skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Gentoo for many years, initially for the performance gains (they were very real in 2003/2004), later for the long-term stability and maintainability.

I later switched to Ubuntu, because it was what "everyone" used, and it's easier to use the popular thing. The idea of a Major Upgrade every couple of years still scares me (and it still isn't flawless).

These days I might switch back, given that Ubuntu is slowly sliding into becoming adware.
In the past (decades ago), before the EU capped processing fees, I had pretty good success just asking for a discount when paying cash, even in supermarkets.

And yes, "it can only become cheaper" has a much lower cognitive load than US style payments where the advertised price is just a lower bound.
The article quotes Sartre: "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies". Slavoj Žižek's point is better however: even if all the things anti-Semites say are true (Jews control the banks, the movies, whatever), the anti-Semitic fixation is still pathological: they need this fixation in order to assert their own identity [1].

[1] Žižek repeats this point across interviews, as he often does, most recently, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrkVoPljJiM
Yes. I just don’t trust Google to not add some ads even for Premium users at some point.
> but the timing for an individual single-threaded computation hasn't really improved in the last 15 years

The clock speeds haven't really gone up anymore, but computations still got considerably faster. From an i7 2700k (2011) to an i7 13700k single core benchmark scores went up 131%

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-2700K-vs...
what's the rationale for that? why would that benefit users when selecting which OSS to adopt?
> General purpose CPUs can only get so good

People claimed this - “single core is over” - years ago when Intel was stuck doing Skylake refreshes and AMD’s Ryzen only matched the older Haswell CPUs.
What's the difference between alpha/beta/gamma and which is of concern?
Breath of the Wild's "Creating a Champion" [0] is hands-down the best artbook I have.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Breath_of...
[edit] Edit, for clarity: You can't use it as a debit transaction. You can plug it into credit card systems, where it's run as a credit card transaction and interchange fees apply.

That's not actually true. Card-not-present debit is a separate transaction category than card-not-present credit. Durbin requires that debit routing be available for all debit transactions, not just PIN debit. Further, as of October 2022 the Fed amended the Regulation II rule to extend Durbin debit least-cost routing to card-not-present transactions. [2]

[1] https://www.cardrates.com/advice/atm-card-vs-debit-card-vs-c...

[2] https://cmspi.com/nam/en/resources/content/card-not-present-...
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Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs
20% of workers are now paying the 40% Income Tax Rate (with around 10% Employee National Insurance tax on top of that).

It's not atypical if it's a fifth of workers.
When you go shopping bulky items you are even encouraged not to take public transportation. It makes it impractical for every one, the buyer and people they are sharing public transportation with. Using a car (or having things delivered to you when it applies) is much more practical, but most people don't go shopping or travel with luggage every day.

> The one instance where public transport works well is when you want to travel 5-10 blocks, there's a lot of traffic, and you are carrying nothing, and there just so happens to be a subway going the right way.

This really depends on each region/city. Cities like Paris or Munich have a very dense network of public transportation - Even getting from point A in city center to point B in a 30km away suburb can be easier using public transportation.
What year is this, there are no collisions in full duplex ethernet with switches, which is the overwhelming majority of cases
> I would blame that motif mostly on the nature of episodic storytelling - books, comics, radio plays, television,etc, than something fundamental about American culture

I'd argue that American culture (and culture worldwide) is actually for almost a hundred years mostly formed by movies and movie tropes.

> These heroes are all part of their specific communities.

None of those heroes are a part of those communities you mention. Only their public personas are. Then they disguise and become those heroes.

That concept of staying at the end of the movie would in this regard translate to a hero unveiling his identity and still be the hero. Never happens.

Also OP is specifically writing about the _cowboy_-hero. Which is anyway a different category than the super hero. What they have in common though is the loneliness that OP also talks about. Superheros also always complain about that and their urges to reveal who they "really" are.
Yes, but AMD GPUs haven't (so far) pulled off any of the triumphs that AMD CPUs have. The ones that spring to mind:

* Intel tried to reserve 64 bit for servers/Itanium, AMD brought out x86-64 across their line
* Intel was pushing front side busses or dual busses. AMD moved the memory controller on chip

As a result Nvidia has a lead in performance (like the 4090), in efficiency (perf/watt), market share, and in software (drivers and CUDA).
That’s not what I said, I said America is worse in many industries than for example the EU generally. For example farming, prisons and broadband all have various regulatory capture and vested interests that are far worse than anything we see in Europe.
I am in two minds about this article; while the author makes some excellent points, they're missing out some advantages of scale-out such as DR, blue-green deployment and multi-region.

But one other thing I think they fail to cover is this: most people don't need to build distributed systems anywhere near as soon as they think.

