skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems this is how they are generally compared by economists? Revenue vs GDP doesn't really tell a good story. Wal-mart does not wield remotely the same influence as Apple, but have like 5x their revenue.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-tech-giants-worth-compa...
Github probably has negotiated better rates. Possibly much better with Stripe than PayPal. However, I think passing on PayPal fees would be a better option, then developers could wncourage sponsors to switch over time so they get more.
I always figured that ransomware was like a vaccine, provoking an immune response, with the net result of overall stronger cyber defenses
Not that I've found, unless I use a re-shipper but I'm not familiar with that sort of setup when Europe is involved.
And given the path of technology, what's to stop one future Harvard PhD virologist from developing his own viruses in an off-grid shack in the woods?
So my last name is Key, and my initials are C D, so in the mid-late 90s any time I was prompted to enter a CD Key I would always try “yes”. It worked at least half a dozen times.
just magit and do nothing else in Emacs. That is perfectly valid...

Valid but stupid. Don't carry both an Android and an IPhone. Choose one
and get good at it.
Ask HN: Which company is most likely to challenge Nvidia's ML training market?
Aside: When's the last time you even read the the comics on a regular basis

I do. Every day.
It's actually often impossible to dumb something down without inaccuracies. I'm always drawn to the metaphor of resolution in an image. If I want to simplify an image by reducing its resolution, I'll have 4 pixels at a time that I need to decide how to represent with 1. Whatever solution I do will ultimately result in an image that is technically a less correct version that the original image.

If I start a class by saying "computer code will run line by line on your processor, one instruction set at a time" this might be a useful way to get someone familiar with writing code. If someone raises their hand and says "well don't CPUs perform optimizations to try to do branch predictions other optimizations so that it doesn't execute exactly as written, and isn't some code able to run on GPUs, and can't cosmic rays cause bit flips in memory so that your code doesn't execute exactly as written, and..." Sure, but I'm teaching you a wrong thing because it's functionally right at this resolution.
Someone who cannot google for "Magit" is not going to know wtf a "git
porcelain" is.
I once used the example key shown in a software manuals how to register section. It worked. I was rather chuffed at the time.
I'm not sure I understand your position. Do you believe there any possible opinion is legitimate, and that there is nothing that someone could believe in that should get them labeled a hater and socially ostracized? Should we feel a need to become friends with klansmen to prove that we are open minded?

And if not, then how do you draw the line? If there are people who find your own opinion abhorrent or othering or whatever and wish not to associate or discuss with you, by what authority are they wrong? Do you personally feel the need to debate every opinion you hear? How many times should you defend your own opinion before it becoming acceptable not to want to discuss it again?

And just to engage a little bit with your particular opinion, I for one am immediately suspicious of any argument that says "non-sexual non-violent behavior X is acceptable, but not around children". Of course, I am open to the idea that in principle you may have some compelling arguments that I haven't heard before. However, I don't think it's very likely, so my prior would be that you are indeed not very trans friendly. If I were trans, I would be quite inclined to avoid you because of that, and very disinclined to debate this particular point with you in any setting where a more hostile discussion might reflect poorly on me (say, in the workplace). I don't think this reasoning is overly emotional or thought-ending. It's a rational way to respond to speech that may become confrontational.
ChatGPT is not bad for music recommendations.

I find that most ChatGPT output is better when you ask for "uncommon" results, like "What are the best uncommon ska albums?"
Have used: dreamweaver, vi, nano, notepad, ++, atom and sublime.

Sublime so soo superior, it's not even fair. Haven't tried vscode but I understand it's a resource hog.
What a lot of these articles are missing is the additional building and maintenance costs.

Sure a building can be made to last a lot more than 30 years, provided you plan for it upfront with additional materials and architecture costs, and execute regular maintenance including on plumbing and potentially windows/door framing, which also have significant costs. All in all, considering Japan’s building constraints, the total budget for the house lasting 100 years will cost more than a standard house you scrap down and rebuild every 30 years.

