skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, improvements to quality of life and socioeconomic development lead to lower fertility. Pretty sure this is an Industrial Revolution phenomenon that predates chemical contraception.
After LinkedIn spammed my contact list on my mobile phone when I installed the LinkedIn app, I will not buy any services from them.
None, why do you think I'm doing it? Because it's so much fun sitting at a computer alone day in day out?
I had a second gen iPad and it never got very much use. I decided to give it another shot last year and bought an iPad Pro and it’s been an amazing piece of tech. Probably my favourite piece of tech I’ve bought in the past 3 years.

It has completely replaced my laptop for personal use. I still use a laptop for work, but having an ipad that I use pretty much exclusively for fun is a huge positive change for me. It has an amazing screen and a great set of speakers. With a good keyboard case (I like the Logitech detachable one) it’s probably pretty close to a laptop replacement for anyone who doesn’t need pro software.

My favourite part is using it as a video call system though. I live far from my extended family and travel often. I use it to make video calls for hours most days. A pair of iPads is easy enough for most people to reliably use without trouble (though the particularly elderly might not like the touchscreen).

I don’t think they are laptop replacements for people who go on HN, but for people who just want to send emails etc it’s a great device, and way easier to use. I would encourage you to try one out as a second tier device even so.
Crypto holders are moving their crypto off of exchanges, not selling. The majority of sellers are speculators. The fast buck they were expecting hasn't materialized. They will be back when the space matures further, and more uniformed but well connected tradFi hustlers and VCs show up, hoping to replicate their success bullshitting the public. Meanwhile, those who understand the benefits of cryptocurrencies will carry on.
And how was it funneled from Ukraine's government back to political candidates in the United States?
If you plug in realistic numbers in that example you will see that yes, while network effects from your VC's portfolio is definitely a thing, it isn't some crazy scam that is due to collapse. The most a VC can do is get you 5-10 early customers and try to generate some word of mouth buzz.
Funny, imagine something like this would actually be regulated.

Mmhhh regulation to protect consumers... Mmhhh how could we make this possible? Sounds unrealistic to regulate something as big as a financial sector.

Perhaps PoR could be a solution to something so unregulatable? Or perhaps just use what we have fine-tunes the last 100 years?...
Audacious fits the bill.
How did you get the bank account before the company? You can't act "as" the company before it being founded.
Your rant reminds me about this article ( https://superr.in/economy/i-tried-starting-a-manufacturing-u... ) - it might be even harder than what you went through.
Kim Dotcom the Russian asset?
I think this piece from a few years ago about how difficult it is to build a startup around GPT-3 [1] is relevant to the AI art product they’re pivoting to. Best of luck to them, but the “build a product on top of open source AI models” space overwhelming favors the incumbents that actually are doing the cutting edge work in driving those models.

[1] https://www.allencheng.com/starting-a-business-around-gpt-3-...
That's part of it. He believes he'll be wildly successful regardless of domain expertise. He's so smart and anyone who questions or doubts anything he proposes is a worthless idiot.

There couldn't possibly be a good reason for things being the way they are, and he can't be arssed to stop and learn before loading and firing off a tweet from his gigantic ass cannon.

There must be a word for this.
Reminds me of The Simpsons: “See all that stuff in there, Homer? That’s why your robot never worked.”
That is actually a good point. Are they not legally required to send you a receipt? (You being the generic person that are paying for a service or goods).
I don't think there is any way you can describe that process that I list in the post as "very easy".
Rofi didn't work very well for me on Wayland, but there is a wlroots counterpart imaginatively named Wofi: https://cloudninja.pw/docs/wofi.html
What does it use, if you know?

Source?
Why does the "old monolith" need to be broken up?

I'm all for ending old software when the time comes but not everything needs a rewrite to microservices.

Supporting two development paradigms isn't really a thing any reasonably sized organisation should be concerned about.

Especially when you're talking about adding one more build process to hundreds across all your services.
> I don't know about you, but recently when I bring up the idea of Turning testing AI, I get push back along the lines of, "Turning tests can be gamed."

So you suggest doing a Turing test and the response is that Turing tests are too easy? Is that what they mean by "gamed"? The Turing test can be "gamed" by the AI making it too easy?

Sounds like a lot of twisted logic from people who just don't want to face a Turing test.
A woman doesn't even have to tell a man she's pregnant, and can give the baby away without the father even knowing (eg. if it's a one night stand).

Noone can plan for a popped condom, and pregnancy comes when aditional precautions fail, and they fail for both people involved, not just for men... but we then give only one of them an option to get rid of 20+ years of responsibilities.
Agreed, 140 char replies instead of paragraphs, and rapidly scrolling TikTok videos. We need that dopamine.
The fun fact: when you live in Estonia, you get German gov-supported Facebook Ads to incorporate your company in Germany.

