skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

I hate almost all software (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28181632 - Aug 2021 (247 comments)

I hate almost all software (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15142316 - Aug 2017 (8 comments)

I hate almost all software (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13586596 - Feb 2017 (144 comments)

I hate almost all software. (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10553408 - Nov 2015 (2 comments)

“I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3055154 - Sept 2011 (292 comments)
Inequality is a feature, not a bug as long as the standards for everyone improves. The problem is that the lowest has not seen improvement in certain areas.

Inequality is a term so alluring to mid-IQ activists. I'll take today's inequality vs. poverty of 100 years ago. The world has improved, period.

Similarly, I'll take a nation full of extreme inequality if their average standards of living are better than say, Honduras.
I feel like Discords version works a lot better than Slacks for public communities. Someone has the option to pay as an individual rather than requiring a workspace owner to pay for everyone, which is impractical when there are 1000+ members.
The onboard code processes binary data: CAN bus messages and alike, along with their nonbinary metadata. The first version of the code used CSV because they are so trivial to read and write, but CSV as a text format required me to either hex or base64 the bytes which incurred a non-trivial waste of time and space. For a custom binary record I would need to write custom (de)serializers, which I wasn't willing to do given frequent changes in types of data I need to record during development.

SQLite is the only solution for me so far that provides a structured data store for mixed data types, is power loss safe (important to an embedded system,) and is a high-quality and portable industry standard. Let along the SQL language itself, which has proved to be hugely useful for first-pass post processing given the amount of data that I ingest.

Perhaps there are other technology that will work just as well or better: maybe Protocol Buffers and alike? Yet SQLite currently ticks all my boxes and I'm quite happy with it.
Right. Everything I’ve seen implies they’re both using the hardware the same way (no “limp mode” or such).

Linux tends to be faster because the kernel is just far better optimized than Apple’s appears to be. Massive sums of money (and person hours) have been spent speeding up Linux networking, file systems, scheduling, etc. and it was all sent back to mainline.

Apple’s kernel team can’t possibly compete based on resources alone. They do their best but MS, Google, Amazon, Redhat, and so many others are constantly improving Linux to squeeze out every last drop of performance.

So in many ways Linux is better optimized. I remember one of the developers posting a few weeks ago about just how much faster code compilation was under Linux, because the file system layer is so much better. It was like 6x or something. Sort of an accidental ideal benchmark for stressing that.

But you won’t be disappointed.
not really. Choose a wrong screw and it will look great.. until a year later, an ugly rust stain appears.

And the pipes/hoses! Having your software update cause your server to fail is _absolute joy_ compared to discovering that your improperly rated pipe burst and is how dumping gallons of water on the ground.
Thank the chip designers for endlessly making hardware more powerful so more layers of abstraction can be added. Electron, need I say more?
Right - and the Quest Pro isn’t well compared to what Apple is marketing here. I couldn’t accept a job working with a VR company because I couldn’t get past the nausea the Quest Pro induces in me.

I think the point is that Meta’s investment is weak compared to Apple’s full court press. It really is laughable.
> ha ha ha! :)

I'm still not convinced you're not a bot considering how 90% of your posts contain this string
The first 'virgin birth' in crocodiles has been discovered
shaping gold into jewelry doesn't consume it. One of the reasons its been currency for 5k years is because you can melt it down and re-use it as coins or other jewelry etc. Gold isn't consumed, for the most part.
interesting, because I once did some (relatively novel/rare) work on segfaults, and was literalky reviewing my old C code related to it today
React three fiber and React three drei? Not sure what you are trying to do, but I have been super impressed by what you can do with react-three-etc. Video textures, images, click through works well. And when you need web thingies - input boxes for example - adding in a html is simple. Built on top of the outstanding threejs library. Examples of what you can do: https://docs.pmnd.rs/react-three-fiber/getting-started/examp... of what you can do. This one: https://codesandbox.io/s/drei-reflector-bfplr is pretty cool and not much code.

After a few weeks with r3f I am trying to figure out whether I can just use a very small amount of css and react. I integrated webrtc video chat as a texture pretty easily. Surely there must be some gotcha, but I have not found it yet.
Can Apple create a service to rival YouTube? (2017)
Do you know if there are any NERFs that can be run in command line mode, where you can see an intermediate image by giving it two or more images? I'm less interested in video than in a single image result.
SEC Sues Coinbase, Alleges It Is Unregistered Broker
I'm more amazed that the hardware industry has hoisted our shit software into usable state. Just bravo.

I can only imagine the people working on the actual chips are screaming in silence somewhere at the complete waste of energy we've made.
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Vanguard and some mutual insurance companies.
TFA's point isn't that Discord shouldn't be monetized - it's that the monetization model is based on creating visible class differences.

