skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think about it in terms of syntax, then sure. Markdown is a superset of HTML. I think it's much more meaningful to compare their semantics instead. From that point of view, Markdown is a nicer, more human-readable syntax for a very small subset of html, plus an escape hatch to reach the rest of HTML using conventional syntax.
In my country, this is mostly a class issue.

Ten years ago, i was basically a social worker, and had a friend who happened to be a native peruvian (not a latino at all, so black-skinned, but clearly south american chin and overall face), adopted by upper middle-class parents.

When he was young, he had no accent, had a curb chain and a small cross, a weird (but tame) haircut, and old/tight clothes (you know, christian private school type).

He then started to listen to rock and rap music, wore hoodies and jeans, and shaved his head. Basic adolescent stuff. His encounters with the police increased tremendously at that time, and also weirdly never managed to hitchhike (he lived in a relatively small city, but still a city. Maybe he never tried). At least according to him. Three years later, he understood, and started to dress himself better: tight T-shirts, non-baggy jeans, nice, professionnal haircut, and put his curb chain back (that's when i met him). He had not been interrogated or asked an ID for several years after.

I still think the skin color matters for law enforcment btw, but i'm pretty sure this is a class issue.
Bill Hwang lied about his market exposure to the brokers who sold him the equity swaps. It was just garden variety fraud with no ponzi adjacent behavior at all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32635336
Great work by the Citrus/Postgres teams here! The last several versions of Postgres have all had killer features.
Yeah, people like effective regulation, it's just regulatory capture is worse than no regulation.
Pure ideology
What's the problem with a royal family that monopolizes political power and passes it down through their bloodline? Why is representative democracy and the peaceful transfer of power a better system?

Western civilization at least is currently of the opinion that heritable political power is net bad, even if there are plenty of examples of it being good. I suspect the primary reason for this is that competence, context, and experience aren't easy to pass on to your children, and most of the things that make an individual worthy of wielding tremendous power get lost and corrupted after only 2-3 generations.

Most of us can agree now that Chouinard is probably doing net good for Earth's biosphere. Why do you think that will continue to be the case when his grandchildren and great-grandchildren are in charge? Even if they still have the same surface level values, how do you know that they won't be so under educated and incompetent that they won't make counter productive and even destructive decisions with the unearned power they have?

I have zero problem with competent and successful individuals who become absurdly wealthy and powerful.

I have many problems with these individuals then attempting to pass on their extreme wealth and power to their offspring who almost certainly aren't strong enough to wield it.
What a perfect chair and table for a laptop, inspirational!
> Playing on the company’s name, he called the phenomenon AirSpace

For what it's worth this is a term from architecture, IIRC coined by Pascoe about 25 years ago, using airports as the jumping off point. Unfortunately most of my books are in storage so I can't confirm the name at the moment, but I know the book is at least a quarter century old.
If u look at the past decade, the real coins survive. Its the venture backed ponzis that die..

Basically no exchange should be holding enough to cause a collapse of the coin. With bitcoin this will never happen, there was multiple collapses at times where liquidity & ramps were non existent.. and bitcoin still survived to go up multiples.
I need to switch fonts in the current terminal, not start a new one. So yes, I'm setting fonts in .Xresources. It might not make a huge lot of sense for vector fonts, because I believe you can configure only 1 (can't check now). But for bitmap fonts, you can configure like 5 and then switch between them in the current terminal using control+right click -> select font.
It can still be a market failure if it's taking advantage of nurse empathy for patients.
And you'd be right to do so - life is too short for spending time with people who are wrong: https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2022/02/01/plural-octopus/
This feels like a modern version of Matmice, anyone here remember that? :-)
Huh? Before him, we never had re-usable rockets. Nor did we have electric cars gain mass adoption. Who was the CEO behind those?
If you're just curious about octopuses, I think you can probably learn much more in much less time by doing your own research and finding articles like this.

If you're more interested in consciousness a good place to start is "Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind" by Annaka Harris.
>Whoops, bad news! Tom Waits' mixing engineer is explicitly mentioned in Melodyne's brochure

Which is not Tom Waits. A guy worked with 200 clients, has done gigs with Waits, and puts the most famous client names as ("has worked with"), not necessarily the one they used Melodyne on (which he doesn't even claim).
I had similar idea and created MDwiki in 2013 (now unmaintained): https://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md
Academic logos are often awful. Take Roskilde University's logo, for instance:

https://euclidnetwork.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/roskilde...

I used to call it "brain sponge" when I was a PhD student there. (I liked that university a lot, don't get me wrong, just talking about the logo).
> But often the lower-hanging fruit is doing more joins in the DB, fetching fewer columns, and writing your query more thoughtfully.

