skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think everyone shares this model, even though I think it’s quite accurate. If people did, you wouldn’t have exasperated land owning boomers online telling Gen Z and millenials what they’re doing wrong. Avocado toast has nothing on high debt to earnings and low wage growth for a majority of people over generations. But older folks still think everyone lives essentially the same because all their friends do, so what’s the problem? I think that was one point of the article—that people have a hard time letting go of the prevalent narratives of their generation as outdated as they may be.
> I don't need to have a confidence in a counterparty in a trade - on the contrary, I'd prefer them to be a gullible fool.

Gullible fools may pay you over the odds once or twice, but won’t survive in a competitive market. They’ll go bust, because too many other savvy players are rinsing them.
The fundamental problem here is "imperative GUI" incentivizing tight coupling between business logic and presentation.

Whereas "declarative GUI" like the browser DOM can be understood & interacted by automated tools without instrumentation of the business logic.

Adding more tight coupling, by coupling your code architecture to the limitations of your testing framework, seems like going in the wrong direction in most cases.

Some programs like games need imperative GUI controls to minimize latency, but trying to automatically test everything in an AAA game is a losing battle. You need QA eyeballs, period (or sophisticated visual AI agents).
Commercial will benefit massively from the R&D results of this mission, which is attempting many engineering firsts and enablers. SpaceX is standing on the shoulders of past giants, too.

The thing is, companies fail more easily financially than governments do. It's a good use of gov funds to minimize risks of productization for the private sector, to give them a competitive leg up.

This is how the US space industry is winning, imho - spoken as a European.
I refuse all homework assignments as a matter of principle. Instead I link them to by github which proves beyond doubt that I'm a very strong developer. If they are not happy with that for some reason (e.g insinuating that I'm a "diva") it's not a good employer for me anyway.
No, I hate noisy office cubes where folk drop by and interrupt you preventing you doing any work. Why go into an office to go on a Zoom call? Doesn't make sense. I don't need the social aspect through work as I have a real life outside.
I think our collective minds are warped if we don’t find it odd that a restaurant software company has a 280M research and development budget.
OpenBSD regularly produces "NIH" projects that the rest of the industry adopts, takes from, and (usually) never gives back. Even where not commercially successful, projects like GoT or LibreSSL ensure we're not living in a monoculture.

If you don't have anything kind to say to them (even "thanks" would be more than most people can be bothered with), then better don't say anything.
To be fair, neither IG nor WhatsApp were actual businesses before their acquisition. Sure, WhatsApp had their euro fee which theh waived for everyone. IG could definitely have been profitable without FB but it would have taken a loooonnnnng time.
It's not a cabal, it's just multi-sided stupidity.
Another flavor of enshitification:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/users-...
I remember it triggering unwanted clicks/taps when I was resting my fingers on it.
So I guess he thinks that classes are great as long as there is never any inheritance? And so if you do that then it doesn't count as object oriented programming or something. Especially if you give it a new name like "semantic compression". Lol.

I think the newish thing is traits such as in Rust.
If you're using an llvm-compiled language targeting a new avx512-enabled architecture, you're already using avx512 instructions to vastly accelerate your programs via autovectorization.
>They're kind of like the Star Trek counterpart to Jar Jar Binks.

Ahmed Best, Jar Jar's voice and mo-cap actor person of color, finds the racial commentary about the character offensive and nearly committed suicide over the negativity and harassment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfNiSkd3HfI
It is a mix of pedantry, iamverysmart, ackshully, treating dictionaries as prescriptive (the English dictionary is _descrptive_ and the French dictionary is _prescriptive_) and a bunch of other nonsense.

The entire world agrees bicycles are vehicles and it's encoded in the law almost everywhere. This is no true Scotsman, sure, but IMO if you're trying to argue a bicycle is NOT a vehicle you're only doing it to argue and flex your vast knowledge of the English dictionary to randoms on the internet. It's a completely unreasonable position to hold.
Exactly this. I love being confident in making changes to code. Especially once a project grows and other people are working on it.
KittyOS: VisionOS for Those on a Budget
You are right everything is the same price no matter who buys it (except online), but there is a fair amount of complexity to sales tax. Dine in food might be taxed, but take out food is exempt in some states. In my state, bottled coffee is taxed if it is sweetened, but not if it unsweetened. Bakery goods are tax free, unless plates are made available then it is taxable. Sparkling water is not taxable, but sparkling water with fruit flavor is taxable, unless it has 50% juice, then it is non-tax again.
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Nice write up, but the author is wrong about the GEOS version. Geodes (GEOS executables, drivers, libraries--pretty much anything that "runs") have their own version information (version, release, protocol) in the file header.

