skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If everyone thought as you do, many companies simply wouldn't release a CLI tool, because hiring experienced developers just so you can use the "appropriate" language for a domain isn't realistic for most companies. I know it sounds nice, and I'd like the world to work differently too, but the reality is that resources are constrained enough that many developers have to be all-rounders, and you don't do that by learning the "right" language for every problem.
The amount of drivel produced in any given era is mind-boggling. Very little of it survives even a century. Go ahead an read a non-annotated Don Quixote, and try to find all the references to the great authors of the day.

However, a lot of what we think as great art exists and survives because of gatekeepers: from rich men with enormous egos to critics mistaking their taste for objectivity to policy makers elevating some forms of art over others etc.

Most Rennaissance art is indistinguishable from TikTok. Go to a few museums and you will recognise the fads, the patterns, the techniques etc. A cross-dressing femboy doing a hundredth uwu on TikTok is no different from a Rennaisance painter doing a hundredth cherub flying over naked women in a forest.
The UK still has a strong military, a particularly strong Navy, plus whatever remains of their portion of North Sea oil and gas.

But they missed their window after Brexit to strike the trade deals they needed, and now any trade deal they make will probably be under quite unfavorable terms.
Discovering spirituality, practicing meditation, having a reasonable weed consumption and strict exercise regiment work best to keep my depression in check.

Though honestly, living in a nonsensical consumerist system driven by late stage capitalism is the root cause for my depression and until that changes, everything else is just a bandaid.
Yeah but the fact that you didn't have to learn English the same way they did to get to the point that you are now _was_ an advantage
Or the costs to them are so abstracted that it's difficult for them to add it all together including gas, commercial insurance (or probability of a situation with liability or damages with no insurance coverage), depreciation of the car, etc.
This is true of a lot of things.
Privacy is a big plus for (purely) locally running models.

Sensitive prompts will not leak to some remote party.
Amazing. Needs more canyon.mid
Businesses should have in their best interest to add themselves to Apple Maps (which they can do). If you see something not showing just pop inside and tell the manager. That's what I did one time at a hairdresser's
I think it's a larger phenomenon at play, if it's a news story in front of a paywall, it will have inflammatory and misleading language at the very least in the headline in order to go viral.
> Car users are being heavily invested in not only by the infrastructure they get, but also the opportunity costs of the land the roads occupy.

Sure, but they also have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to buy into the ecosystem, insure their vehicle, and keep it fueled and maintained.

Your normie car driver is gonna say "I have to pay $xxx a month to go anywhere, why should others get to go somewhere for free?"

To be clear, I'm all in favor of whatever policy encourages more mass transit. I'm just trying to be pragmatic here.

> The average car user probably need to adjust their sentiments on this

That's why I said what I said. If it's a persuasion problem, then a better case needs to be made.
Still definitely enough to live on your own.
We need more toys so sometimes instead of posting a drawing or an essay, I build little toy websites, e.g. https://meat-gpt.sonnet.io or the footer on days.sonnet.io

The traffic might be low for some/most of them, but then the interactions with people who found me through them are so much more interesting and meaningful
This seems like a deeply off-the-wall take.

Why would the UKs living standards increase? Because the world continues to get richer.

Is the UK going to regress to developing world status? That's a heck of a claim. Has any country that was among the richest in the world regressed to developing nation status? This is supposed to happen on the basis of being marginally disadvantaged in trade negotiations?

Get real. This is sentiment because people are mad that the UK rejected their political beliefs. Could the UK suffer negative consequences versus the counterfactual as a result of Brexit? Sure. Is it going to regress to being the equivalent of, like, Peru? Obviously no.
Chrome already does that by default: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/chrome-110-will-auto...
Charging a range of 250 km (155 mi) in just under 4 minutes is crazy. For comparison: A Tesla Model 3 takes around 22 minutes to reach that range at a consumption of 18.7 kWh/100km when using fast charging.
Update/disclosure: The List sadly uses Google Analytics, disqualifying it from the club (except in spirit).
In actual practice a single thread is a non-issue. Web applications are almost never CPU bound, wait times are almost always a function of IO—database queries and requests to external services.

JavaScript's async IO is plenty fast for any typical web use case, and the marginal savings you might get from having a few fewer servers will be more than made up for by the time your team of web developers (who already know JavaScript) wasted learning Rust or Zig.
Thiel's quote from the article "You create a monopoly when you invent something new".

What he means is that when you compete in an existing competition with known competitors, you only have a chance of winning. Example - if I started an airline tomorrow I have to win customers over from United, AA, Southwest etc.

Instead, if you start a business that no one has ever done before, you get to be a monopoly by default. E.g. Wright brothers once had a monopoly on manned flight.

