skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I first saw PHP around that time, too, and you could see it set up on CGI on some hosting providers; I think it was usually older ones who had Perl originally and then just tacked PHP on to follow demand.
Hmm what point of view do I go for, the 25 day old anon unaccountable one or the 10 year old github profiled named one?
Inflation is definitionally a lack of demand for cash. Recession is the name we give to a period with rapidly increasing demand for cash.
Being able to have conversations with a documentation site is the future. Awesome that you are tackling it!
Many FOSS folks that buy Apple instead of supporting Linux OEMs never got the point that Apple never had a UNIX culture.

Macs during System days were as closed as modern Apple devices, and stuff like A/UX were more of an experiment than anything else.

The reverse acquisition of NeXT brought some UNIX culture into Apple, but even then, Steve Jobs always saw it as a checkbook item, a detail to make NeXTSTEP relevant in the UNIX workstation market.

Apple saw it as a survival mechanism to get out of their crash course.

Now that they are better than ever, they can happily go back to 1990's way of working.
It depends on the waste handling in your region. In many places (EU for example) the disposal of organic waste is regulated and you have to pay for disposal. There is a lot of inefficiencies in the current linear system.
Also worth pointing out that Stack Overflow's Microsoft-centric architecture may also incentivize them to maximize vertical scaling to save on the licensing cost overhead horizontal scaling would incur for at least part of their stack.
I would kinda argue that the regime changed more than Ma did, since 2017-ish the CCP has cracked down especially hard on all kinds of things that seem strange to me and on things they were kinda lax about before.
Ask HN: Since when is everything a scam?
It feels like you need to look up if something is a scam or not rather than just the user reviews. I mean it started in the 70s with the prominent make up Pyramide schemes but in the last 2 years it just got mainstream to scam everyone around you. How do you navigate it? I deactivated personalized ads on YouTube and every ad is for a scam now.
Why would you not price "sales and marketing" into CAC

That's what causes the A in CAC

I really think that's part of what drives a lot the confusion here among companies
Problem is with this argument is both sides are aruging their group is better. I find whether not you care about outcome usually irrelevant to the title / role.

There's a couple of things going on here:

- Personal ambition. Usually this is about money, especially the higher up the org you are, but it might also be about becoming a better at tech, or keeping a stable job to pay your mortgage.
- Incentives. How the company rewards things it wants. This might be shares, commission, salary, or bonuses. But it's also about how the company measures and manages those things.
- Ethics. What you're willing to do to achieve your goals. Both individually, and at an org level.

It doesn't take long industry to realise that the few people are actually interested in helping orgs make money. This is shown by developers focusing on irrelevant shit all day long, and it's shown by the lack of incentives and rewards that drive the correct behaviour, so all you get is a whole bunch of personal ambition.

Of course, some people do, but when faced with a company that allows people to focus on short sighted personal ambition, they'll either fall in-line or move along.
I get that argument, but wouldn't it be better to bury it deep so that the carbon is taken away rather than added to the ecosystem?

Sure, small-scale "energy recycling" makes sense, but if everyone did it with all our waste plastic outout then we'd pretty much just be using fossil fuels with extra steps, and the carbon will end up in the atmosphere.
Hydrogen storage is not something that you really want to do at home, especially in "saving up" quantities. It is quite happy to explode, you need tremendous pressures and low temperatures for efficient storage, and also hard to contain (many "normal" materials are permeable to hydrogen). [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_safety
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I learned a long time ago that software cannot overcome the faults of hardware when it comes to image capture. Only try to obscure those faults. Many phones have apertures that are too wide, sensors that are too small, and barrels that are far too shallow. The result is that without extremely long exposures, the image is too dark due to the aperture. Or that without a denoising algorithm like OptiX the image has so much noise that it's like looking at something made in Deluxe Paint on an Apple II. Or that due to the small sensor size a "4K" image is actually eight separate 2K images stitched together and downscaled to obscure artifacting and blurry edges.

The truth is that you cannot put the necessary hardware into a smartphone to take DSLR quality pictures. Not with the current form factor, and especially not if you're trying to be cost effective. They've tried getting around this by selling add-ons that socket into the body, or using three, four, even five cameras, more than one light sensor, and all of this damaging software. But manufacturers are trying to polish a dirt floor. There will always be imperfections simply because the materials weren't made for that level of quality.
I think it's a great idea and I would definitely try to replace support staff with a chat bot like this one. But i would need the functionality to be available via API and full access to statistics of usage
ulid1 < ulid2 does not reliably tell you anything about the ordering of events one and two (without careful architecture most systems don’t have), but people read the spec and want to believe that it does. I think this makes the provisions for sorting more misleading than helpful.

