skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course. Much of the economy runs on "rent-seeking".

One of the fundamentals of economics is that ownership tends to incentivise improvement. If you license something in perpetuity, you more than likely won't be doing the upkeep and improvement yourself. By renting, cash flow goes to the company doing the work and maintenance, and they can appropriately prioritize and fix issues, develop the product, etc.

Compared to SaaS, it's more difficult to develop and maintain on-prem, single purchase software for clients. You don't get to control the deployment or the operational conditions as easily, even if you do get to make certain mandates. It's a more distributed problem.

Perpetually licensed software also has to be priced higher, pushing lots of businesses and individuals out of the market entirely. Lots of customers never get served, and thus lots of money gets left on the table.

If you don't bring value to a company, they won't hire your product to do the job. It also makes it theoretically easier to switch to a competitor if paying for short term contracts.
Source? I highly doubt Christmas lights for 1 month use as much power as Bitcoin mining throught a year.
Most people fail to see that BEV's will eventually be much cheaper than ICE cars. This in turn will mean a huge drop in revenue and profits for car companies. They know this and are therefore (trying) to switch over to subscription based schemes.

Obviously these will all fail. I suspect the Chinese will make dirt cheap BEV's which have very finite lifetimes (in the order of a decade or less) to offset the drop in revenue and for Western car makers to follow suit in making similar junk-cars.

Just the other day the Ford CEO exclaimed that a BEV would require 40% labor to make [1]. Think of the savings that would bring!

[1]: https://cleantechnica.com/2022/11/16/ford-ceo-40-less-labor-...
good reminder for why you shouldn't use the same username everywhere unless you intend to have an online presence

Personally I have a specific scheme I follow w my more private usernames. Basically the same username but depending on the website it has a predictable alteration to it so I get different usernames for different sites but don't have to remember them all

Then I have a different username (well, a couple) I use for sites where I don't mind having a public presence that can be tied back together
In work I don't aim to be one of the top eg. leader. I don't think I'm cut out for it. I also don't want the responsibility/making choices for others/the pressure.

Personally too what I make outside of work is probably crude/crap but I enjoy the process of it. Even as a mediocre developer/software person I'm still able to have a good life.

I also acknowledge my mental shortcomings I can see someone else read an algorithm problem and know the question/spit something out much faster than me. Same for math. I just aim for personal freedom/happiness at this point, not to be the best/stick out.

It would be nice to contribute/have a legacy of some sort not just be forgotten once I'm gone but that's ego I suppose. There is also the desire to stay under the radar.

It does sound like coping eg. you could try harder eg. did I fail because I'm not FAANG level.
GraalVM will Not succeed, because every language needs Tour be reimplemented in graal, in wasm every language just needs a wasm Target.
Also Java is really slow Boy adding a wasm Target. Most languages have a way to run on a wasm engine.
The Race to Save Sam Bankman-Fried’s Other Crypto Exchange
Neat idea! Gonna try it out as soon as I get home.
I would say that providing a first paragraph of text by RSS feed might actually attract more users/readers to a site to read the full article (paid or not).

Wasn't it Basecamp/37Signals who said to emulate drugs dealers and give the first try away for free? ;)
Which ones would you need? Happy to add more to Benthos. Feel free to open issues here: https://github.com/benthosdev/benthos/issues
> Autocompletion is one thing zsh does better, and that alone is worth it IMO. It can autocomplete things other than filenames and even gives you a short description for each of the subcommands or CLI options in the completion candidates. For the most common commands, this works without even having to install third party completion scripts.

The joke here is: All this requires additional scripts / configs. Whether bundled or not…

With those scripts / config there is no difference between shells.

> Syntax highlighting is useful as well, though that requires the use of a third party plugin. You can detect quoting errors, unmatched braces, missing commands, incorrect filepaths before hitting enter. It's indispensable in an interactive shell because that's where you write convoluted one-off one-liners.

https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh

> In general, zsh is extensible and offers more capabilities than bash.

