skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've been programmer for about 20 years now and I could never understand

I doubt there's any hope for you... but from other thing you said:

> are completely different from pretty much everything else.

I can conclude that you were programming something that's not a typical modern computer. I.e. you never used things like terminal (with readline), never red a manpage, never used pagers like more / less, which would mean that you also never used the most popular operating system in the world, where, for instance, if you need to get access to its service logs, they'd open in a pager...

I mean... was it like 20 years of Scratch programming on a game console or something? Or maybe COBOL on a MF? Like, what were you doing all these 20 years that kept you so far away from the most popular thing in the world?
How come? What do the sentry libs provide?
Wasn't Twitter mostly profitable, except for some hugebsttlement with the FCC (?)? Until recently that is.
Oh, nice tabletop roleplay game Acthung! Cthulhu thanks to share some background for an adventure.
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I kind of agree about the most and niche, but think you’re wrong about the conclusion.

That niche has ~50% of Americans and a large portion of the globe fine with it.

Put simply, as YouTube pushes out niches (guns, comedy, pundits, etc). They move to rumble. This increases the network effects on rumble and will help it grow rapidly. The more niches on rumble, the less of a need to go to YouTube. YouTube effectively kicked out the niches that half the country likes, so you’re going to get two networks. Rumble will let anyone profit off anything, provided it’s 1st amendment protected (supposedly, I have my doubts tbh). So it can build a bigger network.

More importantly, as I point out in the analysis, they’re well positioned as the large media outlets fade to take market share.

If people come to rumble for the pundits or Gun channels and stay for the sports, w.e. That’ll work well for them.
I mean if it was "so far we haven't found evidence of any optical instrument of that magnitude available at that time", fair enough, but you're suggesting people didn't had oil few hundred years ago...
I feel like Uber's losses are deliberate at this point, like Amazon's lack of profit.

If you look up their losses per journey it's something completely trivial like 50c. Uber's customers are not that price sensitive so if they really did want to make a profit they could probably just raise their prices a little bit.
AWstats [1] on an isolated machine. I just pull down logs to it from each node to keep logs off the live servers. It is included in many Linux distributions as well. AWStats should be behind strong authentication if exposing on a public web server.

[1] - https://awstats.sourceforge.io/
Nice video from Vox
In the absence of some sort of external means of support they are dead.
One control flow function I use often in JavaScript is my `runIfUnhandled` function:

export const UNHANDLED: unique symbol = Symbol("UNHANDLED");
export function runIfUnhandled<TReturn = void>(
ifUnhandled: () => TReturn,
run: (unhandled: Unhandled) => TReturn | Unhandled,
): TReturn {
const runResult = run(UNHANDLED);
if (runResult === UNHANDLED) {
return ifUnhandled();
}
return runResult;
}

I often use it to use guards to bail early, while keeping the default path dry. In particular, I used it heavily in a custom editor I built for a prior project, example:

runIfUnhandled(
() => serialize(node, format),
(UNHANDLED) => {
if (
!Element.isElement(node) ||
!queries.isBlockquoteElement(node)
) {
return UNHANDLED;
}

switch (format) {
case EditorDocumentFormat.Markdown: {
const serialized = serialize(node, format) as string;
return `> ${serialized}`;
}
default: {
return UNHANDLED;
}
}
},
);
Congrats, you're now a lifetime subscriber to big pharma
Kysely is just a query builder.
Its human nature to always look for ORMs.
BTW, if anyone is wondering why you'd want to aim at a scrollbar when you have a wheelmouse -- well, as an example, so you can click in the blank space above or below the scroll "thumb" and jump directly to that point in the document.

I bought my iFeel mouse -- the symmetrical model, because I'm left-handed -- at discount, because I needed a new USB rodent. Unfortunately for my unit and its advanced functionality, WinXP is also what pushed me over to switching to Linux full-time, supplemented by Mac OS X on an elderly hand-me-down PowerMac G3.

So I didn't run it under XP much, and on Linux or OS X, the iFeel was a bog-standard USB mouse with no additional functions.
Yeah but for companies as Ali and Tencent you can have lucrative salaries.
I was once associated with a company that did this exact thing. The scam ran for about two years.

Company is long gone. Founders and select investors for rich. Everyone else was left wondering how to feed their families.
I am from Canada and I have no idea what this means
Elizabeth Holmes should've picked an easier industry than healthcare considering Adam Neumann was selling hot air and made out like a fucking thief.
None. Because my iFeel, anyway, is a basic wired USB mouse. It doesn't have batteries at all.
Tinybird is perfect, I use it for a couple of months. The interface is clear, minimalist, and easy to use.
https://www.tinybird.co/starter-kits/web-analytics
I tend to setup my servers, vms and machines with Nix. It takes care of having the same setup everywhere I interact with.
Yes but if you buy the shares from me for $22 billion, as happened here, that’s a little different.
I don't understand why capacitive buttons don't have a raised lip around them. A few mm would eliminate most accidental brushing problems, and presumably let people use them by feel.
I find it unbelievable, this is not the first time.
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It’s closer to something between YouTube and twitch; they’re trying to grow by targeting the niches kicked off of youtube and twitch

To put in perspective: there’s a ton of attorneys on there, right and left wing pundits that had their channels kicked off YouTube.

