skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Gentoo and Arch user, SLOTs are really overstated as a feature; a near-identical result can be produced by using multiple package names, possibly combined with a "provides" type feature. As a concrete example, Gentoo has fuse:2 and fuse:3 whereas Arch has fuse2 and fuse3. Searching for sys-fs/fuse:* in (what used to be called) gentoo-x86 yields only lxd, so the SLOT is providing little value here.

Categories are a similar issue in Portage: emerge graphviz asks if I want dev-python/graphviz or media-gfx/graphviz, but obviously the default should be the latter. Arch instead has python-graphviz and graphviz, which is much better design. Categories fix naming collisions in exactly the wrong way: dumping it on the user and giving no sensible default.

For PostgreSQL specifically, Arch provides postgresql and postgresql-old-upgrade, so as long as you don't wait years to upgrade your PostgreSQL, you'll be fine. It's a reduction in flexibility but brings with it a significant reduction in complexity: nobody can properly maintain half a dozen Postgres versions anyways, so just keep the latest two around.
Rather than "inspiring" I think the feeling is "concerned about being hit by" in such places.
I wish youtube would have a "watch profile" feature disconnected or as a subset of the account so I can have recommended feeds based on watch history of my "watch profile" as well as a subscriptions

For example I have mutiple YT accounts, that I use for topical things, like one for Technology, one for current events / news, one for live streams, and one for political.

I would need 2 or 3 Premium subscriptions, when all I really want is to have different subscription feeds that are contextual
I made an implementation of that same articles algorithm in Python using C-extensions, and it beat the stdlib implementation across many sizes of arrays. https://github.com/juliusgeo/branchless_bisect
I owe Gentoo for making me proficient with linux and the command line, and starting my long passion for programming and building dynamic web apps. I remember compiling my custom build for days on my parent's Gateway PC with a pentium 3 and liking Gentoo because I felt like I could make it faster by picking -O3 for everything which you wouldn't get with the mainstream distro's :). I also remember just liking the color scheme and the attention to the CLI experience (funny how little things like that can matter!) I ran my first websites off that little machine. Wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today without Gentoo.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35969420.
Yeah, it probably wasn't until later when they broke up KDE into more modular packages, and that mess went away. Personally, though, although it took a long time to compile, KDE worked just fine on my machine.

OpenOffice? I think I did it a few times before switching to the binary package.

k3b was awesome - thanks for that memory!
Sure he had to settle, but the question is how much did he have to settle for ($X), and how much money did the web design company net him ($Y)? And how much more was $Y than $X?
> Ehh, some of my friends are that way too, but a lot of my work friendships have withered when there wasn't work keeping us in contact on a regular basis.

Can you really say they were your friends tho? do you think your rock climbing buddies will be your buddies after you stop?

I think going to the gym is not a social activity and I am very tired of bro's giving me "feedback" on my deadlifts.

Let's examine your I don't spend majority of hours claim, So there are 24 hours in the day, you work for 8, 2 hours for commuting, 1 hour for showering, taking a shits, getting dressed and all that, 1 hour for various chores, like buying groceries, laundry, cooking, etc, 1 hour for exercise, 7 hours for sleep. You have about 6 hours a day left for "fun". Last time I checked 6<8
Could someone argue that transferability of copyright is not constitutional because it's not explicitly authorized by constitution ? The exclusive right is explicitly given to authors and inventors, not to other people.
My bad! I was misremembering. It's .uk and .co.uk that are $4.71.
Solving Task Switching Through Documentation
I wasn't dismissing their preference.

> I have a very healthy social life outside of work but full time remote work at home feels isolating and repetitive. My mind does not like the lack of separation between home and work and I've tried every trick in the book.

If OP had said any of that, I wouldn't have responded in the way I did.
> For quite a while, Gentoo was one of the “cool” distributions.

Indeed, eating the learning curve and looking the toolchain in the eye is important.

