skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say your correct and the founders didn't know ebay could scale (even though this was during dotcom bubble and raised millions of dollars in investment) so what?

That doesn't mean it's not possible or that a savvy entrepreneur shouldn't estimate market size today.

The flying car example you give is correct. Yes, I fully agree that a flying car (at right price point and specs) would have a huge TAM. That doesn't make it inherently investible (though I nite a number of companies have received investment in this space). There is a huge difference between a huge TAM is desirable, maybe even necessary and a huge TAM is all you need. You seem to think people are arguing for the latter, when they are arguing the former.

I fully agree that the educational software space maybe huge. As such building an app to capture a portion of that might well be worth doing! I think you just demonstrated the power of thinking in terms of TAM - while X doesn't look huge on the surface, it's actually just the first steps to Y which is.
Quantum physicists design unconditionally secure system for digital payments
This is as engrossing as MUDs from the 90s!

Maybe an endless generation of MUD + LLM are actually the future of gaming
On the finance point, the market has probably absorbed any news a nanosecond after it hits the wire. I don't think that understanding that AI was going to finally take off gave anyone alpha to invest into NVidia.
Perhaps this is a locale specific definition of conservative? I’m unfamiliar with a general or even common definition which aligns to this.
That's dishonest. They had three month to reverse the decision on the first three in time of an energy crisis but refused to do it; they took another year not to switch off the next three. The decision HAD to be revised because of the energy crisis and lack of gas. They didn't.

The production has NOT been compensated. We just produce less and import more. It will take years to compensate the six reactors - a lot of time and CO2 emitted.
here is my blog about ml/philosophy/tech and life hacks - https://eleijonmarck.dev
It’s amusing they have to resort to this when the quality and DX of a framework are very real things that prevent them from being fully commoditized.
A GNOME version of KDEnlive might look similar to Final Cut (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/final-cut-pro/ver92bd1...).

GNOME applications are pretty simple and there's no software like Krita and KDEnlive, but I don't think that GNOME HIG is the limitation for that.
I agree with that but the way I see it is that if your JS code is bad, then you may get value out of TS, but if your JS code is already good, you won't get any value out of TS.

TypeScript is like training wheels on a bike. All good if your priority is not to fall, but if you want to compete in the Olympics, you may have different priorities.

Also, I think starting with JavaScript and migrating to TypeScript leads to much better code than just starting with TypeScript. I think the reason is because if you start with JavaScript, you naturally tend to avoid architectural complexity because it can quickly become unmanageable. So then when you add type annotations to existing JS code, you're not adding extra architectural complexity; just adding types.

When you start directly with TypeScript, it allows you to reason about much more complex interfaces so there is more temptation to over-engineer architecturally. Devs feel more free to invent all sorts of unnecessary abstractions which will come back to bite them later.

Spaghetti code is spaghetti code; you can label each noodle but it's still spaghetti.
You say that, but in chemical engineering stuff like this is always a LOT harder to scale than you would think :(
Here is mine: https://www.softwareengineeringtidbits.com/
Hope her new job fires her after reading this. They clearly missed red flags in the interviews
Pretty much. It was rather shocking to me that Twitter was so thoroughly broken by rate-limits and the login gate that it was easier to get updates about Twitter on Mastodon than on Twitter itself.
I used to read the news first thing in the morning when I woke up. Lately, I started to have zero motivation to do anything. And overall I felt a bit depressed the whole day. So I made a commitment a couple of days ago to stop reading any news before mid-day. Can't yet say how much it is helping, but overall I feel better and I'm more productive.
I think companies should stop using fixed navigation banners but we can't all get what we want now can we?

Like holy crap, I agree with you but your website is unreadable with that may as well be a banner ad of a navigation bar that keeps popping in and out of existence every time I scroll down.
Very interesting how Russia is represented. There seem to be more hot spots of "enlightenment" than anywhere else, with the rest of the country "barbarous." Anyone know what that means?
The biggest problem with news is that it's fundamentally an exercise in elevating anecdotes over data. Every time the news reports on an incident or a happening, it's a deep dive into one single data point — and how that deep dive is characterized can influence how the reader thinks about society as a whole. The narratives used to characterize that data point vary based on the biases of the news institution, but either way it (more often than not) paints a distorted picture relative to the macro reality.
I just assume that if the axes or the columns of a graph are not labelled or they don't have units the graph is worthless and whoever made it is either incompetent or worse, trying to manipulate people.
> I think you’re missing the real reason they are leveraging instagram. Network effects.

