skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turning all your fixed-size numeric types into variable-sized numeric types introduces some really exciting performance and security issues. (At least if you consider DoS security.)

I think fixed-point math is underrated though.
> if the US can survive $31 trillion in debt

How can you be sure it can? $31T is the current value, but it has only been at this level for maybe a year, after sharp increase during COVID pandemic. It's entirely possible that this debt will bring the US down in the next couple of years - too soon to tell.
Yea, I "left" the app when they started forcing me to pay. After a year of paying for it, I just couldn't justify paying that much money just to compete, racing along the inherently flawed timed segments.

It's an amazing app, and I'd love to pay them for it, but unless they were to start releasing hardware that allowed me to see and meet up with my friends while riding, it's hard to justify hundreds of dollars just for something that my garmin or google maps/ridewithgps already does by default.
A text editor I use costs 40 (20 after the first year) per year, or $260 lifetime. That's 11 years. I'd wager that makes subscriptions a lot better looking for most users.
That ars article was published after the regulatory ball was rolling. The fact that iPads and Macbooks have already switched to USB-C is part of the mounting frustration surrounding Lightning - plus the fact that Lightning was redundant and licensed by Apple.

We need regulators to do this so Apple doesn't change their mind and make "Lightning 2". Even if Apple did have a full USB-C switch on their roadmap, every company in FAANG needs a healthy fear of regulators. Europe cracking down on the App Store and Apple's silly proprietary cables are the start of this, and a fantastic first turnout so far.
They want ROI for their recent $150M raise…
Large language models as simulated economic agents (2022) [pdf]
I briefly tried (and paid for) OkCupid. Not many matches. Initially seemed like zero. Turns out it was one--someone I could never have met in real life. Perfect fit, and we're now happily married.
Thanks to dial-up, the 90s internet also couldn't handle all the junk, spam, and tracking garbage we have online today. And video ads or autoplay? Just funny to even think about.
10 minutes in and the video is yet to explain how a large population doesn't burden the environment more than a small one. Instead, all that time was spent explaining how racist it is to worry about overpopulation.

I did not watch any further. Unless the author believes the Earth's ecosystems are doing just fine and climate change isn't a problem, then I assume he'd welcome any solution that reduced the human per-capita environmental impact by 50%, and would warn against any lifestyle change that increased it by 50%.

But we're supposed to ignore environmental impact that comes from population growth?
I really prefer to pay 1k$ to get a full time license, instead of 10$ per month.
That installs the Docker CLI which is not Docker Desktop. brew install homebrew/cask/docker is Docker Desktop.
Makes sense. Do you know if there exits a re-implementation of a ChatGPT-like stateful conversational interface on top of the GPT-3 API? A cursory search doesn't turn up anything.
For context: I am a software engineering manager.

If my employees are spending a lot of their time goofing off, that’s an indication that I’m doing a poor job keeping them motivated and is an opportunity to reevaluate what we’re doing and how.

The idea of weaponizing “time theft” as a first recourse is just sickening to me. Your employees are not slaves nor drones, they are human beings and you have an obligation to treat them as such.
As a very general high-level view: the Treasury cannot print money. This is handled by the Federal Reserve (FED)

The FED creates money by Quantitative Easing (QE). However, this money goes to bank balance sheets and is not part of the "real" economy. Here is how it works: BigBank has a balance sheet with $100B of securities (such as treasury bills, mortgages, etc). What the FED does during QE is take these securities from BigBank in exchange for cash. So, just like that BigBank has $100B in new cash that has been "created" out of thin air.

Congress can also create new money by deficit spending.

For a much better and thorough breakdown on how this all works, here is a great reference: https://www.lynalden.com/money-printing/
Nice, where do you get the data from? I'm using OpenStreetMap (OSM features annotated as 'Peak'), and check with PostGIS for peaks that are close to the GPS track.

Generating a list of all summits is a nice idea!
Does this hold true if you charge $150 for lifetime license vs $50?