Basically it’s the ship of Theseus’ paradigm: do you rebuilt a house piece by piece over time, or do full reboots at specific moments.

An illustration of this issue when looking at long term ownership of older houses:

https://cheaphousesjapan.com/buying-a-house-in-japan-advice/

> So why did I buy a newer house?

> I realized that an older, traditional house would be much more work and also more expensive and time consuming to maintain.
It's probably because it has something to do with Stephenson's notorious failed Kickstarter sword fighting game "Clang."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang
I think “forced out” is the appropriate wording for what would qualify as constructive dismissal in many jurisdictions.
IME a lot of French people consider themselves to be “Catholic” if they’ve been baptized, even if they’re completely atheist.
eh, wrt the point, he's not wrong about authoritarian corporations

pretty easy to look at anti-trust laws within capitalism as a solution instead of "try socialism again"
Ask me 5 years ago if I'd regularly watch someone play Doom on youtube and I would have laughed. Then I discovered Decino and their Doom deep dive and playthrough channel [1].

Similar thing, no intro or self-promotion, not even a Patron. Just someone playing Doom levels with a calm and even tone explaining things about the game I never would have guessed and it's strangely relaxing.

1. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCJ8V9aiz50m6NVn0ix5v8RQ#botto...
Edge is so irrelevant, that you have to wonder why everyone's obsessing with MS's recent moves with it.

It's <5% (and decreasing, still pretty quickly).
[elf/linux] vulkan and guidelines/build container to workaround (modules/version)&(symbol/version)s based aggressive planned obsolescence from glibc libs and the static libstdc++ (-static-libstdc++).
There's nothing Magit (or emacs) does that can't be done in vim, and vice-versa.

It's just a matter of having the will to do it and putting in the time.

I say this as a huge fan of both editors. They are both so powerful they can do just about anything.
Note the recently discovered Winchcombe meteorite had equal amounts of L- and R- amino acids, suggesting that non-biological processes produce both at the same rate, which is perhaps not what you'd expect if these cosmic ray or other physical processes were influencing L- vs R- handed molecule production/breakdown rates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680493

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq3925

It's likely life had to choose one or the other early on; imagine the mess it would be if you tried to build proteins or nucleic acids with a random assortment of left and right handed molecules, it'd be hard to get consistent structures. You'd have to have specific codons, the three-letter gene sequences that convert the 4-letter DNA code to the amino-acid code (22 for terrestrial life), for each handed version of the amino acids, so you'd need 44 different codons (out of 63 possible 3-letter combinations of ATCG) for the complete set, with no [little] overlap.

[edit: it's 64, not 63! Today's life uses 61 for amino acids and 3 are reserved as stop signals. To get the full set in Python:
set(list(itertools.permutations('AAATTTCCCGGG', 3)))
]

I'd guess the early self-replicating systems (likely something like a RNA-protein ribosome complex capabale of self-replication using abiotically produced amino and nucleic acids) were only able to consistently replicate if they only used one enantiomer consistently, and it was just a roll of the die as to which one they settled on. There might even have been mixed populations of L-handed and R-handled life at the beginning, with only one branch surviving.

Of course, that's the claim here, that of these two branches, one was more impacted by cosmic rays than the other. ???
Where it gets complicated is dealing with dog whistles. Because you’re not actually expressing an opinion that liberals disagree with. No one wants a kid who expresses some gender nonconformity to be pressured into identifying as trans or transitioning. The liberal position is and always has been such things should be made available to everyone with appropriate medical and psychiatric supervision.

