skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can pay you lots of money to buy it off you, and then do what they want with it. Great for you, but (potentially) bad for all the prospective users. It also might be bad for all the users who would have kept using Google either way, since less competition allows Google to make a worse product (e.g., more ads).
Finally, a post that's more than just nonsense.

Thank you very much for this link...
And to get a convenient "Wi-Fi Off" button (iOS, not Watch), you must now make a custom Shortcut on your Home Screen

Thanks, Geniuses
This rules change is aimed specifically at companies such as Paizo. Pathfinder is based on 3.5e, which was covered under the OGL, and going forward they must pay 25% of their revenue to WotC, and cannot sell any content for the system outside of printed material (no video games, etc)
Radarnow has been my go to satellite weather app for many years now. Idk if it's the best because I haven't tried the others, but I like it and found it very accurate when living in Oregon. It was neet to time projects between the rain drops, literally.
You’d need drivers too?
Delphi VCL and FMX Libraries for Python
Hey everyone, I've had an idea for a product that I think could be really helpful and I'm excited to start building it. Before I get too far into it, I wanted to get some input from the community to see if there is actually a need for this platform. I'm also curious to hear about the issues that you guys are facing and how this platform could potentially help.

So here are a few questions I have:

1. Do you feel like there is a need for this type of platform?

2. Would you be open to chatting with me (either on a call or through messaging) to discuss the issues you're facing and how this platform could potentially help?

3. What features would you like to see in this platform?
Veganuary and the vegan sausage (t)rolls: conflict and commercial engagement
I ventured into the land of game development almost exactly 10 years ago, after having spent 20+ years of my life being a "traditional" developer. I started out with Unity and stuck with it, because it lets me focus on programming (and C#, which I love). Unreal wasn't left untouched, but to me it focuses too much on style and design, which I have no feel for;

* Game development is _very_ different from "normal" programming. It's still just programming, and it's not necessarily harder, but _how_ you solve things is radically different.

* You will spend _years_ trying to get the grip on things, combined with your regular day-job to keep the grip on your non-gamedev life.

* You will never succeed, of course, but that's the same for everything. For game development it's harder to accept, because it's so easy to get up and running quickly, you are feeling like Sid Meier the first year.

Other than that, it's a lot of fun. :)

EDIT: About the "very different" part, which it seems like I portray as something negative; that's actually the most interesting part, at least for me. I learned how to appreciate composition this way, and in general learned how to approach problems in a totally different way.
We agree. I'm writing it out as an example. In real life you would put it in some kind of helper function. (Or macro.) I'm not suggesting writing it out inline on every access.
What a superb mind - and then I find out only now that he was a professor at a local university. I wish we had connected in real life.
Great lectures with great contents should be recorded once and be made digitally accessible to all

In my field (deep learning) this has been done. Though I don’t think this was a big problem. I started when there was a serious lack of good educational resources (compared to what’s available now) and yet I managed to learn everything I needed to do research.
Is hydrogen cheap to transport, cheap to store, and cheap to use though? I thought making it was only a small part of the problems with hydrogen.
Google owns the web browser your users use to access your search engine. Google owns the search engine your users use to find yours. Google owns the ad platform you use to market your search engine. Google owns a large share of the software used to run alternate web browsers. Anti-trust is what stands in the way of google: Preventing your search engine from being used with chrome. Making your website not work with chrome anymore. Delisting your websites from google search. Removing your ads. Blocking your emails.

What are you going to do other than close your business when you've been effectively blocked from the internet?
The link to https://php.energy/pricing.php does not work.
Instagram might not became that big, but it definitely was on track to become somewhat big, that's why Facebook bought it, in fear of competition.

Same, Youtube might go down, but the idea was out of the box now, someone else would do that. Technology (ContentID) was there as well. As a consumer, I don't mind if it'd be called differently done by different team. It might have been better or worse of course.
JSON Parser: read big JSON from any source in a memory-efficient way
Looks interesting, seems great for an api
After riding the subway in many major cities around the world, I'm convinced there are alien lifeforms on Earth.
Clarification of link: one solutions to unit tests is to write even more unit test, with some contract tests, etc.

Another approach is to treat integration test as a unit test.
> The better my search engine is, the more of user base I “steal”.

Very bold assumption on your part.

Google's not #1 because it's orders of magnitude better than anything else anyone could come up with. It's #1 because Chrome's #1, while #2 (Safari) and #4 (Firefox) receive millions each year to keep it as default.

Your alternative, even if objectively better (whatever that means for a search engine) will never take a significant chunk of Google's market share because you can't outpay Google to get it into people's pockets by default. That's what anti-trust is about.
Why would a VC invest in a company if it knew its main avenue of getting a return was being cut off?
holybejeebushchristopher

that's disheartening to say the least
If you can avoid ON-premise do so. Unless you have full control. I've had a few rails apps go pear shape when the customer updates their ruby version. Then fixing the app is on me.