I think you have a pricing problem. This is what I see for you:

Subscription Monthly = $84 / year

Subscription Annual = $50 / year

Lifetime = $50 One Time

If I see myself using this for about half a year, I'm just going to get a lifetime sub.
The weakest part about distributing these tools in Ruby for me has been rbenv wiping them away on switches. I rarely switch Ruby versions these days, but this used to be pain all of the time
Check out his latest creation, nncp, a lossless, neural network based file compression algorithm.

https://bellard.org/nncp/

And of course, he wrote it in plain ANSI C for the efficiency.
Has it suddenly become unimpressive? Things get reposted all the time in HN. It’s part of the site’s DNA.
Nope, at least here there is our own homemade version of containers. And the idea of running anything local is not really realistic anyways!
That’s sharpshooting. Congratulations!
> An entire web browser could be written from scratch independently for that kinda cash.

Only if you think you could re-implement Twitter in a weekend.
> It's the social feature.

Agreed. But this is a feature that only works on a free model. I'm not aware of any major social network makes money on 100% of its user community.
Perhaps not pathological liars, but I have come across a decent amount of people who exaggerate their skills and accomplishments extremely - I don't know if I would categorize that as lying, but they do do it a lot.

I try to stay away from them; they tend to be highly confident but highly defensive.
Modern JavaScript has fine stream abstractions in WHATWG Stream and async iterables, and Dart has the same unhandled Future issue as JS.

Dart generally has fewer, but nicer, libraries for dealing with collections of Futures, but JS has a lot of npm libraries and is somewhat catching up with additions like Promise.{any,allSettled,race} and Array.fromAsync().
Agree with the parent, it's a language worth knowing like LISP is worth knowing, but (unlike LISP) it is not a good language choice for almost all use cases in 2023 (almost all use cases are not that memory constrained any more, even embedded systems), for the same reason you shouldn't use Perl (it is very hard to read code).

I was going to say "its main disadvantage is that the only way to find out what a piece of code does is to execute it mentally" (non-declarative) but one may say that of every language to an extent. Instead I will say it feels like using a macro-assembler for a stack VM.

Clifford Stoll, author of "The Cuckoo's Egg", in which he described how he chased a hacker, allegedly used FORTH to control a radio telescope (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1416507787) back in the days (not sure, I might have got this nugget from the book).
This is being done entirely because the Republicans kind of have the house and love being obstructionist. That's the entire reason. If they also had the senate, it would be a trivially passed vote. If they held neither the house or senate, it would be a trivially passed vote.

It has nothing to do with actual concern about our debt, and is entirely about pleasing republican voters who believe that the US congress doing anything is bad, and others who just want to own the libs.

This is basically the only thing that republicans have power over right now in congress, because nobody trusts house Republicans anymore because of just how goddamned crazy some of them are, and how often they go back on their word.
I assume they’re being honest about the value of the company. They’re not “lowering” it. The company is worth whatever a potential buyer is willing to pay for it. And whatever that number is, I can’t imagine it’s meaningfully different from “$0”.

I’m talking about the brand and the technology, not the assets that need to be distributed to creditors.

The alternative here is if the lawyers found the back door, and decided to keep it secret. That’s not ethical IMO.
The, now famous, video of the guy trying to get kids to not eat chicken nuggets after showing them what they're made of and failing miserably I think means it won't be as much of a slam-dunk as you predict. Doubly when you ask them to give up milk, butter, cheese. Because were a cow I would take slaughter to milk producer every day of the week.
Quieter Dependabot
I am aware of those. I am just saying that it will slow you down or annoy you. For me, sometimes I am pretty much prototyping code just to see how something works. Once it does, I'll do it properly.

Then I have to e.g. check if all keys of an object could be undefined before i do something with them.
https://designawards.core77.com/Packaging/62804/Zume-Pizza-P...

Zume, which pivoted from kitchen robotics and IoT to pizza: https://archive.ph/TP9nb

To food packaging: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-zume-become-packaging-inn...

