skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I really find it "warm".

I'm listening to the same Hi-Fi system since I'm six. I have both vinyl and CD versions of some albums (I only buy vinyls of albums which I like a lot, and listen it with a coffee or tea), and they really sound different.

I don't think it's because it's feeding the nostalgia, because I can feel the same things regardless of the medium and system I listen to these albums/songs.

I don't think soothing the brain angle is valid either. I get the same enjoyment and relaxation from both mediums.

For me, CD brings the enjoyment of a well brewed coffee, but vinyl brings the same feeling when you (sometime accidentally) brew that elusive perfect coffee for you. It needs some time and intention to appreciate.

I'm an ex-orchestra player though, so my experience may not reflect the views of bigger audiophile crowd.
Sweet summer children everywhere!
This has to be THE dumbest reason for running someone out of a company I have ever seen. God help us as a society. The real irony is the people screeching the loudest scoldy shit like this today were also those most likely screeching (correctly) about the scolds in the moral majority from the 80's. Except they are a thousand times worse today.
Yeah, I mostly just bought games outright on Stadia rather than subscribing for the Netflix-y pool of games everyone said they wanted, which worked out really well for me in the end: I played for years and hundreds of hours and it was basically all for free.
Base58 really should have been base57.
One Car, One Thousand Keys
It's not a lie if they believed it. And I don't see how this justifies calling the developers lazy.
> FB / Meta made two large stock bybacks, one with cash and one with debt, at a very high premium.

I don't know enough to understand if that is clearly a bad move or if maybe they had a different strategy.

I mean if they wanted to buyback their own stock it seems that they are not in a position to time the market. Waiting to buy low feels like they are shorting themselves.
Reactive Hypertext Literal
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec... makes exactly this argument.
>that is always representing Apple.

That's what happens when you get companies more interested in politics and values vs. just putting out the best products they can. You start to eat your own.
It’s crazy to me that “just exercise complete control over what your kids do and see” is touted like it’s not the start of a black mirror episode.

> In the same way that you hold hands when you walk past a busy street

This logic isn’t scale dependent and I know you have a line somewhere before “it totally fine to have landmines in random patches of grass — parents responsibility!” Where is it?
Where are the bogus statistics that count from 0 to X that show how many cups of coffee have been consumed etc..
Look to Hackers (1995) for an proxy of how well hacker culture was understood at the time. Pretty sure the sports in Space Jam (1996) got a more accurate representation than hacking got in Hackers.
How does the tooling know to hide the call to "fork" in the scoped task example?
Is it a light version of script when the AGI comes fast
Ask HN: How has your company reacted to economic instability lately?
Absolutely. The entire thing is absolutely about China. Russia is a broken country that would have no significance beyond its hydrocarbons and nukes. China is an economic superpower and growing world power. Very soon it could replace the US as the primary driver of globalism. If the west had shown itself as disunited, it would have been time for China to take center stage in world affairs for the next hundred years. Instead it will wait for another generation.
Firstly, spying on remote employees is the result of being able to spy on remote employees. If it were impossible or illegal it wouldn’t be so necessary.
This [1] guy got it right to the year (3 years ago when Stadia started):

>It also doesn't help that it's from Google. They've lost a lot of good will in the last couple of years and honestly most people expect Stadia to be EOL'd in 24-36 months once Google gets bored with it.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/e1l9j4/comment/f8ru...
Yup... until one day the game is taken off the story and that checkbox removed. Big business is rough.
Not a bad thing - new users are already used to the navigation.
Just look at the popularity of 144-240hz displays and eSports. The fact the 5800x3d even exists to eek you out 20 extra fps at 1080p to get you from 150 to 175..

Cloud gaming with its latency? Some people not noticing isn't going to cut it.

PS5 is hugely popular and perpetually sold old. So the console market is not hurting either..

The market has spoken and it's not interested in cloud gaming services with its downsides.
Here's the thing, that website doesn't actually efficiently communicate as well as you think it does.

Information hierarchies have a bunch of channels to get the reader to understand what's important and what's not. Text size, color, motion, placement, rotation, contrast, images, etc. all contribute to drawing the eye to key pieces of information.

The link you presented is simple, yes, but the information hierarchy is nearly flat. It presents all the information as equally important by reducing the channels for information transmission it uses.

Our eyes focus on certain details because we have monkey brains that have been trained to pattern match certain things.
Viewer behavior causing the algorithm to punish the video uploader.

It's a little muddy.
Interesting going from untyped languages to typed languages, as an inference needs to be made.

