 or so... 386sx, 2400 baud modem, and a local friend who I played Populous with multi-player over modem. (aside from BBS games, I dont recall other games played via modem? He is now an EVP at blizzard)

This mouse wasa gift to me from my stepmother as she was courting my dad and wanted my buy-in. and a way to 'flex' she left the pricetag on the mouse. $69.99 1988.

That price made sense given the novelty of the mouse.

$200 FN dollars for a trackball? 2022.

I love it, but will never buy one.
This is the release announcement with more details on the open sourced things and all the other totally new features: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2022/06/17/citus-11-goes-full...

(sadly the accompanying HN submission got marked as a duplicate from this submission)
I don't really think Zuckerberg cares that much about short term fluctuations in the stock price. He has majority control, the market has effectively zero power if he doesn't like its ideas.
I can understand why.
>> GNOME devs want the users to use drag and drop instead of the file pciker...

That's funny. Just replace the file dialog with opening the file manager. Drag and Drop. Better yet, just modify the file manager to have an option to self-close after selecting a file and a way to pass that selection to the app (using MIME types would not allow the DE to get it to the correct app in all cases).
This looks really lovely, I look forward to following the maturation of Ante in the future. I've often thought that the niche of a general purpose low-level FP language was a promising space. The only other langs that fit in there are ATS[1], which is notoriously complex/difficult-to-learn, and Futhark[2], which is more GPGPU/scientific-computing specific.

We've got Rust, which is essentially a C-style lang that steals all kinds of goodies from the ML family; it's nice to see Ante as a kind of inverse to this: i.e. an ML style lang that borrows some of the nice bits from traditional imperative langs (and hopefully maintains their performance characteristics).

Looking through the language tour there already seem to be a plethora of very sensible/ergonomic design decisions here. The 'loop' and 'recur' keywords are a great feature, making a nice little functional nod towards while loops. As a long-time Haskell user the explicit currying initially turned me off, but after seeing a couple examples I can see how it's actually a very reasonable solution, and moreover the ability to curry out of order is really nice instead of having to use 'flip' or similar combinators (as a side note, the explicit currying reminds me a bit of APL's α and ω arguments in dfns, a feature I'd love to see pop up more). The paired tuples also seem like they'd be a pleasure to use; certainly a bit more flexible than tuples in other ML style langs. Making '.' the pipeline operator is also a smart bit of syntax, and I can see it being very accessible to OO programmers in that it looks (and acts) like the method chaining they're familiar with. Refinement Types seem like a good alternative to full on dependent typing (ATS has an analogous (and more general) proof system for ensuring things like array indices are valid (an essential feature in a low level FP lang), but it involves threading those proofs through your program which seems much more clunky than what's presented here).

Overall I'm really excited to see where Ante goes, it seems like a very pragmatic functional language, something the world definitely needs more of...

[1]: http://www.ats-lang.org/Home.html

[2]: https://futhark-lang.org/

EDIT: In regards to low level FP langs there's also Carp, Erik Svedäng's nifty little statically typed Lisp. It's like Scheme with a Rust-y memory model:

https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
That's how they roll. They were forced to release the Pfizer covid data early. Initially they wanted to release it over the course of 75 years. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/paramount-importanc...
I can easily cancel on the nytimes.com by going to settings. I’m in Asia though so maybe it is different on your region.
There is a whole lot more to ex-iron curtain Europe than Poland, Ukraine and Russia. Baltics, Belarus, Hungary, Romania, Czechia, etc.
There's this long lost dark art known as "tact." Folks who came of age after the advent of social media seem to be completely unfamiliar with it.

It's something you use when trying to address a delicate subject whilst minimizing the blowback. Calling out the head of your organization publicly via a scathing open letter would not be it.
I recommend asking them to take you off of their recruiting lists. They'll still contact you but way less frequently.
Thanks for the insight. That's some proper complexity debt.
Coming up next: Want to ship a C++ project this quarter? Use Python.
The natural minimum wage that the market determines (absent all regulations) is $0 per hour and is called slavery. Enlightened people have moved passed the idea that the “market” alone should determine the minimum wage.
Keep going, you are almost there.... so close. Read the letter, what is it about?
Discussions Of 10x Developers vs. 5 Stages Of Grief
The animations on things like this can be cute and fun the first time, but man they can get annoying if they're constant and can't be skipped. Hearthstone is an example of this; there's tons of cute animations for the various cards, but they can take way too long.

