skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, some of my sibling commenters are out of touch.

Tens of millions of dollars funding for log analysis / picture / messaging b2b startups, selling $100/host/month is fine, using mostly off the shelf tools (every part of the stack, even the UI components, nice).

But wanting $60 for a game that you spent $60m+ and 4 years to make, is "corporate greed" and send people into passionate youtube video style opposition. Despite needing to sell over a million copies to break even in a hit-driven business (how many b2b or even b2c businesses here do that?).

I would love to see people try to work with those rough economics (and no, it's not "reduce the price by half and sell 2x as much" when you want to make something AAA with a niche (apparently 1 million is niche) audience. This is why when the price is not allowed to rise, the quality drops: it has to appeal to more people, lowest common denominator). Instead, they are making $300k a year tweaking load balancers for picture, chat, advertisement, and api connector apps, when they arent trying to automate away artists with AI, the only decently paying job artists had being in games.

It is no wonder there's so many "live service" games now. They simply see how much, how predictably, and how risk-averse they can be with the payment of people paying into SaaS-tech is and got inspired.
New grads will probably be fine, most of them. But IMO we have indeed produced too many programmers. But its the older ICs, 40+, that are going to get cast out, not the new grads. Older ones are the expensive ones with families and other inconvenient stuff employers dislike. First to go will be the ones that went full remote.

Overtime if we continue to overproduce CS grads the defacto age limit will drop lower and lower. So maybe in a decade or two there won't be many ICs over 30 (obviously some will survive).

At least that is how it seems to this unemployed near-50 programmer. My job leads started to dry up at around 41 or 42. Now its crickets. LinkedIn telling me I appeared in 2 search this week, if I get that message at all.
> And we should build for the reasonable good future, & show whats possible.

Android is 70% worldwide market share. Chrome is 80%.

What's stopping you from showing us this good future? Where are these glorious web apps?
Ask HN: Does anyone know of Humanitarian aid websites for victims
Hello, are there currently running systems that allow victims of humanitarian crises to get information, ask for help, and communicate?
For some context, I have never been in a humanitarian crisis such as the Turkey/Syria earthquakes or the Ukraine war, but I see the immense suffering and challenges these events bring.
I hypothesis that a system as described above could have a positive, possibly even massive, impact on victims of these events.
It seems so obvious that I can’t imagine they don’t exist, yet, I can’t find a system like this out there.
Thanks for your help.
My thoughts are with the victims of the aforementioned earthquakes right now.
Tell the devs (any here on this thread? Please speak!) of _iPhone_ iOS Safari (which is somehow different than iPad) to support `MediaSource` and I'll sympathize. They are often behind the curve, and with the size of market share they have, I'd at least like a timeline of when very popular features will be exposed. Until then, they're the new IE to me. It's popular because it's the default and that's it.
I‘d argue that you need to fact check every little piece of info on the internet anyway.
Time 1:54, Tower: “Southwest 708, confirm on the roll?”

They don't know if Southwest was moving?
It creates the problem of too many chefs but too few cooks. Too many people discussing how to best construct a thing vs actually constructing the thing.
that still will only be enough to hold an extended cli application
Good points and to be honest I have no idea.

Making money with dev tools is super hard from all I have experienced and seen.

The best way is probably "use locally for free to make your development easier" and then have a "use it as a team" paid tier but still pretty hard. Kind of like docker is free but hosting docker images isn't because that's what business profit from.
This isn't really a comment on this post, but have you thought about building a Jetbrain plugin version of your product?
That's a different category of big data. I worked for a big pharma and they were building their big data department with Spark and friends. I was quite surprised that their biggest dataset had something like 200 GB.

