skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, I forgot to include OCaml and Julia. Sorry, I have no excuse.

Here's how they stack up (just added both of them to the list of languages and reran it):

By number of stories: 13. Julia (35 stories), 18. OCaml (13 stories)

By number of comments: 9. Julia (498 comments), 19. OCaml (82 comments)

By points: 9. Julia (1542 points), 15. OCaml (503 points)

I link to the Python script I used to generate this, so if you want to experiment with different date range or other languages/search terms, feel free to explore! (I do think Algolia API has some limits on the number of results tho so might not work out of the box for much longer time periods)
I think this model exists in app development. once you make a sudoku game or running app, why not just reskin it and list it as many times as you can?
Indiscriminate programs like PPP were a direct contributor to the inflation we see today.
I'm really struggling to understand how Obsidian isn't free. Maybe I'm simply missing your point.

There is no expectation that you use sync, it's simply an option for those that want it and are likely less tech oriented.
Joplin takes a traditional approach to notes: there's notebooks, pages, then notes. Obsidian is more focused on zettelkasten - creating a network of smaller but refined notes that are all tagged and interconnected, which ends up looking somewhat like a bunch of neurons (hence _second brain_). It's also much more extensible. I've seen Obisidian extensions that add kanban and moodboards to notes, for example.
Not to mention a decade of very loose money policy.
I meant it "part of the job" the same way unit tests are.

I see this more often when the project is open source. For some reason we feel like when its not, we don't need to pay attention to the documentation. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Absolutely agreed -- without knowing the specifics of the idea, this is the world's easiest raise. I'll add a few other tailwind factors here:

1. He didn't raise that much money. I know this sounds obscene (isn't $5M a lot of money?!), but to a VC, this is a small bet. In particular: this is a bet small enough that a single VC can just... do it -- they don't need the firm to buy in. (Or that buy-in is perfunctory.)

2. He's not a solo founder -- and his founders have startup experience. This might be a push, but if one of his co-founders was a previous startup founder and that company had a successful exit, that co-founder can raise on literally anything -- especially from the VC for whom they made money.

3. This sector is still hot. We don't know much about what he's making, but "it relies heavily on AI" (and, um, it's the TLD), which -- unlike web3 -- has remained (for the moment, anyway) white-hot.

4. The environment is (paradoxically!) great for this kind of startup. I know this sounds absurd because the environment has gotten worse (and he's certainly right that the valuation would have been higher a few months ago!), but because we are coming off of very frothy times, there is tons of dry powder out there: VC firms have raised massive funds, many of them targeting early stage (Seed/Series A). Those firms have to put that capital to use, and the ones that are queasiest about the macro prospects (for good reason!) want to go as early as they possibly can (i.e., first capital in) because that gives the macro factors the longest possible time to sort themselves out.

5. They have deal heat. In part because they have all of these other tailwinds, they got a additional huge tailwind in that multiple firms are vying for a deal. This is every entrepreneur's fantasy, and it results in the kind of behavior he sees: VCs absolutely tripping over themselves to be helpful. This is absolutely the exception, and highlights just how much all these other factors have lined up.

The title of this piece is what he wishes he had known, but it's not really clear what the true lessons are. That it's easier if you've actually built something? That your pitch deck gets around? Perhaps fixie.ai will just live a charmed life where everything is easy (and hey, more power to them), but if they are like most, the blog entry to read will be the one two to three years from now: "What I wish I had known about how hard a Series A is relative to a Seed."
It's been interesting seeing people freak out about the stimulus checks and student debt forgiveness and just... forget about PPP. I don't get it.
It is and it isn't. While not technically required by what you said, it would be trivial for the business to add a small watermark at the bottom of the page, and would add an extra layer of CYA for the business.
I mean they could just make it an alias that calls the appropriate grep function, and mention fgrep/egrep are just aliases in all the documentation. Tools like ShellCheck could warn on use of fgrep/egrep in scripts in favor of grep if it wants things to be pure.

But the cost of keeping an alias around for decades is negligible I think. It's cheaper than breaking every existing usage in any case.
I mean it's not strange that Rust wins since a lot of new cool stuff is made available due to a lot of advancements in wasm and the Rust tooling for that.
I cant believe this is posted on HN. A link to Appleinsider, about TSMC charging 2.4x more for N4 compare to N5P.

And the whole point of this Topic on HN was about TSMC Q3, which, should Apple really did paid 2.4x more for their roughly 70M of iPhone Pro A16, would have show up on TSMC quarterly results or future guidance.

So NO. N4 does not cost 2.4x of N5.
Yes, and the deficit is equal to net government borrowing, because it is the part of expenditure financed through borrowing rather than taxes.
This does not represent all users. My family has boomers who literally use just Signal (for 80% SMS) and FB Messenger. For many people, less apps is an important feature.
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Yes, the results are for the past year (submitted in the past 365 days).
This is naive. How do you think people feel about being fired one day before their 20th anniversary where they would qualify for pension? Sure, the date is the date, but it’s naive to think that this wouldn’t have blowback.
Accent and pitch are not the only ways in which people sound different.

