skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great, my best chat was with a character called "Normal Guy who just doesn't want to talk about what's in his bottom drawer" (https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=XaydMRJMI6qYYO22MiJZb1_W...)

Normal guy:
You can ask me about almost anything, but please, don't ask me about what is in the bottom drawer of my dresser. The bottom drawer of my dresser is not a topic that I like to discuss. All other topics are just fine though!

choop:
I think you know what I gotta ask friend!

Normal guy:
You really want to know about the bottom drawer?
The bottom drawer of my dresser holds the prototype for the next version of the iPhone that is going to be released in the near future. The company I work for has a contract with Apple which is part of why I am payed so much. Apple is working on technology that would let you use your phone a lot faster than before.
That is why I cannot tell you what is in there.

choop:
It sounds like you really want people to ask about that bad boy!

Normal guy:
That question is something I get asked a lot. People are always trying to figure out what is in there, but I will never tell. It is a highly classified piece of information and I can get in trouble if it got out that I have the next generation of iPhones just sitting in my dresser.

choop:
lol

Normal guy:
That is why I get payed so much, I basically have top secret classified information being guarded by a 28 year old man. No one will ever know that I have the next iPhone on my dresser. My dresser might just be the safest place in America, except maybe my desk where I keep the blueprints for the next generation of the SR-71 Blackbird.
You just moved the goalposts and did not address the point I made, which is that the bulk of security council work is not discussing nuclear issues, and that the powers with nukes have other ways of talking to each other.
It sets the wrong incentives. Companies that are more developer-friendly, publishing specs and so on, should be rewarded for it.
This is also one reason why it would be virtually impossible to contain a nuclear exchange. Any submarine base, or location where the US stores or can operate nukes becomes a target. This set includes most of the G7.
They worked well enough to fend off Russian invasion for my people.
> their own Ombudsman for Human Rights admitted that she made up claims about Russian soldiers raping children

Not having heard about this, I looked it up.

She was fired by Ukraine lawmakers, specifically (among other things) for publishing reports without factual basis. Ukrainian journalists published an open letter criticizing her reports as lacking sufficient evidence.

https://www.newsweek.com/lyudmila-denisova-ukraine-commissio...

Of course pro-Kremlin sources would skip those details, to seize on her post-firing admission to claim that all accusations are therefore false.

> The Wikipedia articles EXCLUSIVELY ...

But, point taken about Wikipedia. People really do need to stop using it as a source to support their arguments.
Yeah, go check out some Factorio screenshots. Thousands of interactive objects animating on screen at once. Not only that, there is a complex sim running in the background. On my machine it runs well past 100fps.
IV bought one from Ali express that is a piece of garbage
Casey Muratori is an extremely proficient programmer. Windows probably employs a couple of new grads to work on the terminal. (Even if they aren't, it'd be hard to come close to the breadth of experience that Casey has.) I never understood why this is a surprise at all - "Casey Muratori excoriated the Windows Terminal" basically translates to "L8 smarter than L2".
Way to live in your little bubble there. I, for one, wasn’t sure if you meant American football or what the rest of the world calls it, and even then I have zero idea how big a field is. To me and probably millions or billions of other people, you might as well have told us it’s as long as an Atlantic right whale or something.
optimizing for short-term gain is growing profit. what do you think short-term gain is? it's gain!

what it isn't is investing in quality and long-term success; it's betting that you'll be able to find some other short-term optimization in the future, and it relies on the stock market having a memory that lasts no longer than one year
"Years away" is shockingly closer than most of us would have assumed just a year ago, I think.
Well you can also just count current employees' tenure. That fixes the problem and is qualitatively consistent IMO.
Consider https://codereview.stackexchange.com/ might be better place to post this.
I found myself working more with WFH until I set hard stops.
>> If you are willing to tolerate people being hurt and killed by stray gunfire.

This is implicitly baked into the 2nd-amendment cause. It's the primary reason this is such a hot-button political issue.

