skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's harder than it was 20-50 years ago.

I think you and the person you're responding to are dealing in absolutes. In some ways it is harder, but in others it's easier. The world's knowledge is literally at people's fingertips now. Almost any creative skill someone has can be leveraged to make money. In many ways it's the easiest it's ever been to start a business or make money.

But, as you mention, homes are priced insanely high. The flight to the coasts has caused anything within 50-100 miles of the ocean to go crazy price wise. That is much harder on people.

Healthcare is a mess. One of the biggest small business unlocks the US gov. could do is pass universal healthcare. So many people are tied to companies for healthcare, and boom we would see if we could break that tie would be like the tech boom all over again, if not greater.
I don't want my computers restricted because your elderly family members cannot figure out how to use them.
This is a self contradictory writeup but it is a self-contradiction I hear from a lot of investors. It goes something like this (1) the low interest rate environment of 2009-2021 was great for humanity, and (2) I really hope it does not repeat.

Well I for one agree with (1) but I do hope it repeats. And it is very possible that it does.

Actually, if you look at leading indicators, i.e., upstream prices, it looks like inflation will be receding. Oil and natural gas prices are way down year on year. Steel, aluminum and lithium prices are significantly lower year over year. Copper and iron ore are about flat. Coal is significantly lower.

If you look at food staples - wheat, corn and soybeans are all down year over year.

Furthermore transportation costs have fallen significantly across the board.

Furthermore, if you look a little bit downstream, China factory gate prices are in serious deflation, falling 4.6% yoy in May. Considering what a big exporter China is, these lower prices will wash over the entire world in the months to come as cheap Chinese goods are shipped around the world (utilizing lower shipping rates).

So the situation currently is that deflation is happening upstream but downstream, when the finished product gets to the consumer, inflation happens. This is not unusual as everyone tries to keep prices up to pad their margins. How quickly this trend is reversed depends on how competitive the economy is. Unfortunately we have been discovering that after a lot of mergers, the US economy is not as competitive as we previously believed.

But hopefully it will happen soon and downstream prices will fall to reflect lower upstream prices. It has always happened historically. We, as consumers, can help this process along by searching out good deals and rewarding companies that are willing to lower their prices with our business.

So I do not see this necessarily as a continuing period of high inflation. Of course things can change, but it is very annoying how everyone in the business press writes under the assumption that inflation and interest rates will be high for a long period of time. (Interestingly enough, when you look at the bond markets, where people bet with their money instead of their mouths, the bets are for inflation and interest rates to recede).

When you think about it, the low interest rate environment for 2009-2021 was caused by a large underlying factor. Humanity has gotten much better at making larger and larger amounts of stuff. Maybe because of technology, globalization or the free exchange of information of the internet, but it is happening. And guess what, it is continuing to happen.
Can we extend the anecdote to make it more accurate and say the opposite: that is, it's fragile but every time you mention it on HN, you'll have 10+ replies saying they personally moved it 13 times between apartments all across NYC, uphill, through snow, both ways, and then still sold it to someone else for a good price?
https://twitter.com/j_bikker/status/1670791135642411015

> Descent Raytraced - Version 1.0.0 Release

> Download here: https://github.com/BredaUniversityGames/DXX-Raytracer/releas...

> More info in the release announcement on reddit: https://reddit.com/r/descent/comments/14devrc/descent_raytra...

> Awesome job by a talented group of @BuasGames

> #ThisIsIGAD students!
Debatable Tactics
My interest is in compilers much more than interpreters, I haven't come across this threaded style before, my interest in languages and compilers is something I've barely used at work, and everything after university that I've learnt has been self-taught. There are inevitably going to be holes.

Anyway, great pair of links, much appreciated!
Some popular embedded display controllers have commands to draw primitives.
If you run postgres under WSLv1 (now available on Server Edition as well), the WSL subsystem handles processes and virtual memory in a way that has been specifically designed to optimize process initialization as compared to the traditional Win32 approach.
No one is arguing people shouldn't be able to fight to live. In fact, the post you are responding to was only talking about if things are "worse than death".

But in general for the larger point, we should make sure that people can fight to live, but that assholes aren't stealing from them by selling magic beans.
GPT based UIs inspired by the idea that if you get the right sequence of prompts you’ll get stochastically acceptable results.

So now I’m imagining the horror predictions for Word where 90% of the screen was button bars. But the twist is that you type in some text and then click on “prompt” buttons repeatedly hoping to get the document formatting you wanted, probably settling for something that was “close enough” with a shrug.
The recent additions OpenAI have made allows for tighter control over the outputs. I think that is a very useful step forward.
I don't think using a single tool for everything is feasible, but you can use it as a single starting point aggregating all other references.

