skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you have any examples of tools where the GUI is more useful than the CLI, and could you explain why that is?

Dunno if you’re just having some Thanksgiving fun, since the question of GUI vs CLI is mostly settled and moot, and this debate is irrelevant, but I’ll take your comment literally and respond as though you are serious.

So are you taking about shells, or any programs at all? Are you talking about programmers or all software users? What makes a GUI, exactly? (Are text menus CLI or GUI? Is CLI defined by REPL? Is Logo a CLI or GUI? What about vi, nano, or ddd?)

Speaking as someone with a lot of love for the shell, and few decades of experience with it, it seems to me like your question assumes a rather extreme position that doesn’t seem to be well supported by most people’s usage, even if we’re talking only about programmers. If the CLI is strictly better then why do people tend to prefer GUIs? That question needs a serious answer, ala Chesterton’s Fence, before dismissing GUIs. Make sure to thoughtfully consider learning curve, effort, discoverability, prior knowledge requirement, overall task and workflow efficiency, etc.

Web browsing, such as visiting HN and commenting, is much much better in a GUI browser than via manually typed curl or wget commands. What if you had to send POST requests to get your comment up? What if people had to send GET requests to know your comment existed, and then another one to retrieve it? We wouldn’t even be chatting if this was a CLI, right?

More or less all artist tools are better as GUIs, from Photoshop to video editing to 3d modeling to animation. If the output is graphical, then there’s no way around a graphical interface. Using the CLI for this isn’t just tedious and expensive, it’s far less efficient and effective.

Text editors are not CLI REPLs, even vi and nano. Spreadsheets are all GUI. Desktop OSes are GUIs. Smartphones are GUIs. (Imagine making calls via CLI!) Programming GUI IDEs can be extremely effective, especially when refactoring and debugging.

There’s also a gray area of text based GUIs in the console window, like nano and GBD’s TUI mode, just for two examples. Even in CLI-land these things are easier to use and more efficient for some tasks than a pure REPL with text commands.

Could you maybe explain why you claimed a GUI has no value? Are you aware of the history of debate on this topic, and of academic research on this topic?
I totally agree with you. The hutli experience is also very special for different reasons.
Wish you all the bests! Hope things are getting better :)
Scientific American's reputation is in the toilet: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13152

I don't recommend wasting your time.
"I think that spacetime is an emergent phenomenon of something that has no dimensions."

I actually think that's a helpful statement. If you read/watch Bernardo Kastrup or Don Hoffman, this is in line with how they present their primary argument about consciousness being fundamental.
There were a lot of softball fluff pieces on her after the allegations. There was ongoing boosterism from the "lean in" crowd who never understood the impossibility of a sophomore dropout having expertise in biology, engineering, and business administration.
Thanks, I’ll take your word for it at face value. It’s good to know that. That he’s no representing his actions as philanthropic. My distaste for him is therefore rooted in his content coming through an untraditional vector and my initial experience through my kids thinking he was trying to help people.

I’ve explained things to my kids, they get it now too. And if he’s honest about what he’s trying to do then I thinks it’s mostly okay and I can just recalibrate my thinking, nudge things towards putting his category of content in the same box as something like the Survivor reality TV show, which is mostly fine. MrBeast has simply distributed his content in a different way.

Good thread! part of why I come to HN. One of the few places for public discourse online where there’s opportunity for an actual exchange of ideas and changing opinions. (I mean it’s possible, plenty of people still dug in and are resistant to discussion of something in a way that could change their mind. Which is still even okay, we all have harder held opinions, and because disagreement here is often still productive to read through and rarely descends to toxic levels.)

Today, I am thankful that HN is not a toxic waste dump of flame wars and troll bait and provides an outlet to discuss interesting things with random stranger who are often way smarter than me. Happy Thanksgiving to all of the Americans reading this! As you sit down to meals with family and friends or even if you’re alone, I wish you all well and hope you all have ample things to be thankful for.

