skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can make slow & buggy software anywhere, with any stack. Teams themselves shipped a whole release focused around sucking significantly less & were getting much faster.

Discord has gotten pretty solid, vscode is spit fast. The hate against Electron feels so selective & antagonistic, picks it's targets, never acknowledged any value, never recognizes any points for the other side. It is just incredibly lopsidedly biased. Over what doesn't feel real to so many.

I was hoping Tauri would be the one, by using a shared library model. That would drop memory consumption down significantly. But they use webkit on Linux and I'm sorry but I want a much better base that supports more modern capabilities.
I still don't understand what the carrier of gravitational waves is.

How are the waves propagated? Space is not an elastic fabric or water where water molecules transfer potential energy.

Aren't gravitational waves a hint that spacetime is not fundamental, but an emergent property of something else?
Said someone who has never grown up in poverty. rolls eyes

Been in both situations; grew up impoverished, now doing well.

Living paycheck to paycheck is never a lifestyle choice; there are choices that come out of that because even poor people don’t want to feel poor, but given the option, not a single one in most cases would prefer to be paycheck to paycheck.
I regret trying to make good looking guis with tkinter and modern tkinter themes.

Making the ui with react in electron is way heavier but much nicer and it’s trivial to make a service that starts a fast api server for your application code, and just shoot json from your electron app to your fast api server.

Then later if you want your tool to be more deployable you just make it a web app instead of using electron.

We have made several internal tools in both ways and the general UX/UI is much better by not using Tkinter.

Pure Python guis are just kind of crap.
False premise. Intellectual property is not equivalent to those assets.
Zoning keeps every city from being denser than it could be. Zoning is the problem. There’s no such thing as a city that is full up.
Ngrok – But Without Downloading Anything
This is a marketing piece with little information and misleading facts.
Well, we didn't. We sold accounting and distribution systems. The base software was functional, but basic and pretty much always needed customization. So, we sold a lot of "we can do that" features that we didn't already have, confident that we could, indeed, "do that". And we did.

There was, however, one rather spectacular disaster where the client bought really underpowered hardware for their needs. The vendor promised a more powerful machine "real soon now", but the one they had just wasn't cutting the mustard. They ended buying something much more capable from a different vendor, and then the lawsuits started happening about who said what where. We got dragged into that, but were exonerated.

Like anyone else in software, we were cocky developers, and we could do pretty much anything they threw at us. And I'm certainly not going to suggest we never missed a deadline, we all know better than that. But we knew our software and knew whatever it couldn't do, we could make it do satisfactorily for the client. I was both developer and pre-sale tech that helped keep the sales guy in line.

We had one client back out because we gave them, like, a 3 week schedule for a feature. "We talked to our guy and he said that's impossible." "Impossible? Really?" From some fellow who legitimately had no idea what he was talking about. We ended up demonstrating that we could do the feature, in their office, in a couple of hours to rough out the fundamentals, and they were rather impressed.

Unfortunately, we got them as a client. Very toxic personalities, not fun to work with. But, we were hungry, them's the breaks. The others at the office enjoyed my manifestations of the assorted horrible tragedies I wished upon these people and their families when I returned from a visit. Really awful.
Yes. Firing someone should always be a last resort; generally it means either that the person is hopelessly, irredeemably unfit for the job, or that you are incompetent at leading people. If your hiring processes are worth anything, the former is exceedingly rare.
What's weird about popcount?
Sam Altman has said that ChatGPT is break even on compute. Maybe he meant ChatGPT Pro, not sure, but the idea they're bleeding money because of the number of users doesn't seem to be the case.

Obvs that's still a recipe to lose a lot of money on talent, training and other things. But they have a lot of room to increase prices.

Also the idea that a small drop in usage over the summer indicates a problem is nonsensical. Most new products have a big launch spike and then usage collapses! See how Threads usage spiked at launch and then dropped like a stone. If ChatGPT has only lost a bit of traffic over the summer (which is slow time anyway) then they're doing great.
An excellent comment, and I'm glad it's the top one.

This really was an incredible journey. I hope each of the men goes on to prosper and have families-- what a story to tell!
A better analogy and even more negative. The Cargo Cult label that harkens to Pop Fashion is much less damnable than than which harkens to political dynamics.
Why can't they raise prices? I'd probably pay more for it.
Its weird at that point it wont drop off whether you pay the collections or not, for 7 years so theres literally zero incentive to pay the collections off.
Carrots can improve your eyesight https://www.drlatter.com/blog/do-carrots-actually-improve-yo...
Context matters. If they moved to those other countries and continents, which have lower costs of living, they’d be fine. But: moving costs money and time they don’t have (since they’ve gotta work 3 jobs to put food on the table), those other countries and continents have even less opportunity to build a business, and so on.

