skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would personally be surprised if tech leaders are anywhere near as likely to be neurodivergent as tech workers in general.

There are disturbing links between "business leaders" and psychopaths - a topic well discussed during the period of the 45th [1], but it's been around way before that worst case entered politics [2].

The problem is that stock markets appraise actions that need a ruthless, cold-hearted arsehole to execute... most infamously mass layoffs of workers despite the company being wildly profitable or giving them so little spare time that they're forced to piss in bottles. This is not something an individual with a healthy mind would order.

[1] https://fortune.com/2021/06/06/corporate-psychopaths-busines...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-dis...
What? How can be “pay to win”, when it’s not even competitive, nor with annoyances like FarmVille timers?
Where is this liberal society, and how do I move there?
> to live comfortably and safely...

If the design goals for the houses presented on McMansion Hell were simply that - comfort and safety - I'd have to agree with your assessment. But houses appear there because they seemingly have one over-arching design goal which is to appear impressive and thereby signal the owner's wealth. Most of the content points to the sheer purposelessness of certain architectural features, highlighting the owner's need for recognition over utility.
Not sure what taxes would have to do with it?

You'd have to bulldoze that flat and start from scratch.
Was looking for this post. We've been having very strange issues since ~11:30 AM ET in us-east-2. We have a DB instance that became suddenly unresponsive to queries even though we could still shell in, almost like a disk died or something. Rebooting the instance has been hanging for >30 minutes. Seeing a smattering of other things not working as intended as well.
You're explaining why it came about, not why it's not an evil.

As for redlining--while it certainly existed in the past I noticed something when there was a flap about it a while back. There was a very detailed article in the local newspaper about local "redlining". However, it didn't make sense--why would bankers only discriminate against black neighborhoods with low-down mortgages? If black is relevant why not all mortgages?

How about a simpler explanation that fits the facts? Something stood out to me about their map--the map of the "redlined" zip codes exactly matched an earlier article about appreciation. Suppose the bankers are looking at the chance a house ends up underwater a few years down the road? That gives no inconvenient inconsistencies in their behavior. Yes, it hurt the neighborhood but there's no racism involved, just simple economics.
What you are describing is called "moral hazard". When the incentives of a program or law encourage more bad behavior by removing risk it is a moral hazard.

Don't worry, sugar daddy government's got your back Jack.
XD proved that Adobe doesn’t really care about the UX/UI design sector - Figma’s worth 20bn to Adobe to kneecap a potentially existential threat.
Partners can choose to disable all types/placements of ads ("skippable video ads", "non-skippable video ads", "pre-roll ads", "mid-roll ads", and "post-roll ads") except for "display ads" (that is, banner ads). As for whether those options actually work, I can only assume so, but the article you linked is specifically about non-partners.

https://i.imgur.com/RynaVin.png
Shameless plug for Doctave [0], which offers a solid way to combine markdown and OpenAPI specs into a documentation site.

It's a hosted SaaS, so it's technically not a static-site generator, but it's an alternative to the above.

[0]: https://www.doctave.com/
Rocky routing around Redhat's attempt to hack the GPL is itself a useful contribution to the world.
You're supposed to close applications (at least ones that you cares about) then sync. Then by definition nothing important falls into the queue

Also I'm around 70% sure remounting system readonly does equivalent of sync & not allow more writes.
> Security updates are a meme and just a way to add more bloat.

What. Are you serious? You mean in general or on certain brands for example?
If you want to expand even more, there are even more options:

• RSS 1.0 – the RDF/XML serialisation.

• JSON Feed

• h-feed/hAtom – embedding the “feed“ as Microformats markup inside the HTML.

• schema.org/Blog – embedding the “feed“ inside the HTML, either with RDFa or with JSON-LD or with Microdata.

