skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the hassle comes from picking a random computer full of parts whose OEMs explicitly and only support Windows and playing does this work with Linux wherein the answer ranges from yes, to yes with kernel version n+, yes with an out of kernel driver, yes with some manual configuration, to hell no.

If you dealt with an OEM that ships a computer with Linux they would iron out these issues for you. If you choose to be your own OEM you must do so. Most people complaining about Linux hardware support have decided that good support means working without issue on whatever they throw at it including the laptop they bought for $200 7 years ago from walmart and that any difficulty in installing or operating it is an indication that volunteers haven't donated enough infinite free labor on the off chance that someone wants to install linux on one of the 7 units of that model still in existence.

A more realistic expectation is that there are good range of products supporting Linux not that absolutely every machine be supported. Good support has been available including devices that ship with Linux installed for years.
So asssume there’s a 20 mile gap between, and the island appears 18 miles of country A’s coast, clearly it’s part of country A.

Is the new maritime border still at the 20 mile mark or is it equidistant between the new island, 11 miles off shore and 11 miles from country B.

But there great swathes of habitable land where we can’t agree globally on what country it is, so as usual it comes to down diplomacy.
Yes. Having been in this space for a bit, there are a few reasons why it hasn't worked (yet):

1. The problem of deduplicating contacts is tough (but solvable). If you don't solve it well, then the utility of personal CRM goes wayyyyy down and you're getting notifications about the same people with different email / WhatsApp / Instagram addresses and that gets annoying.

2. People haven't shown a big willingness to pay very much for this (so far), despite everyone saying they want it. So we're left with the open source solutions that don't solve the problems very well.

3. People are SUPER concerned about privacy. See a comment above about someone who wants the system to automatically scan email, etc. and extract contacts, but that it must be 100% local and privacy-centric. You can't have both of those - to intelligently extract contacts without duplicates (and figure out that @mybestie on Instagram == mybestie@gmail.com == my.c.bestie@corporate.com) you need a big database of who's who to match against.

Everything is solvable I think - we're not talking cold fusion here. But it's tougher than it might seem on the surface.
A couple of reasons that contribute to Bun's performance are:

1) using JavaScriptCore instead of V8

2) porting esbuild from Go to Zig

I have a couple of questions about (2):

1. How long did it take you to port esbuild?

2. Why did you choose to port esbuild to Zig instead of another language e.g. V?
The runway from nothing to something is about ten years on average. If you start when times are hot, you’re closer to the next reset event and more likely to experience the reset before you exit. If you start when things are dead, you have the most time to figure things out and exit when things are hopefully not dead yet.
> What Is Our Universe Expanding Into?

This seems to come from a Rust programmer.

Every C programmer knows that the universe expands into void and the size of void is machine and inplementation dependent.
And an even smaller caveat: If you use older (distro provided) Rust versions note that it may look like there is some partial implementation of allowing mixing with NoneError, etc. Ignore this. It doesn't work, and was removed in later versions.
Ok, show me a "truly open" language that feels as nice to write, is as well balanced, and is similar technically to Swift and I'll consider it. As far as I know no such thing exists.

This is why there's pressure from within the Swift community to improve cross-platform support and the number of use cases Swift is viable for rather than rallying around some other more open language, and I'd assume the same is true for the communities surrounding any corporate-founded language. People flock to these languages because they're filling needs that other languages don't.
GitOps Is a Placebo (2021)
Because styling semi-complicated PDFs with CSS is a layer of hell right above e-mails & old browsers. I say this as someone who enjoys CSS & in the .NET world has used this method over things like Crystal Reports (even before they dropped their .NET support).
Aviator (YC S21) Is hiring senior engineers interested in dev productivity
It's worth mentioning that every time I watch Joe Biden or Antony Blinken or Jake Sullivan or Nancy Pelosi or anyone from the US government hold a press conference about China, their words are deceitful and aggressive. That's not my imagination.

When the general public sees all this on television, it is extremely influential (such is the power of television media). And, of course, all of this is repeated on social media. So I don't think it's a strawman at all.
Disagree, I have a web server in Actix that I would have written in TypeScript and Node, or Python and Django, or Ruby and Rails, and the Rust version is similarly high level but far faster and more efficient. I recommend people read Zero To Rust In Production if they want to build a web API in Rust.

https://zero2prod.com
Any startup that has a business model which cannot accommodate the incumbent work culture hasn't figured out their business model, which is 100% indication that the vesting is not going to be valuable.
I really hope AMD cleans up and invests some money into their software stack. Granted it's really hard to catch up to Nvidia, but I think it's doable in ~5 years. The barrier to entry into rocm compared to cuda is pretty high, and even accounting for the fact that things got better in the last years. AMD has potent hardware for AI/ML (see instinct), they just don't have it in the consumer space. However one of the key factors of getting adoption in the consumer space is the fore-mentioned software stack, which I recall was a pain to setup. The fact that they're going FOSS for rocm shows promise in this regard.
- Pydantic: basically it might as well be part of the standard library for me
- I'm excited by polars as a potential pandas replacement
- Speaking of pandas i really like pandera and how it integrates with both pandas and pydantic
Probably not, if he's as smart as he thinks he is.