I’m not missing it, I’m saying this is the exact problem. My social graph on Twitter is totally different than my one on Instagram. So Threads will be “text posts with my Instagram friends”, which may be or may not be compelling. But it won’t replace Twitter.
> I still hear people talk about stuff that’s happening in the news

Well phew! Thankfully someone's still paying attention.
These were not 'protests' but senseless riots with huge damage to property, looting, and direct assault on police and elected representatives.

He does not suggest cutting communication during peaceful protests.
I really want the book of this accident to be titled 'The Wrong Stuff'
Are you using Nvidia? I remember there was an issue with Nvidia and Aurorae (one of the window decorator used by kde). Try changing system theme in kde settings in case one of them doesn't trigger the slowdown issue.
I used to see it as a choice between being uninformed and informed. Now I see it as uninformed and misinformed and I'll take the former.

Michael Crichton nailed it with Gell Mann Amnesia[0]. I see it all over the place on topics I know well such as coverage of companies I worked at or political topics I was very well informed about.

Sometimes it feels innocent - a reporter too "dumb" to get the nuance and thus missing the point, sometimes it feels deliberate - eg consistently chopping off context to create an emotional charge. Either way, I saw that the news would lead me to the wrong conclusion if I didn't already know better - and then obviously that it must be leading me to wrong conclusions on topics where I don't know. Which is most.

[0] https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
https://marcelv.net
English: https://marcelv-net.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&...
About my hardware (a lot of Arduino) projects and a UX Blog
https://blog.janetacarr.com I write a lot about Clojure and software developer with Clojure. I only have like a dozen posts though, but people seem to like them (mostly).
Unless you are writing very tight code (like for a real-time system, or something you know will be invoked millions or billions of times) then shipping > code golf. Bash away!
My guess is that stasis would be feasible sooner than keeping people fully alive and awake for the whole journey. In the latter case, they'd probably spend most of their time in the holodeck. Either way, on the scale of the universe, living in a metal tube is not very far removed from being stuck to the surface of a small iron pebble as we are now.
From what I understand, a Java SE Universal Subscription (which should be the one at 180$ /year per employee) gives you the right to use GraalVM Enterprise [1], which has a number of feature not available in the Community Edition [2].
This may be worth something to some, although it may be cheaper to use Oracle Cloud which gives you the same right.

(This is assuming that I understood the things correctly, which is not a given at all with Oracle)

[1] https://www.oracle.com/java/graalvm/
[2] https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/graalvm_enterprise_commun...
can't see that link, since I don't have (and don't want to) a twitter account
I think it's more of a selection bias. In most structures, it's more beneficial have emotional detachment as emotion in most cases can be exploited to adds constraints to your decision space.

It's not that power holds a carrot and says, to hold me you must be a sociopath, it's that competition for power selects those lacking emotion.

I'm no anthropologist but I suspect since humans evolved from small groups, emotions developed because group work was beneficial. As humanity evolved rapidly into larger societies, it's not clear that emotion in these group sizes are so beneficial for survival.

At some point survival from the size of the group becomes nearly guaranteed and competing more within the group becomes a better survival strategy from an independent standpoint. These days you're far less likely to starve to death or be eaten by say a bear or lion because you live in large societies with all sorts of services and just basic proximity scares other predators away. Now the dynamic is about succeeding within the bounds of that system itself. Detaching from others and focusing on yourself tends to give you better success in that environment. Specific cases exist where you should work as a team but if you can do this without emotion and identify all these cases on a highly transactional basis, you can better optimize your own success.

Frankly I think it's kind of sad because, well, I have emotion and don't like to think of the world like a sociopath but... if you want to compete, you need to more and more.
Reading the news is certainly not good for your productivity.

Similarly, being politically active is on average a waste of your time if your goal is to maximize lifetime earnings.

But if every able citizen follows the logic of those two facts, the country will be much worse off.

Yes, I agree, its better to free-ride off the citizen-participation of other, more naive citizens than to invest your own time in improving society. But at a certain point, when everyone becomes a free-rider, the political class becomes predatory and you get a dysfunctional state. Riots. Shortages. Pollution. Failing healthcare. Invasion. Corruption. Each time the form is different but the source is citizen apathy.

In other words, if you ignore the news long enough, the news will come and knock on your door.
So Google doesn't understand space as a thousands separator. Why should it? (Yes, I know, that question does actually have an answer, but that is the conversation, not just point-and-mock.)
The article mentions Germany and Poland as well, and the potential for a joint international application.
It's not an echo chamber but statistics:
https://www.tech-for-future.de/atomkraft-umfrage/#Wie_viel_P...
The idea of isolating people who have communicative diseases and limiting crowds goes back centuries

https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/expressions/past-virus-...
The drummer, Michael Shrieve, was only 20 at the time of that performance. The look on joy and elation seen on face as he is performing is really quite something.