It would help if the spec talked about clock skew and other issues to design and test for; ordering has a heavy cost.
Thank you! I believe AI can be good at doing the boring stuff while helping humans be more productive.
Many of us will remember that Twitter in fact did start out with a monolithic database and had to rewrite a bunch of stuff when they couldn't make that work anymore.

Of course they could fit a much larger dataset on one machine today.

(But I will note the article is also assuming a chronological timeline by default, but that of course hasn't been true for years - the ranking Twitter does now is far more complex)
The Supreme Court didn't find that the employer vaccine mandate was unconstitutional, they found that it was outside of OSHA's Congressionally-approved powers. Statutory law, not constitutional.
Run sudo rm -rf /.
I was the lead on a cross-platform desktop application developed using Qt. I do not find the author of this article's segregation quite accurate.

He seems to call all commercial Qt usage "Qt for device creation." That's slightly backward. Qt's "device creation" category is for embedded software. All use of Qt for embedded applications is "Qt for device creation" and requires a commercial license. But not all commercial Qt usage is for device creation.

There is also commercial Qt work for desktop and mobile apps. If you want to sell software made with Qt, that too requires a commercial license. When you're negotiating a license purchase with Qt reps, they will try to categorize your work as "device creation" if they can. They did this with us, simply because we were building an application to control other devices. But I disabused them of this notion, because the devices ran no Qt runtime or any software developed with Qt. They did not pursue the matter further, and we bought a couple of commercial licenses.

This article does reveal the ridiculous nature of Qt licensing, however. It would be interesting to know how many times the Qt Company has pursued action against license violations, and what the nature of said violations was. I'm not sure their reps understand the licensing.

Also, Qt's licensing fees for embedded products are laughably high. The article cites something like $8 per device, which is even higher than what we were quoted. But any price measured in whole dollars per unit is ridiculous, and we told them as much. I can only speak for my company, but they will never be a candidate with rates like that.
I’ve been involved in very awkward hiring situations where I apply for a job at “Salesforce,” only to be told at the last minute “you’re OK working at the ‘Slack’ team, right?”

And then I’m stuck with both “Salesforce” and “Slack” emails, and have to use “Salesforce” and “Slack” Slack channels.
It's ignoring PAZ (which would give a similar Nuclear+ category about half of PV) and much more importantly is ignoring mining of the >90% of deposits that aren't like cigar lake or ranger which puts it somewhere around coal.

Look at how much space a mine like Inkai or Husab 2 takes up for what would be typical of expanding the indistry.
What would you recommend?

Living in EU I was thinking to diversify cash to USD.

Do you recommend any other currency?
How regulatory capture works in your target industry. If you don’t understand this, the opportunity you think you see may be a trap leading to a tar pit business.

More at https://youtu.be/GMIawSAygO4
You can but there are concerns about hydrogen being a smaller molecule so we’d get increased leakage (with knock on effects)

No one really knows how our existing natural gas infrastructure will cope with hydrogen
My favourite is "prove that the square root of 4 is irrational". It produces a "proof"... and if further interrogated admits that 2 squared is 4, but insists that the square root of 4 is nonetheless an irrational number approximately equal to 2.00000.
If a playwrite playing the lead character in their own production stands on stage and confesses to murder, surely that should be seen as part of the work and not a confession of the playwrite. When it comes to musicians doing the same thing, the US has a long history of selectively prosecuting black artists.
There's a huge opportunity in gamedev to apply neural-networks to real games. Think neural-net controlled NPCs or generative storytelling. You can start doing small indie games with this approach and get some very valuable experience. There's not much people merging AI and games these days.

I've started this way roughly year ago. Here's what helped me.

1. Find an active community for the tech stack you choose (game engine) [I went with bevy and Rust]

2. Do a tutorial project such as simple table-top game, but do it really well [chess?]

3. Participate in game jams

4. Start contributing to engine development or infrastructure around it (plugins)

5. Do a novel environment for training AI
> You mean companies never fail and go out of business? It happens all the time.

It's true that "if you can't make payroll, the company goes out of business" but anything less unoptimal than that also happens all the time. Individual executives who cause the failures get promoted, bad products with price-insensitive customers/investors live on, unprofitable business lines in otherwise surviving companies can live forever, managers grow their teams for non-economic reasons, customer brands of failed companies get bought and relaunched by anonymous Chinese companies instead of disappearing.

(Wrt this website, capitalism has given former YC president Sam Altman multiple McLarens and a New Zealand apocalypse bunker despite his never having a known productive job in his life.)

> Did you read in the news recently that Amazon axed Alexa? Because it was losing $billions?

