skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you that Meta ads another set of ways to fail. But this is the thing I want to question:

> that market will only grow

I too have read science fiction, so I get the theory. You know what else is in science fiction? 3D movies and 3D TV. But we've had 3 waves of 3D films (1950s, 1980s, 2000s) and it turns out nobody cares. And 3D TV fared even worse. And let's not forget the 1990 wave of actual VR, which also cratered. So the question is: will facehugger VR go the way of other stereoscopic 3D entertainment?

I think it's an open question, but my point is that it's very plausible that VR and the Metaverse will, like the jetpack, remain in the realm of sci-fi long after you and I are in the ground. And as far as I can tell, nobody is releasing data that shows it on a different arc. The Brewster Stereoscope sold a lot of units too, as did the Viewmaster. But ultimately people seem fine inferring 3D from 2D images without stereoscopic effects to help them along.
Well, I agree but people make investment decisions based on rough estimates of expenses and when the expenses are wildly different from the estimates, often projects are finished that in retrospect would not have been started. Classic example, this system is 99.8% reliable. Polish the last bit or re-architect it? If the rearchitecture is six months with five people, ok do that. When it takes well over a year, maybe more polishing would have been good. Especially when the year was half polishing the new system.
Godspeed Kay.

I think I've told this story before, but oh well. Years ago, not long after Nuitka became a thing, I was blown away by all the effort put into this thing by -1- person. I asked to donate, and suggested he add a donation button to his page someplace. Kay couldn't believe anyone would want to just give him money, and seemed in disbelief with the idea and that I wanted to send money.

I don't know why that sticks with me. It seemed like such a humble exchange. We exchanged a few emails, he's a really smart and kind person. The world would be so lucky if more maintainers mirrored his spirit. Really wish him the best on this.
I don't know anything about whether or not Russia is doing any QE. I was responding to the question: "If West can run quantitative easing for 15 years, why not Russia?" by explaining why, even if they could do QE forever, it would probably not help.
Sure I do, because I can and I make sure to exercise that power and freedom as much as possible. They're the ones who try to control us, using their copyrights and monopolies and lobbying to restrict our freedom and rob us of our rights. I refuse to accept that.

I don't even object to paying. I spend truly ridiculous amounts of money on stuff like this, despite my belief that copyright should be abolished and my knowledge of the fact I'm getting a worse product compared to the pirate, because at the end of the day I do believe in paying money for the things I like. You just need to have the basic decency to name your price. If you try to steal my attention and auction it off to the highest bidder as if it was your property, I will unconditionally block you with extreme prejudice.
There is also https://profiler.firefox.com/
Well, Wikipedia lists an example built in 1958.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_vault
I'm a B2C SAAS founder and paid 7.1% to Stripe last month.
Sorry, not a book. But if you ready to give e-course a try - I would strongly recommend the 'Crash Course Electronics and PCB Design' by Andre LaMothe on Udemy. On sales typically for around 10$ you get 110 hours of learning - with a VERY high quality content. I really enjoyed the instructor.
> Most of the money lost was from VC's and rich people, so we don't care that much

A lot of normal people had money on FTX.
Obviously it's not useful or realistic to just label someone as "stupid" or "not stupid" (we're not 7 years old here). But I think he handled FTX poorly, and I think he is now handling the fallout poorly. When I say he is blabbing without a lawyer, I'm sure he's spoken to a lawyer, but it's unlikely a lawyer would advise him to speak so much to so many people and he is doing many interviews without a visible lawyer or having a lawyer intervene or represent him instead of speaking for himself. Again, maybe this is an incredibly smart legal strategy somehow, I just doubt that it is.
If your hypothesis was true then there wouldn't be similar safety requirements in most advanced countries, even those without local auto industries.
Fermented foods need to be the next diet fad. The fermentation process acts as a pre-digestion mechanism, breaking down complex structures to be more easily digestible.

I recently started an oatmeal "starter" similar to a wheat sourdough starter. I began with a 1:1:1 ratio of rolled oats, water, and active yogurt. I let it sit for 36 hours. Then in the morning I take out half, and replace it with a 1:1 ratio of water and oats. It smells yeasty and tastes as if it's been cooked. I have no source on this but I'm hoping that the process nets me more nutrition than cooking. I also don't have to heat or refrigerate it. Everything operates at room temperature. If I ever go out of town I can put it in the fridge.
this is like asking a fisherman where his best fishing spots are
It's not a country of laws if widespread, blatant lawbreaking is allowed to continue for 4.5, and counting, years.
I used to work at Stripe, specifically on Connect, and I want to point out one thing that's not quite accurate:

> and there’s also a transaction fee of $0.25 + 0.25% (in addition to the cost of Stripe Payments and other Stripe products)

This is not a per-transaction fee. That implies that the fee is per-payment. This fee is per-payout, which is the ACH credit (or debit rails transfer) to the account holder from their Stripe balance. It's not uncommon for the payout schedule on accounts to be at least weekly, so you have many payments worth of funds batched together into a single payout. The per-payout fee of $0.25 ends up being a lot smaller as a percentage in practice.
> France has fixed some loopholes there

Monaco IS the loophole, and is hardly independent.

