skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Day.js – Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API
Thucydides discusses the issue at points. Eg. "A loan from these enables us to seduce their sailors by the offer of higher pay. For the power of athens is more mercenary than national; while ours will not be exposed to the same risk"
“In the short term the market is a voting machine. In the long term it is a weighing machine”
- Buffett.

Fundamentals matter over long periods, but in short time spans it is, as you say, about demand for the stock which can have nothing to do with fundamentals.
everyone has a choice in taking on those dependencies. as a solo dev you get to make those choices. In the context of work, it is harder because you have to balance many other needs from technical to just the human squishy feeling of making people's code get accepted and not fighting everyone on every damn thing. It's hard to get everyone on the same page!

Not really related to the above but I learned React when I started my current job and I hated and did not understand it when I first started https://cmdcolin.github.io/posts/2020-07-04. Now it has changed my thinking entirely, and I think react is very powerful. Not without awkwardness and whatnot, but it's better than spaghetti jQuery era
Yeah, flood plain farming seems like you could do it basically accidentally.
IMO it is not possible to keep incidents of deep national atrocities in school curriculum while avoiding the generation of non-trivial bitterness, anxiety, or guilt about the past — whether we're talking about Americans learning about slavery or treatment of native populations, Germans learning about Nazism, or the Japanese learning about WW2 atrocities.

If the next generation ought feel zero guilt about the past, then the right way to do this is to relegate racial history to graduate studies or strike it from history altogether. Historical atrocities are a serious affront to national pride. Part of why Shinzo Abe was so controversial was because he wanted to strike some matters from history; this is a thing at least because of a shared acute sense of pain that results from this knowledge.

I think this is also part of why race in school curriculum is such a big deal right now in conservative politics. The magnitude of "white guilt" surely cannot be because Democrats are talking about it on CNN; it's because every child learns about it in school. There's no cure for this pain quite like not knowing at all.
> assuming it's not done for health reasons

Do you have more respect for health-conscious cannibals than those that just like the taste?

The reasons never matter; it's what is done that matters.
Agreed on resizing. It's not worth it for me to remember those shortcuts when a mouse works faster.
> Those tools are for generating images and art, not precise schematics.

Who says that? Where does it say that Dall-E and Stable Diffusion are only for generating images and art? Why are graphs not images? And why can't they be art?

Those are models that generate images from textual prompts. Aren't you just moving the goalposts by saying they can't generate specific kinds of images?
Unfortunately (at least in the US) these types of services tend to be a patchwork of different agencies at different levels of government... you'll potentially see local, regional, state, and federal all for one person. If you're lucky agencies at the same level might share a unified login of some sort, but good luck finding that across different levels.
Telecomunications Act 1996
I've never understood this because I can attach any USB adapter I want and it works.
People should really have a solid plan before going to college. "Well I need a degree so I'll go and figure something out" is pretty much the default, and it results in debt, degree inflation, and demoralized graduates. It shouldn't be controversial to warn against effectively taking out a loan to work at starbucks.
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate
http://dmgreene.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/0306312722112...

> Who owns the internet? It depends where you look. The physical assets at the core of the internet, the warehouses that store the cloud’s data and interlink global networks, are owned not by technology firms like Google and Facebook but by commercial real estate barons who compete with malls and property storage empires. Granted an empire by the US at the moment of the internet’s commercialization, these internet landlords shaped how the network of networks that we call the internet physically connects, and how personal and business data is stored and transmitted. Under their governance, internet exchanges, colocation facilities, and data centers take on a double life as financialized real estate assets that circle the globe even as their servers and cables are firmly rooted in place. The history of internet landlords forces a fundamental reconsideration of the business model at the base of the internet. This history makes clear that the internet was never an exogenous shock to capitalist social relations, but rather a touchstone example of an economic system increasingly ruled by asset owners like landlords.
The other aspect is reduced trust. Razer has more than just keyboards. I trust their laptops or headphones less now than I did before.
Wait, why is this the wrong comparison? Where does it say that those models can't generate graphs? Why is everyone so sure that this is not one of the intended applications of image generation?

Who made up those rules that drive nerds to rage when they're broken? Where are those rules written down? Can you point at them? Or have people just made up those rules in response to that post?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220627132530/https://www.teleg...
> if it ain't broke don't fix it

It is a difficult line, because sometimes you see a website become commercially irrelevant over time because functionality is not added. And I guess some sites need to follow visual trends to maintain customers.

Also there are long term changes that can force your hand. Mobile friendly required changes or you would lose those customers.

Some usability trends are improvements (and some trends are bad: Apple seems to prefer pretty looks at the expense of usability (Apple used to have a fantastic HIG (human interface guidelines))). https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Interest rates have been on the decline for this period resulting in everything going up (the everything bubble). Rates now have to go up because inflation is running rampant, and so we need to see valuations (as a whole) reverse.
No. Medium is bloated trash with dark patterns; Substack has always loaded quickly for me and has transparent monetization.