For example, recently getting a new one: https://start-ups.invest-in-bavaria.com/
no, I used an iPad as a main computer for non-work for about 5 years, but couldn't really create - couldn't write code (besides pythonista, which is pretty good), editing videos wasn't as full featured, although photo editing with Affinity was almost as good as on desktop. Recently got the M2 Air which is much better for creating stuff.

Biggest advantage versus desktop is that some apps are nearly as good and way cheaper. $5 for affinity photo vs. $50 on the desktop? great deal!
This! I've noticed my watching habits have waned to almost no mass produced (visual) media. I'm no paragon of self-control, its just distasteful and not my first choice. It's all been demographically motived, paced, tested, optimized formulas that maximize ROI. For me the there is vibrance online that doesn't exist on TV. Regrettably, a lot of that is happening on TikTok right now, where authoring is so easy, all barriers removed. You don't have to show your face or use your real voice, the trends feel fresh and organic. There are lots of new voices, and the unstructured AI topic and audience clustering has helped some otherwise impossible communities to emerge. Short form video is wildly engaging, especially as a variety show. Sure tropes emerge and trends get tired, but the sheer diversity of iterations and reactions feels like some raw genesis energy.
Legitify – CLI that helps you detect misconfigurations across your GitHub orgs
So not hard to see from a purely theoretical standpoint; free/open source or similar is always around the corner to eat your lunch.

Unless you can figure out "What, EXACTLY, is the thing that I can charge them for -- meaning that they cannot get unless they pay me for it," you're done. And that space is pretty small. Not nonexistent, but small.
Michael Lewis' next book is about Sam Bankman-Fried
if I recall correctly, we could open the bank account before the company was properly registered but we only had something like 30days to submit the registration documents.
That's an emitter, not a passive radar. Operate one of those and someone will notice. The passive unit doesn't broadcast its existence.

Much to the annoyance of the USAF, passive radars can often see stealthed aircraft. The geometry part of stealth is minimizing straight-on reflections by reflecting them off in other directions. That works against single-location radars. But passive radar is using signals from other transmitters in other locations, so that trick doesn't work.
A monolithic architecture isn't about being the one and only compute tier. It's about defining how many distinct things that any tier does, which is why microservices go well with partitioned teams. Smaller compute business domains means specialization and easily divisible work functions.
The factory and strike recently gained a heritage blue plaque. https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-match-girls-b...
You can take your driver's license test in dozens of languages in Germany. English is the lingua franca, we should make it possible to do all common business tasks in English, because we want people to do business, and all hurdles should be removed as much as possible.
I think we need to define better (or re-define) what offline support actually means. Even an ideal fantasy implementation of a PM app with offline support will have limitations unless you sync the entire company’s space with all clients (users, files, docs, comments, tasks, roadmaps, etc).

So IMO selling offline support as a feature has to come with a clear description of what it means.
Indeed, and here's the page for it: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/TVTropesWi...
I don't think it's pseudoscience, it's difficult to do RCTs with this but breathing techniques are definitely reproducible and falsifiable.

Furthermore, if it is, it doesn't have to be a bad thing. If it's pseudoscientific and not effective, it can still help through no/placebo.

It's not like box breathing is going to damage you (or others) if it doesn't do anything (it doesn't do much for me).
The only time “DWORD PTR” is required is when (1) you're working with old assemblers, or (2) you're using a memory operand with an immediate:

add eax, [4] ; inferred
add [eax], 4 ; ambiguous
add DWORD [eax], 4 ; explicit

A disassembler may output it when not necessary, however.
Crypto is interesting technically, but it has been an absolute dumpster fire practically.
My first thought after reading the article was "the comments will be full of German people explaining that this is actually not complicated, and is in fact very efficient and therefore good."
And I think that we're all living inside a giant cosmic blueberry pie. Modern humans are able to bake simple pies today, but there's no telling what will possible with the ovens of the future. Now, you may be thinking "that's absurd" or "so what if we're in a pie", but let me assure you that the implications are profound and dire. We need to convince the Baker that we exist inside the Pie and that It should not be eaten lest our universe come to an end.

This is a serious theory, and I will require grant funding to pursue the implications of living inside a multidimensional filling-time manifold, as well as possible means of escaping through the crust. Buy my book to learn more and for recipes to bake your own scale model of the Pie.
The last time I started a business in Washington State, it involved putting the company name and address on a form, attaching a check for $50, and mailing it to the government.
I don’t have any use for a laptop and don’t like carring one with me. I also don’t carry the ipad around but i like using procreate on it. Best software experience i ever had.
Your life actually has huge influence on your face (which is a "mirror of the soul"). They lived a miserable life and that's what you happen to see here.
This tracks closely to my experiences as well. Managers need to understand that managing upwards and laterally is equally as important as managing downwards. If your peers and bosses aren't fluent in your team's tool of choice, it is your responsibility to be the translation layer to a tool that works for them.