Also important:

- not spending excessive time watching gcc output scroll by

- not falling prey to USE exuberance and having the system 'splode

Hence: Arch.
It really is a shame it didn’t appear Aperture had enough of an audience for Apple to maintain it. :( Very quality piece of software.
Google and Facebook both have an evil business model, and everyone works there is supporting their business model, working directly on ad or not, that’s why I feel pity for everyone that start with “ex-google ex-facebook etc” thinking it’s an honor badge but in reality it’s the opposite.
Connecting Block Business Units with AWS API Gateway
They do fluctuate a big. I was misremembering though. It's .uk and .co.uk that are $4.71.
Regarding property ownership, for a number of recent years it has been a challenge to find "safe" places to park money. Real estate in NYC and other prime locations is probably seen as pretty safe.

Also, if you have true "FU" money, then owning a piece of prime NYC real estate is just another mark on your bedpost, like your superyacht.
It seems too reactive to be like that. They had the ability to do what OpenAI is already did well before OpenAI had a product.
How is it a good way to compare the languages when Rust is nothing like C++?
> Blizzard actually provided significant help in creating “Make Love, Not Warcraft” which shows just what transformative reuse can look like.

Actually, it shows how copyright owners can cooperate when a third party's use comports with their interests. If, however, South Park had appropriated imagery, music, etc., from Blizzard without permission, then that may have been copyright infringement outside the realm of fair use. (Note: South Park probably still could have parodied World of Warcraft, albeit without using any of Blizzard's materials.)
I literally cannot think of anything more visually complicated than a chair in my head before the image becomes disproportionate and inconsistent. Is having a robust, precise internal visual imagination a requirement for being a good engineer? I often think about the specific mental faculties that make certain technical tasks a breeze for some and near impossible for others.
Related:

The Odd Knight of the Cinnamon Shops - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35551549 - April 2023 (2 comments)

Bruno Schulz’s Dream Worlds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20567928 - July 2019 (1 comment)
Gentoo definitely was interesting thing. One thing of note is that it spawned couple of other interesting distros too, I'm aware of Exherbo and Funtoo, the latter notable for being developed by the founder of Gentoo.
Manhattan should:

- remove 90% of street parking

- make the remaining 10% incredibly expensive and time limited to short durations which makes it so that spots are always available for someone that actually needs it for something like moving

- cut down every other road to be impassable by cars or extremely limited

- add wide, safe, protected biking/scooter lanes + bike parking in all the freed up space

- lower speed limits everywhere to cut down on noise and increase safety
Every once in a while there's a real challenge. Rental e-bikes and e-scooters currently.

The problem is that these are crippled by regulations that only apply to the new transportation modes.

In Los Angeles we put GPS speed limiters and parking enforcement on scooters while letting cars park practically anywhere. You can drive 80mph through a school zone and nobody will do anything unless a cop happens to be there when you do it.

It feels like an antitrust lawsuit waiting to happen.

https://transfersmagazine.org/2018/08/15/monopolizing-scoote...
Brother you’ve got to get off that kool-aid, this just isn’t healthy.
Make riding safe and clean too. No more junkies smoking fentanyl and stabbing people or screaming obscenities.
adding bike lanes can just take paint on largish streets. thinner roads also make people drive slower, so it's a win win
What are you doing with lines 1 and 2? Most people just `return fmt.Errorf("stuff the caller can't know: %w", err)` and call it a day. To me, this beats exceptions because a human can provide context; what iteration of the loop were we on, what specific sub-operation failed, etc.

Spending a lot of time typing in error handling code seems OK to me. You are never going to get paged when your software is working. So you'll probably spend more of your time dealing with rare error conditions. Thus, the code spends a lot of lines capturing the circumstances around the error conditions, so you can go change a line of code and redeploy instead of spending 6 months debugging.
Honestly it's the sleekest OS I've ever worked with, it has exactly what I want and nothing I don't. Sure if I forget to upgrade for a while it's a headache sometimes but I've learned such an insane amount about Linux it's a clearly winning tradeoff. That's on top of being absurdly lightweight, fast booting, and super customizable.
>Google would just rather stuff your phone to the gills with ads

I see literally more ads on my iphone than I see on my Google Pixel, and it is one of Apple's fastest growing sources of revenue.
Most people don't care all that much how much value their work adds to society. As long as it doesn't cause much harm and lets me live comfy, who cares.
That is, if they develop and produce something nearly impossible - a wearable glasses-like (in terms of size and weight) headset that can project color images non-multiplicatively overlaying the reality in user's eyes. If they had somehow figured that out (I'm no expert, but I don't think anyone did - at least I haven't heard anything) and if there's a decent SDK then 3 grands is a discount price for such a device.