The kernel (GEOS.GEO) in BrotherWorks is version 3.0 4-84, protocol 654.054. The archive.org blurb is correct that BrotherWorks is therefore GEOS 3.x.

The 2.0 Ensemble release kernel was 2.0 24-1, proto 654.001. NDO 3's kernel was 3.1 33-1, proto 654.060.

Oddly, the article looks at the GEOS.STR (a file of strings that the DOS start-up code uses for user messages and concludes that an unchanged strings file "proves" the GEOS version.
FWIW I did try an alt layout a while back. It was just too disruptive because it required changing so many shortcuts.

As more jobs come to benefit from shortcuts, QWERTY becomes more entrenched.
And how do you confirm all neighbours have agreed? What's the radius for neighbours? What about extortion to get neighbors to agree?

Status quo is much simpler - it's banned but if neighbours all agree have a late party and police aren't called
Correction, Firefox is controlled opposition for Google to deflect from being accused of having a browser and browser engine monopoly. Mozilla post 2011 is a very different beast; they decided that copying Chrome was the way to go, stripping out all useful features culminating in the removal of the powerful XUL addon system citing security problems (while ironically the amount of malware extensions shot up AFTER they switched to the Chrome originated Web Extensions format, which are far less limited in capability). Meanwhile, the simple minded continue to fall for their claims of respecting privacy and user choice.
IIRC you can and also IIRC it didn't work well with click-and-drag and scroll. But this was quite some time ago
Most banks do not have this problem. The fundamental problem with SVB was that it was a bank that didn’t really act like a bank.

Most banks don’t have a depositor base consisting of one specific type of class and industry, they’re typically diversified. Also, most banks benefit from rising interest rates and organize their offerings to capture the benefits of rising interest rates. SVB has to be one of the only banks in recent history to bet against interest rate hikes by investing heavily in interest-rate sensitive instruments. The whole thing was a risk management nightmare and they didn’t even have a risk management officer when they failed.

No need to solve a problem that doesn’t exist for banks that know what they’re doing. SVB were complete idiots.
Always just blaming the leaders instead of the population is too easy. Russia is a democracy, albeit a flawed one, and Putin has wide support.

Of course discriminating against individuals just because they are Russian isn't justified either.
I ran the ideal of a tech startup in point of sale space, launched pre-square, small company, never took investment,
1M in revenue first year…

In an established market, you’re always going to lose 80% of deals to people who have more funding. This is hard for your frontline employees to deal with, they experience it as unwillingness from cowardly management that they are paying for. Customers experience this as lower pricing, being more stable, more likely to do giveaways.

P. much every company from that era is in private equity receivership (fire the engineers, get lowest common denominator replacements for all employees, run it till customers give up)

I always thought Toast had held up because they had investment but didn’t light it on fire like other places, and thus were profitable.

Very jarring to read this isn’t tractable. The lesson is if you’re a sharp generalist, you’re always better off doing your own place and being brutally honest with customers about what the other game is. It’ll take a decade to play out fully to your benefit, but, independence is worth it
this list is misleading and false, they rely on GitHub ratings.. do you know how many fake review are on GitHub?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140
If that's the case then they're not worth putting in an assignment - an automatically graded quiz would suffice.
The genie is out of the bottle
I came across this (a fork of Clementine) in my ongoing quest to find something I enjoy using like I did iTunes when it first came out. This is close in a lot of ways! Maybe not quite as polished, but a huge improvement is that there's an sqlite db I can interact with directly if I want, so the data feels like it's really mine. (MacOS support is threatened, though, so if you use this on that platform, consider sponsoring).
Terrible for marketing.

But perfectly suitable to such a dorky product.
In contrast to the current zeitgeist, the day after Britain declared war on Germany, the BBC held a Wagnerfest: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rjbnc8/by/date/1939/09/04

If anything, German composers seem to have became more popular in Britain at that time. I can only hazard a guess, but it may have been symbolic -- a rejection of the Nazi claims to all of German culture and German exceptionalism.
Call? On the phone?

Haha, nah man. That ain’t it.

Sorry for the tone of my reply but - no. People use toast because it’s convenient and no humans are involved.
Hmm. IE 5.0 and IE 5.5 were released in 1999, so perhaps the first version was written then. I also see a citation from 2015, which is a strong signal this was edited in or after 2015.

Font size looks fine to me on Firefox/Android.
Uh, it's not "phobia", they're openly shelling civilians and have been for a year.
It's like reading the log files on a distributed system.
How the hell do you not have an idea of the approximate location of the place you are going, such that you don't realize it's close to the border?

How the hell are you an adult and not know that border crossings are gated, giving you plenty of ability to tell a border guard you are being abducted?