Zume no longer lists the Pizza Pod in their catalog: https://docsend.com/view/gxeeruv7mi3mbg4p

There are knockoffs going for $1.25/unit (uline's equivalent traditional square cardboard box is $0.78/unit, Pratt sells square cardboard boxes custom-printed for $0.84-$1.48/unit): https://www.goodstartpackaging.com/pizzaround-pizza-box-12-1...
Fair enough, I seen "money" as a store of the work effort that was done to earn it...sort of like storing energy in a battery. Yes the "energy" needs to be able to flow. And yes it is a net benefit of the community to circulate the money among itself. I didn't rule this out as in my comment I did mention buying locally.

However what you describe is largely out of my control and this is where my frustrations lie. The locally sourced money eventually finds its way heading in one direction: the portfolios of all these elites who have the capacity to shape policy and help accelerate this one way flow of capital. In my 30+ years of living I have not seen this trend reverse. Like I mentioned, any attempts to stem this flow is futile since even my outflow is reduced to 0, I lose that "energy" stored in the battery anyway in the form of inflation. I guess in a way if you think about it, a real battery cannot hold energy indefinitely (as far as I know) but still...how do I reconcile with the fact that the effort used to generate that money is either stolen by these people, either by it moving in one direction from me to them or by their monetary policy that makes it eventually worthless?
Their tech team almost exclusively came from Jane Street, wouldn’t it be OCaml?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCgYMFtxUUw

Sir, you are in violation of the ontology. Chicago pizza, while erroneously linguistically linked to the categorical foodstuff, is not, in fact, pizza.
The first comparison is checking the ID so the rightful owner has access. The second comparison (unless it's been edited since you posted your comment) is checking the username against 'sbf'.
I use an actual IBM Model M from the 90s and absolutely love the feel of the buckling springs. Modern Cherry mech switches are obviously better than membranes, but they simply can't replicate the sound and tactile "jump" that occurs when the key triggers.
I still don't know how that dude makes money. People use my software multiple times a day, so the nag is quite annoying. I need WinRar once in a few months, maybe.
Yep, as the wises usually say, compare yourself to your previous self, where you were a year ago, and where you are now.
Emscripten has been under active development since at least 2010. Here's the commit frequency history

https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/graphs/contrib...

and an article from 2012 about using it

https://www.webpronews.com/easily-port-c-to-html5javascript-...
CircleCI incident report for January 4, 2023 security incident
She doesn’t work for the fed anymore. Trumpreplaced her with Jerome Powell in 2018
What gets me about this is the math doesn't make any sense.

Docker charges $10/developer/month. Those developers are paid $150k+/yr, fully loaded to the company (insurance, taxes, accounting, etc) is probably double that, but call it $250k/yr to be nice. You take 3 developers and have them spend a quarter on replacing Docker Desktop, that's nearly $200k in developer costs spent replacing a tool that's gonna cost your 250 person company $30k/year.

Docker wants you to pay $10/mo to make your $20k/mo developer more effective, and companies in our industry would rather spend several months of developer time building an alternative that they'll have to support forever and teach every new individual coming into the company how to use.

For a group that seems to pride itself on math and logic and whatever, I don't understand what the hell we're thinking most of the time.
OpenAI opens waitlist for paid version of ChatGPT
I work at a pretty large corporation that uses docker desktop. The engineering team is in the low hundreds spread across the world. We happily pay for what we use and it's all great. We don't really use many features of docker desktop though. We have our own image space (ecr) and I don't think anyone is using or relying on extensions. I'm sure some team will eventually socialize an alternative. The reason we went through with paying for docker desktop was probably the lost time and productivity of transitioning off without due diligence dedicated on getting another option to work just as well. I don't know if our org gets customized pricing, but if it's $24/mo for us, that's maybe a 1/3 of an hour of the least expensive run rate engineer we have (worldwide, again), per month. That's maybe 5 hours of run rate time per year per engineer. I can see why our org bought in at the time and continues.