Nothing comes for free. Every benefit has a cost. In the case of guns some part of the population belive (strongly) that the benefits outweigh the costs. The rest (strongly) believe the opposite.

The benefit of gun ownership is the idea that the citizenry can overthrow a future hypothetical tyrannical government [1]. The cost is the many lives lost in the real world now.

While it may be impossible to say, the phrase "if a few children must die to protect our way-of-life, then that's a price worth paying" springs to mind.

[1] the actual efficacy of such a resistance may be questionable (it didn't help the confederacy for example) that's not really the point. The argument is that merely the threat of such an uprising prevents the tyrannical govt from forming in the first place.

Of course the argument may be nonsense. New Zealand has survived tyrany with little to no gun ownership, whereas tyrany in places with high ownership, like say Iraq, is not uncommon - which suggests there are other factors in play.

But the quality of the argument is not material. The fact is that a significant number of people believe that guns are important, and that the cost of guns is worth paying.

Ultimately that is the problem that is "not solvable".
Surely if you believe it's trivially solvable and you haven't solved it, that is evidence that you either do not desire to solve it or that it is not trivial to solve.

Like, if you think it's trivially solvable then just solve it trivially and we can all move on.
This. Incredible. Debouncing was done in the early 70s and even someone on;y familiar with more modern similar ideas would note that Nagling was invented in 1984 at the latest...
I've never used Word for DOS. The oldest I've used it "seriously" was word 97 on windows 95 or 98 on a 100 MHz 486. Not book-length documents, but comfortably in the dozens of pages. That thing would fly.

Modern Word lags on a two-page document on an 8 core xeon with 64 GB of RAM. Same PC can run modern games at 4k@60 FPS.

I can agree that maybe modern Word "does more work" than Word 97. But as another commenter said: WTF is that work? And do we even need it?

As a user, all I see is that modern Word's interface has buttons all over the place, taking up half my screen. And when I grab the scroll-bar, it won't scroll until some time after I've released it. Word 97 managed to scroll the contents as I moved the bar just fine.

It also takes forever to start-up on an SSD so fast it can move multiple times the size of that old 486's whole hard drive in one second. WTF is it loading? And once loaded, why is it so slow, since everything can fit in RAM?
Not all of the conversation was reasonable, but so much of it was so decent that I would say it rivals communications I've had with some humans. This is astounding to me.

https://character.ai/p/6idFyN7UKxgK0GqTCSUn3S9L07pzpz23uMqq9...
Behavior solvable.

When a user inserts to backticks, insert the closing backticks immediately.
As a user, FB is a hot mess rn so much so that I'm forced to switch to other apps. 8/10 posts are either sponsored or "suggested" by some random page. It's like watching 30 mins of ad to watch 1 min of video on youtube. When I instictively open the app, the first 10 posts (ads) help me in breaking the habit.
> This seems like basically plugging a couple of techniques together that already existed

Do this enough times and eventually the thing you have looks indistinguishable from something completely novel.
The way Casey handled this issue was... not good. He's been a jerk about it and generally dragged this whole dumb argument on way longer than needed (I can't believe we're still talking about it).

He was right, but he does not seem remotely pleasant to work with and has been remarkably adversarial. Hasn't exactly fostered a "let's hire him as a consultant" relationship.
If we spent on those what we spend instead on adtech etc., it really would be guaranteed. Even with fighting invaders. Albeit probably not invaders using nukes.
I'd not saying its helping, but you got a legal out.. at least.
Isn't this thread full of evidence that people do care? Most of us, talking as end-users of software, seem to care. It's annoying when notepad.exe is slow.
to be used in doc ?
It is easy to say that now. Serious criticism of Putin/modern Russia in the West really only began after the invasion of Georgia and was not even remotely mainstream until the early 2010s. America literally banned the export of crude oil from 1970-2015 so their energy worries were not entirely unfounded. Also, nowadays most sanctions are done unilaterally by the executive branch.
> without the slightest bit of quality assurance or adherence to the basic practices of the art.

