skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 99.9% of the time, all you need is a build tool that takes a list of dependencies and a lockfile (or similar).

I'm very happy for you but almost all the C++ projects I've worked on have needed muuuuuuch more complex build system scripting than this.
Oh good catch on that last bit. I missed it when reading through.
No one cares about your revenue. So many startups purchase their revenue by essentially giving away their product at below-market prices, hoping to destroy the competition, like Uber did with taxis. It very rarely works. What's your company's net profit? Oh right, it's just around the corner...
2 hours of coding for an experienced dev

Sure, building a table is a two hour job for an experienced wood-worker.

If a grade 7 student can make an app by
- Describing what they want it to do
- Copy/pasting some code
- And running it.

That's a leap forward in my books.

The first barrier to making apps has been the time involved in to learn the syntax, if that's gone in the first days of this app, what's next? Do we teach how to write code anymore, or just to read and understand it?
You misunderstood the accusation as being leveled against TrustCor when in fact the commenter was referring to Symantec
"Do you have specific suggestions for what would be a more reasonable way to point out such dissonance?"

You could start by being open to the possibility that your position is not the absolute truth.

And then maybe make arguments as to where you think the other arguments are not consistent, instead of snarky comments very close to personal insults.

In other words, focus on the arguments and not the person.

More concretely, you understood my position wrong, and then made a self evident conclusion in your head - and shared that conclusion. Which is not very advanced debating style.
I can't really because the actual fruit of my labor is the enrichment of my understanding of butter. It's 100% worth it, I spent maybe $60 on ~10 lbs of butter and it was all used up within a month or two.

One other thing I've started to do is leave some butter out all of the time. My grandma used to do this and nobody ever got sick from it. But the butter gets soooo soft and unctuous. Those French butter bell things are a pita, I just use a regular butter dish with a lid.
I hope you are not implying that anyone disagreeing with a consensus is right by virtue of disagreeing?

Sapiens is bad because the author has a limited background. He is the best historian in terms of military dairies, a super cool niche subject. he made great points about it being the original precussor to the modern novel and did some fantastic research into this small lit genre.

He was then forced to take a class of Hisotry 101 in uni, a subject he didn't know or care about. While preparing the class, with material for 18 year olds, he wrote the book. He did not contrast a lot of his findings. And the book became famous because people like Bill Gates and Obama praised it. They praised because the book is well written and it largely has a nice humanitarian angle.

But they miss the problems the book has, because neither of them has a history background. Many of the problems are not in the facts but in the correlations, threads relating them etc, where the author essentially writes abeaautiful chain of causality that is entirely non existant.

In other words, he wrote a fantastic story about the history of humanity, not a true one. It has academic value in so far highschoolers and 101 students can get some interesting facts explained really well. But as a presentation of rigurous historical facts, event sequences or terminology, its not a good resource, at all. There is a reason there is largely cynicism in the "Scholarly review" quotes that are used on the wikipedia page of the very book
> 1) Interns, not being part of the union, needed to cross the picket line (Canada Federal Government strike). My friend (female) was punched in the face by a union member.

This would have made news and I cannot find it.
Göbekli Tepe dates to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, between c. 9500 and 8000 BC, which would make it over 10k years old. It didn't get built overnight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
"The application was removed from the App Store without explanation by Apple the day after its release, August 6, 2008"

Would be interesting to know the thought process for doing this.
> If you lived somewhere with snow, you were lucky to get a car through 5 years and 50,000 miles--and it probably needed fairly regular tune-ups etc. to keep running.

And farmers and other rural people all knew how to do this, had welders and other power tools and access to spare parts (or at least a junkyard). The frame parts themselves were made with enough slack that even if you had a crash with something, it needed to be a fairly serious collision to cause damage beyond the frame. Hell, even a 1994 VW T4 could collide with the rear end of a traffic jam, be 10cm shorter than before and it would still run (I speak from experience on that one).

Today, most cars are locked down so hard you need specialized software from the manufacturer to swap a fucking stereo, and the frame is packed with bits and pieces so even a tiny ding on a parking lot can end up with a five figure repair bill.
All programmers have to start somewhere. My first program was an interactive piece of concrete.
And it took SpaceX ten or more years to become a success.

