skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they're betting on anything. They know they make somethings that no one else in the world does.

Are there designer microphones like this made by other companies anywhere else in the world? No. They have no real competitors despite making technologies you can easily purchase elsewhere.
> Yoshimitsu Goto, the tech conglomerate’s chief financial officer, said on Thursday that the company would not miss opportunities to invest in new technology such as ChatGPT, but cautioned that it was not ready to accelerate its deal activity.

Apparently Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman didn't read the classic essay: "Goto considered harmful" before making massive investments in SoftBank.
in Europe, but going the other way - will switch to Android, as iOS quality is in decline. Siri is a bad joke, and iCloud ridicilously priced for what it does.
The iPhone SE is highly cost competitive with Android and has double or more support timeline, higher resale value (even for a trade in from Google store!), and better build quality and processor.
It depends on your use case. If the most important thing to you is the color of your chat bubble, sure go Apple.

My wife and I don't give two sticks about that. Most her friends use FB Messenger, mine Whatsapp or plain ol SMS.

Once that's out of the way, the 'which is better' becomes less clear. I don't like how locked down IPhones are, and feel Samsung has better cameras. What would an IPhone buy me, at that point?
men making a choice to save money and retire after a short career necessarily would create employment opportunities for women
The ability to pay younger people below the standard minimum wage goes hurt older people (well, everyone over 23c but older people are included in that set of course), because they legally can’t compete on price for those jobs.

But of course, this only hurts the older folks without a lot of financial power.
But the headline is very misleading. The article says a third of their electricity comes from wind. 1/3 is not what came to my mind when I read, "main source of electricity." And now knowing that electricity is only 18% of their total energy, that means wind isn't really doing much at all for them. So you can't actually look at this and say, "wow, the main source of electricity! Climate change is nearly conquered! We just need more a few more windmills!" Like many will think when they read this headline.
If enough people are unaware that they're telling the software to do something and are confused by its behavior, then the software needs to better indicate what it's doing and why.
Sounds reasonable, as I said, it was just speculation.
As someone who wrote a Considered Harmful essay which ended up on the front page [1], allow me to disagree.

"X Considered Harmful" lets the reader know very precisely what it is they're about to read: a warning about a particular pattern or behavior that is common but tends to backfire. This goes for all meme-ified headlines ("X I love you but you're bringing me down", "Unreasonable Effectivenes of X", etc etc)

It's important to bring nuance to a discussion rather than taking an extremist position, and I think that's the author's main gripe. But nuance also adds confusion and waters down the message. Sometimes it's better to stake a clear position at the outset, and then address the nuances.

You can't just have balance; you have to balance balance with imbalance, balancedly [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33865030

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/12/in-the-balance/
Surely your attorneys double their fee every time you do an online post?
I think Firefox's debugger is still extremely viable for web development. The Firefox Developer Edition even puts the Dev Tools nicely at hand in the toolbar and other places.

It can't help enough with Node or Hermes, but those are too tied to v8 and thus Chromium internals to start with. (Which definitely leaves some questions about the current JS monoculture.)
Yes, the C section was where I started and stopped, too.

> "Always save your files before compiling"

Okay? I guess that's a best practice?
By hunger I mean the raw chutzpah and energy to do something bold, or commit to going in a brand new direction. Not necessarily the capability to do so.

Older people typically have more money and connections. If anyone could start a company I guarantee you more young people would start companies.

And not to mention experience. You may want to start a company when you're younger, but it's harder when you don't know what you're doing.
For web apps is just Javascript. And since you are forced to use it, why not run it on the server too and use less programing languages? Not a fan, but it is what it is.
I'm 69 years old and I started coding in earnest 6 years ago. Love doing it. Last year I retired from my day job and I've been coding everyday for 6 or 7 hours on personal projects. I find my mind has become sharper and really good at problem solving. The only issue I have with coding is it's somewhat of a solitary existence. If I had taken up golf I would have buddies to play golf with. With coding I sit in front of my Mac for 6 or 7 hours, and I have no one my age to talk about coding with.
I dread an actual or “technical” default but I think a line in the sand needs to be drawn.

Government freebies and overspending caused incredible harm to the general public as it contributed to inflation over the past few years. Real incomes are painfully down and the average person is much worse off.

We’re now paying close to $1T per year in interest alone on bloated US govt debt.

Enough is enough. Government spending needs to be cut.

Edit: those who downvote, what exactly do you disagree with in the above?
I write a lot of code in the "Python would be really chugging here, though it would get the job done if you put a bit of elbow grease into it, but Go chows right through this no problem with no special effort" space. I'm not generally in the "keeping 100 servers 90% occupied space" but it wouldn't take much more in percentage terms for me to fall off of Python. Python's slowness is definitely real, as well as its general difficulty in keeping multiple CPUs going. (Python has a lot of solutions to this problem precisely because none of them are really all that good, compared to language that is 1. compiled and 2. has a solid threading story. It wouldn't have many solutions if one of them was an actual solution to the problem.)