At the same time, though, there was a lot of DNA sequencing data, we were designing CRISPR probes etc. But Spark and Hadoop aren't really that helpful in this area, so the Big Data team wasn't involved in those.
It was definitely a thing, much harder to get insurance to pay for it for guys. Maybe it changed in the US, but it looks like Canada for example still discriminates based on gender: https://immunizebc.ca/hpv

In the US, years ago, it was possible to get if you were a guy between 18-25 but you really had to demand it and confirm/claim a low number of sexual partners. Not sure if that's still the case, hopefully not.
oh wow thats not a joke

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/109.0.1518.78
What I hate on the 3D Web APIs, is how out of date they happen to be.

WebGL 2.0 is locked into OpenGL ES 3.0, when they rebooted work to finally catch up with OpenGL ES 3.1 set of APIs, and already existing protoytpe from Intel[0] for compute, Google dropped their support for WebGPU because anyone that cares should migrate to WebGPU instead [1]. Two years later still no WebGPU.

So WebGL 2.0 is stuck in what we could consider iPhone 5S 3D capabilities, with no known game that is capable of matching Infinity Blade 3 [2].

In similar vein when WebGPU finally comes out this year (they were targeting 2022), we will have an API designed as MVP 1.0, with the capabilities from Metal/DirectX 12/Vulkan when they were at version 1.0 in 2015, while asking everyone to rewrite their GLSL shaders into WGSL.

No wonder that with fast Internet connections, game studios are more interested into adopting pixel streaming technologies using latest 3D APIs than investing into pure Web technologies.

Usually the community talks are all about 3D models for ecommerce shops, tile rendering for online maps and the return of Flash like tooling.

Something like Nanite or mesh shaders on WebGPU? It will never happen.

[0] - https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/2.0-compute/
[1] - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113199...
[2] - https://www.polygon.com/2013/9/10/4715534/infinity-blade-3-c...
And the first officer too. It's a team effort and safety is the responsibility of all crew members (including the flight attendants to call out something, jumpseaters and even folks dead heading).

I recall in a CRM training they asked the class what would you do if the captain wanted to take off and you thought it was unsafe. Various answers and one person said "I'd hold my feet on the brakes to prevent moving" to which the trainer said yes - that's the right answer.
Surgeons and game devs are not comparable. There's no free market in medicine in most countries as the doctors have formed their own cartel/union which decides who gets to be let in and under which conditions and without membership to that tribe you cannot practice.
Sounds eerily similar to how companies generally operate, by paying the absolute minimum to get the job they want done. Interesting how people don't seem to like when labor takes the same aproach.
Interesting in a ”the russians used a pencil” way, but the text confused me by talking about hydrogen _leaks_ being detected this way. Surely brooms can only indicate hydrogen _flames_.
A case-based instructional platform that incorporates interactive virtual patients to train healthcare practitioners how to practice evidence-based medicine.
Also: https://www.catherinechalmers.com/#/we-rule-video/

( 'repaired' link within the archive.is/maar4 snapshot )
> I feel like Brazil, being the only country in South America that speaks Portuguese, is a similar case study.

I find it hard to understand why this would isolate Brazil. Portuguese and Spanish are very similar as far languages go. I’d presume natural barriers would play a much higher role.
> Cycle to work. Cycle to work. Play with your kids. Start a hobby that doesn’t involve programming something in rust. Moving your body should not and cannot be viewed as something that happens only in a gym or in 30 minute increments.

Honestly just walking more is huge. An extra 2-3 miles a day of walking is pretty easy to work in—it takes like an hour. You can kill a podcast and get some errands done at the same time if you do it right.
A hard disk will buy us some time but

1) everybody knew how a floppy disk is made inside because you can peek inside the opening and see the disk.
I think not everyone saw a photo of an open hard disk.

2) Almost nobody born today will hold a hard disk in their hands. We'll be back to the floppy disk problem soon.