In several interviews, Santana recalled experiencing the effects of psychedelics during the performance, but got it together for the finale. "By the time we got to 'Soul Sacrifice', I had come back from a pretty intense journey. Ultimately, I felt we had plugged in to a whole lot of hearts at Woodstock".

"The neck of the guitar started wavering like a snake, and I was like oh, uh-oh, so I just started making faces, because I was trying to keep it tame, you know, I was trying to keep it from slithering all over the place."[0]

[0] - https://youtu.be/eylXneeUlJ4?t=11
In short, yes. If you're unfortunate enough to be involved in a conversation with that individual, prepare to be insulted
Your National Geophysical Organisation maps all that on a regular basis.

Broad area mag surveys are flown in grids 80m above the ground with nine nano-tesla senistive magnetometers (wing tips and tail boom each have three on cartesian axis).

To produce a level map they also run local base stations to record the daily diurnal mag fluctuations to subtract and normalise.

That gets feed into the IGRF (International Geomagnetic Reference Field) and|or WMM (World Magnetic Model) to create parameters for five year epoh predictions.

On a smaller scale many archeology groups and or soil engineers run smaller tighter grids dragging skids of walking arrays across an acre or more to create sub ground imaging.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/international-geomagnetic...

https://geomag.bgs.ac.uk/research/modelling/IGRF.html

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/world-magnetic-model

Here's some broad area airborne magnetic maps:

https://www.energymining.sa.gov.au/industry/geological-surve...
eBay is too international, Craigslist is USA only. FB marketplace is probably a local focused, but for each country. I'm just guessing here, I don't have the data to back this up.
And how many followers do these 20 have?

Ever heard of the term "network effect"?
I think of my comments here on HN as my blog. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=carapace )

I've been on here a daily for several years now (you can tell when I'm really working on something because there are gaps in my comment history. E.g. the last two weeks or so I've been mucking about with my land.) Every once in a while I do a narcissistic trawl through my own comments and I feel like they're a pretty good representation of what I'm like and what I'm about.

I have a small Gemini "capsule" (site) gemini://sforman.srht.site/ that gets translated to HTML/HTTP at: https://sforman.srht.site/ I call it a blog but I haven't added anything recently.

I've been using a mailing list as a place to record notes: https://lists.sr.ht/~sforman/heliotrope.pajamas

I'm in the beginning stages of creating a mutual-benefit non-profit corporation to supply ecologically-harmonious homes at extremely low cost. I'm talking about systems that provide food, shelter, clothing, much medicine, energy, etc. automatically with minimal labor and oversight. We have all the technology already, it's just a matter of putting the elements together. So come watch or participate in that? ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class

Figured I'd add this because you, as with so many, are confused as to what constitutes middle class.

You have to earn over $100000 to be middle class as clearly shown in the illustration, and you're still in that group at $1mm a year.

Under $100k down to $10k is classed as poor, with those below $10k classed as miserable and making up the Vast majority of humanity.

This isn't my definition, this is the agreed upon standards.
D&D or which one?
Ok energy-charts.info is providing all info regarding installed power and electricity generation for Germany.

For heavy industries leaving Germany:
* https://cen.acs.org/business/finance/BASF-cutting-back-main-...
* https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/24/basf-cut-jo...
* https://www.ifo.de/en/press-release/2022-10-20/germanys-glas...
* https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-industry-europe-ener...

Here you can see that industrial part of the GDP is shrinking:
* https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/manufacturing-value-add...

What are your sources?
Macron a tip: Just call it disinformation and few will complain
No surprise. In Zuckerberg's deep desire to get TikTok banned, he bashed China in front of Congress.

China isn't going to forget it. And because of this, Apple has a huge advantage in China when it comes to Vision Pro vs whatever Quest device that makes it to China, if it ever does.
Hmm, Java is more open than ever, and the development of the JVM is more vibrant than ever. For over 99% of people, OpenJDK (or any other similar distribution) is all they will ever need.

As a Java developer, I am certainly much happier now than I was 15 years ago when Sun couldn't invest more in Java development.