Scale-up makes the most sense for startups and small projects that haven't gained traction or scale yet. It's perfectly possible to architect your applications ready for the day when you _do_ need to scale out, but without spending time and money on the complexities of it until you actually _need_ to.
Not really. The article documents his recent activity on twitter where he’s been promoting far right conspiracy theories.
But monthly passes, for example in NYC, are expensive relative to single tickets, so adoption is relatively low.

If everyone has a monthly pass, fare evasion is less of an issue even in an open system. Fares are checked on a sampling basis with fines for not having a ticket.
No. The Moore Law has been declared dead since at least 2010 and nothing changed in terms of increase of density of transistors in chips. Doubling every two year, just as stably as in the 90s.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/transistors-per-microproc...

(the stagnation of 2019-2020 has nothing to do with technology; it's COVID)
It seems to me that at some point Moore's law became not an independent result of innovation, but rather a target for Intel et co to hit. And then it became increasingly more expensive to hit the target, and ultimately this target process collapsed.
We don’t need to be “influenced by media” the tweets are there for everyone to see.
Can you provide any sources? Or is this just an emotion driven as hominem attack on him?
there's not really a sane way to communicate openai/chatgpt without the use of an api key
He angered me by his tweeter posts. It's clear that he is under right wing influence. Things like attack on Belling cat, anti ukraine position, his constant endorsing of right wing people on twitter by replying them with one ward messages. It's clear that he is trying to push right wing views, and it's richest man on the Earth. You have you average right wing idiot as a most powerful buiseness man, It's fucked up situation.
Ask HN: What are some paid for dev tools that you swear by?
What are some paid development tools that you just couldn't live without?

Here are some I use. Some not completely dev related, but used in my workflow:

* Monokai-Pro theme for VSCode
* Magnet app in OSX (Can be used to split the screen)
This is what the "add delivery instructions" field is for. You can add notes there to help the delivery folks find you.
It's not OSS.

It becoming OSS in the future is somewhat of an insurance against its maker going out of business or making unacceptable changes and users being stuck with software they can't improve or fix.
> they hired one guy just to care about releases and software packaging

what's wrong with that?
Can you read the article?
> you couldn’t pay me to wear an Apple Watch all day

> pushing Siri for years and never gained the loved adoption that chatGPT has,

I say this politely, maybe you have bad taste?

Lots of people voluntarily pay for an Apple Watch for the privilege of wearing it all day. When Apple released the HomePod mini it quickly grabbed market share against Alexa et al. Siri has been available on apple devices for years, and a huge chunk of consumers use it regularly.

The nice thing about a lot of tech, is that you don’t have to use it how the creators want. The first gen Apple Watch didn’t focus on fitness and health, but the latest ones do became that’s how people used it. I’m not sure how you think the “Siri” strategy is repeated here, but Siri is a success.

I’m very skeptical that apple will find a winner with a VR headset but you’re not exactly providing an argument that you understand consumers. A much simpler argument is that it’s too expensive and does too little - the original HomePod is a good example. Apple of all companies can make the hardware good, but ultimately it’s still very expensive to generate VR content.
What tweets are you referring exactly?

If youre not basing your argument off of sources that means you're influenced most likely by propaganda.
I'm in the UK and I have had (still have) rewards on MC, Visa and Amex. This was the case when we were still in the EU as well.
I don't mind people calling Musk names, but I dislike this because there is no sense of proportion. Musk isn't a unique evil, or even an unusual evil. Anyone wealthy enough to own their own PR firm deserves the same level of scepticism. The more power someone has, the more they do, the easier it is to write an article being nasty about them. The solution isn't to focus on Musk, it is to preserve systems that distribute power and reduces the damage any one person can do.

But it is common to learn the wrong lesson, and respond to Musk by trying to create an even more powerful body (usually in the government) to "protect" people - which then doesn't protect anyone when the situation is analysed holistically and usually has a raft of second order effects that kills off any real chance for the situation to improve.
"It's interesting how every build system, frontend framework, programming language implements its own promise pipeline/delayed execution/observables/event propagation."

This rings so true to me.

I've recently realized how every single non trivial part of my app is in fact a workflow problem : it could be ideally written as a pipe of asynchronous steps, glued together. It's true both for the frontend part and the backend.

I believe that's the point of reactive frameworks, but somehow those frameworks are usually designed around continuous streams of incoming events. Which isn't what i've noticed is the most widespread case. One-shot instanciation of pre-designed workflows would be really ideal.
We basically need to treat this sort of LLM usage as an operating system of sort, with some actions requiring administrator privileges granted as in an operating system.
I'm thinking about doing something similar, hows your experience with Gentoo currently on Desktop.
DIP and DPI is a bit far from "loads" of imperial measures.
Stability AI owns https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
Looks like a more lightweight version of ntop. Very nice.
“People should get off their goddamn moral high horse with the work-from-home bullshit,” he said. "They're asking everyone else to not work from home while they do."