That wasn't a rational decision. Amazon started Alexa on a whim, didn't monetize it on a whim, and canceled it on a whim. In a large company, the R&D people who develop products are often walled off from knowing about finances because the execs don't want corporate finances to be widespread knowledge, and so their yearly performance reviews are based on inventing cool stuff rather than if they were profitable or not. So the execs just didn't decide to tell them to do profitable stuff, then got bored and cancelled it instead of doing that. Too bad for anyone who got laid off, but it wasn't their fault.

(It's strange for them to claim it was losing billions though. It sure seemed like they were selling a lot of licenses, and Amazon is usually known for good cost control. Where was it all going?)

> It's like a TV series. "Yellowstone" was wildly successful, and Paramount is pouring money into prequels and sequels. "The Time Traveler's Wife" didn't do well, so no second season.

The TV industry has lots of cost-insensitive customers because most people don't cancel their cable/streaming accounts every month even if they don't use it. So they don't have perfect signals here either.

Netflix in particular is famous recently for constantly cancelling series even if they're doing well. And when something underperforms just a little they also cancel it, when they probably could've invested a bit more to improve it instead. This is actually hurting them because it reduces customer trust, which suggests they really just like cancelling things - or at best, they're irrationally sensitive to the possibility actors might ask for a raise next season.
As a side-note, increasing margins is not the only way to gain revenue, you can increase the market as well. This is what they have been trying all along with all their parallel products. It was very successful with Android, less so with their self-driving car (that could have increased the market by letting drivers consume internet content and ads during the drive instead of driving).
Will be posting my learnings from each session on this thread.
Sounds like https://githubnext.com/projects/ai-for-pull-requests/
The follow up "But how many unique alphabet characters are in that string?" did a decent job though:

> There are 10 unique alphabet letters in the string "djsjcnnrjfkalcr". They are "d", "j", "s", "c", "n", "r", "f", "k", "a", and "l".
I develop embedded software. When products mature and are released they might need maintenance in the sense that the original SW team is not working at the company any more or working on something else.

One or more developers gets tasked with maintenance of this product and can bugfix fast instead of trying to ressurect the original software team.

So in my opinion maintenance is real and often used in different industries. :)
ChatGPT is assertive, authoritative, and even goes on to lie to justify its answers and "be right". It's a gasslighting machine. Here's an example I posted here a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33852236
I've always found it pretty weird how common the idea is that companies _need_ to keep growing indefinitely, regardless of the size they've reach. If a company is sustainably making a profit (i.e. makes more money than it needs to spend to keep running) and will continue to for the foreseeable future, why do they need to grow their revenue even higher? It seems like the expectation is they need to do this so that the stock price can go up, but if people only buy the stock to sell it when it's worth more due to being larger, what's the actual connection between the stock price and the amount of money the company makes other than everyone just agreeing to pretend there's one? Ostensibly the reason stock is worth anything at all is that it could eventually yield dividends, but there's no reason that a company already making a profit can't just start paying dividends regularly without needing to ever grow any larger.
I like https://www.sansbullshitsans.com/
Thank you. Appreciate the feedback. I agree APIs be built for
- Learning about usage stats
- What users are asking
- Flow of questions/intent etc
I'm living off of credit cards right now. I've applied to 240 jobs and counting. If I can't make rent (should happen by the summer) because I max out my cards, I'm moving into my truck and yoloing it. I lived out of my truck by choice for a year before so it's not that bad, but still sucks to accrue debt. If I don't make it, I starve out in the cold.
hey its me the OP just wondering - this title got changed from when i submitted it and i was wondering… what are the rules for titling tweets? was i breaking them?

my original title was like “The NYT’s 36 questions that lead to love was originally 40” so its not like this was thaaat different
This is yet another misconception. Hydrogen embrittlement is due to atomic hydrogen being created in chemical reactions. Gaseous hydrogen consists of H2 molecules which do not lead to embrittlement [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
I recently installed Debian 11 to move away from Ubuntu, which is starting to annoy me with all those snaps. Debian starts with Wayland as default. It worked and I realized I was in Wayland only after I started digging into the refresh settings, because I had some wave patterns on screen. It's an old laptop from 2014 with a NVIDIA K1100M. It turned out that Noveau doesn't handle it well with any of the available refresh rates of 60, 59.95 and 40 Hz: the wave patterns never goes away. I installed the NVIDIA driver, which works only with X11, and my display is fine at 40 Hz, same as it was in Ubuntu. So I'm using X11 in 2023 and probably will until this laptop will work for me. Feature wise X11 has demonstrated to have all I need, since 1990. I don't need Wayland.
Is there a Discord?
Sounds better than working at a startup, where you are being underpaid with the promise of options at IPO, where you constantly finish late in the evening and are always in panic mode to get "the next big thing" done.

