skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is a marketer trying to figure out how to get a product launch to the front page, there are a few errors in their thinking:

1) Show HN is the right answer. End of story. That is how we specifically say to HN, "Look at this thing I made!", regardless of whether you are an established user or new to the site. Just do that.

2) Their goal isn't actually to get "to the front page". Their goal is to get eyes on their work. See #1.

3) Unless their target market is actually the HN crowd... why are they wanting our eyes, anyway?
> she will almost certainly fight very hard to ensure that these skills remain relevant

Skills are very seldom tied to a specific product these days, so she will be good.
I do not think that companies that were paying RedHat customers all of a sudden starting replacing RHEL with CentOS depriving it of revenue and that's why RedHat decided to end CentOS.

I personally used CentOS for systems that I knew had a long lifetime ahead of them and for their use a distribution that could be "supported" for a number of years was the way to go. But since upgrading from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 was such a PITA, I started slowly migrating to Ubuntu LTS which makes version upgrades painless.
Chris Rackauckas has put together a valuable guide to the Julia plotting ecosystem here:

http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/summary-of-julia-plotting-packages/

Useful, because the wealth of choices confuses people.

I stick with Plots.jl because of the recipe system. This is Plots’ secret weapon. If you create a package with its own data types, you can include instructions telling Plots how to visualize them. The user then need simply type

plot(custom_type; etc.)

to get the custom visualization. And the package need not include Plots as a dependency for this to work. This is only one of the things the recipe system can do.
Dark Waters of Self-Delusion: The crash of Transair flight 810
https://jankremer.eu

I didn’t write much yet and what I wrote is in German.
https://tsak.dev
> The power of stories is that you are alone in the telling of them.

I don't know about you, but I've noticed a pattern where the stories people tell on social media and even in person often have an uncanny resemblance to the stories that are told the day before in mainstream media.

Heck, if everyone plays their cards right, you can often even get a nice (profitable) war going!

> It doesn't have much to do with physics.

Mostly agree (the jury is still out on the hard problem of consciousness), it's metaphysics... and we all "know" what that "means": "woo woo"...or so they say.

And, that realm often leaks into the physical realm, much to our horror/delight/confusion.
I can't READ THE DOCUMENT because it isn't on the web. Do you have an https link? Or a mirror somewhere on the web?
That's a fair point, but I don't think it's a problem with the blacksmith per se. You can't really expect every blacksmith to hold themselves to an arbitrary high standard and turn down work when they're possibly one or two missed payments away from financial ruin.

I would say if their society can grant them the safety to turn down work for cheap swords at their discretion without the risk of having their life ruined through a down period that is lacking high-quality work orders, then maybe you might have a case for also holding the blacksmiths accountable to a higher standard of work.

Accepting and taking on the risks associated with highly selective work orders has it's own intrinsic value and should be rewarded somehow. If it's not, then why would anyone do it?
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If they want to keep good performance in different regions, they may wait for local infrastructure to be provisioned/configured first. Sydney-London has a guaranteed minimum 300ms latency for example, so if you care about the app being responsive, you may not want to expose people to that initially. (Not saying this is important to Threads or that it's the case here, it would be more important for games)
The problem with sticky menus and what to do instead
~8 million downloads (and thats assuming duplicates don't get recounted?), vs 60 million copies sold [1] is still barely ~15%. This might mean that for PC, its more like 8 million out of 16 million and 50% of PC players are modding.

So in a best case, it's 50% of PC players (which may apply to steam deck), or worst case, less than 15% of all players (which may also apply to steam deck).

[1] - https://www.gamesradar.com/skyrim-has-sold-60-million-copies...
Demo form's option elements & submit button do not do anything when clicked.

Also does the form submission still go directly to Google or does it traverse through your servers? I've done this before by hand, and the submission still went directly to Google's server.
I think our best bet to make a difference is to cause network effects to drive other users to take the same steps we do. In the long run that will help shrink their monopoly, and/or bring a tipping point closer to reality.