This seems like a misdirection to me. The "laptop class" isn't making the decision for "normal workers ", the bosses are. In some cases this is necessary, in others not.

But this is just a cheap attempt to pit different kinds of workers against each othe. Musk wants to obscure the fact that the guy behind the McDonald's counter is still way closer to the average silicon valley developer, than the developer is to Musk when it comes to wealth.

But what do you expect from someone who thinks it is easier to settle Mars and make it livable, than to stop making our own planet - on which we have evolved and are therefore perfectly suited for - not livable.
I need similar but with at least 386, VGA and a soundcard. For to use this gem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastTracker_2
> He's pro free speech

Is he, aye? https://twitter.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1658208072215437314
C and C++ are very different from a C/C++ (ha !) programmer's point of view, but from a more general "computer scientist" point of view they are nearly the same: AoT compiled language, no garbage collection, typed, fast, and with looots of ways to shoot yourself in the foot (Undefined Behavior everywhere).
Another phenomenon being the modern content tsunami. Just the new things coming out already overwhelm one's consumption capacity by several orders of magnitude, nevermind the older stuff that I haven't gotten to (includes SNES titles e.g.).

Makes me want to switch off entirely, or at least be hyperselective.

Given everything I've seen most is simply not worth it anyway, and at the rate new shit comes out we must long be looping already.
I came across a lecturer at my University talking about the C++ course he'd been giving. The students had been struggling and so he'd cut back the expected material a little. I remember him saying afterwards "I taught the 'C' but didn't get to the '++'". Surely not the person you want teaching scientific computing to undergraduates.
I would imagine that in the future ad-blocker will need to actually run the javascript, but in a separate temporary context. In Firefox terms a tab that runs in two containers at once. A shadow context for the ad-machine and content nuggets gouged out for the actual user to view.
Yeahz but the argument being made is that there's overhead in that, primarily in the extra Dev time needed to build such a system, and the extra failure points introduced requiring more maintenance effort.

Those two items can be substantial (5x headcount), or they can be merely "standard" (2x headcount).

They're never zero extra headcount.
I tried to put the correct URL, but HN seems to be following redirections when putting the URL?

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 if I remember correctly. And the famous image: https://web.archive.org/web/20140621130744/http://www.harshj...
.....literally the very article we're commenting on? Or you can go to his twitter account, no need for reading opinion peaces, just read what the man says.
I've curated a list of tools below which I update regularly.

I've spoken to a CTO who are using no-code tools, so here are some views:

1. Cost - Will depend on compute power needed, but for internal tools that will be low.

2. You might want to pick something you are familiar with and is actively developed and accepting pull requests. A lot of the low code tools do allow you to write custom code anwyay, which is worth bearing in mind.

3. That's a tough one, some of these tools have a commercial model that runs alongside their open source model, which may help give some security. I remember that Facebook pulled their low-code backend tool many years ago, so just because it's by a big company, doesn't mean it has a long future.

Here's the list:

https://pocketworks.co.uk/blog/open-source-no-code-tools/

To save you a click, here's what's in the list:

NocoDB - Turn any database into a smart spreadsheet
Baserow - Create your own online database without technical experience
ToolJet - Build & deploy internal tools with minimal engineering effort
BudiBase - Build apps for your workplace in minutes
AppSmith - Build admin panels, CRUD apps and workflows 10x faster
Saltcorn - Point and click database web applications
Lowdefy - Build web apps, admin panels and BI dashboards with ease
Directus - Wrap your existing SQL database with a GraphQL+REST API and admin panel
Frappe Framework - Metadata-driven, full-stack framework in Python and Javascript
Basetool - View and manage all your data in one place like a pro
Rowy - Manage Firestore data in a spreadsheet-like UI
GDevelop - Free, and easy game-making app
PocketBase - Backend for your next SaaS and Mobile app in 1 file
NocoBase - Build internal tools in minutes

Cheers

T
> Outsiders are welcome, just not welcome to stay.

Very insightful.

> They need to leave at the end of the story.

If the hero would stay he would no longer be a hero. Movies are about dreams. Men watch cowboy movies because they want to be like cowboys. They don't want to watch a heroic cowboy turning into a devoted husband.
Personally, I admire Musk for just getting out there and doing shit. Yes - he has a lot of money, but every other stupid-mega-rich person also has a lot of money. What I don't get, like with this article, is this weird obsession a lot of people seem to have with him - either thinking he is the messiah or a super villain.
I have my cake and eat it too. No ads, all the content creators I enjoy, I actually get notified of new uploads, and none of YouTube’s garbage. I get an even better experience than YT Premium for free, no ads included. It’s better for the creators I enjoy as well, because I pay even more than Premium in Patreons every month.

