skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money is always pouring into something shiny (looking from a limited perspective) thing.

Probably too much money is with clueless but greedy and lazy (to discover) people?
> no one seems to invented a better alternative

There has been myriads of alternatives experimented in the 200,000+ years humans have been a thing. Many ancient societies didn't have the concept of property. Others did, but burned everything someone possessed when they died, ensuring a level playing field at each generation. Most ancient societies didn't have any hierarchy at all. The concept of anyone being the boss of anyone else is extremely recent.

We marvel at our modern world but what does it give us? Does it make us happy?
Great that you're having fun. Consider buying a real Switch as well. For me it excels in two use cases:

* Playing (Nintendo) games with the entire family (4 people, all holding a small controller): every Nintendo game is very thoughtfully designed to get 4 people through the "flow" before the game starts (pick your character, set the options etc.)

* Playing games in the portable/detached mode, it is a joy to hold and unlike a tablet you have physical controls. Most games are so much better than your average iPad game (or better said, the "match three" or mindless clicker games do not rise to the surface as easily as on iPad).
I started using syncthing recently and it's just so good.

My approach in the future is a home folder shared across all devices, although my phone only syncs a subset of those folders.

The only deviation from the usual MacOS home directory layout are the Settings folder (for all app configs worth keeping) and the Artefacts folder (for memories that are not photos). There is also a Projects folder that's mostly for code.

I sort my important documents folder by year, since their importance often correlates with the fiscal year.

The Downloads folder is a dump of temporary, disposable files. I keep it somewhat clean.

The result is that I know exactly which directories to back up, and that everything outside of my home directory is effectively disposable. It takes me about a day to get a new laptop in full running order.

The only issue is that when I'm at home, all copies of my data are in the same location. I'll fix it soon, hopefully before it bites me.
Survivor bias is massive here, watch out for it.

Osborne beat apple to personal computing. Facebook did not exist during the dotcom boom. So very many early car companies went broke. "But if you'd only got ford it would have been sweet as." But they weren't first. Panhard et Levassor in 1889, ford in 1901 sayeth wikipedia.[1] So now you're waiting and picking winners in the sector which is very much harder without the time machine to see what worked out in the end.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile#Eras...
Imagine if the name on a tomb does not match the one that the person preferred to be called with, and everybody used all the times. I know one case but I don't know the reason.
Even in countries where you might assume this is true, it's not always!

For instance in China, most names are single character family name followed by a two character given name. Some rare family names are two characters and usually they will have a single character given name. Some people have single character family name and single character given name.

Then you get people from different ethnic groups who put the family name at the end. Often these are characterised by a long given name and then an interpunct joining that with the family name, but that's not always done. For instance a popular singer at the moment has the Chinese name 希林娜依·高 where 高 is a fairly normal Chinese surname so it's easy to identify as such. A very popular actress is named 迪丽热巴·迪力木拉提 so it's not always the case you can easily tell which name is which.

Even for those with simple construction, so the characters are FAB (family name, and 2 characters for given name). You'll find that within a family, where you might expect pet names, it's common instead to call each other by AB, except when they're annoyed and use the full name FAB. In a business context, someone with a higher rank might be F先生 (Mr F), F总 (Manager F), F董 (Director F), but close colleagues might call you AA, BB, 小A, 小B etc - but typically they won't get to choose that, they'll be told by the person "you can call me ___" and they might allow different people to use different names or react with their official title if someone uses too informal a name with them.

I've got Chinese friends who exclusively use an English name at work in China. I've got a friend who later moved to the UK, and most people in the UK know her by her Chinese name, but except for a few close school friends, nobody in her working life in China even knew her real name because the company she worked for only used English names (this isn't very common though).

In other countries, many people don't use their first name much. In the UK, I've known quite a few people who've primarily used their middle name, and others (including me) are generally known by others with a name that isn't among any of their given names. Sometimes these are common transformations, e.g. David to Dave, David to Dai (in Wales), but other times people just use initials or nicknames (e.g. I've got a friend who pretty everybody calls Danger, it started as a joke with friends, but now even his parents sometimes use it!)