For parts of the world that don’t celebrate a thanksgiving of sorts on this day, f&ck you. kidding! I’m thankful for all of you too and wish you well just as much. We’re all entirely too interconnected these days to ignore the fact that what’s good for $X group of people in the world, to the extent that it doesn’t harm others in any significant way, adds an incremental amount to the collective uplift provided by civilization.

From one American to the global HN community, I’m thankful for you all. Except #@dang. Dang is too good. I’m convinced ycombinator either has like a GPT-5 model bot trained to do things here or there’s an army of not-dangs working behind the scenes to keep this community roughly on the rails. ;) Happy Thanksgiving Dang(s)!
For personal entertainment? I dunno?

I mean something is gonna go down, might as well be there for the popcorn.
How I built currency conversion tooltips
Yes, but no - putting aside the whole organizational, accounting etc failure, he just doubled the stakes each time he could.
I like underdogs and I like to buy American.
Arch isn't just simple, it is smart too. With alpm-hooks [0], it is possible to run specific commands pre or post-install/upgrade of packages. E.g re-sign secure UKIs with my keys after the intel-ucode package updates.

This example and more such refined tools such as the AUR that add massive quality of life improvements to the overall Linux user experience is what keeps me happy at Arch.

[0] https://archlinux.org/pacman/alpm-hooks.5.html
There was an post on HN a couple days ago about Intel starting to charge for CPU usage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33717331 <-- here it is.

IMO - it's crap like this that's contributing to Intel's decline. Go ARM, go!!

EDIT: fixed link
US authorities seize iSpoof, a call spoofing site that stole millions
It does not ... yet. Nothing prevent from making git-bug "branch aware", just someone writing the code for that.
Curious about your products, mind to share just one, perhaps one in which the secret isn't such an advantage?
Yeah sorry 235lbs 1RM isn’t a good metric even for an 18 y/o lifter

Maybe he’s comparing them to look good or b/c he’s measuring against his children (he mentions teenage son)
Pretty slick, SD 2.0 performance actually seems to be better than 1.5?
Amazon is the third largest advertising company after Google and Meta. Its ad revenue is $32B (and growing fast, the run rate is $40B). That is half the revenue of AWS, which is worth 70% of Amazon's market cap. The inescapable conclusion is that Amazon's advertising is worth the remaining 30% of Amazon's market cap and Amazon's e-commerce arm is deemed worthless by Wall Street, its only purpose being to support the advertising business, just what Google Search is to Alphabet.

Think on that for a moment. The other inescapable conclusion is that whenever the quality of the shopping experience on Amazon and the needs of Amazon's advertising business clash, advertising will win (just as it has on Google). That's an even more foregone conclusion since Andy Jassy took on the top job, he's from AWS and owes no special allegiance to the historical e-commerce business.
It’s a bummer to see many people on here not respond to the two phenomena that the author explicitly identifies: fear and shame.

Nothing good comes from shaming struggling people for making short-term financial decisions. It only breeds more shame, makes people afraid to express their needs, and pushes the poor even further out of the public’s eye.
Which set of supposed regulators approved this purchase?

Find them. Investigate them.
Hmm, can you elaborate? I don't know much about EleutherAI.
I assume so, since I have a Prime membership and it knows this when I'm logged in.
The lack of reward for planning (by virtue of not having the resources since they're always insufficient and tied up in more immediate concerns) similarly promotes a very detached and immediate lifestyle. I have $50. $50 can mean I have fun tonight. $50 does nothing for me next week except maybe let me buy some food, which I can probably scrape together another way. So I'm going to have some fun tonight. The notion that they should save this and set it aside is unrealistic (it's going to go to some surprise expense that always exceed total income). The norm is always having insufficient resources to meet needs under constant anxiety. So check out from time to time when you have the means to briefly alleviate this by splurging and pretending for 6 hours that you're not in this circumstance. From that perspective, the alternative is being just as poor and not having the brief splurge. Living for the day is quite a sensible life philosophy in such circumstances, really.
> a culture or mindset that prioritizes short term benefit/feelings over long term benefits even when there are other options. For example, things like getting a dog, signing up for cable TV, getting an unnecessarily expensive new phone, spending money on going out to eat, etc.