If technology could be developed which masked pitch, accent, idioms, patterns and approach, I suspect it would change hiring rates.

I suspect the reason you think such technology wouldn’t improve the situation is because you’re a bigot.
Build software. Do projects, find clients, build apps. You can get experience without having a job.
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/remoti-remote-work/id156790223...
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.manulorenzo...
That is great for you, but that is not a cost of living raise. It is just being more frugal.
America suffers from two psychological delusions:

1. I too can be a millionaire.
2. Bucket of crabs.
> We're very glad to learn that it is not a problem for you

Worth reading the guidelines [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the answers would be more useful if the replies said something more than just the title.
> The first rigorous and accurate scientific measurement of the Earth-Sun distance was made by Cassini in 1672 by parallax measurements of Mars. He and another astronomer observed Mars from two places simultaneously. A century later, a series of observations of transits of Venus provided an even better estimate.

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/41-our-solar-syste...
This tool is so expensive. I want to use it but for this to be an alternative to Notion you'd have to pay for Sync and Publish, which would come to $24/month. That is very pricey for many people.
> Raising interest rates can't create supply on inelastic demand.

They don't need to. Interest rates aren't intended to control prices by creating an abundance of gasoline, but by creating a scarcity of dollars.

Yes, this can bring down gasoline prices. No, it doesn't mean gasoline gets less scarce in the process. It just means that each $1 gets dearer. It means that the price looks fine but you can't afford it anyway because your pockets are empty. The gasoline is still scarce even though the price is low. That's what they can do, and what they are doing.

And it's best to understand that, when interest rates go up, the first pockets to empty are emptied by falling asset prices. Stocks, bonds, and real estate. That's why high inflation numbers are bad news for assets, even though they'd intuitively seem like inflation hedges.
Hehe, wasn’t the Python 2 to 3 incompatibility debacle a thousand times worse than [fe]grep? Python2 is still lingering in places even after Python 2 was removed.
On a sidenote it's amazing to see how much MS is contributing to open source.
runemacs.exe starts up almost instantaneously for me on a 5-year-old Dell laptop and Win10. Maybe two seconds from typing em.bat myfile.java to seeing my file presented and ready to edit.

I usually install Emacs on whatever platform I'm given: Windows, Linux, Mac. It's the only editor that I can use consistently across systems. Usually I copy my .emacs file as well, to get all my preferred mappings etc.
well don't forget, in 2008/9 they were fighting a deflationary spiral. That was the biggest fear and Bernanke even said he'd drop bags of money from helicopters before getting trapped in that situation. There were lots of voices warning of the inevitability of high inflation but the deflationary conditions soaked it up until now.

I think the real problem is the pandemic was not a deflationary situation, we just turned off production quite literally and then increased demand by giving everyone money for not producing anything.

/not an economist just a normal everyday guy
Application of machine learning techniques to predict entrepreneurial firm value
For an explanation of what changed see this forum discussion [0]. I’m not a fan of the tab metaphor in general but the implementation could’ve been worse.

[0]: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v1-0-0/44873
There's an excalidraw plugin that helps with this to a degree.
I found some threads mentioning sync so just my 5 cents - it is possible to create a vault on iCloud drive and thus having a content synced across devices. I am not sure if the Sync feature provides more functionality, but I personally would not need anything else.
Scala devs are too busy wondering about free monads and F[Request[F] => Response[F]]. I am very pleased by http4s, Doobie, ScalaJS, and the whole ecosystem, really: https://http4s.org
Not true: any old asteroid strike launches millions of microbe-bearing rocks into interstellar trajectories. Any that do reach another planet might take millions of years to get there, and be vanishingly unlikely to pick one that microbes can survive on. But it is wholly possible, and wholly possible that we got infected in exactly that way.
> their stock is still falling

Which one's aren't falling? That's a shorter list.
BMW will be the first automaker to use Amazon Web Services’ cloud platform
>or what it's worth, i have two strikes against my twitter account for variations on "kill all boomers".

My it's just me, but I see "kill yourself" and "kill <other people>" as completely different in terms of severity.

By the way, what kind of person says something like "kill all boomers" repeatedly? Is that supposed to be witty?
I think China could easily fix their demographics if they wanted to.

They have sufficient control of their population that if they said "everyone of child bearing age must try for a child this year and next", they'd probably double their population within 2 years.

The 'demographic problem' is only a problem because they don't see it as an issue worth fixing.
Can someone explain if sign-encrypt-sign doesn't achieve the same objective of message authentication? It seems like it would to me.
This is so poetic I feel like it can apply on a lot of things aside of games... everything is optimisation and min/maxing these days. And along the way we lost our soul doing it for the wrong reasons...
Why does a football arc through the air and not tumble?
Yes and the luck surface area.

