skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm unsure about this for many people... by far my most involved course @ UCSD was 3d graphics programming w/ OpenGL. The professor had some delightfully zany ideas, including creating a torture chamber w/ extra credit for doing things like like building a gently swinging above head lamp to illuminate weapons on a wall.

I read the associated 500 page book cover to cover twice and various sections up to 4-5 times before completion and had done nearly all the extra credit for all assignments. I finished with a 112% final grade over the 10 weekly assignments. And this was not uncommon, the prof mentioned something like 30% of the students received an A+ and over 80% had an A.
Time to get in the line painting business in france. Parking spots will be much much larger. They should have used Sq/ft or Sq/meter as the determining factor.
Minikin retrospective
According to EU Commission's estimates whole EU needs ~600 000 more programmers, with Poland (where I'm from) needing 50 000. This seems conservative to me, everybody's hiring and salaries grow pretty quickly.

You'd be earning about 50 000 USD per year as a senior developer, but that's plenty enough to live a very good life here. Outside IT people earn about 10 000 USD per year, food and services are very cheap, and there's a comprehensive welfare state.
Big fan of Git style guides in teams. We had one at Thread. It was common for engineers to come in and find we didn't do rebasing and find it weird, but we took the opinion that history should be exactly what you actually did, not some clean and idealised version of what you wish you had done. There are advantages and disadvantages to this, but having a defined approach was the most important aspect.

Also the fact that we didn't rebase and used merges everywhere was a major contributor to no one ever breaking their git repos, something that git seems notorious for elsewhere.
I must not be understanding what you're asking for because it sounds like anonymous sum types.
Thanks, I eventually guessed it must mean "flash storage" or "flash memory".

The word "flash" by itself didn't mean anything to me, and especially capitalised as "Flash" made it look like a product name.
PhysX 5 is open sourced by Nvidia
Perhaps, but this is probably aimed at really big car parks like shopping malls that have a capacity of far more than 80 cars. They won't be able to get around this so easily. Presumably companies that build these solar panels will be paid for any electricity generated, so it might work out quite well for them in the long term.
"I'd"

He doesn't work for Meta.
Also there is gotenna who are burning a pile of venture capital money doing some sort of radio mesh thing.
> The world runs on certain types of software. I doesn't run on social media, or video streaming, or "AI/ML", or search. So it doesn't actually run on FAANG companies.

To the extent that the world runs on energy and industrials, you're right.

To the extent that tech soaks up human attention, directs spending and emotions, and now serves as the basis for communication and once manual mental tasks, I think you're wrong.

We're seeing that this is cyclical and that access to cheap debt has perturbed the sentiment.
What's the point of legislating on parking lots specifically? If all you want is solar capacity, wouldn't roofs be better because you don't need the support structures/lights? The whole thing reeks of "government has a cool idea and mandates it by decree". Is there some additional benefits of solar panels on parking lots that I'm missing, that requires government intervention to work?
> (No, Affinity Designer does not open AIs properly... It does funky things with lines.)

I hope you'll report that! They seem to be pretty on top of fixing interop issues.

> Can any of you suggest a GOOD alternative?

If you need traditional DAM you'll want to look elsewhere, but if you're macOS-based I finally landed on Apple Photos with its extensions ecosystem (which includes software from Affinity, ON1, etc.). It also works great with RAW Power¹ — by Nik Bhatt, who previously led Aperture and iPhoto development at Apple — which is itself looking more and more like a complete Lightroom replacement.

¹ https://www.gentlemencoders.com/raw-power-for-macos/index.ht...
Depends, if you visit YouTube Shorts it's almost 1:1 the same as Instagram Reels or TikTok.
I really like Firefox's dev tools layout. I have to agree with the sibling comment on the "network" tab though. For some reason, Chromium has given me more detailed error messages about requests, which have guided me in the right direction when Firefox left me scratching my head a bit.
Yup. This was the expected endgame, where covid would be cold- and flu-like. Changing each year under evolutionary pressure (noroviruses do this as well I think). Given that the alternative for viruses is death, not surprising they select for variability.