On a personal note, I was fine with the change, since it allowed personal use still with docker desktop. When Docker Desktop for Linux came out, I gave it a try on a clean server. Unfortunately, even on a fresh Ubuntu install with fresh hardware, the reliability of Docker Desktop for Ubuntu was awful, crashing every few days into a stalled state. I had to make a cron job to watch it and maintain it's uptime.
True. I'd like to see that retail practice come to autos.
Kevin O’Leary may be one…he’s been supporting SBF even through the indictment.
It's called hollowing out the middle.
we're also basing a lot off a reporter's interpretation. Inserting a value into the database by hand would probably have similar effects and still be "programming".
Fans Mourn Lisa Marie Presley, Daughter of the King, at Graceland
Drie – Vue3 and Three.js Library
Drie is a Vue 3 component library for three.js inspired by react-three-fiber and TroisJS. It is made with TypeScript and Composition API.

Drie implements components for the common three.js classes. Some additional features not directly implemented in three.js are available as well.

Notable features include:

- Auto resizing of WebGL canvas (including PerspectiveCamera aspect ratio update)

- Raycasting as mouse events

- FPS Limiter

- Simple usage of geometry utilities (see EdgesGeometry or WireframeGeometry
I submitted this since the "clean" link to ExifTool was missing. I re-discovered ExifTool while looking for an eaey way to rename DSLR photos based on EXIF metadata info via "Advanced Renamer" https://www.advancedrenamer.com/user_guide/exiftool
Also Blade Runner reference
Most likely Jake encountered real world cases that really needed to use parallel promises and used fetch() as an example that could fit in a blog.

Maybe in the real world it's file or database reads, off-thread parsing, decompression, etc...
A non-profit is largely motivated to stay alive, just like a for-profit, but mainly does it by asking for money from rich people rather than selling things.

Also, the extra accounting and regulation is intense for a small organization.

These have been getting popular recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
> we've already received the green light from the Go team for a GOOS=cosmo port.

Sweet!
I worked with a pathological liar kind of like this except after every story people told she would have to "one-up" it with a story about herself. It was not only strange to witness but very entertaining.
Noncompete Contracts Can Help Both Workers and Firms
https://archive.is/IOS5Q
https://archive.is/C8bjP
I like subscriptions just fine, for example, I’d rather pay a monthly fee for a streaming service rather than have to buy media individually.

You’ve stated nothing about why you think a subscription would be attractive to your customers, and that’s likely the reason why they aren’t interested. It might be good for you business, but what makes it good for them?

Edit: I looked up your product in your other post. I’m not sure why you are surprised that people would prefer to go with the lifetime subscription. Even at full price, would you seriously think that people wouldn’t just give Spotify $600 one time just to stream music forever from their full library??

If you’re having trouble getting people to sign up for the subscription, it’s probably because the free trial is too limited.
that's why we give him god status, so we can stop comparing :p
This is very badly predicated. Nitrazoxizine, umifenovir, ivermectin, and others are effective against broad classes of viruses. why aren't they used more? medical apathy
Much of the wealth a non-profit generates can get lost on large salaries and expense accounts. A charity might have more rules and send a stronger signal.

But having said that the creator could make tons of money and then shut it down because it is not needed. That's perfectly logical
I'll throw my hat in the "mostly just ignore it" camp. I work for a small software company and we have basic license key protection stuff, but our philosophy is "someone who is pirating the software probably isn't someone we want to bother with as a customer anyway."

Only a small percentage of people who pirate it are likely to be paying customers if they couldn't pirate it. So the real revenue loss is likely minimal. (Without know more about what the software does it's hard to make generalizations about the target market, though.) And you never know when someone who was able to use/learn the software by pirating it will be in a position to turn around and recommend to their employers or friends your product and those entities will actually buy it.