A different monetization model is easily conceivable that gives paid users better functionality instead of (what the author calls) "aesthetic perks" that only serve to evoke class envy, as if like jewelry.

I don't have a strong position on the author's point. Just making sure the right thing is being discussed.
For sure, but things are still evolving and evolution is messy.

FWIW, I'd probably be considered a JavaScript luddite these days lol. When I build my own projects, I write vanilla ES5 (yes, 5). No tooling. No frameworks. No compiler. Just edit and hit refresh.

But when I work with others I will respect their choice of framework. Because the goal of frameworks and libraries and encapsulation in general is to trade-off extra individual work in exchange for smoother between-developer "compatibility" (reduced communication friction). I don't need to understand someone else's code, and neither do they need to for mine.
me trying to make sense of an ancient application built on a version of oracle so old I should have put its extended end of life date in school years ago and oh my god is that cobol wtf I thought they said this was fortran...
> I've yet to see an explanation that covers all the data those jets collected.

Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/c/mickwest. Mick has thoroughly investigated the most cited videos and shows them to be of entirely terrestrial origin - often atmospheric effects combined with optical lens, digital stabilization and thermal imaging artifacts. He even cites the technical documentation for the military camera equipment and often provides convincing demonstrations of the artifacts through recreations.
DisplayLink still does not fully support 4K hiDPI displays correctly.

Beta support is there in DisplayLink software on macOS for scaled 4K displays, but it does not provide full colour bit depth. The colours are washed out and the display lacks contrast.

So yes, Display Link works, but it’s not a solution for anyone wanting a Retina experience.

I’d be pleased for someone to tell me in wrong and show me how it can be done!
Scientists Find That “Protein Hunger” Drives Overeating, Obesity
The First Amendment Does Not Give Protesters a Heckler’s Veto
Internet caste systems is just social status hierarchy. Or rather, showing off to others you're higher on the ladder.

People don't buy sports cars, or extremely expensive clothing because it's functional. But rather to project their above the plebs.

Games have skins or icons marking how high up you are. Most importantly, very expensive skins.

Honestly, discords isn't bad, you're not constrained by being a free user. In fact, we should thank the nitro users cause they keep discord free for us.
Seems reasonable that even an intersolar civilization would be subject to bugs, errors, degradation and bad luck. An intersolar trip could’ve damaged a craft far more advanced than what we can make.

Could be (perhaps even likely to be) an unpiloted craft. It could be a craft no more technologically advanced than human tech; maybe it’s an alien Voyager 1.
My assumption would be support.

Boot Camp was officially supported. It gave them an advantage because it helped people move over to a Mac from windows because they could still run some of their software.

If Apple was to help Asahi officially, I think they would be worried that they would be on the hook either for continuing to support it or for damage done to the hardware by other peoples changes to the code.

Basically I think it’s a combination of not wanting to spend the money and being worried about the potential downsides of doing it.

The upside, in terms of additional sales, is likely very small.
yeah except the capitalists killed it.

napster, bitorrent etc...

being tried now with mastodon et al...
FWIW, I emailed a fairly senior accessibility person at Apple yesterday with a question about the headset and got a response back today, even in the midst of WWDC. And I'm a relative nobody — just a bootstrapped solo founder who works in the accessibility field.
> A lot of that complexity isn't actually necessary.

I don't understand this take. Client-side JavaScript is hard because of cross-browser / cross-platform / cross-device challenges. Server-side JavaScript is hard because of the nature of the language and the runtimes, the lack of standard library and the myriad attempts to "fix" it, ranging from inventing new languages to transpilers to runtime rewrites.

May be you mean to say, a lot of complexity could have been avoided? Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.
There's a pretentious phrase for the phenomenon: déformation professionelle.

This is the idea that people who have learned one thing discount the knowledge of experts in other domains.

Nothing can be as fantastically complicated as my own work, surely! Building a house is just nailing a few sticks together. Fixing a car is just undoing a bolt with a spanner. Running a farm is just driving around on a tractor.
I like to say that inequality is only a feature if it's coupled with social mobility and a high and rising standard of living for the lower class.
Even if Crytek took a year off developing new games after the release of Far Cry, that still puts the start of Crysis development before the announcement of Core (early 2005 IIRC).
Thats kind of interesting when you think of it in the context of big government or monopoly or union monopsony vs individual agency of free markets. Just believing that the market is free gives you the sense of control to act on your ideas vs the alternative of perceiving you have no control because union, or government, or marxism, etc. Causes the failure we have seen in those systems.
It's so excellent how many moats are just getting obliterated.

I absolutely have been a real snarky hater against AI, as a horrible fuedal unobservable black box that has way too much power in the world. But open source has been doing amazing at reading the papers & reproducing & it's glorious to see.