But if it's yet another VR headset, it won't work. Camera passthrough is a gimmick that even with most advanced eye tracking and fanciest foveated rendering provides merely a limited approximation of AR that only leads to headaches and eye strain. Despite the article's claims such devices won't be worn all-day on a regular basis.

Apple is also all about being a closed ecosystem, and if the open VR/AR/XR community struggles with content, then Apple is not magically pulling out ton of quality apps (of any kind) out of some hat. I assume its "killer" app would be some AR assistant that would provide various additional contextual information at a literal glance. And then maybe some AR/XR game, maybe something like Ingress/Pokemon Go on steroids. But for an assistant, it has to be smart, and Siri's intelligence is a joke... so I'm skeptical it will be worth the money at launch.
They’ve been pretty darn good about keeping their other apps updated following a one-time purchase, and I’m just glad to see any new product launched with an option other than subscription pricing. Not sure what happened with Pixelmator/Pixelmator Pro, but whatever it was didn’t offend me too badly at the time.

I’ll probably pay $99 for this app in large part to reward a dev for giving users the option to pay upfront.

I don’t mind paying 3-5x the annual subscription cost to get a paid-up license, and the “pay once, pay again if you want new features released after your first year” seems pretty fair. But $50 a year, ever year, into perpetuity for, say, a weather, calendaring or Twitter app seems pretty stupid to me.
> It made me much more sedimentary

You probably mean sedentary. Sedimentary would be quite extreme. :)
When I interviewed with Boeing in 80s, it was large rooms filled with desks an no partitions with managers around the perimeter. (The company I took a job with had private offices but there was obviously a lot of variation.) Later in the 80s I had the stereotypical cubicles.
This is an example of how Google is mediocre for growing Android ecosystem
Apple's total comprehensive income was $24B in Q2. Their total assets were $332B, and total liabilities $270B. Assuming all product sales dropped to 0, they could make the best effort to liquidate assets, after which they'd only have $62B - which would last them a little over a year at $13.6B in quarterly operating expenses.

https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2023/q2/...
Why did Russia invade Ukraine? Same reason.

It has nothing to do with strategy and everything to do with ideology and projecting power.
Google Pixel has these too, but it calls them Motion Photos. They are formatted as a JPEG with an MP4 appended to it. Kind of a weird format but nice to know that you can recover the video from any motion photo with a clever dd invocation.

Here's my script for the curious:

#!/bin/bash
#extract mp4 files from Google Pixel 6 .MP.jpg files
set -e -u -o pipefail

extract () {
dd if="$1" of="$1.mp4" bs=$[$( strings -td "$1" | grep ftypisom | head -n1 | cut -d' ' -f1 ) - 4] skip=1
}

for fn in "$@"; do
extract $fn
done
Partly serious, from the perspective that the goalpost for "clearly" acknowledging AI have been raised every time the previous goalpost was achieved.
Presently, we have LLMs that converse better than most humans, but most people still say they are not artificial intelligence.

In that regard, I think it fair to say that the criteria for acknowledging AI now effectively exceeds the criteria for being a human. In situations like the Turing Test, I'd wager most humans would already comes across as inferior in conversation as compared to our best LLMs.

