skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And your downstream clients will have to change their code. That seems bad.
> Until you realize that the only change they would be forced to make is to delete what is now dead code.
> Sure, it's annoying; I don't deny that. But Rich Hickey claims that it increases code maintenance to have to make the change. I whole-heartedly disagree because any time you can safely delete code, you are making maintenance easier.

When every one of 100 libraries you depend on, does that once a month, you are forced to perform hours of daily unproductive and annoying busywork unrelated to your goals, just because every lib author wants to make your maintenance easier!

Of course, at some point you get fed up and just freeze all your library versions and stop ever updating your dependencies—which is arguably the opposite of what everybody should strive for.

> I think proper union types, the kind needed here, would add enormous complexity to the language for little benefit in rare cases.

Yes, and there's another, simpler way which proved to be working well: dynamic typing.
Funny you should say that... as this all started when I was toying with remaking the game for a modern platform but with its original style.

I got as far as manually upscaling the house, and the LCPs:

http://www.jaruzel.com/blog-files/LCP_House_Redux.png
The way cloud saves seem to work on Steam is that there's some folder that is synchronized with the cloud after you close the game. If Ubisoft's thing works the same, then 1. start game 2. delete saves 3. kill game might work.
Apple is also interested, they were hiring a RISC-V engineer back in 2021 already.
Firing all those people is undoubtedly risky; Twitter’s unpaid office rent is an example of a consequence of that.

But the assessment was that there were way too many people to solve the task of running Twitter. And Twitter is still running.
I'm not sure that really explained much.
> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his ... correspondence

Still, nobody was ever shocked that a judge could order letters to be open or telephones to be tapped. And yet, as soon as someone asks whether we should consider something similar for electronic encryption, HN reacts as if this was something never heard of, nor imaginable.
Getting deeper into semantics, I have always understood stereotypes to be an essentially correct general average. Then of course people are so different that the average for a group fits no person in the group more than perhaps 30% so it always ends up being wrong when applied without thought.

But the general stereotype is not “completely made up” so to speak, it’s an observed average.

Then of course some total crap is always thrown in the mix but still.
You're right, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
I don't watch enough movies in a theater to measure walk outs there (though I would have walked out of the latest Avatar had I not been there with my son; so boring and long...), but I do stop maybe 1/5 novels without finishing and maybe 1/20 movies without finishing them. There's more interesting stuff I could be doing with my time, and if they are completely not my taste, I'd rather be ding those things.
You deserve points for your effort to convince random people online that you’re really a human. :)
Such things rarely have a single succinct answer.

In reality, there's other factors:

- Legacy applications where nobody wanted to rewrite them to work with non-IE

- Chrome gained market share because the entire user experience was better. That includes updates, but also it was just really snappy to use. Speed is probably the bigger factor; normal users don't care about updates.

- As some have pointed out, lots of less technical users just use the default

- Did I mention those couple decades worth of legacy apps? It bears repeating, since MSFT had successfully kept other browsers out of market share through their 1-2 punch of strategic browser incompatibility and shipping with the OS.
I just wanted to complicate the story by pointing out that secular materialism is not new!

All the ingredients are there in the philosophy put forward by Epicurus in 307 BC, which was widely known by the Romans and rediscovered by renaissance humanists in the 1500s (in De rerum natura).

(Epicurean tenets I have in mind are: The universe behaves according to physical laws; whether or not the Gods exist, they are not concerned with human affairs and do not intervene; there is no afterlife and yet no need to fear death.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism
I can easily argue the opposite of your assertions, simply by picking different definitions.

The "stars and planets" do not influence peoples' lives through the seasons, only the Earth and its relative position to the Sun do, and when someone talks about the "stars and planets" in the context of astrology, they mean other stars and planets besides the Earth and Sun.

Dinosaurs do not co-exist with humans, and never have: "birds" are the distant descendants of some of the "dinosaurs", but are not part of the same group. (I'm pretty sure any dictionary definition of "dinosaur" does not include modern-day "birds".)
Highly automated Texas Craftsman tool plant closed after 2 years
so we go back to the caves then.
I think what you’re really saying is it won’t be until enough people demand a change to a safe path to push through political and monopolistic powers. I fear it’ll take the thing that ultimately allows progress in sciences, the eventual demise by natural causes of powered opponents. (Which may itself never come due to inheritance.)
EA declined to pay the FIFA fee, the new game is called "EA Sports FC"

https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc
Use this at your own risk. There is no license. Icons are sourced from all over the place.
Do you have a source? It sounds odd to me that storing data for say 2*N users would be a significantly bigger problem than for N.
While I agree with the mechanics of what you're saying, there definitely is a subset of people who don't really play games, they play a game. There's a few big franchises this applies to, EA's various sports games, F1, Football Manager, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and I'm sure some others.