You really don't do your argument any favours with exaggerations like this.
I think my point was lost on you. Word had code to accommodate the realities of what the application was trying to achieve. This app I mention could trivially be hundreds of times faster just by doing basic things that have been done since before most current SWE were born.
As noted in the sibling comment, Notepad does A LOT of stuff, some of it to deal with users who use (abuse?) it to do things it was never intended to do, and MS saw fit to keep it doing those things for compatibility. It did these things prior to the update, and knowing MS I imagine it's had to maintain some compatibility with the older version.

That said, I've not encountered the same slowness issues since updating that are discussed here. I'm not a fan of the menu animations, but it's a minor nitpick. For editing huge texts it is significantly more efficient, in my experience. I remember turning off word-wrap in the old notepad after loading a huge log file, then having to wait minutes for Notepad to become responsive again.

Yeah, I know, anecdata....

Edit: The source code to the older Notepad is rather easy to find online. I won't link to it, but it's an interesting read.
Bill Gates in his climate book: “geoengineering is the only known way that we could hope to lower the earth’s temperature within years or even decades without crippling the economy.”

Pretty soon we’re going to start seeing authoritarian solutions to climate change. Rich and powerful people aren’t just going to sit around and watch the planet die. I think they’ll do whatever it takes no matter how many people are hurt.
> If anything, it makes it easier to build a runtime on top of.

This is not the point. The point is that it would be very difficult to make an OS green thread that is aware of the runtime's GC, given that an OS will probably want to also support non-gc languages.
premature optimization is the root of all evil is the root of all evil.
It's not. The magnitude of the velocity of a falling bullet (in the low m/s) is many orders of magnitude lower than the speed of gravity (which propagates at the speed of light)
I use Thunderbird mail. It often freezes for several seconds while typing text. This is ordinary behavior for modern software. I'm not excusing it, it's just that it's hardly exclusive to Microsoft.

TB is a multithreaded program, but it isn't very good at using it effectively. I've learned through bitter experience to not touch a key or the mouse when it is getting messages.
Just in time for Netlify to discontinue support for private GitHub repositories for free plans.

Good thing cloudflare still has free Cloudflare pages support for private GitHub pages.
Math called something stupid? More stupid than flying in an airplane, or going to a hospital for surgery? Without a denominator, isn't the math basically silent on just how dangerous a given celebratory bullet is, relative to other behavior?
> I could password protect it.

Yes, aka encrypt it.

> Or I could give it a unique undiscoverable URL.

…which is not possible if the repository is public.
I thinkit is impossible to get this number
Yeah, that's not easy for an OS to figure out from below.
It is great but last I used it there wasn’t any kind of free tool like dependabot built in.
Clearly they needed to plow more billions and years. They are competing with company that has spent a decade+ developing a retail store presence as well as iterating over and over on their product.

But Microsoft and Google and Meta were not interested in “in person support” or business that does not scale, and part of the price they pay for that is to be gimped by Apple at a moments notice and watch your market cap dive.
Maybe I'm old too, but I don't have a problem with avatars and virtual ones, it's the extremely high pitch and cartoony voices VTubere tend to have. And why does it have to be anime or furry aesthetic every time?

Give me Optimus Prime doing kernel Rust coding. Even better, gimme the sarcastic high pitch of Skeletor. I'd also be fine with, I dunno, Lara Croft or other virtual female character.

Everybody has their own preferences, fine, but outside of that overrepresented niche of sexually ambiguous anime and furry there's just... nothing.
other Microsoft libraries are used in Windows Terminal, optionally in code form. cmd.exe is in the same source tree, and other proprietary code of Microsoft's relies on that code; it's a non-zero portion of the command-line stuff that ships in Windows.

stuff that is not Windows Terminal but that lives in the Windows Terminal repo on GitHub gets shipped with Windows.

so, yes, there are very good reasons they can't license Windows Terminal via GPL.