Competition is for losers means that you should not war with entrenched incumbents - even if they are terrible businesses that are not innovative, you can't win (as they say the winner of a knife fight dies in the ambulance).
> You could use randomness and find one by guessing, but the method is inconsistent — you run the risk of generating a different prime every time.

I'm having a hard time reading this sentence. Obviously generating a different prime would be awesome and not a risk if finding primes is your goal. What are they trying to say here?
The 1b that happens with tech companies is different than calling a taxi and not taking it. In this situation Uber/Lyft is still able to charge you and so they won't feel as slighted.

> [1] If you no longer need your scheduled or requested ride, feel free to cancel it. You may be charged a cancellation fee in certain conditions.

[1]: https://help.lyft.com/hc/e/all/articles/115012922687-Cancel-...
Do you not talk to your coworkers and understand how they spend their time? This should come first. Maybe they spend half their time socializing. Maybe your code is voluminous but ridden with subtle bugs, and your teammates are spending more time testing and doing good design. Maybe they are splitting their time between other projects or tasks. Maybe you are the only one with job security.

Working for a company, on a team, is different than just being a solo contributor. Teammate relations can be leveraged to create a better product through, well, teamwork. I want people to be happy and effective at their jobs, myself included. I try to work with others, understand what they are doing, and do things that directly or indirectly contribute to their efforts and even unite efforts across individuals and teams. There are usually inefficiencies that come from lack of communication. Talk to your coworkers and manager and adjacent teams and understand better why things work the way they do, stop just running off and racking up story points, it is not a race.
macOS: Can I hide running apps with no active window from the Dock?
Google Maps is much better at encouraging and rewarding user interaction. Google Maps has gamification and rewards for updating store and road information, while Apple Maps treats it a bit more like a bug report.
For me it's that aspartame tastes absolutely horrible. I can always pick it out in a drink. Can't stand it.
> create a proper C binding to the C++ interface

That's the generally recommended way of exposing your C++ library to any kind of non-C++ code.

I'm not aware of any software which directly helps with that, unfortunately. You either do it manually or write a custom script. Here's a recent example of the latter, from Dear ImGui:

https://github.com/dearimgui/dear_bindings
I like the fact there are multiple splash tags even though "I use Arch BTW" is a great one.
> But there is one problem. There is virtually no recognition of how bad things are among British elites

Not just elites - ordinary british people too. I've been saying for 10 years that britain is falling behing the rest fo Europe.

I give real examples from my life, "In Czech republic I/anyone has access to Proton therapy and housing is better built, but in Britain protin therapy is missing (was first built last year, ex-communist CZ has it for like 20 years) and quality housing is only accessible to millionairs."

And if I am taling to a british person, there is like a 50% chance they will get offended and respond like "well then why are you here". I had similar responce on this very forum.

And when "locals" bring this up publically, they get accused of 'talking britain down'. Kind of came up in the brexit debate under 'project fear'.

I feel it will get a lot worse before people will finally get their sputnic moment and realise they are in a hole.
> Most of the time, I would count among those things the humongous downsides of JS, but it depends on your situation, obviously.

Could you explain these "humongous downsides of JS"?
> Caring about your job is only acceptable if…

This suggests that it's unacceptable to care about doing your job well because you enjoy it or simply because your morals compel you to work hard at what you do. I don't think there's anything wrong with someone choosing to work hard for these reasons if that's their choice.
If everyone else is wrong, and only you are right, what does that tell you?

Maybe you are the outlier that moves fast and breaks things, while the rest prefer sustainable progress over the long periods?
Tired of this ridiculous attitude you see everywhere on the internet, "stopped reading at X" (which may actually be near or at the end of the article), "he said X therefore I can now casually discredit everything he says", "he said something factually incorrect therefore the whole article is wrong and I don't have to engage with it". And the arrogance of it too, as if in your head it's virtuous enough to be so closed and simple minded that it's worth announcing it to the world by making such comments. Just utterly juvenile nonsense.
This reminds me of something I read many years ago as a teenager about getting inaccurate signals from analyzing phone data. The example it used was saying that the organizer of a Tupperware party's phone records would closely resemble those of a drug trafficker. I think the idea was to say emphasize that real investigations need more than just phone records.
The past UK standard of living was based on pillaging the colonies, then after divestment of Empire it was briefly propped up in the 80s by North Sea oil and in the 00s by financial deregulation.

No shit we're not going to have the same standard of living as the past.
The UK has almost no natural resources. As the developing world increases their heavy industry and engineering capacity, knowledge workers from the UK will be needed less and less. The UK also did quite a bit of lending to the developing world, and there's much more competition in that marketplace now as well.
> Uber/Lyft did outcompete taxis on merit, and to suggest otherwise is revisionist history!