What I don't agree with here is that the users don't care. No one is capable of having such passionate opinions on a glorified spreadsheet than a Football Manager fan. Likewise CoD players - they dared to try something new with whichever one was largely based in space (I thought it was one of the best), and got eviscerated by their player base, who really just want to play Modern Warfare 2 again.
What was I supposed to take away from that? That The Beatles' members fell off? That drugs aren't for everyone? I'm struggling to find the insight here, because it feels more like tweet and less like a fruitful topic for discussion, lest we want to argue about Beatles' discography, in which Revolver is obviously the best.
There's many company-intern intranet applications still in use out there, which rely on old IE features like ActiveX and whatnot. Afaik, older versions of .NET came with features that required IE.

Also Asia always was and to my knowledge still is using a lot of IE - not sure about the reason why.

A little history lesson:

* Netscape wanted to dominate the web, gain a monopoly and gain full control.

* IE came late to the party - long after Netscape was already established

* MS invested a *ton* of resources to catch up, rapid development pace, quick updates, constantly new features and improvements

* MS too wanted dominance and full control of the web

* MS gained marked share through "dirty tricks" leveraging their OS dominance

* MS got repeatedly sued for unfair competition, paid large sums, paid lip-service to the courts but never truly changed their strategy

* that hurt Netscape but didn't kill it

* what killed off Netscape was their own doing: a costly code rewrite, that took way to much time and delivered subpar results

* Microsoft won, they had what they wanted: full control of the web, and the power to shape it however they saw fit

* they did nothing. they just stuck with IE6, no new features or improvements for years, even bugfixes and security fixes became really slow. all momentum was lost.

* Firefox rose from the ashes of Netscape - MS still did nothing.

* Firefox gained significant market share - that finally kicked MS into gear

* MS re-started updating and improving IE - but they were technologically behind and had to play catch-up again

* Chrome entered the ring and boosted the pace of development

* IE never fully caught up

* Chrome gained full dominance of the market - but unlike IE did not slow down development

* MS tried all their dirty tricks again - but they still continued to loose market share

* they rebranded IE to Edge (still using the same render engine, but dropping backwards compatibility)

* they dropped their own render engine, and switched to using webkit

* despite even more dirty tricks, no breakthrough success in terms of market share

I believe the fading of IE pretty much started with Microsoft resting on their (un-earned) laurels, after Netscape died. And yes, that's even before IE peaked - while they still had upwards momentum.
This idea needs to die in the womb.
The funny thing is that most of these "advice" or "insights" can be swapped around, it don't matter which sign you put next to them. Mostly the texts are so vague and generic that people can fit at least parts of it to their current situation.
Banks are going to use this because some pointy headed boss reads an article in CIO Weekly or whatever talking about remote attestation and orders their IT team to implement it. It will not actually cut down on fraud but it will cut down on freedom. The only approach that enhances freedom is that banks, or any other internet sites, must simply not have the option to perform remote attestation outside of limited contexts like IT computers.

But this will likely fall on deaf ears because you already made up your mind last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32283932
Elon finally gets his New Coke moment
ldd's implementation relies on the assumption that the loader respects the LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS environment variable. Do all non-malicious loaders need to respect this environment variable and implement GNU ld.so's behavior?
8th Grade or so in Germany, my son got a tricky system of linear equations to solve. I showed him how to solve it in Python and also explained him how to quickly go back to fractional notation instead of floats (0.133333... = 2/15).

As the teacher looked at the results, he said I should receive a Nobel for my work. As my son told me that, I had a very long sigh...
What's your rationale for believing they should be banned? How can such algorithms be suppressed? And, is there any precedent for this, in particular that has worked?
Shades of Pascal's Wager in there.
I have a starfive visionfive V2 [1] board at home to play with riscv. Can be had fairly quickly from Aliexpress for ~ 100 bucks.

Very similar in nature to a raspi, but still a bit rough around the edges:

- getting debian up an running is not yet straightforward

- this is not exactly a speed demon (it's actually dog slow compared to an rpi 4)

- some feature aren't in the kernel yet (eg some USB devices don't work)

- support for HDMI is still clunky

- [EDIT]: one very nice thing, it has an NVME port and you can choose (via dip switches) to boot from either of NVME, Flash, EMMC or UART (see page 46 of [2])

Mine boots from NVME and it's really sweet, it's one major mission feature for the rpi family.

BUT: it's a very usable computer, and great if you want to play with RISCV assembly on actual metal (outside of a qemu box, that is).