For example, in JavaScript:

function add(a, b) {

return a + b;

}

converting to Go, it becomes:

func add(a int, b int) int {

return a + b

}

Where as the original JS version works with integers, floats, strings, arrays, etc.
I just want AI that will write a unit test for me.
Hello Stavros, I agree. When I look at the goals that base58 sought to achieve, (eliminating visually similar characters) I couldn't help but wonder why more characters were not eliminated. There is quite a bit of typeface androgyny when you consider case and face.
I'd argue this to be a pretty dated take on Valve's strategy, personally. Gabe stated it was a hedge over 10 years ago, in response to the risk of Windows 8 moving to mandatory Microsoft Store:

> https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/07/26/windows-8-i...

Obviously none of that came to pass, we are two more Windows releases on and much has changed since. It is serendipitous the tech built is so great for delivering a portable experience - I think Valve's actions and words demonstrate it to be far more committed to the Deck than prior efforts, I don't see this as hedging bets. And why wouldn't they? At this stage they appear to have a hit product on their hands.

In 2022, Microsoft and Valve have strategic partnerships too, which certainly wasn't the case in 2012:

> https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/30/18645250/microsoft-xbox-g...

> https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/26/22952086/valve-microsoft-...

> https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/25/22550103/microsoft-new-wi...
My hot take is that we're merely catching up on until recently unutilized hardware improvements. There's nothing 'self-improving', it's largely "just" scaled up methods or new, clever applications of scaled up methods.

The pace at which methods scale up is currently a lot faster than hardware improvements, so unless these scaled up methods become incredibly lucrative (not impossible), I think it's quite likely we'll soon-ish (a couple years from now) see a slowdown.
Yeah, they’ll review when they get the chance :). I was talking more general advice. Thanks for taking a look, appreciate it!
Yeah, the latency on a lot of TVs outside of "Game Mode" is really atrocious, commonly in the order of 100 - 200ms, which is way higher than even network latency on game streaming services assuming you're close to the data center.
I encourage you to watch a Netflix movie and a live video game side by side and you will see how nonsensical the comparison is.
"Of course, you know of the Prime Directive, which tells us that we have no right to interfere with the natural evolution of alien worlds. Now I have sworn to uphold it, but nevertheless I have disregarded that directive on more than one occasion because I thought it was the right thing to do. Now, if you are holding on to some temporal equivalent of that directive, then isn't it possible that you have an occasion here to make an exception, to help me to choose, because it's the right thing to do?"

Jean-Luc Picard
Perhaps this is due to how much effort folks want to invest in hobby projects? (that's a broad question aimed at several folks here)

At work, we have a codebase of over 142K lines of Clojure, some of which dates back over a decade. We started with Leiningen (because it was the only game in town). We migrated to Boot in 2015 because we needed easier customization of our dev/test/build pipeline and Boot's "tasks" were a more natural fit. We migrated to Clojure CLI / deps.edn in 2018 because we were running into limitations with Boot as our repository grew and our needs for dev/test/build became more complex.

Each migration took about a week of one person's time.

Over that same period of time, I've probably switched my editor setup a dozen times, going back and forth between Emacs and several other editors/IDEs. I've been on VS Code/Calva for quite a while now -- with LSP/clj-kondo built-in, it's a really solid experience.
I tried that exercise after reading the affidavit, and determined they were using Monero (XMR) which makes this task much more difficult if not impossible.
If Russia wasn't a permanent member of the UN Security Council, the UN Security Council could have made decisions that prevented the invasion of Ukraine without any agreement from Russia.
Ya I think that's pretty reasonable, but it sounds to me like you're driven to do that for the benefits and fun, rather than a metric. That's why I was wondering what he meant by working out. Like I probably do 1-2 hours a day if I include everything that is a workout, but I'm not listing "2hrs/365 athlete" in my HN description, and just have a series of athletic hobbies that get me going. I like pushing myself, but not arbitrarily, and I wouldn't want to waste time just ruthlessly persuing a number every day, but everyone needs a hobby.

It's strange to me when people list their stats more than they list the part of the process that's interesting.
Freedom of choice aside, there is also a shocking lack of awareness that a major factor in the rise of the internet is that it wasn't like traditional media. There were memes, blogs, video content, music, etc. that would never gain traction with the legacy entertainment industry. There is no point in using youtube or twitter if it's all just clips from mainstream tv or shittakes from established pundits that I can see on repeat on cable all day anyways.
> I think it just heavily favors new grads, who just spent a year+ studying algorithms.

Year+ is a fair assessment. A proper Computer Science course(4 years!) is mostly about algorithms. Most of leetcode hard would qualify as warmup exercises for my class.

That was a while ago. Right now? My brain is chock full of architectural stuff, k8s, several programming languages, multiple cloud provider idiosyncrasies, etc etc. Can I do leetcode? Yeah sure. Can I do it during an interview? I've tried recently, bombed spectacularly.

I'll probably have to invest the time prepping properly because there's little choice these days. Like you said, it's using up our precious free time. I'd rather be, I don't know, writing some stuff in Rust so I can add that language to my toolbox.
> At that age, they are going through streets alone when they go to scool or club or visit friends.