The correct solution should be an icon about the very idea of persisting data or making it safe.
> It's very likely they said some less polite words like 'WTF ARE THEY DOING' before turning on the mic and acting all professional

Reminds me of Air Canada 759[1]:

> The pilot of United Airlines 1 (UA001), the first in line for takeoff, interrupted the radio traffic at 11:56:01 p.m. and asked "Where is this guy going? He's on the taxiway."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759
That's a disappointing thread to read. "Vlad" didn't even bother looking at what NoScript actually does, and why it's better than just having a giant on/off switch for the entire page.
Interestingly enough, geographies with drier climates tend to develop languages with more consonants and more complex syllables whereas geographies with more humid climates tend to develop languages with more vowels and simpler syllables. Similar bitrate, but different coding strategies for different conditions.
Just disable Find My. You can opt out of the network. The downside is you in turn can’t benefit from it.
Relative vs absolute risk, relative risk increases sharply but colorectal cancer is (was?) not that common.
Clear Code on youtube is a great channel for beginners
Lego-Style Hemp Blocks Make Building a House Quick, Easy and Sustainable
> in which Apple reintroduces an extremely competitive Safari for Windows in order to counteract the Blink (Chrome, Edge) hegemony

And they are going to compete against Google's search, gmail, youtube (and their respective apps forcing chrome) exactly how?
> Have the courage to not take off.

So many tragedies could have been averted if people just sat the fck down.

If shit doesn't feel right, just chill until it does.
Agree with this.

The Marxist* notion that workers should get salaries commensurate to net profit of the company is weird and purely subjective.

Why should they?

There is an argument that wages should be tied to productivity, but that would lead to internal inequalities and would be very subjective as many worker outputs are hard to measure.

The current employer-employee "bargain" is for the worker to get a steady fixed income, independent of output or consistency, in exchange for the security that provides.

Self-employment is a good way to take on more risk for (potentially) higher pay.

Before anyone counters with "but what about unskilled workers who can't self-employ", I would return the question - yes, what about them?

I see no particular reason why profit of a company must be shared with its workers, most of whom did not outlay the initial capital (or subsequent funding rounds) that built the company.

*Maybe there's a better word for this or an earlier progenitor of this idea but I think this captures it well enough for this comment.
Yes true, that’s what I meant by he inspired others.. to join him to solve humanity’s problems.

At the beginning his ambitions were probably more aligned to this vision, but he probably got more jaded over the years, realised it’s effin hard and his narcissism got the better of him.

It’s a shame the way he treated the Tesla founders. Also I never saw him credit his various teams, it’s always about him.

Tesla and SpaceX are successful despite his involvement, because ppl care about creating more sustainable solutions for humanity… it’s a great mission.

/rant over ;)
Uses this apparently: https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm

"TeaVM is an ahead-of-time compiler for Java bytecode that emits JavaScript and WebAssembly that runs in a browser."
There's not necessarily a conflict in these views though - short drafts are good to ensure ventilation, but long, continuous drafts are just plainly uncomfortable.
Nah, it is rather easy. For instance how many people use vscode and how many vscodium? Why? And for that reason codium could be easily reduced to irrelevance.
There is surely lots of room for improvement [1].

[1] "Use GPT-3 incorrectly: reduce costs 40x and increase speed by 5x",
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34702349
who's handing out equity "left right and centre?" Any place that I've worked or heard of has given comparative peanuts to workers while the people at the top / founders are paid 100-1000x.
> The only way "investors" can control a publicly traded company that isn't dependent on issuing new stock is by depressing the executive comp package's value.

Or, y'know, if the Board — which is always composed of shareholders, who are, in public companies, expected to hold the stock value as their primary interest over the internal interests of the company, whether or not they're also officers of the company — operates by firing-and-replacing the CEO whenever the CEO does something the market responds sufficiently-negatively to. Or just makes it clear to the CEO that that's what will happen. (This is, in principle, where the infamous hypothetical "duty to shareholders" is supposed to come from. It's not a law; it's the market's ability to transitively fire the CEO through a share-price-incentivized Board.)
Incident: Qatar B788 at Doha on Jan 10th 2023, steep descent after takeoff
That sort of redirection will absolutely be possible, but that won't be the language-level thing my language will support.