[1] https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards

[2] https://doc-en.rvspace.org/VisionFive2/PDF/VisionFive2_QSG.p...
It was Chris Lattner that used the phrase "world domination" and would even clarify that although it sounded like a joke, he was fairly serious about it.
Several comments are about taking more than 3 things with you. For me it's the other way round, for me it's a success if I can keep ONE thing. And that's usually a new insight, something surprising, something I can link with other information, something inspiring...

When I have taken part in a conference or a series of lectures, an aggregation or 'best of' selection takes place in my mind afterwards (this can also be only one point in the end) and the whole event was only a success for me if this 'one' thing can still be recalled days and weeks later.
And it runs full featured ublock on Android giving me an ad-free web experience.
Now the first thing to know is it’s not pyramid selling https://youtu.be/bxxGNtRG-_o

(The first comment on that video is “she’s definitely into crypto now” which seems right)
> I love how authortiarians

Authoritarians? I'm talking about democracies!

Where most people want marijuana, it gets legal. Where it doesn't, it's because people at large don't want it. That's it!

People can protest, and we can and must discuss, but pouring money in organized crime for a non-need is not justifiable.
Just have some beers, maybe wine or some liquor from time to time. Better than any psychedelics and you won't get schizophrenia later on in life.
Meet the $4 Billion AI Superstars That Google Lost
But in the US, which does not have public healthcare, the burden "to bear the consequences of consumption" does already fall on the individual in those cases.

This pro-prohibition argument is more impressive when made in countries that do have public healthcare, although it still falls short when trying to explain why doctors should mend bones that people break while engaging in some high-risk activities (like skiing or mountainbiking), but should not heal ailments that people incur while engaging in other high-risk activities (such as smoking).

Banning drug consumption in public spaces, where they might harm others, is a different issue, and the drug that is most problematic here - tobacco - is in any case one of the least restricted ones.
Someone please shoot me if I end up using "increased workplace productivity/creativity" as the primary metric to decide whether I should try something new.
App just shows a message "It's time." with a "Notify me" icon. Is it really launched or will it happen later today?
It's interesting, this is basically a Reddit comment but because it's a blog it has weight and people feel obligated to respond. Maybe there's a point to having a blog after all.
I strongly believe any sort of substance use should be a personal choice and don't want to encourage or discourage anyone one way or another. That said, I'm not sure if this train of thought makes much sense? Essentially it's saying you don't want to explore alternative ideas, and that's all fair and dandy if you're happy where you are, but how do psychedelics fit into this? It's not like anyone's forcing them onto you.
Apple Vision Pro: Will Developers Sell VisionOS Apps?
At this point I assume all articles saying “young people are doing X” to be total bollocks. Like the articles we’ve seen here about paper maps making a comeback for young people (a small handful of people were using them as art) or the “young people trading their smartphones for dumb phones” which had a tiny sample size and sounded like bullshit.

Nowadays you find 1-2 tweets (or similar), call it a trend, and move on to then next shovel-blog article.
But overwhelmingly those factions are all centre right, and so therefore so is the party as a whole.
If that's the case then it would be simpler to just put that as the reason accounts can be closed. It would shift the blame to some government and at least give an air of transparency to the whole thing.
What about Abbey Road?
It's more and more difficult to detect sarcasm these days but in case you are serious yes, we all treat people differently based on their looks, and it happens especially in sexual relationships and is not limited to humans.
We have 2 choices now. Either we do it, or we let nature handle the problem.

One option is much better than the other.
> This story screams antitrust.

You're right, the number of news publishers that share a common owner is something that should be of concern to antitrust enforcers.
Should I load the gun already in case you'll think about trying a new VCS, SaaS, task/todo/wiki tool or are we talking strictly about ingestible new things?
> Which is as stupid as it can get, unless you add the prescription that said adult must be the only one to bear the consequences of its consumption.

By and large that is already the law. It is already illegal to harm someone else.

This is a significant and annoying factor of many knee-jerk reactions that harshly criminalise already illegal things. That was how the rollback of basic liberties went after 9/11 for example - there was a pretence that somehow terrorism wasn't already illegal and effectively policed. And we ended up with mass spying and about as much terrorism as there ever was. Similar to this, really. I doubt the amount of drugs taken will change, they are just looking for excuses to spy more.
The situation in EU is more nuanced than what HN wants you to believe:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/law-enforcement/news/eu-wat...

> Wiewiórowski said this type of indiscriminate scanning of private communications “will always be illegal under the Charter of Fundamental Rights (and probably under several national constitutional laws as well),”

https://edps.europa.eu/system/files/2022-07/22-07-28_edpb-ed...

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/summary-of-statement-by-the...

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/leaked-eu-council-legal-ana...

See also the repeated ECJ decisions against IP retention.
I think tmpfile is the filename.
After spending several years in groups that are very positive about drugs I reached the same conclusion that should have been obvious from the beginning: drugs should be left to the medical professionals. Even if it takes decades from now for the medical establishment to reach consensus, and even if in this period some people who would have benefited from their use don't get to.