While there are definitely elements of spending badly, this idea that they spend money on the “wrong” things gets dangerously close to dehumanizing the impoverished. Those people are still people, and they like to have the joys and feel included in society like everyone else. There’s a huge mental health aspect to that which can mean the difference between being motivated to change your situation vs just accepting it.

Having cable TV gives you access to unlimited entertainment. A smartphone gives you access to all known human knowledge, and is essentially required now to access benefits, banking, etc. Dogs are widely recognized as being one of the most beneficial things to help with general mood and mental health.

The decisions people are making are rational, their just not aimed at the goal you think they should be aiming for (getting out of poverty).
Ah, that makes more sense, though it still looks like someone with anxiety around the uncontrollable to me.
Yes, that would be caching. We kept the first sentence, as it's still possible his account was compromised (we have no strong evidence to prove it, but no strong evidence to refute it either).
Children have no interest and know nothing about politics. Realistically they would just vote for who their parents vote for.
Nope the git log is a merkle tree.
The blockchain is a merkle tree plus all the layers of overengineering you need to have a consensus algorithm. And usually you "need" a consensus algorithm mostly for ideological reasons. My view is that building trust is better than assuiming it can't or shouldn't exist.
It is for SEO. Maps product will ride on the widely used google.com domain. ;)
My process for getting usable results on Amazon (.co.uk, presumably the others too):

1. Search for thing

2. Filter by department (necessary for 3)

3. Filter by Seller: only Amazon

4: Filter by reviews: 4 stars+

5: Sort by price, Low > High

6: (Further filters as appropriate)

7: Look at only products with a high number of reviews

8: For every product, "See all reviews" and filter on "Verified purchase only" and "Show only reviews for {the product variant you're actually looking at}". Closely scrutinise 1 and 2 star reviews.

But sometimes even this _still_ doesn't get me quite what I want, because when an item is sold both by Amazon and a 3rd-party it can be sorted based on the non-Amazon price.

It does feel just a little like Amazon's goals might not be perfectly aligned with those of the customer.
Once Bad Blood was published. It took a few years for the dam to break, but once it did the rest of the media piled on quick.

The FTX dam broke a few weeks ago and so far the media generally seems unenthusiastic about covering the story. Most people I've mentioned it to haven't heard of it yet; that's the media's fault.
When did you do the query for that screenshot? If it was today the delivery dates seem a bit short for dropshipping
I've tried both Liraglutide and Semaglutide. It definitely works, but it takes a while to dial in the right dosage that lowers your hunger but doesn't make you nauseous and miserable at the same time.
If you have a devive you can send crypto with, you almost certainly have a device you can use online banking with.

Also, I don't really see how this is really relevant, it really sounds like a "But Sometimes" issue, where some edge case of something sucks, but that doesn't say much about if that something in total is bad or not.
Just beautiful. Abe had a way with words.
Twitter’s ongoing cruel treatment of software engineers
Just FYI.

SBF will next week speak at New York Time conference, together with Mark Zuckerberg, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mike Pence, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben Affleck, Eric Adams, and others. And yeah he is apparently still coming.

https://www.nytimes.com/events/dealbook-summit#speakers

https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1595512579417378837?cxt=H...
Thank you for so succinctly summing up the sort of utterly out of touch combined with willful ignorance attitude I've come to associate with Hacker News in general.
It's just a matter of time before people revolt, we went from something like 1:6 employee:employer comp ratio to 1:400 (and much more for a lot of companies, up to 1:5000+)

If we could harvest energy from the hardcore early capitalist theorists rolling in their graves we'd have infinite energy at that point
Oh yeah, it's definitely not bad. I'm quite happy with it. I imagine I'm hitting on some corner cases here that aren't really indicative of the average user. Thanks for the comparison.