This is the only way to truly achieve the type of transparency we're all searching for.
> effective altruism who seems to be part of a conspiracy to have pilfered billions of dollars from investor

If I'm understanding you correctly - which perhaps I'm not - I don't know as I agree. Are you saying that the concept of "effective altruism" is "part of a consp..."?

The concept of effective altruism, as far as I know, is simply to maximize the good-accomplished-per-dollar. In the past, after being pointed there by proponents of effective altruism, I've donated to organizations giving malaria nets, etc.

If you are saying this, I'd appreciate knowing more about what backs up your claim.

But if you're saying that there's some entity cloaking itself as 'effective altruism' but carrying out a Ponzi scheme, then that I'd have no opinion on.
> Statistically, most people who try to eat less fail to do it.

Yep, because the secret is simple, not easy. Whereas people want to find some high-tech wunderwaffen arcane diet that will be hyper complex but easy to follow and will lead to effortless results.

There was this documentary on yt[0] where a fitness model gained lots of weight on purpose to lose it, and even he had mood swings and initially had problems with following his diet regimen when it was time to lose the weight. But point still stands, if you stick with the diet your weight will drop.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7g7AqGqzo
Clojure Adoption – The Usual Suspects
Yep, I have a Kraken and can confirm it is fantastic for DFing shitty Baofengs, especially when they're being used as HAMMER-style acoustic modems for something chatty. Practically the best possible scenario for easy DF. Perhaps logically, even though chirp spread spectrum isn't actually FHSS, it struggles a lot more with LoRA transmissions.
That is super interesting. To build “the one tool” you’d then need to actually build five tools (one with tickets and commits and pipelines for engineers, one for sales etc.) and find a way to “translate” from one to the other.

Like, how do you translate git commits and tests run to “project Y is now Z% done”?
I've been amazed by the extent of the problems, but as for the fact that he doesn't know what he's doing ... well, this is the person who explicitly declined the opportunity to do the due diligence process on his $44bn purchase.
MILC's have shorter flange distance therefore more weird lenses can be created. Also they're smaller, lighter, and quieter due to the elimination of the moving mirror.
Exactly this. I develop really “heavy” desktop apps for a living and this is my experience too. End users are solving a problem and that problem might be “producing a quote for a machine for a customer”. If that took them an hour in the snappy but feature-lacking old software, and a new new software does it with enormous bloat, frustrating pauses, crashes but in half the time, then customers will love it and praise it.

When there is a bug report for a performance issue it’s rarely some minor delay but usually something absurd like a 15 minute wait due to something accidentally quadratic.

If you ask customers of course they won’t prefer the 2 second improvement for the function they use hundreds of times per day because it only saves them a few hundred seconds. They’d rather have one more feature that saves them 30 minutes every week instead. And the thing is there is an endless number of such features even after 200 man years of dev.

At the same time, as a developer I have almost no understanding for this mindset. If I was forced to work with slow and frustrating software all day I’d quit and grow potatoes for a living instead (and I use visual studio so my treshold for bloat and frustration is pretty high).
You can. You use your new/unregistered company name and the suffix "in formation" ("i.G."). Technically the company exists immediately in this "i.G." form without any paper work or process from the moment the founders decide to create the company. Later you tell the bank to change the name (for free) by showing them the documents you got when registering. The bank will do this for you anyway if you don't know about it.

The reason the bank account has to be created first is that you deposit the 25k there and pay the registration process fees from it.
Offtopic, the cookie screen on this site is one where you have to unconsent manually for each vendor
Years later, people begin emerging, blinking as the sunlight hits their eyes. "WHAT DECADE IS THIS?!"
I never liked the syntax used by gas. It feels like something intended to be part of a C compiler, not like something you'd use for the joy of assembly language.
Wouldn’t Ireland be better? At least they speak English
My experience is different regarding Electron apps. Many of the Electron apps I use (Spotify, Slack, Notion) have a web UI option. I never use it and now just a handful of people who sometimes open Notion or Slack on web.
Practically, 68k is far more usable in AT&T syntax than x86. When I used to do PalmPilot development, you could basically write standard 68k asm with just some extra %s sprinkled before registers and as would be fine with it. The x86 AT&T syntax is far more alien compared to the syntax in the official manuals, with arguments backward and nonstandard instruction names like addl and movabsq.
It always made me cry.
> My understanding of AGPL is that Amazon wouldn't even have to open source their service. So the license is not in the way of commercial exploitation.

There's no linking exception in the AGPL. As Google says, the risk is clear.

"The primary risk presented by AGPL is that any product or service
that depends on AGPL-licensed code, or includes anything copied
or derived from AGPL-licensed code, may be subject to the virality
of the AGPL license. [1]"

IANAL, but some will go further and say that merely looking at AGPL code would be enough to trigger the license, since at some point you could "derive" things from the AGPL'd code base which could then taint every other closed source SaaS project you work on.