The same mentality that pretends Boring is a failure already, leads to people saying the Model S would never be manufactured at scale and neither would the Model 3 (HN for one was filled to the brim with such comments back then).
> Tired of Hearing about ChatGPT

As a sentient and emotional human being and within the limits of my ability to sense the world, I'm sensing a lot of anxiety among people who realize, maybe for the first time, that artificial intelligences may replace their jobs, not just the jobs of laborers. An inferiority complex that feels inferior to machines may be a new thing we have to deal with, similar to imposter syndrome
My thoughts exactly. The author seems to think a proprietary period is the best option. But honestly, I'd rather have data be immediately openly available and ensure we credit those who played an important role in identifying what observations should be made and obtaining the data. That really seems like the best of both worlds. Promoting open access to data and collaboration among scientists is better than promoting closed access to data and "scooping" of results/limited collaboration.
We’re talking about financials here so it’s referring to financial risk. A highly-qualified and skilled founder is forgoing the guaranteed opportunity to make $1m+ in the time they choose instead to work on their startup. They also risk harming their future earning potential and career prospects if they don’t already have a track record of success. A low-paid worker in this imaginary situation isn’t risking much of anything financially as they’ll (hopefully) get minimum wage either way.

(In practice a lot of small businesses owners use debt and that is where the financial risk lies for them).
I mean it seems like one could perhaps get some estimation of how much impact family wealth and a positive environment has one success in relation to intellectual abilities based on lots of studies over probably about half a century now.

Obviously it would be a wide range of stuff to argue about but still your example sounds more to me like something we won't have that much data on, relatively speaking.
Announcing Baton, an Open Source Toolkit for Auditing Infrastructure User Access
Me too, but this is not what Musk has promised. He is promising far more in far less time. His typical MO.

And thinking that an average office worker would get an invasive brain implant to prevent carpal tunnel is nuts. Carpal tunnel is a thousand times better to have than an invasive brain surgury.
Just shoot them with artillery before they shoot you with artillery.

The best defense is a good offense.
> It would be nice to suspend reality and solve problems with magic, but until then, we would do well to consider https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/

This seems disingenuous. Yes, there are times when you don't know what's wrong, and this all gets uncovered along the way. I don't think that's what is being discussed here.

There are plenty of times when you do and the situation is the same. When dealing with some medical issues for my son, we had a diagnoses more or less right away - everybody knew what we were dealing with. The process we were following (and follow up treatment) was well established - everyone was able to tell us what was going to happen next, out to weeks (or even years) in advance.

Yet the bills still kept rolling in for months after the fact, and certainly nobody was able to tell us up front what all of these known treatments would cost.
Hedy https://www.hedycode.com/ has worked very well with my kids. It starts as an extremely simple language, minimizing friction, provides good examples and exercises, and gradually adds more and more to the language. Finally, it tells you that with just a couple minor changes, you have now learned Python.
Highly niche and specialised apps could set such price points. Medical apps come to mind.
I'm wondering whether it would be possible to build some debugger for Python to fix that!

For example, I modified my IPython config to always activate https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/3/config/extensions/autorelo...

It works well for modules with redefined functions. So if you do

from module import f1, f2

ans1 = f1()
ans2 = f2(ans1)

and f2 fails, then you can just modify the code of module and relaunch `ans2 = f2(ans1)`.

What is not available is reloading classes, for example if it looks like:

from module import Class

c = Class()
c.f1()
c.f2()

and there is a bug in f2, then the class won't be redefined.

I guess there is no perfect way to do it (for example what if f2 needs some variables defined in Class.__init__), but the situation is the same for Lisp with its dynamic typing.

So maybe the situation would be to have some command like `%reload Class`.

The other obstacle is restarting from a frame, and I understand that Python's standard exception handling doesn't allow that. But pdb exists so there should be a solution.
What was the PR startup?
"Fun" numbers on affordability.

A 3-bedroom rental unit is considered "affordable" if it rents at $4000/mo, or $48k/y[1]. The poverty line is at $60k[2] for a family of four. The city is encouraging developers to supply housing at a full 80% of poverty-level income, and wondering why tent cities keep growing.

[1] https://www.straight.com/news/4094-rent-for-three-bedrooms-n...

[2] https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-news/new-study-c...
Do you not eat breakfast? Or meat?
Not the one I'm thinking of, but Kylie Jenner is referred to as a self-made millionaire:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2018/07/11/...

For reference, she had a 9 figure trust fund when her father passed away.
Crating dogs is unethical, it's illegal in many parts of northern Europe, and it's tolerance on spaces like HN would be a sign that the average individual here has zero compassion.

"Oh it's like a den for them"

Well, ancient people didn't close the damn den every night.
"My company will make earmuffs that provide candy to the wearer."

"Earmunchiez.com"

I'm now looking for VC funding.
> What am I missing?

The irony of using “hype” to describe make/CMake/autotools while referencing Zig as an alternative example.

