skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I dislike about the study is that it does control for the cause of meal skipping: On one side meal skipping as a dietary measure and on the other side meal skipping due to unhealthy circumstances (stress, poverty, substance abuse, etc.).

As such I consider the numbers not significant in relation to IF.
I think the same thing. The concept of retiring early has never made sense to me - but I enjoy writing software, and building things, and learning things, etc. Financial independence does make sense to me, but only in-so-much that I want to be able to generally provide for my family, and have enough slight cushion to be able to take drastic creative risks and not have to starve to do so.

I don't mind if I'm working when I'm 70/80 (as long as I'm physically capable to) - I do mind if I'm slogging 60hr weeks, doing things I'm not interested in, at those ages however.
No problem. Jepsen is something we're interested in once the project reaches a certain level of maturity. The replication is pretty basic primary/replica async streaming replication so I'm not sure there are too many surprises on that side of it. One unique thing it has is that it does handle divergent primaries since it uses leasing rather than distributed consensus.
> I don't understand why they are not working in the open, this is a tool, not a game, input for a large community is extremely valuable.

Ayup. Talking about JAI is simply a waste of time until they put it in the open under a genuine open-source license.

Otherwise, you wind up with situations like "Our Machinery".
> ...who decides...

i do. you do. we do.

im not sure what people are looking for when they ask this absurd question. while this may not be the case with you, i suspect its usually asked in bad-faith by people who are trying to insinuate that all actions are equally (non)reprehensible--which is of course, nonsense.

we start with certain foundations, we hold that certain truths are self-evident. and we build from there.

wHo dEcIdEs!?! we do.
Extreme risk of getting off-topic, but I've been really wondering what Trump fans think of Trump's announcement of candidacy in 2024 and it's nearly impossible to ask people nowadays. Are your parents generally positive or negative on it? Did they like DeSantis last week and now think he needs to stay in Florida?
I’ve been pondering a bit in this area, especially around things that are addictive harmful. It seems like things that give a pleasure reward for little or no work, and aren’t furthering relationships, are dangerous. They sap motivations (no need to work hard when your feel-good choice is so close). This seems to cover social media/doom-scrolling, porn, drugs and alcohol (at various levels and circumstances), easy hookups(?), constant TV, etc. Still working on the idea…
This is more along the lines of Apple having (at least historically) being pro-privacy before the problem became common knowledge.
So Proton is like Debian, Proton Next is like Debian Testing, and Proton Experimental is like Debian Sid. Got it, thanks!
I'm also struggling to understand. Maybe he actually didn't broke any law ?

After all, it's all a network of shell companies in banana republics, and maybe it was all in the small print ?
Like this little gem in Coinbase terms, mentioning that your crypto assets are not really yours in case of bankruptcy and can be considered as assets used to pay debts ? (don't remember the exact wording, but that's the idea).

A better question is why people gave / put so much money on an exchange run by kids through a net of shell companies in banana republics ?

Why people are still putting so much money in Binance ? Tether ? If they disappear tomorrow with all the money - will any law be broken ? I'm not so sure actually - they don't even have official headquaters ! It's red flags everywhere, and yet, once it's over people will sure be angry about loosing all their money.
Lisp evolved into ML and Haskell and these have influenced professional programming enormously over the last few decades. Or are you advocating we ditch all progress and go back to Lisp? Have you tried an ML such as OCaml? It has built-in cons lists, convenient symbol manipulation and macros.
I think there's another question though, that of vulnerability to new techniques in social engineering. Leave aside the question of which is a greater "waste of life," TV or doom scrolling, and ask, which is actually causing more changes to your personality, values, maybe even your brain chemistry? Maybe both equally, but if that's the case I feel like many in the newer generation grew up with more tools to fight back.

I don't know if this happened in previous generations with TV's, but I know among my friends there's a self consciousness about the bad feelings from what Instagram is doing to their mental health, and an active rejection: some quit entirely, some use the tools on their phones to limit app time, etc. I don't know if the previous generation has this or not.