Anyway, that was a long diversion, but it's always safer I think to ask for the full name as one field that not try to change it, but use it exactly as provided for official purposes, and to also ask for a preferred name for your communication with them. In cases were you share the name to other people, e.g. an online community, you might want an additional display name which might well be different again.
It is an affront though, a butchering of the language and just generally disrespectful. The distinction is an integral part of the German language and it's wholly inappropriate for a telco provider to address someone like this.

Same goes with names: missing accents, umlauts, special characters, wrong ordering, wrong titles/gender etc. is aggravating. And customers do complain.

German companies often spend a non-trivial amount on software engineering time and data cleanup to get these things right. And the French take it even more seriously.

Non-native speakers may not understand it, but that's no excuse and you will alienate people and customers. Even younger generations notice.

And just fyi I'm a millennial and per "Du" with everyone I know. Not my telco provider though.
Oldest diving device in history may be early 17th-century Spanish invention
A little suspicion I get from this post is it sounds like they have bunch of users under believable names in English, as well as many name-sounding local names that may or may not have to do with names, and they want to regularize the hell out of it to real names only, and looking into coding a machine readable data scheme to enforce a policy.

Otherwise there should be not a lot of reasons to parse and format Asian names, as suggested plenty times over here. If the incoming invoice has to go through legal checks first, the requirement shall be as codified and supplied, whether it's that the name shall be written back to front or in purple on red.

Maybe I'm just overthinking, likely I am.
I prefer WET: Write Everything Twice, which I believe carries the same principle and has the nice appearance of being something of a counter to DRY
You need to be really blinded by cynism to not see how much better modern life is for average people or how many people benefit from advancements and scale which wouldn't be possible without billions of dollars worth of investments.
The problem is when a single methodology is seen as a silver bullet for all kinds of projects -- it almost never is.

The benefit of "scrum" is that it splits the development into chunks of work that can be used when planning, which is why it is well suited when the majority of work consists of development and delivery of new features.

On the other hand, "kanban" works much better when the majority of work is maintenance, bug fixes, paying off of technical debt and only a limited amount of new development.
Also even in west the first name + last name doesn't capture the whole effect.

For example my credit card has last name, first name and middle name. And should probably be passed as such. In some addressing you want all three. But for most communication and even mailing things only first + last is enough or if more formal last + first.

In the end it is huge mess with no clearly applicable rules.
Linux (and MacOS homebrew) offers the arbitrary precision calculator bc:

> bc -l
sqrt(2)
1.41421356237309504880
scale=64
sqrt(2)
1.4142135623730950488016887242096980785696718753769480731766797379
Actually, implementing score voting (or approval or STAR or Majority Judgement) should incentivize all the candidates to move toward the majority opinion. The problem isn't the candidates, it is what platforms the current system pushes them to adopt. If we changed to any of these MaxVoting methods today, you would see majority opinion platforms emerge as the lead platforms within a year.
this is another way of saying "If you invested in the first one to be successful." Well yeah. Obviously. Time machines work great for investment decisions.

edit:

Whether it was first or not the nokia N95 was a smartphone and was definitely before the iphone. Forgotten like every earlier loser I guess.
How Storytel massively leveled up its developer experience
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In trying to look up the scientific word for this, I discovered "cryptomnesia" [1], which I certainly did not invent myself.

Not sure if this is actually describing your phenomenon, it might also be "unconscious plagiarism".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia
Who's Only Looking Busy at Work?
You might find the Carnegie Endowment article on Indian-Americans in my comment here useful - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37333418
Try walking with shirt and jeans in windy rain. After a hour or so, it will feel like torture. I can see why they put shelter over water.
In the particular case of Jassy, likely.

But “STFU and do what I say” is a choice in management style, and not all CEOs choose that approach.
Sometimes commercial success is due to technical excellence. Especially in overcrowded fields just being better is enough.
I find bad abstractions to be a much greater liability than unabstracted code that could be combined into one function but isn't.