Building a build tool written in C or C++ requires a build tool — hence the existence of make/CMake/autotools, which can bootstrap themselves from a minimal environment.
Where did I say Apple is evil? They make incredible products, and I've been a lifelong user. I'll happily give credit where credit is due - They have made great strides in their latest iteration of products towards repairability with battery glue tabs and making the batteries accessible without full disassembly. The Jony Ive era of "Thin at all costs" is thankfully over.

But I'm not going to be their cheerleader when they make a move that is deliberately designed to undercut independents and preempt consumer-friendly legislation for repair in the EU and US. This program is purely corporate strategy and marketing to defend a major profit center.
Seems like the compiler puts the test for the first loop before loading the constant the first time, and therefor needs to load it again before the second loop. So the "tradeoff" is that if neither loop runs it will load the constant zero times. Of course this isn't what a human would do but at least there is some kind of sliver of logic to it. (Like if vpbroadcastd was a 2000 cycle instruction this pattern might have made sense)
I wonder if it would be possible to configure a browser (or an entire OS) to use TOFU on the CA level.

"Hey, this page uses a cert signed by $THIS_CA, would you like to trust it?"

Then instead of shipping whitelists, you could ship blacklists, which is presumably simpler and more future proof.
Better code than most engineers can muster.
I suspect this effect is a big part of why Rust keeps winning the most loved language polls - because it has some of that old school programming vibe that got lost somewhere along the way
There are other articles that disagree:

"In two separate incidents, experimenters used an unapproved adhesive called BioGlue to fill holes in the animals’ skulls, which seeped through to the monkeys’ brains. In one monkey, the use of BioGlue caused bleeding in her brain, and she vomited so much from the resulting side effects that she developed open sores in her esophagus"

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220926005606/en/Phy...
The 550 MW "nameplate capacity" is peak. The capacity factor of 26.6% means that it actually only produces about 146 MW on average. Nuclear power plants generally have a capacity factor above 90%.
In the case of Ethereum's zkrollups, all transactions are on-chain in compressed form and fully validated. You're not trusting anyone to custody your funds.
Interesting, thank you!

Direct water cooling huh. With channels right in the silicon I imagine water purity is just that much more important.

God help you if the water gets gunked up with disintegrating gasket material[0] and blocks some of those channels off, or even worse, conductive stuff.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHdEqWpexH0
Can you elaborate? Why does Boomers' retirement lead to a credit crunch?
I just want to add, ordering through the McDonald's big touchscreen machine is much better than ordering through the human and that alone has elevated my affinity for McDonald's. Which other experiential leaps from replacing humans with machines remain unimplemented?
Alternatively, I go in for a routine operation and/or surgery with known variables, and have no clue what I will be billed and who will be billing me, and whether the random anesthesiologist who tagged along with the main one is even covered by insurance—until about 6 months later when I get an invoice in the mail.

I could understand more if you're talking about a surprise ER visit, but it's like this for everything.
US states with snow typically salt their roads in the winter, in an attempt to melt it down to the bare road, and it is very corrosive. Not sure about where you lived, but some other places use other strategies, often: requiring vehicles to have snow tires.
"My company will search domain names with AI by taking user input that describes their company or project."

Didn't get smartynames.com though unfortunately :)
Not to mention, potential higher operating costs in some countries (which means the cost to provide these items is also higher). For example, labor and energy costs are higher in the UK and Europe than in the US.

Someone else mentioned that warranties are required to be longer in the EU, which would increase the OEM's operating cost as well.
But you still have to deal with it. It exists!!
That's correct no cutting into the eye(s).
In most US states employees can be fired at any point without cause. What happened to OP is horrible, but not illegal.
For me personally, I spent most of the 70's bored to death in school, but I got to come home and watch shows like "International Animation Festival" on Channel 13 (PBS if you grew up in the NYC area). They also had the first run of Monty Python's Flying Circus in the US, which was one of the few things me and my dad enjoyed together.

But the bulk the animation shown on PBS came from the NFB - The National Film Board of Canada, which provided the retro aestheics that were later adopted by Boards of Canada.

https://youtu.be/upsZZ2s3xv8
looks like you complain that the media is not working for the rich and powerful, i.e. Putin?
> If China really thinks their completely untested military can easily pull off the largest amphibious assault in history, they deserve the results. It would be an absolute bloodbath.

For which side? No one knows.

There would be so many factors at play, both military and economic, that it is almost impossible to predict how things would play out. All anyone knows is that China's capabilities have increased many times over in the last 20 or so years, and that they are increasing every year. However, no country on Earth has fought a war on this scale for decades (with the possible exception of Russia and Ukraine right now), so no one knows what the outcome would be.
I spent several years creating and maintaining a large, proprietary build system for a Linux-based operating system at a previous gig. Much of userspace was C/C++, and thus used CMake. To further complicate things, most of userspace needed to be cross-compilable for a macOS-based "simulator" environment.