In the united states, this stopped being socially acceptable sometime time in the past 20 years. Letting your kids walk to school before high-school (13/14) is considered child abuse by many. Not everywhere, not everyone. But there has been a huge shift in views around what kind of out-of-the-home-unsupervised activity is seen as normal.
does spacex actually do things cheaply? or do they do things at a loss because they can and say its cheap? is it possible to even know. cant help but be suspicious lol
Didn't they already? It's hard to keep track
I feel like this person wants the layout to be the Comic Sans of web design, where people in the know smugly look down on anyone using it.

Carefully crafted, unique designs of all sorts should be appreciated and lauded, but shitting on anyone who doesn't live up to that high standard doesn't seem terribly productive to me.

(Also, I'm not an actual web developer, but when scrolling through the site I did find myself thinking, "Huh, if I need a website in the future maybe I'll just use this template.")
async/await allows you to do multiple things in parallel. I don't see how you can do that in the virtual threading model

When comparing to JS, it is the other way around. Unless you are talking about IO bound tasks only where nodejs delegates to a thread pool (libuv).
I wonder what will happen to semi essential services like

1) Google fi
2) google nest lineup

And things like Google tv ..
I don't see ads at all, period. I either Ublock origin or pay for a subscription. I pay for youtube premium.

How would an ad reach me? Youtubers? Can Google use its "contractors" to promote its own product? That just feels weird.
Really similar to https://github.com/ahopkins/mayim in the Python world.
> Unsafe Shutdowns: 121

Holy shit, that's like once a day?
It has become clear since alphaGo that intelligence is an emergent property of neural networks. Since then the time and cost requirements to create a useful intelligence have been coming down. The big change was in August when Stable Diffusion was able to run on consumer hardware. Things were already accelerating before August, but that has really kicked up the speed because millions of people can play around with it and discover intelligence applications, especially in the latent space.
Yeah, I don't know why 1 was left in there, seems like a lost opportunity. Discarding l, I, 0, O, but then leaving 1? I wonder why.
Yes, their inventory is smaller at the moment, but they also show ads in News and Stock apps (note that those ads are personalized and don't have an ATT prompt by default.. so Apple apps don't have to play by the same rules as others). My guess is they will continue to expand inventory to other Apple apps (eg Maps, etc), but whether they try to build a full-fledged ad platform (where you can use Apple to buy ads in 3rd party apps) is yet to be seen.. they'd definitely have to overcome a backlash if they did that.
> If that's the sense that's meant

Yeah that's what I meant, a lightweight threading mechanism provided by the OS.

> there's probably not much reason to add them when user space lightweight concurrency mechanisms already exist

Yeah... I don't think there's consensus on that. It seems that many people find OS threads to be an understandable concurrency model, but find them too heavyweight. So the languages end up introducing other abstractions at either the type-level (which has other benefits mind you!) or runtime to compensate.
I suspect the reason why people have stopped posting is because of increasing content from other sources. It's definitely my reason.

It's a negative feedback loop.
A ton of big advances in AI that community has benefitted from have been from published google research
I was following until the mention of Twitter and Reddit. They should face every single challenge that Tumblr does regarding porn. What do they do differently? I feel that Tumblr should be able to overcome these issues.
To OP: very delighted to see my first ever website featured here on-

Shoot.
Within the context of Stadia here, you could purchase a game at cost and play it forever (or, until the service shut down, heh) without paying any monthly subscription fee, which does change the math somewhat.
Unfortunately the high paying jobs are only looking for people good at interviews, everybody is doing leet code now
7-10 years ago it would have sold. Especially if they marketed is as "use FB as your address book".
Super interesting work. Do you think that's a solvable problem and something you'll work on?
The QR is regenerated every time you open the app, and probably expires after a small amount of time.

Amazon probably does this to 1) avoid people sharing codes with each other (especially non-Prime customers) and 2) the code can be linked to your payment so someone could possibly steal your code over your shoulder and start buying things.

I don't believe Amazon needs the app to track you in-store. They have enough cameras and wifi APs in the building to do that.
This affidavit is a laugh riot so far. Guy has a background in infosec, an holds a CISSP cert, among others. The FBI sends him crypto and what does he do?!

(1) immediately opens a KYC custodial account
(2) xfers the crypto there
(3) converts it to USD and sends it to his KYC bank in Colorado.