Similar to voting. Yeah, I could vote for a third party candidate, but the real power I have is in how many other people I can convince to vote for someone.
OSX wasn't a rewrite of MacOS. It was a new chrome over top of NeXTStep, which was BSD on Mach (or Mach in BSD). It wasn't a reaction to anything, it was Steve Jobs bringing NeXT in to give Apple a real OS.

What really killed Unix on workstations was NT, and it killed it when the first sgi NT workstations shipped.

In the server space, Linux began to replace Solaris once you could run Oracle on Linux. That was the end of every other Unix.
Tbh I mostly pay because I hate the modern ad and behaviour tracking financed Internet. If your service has a paid option I'll pay for it. I think had we all gone down the freemium road decades ago the Internet would be in much better shape today :/
It's not an obligation on any person in particular, but someone that gives lots of genuinely useful gifts should get gifts back. Is that a controversial take?

Though when you mention support, that's one route to improving the situation. It seems like most companies are unwilling to buy pure support, even though most of what they actually want is support. If paying for pure support was more normalized it would be very helpful to open source.
Show HN: MongoDB Protocol for SQLite
"A lot of fun things end up sucking when you expect them to also make you money
…but then don’t. So you are forced to do sort of related unfun things instead that make a little bit of money for a lot of work.”
This blog is like Selfawarewolves ...

"if you don’t have the big dolla’s in your bank account, you are a failure."

"fiction that sells is in ... mainstream genres"

"one genre I love writing is comedy-horror .. books like these are not mainstream."

"I never cracked the Amazon algorithm; I never got 10,000 fans on Facebook; I never got a huge email list of people"

I mean, you can't make up this lack of self-awareness.

If you're going to write offbeat fiction, set your goals appropriately! Oh wait, the author did!

"I was still hoping to make some money, [not] more than a fancy night out each month."

And then still wrote this blog!
The steam controller customizability is an incredible feature that I doubt any other manufacturer will be able to compete on. It is bananas how fully-featured it is. The flexibility of being able to pop open a radial/grid menu with any input and map the items to hotkeys or other actions... just that alone is kind of nuts, but then you can have buttons that change "modes" and all of the inputs can have secondary effects.... you can toggle between "flight" and "ground" setups...

I have myself barely scratched the surface of the steam input features, but there is nothing that I have been unable to do with it. And that is so important when you are emulating games.
Thanks for the recommendation! It’s a good start.
Fish Was Right
If it works, it works. Proton isn't going anywhere; even if development is abandoned old versions of Proton will still exist, so games that forewent native Linux support in favor of Proton will still work.
Good luck with your eugenics project. Society rejected the notion quite a while ago.
What's special about 4th July ? My birthday is 18th July is more special then ?
that's a thing in trains, and may be a thing in airplanes.
I think we're in agreement which is the entire point of the thread we're in.

You don't need certain skills today; instead you can use higher order systems instead. That doesn't mean there's no value in understanding (to use a programmer example) a linked list.

Equally knowing how a queue system works from the OS to bytes on a wire can make a world of difference in some contexts.

You can live in the higher order world and use the tools that make life simple (google analytics, in the case of this thread) but you are jailed to not understanding the systems that they are made from and while you are exposed to some concepts not everything transfers cleanly. "What is the PostgreSQL equivalent of a ML.PREDICT in Google Spanner!".

To give another contrived example; a huge reason people learn Latin or complete computer science courses is not because they will be speaking Latin or using Comp Sci concepts; it is because it sets a foundation for learning other systems, a sort of proto-field that permits you to see the relationship building blocks on which other systems exist.
Writing an (Interpreted) Programming Language in Scratch
Very cool. Could probably use a "(2022)" in the title.
For those on macOS, there is an excellent new project called Whisky [0] built around CrossOver and Apple's Game Porting Toolkit.

