skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't go to concerts for the music quality. Listening to a mastered studio recording is much better for that. I go (or rather used to go) for the atmosphere. Some bands really know how to perform and experiencing that as part of a crowd who are also fans is a great experience. Maybe connecting isn't the right word, at least how you're thinking of it, but it is experiencing the performance, appreciating how they love playing the music and that's better in person and in a crowd than via TV. But not everyone will get that.

I've been to one show where the lead singers microphone didn't work for the first song and he didn't realise but the performance he gave was such that the crowd was still entertained and captivated.

I rarely go to gigs now as the atmosphere has changed from when I first started gigging back in the 20th century. People increasingly seem to go for something to do and a place to be check in on social media, not to appreciate a band they love. People talk over the music, video pointlessly on their phones, heckle, etc... and I'm too old to put up with that kind of nonsense. Some bands though still get devoted audiences and then it's worth it.
Were either in a climate crisis and wfh needs to be the new norm where possible or everything is window dressing. We should be taxing office space to account for the additional pollution
I’ve been rereading your post here and I think I’m coming around. Captcha is not proof that I did the work; it’s an inference that because I was able to do the work, it must have been easy for me (because I’m a human).

I let my my cryptoskepticism run a little too freely here. Thanks for making me think harder.
I also thought this was about ZA/UM, didn't know about the recent events... Yes, that would be an interesting post.
I wonder if it also factors in travel for remote employees though. Every fully remote company I’ve ever worked for has had regular in-person meetups where people fly to some central location a few times a year.
Seems pretty benign as far as dark patterns go.
Texas too, which tbh is probably the most egregious of all. It's 112° as I write this in Dallas.
> Every species tries to maximize its use of available resources

Do you think humans use oil, soil etc as efficiently as ants do?

Or do you mean "consumption" when you say "use"?
The way you put it sounds like you mean

use ~= utility

Claiming that our "bad conscience" does any good (speaking and writing, to be precise), increasingly proves wrong.

There are just so many speakers and writers and thinkers with their own side of the prisoner's dilemma in mind
What’s the motivation? I don’t want multiple things reading the file if I’m not working solely in nodejs—I want one tool reading it and setting env vars for all the rest—plus plenty of tools already exist to do this and most are trivial to install and use, and overall it seems like another way for things to go wrong and just a platform-specific Yet Another X burning person-hours to… what benefit?
In the 1970s, the alternative to C was assembly. In fact, I can remember hearing stories of the fights needed to pry every-day, normal developers---not systems programmers, not power users---off of assembly to a "higher level language".

It wasn't until the 90s that it became clear that C was not appropriate for applications work (and this was in the era of 4-16MB machines), although that took a long time to sink in.
I see, I misread you. You meant the inflation was due to the QE. I thought you meant the mildness was due to the QE.
I think you’re misinterpreting. Maybe it’s clearer if we elide the relative subclause:

undefined behavior

behavior … for which this International Standard imposes no requirements

That is an obvious definition of what is undefined behavior. It’s not giving license to do whatever. That said the ship has sailed and what implementors do obviously matters more than what the standard says.
It's a rather infamous change between C89 and C99 where the description of UB was changed from basically don't do this to please do this and compilers can do whatever they want if you do
The fact you have to trick the system to do something should give pause then and there that maybe what you are doing is not the expected behavior. By deliberately doing something like this acknowledges the user is aware of the behavior and is okay with doing it anyways. This should be used in determining level of "guilt" or curiosity getting the cat.
> Initially, Lisp-style languages had linked lists as the primary data type, but vectors were early added

The Achilles' heel of every Lisp is dealing with any data structure that isn't a linked list. I'm talking aref, setf+aref, vector-ref, vector-set!, char, etc. It's all just a huge pain when compared to any other language (Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java) that has syntax for arrays, hash maps, strings. Solving the generalized "map" or "length" is really only solving one side of the problem. The other side can't be solved because the language is s-exps and "everything is a function." It would fundamentally cease to be Scheme at that point.
> and even sometimes forgetting what for I came in the first place!

I do that too but thankfully I have history enabled so I just check there.
They continue to move away from the vision of the user being in control of their content and not opaque algorithms.