Nobody ever could show me even one feature that isn't available in almost all popular shells!

> But to feel the difference, you need to configure it and enable the nice features.

Yeah sure. When you tune your ̵c̵a̵r̵ shell it has nice features afterwards…

That's true for any shell as I see it.

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I for my part don't like Unix shell. Even after 20 years of usage (as since then Linux is my only OS).

Also I've never understood what's the case about zsh. Nobody could ever answer the question why it's anyhow "better" or even show features not available elsewhere.

I came to the conclusion that zsh is just a stupid hype of "cool kids". It's the same as with the car tuning crowd.

A truly better shell would be much different than a Unix shell. There are some experiments out there but nothing really convincing.

So I continue to stay with the not so cool default. As it's most compatible and available everywhere.

But please wake me up when there is some real innovation regarding shells!
It really is.

And I noticed quite early on: the Steam games which had problems were the ones with native Linux ports - wonky display settings, or controller not recognised or something like that. The fix is always to tell it to "force" a version of Proton, which caused Steam to go and download the Win32 build instead.
it's currently open to vote, so go ahead and vote on it if you have a strong opinion on it
Solo young developer
Made this game with heart
Love all the seals from World
Also all animals
I've just googled the number. There are about 1M users of AWS, which compared to global population of 7B people makes it useful for about 0.01%. So it's a pretty negligible number, outside of NH. With that low number anything can be comparable useful imho.

I'm not sure how you measure share of scammers, so it's hard to compare. But I'm wondering you you care about scammers but not legit people who want to use blockchain tech? Latter is a magnitude larger audience.
> Array(clicks) instantiate an array of length 'clicks', with its elements undefined.

Not undefined elements but no elements, or "empty" elements.

> they could've just used Array(clicks).

No, because the following forEach call does nothing for such an array. You need to fill the array first with Array(clicks).fill() or shorter, [...Array(clicks)]
Hotz is an intern not a manager. Interns are generally expected to take on these sort of "heads down" coding tasks, not hire other interns.
The EQS without this option is still a very desirable car, mind you.

I suspect this is merely an experiment to see if people buy into this stuff (Hint: I believe they won't).
The page above has a long list of _potential_ treatments within each protocol.

> The protocols on this page represent our recommended approaches based on the best and most recent literature. The information is provided as guidance to healthcare providers worldwide and should only be used by medical professionals in formulating their approach to COVID-19. Patients should always consult with their provider before starting any medical treatment.
I guess it's safe to assume that if they're not providing benchmarks claiming it's faster than native, then it's slower (and that's ok)
That’s bullshit. Working for Google is a plus in job seeking but not because other companies believe you personally made Google great. Same with people coming out of FTX, others aren’t going to assume you where in on the CEO syphoning funds just because you where employed building their web front end.
Which definition of "aboriginal" are you using here? If you're simply referring to the indigenous people of Australia, it seems a tautology that they didn't exist in Europe. And if you're using aboriginal as an umbrella term for all indigenous people, it seems foolish to me to think that there never were indigenous people in Europe.

Also, you might want to look up the etymology of the word you're using: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aborigines_(mythology)

> The Aborigines in Roman mythology are the oldest inhabitants of central Italy, connected in legendary history with Aeneas, Latinus and Evander.
I can relate - I struggle spelling words on paper, but not on the keyboard! So I rarely write handwriten notes to avoid looking stupid!
You can have both hand written notes and something digital that’s saved in the cloud. Just get a rocket book
A chunk has already switched to C# with Unity. Most other engines (proprietary, Unreal, etc) have decades of C++ that would require too much effort to migrate to anything new.
Still love it to this day. I have Roon and TIDAL connected for automatic scrobbling.
Doesn’t help when people like me are just terrible at everything, have accomplished nothing and considered subhuman by the rest of society!

This is a “thanks I’m cured” statement, no different from saying depressed people should smile more.
From memory.