Or ads. I know very few people that just let ads run: we all either pay for premium services, or use ad blockers and pi holes to block ads. Meanwhile even though teevo is a thing I still know old people that just "let the ads run." It's ALWAYS a shock to me when I visit home and shown just how absurd the ratio of content : ads is for American television.

Anyway it seems many in my generation are more aware of the threat of Algos latching onto you. I see comments all the time on YouTube mentioning it, "the Algo brought me here." But I don't ever hear older people talking about the previous version of that, the specialized social engineering and rhetorical techniques of entertainment companies like Fox News and their hosts such as Tucker Carlt. Their techniques of ragebait and leading questions seems blatant to me, as obvious as the slew of creepy ads that follow me around Facebook, Google, Instagram, or the "YouTube thumbnail" shit (everyone makes the same face), but I don't get much reaction when I try to bring this up with relatives.

Basically I'm less interested in whether watching TV or doom scrolling is a waste of time, and more interested in whether it can literally program you lol. Like how many of us lost friends to qanon conspiracy holes due to effective Facebook engagement algorithms? Do you know relatives that became wickedly radical and racist in the last 4 years because they stopped hanging out and instead spent all their time first on mass media consumption and then weirder and weirder Twitter and Reddit clones? I do. How many times have you heard tucker Carlson quotes at Thanksgiving from people that used to have way more thoughts of their own?

People may be able to say no one way of spending your time is better than another but I want to talk about what these various forms of media are doing to keep you hooked. Are we going to act like there's no danger here because we don't want to appear like elitists that say anything other than reading a book or programming is a waste of time?
That results in the clownpenis.fart problem.
France directs schools to stop using Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
It's Steam's downstream fork of Wine, which is not an emulator.
Couple things to note:

- The developer has no obligation to support the platform, Valve provides and pins a working runtime and unless the game is redesigned from scratch (see: Final Fantasy XIV) it should work in perpetuity.

- Anticheat on Windows is also a joke unless it runs in Ring 0, which is literally impossible on platforms like Steam Deck (Flatpak Steam only runs in user space for security reasons). No self-respecting developer should write kernel mode DRM in the first place, though.

- It very well could be as simple as flipping a switch - in the case of Apex Legends, the game already ran perfectly fine but couldn't connect to servers without the anticheat library loading properly. When EA updated the anticheat drivers, the game worked fine on Linux without any modification.

Of course, nobody has a de-facto obligation to support Linux. The larger point is that it's deceptively easy to get your game working on 90% of the world's Linux systems, much more so than shipping to MacOS or console. If all the world's 'serious game[s]' won't run on Linux, than that makes it the world's greatest casual gaming platform :)
By computation in this case I mean evaluating the state of the cube after a series of moves. It’s extremely difficult for a human, but a computer can simulate millions of moves in a fraction of a second. So realistically, any modern computer can find a low rotation count solution to any scramble almost instantaneously.
Except Fox News has always catered to a republican audience.

Late night tv joke men were always funny to a wide audience, in fact that was their appeal. It wasn’t until 2016 that they went all-in on one political party.

This is the result.
30% of the population do not have Apnea. Initial estimates in research were 3%, then a few years ago we started seeing numbers in the 8% to 12%. I have never seen a research paper that suggests anywhere near 30%, but that number gets batted around a bunch.

I'm not going to say Apnea isn't a problem. It is. I'm happy it made your life better.

If you snore, you do not "probably" have apnea.
Why on Earth would anyone want to grow up?
Doesn't it get incredible repetitive and boring with time? You get a new extension/DLC and you have a few new things to discover and monsters to slay or whatever, and then it's back to farming gold?