Remember when Elon told SBF to pound bricks when he wanted to invest in Twitter? I harbor no love or hate for the man, but Elon seems to know when shit stinks. A deal with crypto Twitter is a bid to push the normal users off the platform, which destroys the value of owning the platform in the first place. He'd probably make more money selling a social network for furries.
I’m getting rid of mine bc the experience of switching WiFi networks is awful. Going back to KISS Bluetooth
The advice could be for people that were laid off and face months of unemployment. Quitting your job now to start a startup might make less sense. But also, quitting your job now and getting a grant when stocks are undervalued, could be a good move too.
I'm of the opinion that the right time is always now.
However, when things are great, large wealthy companies over-hire and over-pay everyone. It sedates good employees to stay and be comfortable.

When things hit the fan, the larger and fatter a company is, the more likely they will throw the baby out with the bathwater. They go into ultra-stupid cost-cutting mode and that is a great opportunity to hire some of the best dormant employees you'll ever meet.

Since the best determinant of a company's success is the makeup of the team, I'd say when the economy is bad is the best time to start a company. You'll land some of the best talent and that'll give you the best chances of success.
Matplotlib is really killing me. I never have learned it properly and switch between methods to address the same things in Matplotlib. Every time I have to plot something I have to Google how to do it or I have a template ready already. In my opinion it’s the most annoying library I have to use.
Wikimedia Foundation spent $88M for salaries in 2021-22 as a no profit
I am being consistent. You were demanding information that you had already been given. Try putting yourself in the shoes of the person you replied to.
Computer vision helped James Cameron wade into uncharted waters
There's no way organizing a secret group to capture and eat some sacred monsters doesn't count as D&D.
> It should start to happen automatically. Apple, Google, and Microsoft have all stated the goal that they are hoping for deep inter-operation across all of a user's devices, regardless of ecosystem.

If this is the case, then maybe there will be some solution through Google Takeout. Apple and MS seem less interested in this, but if one of them can generate an export, I can see services appearing that can work with that exported data.

> you can build your own Passkeys with WebAuthn standards and roll your own recovery/backup strategy.

This....or I can stick with passwords, print them out annually and put them in my fire safe. The KISS principle works here, and I can't imagine a non-techie person who works in a socially-risky field being able to do so.

> If you are truly paranoid that your major device accounts are subject to termination without recourse (which if that happens you generally have lots of other problems and should maybe cause you to rethink your other trust relationships with such vendors and which devices you are buying)

Complaints by users who have Big 3 cloud accounts closed for unspecified "violations" are common enough to make it a concern. I take other protections against something like this, but I absolutely do consider it a risk, and would generally advise people not to keep all their digital services under one roof. If you use Gmail for email, then use Microsoft or Apple for Passkey, Bitwarden or 1Password for Password Vaults, etc., etc.
No it's not, Geforce now is rubbish and more expensive.

I tried it yesterday and it crashed within 30 seconds after multiple issues and the image quality is far worse than Stadia, it also doesn't have all the nice features Stadia has.

I was using Geforce now when it was beta, but you can tell it's just streaming a PC, where as with Stadia everything was purpose built and worked great from Chrome.

Geforce now sucks compared to Stadia.
> should automatically scan my emails, texts and chats

Great, easy to integrate one service with the APIs of a bunch of others!

> Also, want it to be 100% local and privacy first.

...but in combination? Never going to happen.

Ask yourself: who's signing up for the API keys to enable the client-side service to talk to all these services? Is it the end-user, or is it this software's developer?

If it's the software's developer, then they're effectively leaking all these API keys by embedding them into the software itself — where not just the end users, but anyone else could come along and reuse these keys for anything they like. The service providers will find this out, and block these keys. (No, you can't avoid this by proxying requests to some gateway, operated by the service-provider, that holds the API keys. Then you lose the "local/private" aspect.)

If it's each end-user, then the aggregate traffic from all the instances of this app running at once, will look exactly like a bot that's trying to evade API rate-limits using a "residential proxy cluster" like https://www.zyte.com/smart-proxy-manager/... and so the services will block these keys.