(The original) VAX 11/780 was a 1 MIPS machine. 32 Bit.

pdp 11 was a slower machine. plus it was 16 bit. slow clock, a relatively cheap o'scope could be used to snoop the buses.
Really glad to hear the Oracle driver I added to it is proving useful! <3
At first I thought him trying to engage the community as a whole for technical contributions was good and upbeat. But it also makes me question- then what is he bringing to the table then? His celebrity, to engage those people? Is his internship to be a technical manager? Is he actually going to credit these contributors, let alone ask Musk to give them internships? It's not managing if these people are just random volunteers he's using ad hoc.

Passionate hackers love to solve technical challenges, sure, but it does feel weird that he posted this open-ended call to action. I'm not saying they must be paid, as per the free work detractors, but even in FOSS you get credited and on Stack Overflow you receive karma.

> did anybody expect Hotz to sit down and write search from scratch in complete isolation?

Based on his reputation, people sure act like he is some sort of supercoder polymath who is able to pick up on any stack.
Wake me up when spotifynewmusic.com is resurrected.
[the only music discovery service that really made me discover uncanny things]
why not multiply by the number of atoms in the set?

Say i sold poisoned popcorn and everyone who ate it died, but i only offered it in barches of 1 million kernels, and I said, "Ok, but deaths per kernel of popcorn are almost imperceptibly low"

It's one of the most disingenuous statements i've ever read
> Permanently losing access to an account sucks a lot.

But mostly that's all. Usually it's a minor inconvenience. Occasionally it sucks a bit. Rarely it sucks a lot. Almost never is anything of value lost. It can be wholly eliminated by good data practices e.g. backups. (No one backs up their Amazon account data. It isn't designed for it. Because the "webdevs" think of the data as their boss's - squarequoting "webdev" because the effective decision is the CEO's and the "webdev" is just taking some abstract, ill-thought-through decision and making the ramifications concrete.)

On the other hand, it also sucks a lot when your gratuitously collected private information is taken to the darkweb. As countries become more accustomed to dealing with databreaches, they are beginning to consider legislating harsh compensation requirements and painful fines. Once that's happened, almost all of the private data that the user has in their account? Let the user keep it. We webdevs and our mortal enemies in business/sales/product will have to innovate new decentralised databases - where each node is a users' computer. And yeah, some things will be harder or not even possible (for the user). Other things will become possible that aren't at the moment (for the user). And at least you won't go bankrupt when a state level actor decides your database is valuable.
Author here. Part of my point here is 1) you get a lot of benefit from dynamic languages, and 2) you also get a lot of benefit from functional programming. And 3) you'd get the most benefit from both together. When you add types into the mix then you're taking two steps forward and one step back in terms of simplicity and understandability.

What you said is also perpetuating a common reason that people are turned off to FP in general these days:

https://twitter.com/haxor/status/1584725493513072640

"At some point functional programming became equivalent in people's minds to complex type systems (e.g., monads), and that caused the value of Lisp to be lost to history. It's a shame."
I did the same recently after seeing it was possible. 150,000 scrobbles for me, which I thought was a lot until I saw your count!

https://www.last.fm/user/carldr
I think it's useful to draw a distinction between a silent computer and one that is merely inaudible. For a typical PC, all you really want is for it to not noticeably raise the noise floor of the office it occupies. Going down the route of truly silent PCs forces severe compromises, and in almost every use case it would be better to have fans, properly configured to always spin, with a minimum speed low enough to be inaudible.
This is an interesting decision.

I imagine his ultimate goal is auto-mod but it seems like maybe you’d want to have that in place before you did this? If he’s drumming up customers for his $8 twitter blue subscription can there be that many in this group? I have to assume it’s mostly trolls, spammers, bots, or are bots in a different category, he says “banned accounts”

Also what are these negative hate posts that are being deboosted, in an interview where literally everything said is sus, Dril said he’s getting a lot less engagement, and thinks it is because of “negativity” Has Musk even done enough to affect him? And how is he defining this(will Musk himself be affected by this deboosting?)(Algorithm wise, I guess lower engagement could just be users)
Personally, I dislike the Google undo feature.