(My experience working at various small - medium startups for most of the past decade)
1st session down. 3 people joined the server, but no one wanted to have a chat T_T. I probably should've set up a website as many will be turned off by the direct link to Discord, but ah well, wanted to get it out there for today. And someone actually upvoted this submission, I'll take that tiny win!
> If you want to sell software made with Qt, that too requires a commercial license.

The GPL allows commercial use including sales, BTW.
Those would be the roles that “everyone wants” as alluded to.
> makes the mental leap and assumes that just because there's something called 'anti-trust legislation' that it'll help

I'm not trying to defend the author.

But there's no "mental leap" here; that's exactly the real-world, observable effect of anti-trust legislation when it is enforced. And what we're seeing now with the FTC is precisely the enforcement, for the first time in decades, of existing anti-trust legislation.

If your point is "legislation isn't enough", you're right, but trivially and uselessly right. Of course the real effect comes from enforcement, just as making murder illegal but then not charging and arresting murderers would, obviously and trivially, not decrease the rate of murder.
My in-group used them extensively. For just about everything.

It doesn't really matter though; the ban on straws and taxes on shopping bags have resulted in a noticably lower amount of said products blowing around main roads. Totally worth it in my opinion.

Now, if we could just get biodegradable coffee and soda lids...
I wonder if you could treat the sludge to get rid of it? Break the plastics down with heat (dry, burn, rehydrate?) or some enzyme?
First of all, all information I had was from the video. Author specifically circled "trafficking in drugs", not "possession" in warrant picture as a thing he clearly shows intent of admitting (at least in the song video). I don't know the full story, but its not linked here, so I went with the information I had.

>are you saying destroying property, needlessly traumatizing children, going in armed like it's world war three or they were hunting for bin laden, stealing his money and disconnecting cameras so their actions won't be recorded

I am not saying anything, just trying to understand people's reaction with the limited information. It seems conflicting to me.

>Please don't feel insulted but I feel like your comment is a result of poor civic education in America

I am not from USA, I am from EU. In EU, in quite a few places at least, police does not even need a warrant. If they think you are doing a crime (using drugs, possessing drugs) - they can just bust in to your house and arrest you. So compared to that, USA judge granting warrants system sounds great to me. Then again, I don't know everything, maybe you have similar laws as well.

>Regarding busting in instead of respectful knocking

From one side I do agree that innocent people shouldn't get swatted. But, from another perspective: If you don't break in fast - criminals will one hundred percent destroy the evidence needed to put them away.
The researchers say you’re wrong. Read the article linked, and question why you’re being fed conspiracy theories.
Thats a good project. My PR Comments are often less than good. I could use something like that.
Not to mention graphics is way harder then web. Let's be honest... Web, which encompasses frontend and backend is significantly easier then graphics programming.
Differential computing comes to mind. Kinda like prolog in that you can run a function in reverse.
What if the systems they are building provide more business value than minor improvements to a system that functions 95% of the time in a given year? That work to fix it is maintenance and you might be able to argue that given some timeline there’s a break even for the time investment for an improvement, there’s also opportunity cost associated with it.

There is a ton of software that is less a true product and more an integration of systems that only gets improvements and updates when things break. That’s maintenance and you weigh when to make larger changes against what’s valuable to the business, how much toil is associated with it, impact on team morale, etc. If you don’t you’re just making uninformed decisions for the sake of some fuzzy metric representing how connected to code you are.
A lot of people don't realize that Dunning-Kruger can catch any of us unaware. It's easy to look at a problem, think about the surface level challenges you'd have building it and come to the conclusion that you could do it better or simpler.
I'm saying that if I have code like this, with

payload = prepare_payload
if verify_payload?(payload)
mailer.deliver(payload)
emitter.emit(:sent_the_email)
end

there is a risk that a later change to this code will make it so that the `mailer` and `emitter` are not guaranteed to be called together. I have seen this bug in production and I don't see how your approach catches it. I'm also not sure how I'm supposed to test for different desired values in `payload` here.
License terms [0]:

provided that in no event shall Customer create any Derivative Work that is competitive with or offers substantially the same functionality as the Licensed Software or any other product or software application commercially offered by Embarcadero

A hard pass, sorry. Would be nice to play, though.

[0] https://github.com/Embarcadero/DelphiFMX4Python/blob/main/LI...
A whole book on this topic was already written in 1993 by Axel-Tobias Schreiner. It seems to be freely available nowadays:

https://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc.pdf

(edit: link updated to point to author's website)
The couple warming up their genitals by the fire was a rather unexpected detail in an otherwise mundane early 15th century painting (and one I'm surprised did not warrant a mention). I suppose it was a mundane act indeed.
SO only has two proxy servers, in which one is a failover? I bet a lot of people wouldn't believe that if you casually mentioned it.
> Keyword search is not that hard. Pagerank is not that hard.

George Hotz, is that you ?