skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets imagine a scenario:

You are a car manufacturer, you have to choose how you allocate resources. Most of your income comes from ICE vehicles, and only some from EV. So you give most RD resources to ICE because it makes most money, good business sense. Some years pass, and the market of EV’s grow. But you still make most of your profits from ICE, so you only grow EV resources a bit.

More years pass. Now the market flips, 60% EV, 40% ICE. So:

- ICE is making a loss, because there is not enough demand

- EV is making a loss, because you did not invest enough, and cant keep up with competitors which went all in.

-> You cant invest more to EV, because you don't have the money, and if you could, you would still be years behind.

So you're toast.
exicted to publish this!
Clearly the solution is a review company for review companies.
A Full Employment Recession – It's the Nightmare Scenario (SP500)
> although it keeps pushing up Shaq for some reason

I was impressed that day one they basically most likely spent weeks/months behind the scenes reaching out to all "blue checkmark" people from Instagram/Twitter and encouraging them to get all set up on Threads ahead of time. At least I think that's what happened. They probably paid them to do it too lol
partnership with NVIDIA, interesting
That's your opinion I guess.
> But this mostly applies to JS which has a kickass implementation of async/await.

The fact that JS simply has no other options for doing anything concurrently, might have something to do with that.
I'd rather a more conservative approach than copy+pasting the vitriol and polarization of Twitter onto a new platform. And it's a smart move to make it friendlier to users who were uninterested in Twitter because of this dominant characteristic.

Of course, the journalists are up in arms, but the relationship between incendiary news / Tweets and its influence on journalistic narratives reported on is a big structural risk. I think of it like separation of prop trading firms and banks, rather than having an unenforced Chinese wall between them.
Kitchen ranges, clothes dryers, and literally every other appliance large or small are usually moved with the homeowner or tenant in Germany - until the last decade or so, rental apartments almost always came with completely empty kitchens, and it was on the tenant to fit in the cabinets, appliances and even the sink. Bathroom cabinets are also usually the responsibility of the tenant, but the toilets, sinks, and showers/tubs are built in.

On the upside, even a small studio apartment usually has enough space and an extra water hookup for at least a washing machine, so no dealing with other apartment residents or a public laundromat for laundry. Dryers are usually condensing; no need for an outside vent.

Until the last few years, short tenancies were unusual for Germans; in the little building we rented in before we bought our house, the other tenants had been renting there for 20-40 years! Given the terms of our contract, I gathered that they must have had very small, if any, rent increases written into their unrestricted contracts, and the only way to get them out was if the building owner decided to live in one of the units herself.
Meanwhile buying from the sketchiest possible "this official Arduino is 12 cents" sellers, I have lost $4 I spent on a bluetooth dongle that the "company" selling it disappeared a day after, but every other interaction, the sellers will jump over themselves to convince you to rate them higher than their competition. I had what I thought was a tiny drop shipper send me a double order because they were concerned I wouldn't get the product in time (like a day late on a 4 day shipping window, for free shipping) without me even complaining. Hell, they do this even though ebay probably lists me as a terrible buyer because I never add seller feedback.
i like the name threads
There was a lot of quirkiness and egotism then, the cult of personality was rife, not just with project leaders such as DHH but ancillary dramas from folks like Zed Shaw.

The stuff from _why was always wacky but some of their projects were also really inspiring for younger programmers, of which I was one. I could take or leave the cartoon foxes but I remember seeing the code for the Camping framework when it was released and being amazed at how simple and elegant it was.

The ruby and rails community set a path that is followed by many to this day. We're all python programmers now but there'd be no Flask without Sinatra, or Django without Rails. The author of the excellent dependency management tool Bundler went onto work on Yarn for javascript and then created Cargo for rust. Mitchell Hashimoto wrote Vagrant in ruby before starting hashicorp, there's loads of examples like this

I disagree that the Poingant Guide was the primary documentation for anything, it was a quirky guide for new comers. The Pragmatic bookshelf had the definitive guide to the language, as well as the rails book and then a whole series of other publications. I also remember spending a lot of time on the core ruby documentation, which does a fantastic job of covering the extensive standard library.
Are these the majority of the murals and are they clearly Pro-government? I can't even find one example of what you might be talking about. This seems like a total non-issue.
I think for the same reason WebGPU did-there are tons of cruft in the opengl API and it doesn't really represent how the hardware works anymore.
You know, the account you wrote the positive review with was the shill account.
1981 Getting Started with TRS-80 Basic was also playful - https://archive.org/details/Getting_Started_with_TRS-80_Basi...
> They're now encouraging others to do it: "Hell no, we do not consent to this."

That’s not how this works. Rules that govern public spaces do not require the consent of everyone. (The alternative would be absurd.)

The elected governments of San Francisco and California HAVE consented to this, on behalf of the people.
This is a nice little self-interrogation framework—thanks for sharing!

It reminds me of a common refrain/warning among aspiring writers: it's not enough to want to be a writer, you have to actually want to write. Both for a host of psychological reasons and for the simple fact that you'll never be A Writer unless you're putting pen to paper on a regular basis.
What the author is trying to describe would be much easier and a lot less verbose if he analyzed the situation by class.
My daughter was threatened by 3 girls (with a long history of behavioral problems) that they would beat her up the next day. The school VP suggested with a straight face that maybe my daughter should stay home that day (since it was a Friday).
They’re using Modulus framework by NVIDIA
If a bus costs me $2.75, I'm almost certainly not paying $7 for a 20 minute scooter ride. The bus will get me there in ~the same amount of time, 98% of Seattle buses are not crowded, and they don't subject me to the risk of a scooter-car collision, which would quickly be followed by an unprotected head-pavement collision.
Is this a 1.0 release? Can we expect API stability?
> As for politics, will that mean no political ads from people running for office ?

That's actually kind of compelling. When twitter was just random weirdos and comedians it was a lot more enjoyable.
What’s the over under on how many months from now this will get the axe?
I don't support those things. I am reacting to the poster saying it isn't about the office. It is. You should take a charitable interpretation.
It has something listed under my blog (https://www.hankruiger.com) that doesn’t seem to link to my blog (something about “Hiring advice for startups from Hackruiter (YC S10)”).
Your summary is incorrect. Step 3 doesn't match what GPT-4 actually said:

> When the 7-minute hourglass runs out, don't flip it yet, but note that the 4-minute hourglass has now been running for 3 minutes on its second run. (This marks 7 minutes.) When the 4-minute hourglass runs out again, flip the 7-minute hourglass. (This marks 8 minutes.)

Notice that GPT-4 says not to flip H7 when it runs out, which is a mistake.
I've considered making a browser extension where you can click a review to ignore it and have the average ratings recalculate automatically.
To be fair, we don't want WebGL anymore, we want WebGPU now =P
Idem. I remember not being able to get past the first page of the guide way back in the day, and indeed cannot today either. The signal to noise ratio is just abysmal.

I also cannot read comic books and, with perhaps the exception of the systemd man pages, likewise thrive on reference material.

Somewhat relatedly, I can't really do podcasts or audiobooks, either, unless they're in a foreign language, and then the challenge of comprehension provides something for my brain to latch onto.
You can disable all sort of bad stuff from robbers, junkies, rapists, aggressive dogs... by carrying weapon for self defense.
Competition is a way to make things higher quality. School choice is competition.
Translation is a killer feature. All https//bitecode.dev is in english, but I'm French.

When I needed some complicated translation, deepl and google translate were rarely up to the task. They has about the same level of proficiency than me with auto-correct, sometimes less.

For single rare or technical words, I used Wikipedia a lot: you chose your topic in your language, you look for the article in English, and voila.

For slang and cultural references, urbandictionary.com is unmatched.

But for translating jokes or expressions, there is no good tool.

Until chatgpt. It also finds typo, suggest alternative, offer rhymes and synonymous. It does everything, in a single flexible interface.

Just for that it's worth the price.
In my experience state schools that weren't very selective were also the ones offering scholarships for students with high grades/test scores etc. Many of my friends went to the school they did instead of a more prestigious one due to being offered more tuition assistance/scholarships for their high school achievements.

Personally I was able to skip a full semester and change of classes thanks to taking every AP course I could during high school as well
Sweet, I'm always on the look collections of websites with consistently higher quality. Anything is better than the sketchy SQL queries I have to resort to in order to grow the index programmatically.
Not a student, stopped using ChatGPT because OpenAI is unreliable. Moved on to other models and providers
This is where using the API is far better than chatGPT, I gave my works slack bot with the new functions feature the ability to search hacker news, load Wikipedia, search YouTube and even load whole URLs.
How I sold the lights from the Brooklyn Bridge (r/NYC)
I've seen people run into the streets in front of cruises just to mess with them.
Talking to some friends who are job-seeking, I do know they check them.

Not so much positive reviews, but negative reviews are believed.
Python has wgpu wrappers. Why do you want to use Python though for such a heavy graphics program?
Not really. They can delete whatever they want.
I've also found that the term can be used to describe anything. Some folks would think of anything that isn't "shiny new framework" as tech debt. Some folks think of unsupported features as tech debt. Some folks think that the 2 million line monolithic code base producing billions of profit per year is tech debt.

After seeing a few too many tech debt reduction programs yield even more tech debt than they started with... I simply don't buy retrospective arguments any more. Decide what is acceptable/unacceptable at design time, don't strangle yourself on it after the fact.
"Be very careful connecting to some random server and running code from people you've never met, with whom you have no contract or legal comeback, just because other people are doing it. Also, download Debian!"
> The goal isn't to replace Twitter. The goal is to create a public square for communities on Instagram that never really embraced Twitter and for communities on Twitter (and other platforms) that are interested in a less angry place for conversations, but not all of Twitter.

So only the super PC, brand friendly stuff? Guess I shouldn’t be surprised given it’s Meta but disappointing if true. How can you have a public square without fostering news and political niches? That doesn’t mean you have to shove it in everyone’s feeds like Elon’s Twitter.

So it really will just be instagram with a text focus then. Was hoping all the influencer/celeb/brand focus early on was just a result of early app launch and no following feed yet.
Obviously. It's for collecting valuable information and manipulating opinion.
So the basic problem to overcome is, microwaves are a kind of light, and if I can see you, you can see me, no matter what ordinary fancy optics are in between. If a light ray gets from you to me, then the reverse path is physically exactly the same as time-reversing the original light ray (and time reversal is a symmetry of electromagnetism).

I read the above explanation and I still don't get where it overcomes reciprocity. (Didn't try to read the paper itself.) Can you point to where the asymmetry is introduced? Or how I'm thinking about this all wrong?
OpenGL is not the most straightforward, not the most compact, not the most ergonomic, not the most modern API. It's one of the most widespread though.

Meta produced this library not for the benefit of general public. They produced it to make their own development easier and faster, and internally they are unlikely to benefit from OpenGL's ubiquity or backwards compatibility. Then they released the library for the benefit of general public. This is very nice, thanks! But we are not the main target audience.
I don't believe an ORM is a zero cost abstraction either. Or most of OOP.

The cost of implementing everything as a function is when one has to contend with the fundamental machine architecture not dealing with everything as a function. This often leads to one of the highest cost abstractions out there, the Monad.
Quality of the education isn’t the main issue with schools though. Or to put it another way, do you think Baltimore Public schools issues would be resolved with simply better teachers and a more rigorous curriculum?
It helped fund those stock buybacks for a little while longer.
Thought this was an interesting story about selling to a new market as an outsider and the amount of hustle required to do so.
While Francois Chollet is not actually an employee of OpenAI, and while that article simply quotes a tweet he made rather than a substantive interview .. .. this is still clearly a big problem for OpenAI as students trying to cheat on exams is a highly profitable $1T industry that Microsoft badly needs to disrupt.
It is probably because whatever few technical challenges may exist in the real estate sector that software could aid are utterly dominated by the intractable problems posed by politics and regulation.

We understand very well how to build housing, and we have understood how to build housing for a very, very long time, but for political reasons, because communities have been taken over by political interests that outright opposed to new housing we choose not to.

You could come up with some novel construction technique that makes building homes more efficient, but it wouldn't matter if the city doesn't approve new homes to be built.
It takes only a few minutes to fill a tank with gas. It takes so little time you have maybe just enough time to get a drink out of a vending machine or fridge. No one goes to a gas station to eat lunch. Most gas stations aren't staffed or set up to serve food even if people wanted to.
Half Life 2: Lost coast from 2005 might be a fair comparison for this droll hypothetical

https://youtu.be/j-Iykz0gb7Q (video uploaded 2006)
Does this mean they will mandate a back door?
Yes - this is why I said:

>So not worthless, just not the be all and end all.

It was a reply to someone who missed the point about the discussion on grades.
> Any ascension is as much a matter of luck as it is of skill.

Is it? Admittedly, I've only fooled around with NetHack occasionally, but from observing good players it was my impression that with encyclopedic knowledge of the game, ascending can be done pretty consistently, barring some _incredibly_ unlucky happenstance or attention-related carelessness.
I guess we're all fascinated by different things... to me they're not very different than your stomach growling in the middle of the night. But you know, to each their own! I'm sure there's millions of folks who think the things I find fascinating are really boring.
Can anything be more efficient than a recumbent with an oval?
> a few innocent kids getting suspended unfairly for being attacked might be worth it if it prevents more attacks that escalate further

What is it with education that makes people so willing to internalize well known Fascist values?

Acceptance of that thought is common; of collective punishment is common; blatant repression is advocated everywhere. If you take the values of a common school and try to apply them to adults, you will get either punched away or arrested.
Because I was curious, frequency counts:

256 - own domain, original tld
208 - .com
29 - .net
19 - .org
95 - own domain, cctld
38 - other, <5 each
20 - .io
19 - .me
9 - .ca
9 - .in
85 - own domain, new tld
41 - other, <5 each
31 - .dev
7 - .blog
6 - .xyz
73 - platform’s domain
36 - .substack.com
20 - .github.io
9 - .medium.com
8 - other
Honestly, such toxic culture, I'm curious if they manage to turn it around before this city dies completely.
y = x + 1 is not dealing with state. Supposing there was a desire to have x = x + 1, the simple way of doing this is x = x + 1, and the complicated way is to do world = Increment(x, world).
> They have waxed mustaches and are running combination coffee bars and thrift stores.

Ah, has Portland moved on from keeping alive the Dream Of The 90s to the Dream Of The Late 2000s?
> The solution is to fix public schools not fund charter schools.

Charter schools are a mechanism for opt-in flexibility within the public school system to enable identification of generalizable improvements; if there isn’t systematic evaluation and feedback into the broader system, that’s definitely an issue, but (unlike vouchers, which are low-accountability subsidies to nonpublic schools), that’s what charters are for.
I agree. But the message here is not an external occurring but rather internal. One's acts determine one's internal state. If you act virtuously by your definition, your judgement of yourself will be good/not corrupt, which is good. The key point here is that it's your own personal defination.
Vulkan is supported.
Watch the algo push those posts into the dirt. People talk about these things because they get airtime, they probably won’t post hyper partisan hot takes if they’re punished for it.
Does anyone have any experience with 0patch? I use it to keep a couple of old Win7 systems patched but it makes me nervous…
Great article, but it did give me the "an elephant is like a rope" feeling—it seems like it's one person's idiosyncratic perspective, some of which I agree with and some I disagree with, and there isn't really much justification for changing my mind about the parts where we differ.