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Mind you, in theory, you could do this on the OS level, using OS accessibility APIs to effectively "read" the messages off the screen. But 1. is there any third-party ISV — who isn't a certified accessibility-software provider — who you'd trust enough to allow their software the ability to constantly "read" everything on your screen? That includes your passwords, you know! And also, 2., the messages need to be on the screen for accessibility software to read them. An accessibility-API-driven CRM can't load your chat history unless you also grant it the ability to literally take your mouse and scroll through it for you.

Or, alternately, coming at this from the perspective of the Operating System vendor themselves, you could do this "in" the OS, by forcing emails/text/chat message handling to go through system APIs that can see these as special document types, and so do things with them. IIRC there was at least one pre-iPhone mobile OS that did this (BlackBerry OS, maybe?), enabling all of these types of messaging-app traffic to be muxed together into a single first-party app that did indeed manage all conversations with your contacts in a multi-channel way.
I think its a distinction between the type of person that says "I want to build a business, I think building product X sounds like a good way to do so" and the type that thinks "I want to build product X, I think building a business sounds like a good way to do so"
Monadic do notation equivalent at that point, I suppose.
The Bytes Must Flow
You forgot the part where the record label bought the rights from the artist.
I am not sure "I was just following orders" is a great defense to keep you out of jail.
I have one of the early PhDs in neural network based machine learning - completed in 1992. My biggest problem back then was that only a few people in the entire world even know what a neural network was - so I was a little head of the curve :-) Thankfully however, I was able to get a job in a networking group at IBM Research on the basis of some distributed systems work that I had done in the process of creating my neural network training code. You have to recall how slow computers were thirty years ago so I needed a lot of them to train my networks.

Anyway, I was completely out of the machine learning field for nearly 15 years until the late 2000s when interest in the field started to pick up again. The main advice I can offer is to be flexible and bide your time.
Also can also hack up an proof of concept or MVP during that time as well, a few hours a week at a time. Even if you don't complete it, you'll have that much more progress towards it when you decide to take the plunge later.
Loneliness is a measure of self-understanding
I'm curious what do you think about this relationship between loneliness and self-understanding?
ncurses and terminfo are a nightmare, and many decades out of date and unmaintained.

When I wrote my own terminal emulator and client it was easier to just start from scratch.

Just support a reasonable subset of xterm and telnet. You don't need to delve into support libraries for physical terminals that haven't existed for decades.
The way I read it the military isn't taking that money to buy guns or tanks or whatever - it's the relatively piddly MWR (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation) groups that are profiting, and then using the profits for other MWR activities. From the article:

> A Pentagon report in the early 2000s claimed that without the slot machines, the MWR groups would not be able to afford other amenities for military members such as golf courses and family activity centers. DOD spokeswoman Cmdr. Nicole Schwegman echoed that argument, telling NPR the machines "contribute significantly to the non-appropriated fund and many other recreation and entertainment overseas programs."

The military base I've lived near had plenty of such activities - adult sports leagues, an auto skills center, bowling alley, etc. I guess it might not be as ideal as every such activity being self-sustaining in terms of costs, but it doesn't really seem like a scandal for all of the MWR income to go into a big MWR pot to be spent on various activities.
HBO's Silicon Valley was ok, but didn't go nearly far enough on the absurdity.

I promise you this is real.
No experience, but there is https://github.com/monicahq/monica
Your assumption is so short sighted that it's hard to explain how wrong you are.

Let's not think about the noble but the practical: did the man whose life was threatened continue to stay in the country and pay those workers, or did he leave or drop wages? Did people make decisions about where to work based on the idea of long-term compensation? What amount of people left an otherwise stable job to take this high-paying gig that disappeared? What is the net impact on these people _especially_ if the distortion was prolonged and did put other companies out of business?

This is not a 'compassionate' thing to do, it's short-termism that messes with other people's lives. Moreso depending on the function of how large the distortion was and the relative purchasing power of the job. An example of how this works is AWS jobs in other regions -- they pay significantly higher than base rate in many developing countries, but it is both a pedigree and leaves people in a position to get another white collar job that's fine later on. However, the same is not true for something like a gig-work cleaning agency paying 3 times market rate. I have the feeling based on the source that your experience might be closer to the former, which might leave you with a different take than what's happening here.
What I'm looking for is more like Rust Book. Concepts explained with examples of more or less real world problems. Like they are not just telling you there's this awkward thing like "interior mutability" but why you may need it.
I mean, I like scrolling through track names, albums and cover art.

I rarely walk into a records store knowing exactly what I want, and live the process of discovery.
It's not really that binary, though - job or death. There's an awful lot of space in between the two.

There's this conveyer-belt view of life: we are supposed to go directly from birth to school to job to kids to bigger job to death. Some people really do live that. Most people don't.