In my language, there are packages. You might have a left-pad package, for example. (Okay, it's a bad example, but whatever.) The programmer/user gives permissions to packages at the package level, so you might give the left-pad no permissions at all except for allocating memory (for generating a formatted string), which means something else will need to do the output.

These permissions can include anything, like being able to use other packages, network access, filesystem access, etc. Static dependencies will be the first line of defense, but if something need dynamic access, say access to specific files such as `/dev/urandom` or `$HOME/.config/<program>/config.txt`, there will be a dynamic way to give permission.

This dynamic way will probably serve a lot of the use case you suggest.

This will be at the compiler IR level, by the way. The build system of dependencies might otherwise be able to get around it. But with IR, you can tell the dependency's build system to generate the LLVM-like IR for its code, and its build is done and can have no more influence.

Then without using any of the dependency's code, you can then specialize the IR while inserting permission checks.

You can even use this to generate cross-platform "binaries". The "binaries" would just be a tarball of IR. Most IR would be used for any platform, but some would be platform-specific. If you include all of the platform-specific IR with the platform-independent stuff, you can then ship that tarball to any machine, which, on trying to run it for the first time, will realize it needs to be specialized for that machine. This includes inserting permission checks based on the policy for that machine.

Yes, it will be that powerful. My main concern is that it will be too powerful and thus have bad user experience or a steep learning curve. UX matters.

I don't have it solved yet, but I'm trying.
Stephen Shore
Are you ok? Do you need someone to talk to?

You seem to have an awful lot of anger and resentment over a random person on the internet calling out that funnels make it a lot more than “just using a water bottle”.

And for your own curiosity, I used wife because he literally called her that. I know reading is hard; you’ve already shown it earlier by hyperfixating on something that wasn’t being discussed.
People aren't paid for their productivity.
Youtube has been nagging me with ads about hot single moms in my area and I never ever used Youtube or Google or any browser where I was logged in with any personal account to search for anything "spicy" that would lead them to assume I'm into something like that.

I always used a separate 'clean' browser without any accounts for those kinds of searches which I guess was probably not enough as Google simply matched my IP and figured it out. Probably should have used a VPN.
I think that this wording relies on carefully interpreting "before halting". A TM which runs forever can run more than 47 million steps, but it does not run more than 47 million steps steps before halting, since it never halts.
Many people here have worked in tech long enough to know that's how executive salaries often work in big tech companies and that the decrease in actual money flowing in isn't nearly as dramatic as "98%" sounds. I think everyone's just seen enough of these messages at this point that our standards have just been substantially lowered.

It's at least something more than we've seen from the majority of other layoffs. The severance is decent too so it's hard to deny Zoom's handled it better at least relative to how others have
Rivers burn and run backwards.
That's called Runway Status Lights, controlled by an Autonomous Runway Incursion System [1]. The busiest US airports have that, but Austin doesn't have one.[1][2]

So the tower controllers had responsibility for separation. Here are the current FAA rules on separation between departing and arriving aircraft using the same runway. See section 3-1-3 of [3].

This is the rule: "Separate an arriving aircraft from another aircraft using the same runway by ensuring that the arriving aircraft does not cross the landing threshold until one of the following conditions exists .... The other aircraft has departed and crossed the runway end or turned to avert any conflict. If you can determine distances by reference to suitable landmarks, the other aircraft needs only be airborne if the following minimum distance exists between aircraft: ...when either is a Category III aircraft- 6,000 feet."

The trouble is, the controller can apparently say "Cleared to land" when they expect that departing aircraft will be airborne and at least 6,000 feet down the runway, and thus out of the way, before the incoming aircraft crosses the landing threshold. Not when it actually is in the air and out of the conflict zone. Or at least in this case, the controller did. This is apparently called "reduced runway separation". The intent is to increase traffic capacity.