Amazing examples of a peership culture in action. Rising each other up is so divine. Share the knowledge & means.
Well there is the in-house proprietary market. Imagine how billion dollar companies coulf leverage this. It's not really for mass consumption, just like microsofts AR glasses too. Army bought a bunch of those and make in-house killer apps
You'll either go insane staring into that abyss, or achieve enlightenment!
...and the macos/iOS-supported version, named 'sold', is commercial and non-AGPL.

see https://github.com/bluewhalesystems/sold
It seems likely to me that “seeing things” is consistent with the predictive processing model from cognitive neuroscience. To summarize: the retina error-corrects a simulation provided from the cortex.

Let’s say some visual details are fuzzy.
With a strong enough Bayesian prior (e.g. belief in UFOs), the human perceptual apparatus could subjectively see things that look like UFOs.

Mind bending, but this seems to me a credible and popular theory of brain functioning. I’m no expert and new to the theory. Please correct me if I’m butchering it.

P.S. Like anyone, I often detect motion in my peripheral vision without much detail. Maybe once a year (or less), I see weird things that seem implausible, but only for brief instant. When I look, there is nothing unusual. Yes, bring on the “what are you smoking?” comments… but I assure you the answer is “nothing”.
I don't follow your last two paragraphs. If you unsub from the default subs and stay on smaller ones then you get exactly that small forum experience. The downvote system kills a lot of toxic arguments and insults that forums tend to be full of.
I can't understand this sentiment at all. I feel like HN was absolutely part of the hype cycle.

It wasn't as bad as some forums, since some skeptical voices were present too, but there absolutely was a ton of breathless hype over the years.

Here's just one example, when stripe added bitcoin support [0]

I personally feel like HN sentiment finally "turned" on crypto only after some of the more egregious scams started going really mainstream - in the months leading up to and during the pandemic.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9075945
I think, ideally, no one needs to show up at all. Drone pulls your ID from the license/registration/facial analysis, fines you, then tells you to come in. You don't, then it then sits and waits for you at home/work/family, tells you to come in. Shuts down your ID, your cards, your cell, very possibly your car, and everything else, and bills your family . . until you come in.

Sure, it's dystopian as all hell, but unless cops get paid like actual officers, or you figure out a way to pay cops like dishwashers, I think it's a better option for low-density policing. I guess, these days, we can have local neighborhood volunteer police, which . . whelp . . is also dystopian but in a whole other new - or, rather, old-fashioned - direction.
That's assuming software is static. Write once, release it, and anything further is someone else's problem.

Is that how software development works today?
That's awesome! I'm working on something that sounds similar. https://github.com/cons-cat/libcat

I'd love to see your work if you're willing to share it here!
Sorry I meant you're not taxed on the value of the oil at the moment it increases the property value. You are correct that eventually the property value might increase in the eyes of the county assessor or via sale of the property and there would be a measurable effect in that regard.

Generally though, you also don't pay property taxes on securities (property tax is a pretty specific tax and a unit of crypto currency doesn't directly translate). I don't have any apropos objection to a property tax on crypto at the moment mostly because that's not the point being discussed. We just don't do it currently. The more appropriate analogy would be like you have barrels out and oil rained from the sky. Now you have some barrels of oil. Your land value doesn't increase, but also you don't get taxed because you collected oil from the sky. You get taxed when you sell the oil. Maybe we do need a tax on the latent potential of your property to generate crypto, or that information should be factored into property value, but again that's not quite what we're discussing.
(Haven't read the article yet) but just from the title, my riposte would be that while AI might have the ability to save the world, many of today's habitually entitled, mendacious, parasitical tech companies will do their best to enshittify it as much as possible in as many ways as possible along the way, just as existing tech giants like Google and FB tried so hard to do the same for the internet.

It's not to say that they haven't provided much value too, but they just can't seem to help themselves in going from that achievement A and creeping they way to a wholly uglier "achievement" B, (let's call it Bullshit perhaps) over time. OpenAI is already mincing its way along this very path...

This all usually happens in the name of blandly self-serving terms like "user engagement", "monetization", "KPIs" and the most laughable of them all from companies that routinely lie and break all kinds of laws because the fines are cheaper than the financial gains, "social responsibility".

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Anything I can understand is simple. Anything I cannot understand is complicated. Therefore the whole world should revolve around me.
The one announced yesterday?

I think the main problem would be where would you get ARM drivers?

On Intel people were able to existing driver blobs. But if there are no official ARM blobs anywhere, it would be a much bigger effort.
This seems like a dramatic way to say you don’t want to pay to support Discord. I think individuals who actually live in a modern day caste system would be extremely offended by this comparison.
> What if programs live in places, live in physical objects in your space? For instance, you might place all kinds of computational objects in your kitchen: timers above your stove; knife work reference overlays above your cutting board; a representation of your fridge’s contents; a catalog of recipes organized by season; etc.

