skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> having the discipline to sell

I read about a study in Scientific American many years ago regarding this topic, and IIRC the results of the study showed that accepting a loss and reinvesting was what separated the good ones from the others.

The argument as I recall it was that stocks that fell hard seldom recovered, at least on shorter timescales, thus it was almost always better to accept that loss and reinvest whatever is left in something else.
This is actually true. What's the SCOTUS going to do? Start a coup?

This has happened before: the SCOTUS ruled that the Indian Removal Act was illegal and struck it down. Andrew Jackson did it anyway, yielding the Trail of Tears. SCOTUS is powerless to enforce its rulings on the executive branch; only Congress can actually act against the President.
Village yes, but there's a city not too far away, too.
I like the "trust on first use" commenter's suggestion, akin to how typical SSH works
Don't worry. I'm blind and I'm totally fucked in a 3d first ux. :)
Why is Fast and Furious so Popular in China [video]
I got the sinking feeling something might have happened to Bret Victor when I saw the title. Thankfully, its just an update about his project.

Maybe it can be slightly edited to reflect that.
Material selection is part of the design.
But why would you ever put the plate at 0° when you can put it at 45°. Yes you need some height, but is that so onerous?

I am not saying they have to build something equivalent to the SLS/SST/Satun/Soyuz/Proton concrete pad infrastructure. Just put a 45° angle. Wedge, cone, pyramid, whatever shape works. Make everything out of steel if it works and is cheaper. Even RocketLab with their tiny Electron have a diverter. You can see it here: https://youtu.be/P_tGKxL6CLI?t=31
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Rust pretty much alleviates these dangers. At least no memory safety bugs because of multithreading. Logic bugs are still possible, of course, but the channel API and the scoped thread API in the standard library do help with those.
Plenty of evidence contradicts the efficient market hypothesis, showing that it's possible to outperform the average. The market's late response to Covid is a case in point.

The gambling analogy holds up only when you compare it to poker or sports betting, where you can make money if you're better than others.
> Yes and this GUI application should be cross platform so make it Electron.

Why? What's wrong with Qt? or any of the other x-platform UI toolkits I already use to target Windows, Linux and Mac?

(Your other points are irrelevant. I never claimed that suc will match slack 100%, feature for feature).
It's very difficult trying to do rational opposition to policy in the UK these days because .. that's simply not how it works any more. At best you have to work the kremlinology of different factions to get an idea killed or promoted. But you have to remember that it's a closed news ecosystem, you simply can't get a word in unless you're already part of that media/party group of people.

The plan to bring back "Imperial" measurements still isn't dead, for example.

Liz Truss, worst and shortest PM in living memory, is back after a few months as if nothing had happened. Why? It's not because she has any good ideas; it's because she's a vessel for a particular faction of bad ideas.
How is this any different than someone coming to your business and starting to yell at you, because they don't agree with your political views?
> Make student loan debt dischargeable through bankruptcy, like every other type of debt. This was the original corruption that's responsible for most of the horrible dynamic

Apparently Joe Biden himself pushed and voted for the bill that made student debt not dischargeable in bankruptcy: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/02/joe-biden-st...
A very sophistically designed and expensive deadweight.
> where's the growth story?

They are not Twitter and are doing Twitter-like things with Threads.
It’s going to be interesting to watch, particularly as someone with no money on either and a dislike of both.
> An app architecture

i.e. a framework.

> Then because they're complicated they're difficult to learn.

It's easier to learn a publicly available framework, as there is lots of help on Stackoverflow, and usually the popular frameworks have good, or just existing, documentation.

> existing code isn't dependent on some obsolete framework - Ember/Angular 1/etc.

The "app architecture" can also become obsolete. But now instead of a migration path, you're stuck with the person who made the "app architecture" most likely having left the company.
Berkshire Hathaway do actually own 16% of MSFT, about $400 billion if my maths is right.
Not even Hacker News can avoid those topics these days, especially politics. The world is Twitter now, partly because of Twitter.
Who do you consider to be the best investors?
async in F# is not a language feature, it’s a library that leverages F# computation expressions (monads).

It’s also possible to do async-like behaviour - without the async/await language feature - in C# using LINQ; so you could argue C# has had the capability (like F#) since LINQ was released.

But, I believe C# was the first mainstream language to implement the async/await method-splitting coroutines state-machine (as a language feature)
Try paying for GPT-4 - it barely hallucinates at all, at least as far as I've noticed.
You can follow creators, they post content. It's a social creator platform. Is it the NSFW or the paywall aspect that's making you feel like it's not?
How can we compare expressive power between two Turing-complete languages?
Seems like a really dangerous experiment.
> There must be many such investors. Are they all "better" than Munger and Buffett?