Hiding "no animations" for power users under accessibility is a great way to go.
People in medicine use "scrip" to mean "prescription" when speaking to others in the field.
> There is a natural minimum wage that the market determines.

The market "determined" this "natural minimum wage" because a patchwork of laws dictated (somewhere around) a $15 minimum wage in a lot of locations and as a policy for many state/city/county contracts.
When I try to attach a file in Chrome on Linux, it shows a file picker that defaults to only showing files I recently uploaded, which is the exact opposite of what I want.
Doesn't "profit" of any kind have stuff subtracted out?

Yes it does:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/grossprofit.asp

Sales commissions, direct labor that varies with output, to name a few.

I appreciate that you provided your favorite metric, but gross profit is affected by wages, so it is on point as far as I'm concerned.
> This is exactly it.

No, it's not. If only people who require protection will try to have privacy, it will be very easy to target them. Everyone should have privacy to protect them. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31695383.
I'd recommend avoiding the news. As far as I can tell, the news exists to sell ads.

That said, if you still want to read the news and have access to an Apple device, why not consider Apple News+? It's just about the only news service I'm aware of where you can cancel your subscription without any hassle and you get multiple news sources to boot.

NYT, WSJ, Economist and all the other commonly-recommended news places are a hassle to cancel.
> How is Musk spitting in their face? By shitposting on twitter? By voting for the wrong candidate?

You're asking questions that were answered in the letter:

"Elon’s behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us, particularly in recent weeks... As our CEO and most prominent spokesperson, Elon is seen as the face of SpaceX — every Tweet that Elon sends is a de facto public statement by the company. It is critical to make clear to our teams and to our potential talent pool that his messaging does not reflect our work, our mission, or our values."

His behavior devalues their work and denigrates the image of the companies they work for.
Another thing I forget to mention, since I'm only using single scripts, is the fact that Jinx has per-script execution stacks. So, not only does it support coroutine-based concurrency, but also script-based. Each script maintains its own state and can be long-running, without affecting other scripts' operation.
Solution to #1 is bringing in workers that care more about $ than lifestyle. Same situation in the tech industry.
There are other applications for genetically modified foods than just pesticide resistance.
For that, we use a helpful little tool called Lofelt. You can import a sound file and it’ll generate a custom haptic pattern to match it. With a little cleanup and an AHAP file for Xcode, we were ready to go.

It seems Lofelt is shutting down. I’m surprised Apple hasn’t released some kind of “Haptic Studio” app as a part of Xcode’s tools.
Not a proper channel, but it can be effective. Sometimes getting publicly fired is the point.
BuzzFeed != BuzzFeedNews, their investigative journalism wing which has broken a number of huge stories. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News#Notable_stories
Fairphone’s phone subscription gets cheaper the longer you look after your phone
I try to avoid purchasing from Amazon to help them as much as I can...
I see, but in this case the multiplication is “b * b”, which has type “^c * ^c”.
SAT solving is the subtle and time consuming part. A valid SAT proof certificate can be verified efficiently.
Nintendo is smart. They saw a near crash in Japan on the Famicom (no lockout) and what happened to Atari/etc in the US (also no lockout).

They wanted to be very sure they didn’t run into that. So with the US launch they controlled publishing, licensing, lockout chips, the “Nintendo Seal of Quality”, etc.

They were trying to avoid another disaster. And it worked. So they stuck to it. Combined with being very conservative and opinionated (for better or worse) it continues to this day.

Yes, they’ve loosened compared to the NES days, but that’s why.