I don't know how it works. The pull down is small and vanishes after some seconds. And then? I am still to late and feel even more sorry for myself (double fail)

On my systems I have undo of the file system under control. snapshots. I'm using it since years. Saved me twice! I recommend this all the time ... (I know it's not for everybody)
Valve's continual focus on Linux (SteamOS 1.0 was released eight years ago) is honestly incredible, Proton even sometimes works better than native Linux builds. Truly nobody else (in the gaming space) is doing it like Valve are. I saw a talk[1] from a KDE dev talking about features Valve sponsored to be added to KDE Plasma and it's things that are useful for everyone outside the context of the steam deck.

The only thing that doesn't really work I've noticed is when games have an online component, whether it's like easy anti cheat which I've heard should be just flipping a switch to enable but I haven't seen anyone actually do that, or some weirdness happening with whatever the new Microsoft Flight Simulator is doing that makes it seemingly a 50/50 coin toss as to whether it'll run with the exact same settings.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0gEIeFgDX0
What a pointless article. Any car that needs a $10k battery is going to be more expensive than an ICE vehicle. You’ll save money most of the time over the life of the vehicle in the form of lower fuel and maintenance costs. Once again Americans get stuck on the upfront cost, not the total cost of ownership.

At this point I have to wonder what the motivation of articles like these are and how much money is behind them.
From the ongoing lawsuit, https://archive.ph/rgssI

> Belfer, the government lawyer ... noted that the FDA’s pages say people can use ivermectin if their health care provider prescribes it, argued the statements “did not bind the public or FDA, did not interpret any substantive rules, and did not set agency policy"
I have been wondering if a better representation of a cell would actually be a large centralised message “queue”, which represents the state of the cell somehow (one entry for each metabolite molecule, or for each proteoform).

The enzymes/proteins would then sample this queue, and return the message, process the message, or add new state to the queue. So this is essentially a large decentralised message processing mechanism, and what you would expect is that over time the state of the queue would shift, representing a shift in the state of the cell.
Yeah, I was worried people would wonder about this!

It doesn't appear to have an effect in this example because all of the text is the same size (and therefore, they do all share the same baseline). In the devtools, try bumping one of the items up to font-size: 2rem, and you'll see the effect it has.

My initial version of this post didn't have “baseline” as an option, since yeah it doesn't demonstrate it well, but I figured people would wonder why a single value was excluded.

Incidentally, baseline alignment is so handy, but I couldn't fit everything into this post. We cover it in more detail in my course (https://css-for-js.dev/)
tree-sitter is a bit better than regexp but it is not an actual parser of grammars, a fast actual parser of all languages for syntax coloring is the future I think, tree-sitter is a pragmatic middle-ground while we wait for the prime solution
> Much of Europe’s political structure post dates the US.

I do not think that one can make such a claim objectively. There is a whole lot of prejudice hidden behind the word "much". Political structure simply cannot be quantified. There are elements that were earlier in the US. There are elements that were earlier in Europe. Some elements were earlier in Europe, but given up inbetween and readopted later. Some elements are unique to the US, some to Europe. Some elements have changed so much during their history that you may either claim that they represent a very old system or a very new one. (For the latter: Is present day Vatican the oldest political institution in Europe, because it can trace its origins to Antiquity, or is it one of the youngest, because it was formed with the help of Mussolini?) -- One needs to tell stories of origin, not impose inappropriate metrics.
I've always seen last.fm but never actually decided to try it until today. I wish I used it back then. I agree with others here that the big streaming services generally suck at finding me new music based on songs I like (but are very good at recommending songs I've listened to hundreds of times)
Yes, I think about Manifold Garden a lot when talking about limitations in the Unity engine.