They also have UFC, sports, gaming, gun channels, etc. and that seems to be where they’re trying to grow most.
Construction companies?
Hardly “controversional”, considering it’s just the completely legal views that YouTube censors.

What will really kill Rumble is the fact that they aren’t a YouTube competitor, more a small island off the coast that is mainly centered on said niche and lack the means of true innovation.

Personally I find Odysee/LBRY much more interesting. Fully open source protocol, more varied creators, transparent moderation due to a public blockchain, and P2P file distribution are all incredibly enticing features to me.
Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
> So we should have 100% faith in what we're being told in the article?

If you're asking questions that are answered in the article then that means you're discussing things without any context or insight or understanding, and have no intention to gather that context or insight or understanding. You aren't asking questions in good faith if you purposely avoid the answers.
I2P is an anonymizing proxy but I2P hidden services still run on a single machine, just anonymized. With the new Freenet the services themselves are decentralized [1]. You can think of the new Freenet as a global decentralized computer running decentralized software systems.

[1] https://docs.freenet.org/components.html
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It’s a shame they bought (and sold) meetup.com. A great place for clubs in the before times for a small fee. The sold it, but I don’t think it’s the same.
That was the goal for a while, Locutus was a working title for Freenet's successor.
>What term would you use to refer to residents of North America or residents of both North and South America?

North Americans or North and South Americans

This is also a concept people reference much, much less often than residents of America the country.
I think the self driving stuff is because full autonomy will be absolutely amazing, but companies want to start profiting early because that's what they do.

If full self driving existed now, my life would likely be totally different.
There is no shortage of chip design in the US (I'm in Austin and I constantly bump into these folks), only chip _fabrication_.

What little I know about fab is that extremely bright physicists do rote tasks with horrible schedules. I don't think the solution to that is more education
Yet, typing experience on smartphone is terrible.

I struggle to understand how as mature industry as smartphone's, how hugely resourceful R&D departments for those things are...

and this is the best thing they managed to figure out, or maybe cheapest?

I'd rather have something like blackberry's keyboard.
It means all of these things. The worst thing you can do for yourself (and your future happiness) is to support the system which works against you.

The only reason the system appears to work for some people is so that it can use these 'successful' people as a propaganda tool to fool the remaining 99.9999% of the population into supporting the system.
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As someone who attempted more than one time, I found interesting that's not a common knowledge. Maybe that's why in my country, Brazil, it's a "common excuses" from "average people" that a person died by suicide is a "coward".

PS: This is anecdotal experience I had talking with people about this matter.
The video about anarcho capitalism on Habbo is mind blowing. Turns out to be one of the most effective demonstrations I've seen of what kind of hell an anarcho capitalist society would be.
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> … "making a bold choice to complete life on their own terms."

Or making the only choice they feel they have left to them when faced with unsurmountable obstacles to ending their pain in any other way… This "fuck everyone else but me" society we currently live in isn't real conducive to even noticing or caring about the pain of another human (except maybe to blame, ridicule, or add to said pain), let alone helping them end that pain in a positive manner.
I always thought it was a bit weird until I discovered people from the US are called "American" in other languages (e.g., German). I also think it's a little odd that we say US rather than USA, but other languages do that as well. I'm sure it's a chicken and egg situation, but changing the term now seems unlikely. I suppose the alternatives are just too much of a mouthful.
So, it's been a while since I worked in semiconductor manufacturing, but I know a little bit about this from personal experience. The community colleges, yes maybe; the universities, no not particularly.

Once upon a time every fab needed lots of engineers, because they were designing the manufacturing process (because each company had only one fab, or at least only one modern one). As they grew, they kept hiring engineers for each fab, mostly out of habit and custom. Then they put huge bureaucratic obstacles in the way of changing anything, because the manufacturing process was already designed (at another fab), and you didn't want every engineer who wanted to make his mark on things to screw it up.

The thing is that if you make a change in step 87 out of 450, and that change turns out to screw things up, you can have (450-87)/450 = 80% of your factory is full of dud semiconductors. It takes a few months for a wafer to get from the beginning to the end of the line, so that's a couple months of production from your multi-billion dollar fab, that you can throw in the trash. So mostly, they don't want the engineers to do any design, because there's way more downside than upside. Only at the R&D fab is anything like real design done.