Most positive stories you hear about drugs are from people who self diagnosed, self proscribed and self evaluated the results of their use. For each one I personally get to know I could not disagree harder with their conclusions. You can not be objective about it and the drugs alter the decision mechanism itself. So you have to be looked at from the outside and by a professional.
Just for the common people. They’re going to fly private jets to every meeting to talk about how best to do it, and meet on their 400 foot yachts afterwards to sign the agreements.

The tyrants always sell themselves as the answer to the apocalypse. Everyone you know is going to die. Society is always heading towards multiple kinds of total destruction. Anyone who uses that to try to take control of us is a tyrant. We shouldn’t sacrifice society at the feet of fear, especially to the very people in charge of the factories and industries causing the problems.

I don’t deny global warming. But I don’t believe the people claiming to have the answers and I’m not willing to follow Hitler logic to take people back to the Stone Age as the “solution” to the problem because I read books (and you shouldn’t either).

But I guarantee you others will put this forward as the “inevitable logic” or “nature will do it for us if we don’t sacrifice everything” as if technology has done nothing and we can’t possibly come back into balance with nature without utterly obliterating human civilization. It’s actually kind of batshit.

Nuclear anyone? No?
Where treating her differently means not trying to bang her because I don't fancy her, of course!
I don't think I've ever needed an extension pack feature.
> After all, stereotyping implies incorrect categories.

Well, not neccessarily:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/2018...
What I mean is, if they've been making plug in hybrids for years, couldn't they easily make an all electric?
No, because I don't pay for ChatGPT but I didn't know this was a thing.

What can it do with the plugins? Summarise what is being said on Hacker news? I'd prob not find it that useful and end up just going to HN anyway.
App Idea - Use LLM to generate Astrology readings
The egg tray business has excellent profit potential. The profit margin depends on various factors, including the market demand for egg trays, production efficiency, and cost management. By utilizing recycled paper as raw material and operating the large egg tray making machine efficiently, businesses can achieve higher profitability through reduced material costs and increased productivity.
Because you're square?
Nobody is asking for a "Wechat" in the west. It's not something I've ever seen anyone craving for.

And no need to spend 44,000,000,000$ on twitter if all you want is to destroy the brand and replace it with a letter brand that's ungoogleable. But hey... what do I know.
Since Figma has gotten better and better, I have significantly reduced my usage of Inkscape, however, when dealing with SVGs I find that Inkscape is really good for solving bugs with the SVG exports from Figma.

This seems to be my only use-case currently. It also has several very useful features like crop-to-content for SVG.
How is it hard? It is a separate download and install.
Hogwash. Please see these two links:

https://www.healthline.com/health/schizophrenia/schizophreni...

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/mcs/media/images/49735000/...
What a terrific video. Legitimately.
TypeChat replaces prompt engineering with schema engineering
Simply define types that represent the intents supported in your natural language application. That could be as simple as an interface for categorizing sentiment or more complex examples like types for a shopping cart or music application. For example, to add additional intents to a schema, a developer can add additional types into a discriminated union. To make schemas hierarchical, a developer can use a "meta-schema" to choose one or more sub-schemas based on user input.
I've been computering for 20 odd years, now an SRE and I have no idea wtf a FizzBuzz is. Is that one of those bullshit interview questions given at places that would be horrible to work for?
> How about you stop insulting?

I'd like to point out a very important detail: I'm not insulting people for wanting to enjoy themselves. No, not at all!

But people are idiots when they don't see the connection between the dollars they pay for their fix and the monstrosities that are committed with those same dollars.

And, if they do see the connection and do not care, that they are criminals.

I do understand and justify, though, those people who use marijuana for medical conditions (physical and/or mental pain) and cannot find it legally.
> But if the only people asking for their legalization are idiots who keep considering their consumption innocent, while funding the author of heinous crimes, then I don't expect a very interesting discussion.

They are only incidentally supporting organized crime because the market has been pushed underground by draconian legislation. The current legal status of various substances is an extremely recent invention, it might as well been yesterday in terms of human history of drug use.

Users of these substances are temporarily routing around a roadblock during a brief period of human history where the nanny state is interfering with these personal choices. Claiming that they're willfully funding organized crime is disingenuous at best.
It sure wasn't running last week when it didn't load half the time I tried it.

(Some of that time it was trying to serve me intranet pages.)
TL;DR is the last paragraph:

Most of all, I don’t want my priorities re-ordered. And that is why I don’t use psychedelics.

OP is afraid using psychedelics will give them insight into something so important that it affects their status quo.

Fair enough. To each their own, I guess.