Although your point is poignant, it would be more valid if their price structure was (cough) sustainable.

What if Lyft and Uber were 25% cheaper than taxis; primarily because they didn't need to pay a dispatchers' salaries? This would be the classic case of automation lowering prices.

IMO, they could have out-competed traditional taxis without needing to price below cost; which would make your observation 100% true.

Instead, Uber and Lyft merely demonstrated that there is a market for the self-driving taxi business. Unfortunately, their relentless expansion shows the danger of letting ones' imagination run away and overestimating how quickly tech can be built. Self-driving cars is a hard problem; and building a business assuming that "AI can be delivered on a date" is a huge, huge, risk.

Clearly both companies lost the bet (that self-driving cars would work in time for their price model to work). Perhaps the Uber and Lyft stories are bad examples of the overall thesis of the article?
A college degree in what? 18 years ago I started graduate life in London on £21k.
I assume it's far higher these days.

Tradespeople can earn fortunes anywhere. I can recall Ireland during the 'Celtic Tiger' phase bricklayers were absolutely milking it. I actually regret I don't have a trade under my belt.
I am curious if there is anyone familiar with the standardization progress of those 8-bit representations?

PS: Assuming they can only have 256 unique values, would have been great if the papers provided conversion tables for every 8-bit float to a 32-bit value, to make testing accuracy degradation easier across applications.
Why not just range (or use an switch) over a channel and have a go routine running that pushes values into the channel?

I still don’t see the need for coroutines.
The comparison made between the UK and US states is one I was thinking about lately and which prompted me to make a little "compare EU countries to US states" app: https://evmar.github.io/states/

(For example, through it I discovered that Ireland's nearest twin in both land and population is South Carolina.)

Looking at the UK specifically, it's the GDP of California but with almost 2x the population, which comes out to a GDP per capita comparable to Mississippi.
Bringing HDR Video to Reels
Scientists refute claims they were bribed, influenced to deny ‘lab leak’ theory
In my experience, people who chose larger living space over shorter commutes are very resentful about resuming their commute.

Meanwhile, those who live in shoeboxes need the external space to stay sane.

Don't underestimate the selfish reasons on either side.
perf will give you exactly the number of misses in L1, L2 and L3 if asked (and the total number of accesses). It can also annotate the asm so you can spot the hot loads.
I have had some experience with wire protocols that might benefit from coroutines. If I use goroutines, I have to use sync or channels, and then be careful. If I use state machines, it can be cumbersome. I suppose we will see.
Mainly

https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

1-1 communication is what it is. If you want to stop people from sexting you need something unreasonable like

https://chatcontrol.dk/en/

I do contrast the failure of what people described as "audio" apps like Clubhouse to the success of OnlyFans and such. It would be interesting to see if the same tech could be successfully applied to a different mark. Call me prudish, however, but I just wouldn't want to deal with the bullshit that comes along with other people's online sexual behavior.
You joke, but this is almost reasonable. When refactoring a large codebase riddled with strncpy, strcpy and strcmp, understanding unambiguously what code does shouldn't come down to my middle aged eyes being able to parse better than a compiler. I did a global search and replace with a #define, verified the object code diff'd against the original version, and never looked back.
Sotheby’s Cuts Multiple Senior Staffers and NFT Specialists as Market Softens
Intel vs AMD… but x86 sucks; spectre and the like, power hungry ornate designs

Apple vs Windows… closed source and otherwise encumbered

Android vs iOS… App Store pay to play, restricted or 100% closed in iOS’ case

As “systems” your choices of “best” come with numerous drawbacks
If you dig further into those adverse reactions, you’ll find they are approximately equal to adverse reactions of placebo.
Bruce Ediger must not have kids or his kids must’ve been excellent feeders. Latching is not intuitive to all kids.
Are we reading the same Github repo? All of those acronyms are in the second bullet.
I am British and the best one is: "we are the 6th richest economy in the world". Absolutely thought terminating nonsense.
> Only very rarely (every few months) am I forced to use Chrome for a site - and in my view, that's a huge ding on the site devs, not on Firefox.

I find this very common with Credit Card and Banking Sites. Very often they either refuse to log me in or log me out sooner than they should on Firefox, or certain pages within the site will just not load. I'm guessing they prioritize security, and only test this stuff in Chrome ;(
Now someone needs to write a renderer so that the world-background camera also spins around!
If you need another 'kid' (48m) in mid-life-burnout-crisis to join you - I'm your guy!

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I have been going through MLC since the beginning of pandemic - and I am trying to figure out what to do as I dont ever want to go back to the type of tech work I was doing (SF currently has the largest commercial real estate vacancy in the country, and I dont see that getting better - and for a decade I built out the tech in many of the large office spaces in SF and for many hospitals...