It's relatively easy to combine code and much harder to disentangle it
Scandalous !!! $2500 wasted just because a tethering with servers that will be shutdown !!!!!! Why they don't do like Google with their Google Glasses : a last firmware developed to free the device from the servers, offering the basic functionnalities without any constraint ?
DTV Reception Maps
If one uses the XML tree of the XHTML as the primary internal representation instead of S-expressions, no conversion is needed at all, as XHTML can be viewed in the browser simply by associating a CSS style sheet via "rel".

Nothing is a faster converter than avoiding a conversion step altogether... but that is not why I did it; I used that technique in my Ph.D. thesis back in 2007 [1,2] to avoid directories full with hundreds of auxiliary files (xml/ html.tmp/ ..), which may be confusing to manage, slow to copy, and eventually lead to the file system running out of i-nodes.

EDIT:

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01989...

[2] pp. 132-134 in https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/1849/leidner-2007...
Index vs. preferred name can get a bit wonky. I used to work on software that had a lot of attendee/speaker list functionality. Different types of customer had strong expectations about how names should be displayed and ordered, sometimes even in different contexts (attendees might be listed by last name but speakers by first, etc.). We had medical conferences where everybody would be listed as "Dr. Fredrica Bloggs, MD" but the sort order would be by last name. And that was just for English-speaking customers.
https://www.quotes.net/mquote/58562
It is respectful in France too, but only if you use a title. Say the person is DUPONT Maëlle, then:

"Bonjour madame Dupont" is respectful

"Bonjour Maëlle" is informal

"Bonjour Dupont" is rude.

"Bonjour Maëlle Dupont" or "Bonjour DUPONT Maëlle", using whatever the user put as their "name", is just neutral (though the former is less formal than the latter).

Generally, you only want to address young people by their given name, and adults are more likely to find being addressed by their given name rude, than young people are to find being addressed by their family name "weird" (unless they are maybe less than 16).

I find that using just the given name in any kind of official communication often has a "fellow kids" vibe.
Things are always changing.

The US and its mindless dynamics definately could use a kick in the teeth to speed up the change. But its happening with interest rates rising, dedollarization etc. Some rich folk who think nothing is changing and their behavior doesnt need to change, their story wont end well.

They dont have as much control over anything as they think. In fact I think rich people are going to take the biggest hit mentally, financially, socially cause its very precarious having wealth without control over what happens tomorrow morning.
"A book written in Unicodes is called a 'Unibook', and the totality of materials available in Unicodes is known as the 'Universe'"—in another timeline...
Good for you! Too many people are in it for the money and pure self interest.

Now, I like the money our profession pays, it’s great - but I’d by doing something with computers either way, so what a blessing to get rewarded financially as well.

Also, as an erstwhile professor who was at a top 3 program, a motivated and curious student is the best. If you had finished college you’d have done well with your attitude.
Just make all rooms private and build more rooms or hospitals. It's not rocket science.

Relative to the already absurdly high health care costs, the construction costs should be pretty small.
Yes that's probably true. The article makes a parallel between the current AI hype and crypto, but there's a huge difference. Crypto didn't bring any benefit to anyone and didn't do anything one couldn't do before (with orders of magnitude better efficiency and security).

The current situation is more like the early dot-com boom of the 2000s; Webvan and pets.com or Altavista were ill-executed but they weren't stupid ideas. It was then that Amazon and Google were founded.
> The concept of anyone being the boss of anyone else is extremely recent.

My guts tell me it's as old as humankind. Citation?
Is this accidental to the billionaires, or is this their intended outcome?

And could the investment come from alternative sources if the billionaires didn't exist?
Yeah. I wonder if it's because both their markets are quite conservative and BEV's are still quite immature.
It would be really neat if after pulling the captions, an LLM was used to reword the content into an idiomatic "blogpost" (since speech is typically different than writing). Using LLMs, we could even choose the level of summarization and the output tone!