I spent weeks building an app, and I send it out in a nice package. 18 months later I get a call telling me it stopped working. I (being honourable) looked into the issue (free of charge). When I found out they'd updated their OS and Ruby version I bowed out. There's a line between building something and maintaining it for free for ever.
The thing is that hardware scales faster than humanity. When the internet boom happened there was no choice except to scale horizontally to reach a global audience, but as this article points out that assumption might no longer hold true for many services. It might make sense to return to vertically scaled highly reliable servers to achieve software simplicity and a lower overall cost.

I’m always reminded of how stackoverflow essentially runs off a single database server. If they can do it, most web properties can do it.
When I clicked the last commit message was too good. Preserving just in case they are doing rapid releases: https://github.com/guregu/php/commit/65b1e991f473d6ac0dd9de4...
Bonfire is great, a true page turner. I read it while living in NYC (where it takes place). What a thrill! Enjoy it.
Highly recommend listening to episode 78 of the CoRecursive podcast

https://corecursive.com/eliza-with-jeff-shrager/
But will it replace search engine “frontends”? You -> ChatGPT -> Search Engine. Any examples of Chat GPT querying data live? I’m no AI expert.. but it feels like this would make a lot of sense.. it’s seems like what current voice assistants are doing right?
https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/what-is-computer-s...

> computer science [ed: in a theory dept!] is mathematics, but much of it is the mathematics that mathematicians are not interested in.

Not to multiply van Emden's examples to excess, but constructive logics (without excluded middle) are also in the category of "classy if your dept. is CS; trashy if your dept. is MA". How about Foundational Type Theories?
> But the lack on context means that those objectives are only loosely aligned with the direction of the underlying organisation as a whole

I feel like this is a failure of the organization, rather than of those managed.

I’m perfectly capable of prioritizing things correctly if given proper context, but chances are very real that I’ll still pay more attention to what is important 5 years down the line, rather than what will make manager X look good this month.
>It's often suggested that one needs to work hard to crack a hairy problem. Nonsense. You've got a subconscious system always processing some idea, integrating external unrelated stimuli while you're doing something else: what is commonly called thinking outside the box. The hairier the problem, the least effective pointed focus is to crack it. You can't think outside the box if you're putting all your effort on the box. Go do something else.

Doing both is quite possible, and helps ...

>Conscious thought and focus is but a very small part of our intelligence. Learn to delegate some tasks to your background process.

I'll just leave these here:

Tech Video: Rich Hickey: Hammock-Driven Development

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/03/tech-video-rich-hickey-h...

Lateral thinking:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking
The Last Day of Her Life
China reopens borders in final farewell to zero-Covid
We are just robots in a human simulator, reliving our creation.
With a German keyboard, which I use, Z and Y are swapped - so even more reason to use :wq
GPT3 Get answers to technical questions from your documentation site
Some Highlights
- Twig takes static documentation sites and lets users ask questions about it

- Custom/FineTuned GPT3 models are trained on your data

- Can be embedded within your app or docs site.

Seeking Feedback

- What do you think about it.

- Would you add this to your docs site or within your app when it's available

- What can I add/change to make this better.
50%+ of the US workforce are salespeople who are useless middlemen.
Don't forget Pebble.
> With Kagi you can rank and downrank domains as well as block them.

This is a killer feature and I don't understand why ddg and Google don't do it. Google doesn't even have to respect that list for ads. Just give me a way to remove all results from domain X, Y and Z. There are already extensions which do that, but I can't use them on my mobile. It would improve my Google satisfaction massively since it's normally the same blogspam that I run into.
Touching on domain knowledge, reminds me that there are different types of software applications, yet I rarely see any differentiation. There is just “software”.

Much of the audience and discussion here on HN revolves around applications in computing, the computer and data sciences, and software infrastructure. For this purpose, “external” business domain knowledge and value is of little interest?
Would you recommend chopping wood or knitting over modern meditation?
Tons of companies are hiring. Just the largest ones are using this news cycle as an excuse to trim the fat.

If you’re interested in top-10 tech companies, just know it’ll be difficult to find a job. Otherwise there are still tech companies posting high profits out there.
How was Instagram going to become profitable?

YouTube’s issue wasn’t just being sued, the storage and bandwidth costs are huge and YouTube was losing billions. Rumors are that YouTube is still not profitable.
You may be able to pickup full sized music systems with cassette recorders/players. Another option it to buy the car audio systems with cassette players from the 90s which are pretty good but won't have the recording capability
They were, but also stronger, IIRC.

I figured "giant" could be a metaphor, after all it's in a collection of traditions of pastoralists, wherein God rejects the agriculturalist's offering, who then kills his sheep herding brother.