Your reasoning demonstrates that "better" is, strictly speaking, relative to a given set of criteria,[1] that are at least vaguely quantifiable and can be meaningfully (numerically?) combined[2] with each other.

I think that all these discussions who is "better" or "best" (strictly speaking or not) have their merrits. But not in the sense that we ever may arrive at a final, definite ranking. It is more of a recommendation to analyse a certain person's performance because something important might be learned from it.

[1] If we were to consider lottery tickets as "investments", the person who spent $1 and won $997,600,000 in the Powerball lottery in 2022[1.1] would be among the best investors of all time.

[1.1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_jackpot_records

[2] Does it make sense to ask whether Michael Jordan is a "better" sportsperson than Magnus Carlsen?
Haven't checked, but looking at version parity between these 2 I think both have the same maintaining team for Let's Encrypt.
It's a Ukrainian power plant that Russia is currently occupying, and bombing it would be par for the course for the actions the Russians take to purposely destroy as much of Ukraine as possible.

The power plant is very well shielded it would be practically impossible to breach it from the outside, if anything it is likely that it will be sabotaged / attacked from inside.
Pretty easy to just not engage on those topics. Just don't comment.
Install on what, though? Why is this preferable for the target user to just using a SaaS?
Have you ever used it in a production / server environment?

One of the problems I have with Snap is that it does auto-updates. So you can't control when updates are performed. Furthermore, you can only use Canonical's repository. So if you want to use a custom build of some sort, you can't - unless you pay big bucks to Canonical.
Or non-lessened security, and selective enforcement. Of course this is for "terrorists", not businesses.
Poker - sure. But sports betting?
It’s dubious whether this person brought their social media personality into the office. And who’s to say that the entire localized team might not share in the same culture? Would be interesting to hear accounts from the coworkers. Certainly it sounds like there was at least one who had the author’s back. Finally, I am unsure whether that is an accurate, or fair, assessment about their particular subculture. Are you operating with additional insight on that subject? From an insider’s perspective, perhaps?
Closing the sideloading hole on Android then becomes the next step.

It's already a nonissue on the most popular device.

Eventually the sale of devices that don't include cryptographic controls to prevent terrorists from misusing them to evade terrorist surveillance will be outlawed.
Unfortunately I don't see any real way to avoid suid here, otherwise neat experiment. Posix ACLs might help, but the crucial part is prefixing the username to the message which requires privilege

Lots of unix facilities are criminally underutilized in modern systems
I build my sites the static way too these days. The best part is that I can host my sites on Cloudflare Pages, which is completely free and can easily handle a traffic spike. Plus, it has a built-in CDN, so it's super quick.

I use Astro for my websites, because I'm familiar with the framework and have used it for many of my clients. Even though Astro is a framework, it doesn't feel like one when creating content inside it.
> If a product offers something and suddenly makes it product progressively inferior...

The inferior experience in terms of YouTube is the increase in ads. I like to think of it as a price increase due to inflation.

> It feels scummy since it didn't start with "first X are free" and shows a lack of upfront monetization strategy.

That's a standard practice actually. I have seen new restaurants offer food for free on the day of opening to attract customers and then charge from next day onwards. They will also gradually keep increasing their prices to cope up with inflation and/or other reasons.

> It's highly objective if you actually use arguments, which you don't.

Treating your preference as objective just shows how much disconnected you are from the reality. In my country, YouTube is the goto choice for music. Moreover, YouTube ads are skipable, but Spotify ads aren't.

> Using the term piracy here is playing into the game of anti competitive companies who continually lobby governments to get their way over the actual desires of citizens.

Desires of citizens like you is to get everything for free. That's what I have understood.

> You haven't really supported your quasi marketing campaign claims about the YouTube experience.

Your happy customers are your best marketers.

> Truth is: They had a product that was good. Made it shitty and told you to pay if you want what you had. You pay and laud it.

I agree, they did make the product shitty for free users. But that won't make me and many others stop using it.
> The "magic" of s-expressions is that they make it easy to operate on the source code of a program as a hierarchical data structure (i.e. as an AST) rather than as text.

As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597550 points out, you can do this with more complicated syntax as well. It's just a bit more annoying.

I agree that ergonomics are a big deal when using programming languages, and it shapes their culture.

Just like it's a pain to re-use code in C, so everyone always re-implements linked lists from scratch every time they need one.

> It is simple and straightforward: homoiconicity is where the primary representation of programs is a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself.

Why does it have to be a 'primitive' type?

Eg Haskell supports representing ASTs just fine, but you would use user-defined types for that.

