skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gap between Nirvana and now is significantly larger than the gap between Nirvana and Zeppelin, and the worst part is some kid might come along and not understand how crushing that is.
There's a bunch of them. [1] I don't have enough information to know which is the one you are looking for.

[1] - https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
Is there a counter fallacy along the lines of "if we can't measure everything, we shouldn't measure anything"? It can still be an interesting, fun and informative exercise while keeping in mind that it may be limited.
Probably because they are very different things. It’s not like the US stops Cubans from reading Wikipedia.
eBay suspended my account 25 minutes after registration
I registered an eBay account to purchase some hardware for my business. Before I even had the time to enter payment details I got a message saying my account had been suspended. Support will not reinstate my account under any circumstances, neither will they tell me what I did wrong.

I tried to delete my account afterwards, but apparently even that's not allowed. Suspended account are not allowed to be deleted until the suspension has been resolved. Isn't this against privacy laws? I should be able to delete my account whenever I want.

Here is the full e-mail transcript that I had with support. It's a bit lengthy so I won't post it completely in the OP: https://pixeldrain.com/u/vasZm17y
I was under the impression that WeWork was basically a commercial real estate company moonlighting an office space renter. I thought they were primarily in the business of buying up and building as much commercial real estate as they could, and the work spaces were incidental to their actual business model. Kind of like how McDonalds isn't really in the business of selling burgers, but owning prime commercial real estate.

The value of commercial real estate is plummeting. I don't know how/if this is reflected in EBITDA.
That's true, and you do make a disclaimer about performance, but often when this is brought up, people either haven't actually tried MPS or are unaware that a GPU isn't required for inference.

The long and short of it is, right now, CUDA beats TFLOPS.

Now for training, $10K for an M2 with 192GB memory could break even somewhere around a dozen models with current costs, iff the compute is not saturated. The limit of memory bandwidth is only a function of the compute; it doesn't scale infinitely.
I like the concept and DeX is getting close. But many things work slightly annoying, with all annoyances combined, I rather use a full OS (Linux)

For instance:

- opening a new tab in chrome does not focus the address bar (can be mitigated by using Vivaldi browser)

- Text selection varies wildly between apps, with some allowing regular mouse selection, others requiring a double or long click and drag to select text. Dragging can easily interfere with swipe actions. Eg, you delete an email while trying to select text.

- No mouse hover, which bites especially in vscode.

- When switching between phone and DeX mode, apps restart (browsers will reload tabs)

- Many apps do not have an option to show multiple windows, for instance chrome does not support detaching a tab.

- Spell check with a physical keyboard is difficult.

I tried running a local Termux Linux distro over X11-VNC, regular VNC and RDP but didn't feel the experience was good enough.
> The apparent variance between list syntax accepted by the reader and emitted by the printer

Could you provide an actual example for this? I suspect this is a simple misunderstanding.

> 'o' for function composition? Square brackets to reduce over an operator? Square brackets with a backslash to map?

I never used 'o' myself but YES, square brackets to reduce over an operator. Indeed, I see nothing wrong with that (okay, I actually do but not with the principle, rather the parsing). And "square brackets with a backslash" is NOT a map, it's a produce. The blog post got it right.

> function signatures as first-class values (...what?)

Okay, now give me a break... this... is a "what"? Are you real now? A perfectly sensible and useful feature, a "what"? To be able to investigate function signatures and pass them around appropriately without constant hacking, is that bizarre? I guess airplanes are also bizarre to some...

So yes, I think what you present here might be the other extreme: rendering anything that might be slightly clever as "weird" or "complicated", even if it clearly reduces the custom tinkering each individual developer would have to do...

The situation is a bit touchy because I think your characterization of the Perl mindset living on in Raku as well (C++ is a similar language in a way) is legitimate but it seems to be based on "fortunate" prejudices and stereotypes rather than a good understanding of the situation. You haven't seen the bad parts yet and you apparently called some of the good parts bad. Not sure if it can be helped. I don't think the language will be cleared up anyway but I also wouldn't want to go as "unclever" as you seem to find desirable. Languages like Python and Rust can thrive despite not being completely dumb. Opinionated yes, dumb no.

Also, I have been thinking that maybe the way to find industrial use for Raku (or this broader mindset overall) is to outright reject this framing that all projects need to be monolithic. Yes, you may be right that Raku will never be a language where dozens of people work on millions of lines of code together, for decades. What if your services can be broken down into pieces that CAN be managed by a couple of people tightly co-operating? What if these services can be developed and deployed so efficiently that instead of maintaining them for eternity, you can just start anew and replace them cheaply?