But in our shirty new world online discourse the game is now to say something that is obviously true “kids shouldn’t be forced to transition” but then actually mean something else “kids shouldn’t be allowed to transition” and then introduce legislation to that effect. So if you go on the internet and say these kinds of things that no one really disagrees with like it’s a hot take then people pick up pretty fast what you mean. The people caught it the crossfire are unfortunately those folks who actually hold the literal opinion that got appropriated because bigots realized it they could use it as a whistle.
European Route Planning
A Speech I Would Like to Give Undergrads(2022)
> Tell your management that usage of v6.0 is as good as gone, and you are wasting resources in doing any work to keep support for it

How do you say this without any knowledge whatsoever about the type of app they work on, or their target audience? v6.0 alone is almost 2% of users based on that chart. In fact if you include everything before v8.1, you seem to get something like 8% of users. What if their app, say, provides the poorest people access to public transportation? Would you really just drop 8% of people on the floor in any scenario?
I bought a one time home license for like $200ish a number of years ago and it still works, and will likely work forever. I have transferred it between computers and even OSes over time. Worth it. I pay as much for JetBrains annuallt and way more for the Adobe stuff I use maybe twice a year.
My source of information is the hundreds of hours of This Week in Virology episodes I have listened to since March 2020, so with that in mind as my bias: Reputable western scientists who have worked with Wuhan virologists professionally have a lot of respect for the Chinese scientists and the Wuhan lab generally.

But the fact that many virologists have professional friends at the Wuhan lab does not rule out that the lab was being poorly managed or that an error might have been swept under the rug by the CCP.

My personal opinion synthesizing all that I have read and heard on this topic for three years is that the lab leak is plausible because China is an autocracy and does not have the rule of law. It’s in the CCP’s interests and within their capabilities to hide a lab leak quite successfully.
I don't think Twitter amplifies the Taliban or drug cartels, in many years on Twitter I've never seen a tweet by them.
Sublime performance can't be beat, but I'm seeing the end of the road for active plugin development. It's getting harder and harder to adopt new tools without farting around with configs all day.

At least, this was my experience trying to get Deno development to feel "right". It feels like vim and VSCode are the platforms that get plugin support nowadays, and the rest are a hack.
It's kind of maddening that both VSCode's remote dev extension AND Zed (which aims to be better than VSCode) AND JetBrains's remote dev AND repl.it AND <some other stuff> are all closed source.

What's the state of art open source editor/extension/protocol/whatever that enables two or more persons work on the same open files in real time? Something better than the ssh access which forces one person to work at time, then save, then the other person reloads.
I've been on Twitter for going on fifteen years and have yet to see a Taliban tweet. The advantage of having everything in one place is obvious, you can find the most obscure stuff. But by the same token, lots of bad stuff will be on there. The responsibility to choose what to look at wisely rests on the user much more than "the algorithm".

I'm sure a 200 user Mastodon instance moderated by a vigilant hall monitor will not have a problem with Taliban content, but then it won't offer any of what makes Twitter an interesting site.
There is no infinite recursion in code? All it's doing is copying the final pixels of the window from the OS and putting it into it's framebuffer. I doubt it's looping through the components/widgets/buttons/whatever of the selected program, telling it to render to the OBS framebuffer a second time.
And once you go to Yandex search page, it will spam you to death to install Yandex browser, which will automatically install Russian government CA certificates, allowing them to spy on all your web traffic!
don't the big unions have some of the same power/control issues because of capitalism? a rich CEO of a union corp on a private jet seems almost worse than a rich tech monopoly CEO?
Why did I post this random post of someone random? I found it, read it and enjoyed it. Some amazing quotes and nuggets in here, at least for me, so I am curious about the conversation that it can lead to.
> I tend to think of "Free Speech" specifically in terms of what he calls Free Speech Rights (FSR), the actual legal rights afforded by the 1st Amendment, 14th Amendment and subsequent court rulings and precedent, with what people do with it and my own opinions a separate sphere. A lot of people though are bringing in what he terms Free Speech Culture and Speech Decency as well.

This is a very American take. Which might be reasonable as in the UK and Australia for example, the government has much more control of speech. But it feels odd, like when Americans generalise very odd things about 'white' and 'black' people they when only mean Americans.