At that point, you're probably 'playing' it because of the social interaction with other people, aren't you?
Looks like it's changed a lot. It looks like it was good until about 2010, then it stopped working. Might also be why they apparently renamed it to "Crossover" from "Crossover Office." Guess I'm really out of date here. :)

Wait, maybe I was looking at _Mac_ compatibility. It looks like 365 runs decently on Linux.

They have a site you can check compatibility at: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/microsof... is the page for MS Office 365.

You can download a free trial and see if it works.
>I’m not sure why anyone would pick a language that won’t ever have a real ecosystem of libraries

Could you elaborate?
Contrary to popular belief Last.fm never really died (and I hope it never will), however it lost years ago its most valuable thing: *its own streaming service*.

It was just perfect at everything, was it finding new releases, discovery obscure gems, or play your favorite things all over. It was so magical that you could hardly believe it was computer generated.

Also, it was a wonderful "sane" social network where music and only music was at its heart: no vanity metrics (eg: counting likes) / vanity egos (eg: influencers) or purely material interests (eg: make money from this or that).

Anyway, it's sad it lost the streaming war pretty soon. Maybe it was just too genuine to compete with services driven by dark patterns, suspicious agendas, and mostly, greed.

Wait, is this a metaphor of the old internet versus the present state of digital affairs? Or am I just getting nostalgic here?

I don't know. Long live Last.fm!

111,920 Scrobbles from 9,137 Artists since Jul 2006.
Replace "boomers" with any other demographic group if you wish to understand why this is an ugly statement to be making.

Hint: it isn't because "boomers" are more vulnerable to misinformation
Can't see past the first couple of paragraphs due to the paywall but it seems like another factor will be if they actually endorsed FTX and it's products or merely appeared in their advertisements, especially in the role of an actor rather than as their celebrity selves.
For me the videos look like images, both on Firefox and chromium on linux.

No play button is displayed, no video playback control bar either, and pressing on space bar does not start the video. Right-clicking over the video shows a context menu with "play" option.

It is confusing to see these as screenshots of the cluttered interface and no indication that these are videos.
I am also talking about native ports. I preferentially buy Linux native ports.
Only 72k for me, but there was a time for several years where I wasn't listening to any music on my computer. Something that working from home has seriously changed :D
You can start with Ancient Aliens if you'd like.
2000 people on a build team.
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I work at Lago. Although we are perfect for usage based billing, I agree that « pure usage based billing pricing » doesn’t fit all products.

Not everyone can have a pricing like Snowflake’s. And you’d be surprised by the number of customers that want a fixed « all inclusive » pricing for peace of mind.
I specifically called out "outside business hours"... there should be no overlap. I also don't tend to work on anything near what I work on at my day job. Same for side work to main job.

Again, it depends on the work environment. I haven't had trouble getting permission when I've wanted/needed it. It's generally if your job performance is suffering, or if you are working in an adjacent or competing market.

You've specifically mentioned two things I believe I excluded in my statement.
> What's consumption in case of Slack? Number of messages? Storage+CPU usage+bandwidth?

Sure, I don't know what their primary driver of scale is for a customer. Maybe it is users for all I know; I just know that for many businesses user is not.

> GitHub had tiers based on number of repos years ago, but people then put you their repos together to lower their bills.

Repo is just another heuristic. I could create hundreds/thousands of repos before I (likely) match the cost of nixpkgs or crates.

Also, what you bill on will inform behavior. In the original article, there's the implication that people will share logins to reduce cost and with per-repo pricing you get people consolidating repos. In both cases, these behaviors reduce customer cost without reducing your cost, so now your product has effectively had its price cut. You could go the Oracle route and mandate audits to combat this, but that's going to torch your good will. Better to just bill on what drives cost.
I'm "retired," but that's mostly because I ran into a bunch of the types of folks that have been adding to the comments on this story, and gave up on looking for work.

I won't go, where I'm not wanted.

Best damn thing that ever happened to me. I "retired" at 55, and have been more productive, in the last five years, than I probably was, in the previous 20. It's amazing what happens when you don't have clueless, jargon-addled middle managers, interfering with the projects, and destroying work productivity.