There is the common wisdom "what one person can't fully comprehend, definitely contains flaws". There is some truth to it for sure, and it does seem like with the rise of microservices, there would be place for software developed in a much more distributed manner. Now, there are practical reasons why Raku didn't catch up, at least not yet - but they are absolutely not language philosophy reasons.
More like the reverse. There's no proof on being separate human species.
The rest it's quakey science.
Perhaps for some indication on how much "they're not gods" is, its worth looking at the things the CIA did to try and assassinate Castro (as well as any of the shenanigans they did during the cold war, including trying to train cats with spy sensors in them to wander into a Soviet embassy - that one failed because it took too long to train and their one successful cat was driven over by a taxi when set loose on the street across the embassy).[0]

Its less "super top secret spy agency hires a hitman to take out Castro" and more "we're just going to throw whatever we can at the wall and see what works". Plans included literally mailing him exploding cigars (on the assumption that Castro liked smoking so mailing him one might just work), hiring his ex to try and kill him on a plane ride (which just resulted in the ex rebounding with Castro) and some campaigns to try and make him look weak that can only be described as "hilarious" like flying a plane over the country and dropping leaflets with a bounty of 0.02$ on his head with the idea that he was so weak that the bounty wasn't worth anything (although this one was rejected, they also attempted to make him look foolish by lacing a radio broadcast room with LSD).[1]

To pull a quote from Alan Moore: "If you are on a list targeted by the CIA, you really have nothing to worry about. If however, you have a name similar to somebody on a list targeted by the CIA, then you are dead."

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_assassination_attempts_o...
Full time drivers were/are doing pretty good, particularly those with decades of time at UPS. Part time drivers (the bulk of their workforce) were not. That was the main thrust of the recent negotiations (that and AC).

But yes, package handlers and sorters next, please.
Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office
Private SaaS Stream Processing
And Banjo Kazooie
This doesn't rule it out. In both your case and the case of keeping Chrome open constantly, Chrome doesn't get updated in a long time, leading to this issue.
I was 52. Still been 100% joy.
I'm not sure it's always obvious to ourselves when we have. We humans are amazing at denial and telling ourselves whatever story we want to believe in.

I'm not picking on you. If there's one thing I'm terrified of, it's blind spots.
Not just an annoying list of questions
> Most people consider the multiregional origin theory highly motivated reasoning and also completely garbage science.

But I don't get it ~~ what's the motivation to branch off as distant rather than share some common ancestor?

Who and why would want to promote that? I don't get it.
The article is good, but what I ( me specifically ) am most concerned about is repairs. Are the articles about not being able to get EVs fixed just FUD? Or is that a real problem? Am I going to be able to take my EV anywhere to get it fixed up?
If we're trying to define precise terms here, "free market" and "capitalism" don't overlap at all. Capitalism is a type of government, free markets are a (group of) polic[y/ies].

I don't see where the logic of your comment comes from either way though - capitalists are typically in favour of a free market, no? And typically the "purpose" of a free market is accruing wealth as part of a private enterprise?
That is the beauty of employer subsidized benefits with preferential tax treatment.

The worker cannot easily compare compensation offered by different employers, so they are less likely to leave. And bigger/more profitable businesses can afford to hire professionals to analyze and implement these benefit plans, while small businesses are left competing for 2nd tier employees since they cannot afford that overhead.

Why someone gets health insurance and retirement savings with pre tax money if their employer subsidizes it and why someone has to pay for health insurance and retirement savings with post tax money if their employer does not subsidize it is a pretty great injustice that neither party is interested in addressing.
Anectdote and opinion follow here.

As a nerd that did break out of that label, let me tell you that if you had any emotional intelligence or social skills, you don't lose social status in American schools for being smart, in science or any other subjects.

If you did other 'cool' things successfully - perhaps soft rebellion against teachers or administrators, music, athletics, parties, dance or cheer, or were physically attractive (took care of yourself and followed basic fashion), and had good social skills you don't stay at the bottom of the social ladder here, even in the Social Darwinism of middle and high school.

Competency and accuracy are the lowest form of interpersonal skills. If no other interpersonal skills or interests are cultivated outside of science, even the most competent and accurate individuals are likely to fail socially, which will also effect their career outcomes. Competency is used too often as a display of dominance or defensive mechanism. As bragging. As self-delusion. Connections with a diverse set of people outside of the competency only group will increase social skills and status, and with those connections comes a higher chance of success.

The people who are labeled nerds and derided for it constantly generally do not try or care to try to make these outside connections for fear of ridicule or oversensitivity, and occasionally physical safety. Non nerds see this as a superiority complex, and find overly sensitive and defensive people difficult. So they are devalued socially.

That is to say - make lots of friends and cultivate various interests outside of your core interests. Be interested in others and their accomplishments. Engage in the social jousting and own being the butt of a joke every once in a while. Don't lean on intelligence and academic achievement for everything. You don't have to win every debate to prove how smart and deserving to lead you are. You have more value than just being right all the time.