But I think even before the constitution, the moral value exists. And that's the thing people all over the world have fought for.

> Free Speech Culture and Speech Decency as well.

I don't think the ethics/values of free speech are summarised by either of these terms.

Rather I'll keep using 'free speech' to mean the moral value, and 'US constitutional law' to mean US constitutional law.
FYI, Mono was largely folded into CoreCLR a couple releases ago, and is currently used when deploying to certain targets - for example WebAssembly.

[disclosure: I work on Mono at Microsoft.]
> "Built on Electron"

No, thanks.

This one on the other hand, looks very promising

https://lapce.dev/
At the moment? Yes.

It's nowhere near as active as Twitter (or to be honest, many social media sites), but it's leagues ahead of the other Twitter alternatives online at the moment, and you often get the same people chat to you on a regular basis. It's got a community feel for sure, and my posts have done a lot better than they did on Twitter because of it.

As for the others I've tried...

Hive was promising once, but the months of non availability after the security issues came to the fore basically took a sledgehammer to whatever level of activity it had, and most people moved on. It also has an issue with self promoters basically having free reign, and said folks having no interest in actually holding a discussion. This is easy to see on the trending content pages, where about 3/4 of the posts are random folks posting selfies and advertising their Twitch streams.

Post is okay... if you're interested in political content. If you want to discuss any sort of hobby, the activity just isn't there. This was probably made worse by the ridiculous waiting list that existed for signups prior, where your average (non referred) member had to wait weeks to get an account there.

Other sites and services I've seen for this are dead as a doornail, and basically have zero people using them on a regular basis.
One of my first jobs was working for a mom-and-pop dial-up ISP. I persuaded my mom to get an account with them when I saw them in a computer magazine. I did not even have a web browser! A little after that, they hired me.

One of the things we used to do when I first started was shuck modems. We would buy the consumer models, break open the plastic cases, pull the circuit boards out, and slide them into slots of custom enclosures. Then we would hand-assemble DB-to-ethernet adapters and plug them into serial controller banks.

We bought any and all modems, but the cheap models from US Robotics and Supra were really a game changer. The only tough part was that dealing with the slight differences in command differences on the client side needed to connect to the different modem types.
This reminds me of the Tarmak transitional layouts for learning Colemak. Tarmak has four intermediary layouts between QWERTY and Colemak, each changing a few (3-4) keys at a time. Tarmak #1 gets the N and E keys in the home row, for instance.

I ended up going cold turkey Colemak, but for those who are interested in learning a new layout Tarmak seems like an interesting way to make gradual progress without totally decimating your typing speed. Plus, it leads into a well-established layout instead of resulting in a bespoke layout you have to work on yourself.
Fully agree on all points, I've never had a performance issue with Electron.

I have had Slack fill my home directory with logs once , long time ago. But that wasn't an electron problem.
Spaces are kind of a gem hidden in plain sight right now, a few months ago when the censorship dam broke it felt a lot like early 2000s internet where literally any topic could be broached. It's died down a bit since then as the pent up topics were cleared out of the collective consciousness but it's still a great place for news analysis, at least compared to anything on cable, by far.
Mono was largely folded into CoreCLR a couple releases ago and part of that infrastructure is used to support some targets like mobile and WebAssembly.

[disclosure: I work on Mono at Microsoft.]
> Just because we legally can do something doesn't mean it's good to exercise that power.

What does "good" and "bad" have to do with this? We have laws specifically so we are not at the mercy of moral judgement. We tried that already, it didn't work. If it's legal you either accept it or try change the law. Anything else is mob justice.
Distressingly normal corals infest nuclear test crater (2008)
I was just reading something on Medium about this wrt Apple
> There's no distinction between "user" and "kernel" that would mean kernel code gets scheduled more reliably than realtime userland threads.