At some point, they might find an invariant region to develop an antibody against, but if people themselves can’t produce one it looks unlikely. Hopefully, like flu shots, they can guess right or provide enough effect to keep things from getting out of hand.
The FOMO can get institutionalised. When you are incentivised to chase funding (as a GP) if you aren't doing the cypto thing, your LPs will go with another fund and/or you'll get redeemed. And if you have to go in on crypto, FTX was supposed to be a sure bet
With framework there is a good base to work with if you wanted only some components custom
I'm not the OP but I just got new glasses and they were ~$500. The frames were about $180 (one of the cheaper sets in the store and about $60 more than I paid 2 years ago; yay inflation). So the lens were around $300 and took 2 weeks to produce.

I have a severe case of Strabismus (Exotropia) and my left lens requires a prism in order to keep my eyes focused on the same target. The required prism has gotten strong over the years and as it has, the price of the prism has gone up as well. The prism alone added nearly $200 to my lens cost this time around.

All that said, I imagine the lack of competition (the thread topic) is at least partly to blame for this. I highly doubt my glasses cost anywhere near that much, even if they are special.
Microsoft tests 'upsells' of its products in Windows 11 sign-out menu
The service I worked for in AWS faced this as a routine pain. No matter what the TTL, stuff completely ignored it. In the end the only sensible thing we could do was accept that we were going to impact customers and that we just can't realistically account for misbehaving DNS infrastructure. We had something like a 5 minute TTL on our public record, and would wait 15 minutes after removing the IP from the DNS records before we would take action that would potentially break connectivity.

By setting the DNS TTL, we had established the terms by which we offered the service. Failure to accept those terms is not something we can control.

What we generally found was that clients disconnected would reconnect almost immediately to one of the other IP addresses. Any disruption to the client appeared to be almost negligible.
> I wish the government would step in and protect something so necessary for it's citizens.

You mean like the mortgage interest deduction, 30-year fixed (subsidized) rate, SALT, Prop 13, etc - that actually make the problem worse for new buyers?
Raspberry Pi Mastodon Instance Running on a Raspberry Pi 4
I called the top, but it was the wrong one. It really is mindblowing how irrational a market can become, to the point that seemingly everyone agrees thing have become untethered, and the market will still run another 25%.
It's pretty gross, isn't it.
Great news for home buyers and renters alike in major markets. Tampa was absolutely brutalized by these folks.
I was actually surprised how well a modern insulated house blocks the siren. We have one that is on a hill a mile away (there's a second but I don't think I've ever heard it) and it's hard to notice inside (they run a check every month).

It IS fun to get the weather warning and then run outside and hear the air-raid siren begin to warm up.
Plenty of us did. We were told that we were "not going to make it."
Same, just commenting to share my love for Affinity! Such a breath of fresh air compared to anti consumer Adobe.
Why don't you look it up? Open Source was a reaction to the political implications of Free Software, that didn't float well with the private sector. The fault lines between the two are quite clear.
This is `mdbook` - https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/
You're saying this as if VC were some natural phenomenon and not people. VC are people, VC i one of those things that are mostly only people. Those people choose to use financial vehicules and strategies that are not ethical.
Solar storm smashes Earth magnetosphere, triggering rare pink auroras
Are you describing Elon Musk?
Since we are discussing an app store:

"pregnancy tracker"

"democrat donation app"

"cancer survivors forum"
Ask HN: Is React impacted by Meta layoff?
Is the React library impacted somehow by Meta layoff? If yes, how?
After student loan forgiveness, 73% plan to spend more on travel and dining out
Have you heard of generative art? It's a very cool form of art that combines visual artistry and computer programming. With your skillset it could be an interesting avenue to pursue.