If there's a specific site or forum online where the crack is being distributed, you can always at least just send a DMCA takedown notice, but overall it's probably not worth spending much time or money worrying about it unless you have real data showing significant missed revenue opportunities (which is at most a tiny fraction of the number of people who pirate the software).

If you can update future versions of the software to not be cracked by the existing mechanism, BUT NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF CAUSING HASSLE FOR REAL CUSTOMERS WHO ARE UPGRADING, you could do that too.
> Otherwise it would imply large companies (Google-scale) experience thousands of compiler bugs per year...

This seems likely to be true, from my experience.

Fortunately, most compiler bugs I run into (mostly with gcc and llvm) are not code generation bugs (which can eat months of debugging), but just segfaults / rejecting correct code / other broken stuff.
It's not that clear cut. There is no lanuage about when a license can be revoked. That's not how the contracts of these types work. You can only argue that new people will not be able to use the old license. It's similar to the situation with an MIT license. Companies have come out and said they would take WotC over this if necessary.
This is generally very good advice. Eat well, get outside into nature, sleep well, try not to worry. Focus on what you can control not what you can't.
Ah, I was using the term "revealed preference" which has a slightly more nuanced meaning[0].

In the colloquial sense, yeah, we all have a preference for "good pizza" and "cheap pizza." But those two things are generally a tradeoff: better pizza costs more. There exists some equilibrium point in the middle where either making the pizza better + more expensive or making the pizza cheaper + worse will reduce sales (within a given population), and pizza shops will tend to coalesce around providing pizza at that equilibrium.

The position of that equilibrium point is the "revealed preference" of a population. We might say we want better pizza than is currently being provided, but when we vote with our wallets, we (collectively) tend towards pizza that costs as much as it does and is as good as it is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference
OK I actually lol’d. that was strong.
No you don't.

$1000 is more than 8 years of subscription. And that's without counting the 26.69% of inflation that the US had in the last 8 years, making it actually more than 10 years.

Not only is this a long time to keep using the same software, you also have good chances that the company has gone bankrupt by then.
This is one of the funniest ideas I've ever seen on HN. Clever.

The best part is that while it's technically illegal (you didn't pay for rights to the translations), they're never going to reveal who they are to come after you (since they don't have the rights to distribute their translation).
Yes, my wife found the emphasis on female beauty to be awkwardly written, as though by a man with no experience with women seemingly writing a fantasy to himself. It caused her to put the book down for several months because it was too grating, and the subplot itself too boring.

I found it uninteresting and a bit too astray from the bigger story, but it didn't offend me or anything. It was a little striking how much the "perfect" mate in question was objectified so relentlessly; like some sort of vessel, a means to the admirer's ends, and nothing more.
You're not going to get very far complaining about inequality and telling people to alter their behavior. Different genders have different expectations. Whether that's due to culture or biology or other factors doesn't really matter; the situation isn't going to change any time soon regardless of how dating apps work. It is what it is.

Expectations are also heavily influenced by the gender ratio in a region. If you're living somewhere like "Man Jose" then you're automatically at a disadvantage. Try somewhere else.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11231284/does-san-jose-deserve-the...

There are apps where women have to initiate contact. If you want to put in less effort then just use those.
Cuba and the geopolitics of submarine cables
WELCOME10, WELCOME20, etc also work a good amount of the time. A lot of the sign up for our mailing list and get a discount promo codes match up to WELCOME plus the percentage off.
It always acknowledged it to me. Something like:

> AI: Answer that's clearly factually wrong (e.g. a function that doesn't exist or a completely wrong numerical figure).

> Me: that's not right, the function doesn't exist (etc.)

> AI: you are right, that function doesn't exist. The answer is blah

And repeat, since if it didn't get it right first time, it seems unlikely to be able to get there at all (and you'd not know when it did unless you already know the answer).

It's very like a specific person I know in a PR-marketing type job that will just glide across a noticed outright falsehood and instantly reshape what they're saying in real time and carry on as if nothing happened, leaving you wondering if you're taking crazy pills.