I expect this to remain the case because they do cool things like provide legal support for their customers https://on.substack.com/p/legal-support-for-substack-writers
I have encountered it with many languages. There is usually a warning, but there is also a lack of consent on my part, and a lack of options to retain compatibility.

For example, with most Python-based projects I have tried, I have run into some kind of version incompatibility, and often have not been able to get them to run at all.

This is an experience I wanted to avoid for those who try my software.
I don't think anyone would look at a menu item marked vegetarian and expect anything else than it not containing meat. People say they're vegetarian but eat fish sometimes, etc. but it's different for an actual meal. Nobody would call fried fish a vegetarian meal.
My dad's cancer had spread to the lungs, and one day he got pneumonia. After a day at the hospital, he'd asked the doc if he'd ever get home again if he survived the pneumonia. Unlikely, was the reply. The next day he asked them to stop the oxygen supply, and he passed away some hours later.

It was really hard losing him that abruptly, even though we knew it could happen. And at that time I was surprised they had done what he asked. I was under the impression they'd do anything to extend the life of the patient.

But at the same time I was, and still am, so grateful that he got to make that choice, and not have to suffer for months in a hospital bed before reaching the same outcome.
> but if you copy/download that rom, you can get fined due to fictional losses for the copyright holder. What losses? If you're not selling the game anymore, how can you have losses from it?

That is because there are statutory damages to copyright violations. By definition, any violation causes a fixed amount of damage.
Watching this get memoryholed in realtime is fucking amazing.
I’ve tried the Magic Leap before. It’s super cool. In the demo I saw, the software scans the room and gets the shape of the area. It then sets up a coral reef in the middle of the room and you see a giant coral structure with fish swimming around in the air. The field of vision is a little bit limited but overall It’s pretty clear to me that anyone who tries this on will say “wow!”.

The problem is that while it’s a cool toy there’s nothing available that’s im aware it that would make me want to spend much money on it. Right now, it’s more of a cool toy to show off at parties.

So the issue with a video on the website is:

a) it would be hard to have a video that doesn’t oversell or undersell it. Imagine advertising a TV in a magazine to an audience who has never seen a TV before.

b) more importantly, if the goal is to sell enterprise then you are now a sales company, not a marketing company. For b2b businesses a website just needs to look professional enough… No one is actually going to look at it. The sales process is higher touch and will be done either offline or via email brochures.
https://archive.is/iKrsG
Cassandra is very good when all of these are true:

- You're willing to give up some common SQL-isms for leaderless, multi-dc, high-availability

- You're going to grow to need more than one machine taking writes - if you can fit on one normal commodity machine, just use something designed for one machine. Cassandra sacrifices a lot to scale to ~thousand-machines-per-cluster, so if you can use one machine, don't bother with Cassandra.

- You can model your data in a way that does SELECTs without JOINs, and always uses AT LEAST the partition key in the WHERE clause. Denormalizing and duplicating your data is PROBABLY ok.

- You're willing to run Java (so you understand that you may need to tune the JVM eventually), and you're willing to learn about data modeling before you just start writing code

If all of that is true, Cassandra starts being interesting.
Oops, I need to edit manifest.json. Well, there is no email. It just shows notifies you via the bell embdedded in your Hacker News header. No push or anything intrusive :)
Don’t. Wait for a few more years to see how inflation and interest rates and your portfolio goes. Retirement now is a massive gamble as major variables affecting your entire retirement plan are a complete lottery right now.
We already know what those models are good at. Everybody keeps posting their cherry-picked good results.

Why not get the chance to see some failures, too? Isn't it interesting to know what those models are bad at? There's too few examples of that around so that is definitely a very thing to know.
Despite that, the Atheros WiFi vendor released source code for their WiFi firmware at least twice:

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open#Radio
Welcome to 99% of the population that don't get stock options and still make less than your base salary...
Lack of a plausible Russian motive? That's a terrible hot take.

- German gas reserves are over 90%. Russia wanted to bet on economic blackmail and got beat. How to save face when you're beat? An anonymous scapegoat does nicely.

- Russia is having a hell of a time with the Reserve call-ups. Protests of the type previously thought impossible. People openly defying Moscow in word and deed. How do you galvanize a people? Make them feel like they're under attack.

- Speaking of which, it likely wouldn't be the first time Putin used such a strategy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings

- Putin is aging and is reportedly in poor health. He may have a successor within the next couple of years. That successor may feel the need to distance himself from an invasion that, by most accounts, has gone poorly for Russia. Taking one form of economic concessions off the table hampers future efforts at undoing Putin's legacy.