But we're expected to fit that mold, so anyone who's stepped off the belt will usually keep quiet about it. So it's easy to start believing that the only valid life is some linear path.

Still. Unemployment is stress and uncertainty. But bad job markets aren't forever. Good luck with finding a job, or managing to enjoy the interim.

Nyanpasu.
It may have just been his own spin on it but I used to read a lot of this world-traveller Russian blogger's low-commentary (mostly just strings of photos with short captions) posts, and was surprised at how seemingly every truly-remote, small, island "paradise" he visited came off as hellishly dull and absolutely covered in trash (every single one of them seemed to have a severe problem with trash disposal, to the point that there were small de-facto open landfills evidently around every corner and in every cranny when out in the wilder areas... which actually made a lot of sense when I started to think about it, but was just something I'd never considered before)

Dude completely broke me of my childhood desire to go to see every little middle-of-nowhere island I could find on the globe. But did make me way more interested in visiting Ethiopia, so, there's that.
These are all valid points.

Fundamentally there is a conflict between a subscription model and a one off purchase of something like a book. I’ve had a bit of a think about how this might work on my own Substack (I have an idea for a book but still a long way from being realised).

1. Make the book something that is provided alongside other content so that subscribers get more value than just the book when they subscribe. This might be additional content or discussion groups Q&A’s with the author on each chapter.

2. Make a pdf of the content of the book available to anyone who has paid more than a certain amount in subs. So if you just want the book then just subscribe for a few months and then cancel.
How I read it is, during a good economy money will be more plentiful and investors will be more willing to invest in your startup. If you know it's easy to get investor dollars and every subsequent round of funding is almost guaranteed, you have the luxury of not being immediately profitable. It's much easier to peruse a business plan where you peruse growth and larger long term profitability at the expense of short term profitability when the economy is good because you are constantly getting investor funds and it's easier to sell new investors on your idea.

In a bad economy you don't have that luxury. Not only is there not as much cash to go around, investors are pickier with the cash that they do hand out. This means you can no longer pursue a business plan that sacrifices profitability for growth, you have to prioritize making money. Assuming your business succeeds, it will then be better prepared to get investor cash when the economy improves and can theoretically weather future financial storms better.

I realize this is a very idyllic way of looking at it and there are a million other variables that come into play, but I think pg is definitely looking at it in idyllic terms in his piece.
It's the perfect example.

The banking consortium invested in Zelle to put pressure on Visa and Mastercard raising fees; but this is a perfect example of how the banks product isn' as time tested or consumer protecting as credit cards (with US financial regulation)
Besides the obvious, joining some group that interests you in your local area in order to meet new people, I'd also suggest checking out some discord channels where you can meet / chat / video chat with people. They really took off over the past couple of years, and there are quite a range to choose from.

https://disboard.org/ is a good index of them.
This combined with the only useful feature FB had for years (people's birthday).

Integrate a scraping and keyword search for public facing social media postings to alert to people in distress, perhaps. Or just a general "you should check on X" feature. Not with automated messaging, that's too much.
I didn't used to believe this but its actually true.
Monica is an excellent "Personal CRM" as people are describing. It strives to achieve exactly the goals GP describes.

Personally, I would just like to see a contacts app that doesn't suck, and actually supports having both "companies" AND "people" as contact without treating them exactly the same. If I want to call some hotel or something, why does it have to be "First name: Holiday Inn" in order to even show up correctly...
>but rather grow fast, build hype, IPO, cash out move on model

you missed the step where you completely destroy the established market, and then when you're the only game left in town, make for a more expensive and/or worse product/service than what existed before.
It sucks lol :)
I get your point but I trust 1970s tech a bit more than modern tech.
Nor in/near Norway.

Greenland is melting, which changes the earth's centre of gravity, which in turn leads the area around Greenland (all the way to Norway) to rise. Iceland, Baffin Island and some other islands near Greenland rise decisively more than the ocean, mainland Norway perhaps a bit more. This volcano near Jan Mayen might get a 10m boost over the next 200 years.
Ill admit even in the above report there is not much of a "smoking gun" but plenty of shady, unkosher behaviour that really suggests the idea that Biden was pedeling influence
That's a well trodden path in most languages. A cursory search surfaced this library that looks like it would probably do the job:

https://github.com/scriban/scriban
C# is open source
I'd rather not be too specific, but somewhere that is tropical by lat, but sub-tropical by climate. We would have very similar climates.

5 acres is a huge amount of area. Good luck! I've found a lack of resources for the issues you'll likely face around farming in tropical and sub-tropical climates. It was a big transition for me from being able to rely on long periods of intense cold to kill of most of the pests. I'm still trying to figure out big parts of how to do gardening here.