My reading of the numbers is that the startup overhead is about 13ms in my example, quite fast. Shout out to Wizer for greatly reducing the startup time.
your problems are solved either way, no?
I believe that stealing from financial systems should be less harshly punished than stealing directly from people, small businesses etc.

Whole point of financial system is risk management, while corner shop owners should not deal with theft risk at all.
Wrestling, play fighting, that kind of thing. Chasing each other around with sticks until someone gets a scraped knee
Making changes to the DOM seconds later is the part I don't get. Either it's part of interaction and therefore it's urgent, or it's... what?
Ask HN: How to build out a startup in the medtech space?
During my Master's I have built a working prototype for clinical documentation that could be universally used in multiple clinical areas. However I have very little experience in founding a company or talking to investors. I am based in Germany. And since the startup scene here still lacks a lot of funding I wonder what my next steps should be.

The university hubs are not an option, since they require you to hand over up to 45% of the company for only 100.000€-500.000€ funding. Given the regulations in the medtech market this money would not give that much runway. And looking in the future with multiple investment rounds I would end up with very little stake in the company.

I talked to my family and could collect 35.000€ in total myself.

I think the issue here is that this company would most likely not be a unicorn, or a fast growing startup that most investors look for. However, the profit margins are very large and the solution is very easy to scale. Thus the worldwide market is open at relatively little cost, compared to other solutions.

I already did market analysis, tested the solution with multiple clinicians, and my solution would cut the costs of clinical procedures (depending on the type of procedure performed) by up to 20%. I also have very positive feedback by the four clinicians that tried out the solution so far.

Four doesn't sound like much but it is very hard to get in touch with a clinical expert as a single student without funding.

I could really use some advice on my situation here. I am also looking for co-founder advice. How much stake should a co-founder be offered? I really do not want to end up only owning a fraction of the company in 10-15 years.

My personal goal with this company is to grow old with it.
That’s an even easier choice to make. I’m very cognizant of my fixed expenses. But if I know my company is going through a rough period - and let’s be honest Twitter has never been flying high - I’m going to cut my variable expenses down so I can have an oh shit fund. This isn’t my just speaking from the experience of a 48 year old who has been in the industry long enough to see the dot com bust, the financial crisis and Covid. I immediately focused on savings the day I graduated from college.
Not precisely, but it appears to make existing cancers worse[1], so definitely risky.

1: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221111155632.h...
Did you consider Linux? While it isn't Unix certified, it's still Unix-like, and is quite usable as a desktop (YMMV of course).
Somehow the comparison table is missing TSMC, which grew revenue 48%. I looked around for Samsung Foundry revenue but couldn't find anything recent.
Cable bought on long spools to install permanently is usually solid, while patch cables are usually stranded. Most of the time, you'll end up buying pre-terminated stranded cable, and all the cable you terminate yourself will be solid.
Really, the guy who was president of a club whose motto is “take no one’s word for it” would be fine with just like, taking someone’s word for it?
https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald
Stranded ones are very common in patch cables.
Maybe they'll fix the ~5yo regression where a search for

from:City, ST to:Town, ST

no longer results in the obvious (and previous) behavior.
Totally. And sadly it's a universal principle. Under a certain threshold everything becomes exponentially harder. Same goes the other way, having just enough capital gives you life altering contexts, you have time, multiple attempts, less risk/higher comfort, advice, network..
Mullvad make sure you are totally anonymous, from the payment system to using their servers

Mozilla is a 3rd party with their own account system and payment system, that means you are traceable, you need to register to mozilla

Mullvad doesn't have any account system, and you can pay using cash

is it good, is it bad? it's up to you to decide based on the provided informations
This is pretty funny. It’s like how tomatoes are bad for you because they’re in the nightshade family. I suppose moderation is all I can suggest.
I generally look at aggressive ads as a detractor to the product. Money spent trying to bait me into making the purchase is money not spent on improving the product. I'll always pick the non-sponsored product with the highest (written) reviews. I agree that we'll need to be even more aggressive than advertisers, as their boundaries are pretty much nonexistent.