Reluctant to add a "me-too" comment but I think you have it there. For whatever reason people are much keener to investigate different ways of scheduling IO than they are to investigate what the query plan looks like and why.
also this is a temporarily problem technical problem. Solutions such as AUMs and DEXs are being built up asap.
I mean it's a lot more Tailwind than the colors, font, and background. Some of the site is almost byte-for-byte HTML straight from Tailwind UI components such as:

https://tailwindui.com/components/marketing/sections/feature...

Which is the whole point of Tailwind UI, of course! It's a great product, but like Twitter Bootstrap before it is at risk of becoming a victim of its own ubiquity.
- I can tell immediately what the product is and how much it costs.

- The profile photo as the favicon is a nice touch.

- Price point looks about right.

How about a dark mode?
The age of social media is ending
Which search engines do not execute JavaScript codes?
> a LOT of active attention to the market day to day

Exactly this. I played options for a while, just with my lunch money, because it was fun. But it quickly consumes your life, you have to stay on top of it all the time. The stress is what made me stop doing it.
Probably making white-collar, and elected, police and prosecutor corrruption illegal, and prosecuting that, would engender greater respect for the law.
Banks are highly regulated in exactly how much of the deposits they can use and what kind of risks they can take with it. This is complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_requirement

Also in the US at least banks are FDIC insured, so if the bank is breaking the law and gambling inappropriately consumers are still protected.

"How is crypto different than a bank" is a reductive and foolish comparison. There are many, many differences. The primary one being that almost every cryptocurrency system is a fraud at its heart.
But it's worth trying.
> That's how it's supposed to work. We've all found out in 2008 that's no longer the case.

1. Not every bank that became insolvent had a hole on their balance sheet that required all of their equity to be wiped out to fill. The shareholders got a haircut proportionate to how big those holes were.

2. The rot would have gone far deeper, and the holes could not have been covered if those bank balance sheets looked anything like FTX's did. Banks, for the most part, faced a liquidity crisis, not an insolvency crisis, and the owners of the ones that faced the latter were, for all intents and purposes, wiped out.

3. The FDIC is funded by banks, not by taxpayers. The FDIC only cares about customer deposits, it doesn't give two figs about investments.

The controversial, taxpayer bailouts were not for retail banks (The FDIC was designed a very long ago to handle this case, and handled it well, without dipping into the public purse), they were for shit like AIG. And speaking of shareholder equity, that didn't do so hot. Their public valuation went down 98% from 2007 to 2008, and is, as of today, down 75% from their peak. I wouldn't have wanted to have been a shareholder.
Leica’s 47.2MP Leitz Phone 2 Has ‘Largest Sensor Ever’ in a Phone
This is Rob's perspective, but it's not universally shared. In my mind, all concurrency is a form of parallelism (parallel tasks, but not parallel threads) while not all parallelism is concurrency. I have frequently solved concurrency problems with thread pools, rather than using non-blocking IO, because the programming paradigm is a lot simpler.
The obvious suspicion, for any company that is both a market maker and doing prop trading, is that they're engaging in some sort of front running. They're probably doing it in a highly obfuscated non-trivial way otherwise they'd get caught quickly, but nevertheless are using their visibility into trillions of dollars worth of order flow to shape their own trading strategy.
For history this was a major milestone in x86 binary translation, Digital FX!32:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...

Some apps run faster than the fastest available x86 at the time, and sometimes significantly faster like the Byte benchmark cited above. Of course it helped that the chip was sugnificantly faster than leading x86 chips in the first place.
Tesla cancels solar projects in mass, scales back solar division
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I'm sceptical of that. ByteDance developed the recommendation tech a while back, at one point they had the most successful news recommendation service in India without any engineers speaking the language.
I can see that for restaurants, the price of a good portion of meat at home isn't all that cheaper, but for coffee shops? That $6 lattee probably cost them thirty cents of milk sugar and beans and less than a dollar in labor to put in front of you.
Depending on the situation, I can sometimes operate the U-scan and bag faster than a traditional checkout lane (especially considering the longer wait time for the two open lanes). I worked for quite a few years as a cashier though.
I get a 429 error.
A good summary.

People forget what the M in HTML stood for.

The slow drift of Hypertext from nice separation of document markup
and presentation to "web applications" and browsers that are mini
operating systems makes those old jokes about Emacs pale in
comparison.

The modern bloat-ware browser is a calamity of code, most of which I
have no use for and no trust in. So I use a text based browser without
JavaScript - and I love it!

If I want to run your code on my machine I'll install a proper
application that has at least been through some basic code signing,
packaging and secure distribution channels.

Gemini seems like one of the few hopes for breaking away from the
madness of "Web" and restoring some sort of sane, plain document
publishing for ordinary people to read and share information.
Not sure. A cursory look suggests it runs file ops in a thread pool.