The coroner is gonna need to rub "YTЯƎWϘ" off my cheek.
There is wisdom is what you are saying, as I have seen it myself over the years from my younger days to my current age. But there is something that needs to be said, so badly, that I made this account despite swearing off HN commenting for good; or so I thought. (Sorry Dang if this breaks a rule, but this comment really needs to be made.)

Here it is: Age in and of itself, does not equal wisdom. One can be wise through long life, yes; but experience is why. If one does not live an experienced life, they will still be just as unwise and potentially as dumb as those who are younger than them. Likewise, someone who has lived a rich and fulfilling life no matter how those events play out, can be just as wise if not wiser than those older than them.

So while youth can be ignorance, so too can the egotism of age. This will continue to be a problem in society until the day when everyone can come to agree that our lives are not equal, and never will be; because we cannot experience everything the same way across the world. It is that diversity in experience which is why it is so important that we learn to listen to each other, even if we don't like what they have to say. To expect obedience from anyone due to age alone is just a form of authoritarianism which has no right to exist; especially when the evidence shows abundantly that the older generations didn't get everything right either. Just like how no one in their right mind expects the younger to get everything right as well.

It is only the daft and delusional that think they have gotten everything right.

And from the looks of things out there in society, we have much more of that going on, than we have any wisdom being shared.

As a final word.

If you found this wise, consider this. I'm turning 34 soon.

And with that said, this is the last any of you will hear from me. This is all I have to say.
Market distortions tend to fix themselves over time. Either Twitter's ad rates drop so supply and demand get back into balance, or someone will gladly take the eyeballs VW was getting at the current rate.
It means you have to spend close to your entire income to buy enough rice to not starve each day. Basically you are a subsistence farmer or equivalent, you don't have time or energy to do much else than work to not starve. You can't save up to buy a bike or a book, just work for food, all day entire life.

Add a bit more income and suddenly people can afford bikes and books if they save up, that is the lowest point necessary for people to start to pull themselves up and improve their society which is why it is so important to get as many people as possible to at least that level.
What's doing whatever you want have to do with voting? You suggesting that people who have leisure time shouldn't be voting?
Best I can tell, advertising is a whale game. Much like how mobile gaming is predicated on a percent or so of users who will sink an ungodly amount of money into skinner boxes, I suspect advertising has a very large effect on the habits of a relatively small fraction of the population. So it's quite possible that the average person could say, truthfully, "If I needed something I'd go and buy it", while advertising is still wildly profitable.
I really enjoyed this, it was indeed relaxing. Do you grab any statistics on how well people do? I was hugely over, but only because a few of the 'difficult' squares were wrong.
Disclaimer: I am a consultant working for an Atlassian-centered consultancy. I do a lot of Confluence-based projects recently.

You would not believe how special some use-cases are, especially when you work with organisations that have highly regulated environments. I've seen anything from markdown files in a git repository being semiautomatically created in a Jenkins run to an organization having built essentially their own wiki software because nothing on the market fulfilled their need at the time (now 5 years later, they realise no-one uses that thing because it is just unintuitive). I have seen organisations that have no content oversight and some who had a whole department of "content czars", whose sole job it was to keep their documentation fresh and updated. I've seen organisations that had strict rules on approving each individual change, with complex approval workflows.

If you have never documented anything, Confluence may be overwhelming, but so will every tool that has "sensible defaults", because before too long, you will start hitting the envelope. Documentation software is not like a MacBook that you just buy and start using, you always need some level of customisation.

So, is Confluence damn good? No - there's a lot that could be improved. But from the mediocre solutions on the market today, it is one of the better choices.
I wonder how many realize that censoring information is a human habit as old as time?
Maybe Mr Sweeney should focus more on making an anti-cheat that actually works, compared to the dumpster-fire that is EAC.