There definitely are limitations in the render pipeline, and I’ve spent time frustrated because I know how to do something in OpenGL but can’t figure out how to do it in Unity. But the rendering pipeline in Unity has become far more flexible in recent years, and you can make your own custom rendering pipeline. Look up "custom SRP" videos on YouTube if you want to see what that’s like. Here’s one such video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91zUwJwkXNQ

I do remember serialization + version control problems long ago, but these days, serialization uses a text format by default and if you are sufficiently adventurous you can solve merge conflicts in your serialized data. Better to avoid merge conflicts in the first place, though.
Supposedly US drone pilots are remarkably PTSD prone. In the moment you may be looking at the monitor, but your brain will realize what happened eventually. Also watching someone explode or get Ginsu'd in HD 60fps super-zoom is probably less pleasant than pressing the bomb release button on your joystick from 30k ft and waiting a week for the BDA (bomb damage assessment) to tell you that you missed.
> Write a library in Rust and compile it to WASM

this misses the fact that (unless I'm wrong), WASM by itself can't really do anything like file system/network operations

I know that's not the main usecase of where to put WASM logic that needs to be performant (it's the opposite really)

I just think it's worth calling out that a WASM library really can't do much from what I understand. Like... basic math? You have to supply it (through a WASM runtime) interop to other functions it can call... I think?

Would love to be taught/proven wrong.
Centenary of Erskine Childers’ Execution in Dublin
I still think that is a subjective take. Who defines "lazy" and since when can art not be lazy? Should the process by which art was created have any bearing on how the final expressed form is experienced?

The banana duct-taped to the wall could be considered "art by a lazy person", yet at the same time, it was actually a very authentic expression (in this case, an expression that was more along the lines of satire). The "artist" was having an internal experience that he chose to express as a banana on the wall with a piece of duct tape. The artistic expression was a social statement, a joke, a protest. And that's ok.
A possible game changer for next generation microelectronics
Teaching Photonic Chips to Learn
My question comes out of ignorance of the VC market dynamics so I apologize if it is an obvious one, but wouldn't the rising interest rates basically prevent VCs from being able to bet heavily on startup explosion ( because it is too expensive if no 'almost' free money flows )?
Foxconn workers in Zhengzhou are still fighting with the special police
Right, it doesn't make much sense and that's my point. If we don't have an objective criteria we cannot judge what is a good tech and what is a bad tech.

You think one techonoly is not important, another person think it's very important. I'm sure you're must better person that the any other person so we have to rely on your judgement, but it's not very scalable.
NuU uses simple algorithms and coach-generated exercises to provide a short daily plan to help your body feel better. It takes about 10 minutes a day and can be done as a break during the work day, an exercise warm up, or a cool down. It doesn't matter if you are highly active or sit at a desk. Everyone needs to take care of their body and simple interventions go a long way. NuU also includes a ~1 minute daily "wellness check-in" form that reminds you to check in with your body, and provides feedback that updates your plan as soon as tomorrow. Delivered to your inbox 6 mornings a week.
Oh, I think quite a few people do (plenty of PDP11 programmers about). It's easy enough to fire up an emulator and run a C compiler like its 1978 (or Fortran, come to that).

What's the definition of 'real' here?
That's a two way street. I equally wouldn't want to work with someone who makes sweeping generalizations.

> For moral reasons, I don't want to hire someone who worked at Facebook.

That's quite a hostile and closed minded take, but an understandable cope for someone who could never hire a FAANG engineer in the first place.
Using Proton feels like magic. The fact that you can run games made for a totally different OS, which isn't even based on Unix or Linux is a big feat in itself.

Valve is just a single company pushing for Linux gaming and the results have been excellent.

Linux is the perfect candidate too. Efficient, open, easy to modify and adapt. I hope more companies follow Valve and realize the true untapped potential of Linux systems.
Not the parent, but Safari on iOS. https://caniuse.com/webm