I ended up being fairly proficient with the "modern" CMake language after investing a ton of time into it, but as the size of the company grew, I ended up being a bottleneck. Every other team found themselves subject to CMake's many footguns, and I'd end up having to step in to help.

It was maddening, but I 100% get that other teams just wanted to focus on getting their work done, rather than fighting with a poorly-documented and frustrating build system.

I, for one, would be very happy to see a new CMake scripting language. Ideally, one that is a lot more friendly for beginners and occasional users.
Discovered moises.ai recently which uses ML to separate songs into separate tracks for vocal, bass, drums, guitar.

I was skeptical but it works surprisingly well.
>There's a reason Apple's preferring on-device processing:

It makes it so you have to buy new devices sooner.

The privacy thing is a nice side-benefit and PR thing, but let's be realistic here.

EDIT: Just to remind everyone, we are literally in a thread about a new device feature that is trivial to do in the cloud, which Apple chooses to do on-device, which makes it only a feature for its newest generation of products...
One of the first people I've seen suggest that planned obsolescence is a good thing for consumers. Let me guess, you are somehow financially motivated to see people buying more stuff more frequently?
Inflation shouldn't be happening in an economic regime where UBI makes sense. UBI makes sense when science and technology make production so efficient that normal people are shut out of the economy, they can't compete with corporations for the available economic opportunities.

What to do with the surplus population? The simplest solution is to give them money. It really doesn't matter what form it takes, so long as there's a way to get food and material needs met once robots take all the jobs.
> sounds like a conspiracy theory

That's the best strategy to prevent the masses from investigating further. You shouldn't label something like you did if you haven't done your research.

> legally literate enough to understand the court opinion you attached

I think you are literate enough to read and understand the key part I included in quotes for you, from the ruling which completely refutes your prior position, and attitude, with hard evidence. It's as clear as day!!!

> McKinsey is the root of all evil and secretly influences governments and companies

Well they've had a lot of bad looks, especially with their role with Purdue Pharma and OxyContin. Their former alumni was CEO of Enron which they consulted for 15 years. "But up until the very end, it was promoting Enron’s business model, especially its off-balance sheet accounting practice, and encouraging others to follow suit." They "recommended ICE save money on food served to the detainees or send the migrants to facilities in rural areas to cut back on expenditure" They agreed to pay $100M to South African government in a corruption scandal [1]

Last year, one of their private investment funds agreed to pay $18M to settle an SEC issue regarding insider information gleaned from the corporate consulting business. [2] They have a hedge fund which makes bets on the advice they sell.

Here's another one regarding McKinsey & their investment office (MIO) and Valeant Pharmaceuticals which buys out other drugmakers and jacks up prices. "Four top Valeant officials, including Mr. Pearson, were McKinsey veterans, and the firm was advising Valeant on drug prices and acquisitions." Later in the article, "a federal judge in Virginia last month reopened a coal-company bankruptcy case after learning that McKinsey had not disclosed, as required by law, that it was also among the company’s secured creditors, through MIO". Further down: "An investigation requested by the oversight board found that MIO had five direct and indirect investments in Puerto Rico’s debt while McKinsey advised the island". [3]

So you start to look at all these big corporate consulting firms and if you are being unbiased, you can see it's systemic. They wield a lot of power and influence. They get their alumni and friends placed in government and huge companies and then make deals and institute their strategies to make a ton of money.

> The truth is much more mundane and boring though.

Yes from your position it would be. You aren't the one placing CEOs, making kick back deals, getting involved with foreign governments and corruption, writing strategy for Encron, ICE or OxyContin, investing in company government debt on one side and advising on it the other. The system isn't designed for people like you to be included in that part of the business.

In my opinion, people fall into one of these buckets - pawn, shill, or informed. In an information age, isn't it remarkable that most STILL fall into the pawn category?

[1] https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/the-many-times-mckinsey-ha...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/corporations/investment-fun...

[3] New York Times - https://archive.ph/ZSDBH
I don't understand these media criticisms in the form of "Why doesn't every MSM outlet cover everything at once and ask every question of everyone and also make every inference we all want to hear?" The NY Times elicited more details out of SBF than anyone else. He more or less confessed to some of the major elements of his crime while pleading ignorance/incompetence at the girth of his wrongdoing. Asking in a friendly, non-challenging tone is a pretty standard interview technique to disarm your subject and encourage cooperation. "How much did you steal and why aren't you in jail?" isn't going to get a useful answer.
You're missing the point -- it was written and still exists, and still needs to either be maintained or re-written. You can't do either of those things if you don't understand it.
It embarrassed Apple.
So no changes to the 30% yet?