I'd prefer an OS that spans multiple devices. Something how computers behave in “The Expanse” where someone can flick stuff from their mobile device to another system for a better workspace. If I'm typing this on my workstation, but want to switch environment and bring something light like a tablet or just my phone, I could send the tab and it would retain its state. The closest to something like this is a server-client architecture like Logitech Media Server. A paradigm like this would be more useful than immersion.

This is also why I like Vim. Buffer is a separate concept from File, adding an extra flexibility – in terms of layout – to how I edit to complete my current task. I want a similar flexibility with applications, at least lightweight – state wise – ones.

CloudKit and Handoff are close, but very brittle. Apps like Bear, Reeder, Anybox, Things 3, make switching devices seamless. Another good example is handoff between the HomePod and the iPhone.
In high school cs we used to joke about random sort. Perform some random operation or operations & check if you are sorted.

I feel like this is both awesome but also the most advanced hyperpowered random sort one could possibly ever build.

Consteaint programming is great! Cool submission.
Would it? If everyone on earth did have a 4-year bachelor’s degree, but you lived in a social-credit driven, machine vision, surveillance world, and you’re punished every time you step out of line—what are all those educated people going to do? They can’t even meet or communicate in private
What the Government Strangling Crypto Looks Like
"The software serves the business' bottom line period."

Making big assumptions about what the software project here.
Given the article was mostly complaining about software developed for developers by developers, I don't think we can blame the suits for this one.
I'm not arguing that extorting people or making them feel violated is right. I'm arguing that our social norms are what allow this sort of exploitation to happen and we should examine our collective responsibility for it.
Is this a case of: "private equity / venture capital ruins everything"?

And relate to that, who exactly (what person) is applying pressure to the company directors to do this, who is it seeking to benefit, and who exactly is responding with decisions to meet what amount of bar of achievement? What $ is enough, and who is deciding that?
just look at the price
Haha, sure, the revelation to me was that if your life is just data, light speed travel is easy.
As noted in the post, Nitro users do get enhanced functionality for things like file upload sizes and streaming quality; I imagine that more intrusive better functionality than that would cause a much higher uproar than avatars or emoji, and given that this is a chat/voicechat/streaming app any functionality is necessarily going to be quite visible to other users.
Ask HN: Why is the price of Bitcoin (and crypto in general) surging?
You’d think after all the negative news in the past 24-48 hours (serious legal action being taken against Binance and Coinbase) that the price of Bitcoin and the crypto market in general would be taking a hit (on a regulated stock exchange Coinbase is down 12% in one day for example). However, Bitcoin is up ~6% in the past 24 hours with other coins following suit.

What gives?
Sure, but Airbnb isn't trying to replace a core societal institution and subvert hundreds of years of financial law. While also if you're American violating the constitution...
We found campaigns on LinkedIn also work. Have you done any outreach on LinkedIn?
Matrix protocol is a good attempt

https://matrix.org/
What's the difference between functionality and aesthetic perks? Isn't the fact that one good is held by a group that is not you what evokes the envy? It doesn't matter if it's themes or if it's the ability to send larger messages. I find the distinction useless.
That's very kind; thank you.
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That is whataboutism. Two wrongs won't make a right.
"When I started, all I had was swamp! Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em! It sank into the swamp, so I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. I built a third one. It burned down, fell over, and then it sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up! And that's what you're going to get, lad--the strongest castle on these islands!"
Since we're speculating, the details of "intact and partially intact" stand out.

Seems like something a nation state might float if another nation state was (or was planning) ramping up some newfangled drone espionage missions.

OMG aliens -> nice advanced tech you got there

Intact -> would be a shame if someone ratcheted up tensions by reverse engineering it

Partial -> stay off my land

illegally withheld from Congress -> if mom and dad find out we're both in trouble
The Open-Source Software in Our Pockets Needs Our Help
They’ve never done an M2 Ultra, as no one (anywhere) has one yet.

I believe they said they will work on it but they can’t promise a support date because they don’t know how long it will take once they have the hardware. And I don’t know when they’ll get the hardware.

So basically the recommendation was “don’t buy it to run Asahi yet, you’ll probably be waiting a bit”.
I luv C and have shipped tons of it in the past successfully enough but... to be frank C was, in effect, literally designed to cause/allow/enable segfaults. as a by-product of the "wild west" power of its & and * operators.
My experience with military people is that they all put in an impressive veneer of seriousness and respectability -- but some of them are just as nutty as anyone.
Yeah I’ve experienced it myself, and am aware that I am often on the other side too…

It’s debilitating to have people throwing their 2c in to a growing tree thread and bounce! At least with linear vbulletin forums of old people would have to scroll past the conversation or look like idiots when they reply something totally out of context.