I submitted this feature request that was highly ranked, but certainly will never be implemented.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1363
I use FreeTube now, but when I used to go to Youtube, I used a plugin which was very bluntly titled Replace Youtube's Home with Subscriptions, which I recommend to all. The Youtube home page is a clear example of putting growth above user preference, and one of those reasons why everybody uses YT, but few people really ... like it.
Me too, but I don't see that as a failure. Sometimes it's a case of 80/20, and refactoring that 20% might just never be worth the effort.
It's almost as if the drive to end fossil fuel use and build vast mixed-use Arcologies at the end of the 70's were good ideas that conservative politicians overturned and here we are in the hell they made for us, trying to fend off their rabid supporters.
I think in such a system, the people would rightfully target the law as the enemy and ramp things up until enforcing the law becomes too dangerous to attempt.
What is nano lacking in power?
echo 'alias m="micro"' >> ~/.bashrc
people cool and heat their homes when they go home though.
But in this case it wasn't fraudulent. So what is the issue?
There is transparency—ignorant people lie and make claims to cause controversy. A lot of this comes down to people thinking Wikipedia shouldn't continue to follow their original vision[1] and instead just limit themselves to just hosting a wiki site and that's it. Again, a lot of ignorance and lies.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prime_objective
There's a huge difference on my laptop (Intel iGPU + nvidia dGPU, though the nvidia chip has no video decode capability) in battery life between software decoding and using the Intel quicksync hw codecs, at least with mpv. Using the dmabuf-wayland vo is especially efficient (though theoretically lower quality than gpu-next/gpu).
Living in Chicago (Lakeview) for years while traveling for work made me absolutely hate taxis.

Hello from up here in Edgewater.

I realize there are huge problems with the finances and liabilities of Uber…but taxis before ride shares were a pure nightmare, from a UX perspective.

Uber brought us…

* Deterministic pricing (for the most part)

* Flawless ubiquitous credit card transactions

* The ability to point to a random location on a map and just magically have a car take you there

I know Uber’s finances are shit…but you know what? I would gladly pay more, because you get a car right to your door that delivers you to an arbitrary location with nobody extorting you for extra physical cash.
isn't it standard practice to take a blood sample from the newborn? i just automatically assumed this was part of the intended tests for that sample
As posted above, the dichotomy is "popsci" fiction with little substantiation.[0]

Yet, I think it's useful for awareness.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context...
I think trauma is also a bit relative. If you grew up with bad physical and emotional abuse from one parent the emotional distance and isolation from another might not even be a blip on your radar, at least until you've worked through the other stuff. And on the flip side if you had a great childhood with stable housing, plenty of food/money then hitting rock bottom in adulthood might be pretty traumatic since you never had to develop the mental tools required to handle serious adversity. Obviously some trauma is objectively worse but competing over trauma severity is pointless.
I'm quite puzzled by this comment. A quick glance through the article and there seem to be several references to what appear to be serious academic work.

So is the issue with the work of the academics? Or the way Wikipedia has put together the article? I'm not a historian by any definition of the word and in quite curious about this.
That's not a small grocery store despite the name. And there's a supercenter less than a mile away from that, so that example is not even relevant to their point.
> "I am so obviously the center of the world that ... If I have to speak, you have already failed."

IME this person is always a women dominating her family. Idk why.
No it makes a difference. I get up in TX and compared to then so many more people just leave the state in the summer. It used to be that in the evening temps would come down to the mid 80s and now they might hit mid 90s even at midnight. It's fucking miserable to be trapped indoors for months on end. So much worse than cold.
If it's so difficult to figure out if the consequences of their optimization game are sensible or not, then they shouldn't play it in the first place.

Who actually wants it to behave this way, other than compiler engineers competing on microbenchmarks? Who is this language even for?
I have spent the last few months doing a deep dive on broadcast / audio engineer standards. The lack of reliability and strange standards are interesting...

It seems like the last few standards started really robust and open because of the lack of compatibility, and then greed got involved and vendors just slipped in something to make it difficult cross connect. I assume so people would have to buy more of their stuff.

The focus on "realtime" makes the standards have worse quality in practice (bad handling of dropped or bad bits), and makes it much harder for the IP based standards to be routed (network congestion from high bitrate through uplinks). WebRTC by comparison can be quite nice.

I seriously don't have any hope for sanity in that market.
That is, in fact, an optimistic position. Police are so ineffective at solving crimes that "easier" and "getting an edge" overstate the possibility of a publicly minded motivation to cheat.

Instances like the Massachusetts crime lab scandal should destroy all confidence in evidence handling: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/massachusetts-cr...

All evidence handling and analysis should be performed by an independent agency, maybe answerable to courts, not cops.
considering the mass of a home, what’s the efficiency difference between letting the temperature stay in uncontrolled for 8+ hours and then trying to rein it in quickly vs just keeping it in place the whole time? remember to account for wear and tear on the relevant HVAC equipment.
> "For the product being delivered (low speed, low latency, available only in specific areas), public transit is criminally expensive."

This is true - the problem is that dynamic-dispatch transit is even more expensive on a per-passenger or per-ride basis, and both speed and latency are actually worse than status quo public transit.

It'd be one thing if the result of these projects have been "this is great but expensive", but the result overwhelmingly has been worse than fixed-route bus transit across every major metric.