Its functioning is spotty-at-best on windows, and when it takes issue with something on your system the troubleshooting is useless. At least Valorants’ anti-cheat will tell you what it doesn’t like.
Do the videos auto-play for you when they appear?

I made the bad decision of hand-coding the landing page in React, this is the result of it :)
I find the view that productive achievements are a chore, a thing, that once accomplished, thankfully we never have to do again, kind of sad.

What's the point of living if not to interact with the world?
You have the “right” as much as the next person but society is most benefited from those with experience helping those without.

The argument that you deserve to watch TV all day because you once had a job is curious.
Grapejuice [1] works excellent for me with Roblox, simply launch games from browser just like windows. Super easy to install if you are on Arch [2] as well.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/brinkervii/grapejuice

[2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grapejuice
I can't imagine trump fans being anything except positive about him running again. Why would they even be negative?
Can confirm this improved my handwriting. It also made it not degrade over time as my hand got more tired and lazy from using the pen.

That said pen width is important. My hand writing tends to be more legible with ultrafine tips
I put in a <somewhat random mashing of the keyboard> userid. I got a shorter list, but clearly this is an issue.

[ ! ] Checking username q349t8y on:

[ + ] Enjin: Enjin

[ + ] Fiverr: Fiverr

[ + ] HackerNews: HackerNews

[ + ] Instagram: Instagram

[ + ] Quizlet: Quizlet

[ + ] Smule: Smule

[ + ] livelib: livelib

[ X ] End Results: 7
I'm saying that for practical purposes, "What is machine?" has no unique answer.

I can't understand whether you agree, disagree, or what.
AI-assisted coding startup Kite sunsets after failing to take flight
Putting together the available document "JayPrimer" (which may be obsolete) with the blog post, Jay it seems a language designed by somebody who's was fed up with C++, and deciced to write their own, tailored language; this looks great when seen through the lens of C++, but there isn't anything particularly innovative in the context of modern languages.

In particular, I'm personally neutral to Zig, but there seems to be little reason to prefer Jay over it.

From the primer:

> Arbitrary Compile-Time Code Execution

This is the big selling point, but, brought to the extreme, it's not necessarily a good thing. The examples in the primer are intended to look great:

- Insert build time data

- Download the OpenGL spec and build the most recent gl.h header file

- Contact a build server and retrieve/send build data

but they're the type of things that turn a build into a monster.

I guess comptime execution is big in the gamedev area (I can't say, I have little experience), but I suppose Zig fits the typical gamedev use cases (curious to hear devs with hands-on experience).

> Code Refactoring

The example presented seems to be "extract to function", which sufficiently advanced IDEs should support. It's also unclear if it's currently implemented.

> Integrated Build Process

I don't see this as a good thing. It's good from the perspective of old programming languages, whose build tools are a mess. But having a separate tool is actually an advantage, as long as it's standardized and well integrated (I suppose modern languages have this support).

> SOA AND AOS

This seems to be a very niche feature.

> Reflection and Run-Time Type Information

This is very convenient, but again, nothing unique.

> FUNCTION POLYMORPHISM

It seems to be an odd (flexible/inferred) generics implementation. One of the language objectives is to never perform automated type casting, but in this example, it is performed.

> THE ANY TYPE

I guess this is a polarizing feature.

> STRUCT POINTER OWNERSHIP

Is this syntactic sugar for a C++ destructor?

> Other Cool Stuff

> Specific data types for 8, 16, and 32 bit integers

No 64/128? :^)

Regarding the post, the non-trivial selling points are described as:

> Reducing compile times from about 60s right now to under 5s, hopefully around 1s

This is certainly very appealing.

> having debuggers work

Uh? That's based on the bad D experience.

> Replacing build-scripts with jai code

> Catching more errors by introducing custom compilation checks using metaprogramming

> Replacing complex metaprogramming code with simpler, imperative code

See Zig.

The rest are trivialities.