The distinction is that the kernel submits buffers to hardware, so it can do safety-related checks synchronously. If it doesn’t get scheduled, nothing plays, and the tweeters don’t burn out.

This can be done in userspace, too. Something in the kernel (ALSA? A driver?) could call into what would be, in effect, a userspace audio codec driver. That userspace driver would do its safety checks and then send the buffer off to the codec for playback.

It’s a bit sad that x86’s abysmal context switching performance has helped nerf microkernel and userspace driver development for years. Fortunately we’re talking about ARM64 here. (On modern systems, the tens of thousands of cycles x86 spends doing nothing useful when context switching or handling interrupts don’t matter as much as they might have when CPUs we’re slower.)
It's a bad and misleading analogy, because most readers will understand it as "companies are richer than countries"--which is probably exactly the feeling that Jacobin wants to evoke. I wouldn't accept such an analogy from a right wing news source (Fox News, say), and I won't accept it from a left wing news source.

To build on your analogy, it's like saying "if you laid all the people in the world in a line it would circle the globe N times" but not mentioning the fact that you're lining them up belly to back instead of head to toe.

We should hold ourselves to a higher standard.
As near as I can tell, the guy works on emacs full-time. He's also not
particularly good or clever. With the kind of money he can get through
charity, there's no way he could hire the necessary Windows expertise.
For one thing, he'd probably need to rework Emacs itself at the w32
level.
You're lazy and you should feel bad! /s
Who is she funding?
I don't think that's why most people left Twitter. N=1, but for me it was much more the rapid decline in "default" content: when I sign in now, my DMs are filled with spammers and my recommended feed is just the owner and a bunch of reactionary stuff.
Boycotting is an exercise of free association.

Critique is an exercise of free speech.

JK Rowling is rich af.

Citation still needed.
Indeed - if only DOW had worked with the Indian government to make this happen, given that they're a multi-billion-dollar company and could have easily done so. But no, instead they just decided to crime their way to getting rid of mostly fine used shoes.
Pretty much everything you get at the hardware store is overpriced junk, including and especially wood. Try to find a different source.
Not to say that I disagree with you in principle but I'd think there is a large difference between disagreeing with someone's opinions and disagreeing with someones values.
You generally can't have a meaningful conversation in the latter case.
I'm not saying that traditional values don't affect fertility rate. My comment was responding to the claim

> It more and more seems like "traditional", conservative societies are more successful on aggregate.

Which is a much more general statement.

I see no evidence for that claim. Evidence that traditional values affect fertility rate does not provide evidence for this claim; for that you need at least some examples of traditional conservative societies outcompeting their more liberal contemporaries in some meaningful way.
Probably SiFive or someone similar. People want an open acceleration path for ML, and open ISA adoption will enable that. If not them, then it's up to AMD or Apple to displace the market, and neither of them are likely capable. Nvidia has extremely perverse incentives in the current market, and I don't think there are any easy paths to dethroning them. OpenCL and ROCm exist, but there's not much money in promoting or developing them.
"Well obviously GOTO is dangerous, but not in the hands of a Real Programmer like me!"
I have 3 problems with this article.

1. No true scotsman fallacy: The author redefines the term “meeting” to “productive meeting”. Any criticism against nonproductive meetings becomes invalid because in the article a meeting is by definition productive.

2. Straw manning: the author then deflects criticism against meetings as invalid by making it sound as if the opposing camp considers all meetings unproductive, even productive ones. This is not the opposing side’s argument. I have yet to meet a dev that considers meetings with a clear agenda and only relevant parties present unproductive.

3. The claim that meetings on their own are valuable is easily disproven, but it’s the core of the entire article. Meetings are only valuable to get something done: find the issue to solve, find a solution together, organize a common strategy to solve a problem, ask for necessary resources to solve a problem, etc. If it’s clear what to do or how then a meeting only costs time and at best provides no benefit while adding the risk that the solution is made worse by people who have no expertise but hold power.
Have a look at https://bearblog.dev