Autonomous cars can improve the cost problem, but can't dramatically change the calculus on speed and latency. Likewise, autonomous cars can also solve the cost problem for buses, and better!
If we don't use this against the MCRN, they will use it against us.
>there is no accounting for your tissue or organs after they're removed.

something I had never thought about, but what does an organ transplant do to these tests if a sample was taken from a recipient?
I am not a good writer that's why I do not do blogs and stuff but I will try:

2 fundamental ideas: Distribution & Supply Chains

Distribution:

You need to secure distribution before your company can grow. Which means essentially a lead list or people you can reach in bulk or manually by walking down the street. You need at least 500+ such connections.

The goal of the initial distribution is iterating on your core value proposition. Core value proposition is a binary statement which should be answerable by hell yes or no by your distribution. So iterate on the statement on the first 100 till you get to a hell yes on the binary question. That question should also become the heading of your landing page above the fold.

Supply Chains:

To deliver the product you need to think in supply chains. If you have played factorio or such games this will make more sense to you.

You need a constant supply chain of potential customers (distribution from above).
You need a constant supply chain of great employees.
You need a constant supply chain of new income streams in your product.

A good product delivers value at first touch. That is through strong UX and clear demarcation. Every feature should exist to deliver the core value. So you need to reject a bunch of designs, product ideas, customer feedback to make sure that you are only delivering value.

Other thoughts:

I can only speak of core technology businesses. If you are selling data, you are not a tech company, stop acting like one. Just put stuff in a spreadsheet and sell that.

Use a strongly typed language like Golang or a highly expressive one like Ruby for your backend. Choose extreme languages such as Imba or Steel Bank Common Lisp (which I built on initially before switching to Golang) for maximum advantage.

Make sure that you have a potential market of at least a $100 million flowing through.
> Have you timed it?

I literally gave a timing number in my comment.

The >1 second time was for a very unusual circumstance. Unless you timed PHP startup time using straight CGI (not mod_cgi, nor FastCGI) on a Lustre file system about 15 years ago, with the appropriate set of extensions enabled for what our application needed, you can't really compare the two.

> PHP starts up from scratch on every request

Congratulations.

Now getting back to your request to "Name one", the PHP documentation at https://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.commandline.php gives essentially the same answer as I did:

"By default, PHP is built as both a CLI and CGI program, which can be used for CGI processing. If you are running a web server that PHP has module support for, you should generally go for that solution for performance reasons."
> The standards writers could have made all UB implementation defined, but they didn't.

This is not possible without performance impact, because, in the general case, whether a program constitutes UB depends on data and/or previous program flow (halting problem), and thus would require additional runtime checks even for code that happens to never run into UB.
This is influenced by Haskell (where) and lisp (let) AFAIK.

You’re setting the preconditions for the function, and with elixir you get an extra ‘else’ block to help.
In computer games I used to play as a kid yes, that's called sci-fi, until we actually do it I'll rely on the holy spirit and santa claus
I wrote about it a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ilrwbwrkhv#37180387
It's frustrating because unless it's written in stone Americans won't even pretend to agree on it, we're a very chaotic culture that craves the predictability of rules and laws (unless they impact me specifically). There's no concept in American society of a universal ethical standard at even the most fundamental level, probably stemming from how much inequality exists.
No, you've taken this same dismissive know-it-all tone elsewhere in the thread as well.
It seems to me that people always miss the factor that ultimately determines the differences between self interest and altruism, which is intent. If an action is performed without thought for oneself, yet there is some result that aligns with self interest, that does not somehow nullify any aspect of altruism. Why? For one, people cannot predict the future. What may be perceived as good in one instant can quickly become horrible in another. Similarly, what is in one’s best interest is also subject to perception and changes over time. And finally, one is not always in control of the outcome. I would agree with you that for an act to be viewed as self interest vs altruism is a matter of opinion, when intent is unknown. However, whether or not altruism exists at all (because "it’s not altruism if they somehow benefit") is not - which I am not accusing you of making that argument, though it may be interpreted that way by some.
not necessary: a lot of heat (energy) radiates out into space or is blocked from doing so but greenhouse gasses... and a lot of energy is sequestered into solid matter... or not...
That article discusses PE rebuilding Dollar General successfully. A lot of it depends in what condition the companies are in when they get bought. It isn't all corporate raiders.

My recollection of Toys 'R' Us was actually that the owners deliberately tanked it. They may have originally wanted to save the company, but they spent years deliberately buying and selling pieces so that Toys 'R' Us would hold all the debt while the profitable pieces went elsewhere. That wasn't an accident.