Sony and MS came along MUCH later to a very different industry. By that generation consoles were normal and gaming was there to stay. The risks were different.
Pretty good I gotta say. More emphasis on business/economic issues than the Times
The investigative part of Buzzfeed is a very reliable award-winning media.
The government lawyer didn't go after him, the government did.
One could even say that "they responded in microseconds."
Minimum wage is important when you have more people wanting to work, than jobs. Right now 1 in 300 people just died, a bunch retired, and 3-5% of the remaining workforce is out with covid and/or post-covid syndrome. So right now there are more jobs than workers.

Given people's natural inclination towards reproduction, at some point in the future, there will once again be more people than jobs, and minimum wage will once again become a flashpoint as quality of life begins to shrink. That's not even accounting for inflationary effects on the bottom 75% of wage earners.
I have family in Europe and I think many Americans have a bit of a skewed view. Take a trip to Paris or Copenhagen and you see this car-free, bike oriented, public transit culture. But that’s kinda like visiting New York and DC and Boston and making the same conclusion about the US. Plenty of Europe is suburban with houses and a car culture. I think cars are actually quite common outside the city center, even if you live in an apartment like my grandparents (Poland and France), they still have a family car they drive to the store and mall and such. Definitely a more walkable focus in general, but this vision of Europe as this car-free utopia doesn’t seem accurate to my experience.
Just like freeways - add more traffic lanes, get more traffic.
There's no incentive to ever make cancellation easy nor any incentive to make cancellers feel valued.
Doodles-as-a-Service Repo
percentages in the post are wrong too

no surprise pandas was "slow"
Yes. I don't want to have to hold down a button just to check a box if it's something I need to do with any kind of regularity. Just give me a damn checkbox. If it's something big and rare, this cutesy stuff is fine.
Excellent for English Language financial news, and probably just OK compared to the NYT for political news.
> … guessing something about the implementation.

The source code is shown —

binary-trees Java #7 program

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

binary-trees Go #2 program

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
The primary Dallas local is the Dallas Morning News
Agreed, for best user experience animations are generally capped at 500ms. Dealing with something like this checkbox where you interact with it more than once would kill the novelty real quick.
+1 for Economist.

Don't let the titles of New York Review of Books and London Review of Books fool you. They do much longer view of contemporary news but thru book review.

Most news is probably not worth following every day. The rearview mirror of a weekly magazine gives better context than trying to follow most news the same day when details are still ongoing.
You can still be hired-to-fire as a remote, probably more so.
Wow, this is an impressive app. I’d happily pay for this, will send coffees to the author.

I want one feature in screenshot apps. Is there any way to take screenshots in specified aspect ratio? I often share screenshots (of mostly text/html pages) on twitter (or other social media) and they expect the image to be in certain aspect ratio. So I keep playing with the browser window, resizing it till all the text I want is in the screenshot. Is there any better way to do this?
However, a if the minimum wage is increased to $9, the collective spending power of the minimum wage cohort may increase enough to increase the per worker revenue to $9 or more. Likewise, if the employer cohort doesn’t believe this to be the case and fires workers, then X% of the workforce will no longer have the discretionary spending to support $8 in revenue.
And all the people getting cancelled said and did x bad thing, but Musk's sycophants and defenders, who tend to be free speech absolutists, act like people should be immune from the consequences of their actions.
Who'da thought unsustainable labour practices are unsustainable.
"all wrong" in this case was ambiguous. I interpreted it as meaning "all members of leadership are wrong about something" not that "leadership is wrong about all things".

But I also disagree with their argument simply because Musk's actions are very public and represent the employees who stand behind him. It would be one thing if these were internal decisions that employees disagreed with, but that's not the situation. Musk is a leader, and the people who choose to stand behind him rely on him to represent them well. If they feel he is not doing his job, they are well within their rights to voice their concerns to him. If he reacts like a baby-man who can't take criticism, then the workers should be ready to take their skills elsewhere.
>Solar is currently amongst the cheapest way to generate electricity

Yes, this is because :

>the issue is how to store it

That little missing part part is massively expensive and completely unaddressed by the underlying technology. It's like saying riding using a sailboat is the most gasoline-efficient way to get from place to place, except the issue of how you get over land.