This could happen if you wrote an closed source alternative to the original AGPL'd project, and wondered how a particular algorithm was written, e.g.

[1] https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
clickbait nonsense
Some older C coding styles recommend that order because before compilers added warnings, “if (17 = variable)” resulted in a diagnostic, while “if (variable = 17)” would not. Nowadays, I think most programmers prefer putting the fastest-changing expression first.
In the UK it's really easy too, perhaps even easier, the registration form is entirely online [0] and then you pay £12.

[0] - https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/register-your-c...
I see. That's very good to know. Was remembering it the other way but seems I was wrong.
I do wonder how this crypto implosion will impact inflation and the average consumer. Crypto continues to have a ginormous market cap of > 800B. But it's unclear how much of this is due to shady schemes and wash trading propping up the price. If crypto went down by 95%, what would happen to the economy? Would the ripple effects trigger another financial crisis? These are questions that it would be nice to not have to find out the answer to, but they may be answered soon anyway.
Upstream works on the River Roding:

https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/hnl/the-river-rodi...
It may take some time to explore the site, however I believe more in revealed preferences (here, the time spent) than in declared preferences ("omg my work is so important!")

My hypothesis is understanding the social fabric we live in is of the utmost importance, so maybe spending a day (or more, personally I spent weeks on tvtropes!) means that we unconsciously realize that, since it's more important than immediate productivity.

To say that differently, since we live a social life and interact with others, I think the long-term gains that come with a better understanding of the "common mental picture" allowing more fruitful interactions may be way more important than writing a few more lines of code.
I think Musk intended to put it out of its misery to begin with.

So that's probably going to happen.

Whether it lives or dies is another question.
Ah, I missed that part, thanks for the clarification!
Codecademy vs. FreeCodeCamp vs. DataCamp vs. Udemy vs. Coursera [video]
I'm not sure if English laws allows substitution, but technically in US law this contract indeed don't have a consideration. While mutual consideration makes it enforceable, the lack of it doesn't automatically make the contract void. You could argue that there's promissory estoppel:

> Promissory estoppel/detrimental reliance: A contract without consideration is enforceable if the nonperformance of the promisor will cause injustice. Elements of promissory estoppel are (i) the promise has reasonable, foreseeable, and detrimental reliance on the promisor, and (ii) the enforcement of the promise is necessary to avoid injustice.

In this case, you are nearly correct that the performance to honor the terms of the contract is essential, but technically not a consideration. (The IP code is consideration though.)
On one hand everyone in Germany is complaining about Fachkräftemangel, on the other hand the attitude is "In Deutschland haben wir Deutsch zu sprechen!".

I think if any foreigner comes to our country with any form on entrepreneurial spirit, we need to support that and not make it unnecessarily difficult.

And frankly, the German used in these kind of transactions can even be hard for us German native speakers.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘Effective’ Altruism Blew Up FTX
We can gain some insight by looking to the past. Certain generations of CPU were considerably longer lived than others. Think back to the 6502, Z80, 68000, or even the 8088. Even though the pace of progress was crazy back then, some of those CPUs were long lived because they formed the basis of budget computers. Some found a second life in other types of devices.

While software improved, it never seemed as dramatic for applications than it did for games and never as dramatic for games as it was for demos. Applications were bumping into hard limits with respect to both computational power and memory. It frequently meant that one had to purchase an expensive workstation simply to get work done. Our computers may feel slow at times, but they can usually do what we expect of them without the expense of specialized hardware.

Why are demos the exception? Part of it will have to do with maintainability and support. No one is going to worry about updates to a demo a year down the road, never mind ten years. Likewise, no one is going to care if it fails to run on some computers due to some obscure edge case. Demos can also afford to make trade-offs. Few, if any, demos require user interaction. They don't have to concern themselves with background processes. From start to end, they are deterministic. Things that would be truly bizarre in application development, such as tying up the CPU to get precise timing to play tricks with the video card then using deterministic code paths to get that precise timing, are acceptable with demos.
Can you share the script? Sounds like a cool and helpful time-saver.
I think they upgraded from in person. They support faxes now
Oh, wow. It's about capturing a literal flag.
Oh, I don’t think it was! I meant my post to be read as ‘here’s the fact that’s being twisted to fit this narrative!’

I think we’re intended to assume that it never reached Ukraine, was embezzled by SBF, then donated to Democratic campaigns.

And, of course, we’re meant to misread ‘Ukraine’s Aid Money’ as being _all_ the money Ukraine received in aid from the US government, and then go on to believe that all the aid money the US was sending to Ukraine was being funnled to the Democratic Party. Two more obviously ridiculous leaps.