For example, I'm an avid Sonic fan, but no amount of fan service could get me to sit through the constant advertising woven into the script. I'm going to just skip this franchise entirely. Whatever happened to just slipping a sign in the background?
My wife is currently taking it. We live near a bunch of upper class white lady lifestyle type places that will prescribe for just about anyone, and she talked about it forever, but kept not doing it. I finally just bought her some from an underground lab.

She was nowhere near obese. Started at 5'6" 137 lbs. After five weeks, she's down to 123. No side effects. She just says food isn't appealing any more. At first, she kept making full meals but not finishing them, and eventually she started actually planning and making smaller meals.

There doesn't seem to be much doubt it works, but most people do seem to report at least experiencing some nausea. As a side note, I'm starting to get tired of every thread on eating and weight control getting filled up with intermittent fasting evangelists. I'm going to assume they mean time-restricted feeding, not real fasting, and there is plenty of research on this. In some people, it results in better diet adherence than simply eating less but at your pre-existing regular schedule. This seems to even be true for a more or less average of people. But it is not true for all people. Some people do really well on it. Some people do really terribly. This is true of virtually any dietary intervention. Individual variation usually exceeds the differences between group mean results of different approaches. Stop assuming that what worked for you will automatically work exactly the same for everyone.
At some point I’ll stop falling for the click-bait. No emacs is a good portion of the reason my iPad Air collects dust. I wanted something portable to do my most critical work functions when traveling. I love the portability, and it supports most of what I need for work. I underestimated how important emacs was to my general productivity.
Every drug has its sets of mild or severe side effects.

But few drugs, including Wegovy, have a Black Box Warning. Even fewer where the increased risks in humans are unknown at the time of FDA approval, and only backed by rodent studies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538521/
I have been using mosh on and off, and actually appreciated that the software was so robust that it just works without frequent updates, and as far as I understand, most security is in ssh, so there would not really be a need for a new version.
Honestly, if you remove the ton of supplements he takes for dubious reason, only look at the meal and realise you can probably substitute some of the most expensive ingredients for similar but cheaper ones, it's just a fairly sane vegan diet: protein rich beans and grains, steamed greens, mushrooms, olive oil, fatty nuts.

No idea why it costs him so much.
Someone should make a fad diet calendar, you can have a different diet every day!

Whatever happened to the ancestral diet? I was looking forward to sauerbraten and spatzle every meal.
> This escalation of CEO compensation and of executive compensation more generally has fueled the growth of top 1% and top 0.1% incomes, leaving fewer of the gains of economic growth for ordinary workers and widening the gap between very high earners and the bottom 90%.

I ignore every article that separates the top 1% from ordinary workers.

In the UK, to be in the top 1% of earners you need to earn 120K GBP gross a year, or 74K net. Don't tell me you are anything other than an ordinary worker with that. As a side note, you will also earn less net than a household of two earning 50K gross each, are they also not ordinary workers?

I don't give a single fuck about the salary of the 0.0001% of the population that is billionaire CEO, that's not the problem. The problem is that basic necessities have been turned into a profit-printing machine and you pay 2K a month for a 500 square feet apartment in London.
An Epigenetic Age Reduction
I bet more than one corner shop worker had money in FTX.
Don’t Kill Real Turkeys
I think they were an inspiration for most modern languages. Either directly or indirectly.
mastodon is ruby on rails, just sligthly more "efficient" from django according to those benchmarks
With so many of these stories, is it any wonder that people now refer to this as Science™?
Absolutely love this book. It’s the perfect bridge from physics to machine learning.
At a certain 'sponsored product' density, the 'sponsoring' effectively just becomes an additional mandatory listing fee.