Your amount-of-luck is the surface area of a rectangle. A side is the interestingness of what you do, B side is how many know about it. The bigger the rectangle, the more opportunities you get.

https://swizec.com/blog/your-luck-and-opportunity-surface-ar...

This is how you get opportunities when you aren’t even in the room. Someone says ”Oh yeah I know <ksec>, they’re doing cool things X in the area you just mentioned an interest in”. Or ”Oh yeah for problem Y, you should ping <ksec>, they’re the expert”
Yeah I only counted the phrase "in $LANG", for two reasons:

* fewer false positives
* focuses on what people (share abot what they) *did* in/for those languages

It's an imperfect study, for sure, but I think it's indicative.
> assuming you meant a general audience without a background in high school mathematics

Why assume that ? Isn't the whole point of high school to provide a basic foundation of knowledge that everyone should have ?

The parent comment said “quite approachable for the non-expert” not “quite approachable for the uneducated”.
It's very clear this article is about student made electric cars. Nitpick much? In any case, dragsters are much more relevant to the topic than random projectiles without any wheels or resemblance to a car.
New partnership brings Microsoft Teams to Cisco meeting room devices
Even the most astute student of science would have to admit that the concept of where life began on Earth isn't proven. It's just a theory. We've seen evidence of evolution, so we know evolution exists. However, there is no second successfully reproduced experiment of Earth to see if the theory is correct. We keep finding potential candidates, but none have proven the theories yet.

At this point, the omniscient creator is not any less provable. While it might sound ridiculous, there's no more proof for other ideas. After all, even if you subscribe to the Big Bang, where did all of that mass that went Bang! come from?
Your jetbrains products are not blurry in sway? Do you scale your output on the 4k monitors?
It's even more like that than you might suspect; the old moderator stepped down (died) and the new one was a friend of Galileo, so he ignored warnings to not shitpost too much, and ate a very moderate "ban".
Vim has been already mentioned several times (in terminal context), but if you want you can use GVim (https://www.vim.org/download.php#pc).

IIRC, by default, you'll get behavior similar to Notepad (so, things like ctrl+c/v will work, you don't need to learn Vim stuff). At least that was the case when I tried a few years back. If not, you can explicitly use easy mode to get this behavior. But of course, I'd suggest to learn Vim to get the best out of this editor :)
> Guess this is what happens when Western lawmakers sell out domestic manufacturing because some dickhead MBAs said it would be "efficient".

One could make a more charitable interpretation than that. It has been an observed strategy of the modern western world to transition from physical labor as an asset to “IP”; i.e. immaterial rights (mostly copyrights and patents), as an asset. One could charitably then guess that law and policy makers might have envisioned the western world as, like Joel Spolsky once said, “a trendy couple sipping Chardonnay in their living room outsourcing everything”¹. Joel was talking about companies, but the analogy can be stretched to entire countries.

The strategy didn’t work as well as they hoped, obviously, since IP rights depend on laws, and sovereign nations are ultimately not beholden to laws. The strategy still worked somewhat, only, I think, because a Chinese company can’t just create a popular product and sell it in the west (although they are getting better all the time, like how Amazon is filled to the brim with pseudo-brand junk). There’s something fundamentally missing there, like how hardware companies can’t write good software to save their lives, and mostly vice versa. This fact has allowed the west to cling to the dream of Chardonnay long enough to survive until today, when we can finally see the first really big drawbacks of not having control of your own production and supply chains.

1. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...
There seems to be a lot of confusion in this discussion about what the change is and how egrep and fgrep work. These are not symlinks like some have suggested but rather shell scripts. You can see the exact commit diff here:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git;a=blobdiff;f...

I remember around ~10 years ago being told "you should never use `egrep` because it is slower than `grep -E`." precisely because the former requires extra forks() compared to the latter. However I'd counter that advice saying "if you're concerned about the performance of forks() then why are you running your code as a shell script to begin with?"... and I stand by that assessment now. In fact it would probably take me longer to type `-E` than it would for any modern system to run fork() (and I'm sure as hell not planning on using `grep` inside any hot loops!)

I think what will likely happen here is that distro maintainers will either remove that warning themselves or take ownership of the `egrep` and `fgrep` shell scripts. I'd be surprised if that warning made its way to the mainstream distros. I also wouldn't be surprised if the GNU grep maintainers did a u-turn on this change -- though it has already been committed to git for more than a year now and this is the first I've heard people complain about the change.
Thank you for the link, I got 17 minutes into this lazy slop and got to the something about law (judicial law that is) being "alive and sexual" and couldn't take any more.