The scene is exploding on the blockchain right now. Lots of demand for this work.
Which isn't great, but the point of such boxes is that you just use the GUI interface to configure it and don't worry about what's under the hood. SSH isn't even enabled by default (and most users probably never enable it).
It includes licenses for all supported platforms. No, it doesn't support the Nintendo Switch, Android, Linux and many others, but calling it a lie because of that is a bit much.

> IIRC a long time ago they actually promised a Linux version

Did they actually "promise" it or just didn't outright reject it from the start?
I bought all 3 apps at 50% discount earlier this year. I paid 9,900 yen for it. The new universal license cost 15,800 yen. That's 50% price increase for me. I don't need apps for other platforms.

I can afford it, and I will probably buy it. But I can't help but compared to what I paid not even a year ago.
Oh, so he is fine, I don’t see the issue
I mean plenty of VCs invested in JUUL which literally gives people cancer; that's probably worse than stealing money from people.
We have them in the Netherlands as well, but not nearly as many. You get about 1 or 2 per year that happen as a message to everyone, only used for life threatening situations. And then around 15 per year for which only an app notification and social media are sent.
Also from a standardization point of view there isn't really much of a difference between a builtin and a plain library function. Library functions can be scoped in namespaces and that's a plus.
The problem with plans like this are typically the seals. It is difficult to be a good sealant and chemically stable w.r.t. a variety of solvents and environmental stressors (heat, cold) for extended periods of time. Most seals get brittle and develop cracks long before the container shows any wear and tear. Burying expounds the issue, as now you also have to worry about stuff leaking in, instead of just stuff leaking out.
Richard Socher's search engine You.com has a Stable Diffusion image generator
It is in fact the opposite of disintegrating - they only just got legs!
C&D letters are a common thing across many jurisdictions. Behave like you're supposed to and you won't get hit with them.

Seriously, GDPR has been around for over four years now, everyone should have gotten the message now that sending data to third parties without consent is an absolute no-go.
That will just make the parking spaces smaller, right?
Why is std::unreachable a function, and why does it require including a header?

It sounds like the functionality of unreachable is to inform the compiler of something, which is what a core language keyword, like "if" or "for", does. Of course then there could be name collisions with the new keyword, so being in std:: might be a solution for that. But that is inconsistent, sometimes they solve this with prepending/appending __ or _t instead, or using obscure enough names like "constexpr" or "nullptr" that probably don't clash
And how much carbon did it take to do it? That's the question we're not asking enough when considering lowering our carbon footprint. Which is why it's been a devilish problem to solve.
I did lose money, even when I shorted with 1x leverage. The crypto pumped 3x in few hours. Sometimes trading against Binance's bots like playing chess against a chess master who cheats a lot. But with smart moves, some luck and patience there are some trading enterance points that may bring you some gains.
It's interesting that some people find that way easier to remember. For me, multiplying out the terms seems faster, probably only because I've practised so many times in my life that I can picture the algebra in my head. It also seems more general, as it's a technique which you have to know anyway. I guess it comes down to being more geometrically minded vs algebraically minded. School should try to cater to both!
All those things are great-if you can find a home in a sane price range.
> "When I worked at reddit, it took a month for traffic to shed off of the old load balancer, despite me lowering the TTL to 5 seconds"

Likely because the clients just weren't doing DNS lookups. I would often run into clients written to resolve a hostname and then query the resolved IP for the duration of the process (often this is done as part of a library or runtime). Our customers wouldn't restart their apps for weeks or months so there was always a long tail of clients which never picked up dns changes.

DNS wasn't designed for failovers. We can use it for that, but it's never going to be perfect by design.

Because of this, IP level failovers are the way to go wherever possible. Routing is designed to handle this sort of thing in the best possible way.
Not true. Most are setup to run little endian but support both.
Bonds aren’t risk free. Just asking holders of Argentina’s.
> Presumably companies that build these solar panels will be paid for any electricity generated, so it might work out quite well for them in the long term.