[0] https://github.com/IsaacMarovitz/Whisky
I like how clean and distraction-free the design is.
Not to distract from your point, but

> It's why twitter doesn't do HD video.

Twitter does HD video. I don't know whether it is generally available or not, but for example, Tucker Carlson's videos are 1080p.
> There is no story here.

If funding suddenly materializes for this developer as a result of this email, will you search for a bug in your worldview?
Red Hat and the Clone Wars III: The Dawn of CentOS
I don’t see a reason to use Ubuntu over Debian
My understanding is Shopify can be quite good for ecommerce but the PoS sucks. And they are very up front that there is no support to interoperate with other platforms. I would love to continue using my Square hardware for in-person
YouTube isn't targeting the hacker news demographic. Users who can't or won't be served ads are an acceptable loss on the path to profitability.
That’s the thing. If a kid approaches learning with a language model responsibly, they stand to learn a lot very quickly and solve difficult problems that would otherwise be next to impossible for them.

The thing is, we need to teach them that today rather than tell them it’s cheating and try to catch them using it on essays and deal some kind of consequence.

I now use it professionally fairly regularly and it’s an easily justified expense. I’ve already delivered things to clients faster because of it. Most recently I reasoned through prototyping a sort of minimal CMS experience using a self hosted CMS API connected to Next.JS, and had a viable plan and prototype at the proposal stage in as much time as I’d normally just do the research on something like this.

If it’s feasible to accelerate learning and research for real world work, I think we should seriously consider how it integrates with education rather than encourage kids to avoid it entirely. Of course, we don’t have that awareness in our education workforce in Canada, but I wonder if it’s harmful to discourage the use entirely rather than accepting it and ensuring kids are still producing the work that’s expected. If it’s clearly GPT regurgitation with hallucinations and no bibliography, the kid has still failed to deliver. If they manage to do their work faster with technology (the main difference here is that they haven’t googled bunch of stuff, frankly) then great, they’re still learning something.

And of course, the more you tell kids not to use it, the more they’ll want to (which I’ve come to love, honestly).
It's in a different category I would say. For the users, ggplot is mostly about the grammar idea, how you assemble plots from data, geoms, etc. Makie is on a lower level, where you create elements like axes, colorbars, legends etc. manually (with convenience methods, where applicable) and plot things like volume plots or line plots to the axes (like in matplotlib or Matlab for example, but with the whole Observables thing for interactivity). However, the packages AlgebraOfGraphics and TidierPlots are just using Makie's plotting infrastructure to layer a more descriptive plot-building engine on top. There should be nothing in principle that ggplot can plot that Makie really can't, because there are only so many 2D primitives, but Makie has a bunch of 3D stuff that you would not use ggplot for, I'm sure.

My biased view as a coauthor of Makie is that Makie's model is cool because you have a much easier time to combine low-level tinkering with high-level descriptive plots this way. I don't know if you've ever tried hacking the ggplot data structures for special use cases but they are more complex or inscrutable than in Makie, I would say.

Of course, ggplot2 has an amazing and mature ecosystem around it, our ecosystem will need time to fill gap after gap.
IMO I miss static typing at around the 500 line mark especially when making programs. I was surprised it was that fast.
I love this, it’s brilliant. It’s actually more usable than some websites I’ve visited.
I know mechanics in particular can be quite chauvinistic.

In the US, for a very long time, you had to find an "import specialist" mechanic, even long past the point where Japanese brands had gone mainstream. Part of this might have been because of the availability of metric tools at the time; my family had a set of metric wrenches specifically because they had to do occasional light maintenance on their early Datsuns and Toyotas.

I can recall that the mechanic in my neighbourhood was decidedly unwilling to service a new Hyundai in the late '90s. He complained they were 'disposable'.
https://maxrozen.com

I lost count, but I've been writing regularly for a while now.