You can't make this stuff up. Also I love how (ostensibly either proton or tutanota) is referred to "Foreign Email Provider". They should buy ForeignEmailProvider.com and make it another email domain for their users. I would love hackerman69420@foreignemailprovider.com
Plates are sooooo 2010's if my food isn't served on a wooden board or a tile I'm not even interested.
M1 Max Mac Studio

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 27 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 13,080,985 [6.69 TB]
Data Units Written: 14,773,075 [7.56 TB]
Host Read Commands: 235,532,909
Host Write Commands: 232,742,604
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 218
Power On Hours: 230
Unsafe Shutdowns: 11
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

Is this a lot? I have no idea.
Dan The Automator is amazing, I'm surprised how much stuff he is behind, but at the same time I'm not surprised at all. Seriously, check out his Wikipedia section with all his contributions if you're reading this and aren't familiar with the name [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_the_Automator#Discography
Show me the author's real website, along with some honest reporting on what their design/web background is, and how long it took them to design/build/test/maintain the style, and you will probably have your answer why bootstrap is so popular.
Microsoft is playing an entirely different game than selling loss leader hardware. They are all about subscriptions and streaming games.

Then again, look at the revenue mix of the other companies to see how well they were able to move into new markets

- Apple - phones, tablets, watches, computers, accessories, services, and even the AppleTV+ series have been getting rave reviews.

Apple Arcade even isn’t in any danger of being cancelled.

- Microsoft - Windows, Server software, Azure is a strong second, at least they didn’t cancel XBox and I bet their streaming game service will be around for awhile.

- Amazon (same disclaimer I work at AWS): Amazon retail, AWS, Twitch, advertising, Prime Video, the Alexa devices

- Facebook - FB proper, WhatsApp, Instagram -yes two of those are acquisitions. But how many acquisitions has Google screwed up completely?

And then you have Google.

- YouTube is believed to be barely break even from a profit standpoint

- it was revealed in the Oracle trial how relatively little Android makes in profit . Yes I realize the numbers are old. But what has changed since then? By the time of the trial, Android already had the dominant market share. Google pays Apple a reported $18 billion a year to be the default search engine. That has to be more than Google is making from Android per year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-21/google-s-...

After all these years, everything that Google has don outside of advertising has been a failure as far as profitability.
Hardware was probably always lagging behind cutting edge research, just consider video games, they pushed hardware limitations very hard since Pong.

It's a good thing to be fair, forcing research teams to optimize their projects is beneficial and creates a competition for limited resources. This gets a bit skewed when we consider a university research team vs. a MANGA type company, but the team behind Stable diffusion proved that innovation can come from unexpected places.
I've learned the most important conversations to have with remote employees
Should be gonutsshownuts.com

Should it?

I present to you: RAISERROR

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-element...
> Across a 10 year disease progression this could slow it down by 2.5 years. I might make that trade off, at least in the early stages of the disease. Not sure I would want to slow things down in the later stages though. At that point just get it over with.

Especially since it seems like there might be some pretty brutal side effects.
I guess related to Windows file extension in the past. 3 letters only.
It's fine to have to 'integrate with society'.

The problem is that you have to 'integrate with this very short list of megacorps, and if they don't like you you are not allowed to operate'.

At any substantial scale at all, these are true:

- If Cloudflare doesn't like you, you can't have a website.

- If Google doesn't like you, you can't get discovered.

- If Visa and Mastercard don't like you, you can't get paid.

We never elected these corporations; they power they wield is illegitimate.
I wonder if even Google suffers from the premature scaling architecture astronaut problem? Perhaps if they’d spent more of their resources getting to 1000 and 10,000 games, before doing the engineering to support a billion users, they may have actually needed that scalability (and might have become at least a small cash cow alongside the surveillance capitalism asserting golden goose)?
35 Mbps or greater for 4K.

Internet performance in Europe has improved dramatically over the past year and a half. Average fixed line download speeds have increased by more than half (+51.9 percent), from 68 Megabits per second (Mbps) in March 2020 to 103.3 Mbps in June 2021.
Awesome, but it seems like it’s also missing:

- an auto-playing ad covering the top half of the screen

- a cookie pop-up with “Accept All” dark patterned in and covering the bottom half of the screen

- a full screen email prompt popup once you interact with the page in any way
TypeScript to Fortran is also broken, generating lots of dlopen/dlsym/dlclose calls (one for every variable, it seems), but never actually doing anything else with it.

For what it's worth, Sample 2 generates syntactically invalid code, having `:` instead of `::`. Sample 1 is actually working code (but relies on the implicit typing rules, which gives you the default real kind instead of double precision reals). Interestingly, translating Sample 1 from Rust to Fortran suddenly generates a subroutine instead of a function, but does generate types.
Nothing is high priority enough to get funded because they have a firehose of money coming out of ads, compared to which nothing looks like a good enough opportunity.
Amazon makes most of its profits from AWS. It’s also making plenty of money these days from advertising.

Who gives Google money and what do they give Google money for?

When I was working for B2B companies, our “customers” were the IT department and the companies. Our customers weren’t the end users. We tried our best to make the software easy for the end users. But we marketed to the CxOs and made sure they were happy.

In the case of Amazon Retail. They (we) have to convince the customer to give us money in exchange for goods and services.