Then the farmer builds the first city, and his descendents are the first blacksmith, the first musician, the first dancer (debateably), and the first animal farmer - who also often conflicted with semi-nomadic herders.

Great metaphor for the Iron Age equivalent of the Range Wars.
its all about knowing the appropriate place to write this stuff, if you do it in another type of thread you will be down-voted to oblivion
What is the best replacement for X forwarding in the Wayland world these days? Is there a good quality remote desktop for Linux?
Which is referenced and linked several times in the article.
Post-tax US retirement accounts (e.g., Roth-IRA/401K, etc.) are generally seen as normal investment accounts by the tax authorities in the US expat's country of residence. Therefore they offer no retirement tax benefits.
Bing is going to do the same.
The term xenophobia has been in use since the 1800s, I'm curious why you'd pick 40 years for that deadline...
I agree. I don’t use them myself. There are few-only financial advisors though, which are all I’d recommend people use.

I’m just saying financial advisors are common. Not that they should be.
I hope you are not referring to things like errno? Because it, just like a returned error, must be checked after every call that might set it, before you know if you can safely proceed with the next.

Otherwise, what happens when you keep calling functions and there already is an error present? Are all functions implemented with if(errno) return null guards at the top? That's putting a lot of trust into global state and library writers. How do you know which functions become noops and which continue working in state of error?

Additionally, that would be a debugging nightmare, because if you keep calling functions before examining the error, how do you know which call introduced the error first?
Exactly. I keep reading all this hype and folks don't realize how much compute is spent on each ChatGPT query (I'm sure it'll be optimized over time). There's no free lunch
It’s amazing how many managers want microservices and distributed even for something that’d fit on a single small instance (when done properly).
This doesn’t really address my question, or any of my other comments, and I haven’t really said anything about being rich or not — just that we should be able to make decisions as a society. That seems to disagree with you? So, uh, good luck with whatever weird tax scheme you have going on, I guess.
COVID saw some interesting procedral changes - massive industrial scale parallelism.

Multiple candidates were developed and trialled in parallel with ramping out mass production, storage and shipping.

Some of this was wasted effort, some of it was useful regardless of which candidates made the final vaccine cut.

The end result was dramatically compressed rollout times.

Right now the world has a billionare or two with negotiated contracts to deliver green (not blue) hydrogen (eg: to Germany) at a scale that significantly increases world hydrogen production within a 5-10 year time frame.

Already the industrial elements are being built for transport, end use, power collection sites, etc.

This activity makes the possibily of dropping in better methods of hydrogen spliting as they are developed feasible in a shorter time frame than otherwise thought possible.
A handful of people still have theirs.
It is still surprising - at least for me, I've been using Reddit for years but mostly niche subs, nothing popular - how such a petty power warps people's minds. I dread to think what a real power does then.
Definitely agree it uses less muscles. I was solely talking to increase one set max rep count. Neutral grips are nice.
Can’t bring in new executable code.
Guess what? The entire Wasatch Front is predominantly urban, in fact it is one of the most urban areas in the country. It is all metro area in other words, even if not part of the SLC metro area.

There are so few people in actual rural areas that if you go to a meeting where delegates are allocated by population they are few and far between. The vast majority of the population comes from four counties on the Wasatch Front - Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Weber - and the next four counties (Washington, Cache, Tooele, and Box Elder) are predominantly urban populations as well.
That's not bias it's just bad writing. You could say there is bias if it was ever explained what the controversy was but it wasn't explained in that quote. If you think that's bad, you should see some of the really terrible incoherent anti-systemd and anti-GNOME rants I've seen over the years, that are completely riddled with insults and conspiracy theories. Please do your best to not be like that kind of ranting person.
Hydrogen is a small slippery hard to contain gas molecule.

Ammonia transport and storage is far more likely.
It's worth noting Stackoverflow's production arch: https://stackexchange.com/performance
You can add hydrogen to natural gas (using existing pipelines and storage), and so slowly replace that. No changes to existing infrastructure needed up to maybe 20% I think.
How did you handle the artwork?
In my head canon, some Neanderthal managed to find acceptance in Homo sapiens societies through prodigious feats of strength or bravery. We know we interbred (although IIRC, DNA evidence suggests that mainly Neanderthal male and Homo sapiens female births were viable)

And IIRC, Neanderthal were far stronger than us.

Mind you, could be that they're where folk memory of dwarves arises, short, strong, like living underground.

Maybe elves were Homo floriensis?

I love speculating like this because it's entirely unprovable, much like evolutionary psychology.
I mean, this doesn’t have to go into cars / be distributed widely… it could just used to time-shift solar energy to night time by burning it on-site. Which means you only need to solve the storage problem.
Most people have been taught to do a Root Cause Analysis and improvement plan for everything.
Literally zero interdenominational marriages at my parents’ church have a convert, including my mom.