If the LLM is not intelligent yet it still appears more intelligent than us, then it seems mathematically that our intelligence must be zero (or less).
Do people even buy those $1000 monitor stands, like really? Or is it just a highball so Apple can get better deals negotiating enterprise-size deals with larger companies buying in bulk?
Yeah, I still have a streaming cable subscription but I pretty much only watch sports on it. If ESPN goes full streaming, that's probably where I'll end up. Between ESPN+ and AppleTV+ I'm most of the way there already.
How do you know what they’re talking about?
[said grudgingly] objectively, she still is of outsider gender
I've gone over to the darkside. I live in a suburb 20 minutes from my favorite neighborhood for entertainment, 30m from my parents, 20m from endless fields, 1 hr from the rest of my family and friends. I have a yard, access to a lake, a riding mower, and no utility lines in my backyard so I can dig and build to my heart's content.

I also have Gbps internet and a job at a startup as a principal. This literally is the best of both worlds for me. I'm not particularly wealthy and not particularly clever - I'm sure everyone is doing this and the best part is, there's _room_ out here, at least in the USA.
> What came before cars?

Horses

> What utility do cars provide?

They don't shit on the street.
You don't lose weight via exercise, you lose it via diet. Exercise is sometimes found counterproductive in empirical studies because it makes you less compliant with your diet, which is much more important.
I am not aware of one. The user base seems quite fragmented and decentralized so not sure if there is a way to gauge it.

You can probably gather some basic data from packages like popularity contest but the data is going to be quite limited.
What's BradGPT?
Apple products:

- PCs were already growing in popularity.

- Mp3 players were already growing in popularity.

- Smart phones were already growing in popularity.

- Bluetooth headphones were already growing in popularity.

- Home automation was already growing in popularity.

Apple usually takes a look at a growing trend and decides that it can provide a far better experience.

... with the exception of: Apple Watch.

- Apple Watch defined the smartwatch category. Smart watches weren't that popular before the Apple watch. But, watches and luxury watches have been fashionable for a long time.

As awesome as AR / VR headsets are, they are practically dead on arrival. This will be the most challenging product launch in Apple's history.

From a marketing perspective, an Apple Car makes more sense.
Many people under 45 don't have the same requirements for transport, though. It's easy to say you don't need a car when you're mobile and don't have to ship kids around.

We try to minimize our car usage - we have one car for our family of 6; I ride an electric scooter to work etc. Not having a car at all though would be basically impossible unless we decided to cut out the kids sport and traveling to visit family.
Yeah, but Apple is doing the exact opposite here. They introduce their headset at an exceptionally high price.
PRs are welcome! I wasn't aware that Diamond types also provided a WASM version. I've included it in the native benchmark with Loro though. You can see it here: https://www.loro.dev/docs/performance/native

> Are you intending to add JSON-style editing support to your CRDT?

Loro is another CRDT library I'm working on. It's a superset of crdt-richtext and supports JSON-style editing.

> We can't properly optimize collaborative editing systems without them!

I'm totally with it
And it is already happening. You see Apple, TSMC, and others moving rapidly to setup new manufacturing in India, Europe, North America and elsewhere.
Ads don’t matter unless they are intrusive. Most part Apple does well, but Apple News is the worst
Is it actually possible to drink just beer? Isn't it a net dehydrator? I drink a lot of beer, but always end up drinking a ton of water, certainly way more than if I hadn't had any beer. If I just drank beer I think I'd feel horrible, no?
Context… You can fit well more than 4 kick scooters in a parking space. And kick scooters don’t have internal combustion engines. And motor scooters usually have a storage bin under the seat big enough for a helmet or two, or two bags of groceries.
Sounds cool. Especially if it fits nicely in a bag and can be worn in a hotel room as 2x 4K external monitors when plugged into a Macbook Pro USB-C port. Will probably buy one.
How are you finding webgpu compared to it's other sibling APIs?

Also, have you thought of teaming up with anyone who is explicitly teaching webgpu / wgsl? Seeing someone create a rust perspective course on learning webgpu could be nice.
I feel like the custom compilation is the point
>>and it's actually impossible for them to imagine what life without a car might even look like.

I can visualize it just fine... High Density, people stacked onto of each other vertically, small dwellings where you need to shop for food every day or every few days, extreme cold or extreme heat is a problem, as is rain...