It doesn’t really matter that you think “poor people” aren’t really that poor. They are, and risk is much harder to stomach when it means becoming actually homeless. Denying that is sticking your head in the sand.
Tickets are expensive, most people cannot afford more than one. Many are born into debt they have little hope of escaping, much less buying tickets.

Those born wealthy can often buy so many tickets it's virtually guaranteed they'll stumble into something that works, at least once.

No one is saying people don't have to at least lift a finger to try. Just that birth luck affords so many other opportunities that the advice of outliers and the born comfortable isn't transferable.
Is there a reason an emulator like qemu couldn't just pass along spirv like wasm does with webgpu? Would that be way slower?
It also solves very hard problems, that:

a) need solving

b) are expensive to fail at

This in an age where the easy problems are increasingly pre-solved by free libs, or can be solved fast and cheap by AI.

Rust is increasingly the best tool for high-value spaces where cheap and dirty options are obviously unworkable.
This is interesting! I applied the other day but got thrown out for applying from EME"A".
I would have just called it a regular cult ("give me all your money and you'll receive great riches in return").

It's true that adherents to crypto have a faulty understanding of traditional finance just as the islanders have a faulty understanding of airplanes and canned food. But rather than painstakingly recreating the minute details of traditional finance in hopes of capturing the same success, crypto cults go out of their way to avoid recreating those details or understanding why they're necessary, if burdensome.
Speeding up NMAP service scanning 16x
Xiaomi's MIUI 13 blocks Telegram installation for Chinese users
So if I want to finance a new car, does it make a difference whether the debts are paid or not?
I worked with Stan during his Disney days. We brought him out to teach a C++ class and he liked it so much that he decided to work there for several years. He was a good guy. I didn't know he passed away last year until I saw this.
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Coun... The UN Security Council voted to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya. Not a single member state voted against it. And nobody vetoed it. So saying that the West decided to topple Gaddafi is a lie.

Only for western troops and their allies to overstep the very mandate the UN gave them. It's well documented. Denying that fact is a big lie, your own link says so. So much for that "no-fly zone"...

> On 24 August, it was acknowledged for the first time that special forces troops from Britain,[15] Italy, France, Jordan, Qatar,[16] and the UAE[16] had intervened on the ground in Libyan territory, stepping up operations in Tripoli and other cities.[17] This has been questioned as a possible violation of Resolution 1973[18] although the use of special forces is not prohibited by the resolution.
If the author was aware that Godzilla was a metaphor for the atomic bomb, they may or may not have chosen a different movie monster. I would hate to think that faculty are unwitting weapons of complete and utter annihilation aimed primarily at students. Godzilla’s design and purpose was to indiscriminately destroy.

As US/Japan relations improved Godzilla could be seen as a protector, but that strains the faculty/student metaphor too far, imho. There are other movie monsters that may be more appropriate.
Why macOS anti-malware scans can behave oddly
Show HN: NotYetNews – AI-Generated News from the Future
Remember that the machines require electricity, so you have to also include the land needed by the power generation and transmission equipment. And assume that the power comes only from CO2-neutral sources (very dubious assumption). And then we remember that vacuums make a lot of noise and people don't like living near noise, whereas living next to a forest is fine, so you need land padding too.
> In fact, vim understands the syntaxes of a lot of dotfiles, with home manager, you even lose that.

Nix is perfectly capable of referencing external text files (e.g. `./my-config-file.ini`), which you can write with vim or whatever if you like.

It's trivial to put such files in place with Home Manager (or NixOS config) if you want, e.g.

home.file.foo.source = ./my-config-file.ini;

Home Manager is certainly overkill if that's all you're using it for; but many more things become possible thanks to its use of Nix. For example, you can run some find/replace on the file contents (say, to splice in some Nix store paths, or the results of some calculation); you can fetch arbitrary files from arbitrary locations (e.g. some other git repo); you can choose between alternative contents based on arbitrary criteria (say, CPU type, or hostname); etc.
Not to negate the information in the provided article (as I certainly don't know enough of the specifics to debate, so feel free to correct me here), but I'm unable to ascertain whether all potential environmental impacts were factored into those numbers. I would think on aspects such as biodegradability, plastic bags would be essentially one of the worse options available when compared to counterparts such as paper and cotton which seem to have a much more straightforward decomposition? At a surface level, the provided article seemed to be comparing environmental impacts from production and recycling alone instead of also accounting for the impact of the large amount of plastic bags that end up as litter.
> this instruction was named "sideways add"

An early instance of what's now more commonly called a "horizontal" operation in the context of SIMD.
It is frightening to internalise that the entire job hunting circus depends on failed salespeople with no actual knowledge of the matter at hand.
Those people are the fools. And perhaps they even know it. They're just hoping for even greater fools that will buy from them at even higher value.
By any chance, did you stop reading at the transition that looks awfully like the beginning of an ad box or some sort of call to action for whatever they’re presumably selling? The article actually continues and somewhat substantiates it’s argument, but I agree if you read only what appears to be the main body of the article, there’s very little there.