The problem that I'm aware of is at a deeper level and has to do with the ability (or lack thereof) to set nonblocking on file descriptors associated with disk files.
Abuse of migrant workers at Qatar World Cup stadiums continues despite reforms
As someone kind of on the outside of all these movements, I think this is mostly a "founder effects" thing.

A lot of the initial people in EA came from the world of rationality. Classic LessWrong had 3 main topics that were actively discussed - AI risk, Rationality, and EA. It also happened that cryptocurrency became known and somewhat popular among some LessWrong visitors.

We're probably talking like 1% of LessWrong visitors, mind you - but a few of those became crypto-millionaires.

So that's why a bunch of people, who were interested in both AI risk and EA, and now have millions, are infusing the EA movement with cash. Or at least, that's the story as I understand it.
I certainly don't want healthy children wearing masks in school. What a dystopian notion. It's horrifying how some cruel and scientifically ignorant school authorities inflicted collective punishment on schoolchildren with mask mandates.
This comment section is about as well-informed as sound engineers on gearspace talking about why VSTs written in Javascript have more analogue warmth than ones written in C++. Some people commenting clearly have no idea how music is made.
That is exactly what I mean. There's benefits to using native UI elements but they really limit your creativity. It's also difficult if you're building something for multiple platforms but you want to make sure that you have a consistent experience.
Yeah, if you're not rich enough to be able to hire a full choir and orchestra, you don't deserve to write songs for more than one person.
Yeah, personally I'd say that seeing private security often makes me feel significantly less safe. Not because I'm afraid of being targeted by them, but because their presence suggests that there's some need for them. The actually safe places have decorative gates, not gates intended to keep anyone out.
One is akin to flushing money down the toilet - the other one is science.
Well, the UI element’s dismissal is what signals the system that holds unlock state. And the problem was that multiple other systems would automate the dismissal of the current UI element… without checking whether it was the appropriate UI element they expected to be there!
This is why I hated Flash: some designers would make the experience a game of hunting for the thing you want. Inevitably I'd just give up and not buy anything at all.

This happens in the real world too. My wife wanted a Bulthaup kitchen. They were happy to give us a big book with their product line. But it wasn't a catalogue with sections for sinks, cabinets etc. Oh no, each section was photographs (basically no text) of built-out kitchens. No product names, part numbers, or prices. If you were interested in something you had to go to the shop and point at the thing in the photo to discuss it with a salesperson. A terrible company to do business with.
You can also bisect your commit history to find the problem source in log time.
That reminds me that McDonald's did print their own money! It was their version of a gift-certificate, before magnetic-strip gift cards were around. You'd get a bound booklet of 5 imitation dollar bills, which you could tear off and redeem for the equivalent dollar-value of food at McDonalds.

https://imgur.com/a/6U3o64p
I don’t tip because society says I have to. Alright, I mean I’ll tip if somebody really deserves a tip. If they really put forth the effort, I’ll give them something extra.

But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I’m concerned, they’re just doing their job.
Participation trophies! /s
Here's the rest of the Win3.1 color schemes: https://imgur.com/a/SsVYqM1
> Same. I think it's weird, almost dishonest or shifty to have the camera off.

With respect, I find this opinion to be more weird than someone having their camera off :)
Did sequoia take it down?
Remarkable that a venture-backed company can loan $10B to the founder's hedge fund without running into some sort of board/corporate sign-off that's required to literally execute the agreement/fund transfer.
Brewster Kahle, the IA's founder, did. It is called Alexa Internet, and was sold to Amazon:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet>

<https://help.archive.org/help/wayback-machine-general-inform...>

A condition of that sale was that Alexa would continue to provide the results of its crawls, after a delay, to the Internet Archive. Those crawls form a substantial portion of IA's Wayback Machine archive.

I'm not certain that those archive are ongoing, as Alexa seems to have been largely shut down.

IA are a bit cagey on details, but I believe that there is a general IA-based archival service. There's certainly the "Save Page Now" feature:

https://web.archive.org/save/<URL>

And the independent but closely-cooperating ArchiveTeam (lead by Jason Scott) tailors crawlers specific to endangered / vulnerable online websites, its Warrior software:

<https://wiki.archiveteam.org/>
"As AI improves and gains trust in a field, it can then replace the human. But this trust has to come from evidence of AI superiority over the long term"
Carbon capture isn't real (as advertised). If you take green energy out of the supply to capture carbon, a carbon producing power plant will have to make up for it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJslrTT-Yhc
I think mmm.page [0] is supposed to take care of the fun and customization loving niche. It's been on HN before [1], and you can even try it without sign up.

[0] https://mmm.page/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27128424
It depends if 1. the powers need to adjust undesired election results, and 2. it's technically made possible to change the desired outcome.

There is no need for an expensive Manufacturing Consent (buying all the press), when you can easily Manufacture Results.
The mod's post makes it pretty clear the primary reason for the removal is that the tweet (and reddit post title) implies the features are coming to C++, while in reality they're an extension actually coming to OP's compiler.