Bottom line: any smart Russian autocrat looking to spin a narrative about Russian power through oil, galvanize a reluctant people, and preemptively destroy a bargaining chip that could be used to destroy his legacy, would almost certainly consider destroying NordStream2. There is motive, means, opportunity, and circumstantial evidence. Russia did it.
> The king was the ruler, yes, but he wasn't able to rule against the wishes of the nobility or the high clergy; the risk of being deposed or killed in a rebellion was just too big. At the very least, his vassals could just abandon him and withdraw into their own castles, and there wasn't any easy way to force them out.

The French solved this problem, partially, simply by having a sizable domaine royal (“demesne” in CK terms) in Île-de-France and Orléanais. While they were still subject to Godly edict, they certainly had a more tug-of-war relationship than Kingdoms more subject to their vassal’s whims.
I don't feel bad. I don't care.

I think most psychopaths are narcissists. I don't feel narcissistic. Therefore I guess I am schizoid.

To me the garden variety or even corporate psychopath seems more normal than myself.
The _Asian_ gang that kidnaps Asians. If we're going to make this racial then dont mess it up.
It's the right wing writers, or more specifically, the medically controversial writers that got me onto the site in the first place, mostly because certain authors are deplatformed everywhere else, or they can't write about certain topics.

I'm glad that they're leveraging this- but I also hope that this doesn't become the entire site. Seems like it's a very diverse range of writers so far, and I hope it stays that way.
I'm pretty sure I've had to register my email with nickserv to join an IRC channel before.
I guess so, I do feel a little bad about it. On the other hand though, their faked E3 demo and Sean Murrey's enthusiastic IGN interview will go down in history as the easiest-to-avoid mistakes in the industry. They've done a good job at turning around their reputation by dedicating themselves to NMS, but it's still a shell of a promised game. Sorta like Star Citizen, if CIG ever had the gall to release their game.
Nice article. Of course it's more of a human interest piece, but still, too bad they don't talk about PTP at all.
Nothing is more strategically important to Valve than its ability to rerelease a 15-year-old game on every current platform.
Just ask yourself, who was first?
Chip and ISA are almost irrelevant stuff. No matter how you emphasize on end product performance, you cannot deny there SHOULD be a metric to compare ISA designs.
Because any focus on the present moment isn't actually the present?
They're not adding functionality, they're putting pay walls up in front of old functionality. Look at Quora, certain answers are now pay walled, answers are supposed to be the core of the service.
Like a Vulcan (e.g Spock or Tuvoc)
I am not a physicist but I was thinking this was mostly a topic for hydrogen storage. And it seems the article agrees here: "[...] most metals are relatively immune to hydrogen embrittlement at temperatures above 150 °C."
Python Preloaded – Bundle Python executable with preloaded modules
Problem:

The startup time of CPython including loading big libraries like PyTorch or TensorFlow is too slow. In case of slow file systems, I have seen startup times including such import of 10-20 seconds.

Very simple idea:

Keep the state of CPython right after we imported the big libraries and make it available instantly when needed. When loading the state, we can continue to run any random Python script (we can use runpy).

Currently I implemented this via a fork server. It uses some of the concepts of reptyr. I tested it on Linux and MacOSX, with TensorFlow as an example library.
Many of Substack’s content creators have paid tiers that bring in substantial revenue. For example, Bari Weiss and Glenn Greenwald both have thousands of paid subscribers. It seems like the company should just keep cultivating this kind of subscription base, and they’ll get plenty of revenue without resorting to intrusive monetization.
Good god, it’s a Dan Brown novel come to life.
For now, until stock holders demand higher returns year on year.
I’ve tried this on my face and it’s very cool. I can’t say there’s any mass market for it but it is not vaporware.
Gas vehicles aren't necessarily more affordable if you factor in all their externalities.
At that point, the minute we start taxing scope 3 emissions, every single EV company goes bankrupt.

Surprise: mining runs on diesel and natural gas. Now add in all those emissions to those 30 kg of lithium (and let's not even count all the other extremely environmentally hostile elements needed). Now we ship them accross the world, usually to China, and then from China to somewhere else. Then we burn coal (Germany today) to build that shiny "green" Tesla.

If we were serious about this green thing we would be focused on urban planning, public transit, and retrofitting existing vehicles to be greener. The greenest car is a car you don't have to manufacture.
If you enjoy Stellaris, the mechanics are similar on a base level. Ultimately, almost anyone is fairly novice at Paradox (and, grand strategy in general) games for the first few runs. Mastering the mechanics is part of what fans enjoy, so it might be worth it to just play and learn. All of the games have deep wikis to help you along with understanding the mechanics (religion, influence, wars, relations, etc).
Pessimism is an indulgence–it's like some kind of bastardized emotional protection system, and I refuse to resign myself in that way.
Agree, title should be worded “gangs in Asia kidnap and force crimes to be committed”
> Maybe we could do it for simple CRUD application UIs that are built using lightly styled forms and tables.