If it's actually profitable for them already (from a risk adjusted basis), then you wouldn't need a law mandating it. The fact that there aren't many takers suggests that it won't work out well.
> Great news for home buyers and renters alike

It's a feature of the 7.7% average mortgage rate, which is not great for buyers. Nothing stopping it from coming back when rates go down.
I think we need to have a serious discussion about wealth caps. The last couple weeks have made it absolutely undeniable that wealth is not in any way correlated with being capable of using it well. No single person should have that much influence over that many resources.
If we're discussing uselessness, I'm pretty sure warnings of impending war are the peak of this. They've actually killed someone in Hawaii. Let me live my final moments in bliss without worrying about that kind of stuff.
Worth the read just for the horrible B-17 bit used as opener. Good hook.
I love your work and admire your approach. But you should recognize a void will emerge and void get filled. Someone (probably reading this thread) will clone your idea and make it a supported for pay service.

It wont be me. But some enterprising engineer/pm/group who was recently laid off in this downturn will probably make a go of it.
These are the same nuclear power plants they have a challenge maintaining adequately and building new ones, yeah? And take a decade to build? And solar and batteries are cheaper than nuclear on a levelized per kWh basis. So slap the panels on top of mandatory carports and call it a day.

> That’s 11GW of new solar (same as 10 new nuclear reactors) powering millions of home - zero new land needed

11GW of generation on top of land already utilized and distributed.

If I were a French taxpayer who just paid €10B to nationalize EDF, I would absolutely ask why you’d prioritize nuclear.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/19/france-to-p...
>No, because you can make your phone work with other service providers. The dependence on the original hardware vendor is artificial.

Yes. But then it wouldn't be a commercial commodity product, it would be more of a build-your-own DIY kit. Would it be as succesful?

>Choice of blacklists, content filters etc. is also orthogonal to the vendor.

Everything is orthogonal to the vendor, even choice of screen or disk.

But most people don't like choice, want something that mostly works as is. And even for those that do the optionally increases the product complexity, maintainance, and error condition space (integrated vs mix-and-match).

Plus, a few modular laptop and mobile phone designs never sold well.
The user scrolled past "cancer patient therapy" and selected "cancer survivors forum". Then they uninstalled that and searched for "colon cancer support"

Still think this isn't invasive?
If you bought a lifetime license to the previous version, you can still use the previous version. (That's most commonly what "lifetime" license means... it's called that in contrast to a "subscription" where you can't keep using it if you stop paying.)

Usually people who offer upgrades for life will use those words.

I bought photos and designer for Windows and iPad. My daily driver is now a Mac, and I was hoping for a cyber Monday type sale to pick up a Mac version. This seems good to me, and the sale feels like a nice upgrade discount.
I appreciate the attempt to help, but it just gives Facebook, Twitter, and Inatagram links to follow, none of which I use. I click on the link to the Amber Alert .gov website, and they don't offer any (sane) ways to get notifications.
>but one of them isn't marked, so the owner will need to retroactively install solar panels at great cost.

Just pave over that space with grass?
> By hosting on AWS/GCP, you are leaking the IP addresses to the cloud providers after all!

For hosters where the data transmission is a technical requirement, you don't need consent at all, but you need to enter a data processing agreement ("Auftragsdatenverarbeitung" in German) with the hoster and make sure that data transmission and recording is as minimal as possible (e.g. anonymize IP addresses in logs, delete logs after 2 weeks, keep data in EU cloud regions if possible).
This was one of my favorites in the early 90's, along with The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld and their single Blue Room, Tango N'Vectif by µ-ziq, early Plastikman releases on Plus 8 Records, and Loveless by My Bloody Valentine :)

Feeling pretty old, thought I just saw this same article just a couple years ago. Turns out several outlets did a similar article for the 25th anniversary of Selected Ambient Works, so that was actually 5 years ago:

https://www.factmag.com/2017/02/12/paul-white-aphex-twin-sel...

https://www.thestudentplaylist.com/aphex-twin-selected-ambie...
Considering the severance, Meta might have just realeased the biggest pre-seed funded class ever.
Seems like targeting businesses.