It's also surprising that this place was allowed to be. The first article of the French constitution says France is indivisible, and that every citizen should be equal to law without difference from 'origin'

In the meantime, they create this artificial 'country' for the über-wealthy, where they can do whatever they want in casinos, get rid of the poor at night with multi-million euro flats, have a bespoke overly funded police department, while evading taxes.

So yeah, it provides benefits. But it's a proof that equality has limits.
An interview with OpenAI’s celebrated but also controversial chatbot
AWS has a low elasticity ceiling for big servers
This. The whole argument for donating is wrong, at least from the enterprise point of view.

If you want $$$ from enterprise, offer them cost saving or money making tech and charge for it. It can be built on top of your OSS, in fact this is a great way to get in touch with the companies... But don't rely on charity. In the companies I worked for paying for something you can get for free is simply not done, ever.
most kinds of things that fail in the body cause pain, especially if the failure is being caused by an outside agent.

Why? Well one popular just-so story is that pain exists to let us know something is wrong so we will do our best to stop the pain, if the thing that is damaging the body is some sort of external agent then it seems reasonable under this explanation that there should be pain to get you to stop that external agent in some way.

I think the more reasonable question is why did they develop a poison that was really painful?!?
strong 2010 vibes
Chrismas family dinning
Oh come on, it’s easy. Firstly, everyone kinda wishes they won the lottery, intense wealth sounds fun.

I don’t bootlick billionaires and I generally consider wealth inequality a major societal failure, but I can recognize that someone who built immense wealth usually worked hard (and got very lucky!), and potentially possessed some entrepreneurial skill I lack. I also admire musicians because I have no musical ability, and I admire athletes because I have no athletic ability.
If you want big wins, then what you are doing is going to have variance. All these solutions are new, and the data to make it predictable is not sufficient to predict, u less you just slow everything down to a pedestrian rate, succeed at predicting that, and then get replaced by some order of magnitude better competitor.
I usually just mount the remote drive with sshfs and play the audio locally.

This pulseaudio approach might work with pipewire too -- I haven't tested it but I love this text-mode audio player... https://mathr.co.uk/harry/#sound
They don't work because they're pseudoscience. Just because a methodology appears to work for one or even multiple organizations doesn't mean it's going to work in every case.

No one actually knows that FrAgile, SCUM, or TeeDeeDee are universally better than just having a bunch of programmers self-organize. There's no well controlled studies that show anything other than a weak association between hip methodologies and measures like productivity or profit, and no one has demonstrated actual cause and effect. That probably won't happen because these are purely human systems, and good luck controlling for that.

It's fine to consider methodologies, but there's no reason to believe that the people who invented or tout said methodologies should be blindly trusted. They discovered something that they believe worked for them, and that's it. They're not smarter than you. Only use aspects of methodologies that you would use or that you have seen work, and don't do anything that seems stupid or that you would dread.
I use neovim heavily and I spend the first five minutes of my morning thanking the developers for their hard work - without their selflessness we wouldn't have the best text editor in the world. I was just commenting on whether the purported benefits of using Lua over Vimscript as the core scripting language really panned out. Clearly a lot of people think they did.
Roblox also lets kids write their own games in Lua and immediately share them with other players. It's as powerful a gateway into programming as I've ever seen, more so even than Logo or Scratch. There's a lot to be concerned about with Roblox, but it has its high points as well and is not just a casino for kids.

Boomer hackers cut their programming teeth on DEC PDPs. Gen X did so on Unix workstations (or Commodore/Tandy/Apple/Sinclair 8-bit micros), Millennials on Mac and Windows machines... Gen Z and Alpha will be trained up on programmable walled gardens like Roblox. "General purpose computing" as we know it will be dead, and no one will care.
Part of the issue is that modern run-flat tires have stupidly low lifespans, like 20K miles. I have a Tesla and opted for non-run-flats with my latest change and I don't think my tires wear any faster than other cars I've had.
Another trap people fall into is doing joins in their application instead of in the database. I see this all the time where people will query some table with a condition, map the ids from the result and then query another table (which also joins the first table) and then filters by the id of the first query. Or just doing massive aggregates in ruby instead of having the database do it and just spitting out the result.

A little bit of knowledge about SQL and how a relational database works goes a long way.
Aside from my full time career as a programmer, the best side income stream I've built has been my book I wrote[0] to help software engineers develop the soft-skills that are necessary to reach a senior level position.