What a monster.
Private Armies or Private Military Contractors are desired by governments who want to deflect political accountability, and, to that end, Russian leadership isn't any different to the west on how they've been using them. In the Ukraine conflict, the Wagner group has often been used as cannon fodder. Especially in Bakhmut, where the Ukranians recently lost the bulk of their real soldiers, good soldiers, while the brunt of Russian losses was borne by the Wagner group and not the Russian military. (That is one explanation of why the Wagner group is pissed at Russian military, and, thus, the mutiny).

I agree with your perspective that certain aspects of the war weren't managed well by Russia, but disagree that war isn't going well for Russia - they appear to have achieved 80% of their strategic objectives by annexing Crimea and bordering areas of Ukraine, and holding on to it while Ukranian counter-offensives have failed to dislodge the Russians. In fact military experts in both US (Ukraine’s Chances of Victory in 2023 are Vanishingly Small - https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/06/ukraines-chances-of-vict... ) and India (Final Battle In Russia-Ukraine War? - https://youtu.be/D0oA-Y5eTs4 ) agree that the chances of a Ukraine counter-offensive being successful are quite low.
Apple and Google won’t give us root

An open and flexible boot loader would also be nifty. The ability to dynamically boot into any of several operating systems on the same phone could be useful for testing new OS versions without fear of bricking the device. This should make vendors less apprehensive about updating devices by removing the risk of bricking them. Get rid of internal storage and have a slot for an OS card with multiple boot partitions and a slot for multimedia. Add to this every phone OS must have a proper file manager and terminal shell by default.

Adding to this the lack of open source hardware and firmware is problematic for e2ee. I believe there is a lack of transparency around attestation and chain of custody in the entire build process and not just for the SoC but also the modular baseband modems.

I would personally like to see entirely modular, upgradable and serviceable phones similar to FairPhone but even more open and easier to swap parts. 6G deprecates 5G? No problem, pop out the 5G module and pop in the 6G in its external slot. Rijndael+E2EE found weak? Pop in the Twofish+Serpent+E2EE Custom encryption module. Or the AI-CoProcessor. Or the MIDI module. Or the Hack-RF module!
Since the preamble mentioned this was a test of language literalness, before I answered the question, I looked up the definition of “vehicle”: “A means of carrying or transporting something” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vehicle

While it might be uncommon to call a wheelchair a vehicle, it fits the literal definition. I don’t understand the ‘extension of the person’ rationale, you’re still using the word ‘wheelchair’, and it’s obviously a separate object from a person. How would that rationale differ if you were talking about cars? Can I argue a car is an extension of me as long as I’m using it while I need it?
Do you mean that Google and Apple could revoke e2ee at any time? And/or, that their implementation of it might be include a backdoor for them?
Another corporate overlord rent-seeking.

Use VC money to make product, use VC money to allow to sell product cheap. Gain clients. Product is "sticky". Seek rents.
Google+ was dead on arrival; Mozilla removed RSS support from Firefox long after Google+ was shut down. But of course, they have to dance to the tune of their biggest funder.
That's absurd generally, but for purposes of this rule specifically, I think it works out totally fine, yes. Because if you replace the human jumping with a vehicle jumping (being that the rule is regarding vehicles, not humans) then the answer to the question of whether a violation has occurred is "yes" -- repeated violations does not matter when answering. For flying vehicles, only taking off or landing in the park is a violation.
It's just plain murder, manslaughter at best, but I'd vote to convict murder. Absolutely no sense, she was in no danger, and at any time she could have used her phone to call for help. Instead she used a gun.
the post love age
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The worst part, is that to get to Mexico, you have to pass US FEDERAL AGENTS AND CHECKPOINTS.

It isn't like she was about to drive across some barren desert and crash through the flippin' Rio Grande and end up in white slavery in the next 15m.
That’s why it’s only on transactions over $10.
Also allowed by city governments to go places motorized vehicles are prohibited in general, like emergency vehicles.
So her first reaction to panic is to reach for her gun and shoot?

I mean the whole 'right to bear arms' argument surely falls down on this 'dumbass' argument.