I cant go back to that.

I want to do something analog/creative and non-tech related.

I grew up in the scenario you describe with your kid - growing up as a latch-key-kid in Lake Tahoe in the 80s was AMAZING - just leaving the front door and walking off into the wilderness and stomping through streams, building tee-pees out of shaking aspens that we would chop down. Build booby traps (terribly)...

Kids need to grow up in the woods - not in the cities.
Right now this is unbearable for you but getting angry with your colleagues is just going to make it unbearable for everyone.

Spending your passion on your own projects or OSS will yield you better returns 9 times out of 10.
It's not really clear to me what they invented.

You basically have two computational options, both with drawbacks. You could use randomness and find one by guessing, but the method is inconsistent — you run the risk of generating a different prime every time. Or you could use a more reliable, deterministic algorithm, but at a heavy computational cost.

If you use a pseudorandom number generator and fix the seed, then you get a deterministic result. But I guess we can not prove that replacing random numbers with pseudorandom ones does not alter the behavior of the algorithm. So they came up with something clever where they use true random numbers to find a primes and are able to proof this while at the same time mostly canceling out the effect of the random numbers used so that the prime number they get pack is the same every time with high probability. Or am I misunderstanding the article?
The fact my dad grew up in Venezuela when it was the 4th wealthiest nation in the world per capita (granted, Europe was recovering from WW2) blows my mind. It was still top 20 by the 70s. [0]

[0] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/GDP-...
I'm not saying that you should use TS & Node for everything, not sure how you got that wrong. I'm saying: use the tools your developers know. If you have Java developers, use Java. If you have Rust developers, use Rust. If you have Typescript developers, use Typescript. Don't give a metaphorical person without arms a saw to split a board in half, even if it's supposedly the right tool.
Try adding some query parameters. I've been tweaking the hints based on peoples' feedbacks and I hope later steps aren't so vague.
Why is this not set up to filter spam out of the box? It's not really an optional thing at this point, and writing Sieve scripts that work well is not necessarily easy.
Netflix provides on demand, advertisement break, watch on any device media. Streaming is objectively a better product than linear cable or satellite TV.
> There obviously is an advantage to in-person collaboration. There obviously is an advantage to building relationships with co-workers. There obviously is an advantage to letting a junior hire shadow you in person.

Is any of that “obvious”? It goes against everything I’ve seen in my career. The least productive people are those that “build relationships” in the office. The most productive are those who crank out code from home with little to no fuss. I’ve also seen juniors excel remotely because they have the space to research whatever they need and in a remote environment, often feel more comfortable reaching out to senior people for help than the would irl.
I think one of the things that’s missing from these conversations is that whilst UK wages are far lower than the US, median wealth is actually way higher [1]. I would argue that this means that the UK is very much a country that is on a backslide, rather than a developing one. The other issue is that so much of our economy is limited to London. This would be less of a problem if we were a country like Greece where basically everyone lived in the major city, but the bulk of the population is spread throughout the rest of the UK. The UK has significant ongoing political issues that will take a long time to resolve, and it will take a long time for our relationship with the EU to return to some stable arrangement.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_...
Firefox did for about two years now: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/unload-inactive-tabs-sa...
Work with libreFox?

https://github.com/intika/Librefox

Or LibreWolf?

https://librewolf.net/
I've wanted an app like that for a long time!
Didn't stop the mod market!

> The Stacy was developed to use batteries, and the large block in the design on the right side below the display was set to hold 12 'D' cell batteries, but Atari soon found out that this arrangement could only power the Stacey for just a few minutes. Production units had this compartment empty, with no battery contacts inside. Later 3rd party companies would sell rechargeable battery packs (nickel-cadmium in those days) which could be used to make this a true laptop, but the run time was still poor.

https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=225
Yes but this level of info is too coarse. It is not sufficient to know your level of L1/L2/L3 misses if your app has megabytes of code and gigabytes in heap. As I said in adjacent response, I tried to record cache misses with `perf` but the info produced by `perf report` is confusing at best - I did not manage to find any good tutorial on debugging cache misses in that way.
> If you know what the task is, hear the reminder to get back on task and still don't get back on task, you need emotional tools. This is beyond a single post, but look for a therapist who can help you with the emotional side of ADHD.

What do you mean by emotional tools ?
Keep in mind all of that important but non-flashy work can also be used as a cover for not doing anything of consequence. Yes, sometimes it is important, but 70% of the time when I see someone has been "planning" they've done absolutely jack... (Recent example: How can a PM plan a software engineering project without talking to the people actually doing the work? Then they wonder why the "plan" makes no sense...)
Apparently the Voder had a pitch pedal:

https://imgz.org/i9TzhzWu/