I spent 4 years on and off writing and preparing the book for publication, and it's been bringing in a steady stream of income since it was published in October 2022.

[0]: https://www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-senior
Not doing so would allow mere allegations to put your business on hold until the entire court process, all the way to the highest court, if applicable, is complete. It's not a loophole. It's a fundamental tenant of innocent until proven guilty.
I'm left-wing and know to keep this to myself at work. I just internally roll my eyes a bit when I see yet another misogynistic male calling himself a woman. It's sadly quite common at tech companies. No respect for actual women.
The Baltics probably would, but Georgia is literally swamped with Russian émigrés right now. By the Georgian official data, more than 100k Russians arrived in 2022 alone, which is 2-3% of the country's population.
> I’m pretty sure GitHub did display what permissions the app was requesting.

I don't understand why "sign in with GitHub" should grant any permissions whatever. "Sign in" doesn't mean "grant this website permission to use my github identity". It means "have github confirm my identity to this website".

To me this is both the website's and GitHub's fault for abusing what "sign in" means. The website shouldn't be asking for permissions in this scenario, and GitHub shouldn't be giving them.
You can just send a signed pdf over email. Perfectly legal.

Macs even have a terrific signature attachment feature in Preview (the default pdf viewer).

Docusign etc. just add version tracking and document management, but you can just back up email. Even at some scale. Docusign is like buying a picture frame for a document like a diploma, it looks a more official but doesn't change anything.
> Then we limited the area they were allowed to roam in from a few blocks to "where I can see you"

Provided that one lives in an area where there are "blocks". Most suburban housing developments don't really have them, and you need to drive for at least 15 minutes to get any store.
> If you are talking to a manager and you can't get them to understand why they need to pay the Nuitka author, talk about insurance. "If this guy doesn't get paid, he will abandon a key piece of our infrastructure (which speeds everything up by at least 3x, saving us X dollars/year) and we will be stuck with a maintenance time bomb in our system. If we pay this tiny fraction of what he is worth as a consultant, we are effectively joining an industrial alliance to support this technology.

I've burned myself twice on this approach. Shortly after I/we started supporting them they changed their license terms. Of course since we were now paying customers we could still use it, but a significant reasons why I advocated for that software in the first place was because it was open source, and now I feel cheated and the advice I gave the company I worked for at that point turned out to be less valuable.

I do sometimes feel that once one get the taste for that sweet sweet recurring revenue it is hard to not start optimizing for it.

For completeness; it has also worked beautifully at least once.

And I guess I'll probably argue again for supporting open source.

But maybe I'll be a little more careful and try to ensure they can't pull these kinds of tricks on me (if a project accepts code contributions and doesn't have a CLA, it will be hard for them to pull such a bait and switch).
To be fair, everyone I know at a16z is devoted to free speech and they're excited about the opportunity to expand the user base by opening up the echo chamber.

And it's important to put the "work the rest to death" thing in context. In the past, Twitter workers were secretly video taped bragging about only working four hours per week.

https://www.tellmebest.com/twitter-communists-employee-leake...
"Inferior" is your opinion. I believe Firefox to be superior.

Chrome is winning for a few reasons, least of which is that it is a good browser. I believe Chrome is winning because:

1. Chrome is advertised on the most popular website in the world for free.
2. Chrome is the bundled in both ChromeOS and Android.
3. Some of the most popular sites in the world are only built to work well in Chrome (Blink), ala YouTube, at least in the past.
4. Chrome is a performant web browser.

Chrome is an inherently political project. Google is using Chrome's market leader position to push what it wants on the Web, whether that is standards, Manifest v3, removal of third part cookies, etc. Mozilla is honest about the politicization which mainly revolves around an open Web and freedom of information. Chrome's politicization happens in the background where a normal user wouldn't see it. You seem to have fallen into this trap.
This means that you would like to see as many as possible Russian people killed.

You started the whole thing in order to plunder Russia, you are indeed monsters though you "think" you are innocent, and I hope you and above all your american lords, will get the Nurenburg tribunal you deserve for creating this war and the hatred for the Russian people to justify it.
You are misunderstanding; I want to play audio on the remote machine, not on the local machine. The remote machine is running pipewire-pulse.
> Stress is objectively bad for your health. That's a different statement from "in certain cases I need to compromise my heath for a greater good."

I never said anything about a "greater good", but I don't disagree that stress is objectively bad for your health, to some degree. but it's a tradeoff you have to make if you want to succeed. before our modern first-world society of wealth and safety, this was obvious to everyone, but it seems as though we've forgotten it. nobody is "owed" or "has a fundamental right" (or whatever) to living a stress-free life. life is a struggle, a competition, a game where there are winners and losers, and you have to do what you can to "win." this is just the immutable nature of… well, nature itself.