The whole thing isn’t terrific either, but the page layout further detracts.
Being on Heroku and dealing with the lack transparency of the security breach by Salesforce speaks to opposite of them being truthful. How long did it take them to admit to being breached? We had to get our information from 3rd parties about the breach and that we needed to rotate secrets.
> how many people have been convicted under these sections in the last decade

There was enough criminal activity under those provisions and coordinated DOJ civil litigation (which often is a product of investigations that start as criminal investigation of a specific incident, but end up discovering systemic problems in the investigated department) against local police departments under the civil provisions of civil rights law that cutting back on both was a major and public priority of the Trump Administration when it came into office in 2017.

While I can’t think of many recent notable convictions (off the top of my head, the four MPD officers convicted related to George Floyd's murder are the only ones that jump to mind), officers involved in the Breonna Taylor shooting will be going on trial under it this year (current trial date is the end of October, IIRC; the one who reached a plea deal for helping prepare the falsified warrant application pled under a more general conspiracy statute.)

But, while its not a lot of prosecutions, its enough to show that it is more than a theoretical possibility where multiple police officers deliberately act together against a Constitutional rights and leave someone dead as a consequence.
Space is like a fabric, it's a literal compression and stretching of space as the wave propagates through it. The distances physically get shorter and longer as the wave passes by.

It doesn't necessarily mean that spacetime cannot be fundamental, as there's no rule that says that space itself must emerge from some sort of underlying medium (eg the way fabric is made of threads).
You are being hyperbolic, and the argument isn’t strong.
Who will win Russian and India's race to the lunar South Pole?
Forgiven debt counts as income. There's some messing you can do with it, like I think one of the latenite hosts did with some student debt.

The whole sold-in-bulk thing I could see being 'remedied' by having some sort of federal clearinghouse that each item of debt has to pass through. Though, that'd probably get fought tooth and nail so money-men can pull subprime-shenanigans.
Mycelia send nutrients to trees in need
I'm also still amazed nobody though of adding a simple pointer to the interface, the amount of minutes lost trying to convey to someone where some object on their screen is located is adding up very quickly.
Those "reverse this linked list" interviews are essentially disgused IQ tests, which wouldn't otherwise be allowed in the US, not without a lot of legal risk at least.

Their point isn't to test a specific practical skill.
You have all the signs of ADHD. I highly recommend you find a therapist and also get an ADHD evaluation. Maybe find a therapist who specializes in ADHD.

And remember this is not a moral failing or a motivational issue. Therapy will help you see that you are not alone and you learn tools to help debug your mind.

I see a lot of positives in your post which might be hard for you to see.

1. You care.
2. You love.
3. You can teach.
4. You are loveable.

If your lack of degrees is upsetting to you, you can get your GED and even enroll in a college courses. You can skip the GED and go straight to a community college for example. There are a lot of options. You could for example take classes in psychology and learn about yourself and eventually become a therapist (if you wanted to). Or you could start a summer community ed program teaching high school kids (and others) to program for your local school district.

Anyway, it also sounds like you can program and there are a lot of non-traditional programs around. At the same time these types of programs expose you to other folks will help you build your network if you connect with each other.

You can do it! I believe in you.
Seems lower resolution than the MIT Media Lab Inform project from years and years ago.

https://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/
If I were to elect you to be the new CEO of CNET tomorrow, what would be your action plan?

Because so far it’s not very promising, and “just let the company die” is not a strategy people are going to implement.
Not if you don’t have the money or time because you’re working three jobs. Or you have kids from a previous divorce and can’t leave the state or you never see them again.
> disables preemption systemwide

I guess that means not usable day-to-day. One infinite loop in any app and the whole OS will freeze forever. I didn't even know any modern OS could operate only with cooperative multitasking. Windows 3.1 in 1992 and PowerPC Mac OS until 2002 were the last mainstream OS's to use it...
JavaScript is weird
It is used in industry, with caveats. You often see both C++ and Rust in the same company as complementary languages.

In my experience, the biggest issue is that it is nearly impossible find experienced Rust developers who are also domain experts for systems software. A common pattern I see is that people with Rust experience have almost no real systems software or other systems language experience, so the Rust developer pool tends to be quite junior in terms of relevant domain experience where C++ is the dominant language. Ideally, you want someone who was doing systems development in C++ for many years -- it is the only way to realistically have the domain expertise -- that then became an expert in the Rust language. These exist but are very rare.