My bootstrapped SaaS diaries: https://maxrozen.com/articles?q=diaries

General React + Tech articles: https://maxrozen.com/articles

My most read article, looking back on a year of running a SaaS: https://onlineornot.com/what-learned-running-saas-for-year
Apparently writing about it will get you there.
There's supposed to be a computer in front of every kid since grade one. Schools are instead banning the little computers kids smuggle in [A computer to use in the school as a means of education is not the same of letting kids use a cellphone in class]

- Hypocrisy. Smartphone bans are pushed by people who use them all the time themselves. [Because they are adults not kids]

- This is the same thing as with corporations locking down employees' computers. It's a policy designed for the worst behaving kids to the detriment of the best behaving ones. Poor use of time and poor self-control become expected and even the best kids will slide towards these low expectations. [employees are not kids, also employees are not in school they are in a job]

- Totalitarian policies like this get passed only because teens and tweens are disenfranchised. Democratic government trying to enforce similar population-wide ban wouldn't last long. [Totalitarian policies? This has to be a joke]

- It's not about games or social media. Those are actually tolerated far better than apps like Socratic, which are treated like criminal level of cheating. This is technophobia all the way through. [Of course. It's not about games and social media, it's a about kids not using a cell phone while in the classroom]
In your example, you are asking GPT-4 to rewrite code from one public style to another public style. I was saying that LLMs cannot reflect your personal style, because they know nothing about it. Even when instructed at length and provided with short examples (that fit in the context window), they always gravitate to the public average.
Pretty much my driving force. And it's not about getting rich. I'm solving my problems and looking for people who feel the way I do about how it should be solved. Since “there is nothing new under the sun” and I'm not special, the odds are in my favor.

Thank you. Today was the best day for the reminder.
It is still pretty cool.

https://www.qnx.com/products/evaluation/
Registration data shows there are around 2 million electric vehicles currently on the road in the USA.

Market research shows more than half of auto consumers will be looking at an EV when they need a new car.

Like it or not, hydrogen has already lost --- for a multitude of reasons. But keep flogging that dead pony.
not just the profit on trucks, they're the overall number 1 selling vehicle in the US, and are popular elsewhere. desert warlords love their tacoma/hilux...

but yeah that's where the money is.
As nation's try ever so hard to dynamite the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace & exert control wherever their citizens travel online, the difficulty in figuring out regulatory compliance keeps skyrocketing. It gets harder and harder to figure out how to meet each nation's requirements. And one nation's requirements for police access might conflict with another nation's requirements for data privacy. There's no international order, and 195 nations and countless provinces each get their say in making everyone trying to have a point of presence on the internet's life difficult.
Yes but no. It's always with disappointing rewards tgat those studies are done. Pay people considerable amount and then compare.
The only caution I would advise is that the fan loves to jam on mine post installation of the WD. The Steam Deck will run but throttle viciously. The problem disappears with reinsertion of the stock eMMC or a little 256GB module.

The only solution I found was to simply not screw in the rear outer enclosure screws fully tight, or to replace the cover with the JSAUX unit that includes an additional heat spreader.
I feel like this isn’t so much a 2 decade thing but a 1 decade thing. 10-20 years ago, the open source and maker movement was at its peak. Even stuff like cryptocurrency was often motivated by interests other than money but instead ideological idealism. I think that changed a lot after a boom in startups and people just getting insanely rich for silly things… powerful fear of missing out killed a lot of the ideological idealism, and that created endless crypto scams and killed the impetus among much of the open source and maker movements.
If someone believes a technology is revolutionary, investing money in it is the most rational thing to do, right?
https://scastiel.dev

I mostly post about frontend development: React, Next.js, TypeScript…
This is exactly my experience with SourceGraph.
https://sneak.berlin

Intermittent posting, mostly about random things I observe using macOS, or traveling.
Thanks for reporting. I just tried it again, and it works for me: https://bridge.spxp.org/at/@jack.bsky.social