But this was in fog. Tower probably could not see the departing aircraft, and they did not apparently have a sensor system to compensate for that.

[1] https://skybrary.aero/articles/autonomous-runway-incursion-w...

[2] https://skybrary.aero/articles/runway-status-lights-rwsl

[3] https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/atc_html...
Got triggered by “bit cheaper”.

To develop windows desktop app you have to pay MS tax. To develop Apple desktop or iOS app you have to pay Apple tax. To develop Android app you pay Google tax. You could develop Linux desktop app but you are not going to make people pay for it because people will expect that it will be free - because Linux….

You make web app that runs on only free GUI standards that in reality exist and you are free and don’t have to pay anyone anything. Your business is not tied to App Store or whims of a corporation.
Mike, usually.
Hey that sounds just like my job!
I kinda doubt taco bell is the kind of Mediterranean diet those docs are thinking of.
I agree! "I meaning it sucked, but at least it was short!" (thus spoke beavis)
If somebody is skilled to write engagingly with discipline, shouldn't they have been able to create something even more beautiful if they had followed their instincts?
ahh - a visible /s would have been helpful :)
Right click on the taskbar -> Settings -> Widgets toggle to OFF
> MIT-but-not-for-Amazon.

but that the problem. There cannot be MIT-but-not-for-Amazon. MIT is a do whatever you want license.

The problem of 4 freedoms is restricted in MIT, that is why GPL exists. SSPL or this license extends that to exclude AWS.

You are right, they could just exclude AWS but you cannot build a license around specific people or names, aws could just change their name and avoid that.

If you were writing the license, how would you rewrite this offending line to exclude only AWS like businesses?

> It’s a crippling license that goes against many of the modern ideas of oss

yes. this goes against MIT because that assumes AWS or the mom and pop store can use your work without contributing back and use your open source code to build a closed source software.

the entire premise of 4 freedoms is that the freedom of seeing/editing code made by author is given to the ultimate end user. MIT goes against that so there is that.

again, how would you rewrite that line to exclude SAAS providers who just leech off of open source projects for their own gain?
Could you elaborate a bit on the qualities and approaches of the two 10x managers?
Chrome-only non-standards that even Mozilla is against.

Oh. And Web Midi? The moment Firefox implemented it they discovered its used for fingerprinting, and Chrome allows it by default: https://twitter.com/denschub/status/1582730985778556931
I guess you can on the Android ones
I think if they want to keep the form factor they need the higher performance per watt that arm cores can offer.
And your experience + what you've heard is what, data? Versus being a collection of anecdotes?
I recently visited the German Bundestag. The distinctive glass dome on top of it contains a giant ventilation shaft for the plenary room, along with heat exchangers to recover the heat. The exhibition didn't state it, but I presume the incoming air is warmed up this way.
No, Silicon Valley happened because software took off, not the other way around.
> 500k+ per head in profit

I expect Nintendo to have a different workforce composition than your typical SaaS.

They will proportionally have more artists and translators, who have less leverage/alternatives in the labor market than engineers. That would explain a lower expense line in the profit formula.

Obviously, this is not a value judgement. Diamonds cost more than water, at the margin, but that doesn't mean one is more important than the other.
>I think not everyone saw a photo of an open hard disk.

Maybe not, but it does have the word "disc" (misspelled "disk"), so I think most computer users (and I mean people who would actually use a "save to disk" button; most mobile-only users probably never do now) would make the connection.

>Almost nobody born today will hold a hard disk in their hands. We'll be back to the floppy disk problem soon.

Depends on your definition of "soon". Seems to me my solution would buy us another 20 years at least.

>The correct solution should be an icon about the very idea of persisting data or making it safe.

That's much easier said than done. If there was an easy way of depicting this with a graphic icon, I think it would have been done in the last 40+ years. This thread, and surely countless like it over the years in various places, show that no one seems to have any good ideas for a simple graphic icon to express this concept.