Imagine a variant of Haskell that used S-Expression syntax for the sake of argument. That version of Haskell would still represent S-Expressions internally with a user-defined type. See https://hackage.haskell.org/package/s-expression and mentally translate all the code into S-Expressions (but leave the semantics the same).

Or just imagine a variant of Lisp where cons-cells are a user-defined data-structure. That wouldn't make their S-Expressions any worse, would it?

As long as whatever data structure you use to represent your AST is easy to work with, that's surely good enough?

And what do you mean by 'primary' representation? A Lisp compiler (or interpreter) has many different layers, and the AST is but one representation used in one of the layers.

For many purposes, S-Expressions aren't particularly useful, because eg they don't keep track of which variables are bound where. And, of course, an interpreter that works by walking S-Expressions is really, really slow.

So in what sense are S-Expression a primary representation?

You could imagine a re-skin of C that used S-Expression syntax. It's actually relatively easy to write such a front-end as a pre-processor that translates S-Expression syntax into classic C-syntax before feeding the result to a C compiler. (And allows you to run C programs on your S-Expressions as macros.)

But that change by itself wouldn't change too much about the language. And wouldn't make S-Expression-C as pleasant a language as any old Lisp.
5 lines of bash...

... and over 50 years of operating systems development.
I'm not sure about the 90% figure you quote. I'd say it's a lot less from my experience. But even in that "programming part" I'd say the time to implement core functionality follows the Pareto principle. You can probably code up 80% of what you need in 20% of the time. The other 80% ends up being QA and bug fix iteration.
Yeah I think the Renaissance fund.
It's worth remembering that all of these solutions are Wine (or Proton which is a fork) underneath, it's just a question of packaging.

The Steam Deck is a Linux Gaming machine that uses Proton to make the vast majority of the Steam Library available. It works extremely well on not the most powerful hardware. You can basically play any game as long as it doesn't rely on some hardcore anti-cheat (so counts out some online multiplayer games like R6 Siege).
>Wait, I have never said anything about my supposed abilities or self-perceived performance regarding programming

How come? You said you are a ‘polyglot’.

Human language polyglots are geniuses who know several languages on a decent level. If you checked several courses on Duolingo, chances are you are not one.

The same applies to programming languages.

Maybe, stop calling yourself a synonym of ‘genius’ to avoid receiving references to Dunning-Kruger effect.

>How come you are diagnosing overconfidence from afar, without knowing anything beyond the few lines I've written?

Few lines are enough to see inconsistencies in your words and realize that I was in your shoes.

The only difference is that as a script-kiddie “having dabbled in a two-digit amount of programming languages“ I decided to give it a try and shifted to programming in my career. It’s not what I thought it was, so I cleaned out my closet from amateurish illusions, focused on 2 languages and I’m quite satisfied with my job.
I laughed reading your comparison but I don't agree. I clicked waiting for a shallow trick and found that there was indeed a trick, but not a shallow one at all
This ability to bring complex capabilities to a chat system by leveraging so much of its ecosystem is truly amazing. Definitely worth the hn front page.
And you only need basic shell literacy in order to use it, little more to understand it
> It absolutely doesn't if you're building a rocket.

With all due respect, it obviously does work; on account of the Falcon 9 rocket being the safest (and cheapest, given its capability) rocket ever.
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What does a founder need to know about TechCrunch:Disrupt before showing up?
So I just bought my Founder Pass for TechCrunch: Disrupt, and I'm wondering: What would be helpful for a startup founder about to raise a seed round to know before attending? For example, at other conventions and trade shows I've attended, certain after-parties & side-events fill up, so you have to get on the event sponsors/hosts list prior to arrival. Can anyone give me the cliff notes on what's helpful to know/do before showing up, or what I should be sure to do after I arrive? And what time should I get in line the first day?
Yeah, the web version of Teams is fine but doesn't support Firefox properly - e.g. can't make calls.

This is annoying because Firefox containers are ideal for managing the multiple teams sessions I have for different clients.
Someone oughta tell that to Prigozhin!
This is quite an amusing way to describe it. Clearly motivated, too.

> debris may destroy the environment around it

"Destroy the environment" invokes some rather grandiose associations for what is essentially pulverizing a steel tube in the middle of nowhere.

> and people on board may die

Perhaps you have missed the part where those tests are conducted with the explicit intention of figuring out failure modes.

SpaceX Crew Dragon is "one of two U.S. human-rated orbital transport spacecraft". This is a result of the same developmental process.
Given the tweets and the article, it's fair to assume that this is not the first time the person has exhibited such behavior and this was just the last drip overflowing the bucket.
If you're not familiar with him, you could watch his "Inventing on Principle" talk [1] from 11 years ago. Starting at around the 12 minute mark should get you right to the good stuff (though it's all worth watching and thinking about). This is the talk that made him famous.