These values fit our American cultural ideals, where our leaders are typically selected on the basis of all their skills rather than a singular aptitude.
Fine-tuning Llama 2 using spot instances across multiple clouds or Lambda Cloud
I was just playing it yesterday. It gets unbelievably frustrating as the levels get more complex, but then there's the gems like destroying cities with the jetpack guy.
That's great but why are you forcing others to subsidize these jobs too, especially the poor?
How is ARM open? And simplicity is also subjective… x86 goes way back thats why it seems more complicated or “crufty”.

ARM is a huge corp like anyone else.

ARM got a huge boost now since everything is switching to mobile and their chips are more energy efficient than Intels. Added to that Intel was also asleep at the wheel and missed the mobile boat…
> The bottom of every page is padded so readers can maintain a consistent eyeline.

That's a nice little detail, I haven't seen that before
Most importantly for me is that nothing on HTTP protocol stops you from designing basic websites. A protocol is about the transport, not the content. This is the main fallacy about Gemini to me.

So, nothing requires you to first jump onto an obscure protocol in order to present websites that support text mode web browsers and minimalist reading experiences. HTML is great for this. It has a decade long history and text browsers are actively supported.

Then there is the protocol simplicity argument. HTTP is not a very complex protocol with great overhead as-is.

Rendering pages is not a HTTP hurdle or even a HTML hurdle but a CSS and JavaScript hurdle. That’s where the complexity arises and you walling yourself off basic renderers begin. But doing so is a choice, not anything coming from HTTP or HTML.

In fact, the situation has gotten _better_ over time with HTML 5 with improved semantic elements and deprecating styling elements. This makes it easier than before to understand and present a website in various forms.

Or it should do so. Now there is the topic of obnoxious websites burdened with JavaScript and heavy, complex CSS but since this argument is about people willing to use Gemini, they are not the kind of demography that would design obnoxious websites, but clean and well-behaved ones according to the spec. So using HTTP and HTML is thus not a problem for Gemini minded people. Or it shouldn’t be.

I think Gemini is mostly a psychological phenomenon. People were willing to do something for themselves that captures their ideology and intentionally walls them off because they wanted to more clearly feel part of a subculture. This is harder to achieve if you just subscribe to a minimalist, well-behaved blog service like Bear or Blot.im.

The one thing I’d love to have today is native Markdown support in web browsers that could have a custom style sheet applied to them. You’d enforce simplicity in a similar way as Gopher or Gemini but in the normal web = way more convenient and lowering barriers.
I thought SPACs were some new thing but they are actually not. They just show up periodically to scam a new generation.
Previous discussion from a couple of days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37033475
It would be useful, it would not be ok.

It's still an invasion of privacy, and Intel has no business knowing I play (and how much), e.g., a gay dating simulator, Postal, Hogwarts Legacy, or any number of other games that either are or will be controversial, incriminating, or just useful as another data point in a personality profile.

So many of the devil's advocate posts justify it by explaining how spying on users can be useful. But the complaint isn't that it's "not useful"!
Epstein-Barr virus vaccine may prevent MS
How do you sign multiple devs on a commit though? Would it be a joint PGP key signed by all keys of all devs that helped with the PR?
No, they don't provide the full book, just a few sentences before and after your search prompt (same as Prosecraft).

In both cases, however, if you had the patience, you could search the last few words of the text returned from your prior query and slowly work your way through the entire book.
Foraging is a very cool hobby that I'd like to get into some day, but I'm aware of the potential for it to go wrong. My understanding is that in many places, you cannot determine safe mushrooms from dangerous ones using reference photos, they're just too similar and you need live expertise. What's safe and what's dangerous is also very localized.

I worry that social media will cause people to think they can forage safely and cause this kind of thing to happen.
Interesting. I too am a senior dev and I really don't feel the need to compare. I'm doing something I'm good at and I'm compensated well for it. I am getting mine, and I want everyone else to get theirs too. It's not a race. It's not a competition. It's not about being/feeling important.
> Features matter not app binary size.

*.exe in Everything = 11 586 objects on this machine.

At 70MB a piece that would come out to ~800GB.
That's honestly a great idea for an alternative to newsletters... it would be nice if there was better first-party RSS support (what about in the email client?) since I don't think any OSs have it, because right now that would probably confuse most customers
libqalculate is the mathematics part and the command line tool, while qt is GUI, so it's surprising the GUI part isn't the larger one of the two
Ehm yes... some perspective: (2019 figures from the Wiki)

97 million chicken
12 million pigs
4 million (mostly milk) cows

In a densely populated country of 18m people.

Roughly half the surface area is agricultural land. And in summer, half if not more of that is either grass, or corn.

This is not used to feed people! (minor fraction of agri land). It's used to feed cows & pigs. Chicken and extra cattle feed mostly comes from elsewhere, like soy from South America.