Now, to run the (rather complex) equipment, you probably want a lot of community college graduates, although frankly a smart high-school graduate could do it well with a few days training. But the only reason they "require" so many engineers at production fabs, is that they don't realize it's not necessary. It's a bunch of people who worked for years to get an engineering degree, put in a place where they are very nearly forbidden to change anything.

If the multi-billion dollar fab is made, they will run it. If there are not enough college graduates to staff it, they will miraculously discover that smart high school graduates will do just as well, as long as there are engineers at the R&D fab.
Can you quantify the "many cases?"

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/students-proficient-math-balt...
In Adam’s defense he created what’s actually an excellent product. I’m a happy WeWork customer it’s a great experience as a customer. Things would be a lot different for Holmes if that’s what she did.
i use a sony 48" oled and yeah, the only annoying thing is the auto dimming. otherwise it's fine. i may buy an oled actual-monitor (they're starting to be released now...) once this one dies, but my previous sony (non-oled) led tv monitor lasted 6 years so it could be a while.
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Assuredly he is
Poorly allocated indeed. I still remember the outrage over how the founder of WeWork used the company to buy stuff like branding assets and real estate from himself at very good (for him) prices...
What's funny is they both had much better emulators in the past. The PS3/PSP/Vita PS1 emulator is pretty good, ditto the Wii's N64 emulator. The Wii U's was a step back, so was the Switch's although they've worked on it.
My mom has a saying in Arabic that roughly translates to "he who rushes is delayed"
> supposedly, I have my doubts tbh

I do too. The same people I see pushing Rumble were the same people pushing Parler, which for all intents and purposes was a honey pot. Not to mention anything rooted in politics, regardless of side, will be endorsing the “right content” and punishing the “wrong content” in various ways.
Linus Sebastian is stepping down as CEO, rejects $100M takeover offer
This extension does a good job of removing them from your subscription feed. If you like me, guard your feed since you don't want to watch random stuff from the home page this is the only way to not totally clutter the feed with random shorts thumbnails. The very fact you can not disable shorts from your feed is outrageous, but obviously not surprising.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-shorts-blo...
AI is great at one thing: Driving next waves of layoffs
The malware signature db is presumably updated separately from the firmware image, since they're on completely different release cadences.

My ASUS router with the malware filter disabled wasn't affected, FWIW.
The people I know that are really old or the people I have known rather generally weren't too thrilled with living at that point. When your quality of life is really poor, living seems like more trouble than it's worth. I wonder if some of those people have a lot of agency over just letting their body stop working.
'The parable of the broken window was introduced by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay "That Which We See and That Which We Do Not See" ("Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas") to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society.'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Not to mention that the business had already been done. It's Regus with nice sofas.
And Neumann gamed SoftBank for 1B. Amazing. The amount of grift at the highest eschelons of business is hilarious.
Yes, the previous Freenet was experimental which led to it being quite clunky. Aside from using Rust rather than Java, the other main differences between Fred (original Freenet) and Locutus (new Freenet) are:

Functionality: Fred is analogous to a decentralized hard drive, while Locutus is analogous to a full decentralized computer.

Real-time Interaction: In Locutus users can subscribe to data and be notified immediately if it changes. This is essential for systems like instant messaging or group chat.

Programming Language: Unlike Fred, which was developed in Java, Locutus is implemented in Rust. This allows Locutus to be much more efficient, while integrating better into a wide variety of platforms (Windows, Mac, Android, MacOS, etc).

Transparent: Locutus is a drop-in replacement for the world wide web, and will be just as easy to use

Anonymity: Fred was designed with a strong focus on anonymity. In contrast, Locutus does not offer built-in anonymity, but it is designed to allow anonymizing systems to be layered on top if required.
I still use Lighttpd. My weird idea why Lighty lost the war is that it had somewhat unorthodox rewrite rules, namely this one line in mod_rewrite.c:

if (st && S_ISREG(st->st_mode)) return HANDLER_GO_ON;

Change it to if (st) without a regular file check, and it works as expected (great) with frameworks like Joomla etc (/administrator URLs, for example)
> the Venture Predator constructs a pile of shit so large and impressive that investors are convinced that there must be a pony under there somewhere

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fake-it-till-you-make-it/
First we changed from calling master branch to main branch, now this!
Yeah, but that is another matter, and has nothing to do with the language level.

Even C is considered high level nowadays, in regards to hardware exposure.
People do not “own” communities that they have a right to profit from indefinitely.

And yes, if it is good, people will jump on it. Evidence being that HBO did not wait 170 years to start making game of thrones. They saw a story they could sell, so they paid the author to make it. If they did not, another media maker could and would have. Warner brothers did not wait until Harry Potter copyrights expire. I am sure other media makers were bidding for Harry Potter rights too.