Here are some options:

- "Project Name" bookmarks folder in your browser

- GDoc

- README in a git repo

- Miro board

- Obsidian Canvas/Notes vault backed by a git repo

For a large project with non-tech collaborators, I think Miro board is the best option. For a solo project, or small project were everyone knows git, git repo + Obsidian vault in the /docs folder of the same git repo.

You can also use Miro board to facilitate kick-start of a new project using various methods/frameworks such as Design Sprint, EventStorming, or Event Modeling.

For Software Design I would use docs-as-code formats stored in the git repo, such as:

- Markdown - GFM (GitHub Flavoured Markdown) for OSS, Obsidian Markdown if everyone on the team comfortable with Obsidian.

- PlantUML or mermaid (use mermaid since it's natively supported in GitHub and Obsidian, fallback to PlantUML for more complex cases)

- C4 Model + C3Model PlatUML (Architecture Design diagrams)

- ADR (Architecture Design Records)

- arc42 - Software Design Document templates in various formats (including GFM - GitHub Flavoured Markdown)
Fwiw, life expectancy is dropping in the US, in part due to lifestyle choices, but also due to deaths of despair. The increase in deaths of despair is indicative of adversity in the greater population - not just those who essentially commit suicide via drugs or alcohol.

It's dropped by much yet, but I anticipate life expectancy to drop further - and become more significant in relation to previous generations as economic adversity increases, also making adequate medical care harder to come by.
I figure VSCode is intended to extend their reach outside the .NET ecosystem where it's not a "VS is bundled with the tools" malformed market, and stuff like JetBrains products and Eclipse still exist.
I've also paid for professional conferences (or volunteered to get them comped) in situations between jobs or other cases where the event's networking is more important and you don't want the conflict of interest in networking for possible future employment on the dime of your current employer.
There was another post today about using Pydantic for function enabled completions: https://github.com/jxnl/openai_function_call

I whipped up an example doing something similar last Friday using a decorator, inspect, ast and __doc__ usage: https://gist.github.com/kordless/7d306b0646bf0b56c44ebca2b8e.... The example pulls top results from Algoia's HN search and then chains them into another prompt for GPT-X. The blog post is here: https://www.featurebase.com/blog/function-integration-in-ope...

Currently integrating this approach into PythonGPT[1], which will build a function on the fly, extract the method info, then call the code in exec(). I would label it "very dangerous"...

[1] https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/PythonGPT
Is interfacting with the GPT-4 API acting as if you are the ChatGPT UI against terms of service? I was under the impression it was and they had a bunch of methods to protect against this. They want you using ChatGPT for $20/mo and then paying for GPT-4 API usage separately per token from what I can tell.
Well. The thing with that is just that there are a lot of extensions. Like, a lot!
It's JS with the wonderful Postgres.js package!

[1] https://github.com/porsager/postgres

Here's an example where it really shines:

const users = [
{ name: 'Murray', age: 68 },
{ name: 'Walter', age: 80 },
];

await sql`insert into users ${ sql(users) }`;
How to write (better) prompts for GitHub Copilot
You don't need c++ or rust if you want to work with JS. (although right now you will need a rust compiler to compile the binary, but we want to ship binaries in the future)

We are considering a C interface, but given we already have a C++ interface, we don't see much gain in having a C interface compared to the effort to maintain it.
Few more details from The Seattle Times:

>David Concannon, an adviser to the company, said Oceangate lost contact with the sub Sunday morning. It had a 96-hour oxygen supply, he said in an email to The Associated Press on Monday afternoon. “Now 32 hours since sub left surface,” said Concannon, who said he was supposed to be on the dive but could not go due to another client matter. He said officials are working to get a remotely operated vehicle that can reach a depth of 6,000 meters (about 20,000 feet) to the site as soon as possible.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/a-search-is...
Ask HN: Reddit Rolling Back Deletions?
I deleted all my posts and comments about a week ago using Reddit PowerDeleteSuite. All of the comments and posts were gone until today, when part of them returned.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
This has Python 3 vibes.
> no one thought a safety hatch the can be opened from the inside in emergencies could be useful?

It’s quite possible that they considered it and felt that it would compromise the structural integrity and the risk would be higher than not having it.
You’re right. But this is wholly tangential to the discussion; an alternative storefront will not change MTX practices.
It may be device-agnostic by the letter, but not in spirit -- it's widely understood that the usage numbers were specifically chosen as a mechanism to cover phones but not consoles.

This happens regularly in laws and regulations, where you can't write a law singling out one or more companies by name, so certain thresholds are chosen to achieve the same end.
Ask it why diversity is bad.
Simply, titanium dioxide and aerospace grade titanium alloys are not the same thing at all.
> There is a significant negative correlation between science literacy—overall and practically all its dimensions—and overconfidence in science in this group.