That said, I think there's some nuance between GCC's extensions and Circle's extensions.

GCC extensions are like "return the minimum of two numbers" (https://web.mit.edu/rhel-doc/3/rhel-gcc-en-3/c---extensions....), while Circle's extensions are more like "reflection in C++" (https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle/blob/master/reflection/...). GCC works with the existing C++ community and standards committees, while Circle's extensions are just the author implementing whatever random features they want.

We can disagree about exactly where the line is when Circle diverges enough from C++ it deserves to be called a separate language rather than just a compiler extension. And maybe you think it hasn't crossed that line yet while I do, but I don't think it's fair to claim it 100% cannot be a different language just because GCC has extensions.
Python, more than other languages, ends up being used in utility scripts on end user devices, where you'll find just about everything. Python's async seems to still have a large swing in available features. Unlike async methods in other languages, semi-serious dabbling in it just for fun is courting a lot of headaches later.
This doesn't even make sense.
Cash tips are always superior when tips are actually applicable. If its just on a POS system I never tip. If I am expected to tip before service is rendered I also won't tip, since how can I possibly know what to tip if I haven't received the service yet? For cash tips you can wait until service is rendered no matter whatever shitty POS service the restaurant owner contacted with, plus there is no risk of the restaurant owner pilfering from the tip jar if the money goes directly from your hand to your intended recipient, and taxes are de facto eliminated.
ML wrote very favorably about IEX team in flash boys so maybe they thought it was like that
Ask HN: Why do all the home flippers flop?(Zillow, OpenDoor, RedFin)
All: please don't fulminate*. Perhaps you don't owe embattled billionaires better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

HN is a site for curious conversation, so please wait to feel some curiosity before you comment.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I used to work in UI (within game development) and there are very good reasons for this. Almost every time someone decided to do something different, usually thinking themselves innovative, it meant disregarding conventions and confusing and frustrating players. There were some exceptions, but experienced designers know when to stick to conventions and the short of it is "most of the time".

Well here's why you're wrong!

hint: you're not wrong. Even as a technical person it drives me nuts when interfaces change for the sake of it.

I've come to dislike designers over the years. Not because I dislike designers, but because it seems like form has taken too much precedence over function and often that form changes as the old guard is replaced with the new.
If I worked at Apple (I did get a nice offer a few years back but declined) I wouldn't want to work in that building- too distracting.

(I agree they didn't spend the billions for it to be empty but now both Google and Apple have nice-looking but not super-useful headquarters. They could have saved the money and put it elsewhere)
Isn't it virii (joke)?
I'm pretty sure the SO answer is (partially) wrong. As far as I understand, Bitcode is not architecture agnostic, you can't just take bitcode from a 32bit compilation and turn it into a 64bit executable since there still are a ton of architecture dependent things (like memory alignment) in the bitcode.
https://timdaub.github.io/2022/08/28/six-unpopular-opinions-...
I took a look at the website front page, but I couldn't see how CO2 is removed.

Does the money go to planting trees? Lab diamonds? Coal buyback?

I love the idea of offsetting my intensive compute use. But I'd like to know who is doing the removal and how they're doing it.
MicroPython officially becomes part of the Arduino ecosystem
Just like everything, "it depends". When creating websites, where it's only or mostly about logic and sending data around, I much prefer writing code. But as soon as there is a visual element, a visual tool is crucial.

When I used to be a VFX artist, we were using Houdini, which gives as much power as writing code, but with instant feedback and the ability to quickly iterate. This software has gained popularity over the years because it makes you so efficient. You get the same power as code, with added speed and no friction. Exchanging ideas and setups with your peers is so easy.

It's based on those principle that I think the 3D on the web is still lacking this kind of tool, and the reason I'm building polygonjs [1], a node-based editor, which takes inspiration from Houdini/unreal and others and bringing this to javascript.

And the debate of code vs node-based is very subjective. Always interesting to hear people's take on why they love or hate it.

[1] https://polygonjs.com
While your points are technically valid, there is a balance that needs to be struct without losing its core value and purpose. I think this is the cliche explanation for making logos that do not serve their core purpose: To differentiate and iconify an identity.

I am kind of in GP's camp, design culture has gone to shit in last 20 years. It's not even Brutalism/Minimalism in the true sense of the word, those movements were post-modern starting from 1950's triggered by the zeitgeist of Bauhause in 1930's. What you're seeing today is deep lack of understanding and following each other like a mad mob. It is to nullify identity, doing exactly what it is not intended to.

Hell, even macOS and Windows look similar today. They're converging on a singular global monoculture.
Yes, we need to decarbonize.

But that doesn't mean we can't also try to accelerate the removal of carbon from our atmosphere.
Both FB and IG have used dwell time as a part of their systems for many, many years, so it's probably not just that.