It isn't just Python. I'm getting moved more into a PHP area right now, and there's a system in there that I need to analyze to see whether its performance problems are architectural, or if it's just not a task PHP should be doing and Go(/Rust/C#/Java/... Go is just the one of that set most in my and my team's toolbelt) would actually perform just fine. I don't know which it is yet, but based on what I know at the moment, both are plausible.

And I'm not a "hater". I just have a clear view of the tradeoffs involved. There are many tasks for which Python is more power than one knows what to do with. Computers have gotten pretty fast.
US cities were based around cars in 1990. But today, the thinnest state (Colorado) is heavier on average than the fattest state in 1990 (Mississippi, also today's national leader)

Walking is obviously better than not walking, but something other than cars is to blame for the ballooning of the American public. 75% of America is either overweight or obese right now. That alone puts you at risk for about a million health issues and diseases.
They're betting on people who love jawdropping gorgeous pieces of technology and have lots of money to spend on art
I've noticed something similar lately as well.

Could be the influence of excessive corporativism as the article suggests, where every second we don't spend creating the proverbial 'value for the shareholders' we have no reason to exist. Slowly it leaks into private life until one cannot relax anymore and can only do productive things constantly or feel guilty about it. Or maybe it's about desperately trying to become that better more capable person we once foolishly promised ourselves we'll be, while we visibly age and wonder which day will be our last wondering "is this really all there is to life?".

Either one I guess.
MySQL for the quick and dirty and Postgres for anything else
I'm with you. I do not want my code transpiled. I wrote vanilla JS and use Typescript only as annotations (https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/jsdoc-supported...)
It's not that there's nothing quality in Canada.

Everything is just cheaper in the USA

Canadians have much lower purchasing power than Americans. We earn less than Americans for the same work, we earn CAD which makes it even lower, and on average everything costs more here too. It is shocking to me how cheap things like gas and groceries are in the USA, even after factoring exchange rate.

Nevermind how expensive technology is here.
With every mRNA vaccination, the risk of getting (at least) COVID19 rises more.

Just look into the studies of 22 and 23.
Leetcode Optimization and Go
I more or less agree; "Considered Harmful" has a bit of an authoritative tone, and I feel like it should be reserved after long studies and whatnot.

I think if the essay were "Why I don't like <x> in language <y>", that would be a much more honest title.
I'm still searching for a solution to organise the hundreds (thousands?) of anti-static component bags I have from the likes of LCSC, Mouser, etc.

It's so difficult to find something that is the right size and shape to hold them upright, allowing organising, sifting through them to find the one I need, etc. The repackaging shown here is nice, but I don't want them ultimately stuffed into a drawer, nor can I see myself going to the effort - especially the part where I'd need to enter them all into a database.
Any messaging protocol that puts the mobile telecoms as the operator and man-in-the-middle, like RCS, is a terrible idea. It would be like putting Comcast in charge of the Internet. I can think of few companies I trust less with critical app infrastructure.
does it also illustrate that, outside of america, there are huge numbers of people in poverty?
I'd never buy an iPhone because of Apple's practices, but it does make sense. Spending $500 on a phone that gets updates for five years is almost impossible to do in many Android ecosystems. Samsung has been getting a lot better the past two years, but even two or three years ago you had to buy Apple if you wanted an update guarantee of more than "two major upgrades, eventually, and security updates, sometimes". If you care about security updates, you would've had to buy a new phone right in the middle of the support period of iPhones that will soon be abandoned.

On the other hand, almost nobody I know outside the tech sphere gives a crap about security updates. OnePlus is a very popular brand with an atrocious update policy, but it delivers much better value than something like an iPhone. Xiaomi is also getting very competitive in this market, often ignoring or rescinding their software update promises but handing you an excellent phone for super cheap. The cheaper iPhone models also offer this, but often with weirdly outdated designs and comparatively inferior screens.
How does this compare with dm-flakey [0] ?

[0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/device-ma...
Apple offers full photo encryption as if this year, whereas Google can - and will - give your local gestapo your photo roll, mysteriously delete your account for taking pictures of your kids, and do god knows what with them for data mining.
You should make this into a blog post, this is a very good explanation, thank you.
https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI

... provides a nice interface to both.
If Postgres was that much better than MySQL then you would expect to see exact reasons on why to pick it. Every comment so far has not listed any reason.
>If I were a defendant on trial for running a DDoS service, I would ask my lawyer to subpoena Slack for those messages. Now that they've bragged about their parallel construction, it seems fair game to open up their Slack channel to discovery, just to make sure that the FBI really is following the "usual legal process."