> If you could do creative work while not under stress that would be better.

that would be nice, but that's just not how it works for 99.99% of people!
Aside from my regular job, life modeling.

Not a huge income generator (around $19,000 total over the last 5 years), but the pose research, networking, booking sessions, actually doing the modeling, and reporting on / posting the artwork from my sessions on my social media is pretty much a "sole passion" for me.
Neat! How does this compare to Phoenix/LiveView? Is it similar in principle?
My point consistently been that protein needs are overestimated, not that there isn’t any benefit to greater protein consumption.

Will eating more protein help you build more muscle? The answer to that for the average person is almost certainly yes. Do you need to eat the “optimal” amount to build muscle? Certainly not.

Like everything else, protein consumption has to be weighed against the trade offs.
The causality could be reversed: the high quality causes faster less flakey builds. There could be a hidden variable like developers on the better repo are better developers or the better repository solves a less complex problem.

However, I do agree with you. For me it's so much more pleasant working on the faster repo and it feels like it's because of the faster build. But the above criticism again applies to my feelings.
> A lot of normal people had money on FTX.

and

> Most of the money lost was from VC's and rich people

Are not contradictory statements
Have you read Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky?

The idea of ants using a crystal for radio wave detection is in that book as well :)
The visualisation on that site is good, but it's sadly plauged with data errors. The UK data doesn't seem to correspond to any other source I can find. I think it might be delayed by 24 hours, but even that doesn't seem quite right...
“They’ve decided that picking the cotton is better than refusing to do so”.

Edit, because people share a characteristic with heavy metals: the point is that a “choice” made under economic duress is not made freely. Slavery is an extreme example used to make the point more obvious. The threat of violence used to compel people to work the fields is obviously worse than, but not necessarily qualitatively different from, the threat of abject poverty if one refuses to take low-paying insecure jobs.
lol i buy struggling broke ass literary magazines though
While true, the following context remains important: if you exclude prosumers/day traders and institutional investors (both of whom were taking advantage of FTX's stale quotes), FTX was not even a top 10 exchange in terms of user count or volume traded. That's part of why it is odd they were so highly regarded by VCs.
Who said anything different or implied they didn’t understand this?

Nobody is arguing that Stripe Tax is not a valuable product, or that the tax landscape is not extremely complicated and worth 0.5% of a transaction.

I am, explicitly, saying that your framing as taxed transactions being “a very small fraction” of US transactions seems false. You are making it sound like the Stripe Tax surcharge will generally speaking not apply to a business, and therefore shouldn’t be used when calculating the amount your company charges.

Do you have anything to back up this claim?
So, quick trick with rsync that means you don't have to copy everything and then hardlink:

--link-dest=DIR hardlink to files in DIR when unchanged

Basically, you list your previous backup dir as the link-dest directory, and if the file hasn't changed, it will be hardlinked from the previous directory into the current directory. Pretty nice for creating time-machine style backups with one command and no SSH.

Also works a treat with incremental logical backups of databases.
This characterization is false on all counts.

Neovim provided Bram competition, but he has not copied those features from Neovim.

vimscript9 doesn’t look or act like Lua (it still acts like a first-class citizen, unlike Lua) even though it is definitely improved over the previous version.

There have been terminal scripts for a while, but adding virtual terminal support was something resisted because a lot of people ran vim in a tty or with tmux. (Strictly speaking, terminal support is only something that to me makes sense for gvim and the like, otherwise you’re getting into terminal emulators all the way down. So much for the neovim philosophy of ripping unnecessary things out.)

And async was the entire reason that Neovim hard forked from Vim. Bram did not like the patches and asked for changes. The Neovim developers didn’t like the changes, so they hard forked. Bram implemented the async features / API surface that he wanted shortly thereafter.

There is a constant push from the Neovim camp that Vim is stagnant, backwards, dead, etc. None of this is true, and the messaging should absolutely stop. Frankly, I’d be happier if they rebranded from Neovim, because IMO they’re not vim and have stopped caring about compatibility with vim.
Yes, the correct response would be a behavioural adjusting of "not giving a damn" but our economic system discourages this, encouraging instead a play pretend of "unstressed" or meditate it away, aka learn to control your stress response system.

Or we could mass give out calming substances like weed or alcohol, but now we get to were we actually categorize permanent stress correctly. Its a mass applied substance problem, used to extract value from people.
> people were told that crypto was unregulated and anything could happen, people considered that a feature because $$$

Actually no, FTX promised customers that they would keep their assets 1 to 1 and not invest them in risky schemes. And then FTX did it anyway, completely contrary to the existing laws and regulations that are on the books. So even people not chasing "2000% return guaranteed" lost their stuff.
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