Of course, Martin and Rowling have been paid less if copyright was 10 years. But would they have written the stories if they earned $10M instead of $100M or $1B or whatever they earned? I would err on the side of yes.
Feature request: documentation describing the accessibility impact this will have.

Any time I'm considering a library like this my number one question is always the impact it will have on accessibility tech, most specifically screenreaders.

I would love it if libraries could get into the habit of describing this impact in their documentation - and ideally if they could compete on providing the best possible accessibility as one of their promoted features.
I noticed that "qubit" is spelled at least two different ways, and both of them are incorrect ("cubit" and "Kubit").
Yes but present wealth is destroyed when resources are deployed unproductively.

This concept isn’t particularly subtle or arguable. If you have a lot of food and you are wealthy and then you let it spoil you’re less wealthy.

Nobody else got that wealth (assuming you don’t count the microbes) and absent another source of resources then you are also dead.
With Amazon, you could point to what they were spending the money on. With Uber, it's a lot less clear what they are doing other than gaining market share with discounts. They are going to lose a lot of that market share when the discounts go away.
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If you buy a stock for 100 dollars, and due to a series of bad results which led to price adjustments, the stock is now worth 1 dollar, you lost 99 dollars. Nobody else picked up those 99 dollars.

Asset depreciation is a fundamental concept that you should be familiar with, as it influences several aspects of your personal finance: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/depreciation.asp
This was one of my favorite talks from Handmade Seattle last year. It’s so refreshing to see someone look critically at a software market and study why things succeed, instead of complaining about luck or an overcrowded market.
Not quite.

Moore's law, strictly, is about the growth of transistor density. Koomey's law, strictly, is about the improvement in computation per unit energy.

Those are both interesting, but frequently people care about something different from either, which is something like "computation per second available in hardware of reasonable size, power consumption and cost". Call this "effective performance".

This can increase even if Moore fails (e.g., we find good ways to exploit parallelism, and build larger devices with more cores). It can fail to increase even if Moore holds (e.g., we can put more cores on a device of the same size, but we aren't good enough at exploiting parallelism so real performance doesn't improve).

It can increase even if Koomey fails (e.g., we find ways to make our hardware faster; there's a corresponding increase in power consumption but we are still able to cool things well enough so we just accept that). It can fail to increase even if Koomey holds (e.g., we can't make anything faster but we find a way to maintain existing speeds at lower power; very nice but no performance improvement unless power consumption is the current bottleneck).

It used to be that effective performance increased exponentially at a fairly consistent rate. This increase has slowed but not stopped; it's not obvious (to me, anyway) what we should expect it to do in the nearish future.

The consistent exponential increase in effective performance had a name, in popular discourse. It was called "Moore's law". It's unfortunate that strictly speaking it isn't what Moore was originally describing, leading to an ambiguity when people refer to "Moore's law" between a law about density and a law about effective performance.

(I unfortunately lack the ability to read minds, so I can't be sure what OP had in mind. But given the statement that "it has big implications for the advancement of AI technology", it looks to me more like effective performance than density.)
FWIW I agree with everything your saying, I think. I started out pr and only recently have had enough money to consider investing and high yield savings and bonds and all that shot, but it still gels zero sum, like inflation or the next black swan will just wipe it all out anyways if I ever try to retire and live off of what I’ve squirreled away, as sibling comment puts it.

It feels like there is no escape from work. Either you’ll spend every minute fishing for berries and hunting, or tilling sowing and reaping, or working at a desk and grocery shopping.

I truly admire the ascetics that give it all up and put their fate at the mercy of chance.
WeWork doesn't own much of it's property, it leases and rerents.
Pharma is big money. This drug can cost 800-1400/month. Average American can't even run a mile. Patients dont want to hear how they need to eat less or exercise. Doctors have long queues of people to get through. Easier to prescribe the pill and move on vs address lifestyle choice.
I've always thought Steve Yegge wrote great essays, but this isn't compelling at all.

And sadly it just ends up being a sales pitch for his latest project.
i don't know if it was 'hot air' . My company was one of their customers and our office space was decent.
I’ve noticed a similar problem with Tumblr’s app. Last year they added a “live” feature, apparently trying to carve out some minor slice of egirl pie, and proceeded to put it all over the UIs. Also popups asking you to pay money. Needless to say UX has dramatically devolved on their app.
>just like teenagers who think life is practically over by 40

Sorry but... it kind of is, no? You've probably got a family weighing you down so you can't travel anymore. You don't have the freedom to start new exciting ventures. You can't quit your sucky job because it supports your family. You go to parties that end at 9pm and your social gatherings consist of talking about traffic and grocery prices. You're probably married to someone you love and respect, but the flame isn't the same as what you once had.

Just my perspective as a 22 year old.