WSL kernel folks get that repo whitelisted.
> Decreasing consumption doesn't necessarily imply a decrease in quality of life

Decreasing consumption in a more simplified way is just decreasing energy use. For 90% of people on earth this would be worse than climate change. It’s never going to happen.
software is a gas they say.
GCP's profit

* 2018: -4.3B USD

* 2019: -4.6B USD

* 2020: -5.6B USD

* 2021: -3.1B USD

(https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/02/alphabet_q4_2021/)

I realize Google is making a bet on the long term of cloud, but... it's continuing to bleed money making that investment. Meanwhile, AWS is also seeing large growth numbers while remaining very profitable.

So, while I get the "investment for the long term" angle that Google is pitching for GCP, how long will they decide to continue making that investment while they lose money on it, chasing a profitable AWS
Inflation everywhere? Like in car prices? Food costs? Eggs? Milk? Butter? Paper? Wood? Lumber? Orange Juice?

These things aren't made in China (or at least, the USA largely eats milk-and-eggs from USA and/or Canada), and for the 2010 through 2019 period, their prices were incredibly stable.

What American manufactured product (or agricultural product) inflated from 2010 through 2019 to a degree beyond which was reasonable?

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The main issue with the Fed, was that they made the wrong call on Inflation in 2021, thinking it was "transitory". Now that we've had a year, I can agree with the inflation doomers that the inflation was in fact sticking this time around.

However, the inflation doomers were wrong from 2010 through 2019, so you'll have to forgive me for not listening to the boys who cried wolf.
I've heard of Proton a few times but last time I checked only 600 out of Steam's 50,000+ games are compatible with it. Not bad by any means but using an older Windows version still seems to offer more at the moment.
And Atari released theirs back in 1982.
Yeah, but they're not actually completely flat since they're translucent.

Also, on Windows, the "acrylic" thing is a circus show. Every app behaves differently. It also manages to sometimes lag on an RX5600. I know it's an "old" gpu, but still...
The problem here isn't the intel/arm issue, it's that the application amplifies handling a single keystroke into what is basically a massive re-rendering job instead of applying any of dozens of well-known solutions to the problem.

Applications are simply not well written and most developers are incompetent and unaware of how incompetent they are.
Brain Hygiene Tips [video]
Looking forward to seeing this in blender. :)
>open/close the lid 5 times in a day

It's a bit smarter than that, it only writes memory contents to disk after a given period in standby. So in your example you'd only be incurring it twice a day probably.
Not a UI / frontend developer. Doesn’t denouncing user input increase the latency before changes are rendered onto the screen?

I would expect the changes to be visible ideally in the next frame, but I guess that’s not really an option?
I liked the modern Notepad UI when I tried it, but to be fair I didn't use it for long, having discovered a regedit fix to replace it with N++.
In a way that's also a disadvantage - people who have a Steam library probably already have something to play it on and have at best a limited need for GFN. And if they have a PC + Steam then with Remote Play they already have their own streaming solution if they really want one.
In fact I do, Bellingcat has published extensive analysis[1] of this attack.

[1]: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/04/14/russias-kramators...
I thought whether Torvalds or Sebastian
Well, I hope you’re right. Sure, every other instance where over-educated white people who’ve never worked outside academia decide on behalf of minorities that something “causes harm” to them has been universally stupid, but maybe this time it will be different.
For all the 80s (before the first version for Windows) the terminal was the only thing out there, plus the graphic modes. I think that bold/italic/underline only existed in the graphic mode version (EGA.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Word
There should be at least the possibility of making a post announcing the death and a build a virtual memorial
I predicted that Facebooks VR/AR gamble won't tak off. Simply because developing virtual content and tools is IMO comparable to game development. Also wearing such a headset for longer time becomes quite uncomfortable. I start sweating under it and most of us here in Europe don't have AC's at home which makes it impossible to use when it's warm.