And most people are either dumbasses, or have dumbass moments, or are otherwise dumb or asses or jerks. None of that should lead to fatalities.
Yes but the tax amount will be calculated anyway just fine post-sale. Why not display it pre-sale? What makes that more challenging than post-sale?
Let's look at the response to this war compared to the US/UK war on Iraq, which was much worse and much less provoked. Very telling.
The Falcon 9 is very efficient and innovative, but also one of the most reliable rockets on the market.
I was called back in to the office to work 3 days a week there which is good for me. Working 100% remote is not as much fun, way too lonely, isolating, and I was missing opportunities at work. By the time they announced I was eager to go back to the office. The commute helps me separate the two. Wfh caused everything to blend together.
I'm working on a timeline that does some of that. It pans/zooms from milliseconds to all of time, with events appearing at certain time scales depending on their importance. Doesn't have filtering yet though. Also doesn't have a lot of data in it yet. But it works, and you can add your own content to it (private or public).

https://www.timepasses.net
Because this is what prevents contagion from spreading across the banking system.

If you hold 1M in 4 different banks, you’re in way better shape if one bank fails than if you put it all in one place (plus you’re still fully insured if you deposit evenly).

Odds are that not all 4 banks are collapsing due to their stupidity (as SVB did).
That is the nature of an unfolding situation. I was trying to post updates from the sources I found and was hoping more interested people would join in for us to get clearer picture and to watch up close.

Saying that you cannot have conversation about this just reeks of a poorly veiled elitism.

Dang also said that "There hasn't been a coup" in thad thread you link to which leads me to believe he has no idea what is going on and what is at stake here or he simply does not care. Which is fine, but to say that there is nothing to discuss is just ... wrong.
Conflating the actions of a government with it's people. Even in a democracy that leads to dehumanizing. Love the people, respect the people, win over the people, topple the government.

Edit: you gotta remember that they are being told that anyone against them, or perceived to be, is wrong and bad and these are the reasons. Do you win that over with further hate? Do you win that over with unification and respect?
> Another fan and avid reader of my comment history, deciding to comment directly to me about it.

No, we both just happen to read and comment on a lot of Mastodon stories here, myself because I'm a Mastodon user, and you because... well, I don't understand your obsession with Mastodon. Anyway, I have a pretty good memory, and I remember discussing/arguing with you before in the comments of Mastodon stories.

> The graph omits the entire history of Mastodon users before Oct. 2022, and it has been around since 2016. Not 2022. Thus, It is not early days and my point still stands.

Again, nobody here said it was early days, so your point has no point.

> That's the problem with that figure and it is still unimpressive in 8 years.

"unimpressive" is a matter of opinion and perspective. I'm impressed that most of my community has migrated. This didn't happen with app.net back in the 2010s, unfortunately, which I'm still sad about and consider a missed opportunity, because app.net was superior to Mastodon in a number of ways.

I never wanted 220M people to migrate to Mastodon. You can cackle to yourself that Mastodon didn't become the "New Twitter", and perhaps some people out there in the world believed it would be, but I'm not one of them, and nobody here appears to be one, so you're just inserting irrelevant dunks against your perceived foes into this discussion.

Mastodon is not a failure for not having become the New Twitter, with hundreds of millions of users. I see no indication that Eugen Rochko ever had that goal in mind. Mastodon is a thriving community. It's a much smaller community than Twitter, which is fine and good. Mastodon is certainly not perfect, and it could use some improvements, but IMO attracting hundreds of millions of users would wreck everything that's good about it.
In some ways COM is pretty optimized. An intra-thread COM call is just a virtual function call - no extra overhead. Otherwise it's a virtual function call to a proxy function that knows exactly how to serialize the parameters for IPC.
Wait until you see how much it costs to build and run a single offshore drilling platform or prospecting well in the ocean.

Then think how many there are.
I don't know about everyone else, but I find this kind of hypertext, with each section on its own page, infuriating to read. When you are done reading a section, there is no simple way to "turn the page" and go to the next section. You either have to scroll back to the beginning or use the back button.

I understand that this is mostly a reference text, and few people will read it cover to cover, but I still think that "show me the next piece of contents" is an operation that should be supported natively.
Wow, there are 1.7 billion homeless people in California?!
This is gonna get wild
Why Americans Buy Guns
(That common narrative is also quite negative, Java’s type system is surprisingly strong and can express many more things than people give it credit for. See jooq, or several FP java frameworks)
Aluminum definitely oxidizes extremely well. Most of the aluminum you come in constant with is oxidized intentionally (anodizing).

It’s just a ridiculously expensive metal to make.

Look up how much alumina is minded all over the world, how it’s shipped to Iceland for processing because of their cheap geothermal electricity, then shipped to China to processing, then shipped back around the world to final destination. It’s crazy.
Yes but the Rust example is an ad hoc type rule implemented behind the macro. You can make it type-safe but you lose the ability to have a formatting language in the string itself.
UAP - unidentified anomalous phenomena

AARO - all-domain anomaly resolution office

humongous amount of UFO(unidentified flying object) legalese shit
Right. There's no way you wouldn't be asking that question, therefore it's kind of meaningless.