As a consequence of this, another pattern I've seen is that a lot of the Rust development is moving a bit further up the stack, where the JVM commonly lives, because it is a better match for the domain experience of Rust software devs in practice. Rust has significant advantages relative to Java in many regards. I think Rust is quite brilliant in this role but that isn't how it is commonly positioned.

My controversial view is that Rust is more likely to replace Java than C++, and is significantly more competitive against Java than C++.
AI centered video conference application could create new revolutions in the next years. We were promised to get "AI talking heads" in SF movies 20-30 years ago. It is an obvious idea but we are not there yet.
We still need a harware "revolution" that will enable systems with powerfull AI capabilities (generative AIs, capacity to train models on your data and only based on vocal indications) Imagine such environments running on desktops or even on mobile phones. This could force a migration of all software as plugins in "video conferencing" software that allow us to talk with AIs (of your employer or entertenment AIs or with other people that have AI as first filters, AI for dead people, celebrities, etc) in a safe but totally integrated approach. I am a researcher and like to imagine possible futures but defenetly there are so many opportunities for revolutions in these areas for the next 10-50 years...
A large website wants to have its current content cached as much as possible—ideally very few users should be hitting the CMS directly—but it doesn't make sense to cache content from 1995 on the off chance that today is the day someone needs it. In fact, to speed up database performance on your current content it may even make sense to store your archives in a different, less beefy database.

However, if Google penalizes slow performance on any page, even archives, these strategies could damage your search rankings even for your current content.
How could you even tell if you've personally invented something? You don't know what caused a thought to pop into your head. Heck I often forget things I've said, so I clearly forget things I've heard. I could be fully convinced an idea was my own and still be dead wrong.

Luckily you can build on the ideas of others without being a cargo cultist. Simply verify the sturdiness of the foundation before you go adding an extra wing to the house.
> [W]eb cams didn[']t get (much) better.

I wonder if improving webcams came on laptop manufacturers' roadmaps when video-conferencing became a big thing (i.e. because of COVID-WfH), for years they seemed to be mostly a "add the cheapest webcam and tick a box in the features list" item.
Predatory pricing. The startup business model is to lock customers and suppliers into one another through your platform and then boil the frog with price increases and cost reductions. If you don't successfully lock people in you fail. If you do, you have a nearly unbreakable monopoly and your investors can suck money out of the business basically forever.

Amazon, Google, and Apple are probably the most successful examples of this.
Greenwich only got accepted as the global time meridian in 1884(?). Before that, countries would have their own national (or regional) standard times. E.g., France’s was based off Paris, which was not a whole number of minutes offset from Greenwich.
Or it could be hype. Hype is a very very common human activity where people repeatedly try to sell you on something because they see it as the next bandwagon.
The premise you're suggesting is only the most effective way to tell a small number of people (ie tell them directly).

That's why radio, TV, newspaper advertising was so effective for so long.

Even for a small convenience store, larger scale - mass audience, automated - advertising is almost always a necessity and a far more effective use of time.
It’s of course useful, the question is it useful enough to warrant its own instruction
I think they meant you should assume that YOU are part of a cargo cult. You should look for ways your own viewpoints/society/etc are cargo-cultish
I’m also not a lawyer, but that would clearly be false advertising, right?

One thing I’m curious about—some states have a law that stores must accept cash. It is pretty common for a gas station to require manual intervention to take cash. I wonder if this 24 hour gas, but the store isn’t always opened, gas station would fall afoul of that sort of law.
Cory read (and linked) this: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-waste-stream-of-c...

but missed this bit:

> A second scrub will typically remove dead debtors, because they infrequently answer their phones. (Debts are not inherited in the United States, a fact which the debt collection industry frequently demonstrates strategic ignorance of.)
Home Manager is less useful if you're using NixOS. I've found it handy on non-NixOS systems, e.g. my phone; although I'm planning to switch that to NixOS at some point too ;)
I think this describes most of what I see on my LinkedIn feed.
Well, what has changed?
Neumorphism: Soft UI CSS shadow generator
Google's relationship with blogs is downright schizophrenic.

So it seems you can be penalized for keeping old content around. You're also penalized for not generating and updating new content all the damn time.

The marketing guys I work with are always on my case about this.

"We need new content!"

"We have nothing to say on our corporate website that people will want to read."

"It doesn't matter. Write stuff anyway, for SEO."

"You're not going to get me to publish blogspam just because you think it's what Google wants."

"B-but you don't understand! You need to. Everybody else is doing it!"
Can't AI fix this problem yet
Which checks and balances do other parliamentary systems have?
The difference between best platforms and others is the difference between "supported and possibly tested" and "we aren't aware of major obstacles".