Unfortunately, the demo he showed in that talk never really turned in to a product or movement that revolutionized programming as at the time many of us hoped it might.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
Incase anyone was wondering where Jeffery Sachs allegiances lie.

> In 2022, he appeared twice on one of Russia government-funded top-rated shows, hosted by Vladimir Solovyov, to call for Ukraine to negotiate and step away from its "maximalist demands" of removing Russia from Ukrainian territory,[73] for which he was criticised by the Wall Street Journal.[74]

> In 2023, he blamed the United States for its supposed role in the Russo-Ukrainian War, claiming it "wrongly conspired" in the "overthrow" of president Viktor Yanukovych in the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, and then pushed "NATO enlargement to encircle Russia."[75][non-primary source needed]

> Sachs has suggested that the U.S. was responsible for the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline. In February 2023, he was invited by the Russian government to address the United Nations Security Council about the topic.[76][26]
Even if we ignore that most people who work on PC use multiple applications at the same time, at least in my experience also most office workers use at least 2 displays, plus the in-built laptop screen. Not sure if Android can handle 3 screens with each showing at least 2 applications by average.

Currently visible for me are 9 applications on 3 screens. Sure, I could minimize or close some of them (Keepass is not that important all the time), but I appreciate the convenience of having a lot of space.
Well, MathML[1] support is (nearly) everywhere now, and as the docs say:

MathML Core is a subset with increased implementation details based on rules from LaTeX and the Open Font Format. It is tailored for browsers and designed specifically to work well with other web standards including HTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript.

I don't have a lot of experience working with this stuff (yet) but if you can script your MathML objects with Javascript, you should be able to make whatever interactive "stuff" you want in terms of math notation.

Now drawing objects and plots and stuff is a different question. There's stuff like Plotly.js[2], D3.js[3], Sigma.js[4], Three.js[5], Two.js[6], Paper.js[7], etc. that might be useful depending on exactly what effects you're going for.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML

[2]: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js

[3]: https://d3js.org/

[4]: https://www.sigmajs.org/

[5]: https://threejs.org/

[6]: https://two.js.org/

[7]: http://paperjs.org/
There is also a sequel, More Programming Pearls.

I have both, and they are good.

In one of them, Bentley shows some advanced uses of awk, involving its associative arrays, in a short awk program to do some sort of processing, and says that an equivalent C program would be a few hundred lines, IIRC.
We’ve got heaps of nice things because of techbros. Techbro Steve Jobs pumped out heaps of nice things, the main one being the device held in the hands of every girl on insta, without her even realising the complexity of what it took to do
https://blog.cetinich.net

Most popular posts is one an AWS X-ENI and the EMC VNX hacking and the Z16 Thinkpad review

- https://blog.cetinich.net/content/archive/2017-aws-xeni/
- https://blog.cetinich.net/content/2022/2022-lenovo-z13-z16-g...
- https://blog.cetinich.net/content/archive/2015-emc-vnx-hacki...

But I like my real adventure where I got trapped in my car next to a leapoard, maybe everyone will find it boring but there is a terrible video I took with proof.

- https://blog.cetinich.net/content/archive/kruger-stuck-overn...
SpaceX human fatalities: 0

NASA human fatalities: 15

It's almost as if there's benefit to running iterative tests to get real-world data. Who would've thought
Given that you talk about 'even' implementing SPF, and now about IP blacklisting gives me the impression you haven't actually worked (or kept up with) email over the last 10 years.

None of the major email service providers (or 'behemoths', as you call them) use IP blacklisting anymore. They abandoned that idea years ago. IP addresses are ephemeral, especially when IPv6 is used, so IP blacklisting simply does not work anymore. If we were to use IP based blacklisting we'd have blacklisted the entire IPv4 address space by now. Yes, like any other SMTP service they will block IP addresses momentarily if you misbehave, but never permanently.

All major spam filters are content based, and reputation is always on the domain level, not IP level.

If you properly configure your email infrastructure, and you don't spam, then deliverability really shouldn't be a problem.
"the damage to the natural environment is very real."

We make tradeoffs between protection of nature and technological civilization all the time. Boca Chica has some qualities that are relevant to the cosmic industry and hard to replicate elsewhere: a mostly empty sea to the east of the site, low population, closer to the Equator than most of the US.

I like nature, but I also like technological progress and it isn't obvious to me that the relatively low-level damage to the environment there (it is not as if the place was devastated Hiroshima-style) should automatically trump everything else.