How many of them when told "hey, you are over-confident aka you are wrong on things you think you are right on" said "oops, my bad" and changed their perspective?

Cough cough American politics/American society in general
Can't do that and generate power. You'd spent all (or at least a lot) of the generated energy pumping the water where it needs to go.
PostgreSQL can recover from abruptly aborted transactions (think "pulled the power cord") by replaying the journal. This is not going to change anyway.
I don't know any, but my guess is that multimillionaires and billionaires asses risk much like most normal people. This isn't like a business venture or medical treatment where you can put a team together to assess the risk for you. It's more like skiing or scuba diving where there is some inherent risk and you decide to do it or not.
wow. ai's are getting better and better. i really thought this was posted by a human for a few moments.
Once buckling occurs, it hardly matters what's in compression and what's in tension: the applied force has a tremendous mechanical advantage over the material strength resisting it once the stiffness fails to prevent it from crossing a threshold.

Secondly, CF does substantially improve compressive strength over neat resin, which would fail in shear.

The fibers individually may not withstand compression, but embedding them in the epoxy resin prevents them from buckling and the composite material exhibits substantially improved performance over either base material.

The exception is tensile stress that causes delamination, for which there is no benefit over the neat resin.
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I think there's room for both... I'm also pretty much okay with judicious use of individual block buttons, as well as add-ons that will allow shared/convention block lists. I generally lean towards a platform being open (source and speech), and letting individuals filter. Of course, that would leave opportunity for someone to create solutions. Site bans also happen to/from some systems.

I also find that many people are way too quick to label, and will find myself tending towards that as well. In practice, I try to keep a conversation open and civil so long as personal insults aren't flying. I am human, however and will also close conversations if I reach a point where I, myself, am likely to slip. I feel it's a fair approach.

I do miss when online communities were mostly local BBSes where you will meet, see and interact with locals that will have differing views from you. That doesn't mean there aren't toxic personalities, but only that a little bit of understanding can at least go a long way in terms of community and society. I feel that, in terms of politics at least, negotiation from opposing views is supposed to be part of what makes it worth. The general ill feelings towards anything that is "other" is disappointing.
Yeah multiprocess isn't Microsoft's style given how expensive creating processes is on Windows.

Oracle - never had a scalability issue on very big Linux, Solaris and HPUX systems though - they do it well in my experience.
This seems to be ~4 years old. Have any cryptographers reviewed / audited this protocol in the interim? A quick google search comes up empty [1], and google scholar doesn't show anything [2].

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?&q=Theseus+dht+protocol+%22aud...

[2]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=theseus+dht+protocol
You're not missing anything. Algebraic effects are basically typed gotos†[1][2], and are generally a bad idea to use and/or implement. They can be useful in a few very niche situations when using typed functional languages.

† With added asynchronicity.

[1] http://community.schemewiki.org/?call-with-current-continuat...

[2] Some argue call/cc is, in fact, worse than goto: https://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html
I suspect I'm overthinking it even more! I couldn't even come up with an answer to the first matchup because I have no idea what I'm supposed to base my ranking on.
Huh, I never thought about it this way. I'm not 100% convinced this is valid math, but I can't find any obvious fault with it. Thanks, I have something to think through.

EDIT: in the 50 years since 1970s the US economy wasn't still - technology made huge leaps across all industries, and lots of wealth has been created. One would think this would offset the population growth, but it seems that it didn't.
> If all tests pass, the application must work correctly.

These are "famous last words" in many contexts, but when talking about difficult-to-reproduce parallelism issues, I just don't think it's a particularly applicable viewpoint at all. No disrespect. :)
i like the idea of this but wont remember it because my muscle memory is tuned to news.ycombinator.com. perhaps i can recommend a chrome extension instead of a website?
I was a bit of a late bloomer when it comes to career, and the beginning was very challenging to land my first junior developer position. I'll never forget the guy who hired me commenting something along the lines of "it's unfortunate you didn't start earlier, you could've gone so much further", or something similar. He ended up being a great mentor, but that comment always bothered me and is the thing I remember most about him.

Now several years later and I'm very happy where I'm at. And I've come to the realization, if I had gone directly into CS in college, there is a fairly good chance I may have gotten burned out by now and moved on to something completely different. So the "right on time" idea resonates with me, but YMMV.
The way you said “you” implies you’re not from the United States. Gun violence is one of those areas where nearly all American media surrounding it is heavily biased. Politicians seize on this every time to push gun control measures which usually have nothing to do with the specifics of the incident, such as pushing for universal background checks when the gun used was legally purchased by one of their parents and improperly secured, or pushing for an “assault rifle” ban when the weapon was a handgun. This makes it painfully obvious that most of these gun control measures are really just intended to disarm the opposition to future authoritarian plans. The Second Amendment wasn’t put into the Bill of Rights just so some backwoods hicks could go deer hunting.
> Nowadays ? Every fucking app gotta have their own different styling.