There’s not really a point unless you really want communion for some reason.

Also, I think it’s pretty obvious I wasn’t talking about people drug to to church by their spouse.
For my 9-year-old boy, I picked QB64 [1] and things are going very well. The experience is identical to old QBasic, but with a saner language that encourages to declare the type of variables.

At the moment we are following [2], which seems perfect for a child of that age.

[1] https://github.com/QB64Official/qb64 is the repo to follow: after the dramatic split of the dev community happened in 2022, the older one is not used anymore.

[2] https://www.qb64tutorial.com/
I believe you have conflated "proving a negative" with "evidence of absence".
Sustainable Computing Subreddit
Hello!

I apologize if this isn't permitted - feel free to remove this post.

I'd like to introduce a new subreddit I'm starting called Sustainable Computing - /r/sustainablecomputing. This is a computing-focused subreddit (does not have to relate to just PCs or laptops but computing devices in general, as well as devices controlled by a computer) and information around it's manufacture and sustainability in regards to the environment, energy usage, and various topics.

It's a relatively broad topic that I think it shares an overlap with many people's interests here on HN. I'll understand if you don't want to go to Reddit, though! In that case, just ignore this post. Sustainability and climate issues are a hot-button topic - especially going in to 2023, but I felt that more tech-focused poeple would be interested in discussing more tech-related topics surrounding this important aspect of sustainability.

/r/sustainablecomputing - if you're already on reddit - come check it out, there aren't a lot of topics posted yet, but I'm hoping more people would like to participate.

Thanks for your time.
>the other camp defines learning as some kind of infinite information compression like being able to add any two numbers no matter how large, which is something no language model will ever be able to do.

I know this isn't strictly an LLM, but can't there be an "extension" that the LLM learns a formula and how to plug values into it (it already seems pretty good at explaining code, so it can already do this) and then new: the ability to actually perform the calculation - execute the code/formula or at least "use a calculator" with the values.
In my experience (so anecdotal) there is a lot of weird reasoning going on by founders, akin to ‘I vote for low taxes and against a more socialist system while I am poor as dirt, because one day I will be rich and then I would’ve shot myself in the foot’. New founders reason it will benefit them when they are huge, while, like in the voting example, that probably will never happen.
Tell you what, go open a customer support ticket with Google for assistance with a Google Workspace account.

Now, once you have discovered that this very normal and routine process literally does not exist, you might spend a little time researching how in the world this could be the case: even if you’ve spent thousands on that Google Workspace account, your only options are A) community support forums full of unpaid users helping users (Aw, isn’t that altruistic of those kindly users?) or, B) go away and deal with your problems yourself.

Anti-competitive practices and wielding a de facto monopoly position are perhaps not the singular or direct cause of this frankly astonishing lack of respect for their users, but it is absolutely tightly correlated with such open distaste for the people purchasing and using their products.

Lastly, not for nothing, but Google’s own origin story and wildly successful history are literally the result of anti-trust actions taken against their establishment competitors in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s.
Out of curiosity, is your hammerspoon substitute fit for showing off ? I'm a tiling window manager refugee and I love hammerspoon but every time I try to dive into making something like my old xmonad setup, I run into macos-specific issues about the concept of apps and windows and workspaces and such and them not mapping to my prejudiced mental model of how things should be.
How about "learning never was more expensive, but for some this was the only way to learn"?
Evidence against ego depletion and the non-limited view on willpower
I am finding for code searching Google does well, but I use ddg for everything else.
He lost some money to the DEA (forfeiture) and some to the IRS (bad CPA)

https://thebigfootdiaries.blogspot.com/2015/02/afroman-puts-...
Your example is not analogous. It is more accurate to say you are an ice cream seller and the only ice cream seller. Their is a thriving market of sellers for donuts and you wish to sell donuts so you give away free donuts with all the ice cream you sale. Not because this is your value proposition, but because you wish to make the donut business untenable for anyone other than the largest ice cream seller.

That is antithetical to competition. There should be limits or a prohibition on subsidizing horizontal or vertical business integrations. The limits should be related to the long term consumer value proposition.
Not sure if this is project related, but I discover port (https://github.com/ptrelford/FunSharp) of Small Basic style on F# and that look awesome for displaying simple concepts. I think all programming languages can have simple setups which would be easy for kids.

I was interested enough to port from Gtk to Avalonia, since that looks much better for Windows and do not degrade anywhere on Linux/Mac OS. Also I run small experiment by try to "internationalize" that library, by porting F# to my language - Ukrainian, just to look if that would be easier to pickup. I think for early education, immidiately after Scratch expressing algorithms in native language maybe beneficia.

In case you are know Ukrainian and interested: https://github.com/kant2002/FunSharp/tree/%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB...