skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
boy is this text shallow and lazy ... no way this is accurately priced at floor(pi*100) points. also the guy is falling for survivor ship bias. very shallow.

having said that. midlife crisis is at the end of the day about facing mortality. so that's what you need to do. face it. realize you are going to die. you don't know when and there is nothing you can do about it except for living now.
Chromium on Android has this problem too, so it can be a chromium problem. On the other hand safari reader mode works flawlessly
I've been working on getting my custom hash functions - 'Rainstorm' and 'Rainbow', to run on the web using Emscripten, and I've got to tell you, the journey has been equal parts challenging and fascinating.

The first step was to compile my C/C++ code to WASM with Emscripten. emcc's flags are a crucial part of this process. Here's how I defined mine:

```sh
EMCCFLAGS = -O3 -s WASM=1 -s EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS="['_rainstormHash64', '_rainstormHash128', '_rainstormHash256', '_rainstormHash512', 'stringToUTF8', 'lengthBytesUTF8', '_malloc', '_free']" -s EXPORTED_RUNTIME_METHODS="['ccall', 'cwrap']" -s WASM_BIGINT=1 -s ALLOW_MEMORY_GROWTH=1
```

The ASSERTIONS flag was useful during debugging, but I removed it for the production version for better performance. Along the way, I learned that you need to be careful with shell variable expansion - shell was replacing '$_malloc' with something else, leading to confusion.

The next step was integrating the generated WASM with my custom HTML/JS. I initially tried using Emscripten's -o option to generate an HTML, but it didn't fit my needs as I wanted to integrate the output into my custom page.

Eventually, I figured out how to load the WASM file as a module in my JavaScript, assign it to a variable, and call the functions exported by the WASM from my JavaScript.

It's not always smooth sailing - JavaScript promises can sometimes reject and I had to set up handlers for unhandled rejections and exceptions, but the result is a working in-browser implementation of my 'Rainstorm' and 'Rainbow' hash functions.

Now anyone can use their web browser to compute Rainstorm and Rainbow hashes, check against test vectors, or input their own data. I'm really proud of the work, and I learned so much during this process!
There's a lot of "air" in this one. Most of the article is a verbose restatement of the Dunning Kruger effect essentially.
Absolutely. In cities which are equipped for it, the small self-driving vehicles make so much more sense, for this reason.

Starship (https://www.starship.xyz/) have been running in a big way regularly in Milton Keynes (UK) for years now; the little robots driving around are a regular feature. Seems to be expanding to Cambridge (UK) too.

I imagine US suburb design makes this less feasible (I think I read that Starship started on college campuses in the states), and that's why we don't hear so much excitement about this approach? It seems to make way more sense to me than drones, mostly for the weather issue
Throwback to the time my friends were all recommending these bikes and I told them anything that has a proprietary battery and app will be e-junk decades before its natural death
that’s my take too. At least for ignite, I think Lucas had to take time off for college. Not sure about footloose. I guess another reason I suggested a refresh ;)

Firecracker and firectl themselves are maintained of course, but lower level.
> 10GB is nothing nowadays. That much storage costs less than $1.

Depends on the build quality. /s
Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
I saw this video clip recently and it looks like people are building the infrastructure in the background.

Reliable ground based sensors are an important area being addressed.

https://twitter.com/thehbarbull/status/1659167041062944770/m...
Other than homelessness and the total lack of a social safety net in Hollywood and the US.
Welcome to Iocane Powder, a dominant RPS strategy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160819141717id_/http://www.ofb...
For those who don't know, this company was a bit special in that they apparently employed "bike hunters" to go and steal your e-bike back if it was stolen [1]. It's quite an interesting dynamic considering that police in many places won't bother retrieving your bike even if you have GPS tracker on it, simply telling you to let insurance handle it.

[1] https://www.vanmoof.com/en-SE/peace-of-mind
Safe for work? (I'm at work)
No, no. You need to fine each person for the maximum potential harm that they inflicted to the licence holders.

Downloaded a movie that's not available to buy anywhere via P2P?
That will be $10.000.000 due to lost potential revenue. Seems fair.
Europeans miss the point that you still need money to fund all those generous social benefits we have.

Not entirely, of course you need money but you need people who believe in the cause to work towards it and make sacrifices. I work for a NFP, I took a paycut to do it. I'm happier for it.

I think a lot of America goes wrong because most people want their cake and to eat it too. Free healthcare? It will require sacrifices in the form of higher taxes.
The word they're looking for is "GNU".
I've used Swig to inherit from base classes in Java to implementations in C++.
Swig generated the JNI and C++ bindings.

Fun times.
Refugees have a selection mechanism as well because you have to be enterprising and resourceful to travel all the way to the EU. The US became big by taking in the unwashed masses fleeing Europe, and I think much of its entrepreneurial spirit goes back to that origin story.
In the U.S. you get insurance discounts for having safety equipment (e.g. day time running lights, etc.).

I assume under the speedgoose monarchy the rates would be prohibitively expensive.
Wait, this means AI startups actually will fare better than other startups then? Seems like the inverse of what the title is trying to convey which is pretty funny if true.
I dislike immensely the idea of CBT and I reckon it's the reason therapy got such a bad rap. Talk therapy is immensely more free form. The goal-oriented approach works great in our modern productivity focused society, it's not a way to just learn to unleash what you actually want to be.

Source: 3 years of talk therapy.
More GB, more testing. They havevto make sure that the system does not become unstable with so many GB. /s
There are lots of memorial benches around where I am. After reading your comment, I decided to go look at an example photo. Randomly zoomed in to Seville, Spain and click on one.

https://openbenches.org/bench/4860

Wow - what a bench! Not at all what I was expecting. Then I went to Rome, Italy and the reverse happened. Just a normal bench.

https://openbenches.org/bench/11382

https://openbenches.org/bench/11382
Marker of good quality would be too far (and biased), as the every growing mass of genuinely hard to salvage closed question certainly outnumbers the interesting ones

But it sure looks to be bimodal. Marker of the really bad, and the so-good-it's-closed
I really hate this condescending tone, but taking your comment at face value, I have one very serious rebuttal:

I’ve driven brand new cars, and this exact same car. It is quite easy for one’s attention to wander in a “perfect” car.

An old car requires one to pay attention to their driving.

imo it’s all been downhill since the advent of power steering.
Check out some historical perspective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

The post-breakup structure diagram is all I needed to see.

50/50 $T/$VZ long. Ez mode.
I ended up buying an Analog Motion e-bike in 2020 when they were doing a kickstarter. It’s the best, but the company has really struggled despite all the demand. We invested a small amount in the equity crowd funding round off the back of the quality of the bike, but supply chains for small players seem almost impossible.

Seeing the above always worried me about van moof. Yes they were better funded, but they were still in the same market, plus their bikes had loads of smart crap. analog motion bikes are just single speeds with motors and a few nice touches - belt drive, disc brakes. If they went under nothing would change.
How can it flop when there are already millions of people using it every day?
Scare liquidity is an issue all across europe rn, stemming from high cost of capital
But it is not Mini and does not have a bitten apple on it. /s
Turns out that autopar is an extremely hard problem beyond simple use cases. And for simple use cases existing solutions work fine (pragma omp for goes a long way for example).
A very fundamental question in the AI/ML business is how we are going to avoid monopolies, as so much of the capital (and thus computing power) gets centralized to a few companies. The fact that so much of this work is built on open research makes it even more questionable.

You can only get that far with theoretical research - when it comes down to it, money / funding is what actually realizes the product.
Then why isn't the output in any of these articles?
Show HN: Comments Owl for Hacker News 2.0 – now for Safari and mobile
Hacker News has one of the designs of all time - I initially made this extension because I wanted to be able to follow comment threads across multiple visits _without_ searching for "hour(s) ago" and "minutes ago", while preserving the UI we all know.

This major release adds a Safari version (it can also be installed on Kiwi Browser or Firefox Beta on Android) and mobile support for the first time, with specific UX tweaks for the mobile breakpoint version, such as being able make list screen flagging require confirmation, improving the header somewhat and increasing the distance between the upvote and downvote buttons.

Since its first Show HN 4 years ago, it now also has user management features - you can add notes to other users which will be displayed next to their comments, and you can also mute people if you feel the need to.

If you have any other feature requests or UX issues with HN you'd like fixed, please submit them on GitHub!
Job cuts start to ease at Bay Area tech companies as sector stabilizes
> How to be a Consultant, a Freelancer, or an Independent Contractor

It's important to note that:

- Consultant

- Coach (added by me)

- Contractor

- and Freelancer

Are four distinct species, if you will. These titles are typically used interchangeably. That's a mistake, often a costly one.

Furthermore, the key is to find fit with clients'/projects' needs and expectations. For example, the client - not knowing any better[1] - could say they're looking for a freelancer, but what they really expect is a consultant or a coach. Or you anticipate a steady contract engagement and it turns out to be more on/off freelance-y and in order to be available to this "great client" you end up leaving hours on the table. And then the client ghosts?

[1] Or because they know a freelance rate is lower/lowest, and then will effectively demand more and better because they can, not because that's what they agreed to pay for.
> if you have significantly more customers than product you're going to run out of cash eventually

I don't get this. Why do you run out of cash simply because there's more demand than you have production capacity? I would think having open orders doesn't cost money.
Over engineered frameworks that try to solve everyone’s problems at the same time in exchange for terrible performance.
Is GraphQL greener than REST? [pdf]
Impressive! Now the $64,000 GDPR question: is that all of them? And which of the long list might be considered personally identifying, including "jigsaw identification"?

(this is also vindicating the "the best way to get correct information on the internet is to post incorrect information"; all the replies could have been top level replies to the OP but weren't)
I've used Swig for C++ to Python interop and let me warn you it is a nightmare. The syntax is absurdly terse and convoluted, documentation sucks and good luck trying to search the web for constructs made only of special characters.

CLIF is way nicer for C++/Python. If you need other languages then best of luck (Zig, Rust and D are easier than Java and Go at least).
Oh? Thx. I missed that.
You ignorance on the matter shows. You are probably living in the US where pushing pills is the norm. Honestly, this entire anti-therapy subthread is a shitshow of misinformation.

Let me shed some light: there are psychotherapists, that are not doctor, and can't prescribe anything. Then there's psychiatrists, which are medical doctors, and might approach your depression with the pill du jour. SSRIs just cure the symptom, not the actual bloody problem one has.

You don't need a pill, nor a doctor unless it's an actual curable condition (bipolar, ADHD, etc.). You need someone to talk to.
With all due respect to Eisenhower, this is an example of incredible political myopia. A country does not exist in a political vacuum and has to be able to protect its freedom and the very right to exist. So freedom is not free but comes at a price. How high the price is depends on the situation. Sometimes it's very high, unfortunately.

Complaining about this fact is as productive as complainig about gravity: if only we could float around effortlessly, imagine how much we would save on bridges and roads and fuel!
Well, since technically it's a Twitter clone from top to bottom with no new ideas, it deserves to be bad.
> You can make fun of me all you like

Those that do make fun of you are victim blaming. A lot of these folks stating that if you put out in the public then it's not yours anymore sound like criminals to be fair.
On the other hand, very few jobs these days in the West are about survival anymore. It's true to some extent that you need to pay for your mortgage but at the same time the amount of bullshit jobs is staggering. People work for work for organizations that provide the service of allowing others to like photos of your holidays. Very few people are employed in farming these days as opposed to the entertainment industry. I'm not saying that working in the gaming industry is without value but compared to historical data it looks like it's very hard to die of a famine these days.
Uber and Lyft seem like a step back: less safety for drivers and passengers as cars are not company owned and inspected and there are no checks on drivers that a taxi company would do. Also the gig economy is overall probably a negative for society as working people do not have the safety of employment along with benefits. What risk or investment does e.g. Uber have that justifies taking a 20% cut?
From a consumers perspective there might be more choices and cheaper options, but that doesn't outweigh the issues it brings with it I think.
You also have to convert mass to weight, and for that purpose you need to choose a gravity, which is also arbitrary.
The only thing that baffles me about that is that there are so many people who want to watch that.
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hiding.pdf

7. On the other hand, we are about to unveil a radical unhiding: showing users the innards of
expressions and procedure bodies via macros and metaprogramming. The central feature making this
possible is the ability to convert back and forth between executable code (the blocks and scripts
that we've always had) and syntax trees: lists of lists of the individual blocks and constant values
(such as text and numbers), the building blocks of expressions and scripts. That conversion
overcomes the only weakness of block languages, namely, that programs aren't data, which makes
them harder to manipulate programmatically.

7½. Pedagogically, this is an extension of the self-reflection by means of non-hidden
continuations, which call attention to the sequence of events in executing a script, and which we
inherited from Scheme. Continuations are conceptually simple for the implementor, since they
already exist in any interpreter for any language, and it's just a matter of making them visible to
users. But they're not conceptually simple for users! The fact that they can be called repeatedly,
and from outside of the script in which they were created, feels like magic. And it is; it's the
magic of "everything first class." But the point here is that we didn't add this feature in response
to a specific pedagogic need. Rather, explicit continuations help advanced programmers write
advanced programs, and a few library blocks. And they're a way to plant the flag of Scheme in
Snap!, which was a big part of our motivation.
I'd like you to imagine a world where GNU and Linux never took off, where we'd probably all be paying for Windows Server licenses in order to run websites. One where you need to pay to download a compiler, and all you get is the binary.

That's hard to imagine, given the freedoms we enjoy now. I can download a world-class OS for free and distribute changes to it without any hinderance other than my own skill barriers. Same for DVCSes, video players, browsers, modelling software, desktop environments, compilers, and so on... That was not the case in the early 90s.

FOSS wasn't a complete nor a permanent revolution, but revolutions rarely are. Point is, it changed the world, it changed business, it changed developers' day to day experience, and it's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. We still rely on corporations to make software, but they are now socially pressured and incentivized to release the source of a large portion of what they make for free. Maybe we haven't seized the means, but we are right there with the big guys at the means, sharing power in a (relatively) new and exciting way.
Such insipid writing, just paste a bunch of dull sentences other people wrote in <blockquote>'s as if they're profound. Did they prompt ChatGPT to be extra dull?
It was on my 2015 Intel MacBook Pro when I last used it with Linux a couple years ago. I ended up disabling all lid triggers and just manually hibernating it when needed.
They were also very optimistic about Horizon Worlds.
Oh wow, yeah that does sound super shitty. :(
An Esp32 devkit board on Ali eg
Correct - the semantics are simply too different to directly emulate. The simple fact that starting processes takes much longer in Windows cripples naive implementations, for example.
The author is a self-described "tech journalist" and it's not really news that most of them tend to be lazy and not really dive even surface-level deep into any topics. Author probably wrote the article with a deadline approaching fast, and editor said it was good enough, so published it became.
Pretty interesting. Heartening to see pace of innovation in SCM, Aerospace, an Productivity for complex engineering. It would be cool to see the correlation between this data and how key players in these industries are performing on the market or will perform in times to come. Likely should be a leading indicator. Good stuff!
Tell HN: Heroku disabling monthly plans?
Just had an email exchange with our Heroku (Salesforce) account admin - they claim that from August 1st, all Heroku accounts must be on a year or multi-year plans. No more monthly metered payments.

Has anyone heard the same?
Earlier cybertruck prototypes were built either in Tesla's own prototype facility, or by a company that specializes in constructing prototypes.

They claim this one came off the assembly line. That's a pretty squishy claim at this point. I guess we can trust that the car was finished under that particular building's roof. But they sure didn't show it being built.
I did not know about Mojo Nation. I also discovered it was replaced by Mnet in 2002 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnet_(peer-to-peer_network)
solving puzzles. instead of wasting time on sudoku, i can at least spend my time on something that can bring me money, fun, and fame
Sad to see them go, I liked their design very much. I wasn't in the market for an e-bike yet, but I would have considered a VanMoof.

However:

>they can end up bricked in their basic state, since their working is tied closely to the use of the VanMoof app, and the VanMoof app will not continue to be supported.

This is not the future I signed up for. Even if someone hacked around their electronic locking now, that's just not a state of affairs that should be accepted. That is a version of "you'll own nothing" where I decidedly would be unhappy considering the price of their bike.
Have you ever been to a therapist?

My family did a few group therapy sessions when my dad died, and it wasn't anything like you suggested.

At no point did the therapist suggest there was anything wrong with us or suggest medication. She just listened and helped us deal with the new situation.

Was it absolutely necessary to talk to a therapist? No it wasn't.

Did it make the situation easier to deal with? Yes it did.
Can you elaborate on the deep sleep issues you’ve encountered?
Seems to be specifically the Dutch entity. I wonder how this would affect their USA business, since i see VanMoof bikes pretty often in Seattle
Can you share some links or books that you would recommend for those that want to read further ?
There'll be something else along. Perhaps metaverses will come back into fashion, or, er, data lakes or something? At any given time there is usually one thing that VCs are weirdly excited about; occasionally it pans out. Much as about 5-10% of VC-backed companies are big successes, 5-10% of VC-backed fads turn into something real.
Thank you, it was 40% beyond may capabilities. This was a real challenge and I barely made it. I feel like I did a lot prep work and I'm at the start line.

I can't stress how nice it is to hear a complete stranger see my efforts as progress. I'm truly going for it and it is scary. I constantly think that all I'm doing is placing new obstacle in path and lying to myself about being focused.

I had a healthy cash pile that I was saving for my runway and now I have building.
> having multiple income streams means you've (the you here is broad, could mean your company, your family trust etc) produced something people find valuable yeah

Oh, dear. I can tell from reading your comments that it’s not gonna matter to try to argue with you, so I’ll just say that this is incredibly deeply profoundly naïve.
Only 85%?
Alternatively, download intellij and it'll install whichever JDK you want for you.
> Evans' syllabary for Ojibwe consisted of just nine symbols, each of which could be written in four different orientations to indicate different vowels.

I've always have trouble remembering .. Graphemes .. signs .. that only have orientation differences. For example Japanese maマ and muム . L<ess than and >grater than. I think this Cree script would be a challenge for some people. ᐆ ᐋ which way was o and which was a again.
More recently I was trying memorize Korean script and come up with some visual mnemonics for the same things. ㅏㅓ which is 'a' and which is 'oe' ㅗㅜ which is 'u' and which is 'o'. I resorted to drawing the letters on top of an vowel articulation map of the mouth, and discovered that korean script was designed to correspond exactly to this.
Also you had to install runtime vs browser which is bundled every OS.
By making negative money per user, like all flops.
As written elsewhere, I can appreciate the differencen between the tax codes in different countries.

When I contribute to my tax-exempt pension in Denmark, I can deduct that in whatever income I have, whether that is from an employment or profits of my own company.

> forgive me if I am wrong.

I think I need to defer to this one. I am completely ignorant on these things.
How long approximately did it take you to get to state of the posted image? Any hardware specifics would be helpful to understand performance. Thanks!
That's why I hibernate my computers.

Problem is that Microsoft is trying to kill hibernation (so far they did the first step to hide it, then second step to hide it even better).

Why do the companies not realize that employees coming to office, waiting for computer to start, then opening their programs - is an incredible waste of time and productivity?
Why companies dont push microsoft to make hibernation the default? (plus some smart feature for updates)