If you add together the cost of solar generation (the cheap and easy part) with storage (the expensive and hard part) you get the actual cost of the generation method, which is substantially higher.
You are forgetting that the Stasi needed quite a lot of concrete and border guards to keep people from leaving and that the whole thing collapsed in the end in a peaceful revolution because the people didn't want to take it anymore.
Favorite Response:

https://twitter.com/filpizlo/status/1150793328578838533

Filip Jerzy Pizło

@filpizlo

· Jul 15, 2019

"The thing most wrong with the “10x” thing is that it’s probably more like a power law... given big enough sample size you will find 1000x or even 10000x engineers. They are just [very] rare."
> If you want to bite the hand that feeds you, then you need to be cognizant of the potential consequences.

SpaceX employees are the hand that's feeding Musk. Unless you think he can get to Mars by himself.
> It's funny to see this dynamic at a time when the federal minimum wage is still stuck at $7.25/hr.

Why? It just sounds to me that the federal minimum is age isn’t needed; employers will set the wages necessary to attract the employees that they need and are willing to pay for.
Really love the Apple News+ subscription. Includes a ton of content including WSJ.

I also subscribe separately to NYT & Washington Post. All great options.
Plasticity 3D CAD to move away from Russian Kernel
Plasticity, a 3D CAD modeling tool, (which has been covered here before [0]) is going to move away from the C3D Kernel in order to support better direct editing and to avoid the risks and moral issues of working with a Russian vendor.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30695360
It’s default now in many dists. I don’t use it but not because I care.
Good luck with that...lol. The ontological / informatics space for chemicals is a mess.

To make the collective knowledge of chemistry open and available, you need to represent, organize, and index it. This problem is not as sexy, but it is orders of magnitude more important.
> Are there any directives to the Operating System to say - “here keep this data in the fastest accessible L[1,2,3] please”?

Not for general purpose programs, because L1 caches change so quickly each year there is no point.

For embedded real-time processors, yes. For GPUs, yes. (OpenCL __local, CUDA __shared__).

This is because Microsoft's DirectX platform guarantees 32kB or something of __shared__ / tiled memory, so all GPU providers who want a DirectX11 certification are guaranteed to have that cache-like memory that programmers can rely upon. When DirectX12 or DirectX13 comes about, the new minimum specifications are published and all graphics programmers can then take advantage of it.

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No sane Linux/Windows programmer however would want these kinds of guarantees for normal CPU programs, outside of very strict realtime settings (at which point, you can rely upon the hardware being constant). Linux/Windows are designed as general purpose OSes.

DirectX 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 however, is willing to tie itself to the "GPUs of the time", and includes such specifications.
I love Boris and also the Melvins. These bands should be appreciated more.
> 4TT in spending for BBB

Over ten years.
You should try walmart.com for ordering... they stepped up their game... it's not uncommon for them to do 3 deliveries for a $35 order with free shipping to get you the stuff as fast as possible... Most of the time I wish they would combine items to avoid the waste but that's what they do.
I really like Business Week but IDK how hard it is to cancel (have it through Apple News).
Jeauzeus Chistmas!

I completely forgot about HIMEM... and what a difference it made when it happened...

God there is so much computer history knowledge thats going to die in the next 20 years.
Exactly. Ever heard of scrip[0]? We have historical proof that companies won't even pay their employees with real money unless the government mandates that they do so.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip#Company_scrip
I'd recommend the Economist. It's a lot less US centric. It is more expensive.
From the site:

We now offer trackballs for left-handed ballers! It’s exactly identical to a right-handed trackball, but it’s for lefties. Celebrate! But note that the writing and the logo and all of that is actually mirrored!
Reddit are the nerds/losers of the online-o-sphere.
> with your own time, you can find ways to feed yourself, provide yourself with shelter, etc.

You still have the option to quit your job if you're employed and don't find it worth your while.

> strategically & systemically quite harmful

How?
Musk is a marketing genius. Creating a cult of personality around your companies is not at all an easy thing to do.