All that milk, eggs & meat is not used to feed the Dutch! Something like 2/3 (if not 3/4) goes to export. A lot of it in the form of cheese.

A historic argument for this was that it provides jobs & income for the country. These days, something like 1 in 50 (if not 1 in 100) of jobs is in agriculture. It's highly mechanized & intensive agriculture + cattle-keeping. All this agri business produces some 2% (if not less) of GDP. Many grey-haired farmers want out, and/or their kids (if they have any) seek different careers.

That's on top of all the peppers grown under glass, flower bulbs, potatoes, etc. Plus raw materials (fertilizers, cattle feed) imported from elsewhere, nitrogen compounds & methane emissions, pressure on nature areas, cow/pig/chicken poop masses & what to do with it, animal welfare issues, and the land use in densely populated country with housing problem & too little / small natural areas.

So yeah, many Dutch ppl want that cattle heap cut... Move cows to where there's space for them.

Long overdue imho.
In last 30 years in my native language the word "worker" has been replaced by "employee" because "worker" has exact connotations. Working sounds tough. "Employee is performing a task" sounds less of an achievement than "worker is working on X".
POSIX shells only support: set -eu

You might want to be in the dash POSIX shell for raw speed and portability.
I call this "technoshit", which is the general downhill trend of UX as technology and software becomes more complicated. I suppose there's Doctorow's "enshittification", however that lends more to intentional anti-patterns whereas I try to describe the feeling of "why couldn't they just try harder to make this not shit".

Stuff like your experience with Amazon, mine even just last night having to: find where I can buy something I want to stream (already a nightmare), buying it on the "new" Google TV app only to cast to the TV before playing it and getting "this content cannot be played on your TV", before starting it playing on my phone first and _then_ casting, after which it worked.
You'd need that feature if you desired to host an actual service (a webserver for example) behind the VPN
Are you saying the outcome of previous antitrust cases (especially against big tech) hurt those businesses sufficiently that they act as a deterrent? It doesn't look that way from my position here in the peanut gallery.
> If your work could be fully automated - you wouldn’t have a job right now

To nitpick this - there's a non trivial up-front cost associated with automation. As such using (well, abusing) people is sometimes just plain cheaper than the amortized costs of automating.
I'm not sure I can put a dollar cost on the theoretical toll that a package delivery job puts on your body versus being a dev.
why would you be willing to when companies can easily allocate the record profits they have to wages?
The Amiga layout was truly made for programmers.
Doing the math from the article, they'll be at an average of $120k in wages for an average of around 43 hours a week.

If you are doing below that as a dev, probably worth first changing companies.
SideStore is a fork of AltStore that doesn't require an AltServer
There is serious oppression of ethnic groups inside of China. Things have been changing fast under Xi.

>Xi Jinping has celebrated majority Han culture as the timeless “soul of the nation”, gradually shifting ethnic policy from formal inclusion of 56 ethnic groups to cultural nationalism. Influential political economist Hu Angang called fusion a means of making China a strong and prosperous state again, while anthropologist Ma Rong considers “teaching barbarians” a revival of imperial tradition. These arguments emerged following mass violence in 2009, sparked by the murder of Uighur labourers by Han colleagues in a Guangdong factory accused of using coerced labour.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/05/china-...
Feels like a nightmare. What about a book club passing around a copy of your book. Want to charge them licensing fees? Story time at a library for children. Licensing fees for them too? Review in a pay-walled newspaper. Fees, again? NYT derives value from all those reviews you know.
agree

you cannot run gumroad like financial transaction business without licence and agreement with stripe. it is bound to be closed down on short notice, and all the earnings will be clawed back.

so don't use this app. period.
supremacists
UPS makes about $75 Billion per year in profit. This is a $25k increase after a few years of record inflation. There are 300k teamsters at UPS (including other jobs like package handler). If 1/3 of those employees are drivers, we're talking a 3% reduction in profits. They can afford it. (also worth nothing this $170k is also including all benefits).

>this just means more people will get laid off.

The threat of a strike makes this much less likely.

Anecdotally UPS drivers are much, much better than Fedex and Amazon. They don't toss my packages or leave them sitting in the rain etc...
Sounds useful!

We're using service control policies to enforce tagging on certain resource types, and retroactively for the rest.

Considering to use a "shift-left" tool as well, but it would need to support Terraform, CDK, Serverless and Cloudformation.
How is this awesome news for the poor who will pay for it in more inflation?
I switched from Speedcrunch to Qalculate a while ago. I don't actually remember exactly why I switched at this point. (I think due to a lack of updates). Qalculate very similar in many ways, but I do like the interface on Speedcrunch better (after hiding the keyboard). The new UI for Qalculate has a similar enough feel to Speedcrunch that I've been happy with it.
And they have some outstanding liabilities...