That would be a very admirable and IMO sufficient goal. Being able to do "modern forms" with "native" capabilities seems fairly reasonable.

The word processor, fps, data heavy requirements are IMO being taken care of by WebAssembly, which is a more appropriate technology for those sorts of things than the DOM is anyway.
More details please?
While Chris is definitely a visionary, he has also historically been a really bad manager / producer. His games normally don’t come close to completion until c level execs at Origin or EA put their foot down. Now in his own company there’s no one to draw a line for Chris so there’s never ending feature creep being funded by vaporware capitol ships
Chrome is implementing them, but the test setup doesn't test it the same way it tests the other implemmentations. The reason here is likely that the Chrome QUIC stack is hard to use as a standalone low level QUIC library, and so the test just tests on the highest layer (HTTP/3). I assume one could build a test harness around the Google QUIC library (also called Quiche, and buried somewhere in the Chrome network stack), but nobody invested the time to do it.
This seems to follow the standard practice of ascribing race to victims but not to criminals.
That would make logical sense; instead we will tax oil company profits and disincentivize increasing refining capacity. It's pretty amazing our governor didn't care about this issue until it was an election year. Now all of a sudden he is sick and tired of this price gouging.
Thanks for the great post from a different perspective. I kind of agree with you. But the problem is that there are way too many options for a given task, and it's difficult to evaluate all and zero in on something. I need a small help from you. I am new to web development. After a lot of research, I have zeroed in next.js. I loved the overall design, api/workers integration, deployment using vercel. But struggling to design something from scratch. Also, finding the jsx syntax very complex. (I come from java background). Could you recommend a good headless cms for working with next.js? This is for hoppy project, not for day work.
Of all the NFTs in the world the Reddit ones are the most pitiful.
> That genes may as well have invented all of life to propagate themselves.

I think the point of the book was, that genes didn't invent anything. They were just the first self-replicating molecules. Everything else had to happen, because they were forced to exist and compete with clones and mutating clones of themselve – a game which we call life today.
DALL-E is for text-to-image, not text-to-art. This experiment is valid in terms of benchmarking the extent to which LLM understands a series of texts. For an AI researcher, this gives more fuel for the next iteration.
If they styled the "let me read first" to be more `democratic' (i.e. easier to scan for) I'd have 0 complaints. Maybe also as a button with an hr to separate it from the email form.
Does anyone know what software/font was used to create the chart in section "Fiverr Person #3"? Thanks.
See my comment on the sibling comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33137160). The Chrome HTTP/3 stack works very well - the different boxes shown here are more about lower layers not being tested at all. Same goes for the Apple stack.
I've found that I have gotten better at this as I've gotten older. it does get easier.
Hm, Substack seems to be monetized differently though.

Medium was very much in the freemium camp: you go there to read articles, but if you read too many, you get stuck by the paywall. So on the user side there was this constant friction that was obnoxious. But on the author side, the incentive was to make your content as broad as possible because (if I understand correctly) everything got paid by the view out of one big bucket, a la Spotify. This is horrible for premium content (which almost by definition has a more niche audience) so not much of a surprise that type of content suffers in this model.

Substack seems to be more like Shopify: individual authors pick whether to monize, and if so how. This makes it much more viable to make true premium content, in the sense of "a thousand fans". I think this enables is creators who are very good at what they do, because their compensation is directly related to (number of readers times price each reader is willing to pay). In Medium that second term was basically fixed and the only way to increase revenue as an author was to write more click-baity articles. Substack optimizes the other direction.

As someone who has interacted with a lot of authors, I think this has a lot of value. On HN it's easy to forget that the vast majority of authors are not technical (and I mean this kindly, but really, really not technical). These are people for whom setting up any sort of a blog at all is challenging. Having a way to directly put up content, and charge for it, and be in control seems like a huge win for authors, and if it's a win for authors I think those authors will bring their audiences along to the platform, and the platform wins.
Well, that fact that the dairy industry is very inhumane and involves killing animals.
I don't disagree with the 'vast majority' not having them, but I don't think it's S unusual as you imply either. Probably the vast majority don't have an en suite bathroom either (I don't mean to imply a complete intersection, these are two 'vast majority' circles in a Venn diagram), but the new builds have multiple.

Coal cellars in particular are/were especially common.
Somehow akin to a fork-bomb
It's great for showing to management, who tends to like things presented in org chart format.
I would recommend the other two series as well. First EU4 (https://acoup.blog/2021/04/30/collections-teaching-paradox-e...) and then Victoria 2 (https://acoup.blog/2021/08/13/collections-teaching-paradox-v...).