• If you want to annoy the most people at once, there is a great solution: The data model from RSS 1.0 is of course RDF-based. The modern serialisation of RDF is JSON-LD – simply use the RSS 1.0 vocabulary in a “JSON-LD-Feed”.
Looks nice from the GIF. I wish more chat apps had a tiled UI, like mIRC. I use IRC via Matrix/Element, and this is something I miss a lot.
Do you not think YouTube will penalize channels for choosing to present less ads? I know that I go with their suggested defaults, on the assumption that I will be punished if I depart from that. I assume that people will run adblockers if they've got any sense: my demographic is probably more likely to do that.

I'm on desktop, adblocking the entire internet to the best of my ability. I daresay if YouTube got pushy with me as a video watcher, I would watch less and would be the better for it. Go ahead, make my day ;)
Rust on Espressif chips – 30-06-2023
Charles Stross made this point in "Accelerando" (2005), where he refers in passing to "Economics 2.0", run by weakly godlike AIs.

Once AIs get better at running companies than the average CEO, the fundamentals of capitalism will make AI-run companies outcompete human-run companies. There's a little of this in the investment community now.

LLMs alone aren't enough to do this. But the various schemes for bolting planning and followup onto LLMs move this closer to the possible. We might end up with companies where a human board meets weekly or monthly, and the AIs run the day to day business.

Middle management may go first. There's an SF story where someone's boss is "Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0 with passive-aggressive set to low". That seems all too likely.
Yep, this is a good thing. Those placed at highest leverage burning at max engines during their productive time is ideal for society. Good stuff.
Intelligence and expertise are are orthogonal to one's ability to persuade.

Some of the smartest people with the deepest expertise are the worst at communication.
> Never had an IRC server want to verify me through SMS or FORCE me to update my client.

Which destroyed several channels through spam. The authentication is a feature.
The thing with Niantic games though is that you actually have to go places! To be fair, they managed to pivot a bit during COVID and allow game play at home which kept some players engaged.

I still miss the earlier days when we would have 20+ players across the island collaborating to complete self-designed Ops. Happens more less often now.
> The Pixel is the closest.

This answer is painfully obvious and posts like OP's shouldn't be allowed on Hacker News.
Ours = Tech Startups.
Ok, and? Remove legacy admissions from that equation and you accelerate the part of the churn where weak elites go back into the general pool. The best and brightest get to rub shoulders with each other and the strong elites. Seems like by your argument, legacy admissions are not helping society.
vice that just declared bankruptcy after torching a billion in VC to fill that void. the void is back.
That doesn't absolve the first sentence that attempts to frame adblocking as theft. This is playing into the propaganda from companies like Google that are attempting to ahistorically distort the social contract by asserting that they control the content that is displayed on my screen, which is not how the web works or has ever worked. It's not "stealing", "freeloading", "privateering", it's a public resource that companies have imposed themselves upon and are now attempting to assert ownership of.
I'm way too ADHD to hold an engineering job without medication. I'm also quite sensitive to amphetamines. Vyvanse gave me terrible insomnia, and the extended time release worsened the psychiatric side effects (depression, social anxiety, paranoia) when taken in large enough doses to aid focus (which were always pretty low in absolute terms).

Vyvanse basically ruined my life in high school in part because my psychiatrist was afraid to prescribe those pesky abuse-prone IR amphetamines, but I felt I had to keep taking them because it was my only way to succeed academically. Having also been a heavy caffeine user over the years, I think Vyvanse is in an entirely different ballpark.

I'm now managing my ADHD effectively by taking low doses of Adderall on an as-needed basis (average of probably 90 days per year, <10mg per day). Minimal insomnia, minimal depression, no paranoia.

SSC's article is the best concise discussion of ADHD and medication I've ever come across: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...
This behavior is up to the file system or virtual file system implementation. Not all writes on Linux use a page cache.