And if you bothered to read anything I said, you’d understand why I put up with YouTube. Content creators I enjoy haven’t adopted other, superior platforms. More and more swap to alternatives like LBRY, which is great, but unfortunately not enough to completely replace it. Though I never did say I watched “hours of YouTube a week”, in fact its increasingly losing prevalence in my life as I return to reading books.

Additionally, if you supposedly “dislike” Google, than why are you supporting them? Why are you defending the solution to a problem they themselves created? If I’m playing “mental gymnastics”, then it sounds like you’re training for the mental olympics with how far you’re defending your own purchasing habits.

You need to cut out the abusive lover that is YouTube out of your life, they’re genuinely not worth it. You can do better.
I agree with current funding it's rare to see actually comfortable public transport, though there are some in my experience.

>But then there are the trouble-makers and weirdos. Do you really want to be stuck on a bus or train, straining under shopping bags or holiday luggage, with some unpredictable idiot eyeing you?

I feel this is just as true as with driving a car or walking a street. My friend was hit by a drunkard running red lights (hey received no permanent injury, but did fly in quite an arc). I'm constantly weary of people not using turn signals and not looking to their sides, multiple times I've almost gotten hit. Lots of situations where one driver will stop in front of a zebra crossing, and someone on another lane speeds through like a guillotine. Tons of users signal they're turning in an intersection, then take that signal off and drive straight, leading you to almost T-bone them. Road-ragers like to drive in front of you and hit the brakes, people try to take over constantly when you try to keep a safe distance to the car in front of you.

In general I feel non-professional drivers are unsuited for cars.
What you are talking about is Dennard scaling, which had transistors being able to go faster as they got smaller.

We still have Moore's law, which gives us more transistors. We just can't use them all at the same time and the individual transistors aren't getting faster (much).

For a while, we were able to use those extra transistors to wring out more performance out of sequential instruction streams by creating ever more complex out-of-order execution engines to figure out parallelism dynamically at run time. That also appears to have run its course.

Now we can use those extra transistors to add more cores, more cache and more specialised execution engines.
What a badass program it was!
As much as I can respect her hustle, it might be time for her to ride a new grift. Or maybe retire with the literal millions she made with her gigs.
Came here to say this. Lol. Estate suing estate, hillarious.
Remember when Covid lab theory was a “far right conspiracy”? Most of the conspiracies have just been a difference of opinion. And then they’re labeled in a gas lighting contest of political cultural war.

HN was so hung up on Science(tm), that everyone was flagged suggesting even a hint of it in 2020. Then the entire thing mob made a U turn in 2021.

Hell, I remember my comments were flagged for a mere suggestion of inflation when the dominant narrative was “transitory”.

What an epic failure of a forum that’s suppose to espouse and foster difference of opinion.
You and the article author sound similar actually, just at different poles. Author doesn't bring up much other than saying that Musk isn't hardcore leftist and is kind of mean, therefore he's a nazi. You are along the same lines, that "with us or against us" attitude characteristic of extremely online types.
26 qubits requires 1 GB of memory to simulate.
A mirror is still online: https://funroll-loops.probablymalware.lol/Gentoo-is-Rice.htm...
I don't know if the AR/VR space will ever get functional as a replacement for standard monitors but there is an interesting bifurcation: some screens are becoming more "real" (touch screens) and some are becoming almost completely dematerialized (projections in our visual field).

I still think conventional large monitors will survive both these new "screen forms" for real work, because the accuracy and amount of information is unbeatable versus an AR/VR set and its not practical to be interacting with a large touch screen.
SQL Server 2022 Ledger with blockchain and Merkle tree data structures
I have. I don't think that's what it is - if you have a guy commiting mass shooting while literally covered in swastikas, and Musk says the whole thing is a "psyop", I really don't think it's me who is getting the situation wrong.
It’s a flat fee of 0.000025 and takes about a second for payments to go through on current gen blockchain L1s, many of which have retail Point of Sale systems.
The UK was part of the EU until recently, and still maintains the card transaction fee cap regulation.
I'm reminded of the F18A, a replacement for the TMS9918A in the TI-99/4A computer that offers lots of enhanced graphical modes including 80-column mode, and enough sprites, colors within a sprite, and graphical layers to enable games for this 16-bit system to look 16-bit!

The F18A also works with other systems that used the TMS9918A, like the ColecoVision.
if that's the criteria, looking forward to job ads etc for the "Python/Ruby/TypeScript" and "Java/C#" languages
> Laptops have a problem: their screen.

Stopped reading right there.