Disclaimer: I work for Oracle, but not on Java/JVM.
lignite coal is the worst one, literally bringing us climate change, extremely bad air and pollution.
I remember my advisor's most relevant advice, "Keep working toward your thesis, and one day, you, too, shall have a mighty hump!"
Agree it's not great, but it's not as bad as silently reordering the actual search results.
> The killing of a 17-year-old of North African descent

One nuance picked up by Polish media - the car had Polish license plates. It's a scam disguised as an investment. Well off people get legit car lease for a high end car, then are baited to "rent it" abroad for a monthly payment. Sometimes receive multiple months upfront payment. Then car "vanishes", while of course physically driving with original license plates on the French roads, and the payments stop. Basically car version of "buy an apartment with a mortgage and rent it, the tenant will pay your mortgage, after X years you have an apartment for free". The victims are people who are even more greedy than well off. The 17 years old was likely linked to drug dealing and to financial scam, driving recklessly and running away from police.
Who knows how much the follower counts are inflated
We took down the site, it seems.
Quite true. For various reasons, maybe they were trying to create boring or ugly things, because they succeeded.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1234-apri...
So a politician being a politician.
This would require the version field not to change and IHL to not increase (otherwise the overflow of the address would be interpreted as an option). So now you'd have to cram another flag into the header, get rid of all options, and interleave 2 fragments of the addresses because source comes before destination so you can't just extend it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol_version_4#...

I'm not sure how you'd solve that in practice. Not only did we run out of meaningful bits, even ipv7 / addext didn't simply extend the address (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1475)
I don't have it either but the tweet loads fine?
Here's an ad for the screen:

https://floripasquare.com.br/megatela/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7sNpVCgdPs
Pretty good but needs more Machiavellian power games
I clearly haven't invented LISP, because the limitations you mention are not inherent to what I'm describing. LISP (and SmallTalk, and Erlang) had many correct ideas, but drastically underperformed in others. Unfortunately we threw out the baby with the bathwater.

It doesn't matter how flexible the macro programming is, if it reduces statically to something you can typecheck, therefore this artificial segregation of syntax and rules (and mental models) represents us solving a problem superficially, in an almost cargo-cult way, because we never stopped long enough to think about at depth.
A Chrome extension to visualize how much each person is talking in Google Meet
Every Government that is faced with situations such as these would qualify the protests as "property, looting, and direct assault on police". It's often half the truth.

If this wasn't a Western country, media would be speaking of ethnic conflict, of the Government led by the leader elected by the white majority of the country enacting more authoritarian measures to quell social unrest.
I agree. Snap is the weak point of LXD. I have been using it in production servers and until

snap refresh --hold

was made available my team went through the pains of snap workarounds [1]

The LXD team was very proactive in the support side but the truth is that Snap is a pain and without --hold it would be possible for production servers to break out of a sudden due to uncontrolled updates (who did every think that this was a good idea?).

LXD itself is a very good project because it uniformizes the use of containers and VMs with a friendly CLI - the syntax is more intuitive than the one from Docker, by the way. We recently managed to combine LXD and Puppet to manage containers and VMs in a declarative way. I am a big fan of the LXD project.

Somebody else commented here that the latest Debian makes LXD available in the normal distribution packages - that is something worth checking.

[1] - https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/repeatable-lxd-install...
Is this about people posting stolen revenge-porn of the President's son again?
People developing weapons believe in protecting their families from danger and don't necessarily consider themselves to be morally superior to their coworkers.

The line between good and evil is not explicitly "violence"
Rich text editors and rendering engines
The pre-GPU era and retro computer competitions like Amiga has many jewels.

The GPU powered demos are impressive in a different way.
> For real, having shared walls is such a detriment to mental health

The fact that you can hear your neighbors through the wall is a sign of terrible design and construction choices. Hell, most sane apartment layouts minimise if not eliminate shared walls entirely.
That doesn’t seem like a fair characterization in all cases.
Human conflict is the most immediate danger from climate change, as tensions rise. We can kill ourselves a lot faster than the climate has any hope of doing it for us. So maybe don’t exacerbate that?
Those riots were indefensible and the state actually went very softly on them partly not to throw oil on the fire.

There is nothing authoritarian or 'right wing' in suggesting that limiting communication means of rioters, looters, and, frankly violent thugs, should maybe be considered. Rioting is not a human right, neither is communicating to organise violence and looting.

In fact, I believe that there are plans to cut mobile networks in some situations like terrorist attacks. Frankly what has just happened is getting close to that territory.

IMHO the events and the reactions are worrying and show that French society is now as dangerously divided as what we've seen in the US for instance in relation to the 6th January events.
fr-08 sits in a prized place in my storage for two decades. It's one of the most incredible demos ever.
they had already blocked Telegram for a day "by mistake", just last month

and the code of the page that said it was blocked showed they were gathering details about users.
They are not allowed to gather these details even for lawfully blocked websites (terrorism and child abuse). But they did it for Telegram.
In my social circle, Snapchat is completely gone as well. But in my teenage daughters social circles Snapchat is the primary method of communication.