It's misleading to tell people that there is always a page cache involved.
Paris had seen changes before that to make it easier to deal with/suppress riots: https://rmschwartz.wordpress.com/paris/the-new-streets-of-pa...
51% of the $12 premium is distributed to creators of videos one watches.
I think they already had a $225 million funding a year ago, that's quite impressive.
There are so many AI powered assistant start up right now, I don't really get the hype to be honest
"Had possibly been added before it was fully baked" is not the same as "we should never have added anything like it", and neither is "we have a much better solution but no one uses that because asyncio is in stdlib which we're now stuck with, for better or worse".

Your entire reading of that is just wrong.
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Selling at the top requires a buyer who doesn’t think it’s the top. Not easy to always be the correct party in a market timing transaction.
Approaching this from the lens of an interested observer with experience with other projects working on non-LLVM backends for their languages, I'm just struck by the amount of hubris in the linked proposal.

If it weren't for the author, I'd have dismissed the whole thing as a low-effort GitHub issue by a Zig newbie. The underestimation of the work involved, the backhanded dismissal of all the work that has gone into LLVM, the "obviously we can do it cheaper, faster, better" confidence/machoism that exudes from each sentence or claim.. I'm disappointed.

I've had nothing but respect for Andrew's work in the past so I'm going to extend him some grace and the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe it was just written in haste or on a whim without paying attention to how it came across. But it's not something that inspires me with confidence or lends me to give the proposal itself more of a chance.
What other scenario is there without human contributors getting properly compensated for their time and effort?
You are just describing why Android's update/support model is broken, which is agreeing with the parent comment.

Cleaving the hardware support from the OS support is precisely why the PC ecosystem can sustain much longer support periods, because those are separate concerns. Yes, at some point BIOS feature updates will cease (although usually they will crank out an update for everything going back a decade+ if there is some major vulnerability) but that doesn't mean Microsoft or Canonical or Red Hat can't keep rolling out OS feature updates for another decade on the existing BIOS feature level. And while BIOS security updates are occasionally a thing, the attack surface is much smaller, just like the hypervisor reduces Xbox/PS5 attack surface too.

The problem with Android's model is specifically that it ties these two together, so when the SOC vendor or the phone vendor get bored, the OS updates also cease.

Google has been moving towards changing that, by packaging more and more things as Google Service updates/etc rather than OS updates, but fundamentally the Android model is like your PC not getting Windows 10 because the motherboard vendor doesn't want to package it in a new BIOS image. And that's different.

Sometimes there are genuine feature cliffs, like 32-bit support, or UEFI support, or Windows 11 starting to move towards mandatory TPM. But if the OS vendor is willing to live with the old BIOS feature level, the BIOS vendor or the System Integrator doesn't need to keep packaging the updates for microsoft.
> [9:32 AM PDT] We are experiencing performance degradation for a small number of EBS volumes in a single availability zone use2-az1 in the US-EAST-2 Region. We are actively working on resolving the issue but don’t have an estimated time of recovery at this moment. Customers should restart from an EBS snapshot or failover to alternate availability zone in US-EAST-2 if the application supports it to maintain application availability as we continue to work recovery.

from https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/14n4mym/useast2_l...
I've tried it for a few days a month ago and it was noticably worse than copilot, copilot gave much more one shot completions sooner while codeium was line by line on same code.

Way better than the AWS code whisperer or whatever it's called but still not worth switching. Especially since I trust GH way more than some random company (GH already has access to my code anyway)
> If the API changes were meant to actually drive revenue rather than to simply put 3rd party apps out of business...

I can't think of a good reason to want to put 3PAs out of business given, based on what we know, those users represent a small minority of total Reddit users (and therefore a small fraction of ad impressions).

So the only logical conclusion, to me, is that they see revenue potential on monetizing API access, and 3PAs just happen to be in the blast radius.

I'm not saying they'll ultimately be right. All I'm saying is, on its face, it does make sense.
> If these people are tech execs, then presumably they are extremely productive members of the economy.

First of all, executives rarely are productive members of the economy - the value is created by the exploitation of those below them in the ranks.