A couple of specific things that jumped out at me, as someone who lived through this (and got hooked for varying amounts of time on several roguelikes and roguelites):

I strongly disagree that today's world has the best of open source & proprietary. (Also, omitting any mention of Free software is a little odd.) We do have a mix, but it's neither the best nor the worst to be had. The proprietary mindset has infected the "programmers with free time" community, to the extent that one reason why you don't see ambitious user-facing projects is because the profit motive has drained away enough energy and talent that the engine of open source development just kind of sputters along until things start to risk taking off, at which point someone will come up with an idea for monetization. And monetization kills the "true" open source spirit dead.

On a related note, pointing fingers at open source games for lackluster design and poor user centric thinking is a little ironic, given that the exact same thing ails today's commercial game scene. Loot boxes and more subtle forms of the same thing have largely destroyed the freedom and original thinking that used to create interestingly novel experiences. We had a period where the indie scene carried that torch, but it has now been subverted in much the same way as the open source scene.

There are plenty of individuals or small groups out there who still have the fire, but it seems like getting any traction (whether by growing a community or gaining users/players) brings those people in too close of contact with the poisonous influence of profit or fame or whatever, and it takes a strong character and quite a bit of privilege to resist those influences. Temptation is everywhere.
Debian does not work as a replacement for RHEL for enterprises.. Only Ubuntu LTS is an option but it is not as good..

First because enterprises need a company behind offering support contract.

But more important, many enterprises are slow moving and unfortunately Debian lifecycle is not long enough for enterprises because of that..

I have at least one customer that migrated from RHEL 6 into newer versions last year, RHEL 6 was released on 2011, regular support ended on 2021 and extended support goes until next year. So it is currently still supported under their extended support.

The Debian version from 2011 was Debian 6 (Squeeze) that had an end of life in 2015, and long term support ended on 2016, it did not had extended LTS.

Just on the lifecycle of RHEL 6 Debian released versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 and with exception of the last two, 11 and 12, all other versions already reached end of life, additionally version 6 to 9 reached end of LTS, and version 7 reached end of ELTS, older versions did not had ELTS as far i could find.

Is is also worth noting that Debian LTS and ELTS are not handled by Debian security team, so anything after end of life would be a solid no from most enterprises.

Even Ubuntu is behind RedHat in this aspect, the oldest Ubuntu LTS release still supported by next year, when extended support for RHEL 6 will end, is Ubuntu 14.04 from 2014. Both Ubuntu 10.04 from 2010 and Ubuntu 12.04 from 2012, that is the last LTS release on or before 2011 and the following release, already reached end of life and support before RHEL 6 extended support ended.

[0] - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases
[1] - https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
I wasn't expecting lojban!
"The drink of the gods"
Abstractions over the low level apis (opengl, directx, vulkan, metal) have gotten a bit popular in recent years. I think some driving forces behind it are inconsistent support of some apis on some platforms (i.e. opengl on macos) and maybe also a desire to support some of the newer apis (Vulkan or dx12) without going all in due to their complexity/verbosity.

I've been playing with wgpu-rs, bgfx, and a couple others in the past and they work pretty well for the most part. At this point I think I'd still rather choose just Vulkan for a new project though.
> Are we allowed to kick them out the way they kicked us out of their country sixty year ago? If not, why not?

France is allowed to do this if it asserts the right to do so. The only question is: will it?
Similar quote from Lao Tzu. I like the inclusion of thoughts -> words -> actions.

"Watch your thoughts, they become your words;

watch your words, they become your actions;

watch your actions, they become your habits;

watch your habits, they become your character;

watch your character, it becomes your destiny."
The attitude is just NIMBYism for people too poor to buy houses.