This has more to do with the current state of GUI frameworks than with developer mindset. Microsoft is between GUI frameworks and rumoured to have deprecated everything between win32 and WPF, and in the meantime they are pushing React Native. Apple doesn't seem to know what to do with desktop environments and is stuck between their legacy objective C frameworks which they seem to purposely hide any form of documentation and swift-based frameworks which are broken out of the box. Linux has a couple of options which are ugly as sin since ever. There's Qt, but their licensing scares away anyone with two brain cells to rub together.

So where are we left?

Well, with webview-based frameworks, which is the worst of both worlds but at least they don't look half bad.

Except that webview-based frameworks are a far lower-level abstraction than any native widget-based framework. Developers are forced to reinvent the wheel, and this means dropping any standard look-and-feel because that's already ugly to start with but takes even more work to get into a working state.

And all you want to do is to provide a GUI for users to click around.
suitcases of cash seem to appear to seek higher returns ; see multiple occurances of capital-seeking-property, both US and from abroad. Second, three years to do a single remodel home is a common sight in California. Where is the new stock? .. I spell "scam"
Transaction roll back is a part of the WAL. Databases write to the disk an intent to change things, what should be changed, and a "commit" of the change when finished so that all changes happen as a unit. If the DB process is interrupted during that log write then all changes associated with that transaction are rolled back.

Threaded vs process won't affect that.
The chief trolls don't believe but some of their lower intelligence followers might.
None of the authors seem to be native English speakers (all are Spaniards). Maybe it's just a language thing.
Is the actual number you got 99%? Seems low to me but I don’t really know about Postgres. That’s 3 and a half days of downtime per year, or an hour and a half per week.
Carbon seems to be the go-to material these days. It often seems to fail catastrophically in ways that, for example, steel does not.

I wonder if future engineers will look back at these carbon decades and shake their heads.
If we only took the time and effort developers work on GPL and AGPL stuff in their free time, and abolished all bad-but-done-for-profit-nevertheless projects, we would probably still make more progress, than we are doing now, when so many developers work on software, that is not only not advancing things or truly helping anyone, but is actually actively harmful, addictive, engagement optimized, advertising for bad products, or helping the overlords to surveil the uninformed masses.
Tips are expenses. Goodwill is an asset.
Yes, that's roughly how I was thinking about more oxygen changing the game.
Ryanair in all its cheapness has the highest margins of any EU airline.

https://centreforaviation.com/analysis/reports/ryanairs-fy20...
> Presumably, the prosecution would charge criminal attempt of Neb. 28-416.

What?

> Bouldin made his decision while standing on the shoulder of I-80 as cars whizzed by. He decided he wasn’t worried about the felony charges – there was nothing illegal in his van. He wouldn’t sign.

> The Seward County deputies didn’t arrest him, as they had said they would. But they did seize his cash while charging him with a misdemeanor for possessing drug money – charges that were later dropped.

> The county attorney continued with the seizure in civil court in order to keep the $18,000. Bouldin received only a warning for the traffic violation that started it all.

What do you say they would presumably charge him with criminal attempt of Neb. 28-416? They charged him with a misdemeanor for possessing drug money. Then they dropped it.

Frankly I'm amazed they wasted their time charging with anything when they can simply steal his money regardless of any charges.
>really low-budget

because they were first. Look at later games from the list http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/games/

Gemini Rue, Primordia, Technobabylon, Shardlight, Strangeland, but especially Unavowed!

Clifftop Games Whispers of a Machine and Kathy Rain are also good https://store.steampowered.com/developer/clifftopgames/#brow...
Please make your substantive points without snark or swipes. Otherwise it just makes the thread even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Would you say the same thing if we were talking about software startups?
A great choice, my favorite for daily wear, but Anthelios is basically sold everywhere over here.

I have no dog in this fight, especially because as someone who often finds themselves defending EU regulations to people who grew up in the States, but I have a hard time following why the FDA appears to drag their heels on approving more advanced filters, whilst Australian, South Korean and EU regulators are all far quicker. Do these three major jurisdictions with historically the highest standards for sunscreens have more streamlined processes, are they willing to take more risks, is the FDA simply underfunded to handle throughput?

It's especially odd considering other parts of FDA approval can often feel overly fast compared to other the regulators jurisdictions, especially when it comes to approving medical devices[0].

[0] https://www.tctmd.com/news/medical-devices-cleared-faulty-pr...