> What does it matter what they do in private?

Because what they do as a consequence of snorting cocaine and whatnot has consequences on society at large - mass unemployment events, destroying everything around them with their sheer scale (such as Walmart is infamous for), or ruining entire neighborhoods, even entire cities like AirBnB did.
I think it's interesting to consider games that took off so wildly they literally killed/stifled the genre.

Has anything similar matched World of Warcraft? It was a cultural phenomena when it launched and so many big studios tried to capture it, but none did to that level. It's more niche now.

Pokemon Go seems like that but to an extreme. Maybe it's the traction required for IRL video games to take off, maybe it's just Pokemon was definitively one of the best franchises for that style of game.
No ads on your video. I confirmed I'm not blocking them by switching to another video...instant ads.
Until we start talking about SMR magnetic drives, then they go back to being similar to "need to read to rewrite sector and write it back", althought that's mostly hidden by disk's controller.
The real point of NoSQL is to enable horizontal scaling, which is probably irrelevant to the author's use case.
The courts have already ruled that web scraping is legal of the data is publicly facing. This is why price trackers for Amazon exist.
In orbit? Good luck

Lasers maybe?
Concepts looks nice and I hadn't heard of it before. The freemium and/or subscription seems like a potential dealbreaker to me, but might be worth a try.
Some of their decisions do the opposite, especially the recent limitation of five remote raid passes used per day. It used to be unlimited, and of course they have a way to purchase game coins that are then used to purchase those passes.

IMO this was more in line with their original principles over profits (that you ought to walk outside to do a raid at a gym, rather than going on Discord to get a remote invite and use a pass you purchased with pokecoins). But I find the game boring and tedious anyway.
DNS based content blocking is trivially bypassed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30411049

I am pretty active in the blocklist community, co-maintain a FOSS network monitor and firewall for Android, was a contributor to AOSP, and run a public DoH/DoT resolver; to me, the writing has been on the wall for the past few years. Plugins like uBlockOrigin, alt web-based front-ends like Invidious, and reverse-engineered apps like YouTube ReVanced will most likely be the only options left in the not so distant future.
downdetector says something different: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

sad that you can rely on their health dashboard. doesn't add any value unfortunately.
I don’t remember the last time I actually lost any data when a machine loses power. Am I just lucky or is there more to the story for this comment:

> What happens if you unplug your computer before the operating system writes the data to disk? Well, you will lose the data. It’s as simple as that.
Microsoft made TypeScript instead, which has taken over the industry.
Hmmm. Citation needed. Am an active player. All the whales in the communities are adults.

Maybe you mean a generation of children as in children in the 90s), but even that's not true, as there's plenty of folks > 40yrs old, too. They've got multiple groups hooked.
the import syntax makes it possible for the browser to start loading dependencies as soon as the module has been parsed, before it finishes being compiled. the require function would force the browser to download the script being depended on then and there, and since it's not async, the browser would need to pause script execution while the module is being loaded.
>wary of the group

There is no "group" - 4chan is not a monolith, and many of boards have members that do not mix at all. /tg/ - the traditional games board (TTRPGS and the like) - might as well be an entirely different website than, say, /pol/ or /g/. 4chan in general is also extremely tame as compared to 10 or 15 years ago.
I've been using fixyt.com to avoid YouTube grossness for years. Thanks to the bookmarklet below, whenever I land at youtube.com I'm only ever a click away from escaping their awful, awful app.

javascript:(function() {window.location=window.location.toString().replace(/^https:\/\/www.youtube\./,'http://fixyt.');})()
This was my initial impression to, but up-thread there’s a link to an article about the buyers. Tl;dr they are wealthy, wanted a house in the area, and are “super stoked” to rebuild it and live there forever.
Out of curiosity, does Intel's icc compiler see much use? It looks like it uses LLVM these days, but its frontend presumably still needs to handle all of C++'s complexity.
I'm not sure about that. On the one hand, they might mistakenly think that this will drive engagement by encouraging people to sign up for accounts. On the other, a lot of their traffic comes from Google searches by people who are looking for a specific solution to a specific problem, and losing that Google traffic would hurt their metrics even more.