Businesses have this odd existential mandate of having to make more money than they spend, or they would disappear. This doesn't typically happen to humans, so less humans follow that rule and subsidize losses with credit.

Therefore people who want to force things that require money to implement go to who they perceive to have the money to burn.
> To be honest I wonder if the people in charge were starting to get a kick at waking up so many people, or if they were engaging in some sort of malicious compliance

I doubt it. The messages were just incremental additions of information as it was added: First message had something about the area. Second message had the color of the vehicle. Third one added another detail or a correction or something, I can’t remember.

I just remember that everyone in my local office was visibly tired the next day and we all shared the information to turn the alerts off.
Geocities Is Dead, Long Live Geocities – Let's make the web fun again
Those also cover sever weather warnings (does UK have tornadoes and hurricanes?) and things like "incoming missile".

They amusingly alert when they're not supposed to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_aler...
Creating a market.

Lots of people build big car parks all the time, now all of them are required to have solar.

So they've created a market for businesses to serve.

Plus presumably, the French have a goal of selling more EVs, so solar on car parks is a nice synergy.
it's toxic advice if you give it to a broke twenty something. When you're on stable footing and have your needs covered money is supposed to afford you the freedom to actually make your own choices about things you care.

In my family the idea has always been, money is necessary but being happy what you work on is more important both for you and your relationships. If you're making 6-12x the national mean you're literally not in the 99%, you're in the top 1%. If you're still haggling with your peers or anxious about only money you're living on autopilot.
SPACs were used similarly recently until the market ran out of steam.
Obviously there were other choices. But large investment fund managers now mostly operate on the FOMO principle. They don't want to look stupid by missing out on the next big thing. But if they take a loss then they can explain it away because "everyone else was doing it".

At a more fundamental level, this is just another example of the principal-agent problem. Pension fund managers optimize for their own careers rather than for the financial health of retirees. This is one of the reasons why all defined benefit pension plans should be eliminated and replaced by defined contribution plans.
This is very disturbing. It's people's retirements plans they are gambling with (yes, crypto is gambling).
Similarly Quebec's Caisse de dépôt invested in now bunkrupt Celsius.
This has always sounded like an obvious solution to me. It's a double win: cars stay cooler. On a sunny day, it's nice to park in the shade.
StableDiffusion is amazing, but it has little to do with the Web, especially the cryprobro one.
He tried to be like Elon without actually making something productive for society.
People didn't stop playing chess when computers started to beat them. So even if computers can make better music, why would people stop making music themselves?
You mean teeny tiny cutesy startups like Stripe and Twilio?
Yes, but eating is something that people tend to enjoy doing. It means they can't do it as much, and can't consume what tend to be the tastiest foods and drinks without piling on tons of weight.

An average meal at a sit-down restaurant will be significantly over their daily calorie limit.

The lucky ones would be the ones who could eat as much as they like without becoming overweight.
Watch the Joe Rogan interview with Zuckerburg. There's a moment in there where Rogan gives Zuckerberg a reality check on it, it's hilarious.
What about squashing commits in a merge? I don't do that all the time, but it is useful for certain things. Like repeated code changes to test something in the CI/CD pipeline (that I can't replicate well locally), where only the last change that got it working is of any interest.
The Sad Saga of the 500 MHz Power Mac G4
> We’ve shifted more of our resources onto a smaller number of high priority growth areas — like our AI discovery engine, our ads and business platforms, and our long-term vision for the metaverse.

Conviction for Metaverse is unwavering. Hope some good comes out of it in future.
I don’t agree. As much as I don’t like FB, I have to admit that they provided a lot of value. People found joy in their products. Facebook before it became this cesspool attracted tons of people. WhatsApp is still hugely popular and useful. Instagram made countless people lots of money and create new means of livelihood.