Instead i look out to my 3/4 acre homestead, lined with mature tree's and limited density... and say... yes I prefer this. I prefer going to to store every 1 or 2 weeks, I prefer not having an upstairs neighbor stomping around, I prefer not having to deal with stairs or neighbors only separated by a wall...
640KB really was enough
You buy a hammer, they make a better hammer, you still have your old hammer, and that’s a “switcharoo trick”?

Lifetime licenses always mean the thing you’re buying, not all its future updates. Affinity just did the same thing, came out with a paid 2.0. I think it should be that way, all “free {x} for life” deals end with you getting the absolute minimum that’s arguably {x}.

Besides, Pro is actually a huge remake and expansion. I’d guess only 10% of its code came from the predecessor, compared to 90% for normal big updates like Affinity 2, and 99.99% for Photoshop.
I don't think Zig is prevented by its semantics from compiling as fast as Jai or whatever.
Absolutely horrible execution. An AirBnb hostel in Davenport could get the immersiveness more right. I don't know who is advising them on these attractions, but they suck.
ZSH is basically the same thing. For all intents and purposes it is basically the same thing. The best attempt I’ve seen to truly make a better shell is Nushell.

https://www.nushell.sh/
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_aUoGH...

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/inno/stories/news/2...

**From the article:

"...the actual phrase GPT, standing for generative pre-trained transformer, is a broad term describing the AI technology. The term was first introduced in 2018 in a research paper published by OpenAI, but has since been used to describe any AI model that meet certain criteria.

This broad use could cause problems for OpenAI as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says it can refuse to trademark a term that is 'merely descriptive.'"
Hey! What's the state of audio for web?
Also, roughly two years ago when I ran Bevy on ARM hardware, I found a lot of operations were more CPU/thread bound than I had anticipated. I'm curious what work you may have done since (and have planned) to improve performance.

And lastly, thank you for your contributions, IMO Bevy has been a massive driver of visual/game efforts for Rust!
It isn’t my only source of community. I participate in my local python software group and also I help out with a research software package porting algorithms to it so I do have alternate places where I have communities.
Paint is not good enough. Bike lanes separated from the road by just paint and no significant barrier like bollards or something will not be used much because bikers won't feel safe, and cars will use it as a parking lane.
i feel like someone is getting trolled and it's probably me again
While I applaud the passion in this article the issue is so old that people just roll their eyes and move on. We the people who actually use the language just have to keep chugging.
Interestingly it was used by Campbell's (not Warhol as you said) to sell soup. It's not clear to me if they licensed it from Warhol/his estate.
I have absolutely 0 desire to live in a city though...

Too noisy, cramped, expensive, more dangerous, etc.

I want space, a yard, isolation, privacy, etc. Living more out in the countryside is much more ideal to me.
Pittsburgh is very affordable and has a high quality of life. It’s transformed a lot from steel and manufacturing to tech and engineering but is still super down to earth. It has great sports, solid arts and culture and is near a lot of beautiful outdoor activities. Over the last 2 decades a solid food scene has emerged and its always been a great place to grab a few beers. The neighborhoods are pretty and it’s possible to have a nice house with a yard walking distance from shops and restaurants.
I am not sure how to go about it, one way would be is to prompt it as MDP (seems like not fair), another way just prompt only as movies history (eg. I guess GPT will have to learn some form of MDP representation).

Most interesting aspect to me is if model can learn not make illegal moves ?
At first yes
There is that moment in video game development when the feature set is locked down and it basically turns into speed and stability optimization. Some people love it, others hate it.

I guess you would get a similar state in some embedded systems. The folks at NASA working on the Mars Rovers have a set target and are usually targeting mid 90's MIPS or PPC processor so they have to be fixated on speed and performance.
I have other senses of community but that doesn’t mean that working from home for long periods of time makes me feel that way.
For an app that they already use daily, they will use APKs if that's what it takes to continue using it.

Fortnite was excised from the Play Store a while ago; how much did that affect their existing numbers?