"Private equity can stack the deck in other ways, too. Firms can direct businesses they own to buy other companies and then act as broker on the deals, reaping transaction fees. After its buyout, Toys “R” Us acquired a number of companies, including FAO Schwarz, eToys.com, and assets from KB Toys (itself a failed reclamation project of Bain’s). Consolidating brick-and-mortar and online toy businesses may have been a good-faith strategy. What’s certain is that the deals helped generate $128 million in transaction fees for the owners."

What the article misses is that FAO and KB were sold off before the bankruptcy, with Toys R Us keeping all the bad parts, specifically their debt.
US Copyright Office granted summary judgment against attempts to register Gen AI
It's not earth's hottest month.
Earth was much hotter before the last ice age.
Isn't that... normal?

I want to come home in a comfortable house. My parents used to do that. Turn off all heating. Come home, it's cold outside, cold inside and you have to wait until the radiators start to heat up. That takes a while.

But it worked, radiators can heat up a room quite fast.

On the other hand, if we consider heating with a heat-pump, or cooling with a heat-pump (i.e. just a normal AC) they rely on continuously heating up (or cooling down) air (or water in the case of an air-to-water or water-to-water heat-pump).

So you just can NOT quickly change the temperature in a room. So I leave the AC on 78 all day. If I go away for a couple of days I'll set it to 85, but anything higher than that is not recommended.
Even if we change it today, wouldn't all of the docile little sheep that used ancestry.com or 23andMe type sites provide such a baseline that for generations future humans could be traced back. Supposedly, they can track back a very large portion of the population to Genghis Khan
What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy-
gods!
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.243...
Shares aren't cash for the company itself. For the owners, yes
Manga Piracy Apps Stay Up on Google and Apple, Publisher Moves to Unmask Devs
> Am I interpreting that right?

Yes.

> How is that possible, and what am I failing to take into account?

There are factors like that most of the landmass is in the northern hemisphere, we are in a strong El Nino, ships have to burn fuel with less sulphur and so on. Right now the factors involved are unclear but there is an unsettling possibility: The Earths climate might drastically and quickly change at so called tipping points, after which a new balance becomes the norm. This new balance may or may not be hospitable or even habitable for us.

> Does it have something to do with the elliptical orbit of the earth, and possibly that our closest yearly approach to the sun just happens to align with summer months in the northern hemisphere?

Nope, our orbit is very round and if this was a major factor we'd see it in historic data.
Not a lot that I can find. Essentially businesses are about making bets about what reality will look like in the future. So the better modeling you can do of reality, the more successful you can be. Earnestness is a strong word in my dictionary when it comes to testing ideas these days. I started seeing success when I stopped lying to myself and became earnest after over a decade of failure.
I think the reason for this is because natural law assumes individual responsibility, and things have gotten far too comfy for most people to want that. So they outsource it to text and there are many experts at manipulating text.
As Wikipedia points out, Lewis Carroll's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky has very similar spirit.
You can see it here: https://rog.asus.com/laptops/rog-flow/rog-flow-z13-acrnm-rmt...
> It's crazy that a series d exit would net a founder 7 million and yet my bootstrapped business returned a 4 million profit for me last tax year.

I’d be curious which is rarer: a VC-backed business that exits after series D, or a bootstrapper who nets $4M/year?

IMO both are unicorns!
It’s a side effect of desirable optimizations for UB-free code. You can’t have both at the same time.
Like the Russian language and the Italian language.
This can't be serious. The number of resources being consumed by web frameworks is absolutely insane, they are built on so many layers. .NET desktop apps the same thing. You need a full windows install, then graphics drivers, then the .NET framework stuff.

This is running in a terminal. The golang tui's are tiny by comparison to apps like office etc and can deploy in much smaller total footprints.
Given that a one-way flight from seattle to san francisco generates ~0.1t of CO2, and a flight from new york generates around 0.35. One or two meetups can easily blow away those savings.
Why is C inappropriate for applications work?
> You can do any rust optimization yourself in C++ (ie. aliasing assumptions)

I don’t think that is entirely true. C++ doesn’t have any aliasing requirements around pointers, so if the compiler sees two pointers it has to assume they might alias (unless the block is so simple it can determine aliasing itself, which is usually not the case), but in Rust mutable references are guaranteed to not alias.

This was part of the reason it took so long to land the “noalias” LLVM attribute in Rust. That optimization was rarely used in C/C++ land so it had not been battle tested. Rust found a host of LLVM bugs because it enables the optimization everywhere.
> My point now is that if you give that up it makes no sense to stick with C or C++ in the first place and in this day and age.

You wouldn't be giving anything up. The standard defining something as UB means you absolutely shouldn't be doing that. So a compiler doing something defined in case of UB can't harm you in any way, and doesn't deviate from the standard, because the standard prescribes no rules in the case you're invoking.
> They can surface up videos from channels you’re subbed to that you haven’t watched. They could show you videos you started to watch like netflix does.

All of those things depend on tracking your viewing history.