What I could see them doing is something like:

1. Allow anonymous browsing of the default front page

2. If you want to browse through to someone's profile, or browse a subreddit, or maybe even seeing the comments section entirely in some cases, you need to log in

Pinterest did a great-slash-horrible approach, where you can see a result on Google image search, you can click through to it, but if you want to actually see where it came from or get any useful information (like browsing the board the poster put it in) then you need to log in. Pinterest has done a great job of weaponizing their user's posted (or, more commonly, stolen) content against the internet as a whole, and even though Reddit fucks up everything they touch I can imagine them trying something similar.
I mean, waiving student loans is exactly the authority you've quoted there. Forgiveness is simply a synonym for fully exercising that provision in this case.
> But it has limited updates and proprietary software for things like the camera

It gets as many updates as other Android phones, and there is no blotware whatsoever. Not sure what your comments here are about the camera app. It's just an improved version to use the features of the pixel camera.
AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That is a problem
It will be made out of Tritan -- a type of plastic, not glass.
> very expensive stunt that fixed nothing.

I agree. The universities can charge whatever they want, they get paid upfront, and when the student defaults on the loan they bear no consequence. The current system is deeply broken and in much need of reform. The scale of the problem is immense with tens of millions of American adults in student debt. You want to forgive student loans? Great. But at least fix the root problem.
Yeah, toilet paper is supposed to rapidly fall apart when it's wet. If the wipes don't do the same thing they're not actually flushable.
Yes, you can. But you have to wonder what the sanctioned VPN is doing on/to your machine. There is a lot of trust going into any VPN solution.
But it does mean that it's far less likely they will have any users. Particularly without any federated login.
I have several friends that play regularly. Every time there's a big event I hear them complain that it's broken.
I wouldn't diss the use Debian. I use it always if the software package provides it. Debian does tend to keep to its principles.

As I'm not wanting to dogfight the drama, I feel that Canonical, and with documented "heated" discussion on the mail list has, to me tainted the same waterhole that Debian uses.

It has done well to snuff the same flames that flare with RedHat.
Another poster pointed out how every other non-gambling path to wealth is slowly being shut down (or to put it positively, optimized away), so the new generations are leaning on things like crypto and online poker and chatGPT startups as their only shot at the middle class. Society have set up our economic structures so they are all based on risk-reward, so it's no surprise that risk and gambling are slowly becoming the only viable path to wealth creation.
I like the tool. If you built in 24 hours, thats really impressive.

Did you get paid users? I wonder if people wanna pay for such tools (I have so many of them in my head :P).
You don't represent society, certainly not more than the millions of people with ChatGPT subscriptions.
I know I can buy an iOS device and get support from the vendor without hoping that some third party will support it out of the kindness of their heart and know that it supports apps from the AppStore.

I can do the same thing with Windows. Microsoft figured this out almost 30 years ago.

Apple just released a security update for the 2013 iPhone 5s earlier this year.
“Legend of Zelda: Hetsu Korok Hunters” would be an instant hit if Nintendo & Niantic made it. Korok puzzles are perfect for an on-the-go AR game.
This is exactly why my wife, our friends and I use Goodreads as well. It's fun to see what everyone is reading, and to comment on a book or ask what they thought about a book they just finished. We also enjoy comparing our year-in-review infographic that Goodreads creates each year.
A lot of the ram usage is actually coming from the wgpu backend. You can use ICED_BACKEND=tiny-skia to try software rendering and the footprint should be a lot smaller.

The footprint should be very consistent throughout the lifecycle of the app. Message history is pretty small and we only keep opened buffers in memory. Everything else is flushed to disk.

Now compared to Electron, there is no comparison for speed and responsiveness