Gatrel got their Slack messages.
Yes, if it gets cheaper people will migrate to electricity and then wind will not be able to be the "main" source of electricity anymore. They'll have to burn more coal or gas. Yay?
We know it will be more intelligent than us. As we get more intelligent we care more about these things (biodiversity, etc). Why wouldn’t AI?
It's like a thief steals all of the money from your bank account, he gets arrested, you file a claim to get your money back from his accounts, but before you can the IRS swoops in to claim all of the money because the thief didn't claim your stolen money when he filed his income taxes. I understand that all of the FTX depositors (technically "creditors") should have read the fine print, but that's what this feels like at least.
it's not a mic. the included mic is a subpar convenience function "in a pinch" not the primary purpose. it's $3000 for mic+recorder.
If a private company wastes too much, it eventually goes out of business.

If a government entity wastes too much money, their budget is increased for the next fiscal year. There is no feedback loop to govern the waste.
I know everyone's going to complain about the price (which is ridiculous), but I think Teenage Engineering is the last company around that has that sleek Apple aesthetic and extremely premium feel. I get giddy every time I see them on the HN front page.

They've been around for a while, so I assume there's a decent professional audiophile community that is supporting them. I hope they continue doing well!
Further, the problem with this example is it relies on a comparison against public data.

Most of these AI start failing pretty hard when you ask it to do the same task on something completely novel to it (like a company document). Sometimes they'll get it right. Other times, they'll spit out gibberish that's clearly some generic answer.
The difference is not significant enough to matter for most projects, esp just starting out. Hence, I mostly choose Postgres, since I don't like Oracle as a company very much.
www.isgithubonfire.com
Look, I'm not claiming this is useful
I'm not questioning whether it would be useful, just whether it's actually something that token masking in training is going to work to make the model learn this.
I wonder how much this entire setup costs is it like $20,000?
Technical person here, don’t want any of that, just what it to work so I can focus on actual technical problems.
By choosing SQLite.

No server process and a single file per DB which I can put wherever I like.
Collision insurance and liability insurance are different. Collision insurance covers your car if you're in a moving accident, while liability insurance covers other people's property. Comprehensive covers your car if you're in a non-moving accident. In the US, I'm not aware of any states that require collision or comprehensive, though nearly all require liability. Lenders tend to require both collision and comprehensive though.
Par for the course for Teenage Engineering.
For anything involving location, choose Postgres because PostGIS is just so good.
I was about to say the same thing.

Multiprocessing on Python works great and isn’t even very hard if you use say async_apply with a Pool.

Comparing single-threaded Python with multiprocesssing in Language X is unfair if not disingenuous.
RP3 seems to be the new standard. It replecates the movement of a boat better.
Previously -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35599118

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585
I doubt this is actually him but that would be funny
I like to think we ride the same mental wave at times
> Besides his claim, what basis do you have for describing this as a “fact”?

None other than the same info is repeated by a third party as another commenter noted: https://www.thefire.org/news/professor-suspended-reasons-unk...

Your other points may be valid, I was just speculating. There may be additional protections here other than the handbook since he seems to have tenure, which brings additional special protections (obligatory "I'm not a lawyer")
I actually do prefer 3.5-turbo over 4 for many tasks.
I might be a bit too young, having mostly worked with Java-and-higher languages...what is a good usecase for goto? Most of the languages I use don't even have an equivalent syntax.
Why is mysql better for quick and dirty? I feel like pg extensions offer a lot more "dirtiness" running inside pg than mysql has.
Incredible I think I missed that part. Afaik the only other drug shown to regenerate synapse in animals was a Bisphosphonates (Zoledronate acid).

There's further questions on the models. Using Guinea pigs and mice yeild different outcomes. There's also questions on whether adult mice are better suited for hearing research.
The range of climates that heat pumps work in has expanded a lot in recent years. Some modern heat pumps work efficiently down to -20C or lower.
I was surprised to read your comment, despite ostensibly being familiar with wgpu. But sure enough (from the homepage):

> wgpu is a safe and portable graphics library for Rust based on the WebGPU API. It is suitable for general purpose graphics and compute on the GPU.

> Applications using wgpu run natively on Vulkan, Metal, DirectX 11/12, and OpenGL ES; and browsers via WebAssembly on WebGPU and WebGL2.
Well, they've at least ramped up their game, blocking the whole domestic Internet this time.
I'd be surprised if there was anywhere in the UK where modern low-temperature heat pumps regularly don't work.
"break" and "continue" are both effectively a "goto", and they're pretty commonly used.
Honest Q, Is that true? I mean, A) that since this study in 2015 or so, there’s been no decline in the prevalence of peanut allergies in the relevant populations? B) people are in fact submitting their children to disciplined exposure in a significant (enough) quantity?
Is there really a browser on Android that has better addon support than Safari on iOS?