Maybe there has been a communication problem to the bsky servers or a copy/paste problem.
Nowhere near, and its connectome has been known for decades.
I'm very curious how the interop messaging will work. I think most people I've spoken to all have the same worry, Apple.
and logistics -- outside of big coastal cities its a lot harder to move them inland in bulk.
Indeed, it's a bet that you, an outsider, know better than the interviewers that you will not be fired after the first performance review (note that it says nothing about your general competency, just the performance metrics of this particular company). If you had not been personally involved, which side of such a bet you would have taken?
What if you're on the beach and taking a photo of your kid and there's a topless woman in the background. Very common in Scandinavia. And if there are German tourists there, they might be completely naked.
> There has been censorship of both mis and disinformation

Much of which, like the lab leak theory, turned out to be true but politically inconvenient at the time.
The article links to a video of Tom Waits doing a voiceover for a Purina dog food ad. Pretty fun to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYOMPU18QjA

Also the ad is... kinda artistic?
> Once you start to demand that schools become more entertaining than the most addictive thing the world's entertainment technologists can dream up, you've kind of lost sight of the mission of a school.

Maybe it's time to put the world's best entertainment technologies to use for our educational systems instead of fucking Candy Crush.

> Also not how school works, at least not in the Netherlands. There are lots of group projects and multidisciplinary lesson arcs and so on. Maybe in China?

I did my Abitur in Bavaria, Germany in 2010. My 13 years of school life and ~60% of my 2-year stint in academia were precisely what I described, and the generation after me that profited from the infamous "G8" reforms for Bavarian Gymnasium schools reported just the same. New books, finally (one of mine still had the fucking Soviet Union...), but same old teaching methods. Something like smaller classes would have been impossible due to a lack of teachers.

> Waldorf is an available option for public education in the Netherlands. Likewise Montessori, at the secondary level as well.

Kids shouldn't have to hope their parents know that this is an option or have the money for that to receive good education. Education is a human right and the only chance societies have for a survivable future.
https://wyounas.com

Not much there but I plan to write more. :)
Read the parent quote again, it's quite clear it's 2-ways.
As an individual I would like to use bots to do my websurfing. Where I see the the problem is large corporations using webscrapped ideas to patent/copyright ideas. IF the data produced by AI is as open as the webscrapped data that seems fine.
Shein in talks with banks and exchanges about U.S. IPO
Vista/7 was definitely an era filled with questionable choices from both Microsoft and computer manufacturers. Vista was plainly unfinished when it came out (and driver vendors put in 0 effort to update their drivers for a completely revamped driver architecture). 7 was basically what Vista should've been and it was very solid on hardware designed to run it (on hardware released for Vista or even XP, you were still stuck with the terrible drivers from the Vista era).

The instability and bloat have changed significantly in the 17 years since Vista came out. The Windows kernel itself is rock solid, most drivers run in user mode so BSODs are extremely rare.

There is bloatware, for Windows and for macOS, for all the terrible hardware vendors out there. I remember plugging in my Logitech mouse into a Mac and finding out I need a separate app to configure it properly because various OS mouse settings only apply to Apple hardware for some reason. Printers Just Work these days, unless you buy one of those awful models that requires an app to set up, and then it doesn't matter what desktop OS you use.

Microsoft did add ridiculous Microsoft ads and a scummy account requirement to Windows 10 and 11. However, these aren't visible for most users, because most users are already logged in to a Microsoft account. When people talk about "ads" in Windows, they don't mean banner ads, they mean "click here to connect to Microsoft Onedrive with your MS account", not too different from various iCloud related menus I've seen.

The way they mess with Edge, that is plain awful. I'm astonished with how much effort Microsoft is putting into shoving Edge down everyone's throats. Edge is the biggest reason not to use Windows in existence.

I'm not sure what you mean by "changing stuff in the start menu" so I can't comment on that. However, I'd recommend trying out a Windows VM some time (you can download them from the MS website for free!), because I get the feeling your experiences with Windows are quite outdated.