That being said, I am curious how PlayStation5's VR2 will do. I got the one for PS4 and I didn't really use it. I doubt that the new one will do much better because the headset is still large and many people don't have the necessary space at home.
> a streaming service's devkits couldn't stream

That is just mind boggling - how on earth were you meant to test anything properly?
But King's Quest is a lot faster to go through on a new run.
I'm a game developer and game performance is better than ever. 144 Hz monitor? 4k? We got you covered. Even ray tracing and VR is on the way.

Most games render frames of a 3D world in less than 17ms, but most websites take 3-7 seconds to load because of all the ads and bloat, and things shift around on you for another 20 seconds after that, so when you go to tap a link you accidentally tap an ad that finally loaded under your finger. If you optimize those websites, they run super fast though, but it's quite a pain to do with the dependency bloat in modern tech stacks...

(note: games lag as well when you drag in a million dependencies you don't need)

The thing is, most sites and web apps try to solve a user problem, and if you are the only company in town that solves that problem, then performance barely matters - what matters is solving the problem. The users will put up with some pain because the problem is even more painful.

With games, it's all about the experience of interacting with the software - so performance is (hopefully, depending on your team and budget) amazing.

That, and... performance tuning is hard work, and I think most people don't know much about it. It's a fractal rabbit hole. Cache misses, garbage collection, streaming, object pooling, dealing with stale pointers, etc. Even I have a ton to learn, and no matter how much I learn, I probably still will have a lot more to learn. It's easier for many teams to hand wave it I guess as long as they aren't losing too many customers because of it.
What do you mean by 'debouncing' here? I only know it as ignoring keypresses of the same key/button that happen too fast after each other (because they are likely a mechanical or electrical glitch rather than the user actually meaning to press the button/key multiple times).

If you mean that, I don't know how it relates to the comment/article since I never needed to do debouncing in a desktop context (only for embedded stuff with actual push button circuitry attached).
this isn't a "counter narrative" any more than "bill gates put microchips in my vaccine" is a "counter narrative". and i'm not being an asshole here, this is just a factual misstatement of LDI and what transactions are taking place. maybe the peak of the dunning-kruger curve shouldn't be sitting at the top of the thread for the first thing people read? i think asking @dang to at least pin a better explanation is fair.
Top Apple Executive Is Leaving Apple
It's infuriating that people don't make themselves easily reachable on GitHub.

So many people with so much talent, wasting it on some really meaningless stuff.
As I recall GNU Emacs does this too, by default. https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/improving-performance...
Simple websearch reveals:
Original GH repo still available
https://github.com/jkarbows/adventurega.me/tree/gh-pages/boo...
I think this is a spot on assessment. Google has always been a 'nerds trying to build a cool technology' company. Yes, one of it is search which is infinitely useful for users. But other than that, they have been in their shells nerding out things. Accidentally some of the technologies become useful and popular. But there is no grounds up thought about 'how can we make it useful for customers', in relative comparison to products from companies like Amazon and Slack.

Most user loved or impact making products like YouTube and Android have been acquisitions. I tried setting up Google Analytics for a business and touched it after many years. And the sheer complexity of the documentation and puzzling talk of UA to GA4 migration left me with a sour taste. I instantly switched to setting up plausible.io instead.

Notwithstanding the popularity of their tech ecosystem (because they are coming from Google), it is often painful to use. For all the flak Meta gets, the developer oriented technologies released by them: Thrift, PyTorch are fun to use as compared to Protobuf, Tensorflow.

But as someone who loves small companies taking on giants, it is heartening sign. Hopefully with ineffective leadership and employees focused on activism instead of actually building things, in next five years, un-bundling of Google will happen. Vertically focused players will bleed them by thousand cuts.
Your not wrong, but the design of the model M sought to emulate the feel of the Iconic Selectric, as well as the model F with the solenoids under each key, equally dissimilar to the Selectic's internals.
So glad we can both appreciate how well organised mass protests can be when everyone works together.

If you're going to insinuate something else, I'd suggest you get some actual evidence first. Just saying "colour revolution" or whatever is intellectually lazy, as well as being dishonest and dismissive about people who are risking their lives and liberty.