On iOS content blocking can be done on a very low level by ad blockers posing as local on-device vpns. This doesn’t require root and is super easy to set up. (e.g. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForiOS)
Exactly, the reason "active shooter" situations frighten ordinary folks is because they're the rare type of shooting that can victimize you even if you're law-abiding and don't live in a very high crime area.
Ok, here's one: When you give MySQL invalid data, its standard behavior is to just silently store garbage in your database in many cases where PostgreSQL would've told you that your data is invalid.

MySQL's handling of unicode has also been terrible historically, with way too many foot guns, but I don't know if that may be better with recent versions.

People aren't providing strong reasons because the question wasn't "what are some objective reasons for picking one over another", but "how do you pick between them". People are simply answering the question OP asked, and a lot of people's process is simply to pick PostgreSQL.
This was an article about the app [0].

"Man Creates Messaging App FBI Can't Crack and Anyone Can Download, Stopped at Airport Days Later"

I would just use SimpleX tbh [1]

[0]https://www.westernjournal.com/man-creates-messaging-app-fbi...

[1] https://simplex.chat
I would also love to see something like that. It would be a fun premise for a blog, kind of like Uses This [0] but for workbenches

https://usesthis.com/
Choose whichever one you/your team is more familiar with. Both are battle-tested and proven and will likely scale to whatever needs you have.
Love the idea, the name, and the app logo. I tried it with a CNN article and found that the output was a bit too summarized. It would be nice if users could specify if they want no summarization (just desensationalize) or if they want summarization included (and possibly to what degree).
> I know Claude got a version bump, GPT3.5/4 accessible via API seem the same.

GPT3.5 just got an update a few days ago that resulted in a pretty good improvement on its creativity. I saved some sample outputs from the previous March model, and for the same prompt the difference is quite dramatic. Prose is much less formulaic overall.
Pressing a switch that transfers the whole screen into an eink like display would be a feat.

What I want from a monitor is to detach it from the base and use it as a wireless display in the bed for example. Or maybe bring the 32 inch into the toilet or into the bathtub. That would help me a lot with my back pain.
Ditto the Python section. Very weak sauce.

Also, the idea that language-specific best practices are more important than language-agnostic ones is bonkers.
Maybe useful for mouth gadgets like this thing

https://www.augmental.tech/
You can't rest your legs on an entertainment
Buy last years model second hand for half the price. Keep it for 3 years. Sell it for a reasonably high value since it’s still getting updates and repeat. I have done this twice now.
Yep. Too many people think their age and experience gives them an excuse to be rude.

You can be "correct" but still a jerk. If the people who you're rude to can influence decisions, they won't go well for you.
What I don't understand is: aren't zfs snapshots writable, like in btrfs?

If I wanted to rollback the live filesystem into a previous snapshot, why couldn't I just start writing into the snapshot instead? (Or create another snapshot that is a clone of the old one, and write into it)
I firmly believe Rust is the future.
For a typical db.t3.xlarge instance, you're talking about 29c/hour vs 27.2c per hour. That's $157.68 as the total difference for one year's runtime, when the whole instance cost for postgres would be $2540.4 for the year, or about 6%. The larger the machine, the closer to parity. Given the absolutely small difference, I hope this isn't the dividing line in any commercial project.
Related:

"Reverse engineering Dell iDRAC to get rid of GPU throttling":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35890554

https://github.com/l4rz/reverse-engineering-dell-idrac-to-ge...
For the sake of learning? Sure.

For work? Learn Python and/or Javascript instead.
Very low end Android devices have issues, and the midrange need to be replaced significantly more which more than offsets the price difference.

Basically, a device that’s got a 30% price premium for equal hardware, but lasts 50% longer saves me money.

PS: I would suggest a battery replacement at year 3 or 4, that dramatically reduces the issues with older phones and can push you well past that 50% mark.
Or course it can very soon, since those were also written by humans. Like AlphaZero vs Rybka
No. This is easily the weakest part of Smalltalk IDEs. And with Morphic-based ones, you can't even fix it with a tiling window manager or something, since it's just one window for the rest of the OS. There's no way of organizing the windows in groups, no automatic placement, no virtual desktops. The best you can do is simply get into a habit of culling unnecessary windows. It's emotionally hard to close windows you spent 10 minutes searching in for the code you might (or might not) need in the future, so I made a simple sidebar[1] that I use to bookmark useful stuff. With it, I can close windows with impunity.

[1] https://klibert.pl/statics/smalltalk/sidebar.png
Very, very few, I would wager.
> in an attempt to induce and instigate users to make their members of Congress vote against the bill

I believe they used the word "coerce". As in, the judge thinks that talking to the people who are supposed to represent us and demanding that they actually represent us is coercion. Apparently we're supposed to just leave them alone in their affairs to run the country however they want instead of however we want.

Also discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35895005