Little useful is extracted, it's mainly academics grooming each other over their cleverness. I just couldn't bear it any more.
More reason to never be on TikTok. oof.
"Not GP, but I think it would stress the system to the breaking point and force us to fix it"

There are many dystopian nations where things are as bad as one can imagine (say, North Korea) and nobody has been "forced to fix it."
Yes, you can sync with the external file sync tool of your choosing with no ill effects
Mosaic depicting the Trojan War is found in Syria
I have tried Joplin a little bit and found the UI of Obsidian much friendlier, also the plugin ecosystem is very active. Another main difference is how Obsidian works using the 'bunch of Markdown files' vs. the database approach Joplin uses. Also see this earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27808003.
This is exactly why Torvalds is so radical on not regressing: it is costly for him (I am sure there are many things hr would have done differently now) but ensures the users’ security.
You'd still need chemicals, a pure substrate, a chip design that's been converted into a manufacturing process, a UV aligner, spin coater, etc... can't do everything in your basement. You have to trade with others.
Cathie Wood's ARK Innovation runs aground
> once you start reusing other people's code, their rights and beliefs also matter. If you don't subscribe to their belief, then obviously you have no choice but to not use their code.

The only way I know for sure about their rights and beliefs is via the requirements in the license. If they want me to comply with further ideals, codify those in the license. I am not obligated to believe that the code is in use by aliens from planet Xobnar, as an extreme example.

If I comply with the license, the requirements are met, and I am free to use the code.
Woohoo! Kudos for building what is a pretty awesome application!

Use mine for Zettelkasten style knowledge tracking, Zotero and Vim plugins are awesome ... I guess I should donate some money because I am pretty happy with Obsidian!
You can store images anywhere. Can you share what syntax you are using for your image links?
If people were considering voluntarily giving the Koch brothers or Tobacco companies union-like powers over their lives ("mandatory smoke breaks and maga hats for all!"), then I'd be expressing similar concerns.
Rule of three. That’s why it’s always 2 weeks notice, or 2 months severance etc
The sync feature is kinda overpriced. What about a family subscription and collaboration/sharing features?

Also, from what I can see, there is no 2FA, am I wrong?..
For example, if references frequently occur in relation to bad aspects of a language, then this metric could be the inverse of what it seems.
iirc most MUDs use telnet, so any user can use whichever client they prefer - I'm sure there's ways to have xterm.js use telnet. There's this project that is a MUD using Telnet written in C#: https://github.com/cmackles/MudSharp
Someone on here described Teams as Microsoft's new OS, and that certainly seems the case..
It's funny, this divide between the old world and new world.

The old world has a heavy emphasis on computer science itself, theoretical correctness, long term thinking. It has led to the role of the careful software architect, design patterns, UML, the like.

Everything about this old world is a fantasy, as it requires ideal conditions. You'll need low delivery pressure and a homogenous set of well-disciplined high-end engineers.

That's not how software is built these days. You need to ship multiple features per engineer per 2 weeks or so. There's no time to do it the right way. Worse, most programmers are bread programmers and couldn't even grasp deep computer science, most have never studied it. Even better educated engineers compromise due to time pressure. The role of software architect as it was before, barely exists anymore. It's just a senior developer winging it.

In this context, if anything, frameworks aren't opinionated enough. Many don't have "batteries included" leaving unlimited options to screw it up. And the team will screw it up.

Maintenance? The software cycle in some domains, especially web and apps, is so fast that we'll just start over every 3-5 years anyway.
The collapse of Detroit was not due to unions.
+1. It's pretty easy to setup your own syncing using iCloud, Dropbox or whatever you want.
I believe Isabelle/HOL was used to prove seL4 correct. So it is indeed an industrial strength tool.
This is my goto as well. There are other Windows-exclusive options but it being cross platform makes it a no-brainer for those bouncing between OSes, since things like configs and plugins can be easily shared between machines.

It also eschews Windows’ notoriously dodgy text rendering in favor of its own which means that it doesn’t share text rendering quirks with e.g. Visual Studio (the full fat IDE, not the electron thing). When doing C# work I wish I could transplant Sublime’s editor view into Visual Studio because it’s just so much better.
Intel, if you're listening.. I hope you you're able to find this tagline and offer me a 7 figure contract for more of these ideas
I know what they mean and I love p5 but... Coding *is* accessible to artists designers and educators!

The idea that they can't is a false (destructive) narrative. Especially given that those three groups in particular have an astronomically difficult time establishing a reliable adult income in their field.
No, I really don't think there's any rule at Facebook that says you should unban people if they have sex with you.
Windows version comes with a QT GUI build too (nvim-qt)
How does the article lead to this conclusion?
PostGIS 3.3.0 mentioned another improvement in this release: "This version of PostGIS can utilize the faster GiST building support API introduced in PostgreSQL 15."

https://postgis.net/2022/08/27/postgis-3.3.0-released/