As someone who strongly prefers reading to watching instructional videos, I'd pay for this service :)
It seems that with things like ticket there should be explicit "as in passport" instructions. Not that people will follow those...
I think to address your politeness questions, it can only be done if you handle each language/country split separately and the app creators have detailed cultural knowledge for each country/language. I come from a country right next to germany and addressing a person with a gender specifier like Frau would be seen as extremely old fashioned and potentially sexist.

So I guess it also depends a lot on to which degree the app is localized.
> Have you seen the new AI photoshop where you can just AI fill anything? And it just works?

> The amount of people who can edit photo's is now basically unlimited. That's thanks to generative AI.

It's also available at zero cost, thanks to the ecosystem around Stable Diffusion.

You probably know the meme that gets parroted randomly about OpenAI needing a moat; well, what's Adobe's moat, now that this exists?
At the very least you should do some prototyping of your product (not idea) and do some basic market research. No one wants to buy an idea but they might be excited about a new product that needs their capabilities to bring to market.

Market research will tell you a lot about how the idea might have been tried before.

From my own perspective you sound like you’re describing a partial glove. I believe these have been tried before but maybe there are some new factors that make it more viable. That idea does have traction with artists using touch screens for drawing because it neatly solves their problem.
Out of curiosity...sure you type less, but do you need to think more about which abbreviation was which word?

In iOS I maintain a small list of abbreviations (@@ expands to my e-mail address, lk expands to my name etc.) but if it was hundred(s) I'd probably lose more time thinking about "what was the abbreviation of 'online meeting' again" or correcting accidental abbreviations that are part of normal words, than I'd save time typing...but maybe that's just me.
I’m T1D.

For me, the main thing keeping at being good at the closed loop system is delay. In the pancreas, « measure » and delivery happen at the blood level. It is instant. With CGM and pen or pomp insulin delivery, it is in the superficial higher layers of the skin for which you have 15min delay to and from blood.
I've worked at utilities with both systems. The UK system, which also has three phases to most every customer, is way better. And I'm an american power engineer.

By the way, the US nominal voltage is 120 volts. I don't know why everyone refers to 110 Volts.

You are correct about the last mile. Since single phase is distributed so often, the utility distribution engineer has a lot more work to balance things. In the UK and other networks, there is no single phase distribution.
This does seem like one of those rules that would be independently developed by many experienced developers, so neither is hard to believe.
Types of Vertigo
> Your mental model of the incentives doesn’t apply to a population who don’t function the same way you do

We all function the same, we're all human. It comes down to how much do we want to prevent people from spiraling down in the first place. If the laws were enforced and it was socially unacceptable to tolerate homelessness, then I think many people would look for alternatives at any cost. This would then expose those who truly have no other options. Instead what we have now is enablement of that lifestyle, at least implicitly by allowing it, but also explicitly in many cities by subsidizing it. This makes it into a viable option for many who would rather take the risk than seek for help as soon as possible.

If homelessness is so bad, why do we leave people to their own demise? Even with free housing it's not enough for many who struggle mentally, as you are pointing out. If someone is drowning they need to be forced out of the water instead of doing nothing because dragging them would hurt their arm.
> SE Asian ethnic Chinese names: Harry Lee Kuan Yew, (English name) (Surname) (Given name). Hated the name Harry and got it removed, though many Chinese are referred to by an English name.

Really? Your parents named you the exact same name as a famous politician?

Edit: Really? Downvote me for the OP’s bad English?
Could you please post a picture as well? (this goes out to other enthusiasts in this post)
I have this with yasnippet in emacs. It's more than just simple expansion too. It expands to a skeleton to fill in the blanks, so f expands to a function definition and then allows you to put in parameters, return type, then body or whatever makes sense in the current language.
lol on measuring interruptions. You’ll never capture why I lose 2 hours per day 3 days a week and if you do you’ll kill off collaboration
See today's HN link for an example https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/9290/885...
Opinion: The Chinese economy is doing better than you might think
The author being the Chinese ambassador makes this notable to me
here is 2 that were mentioned in HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36153683
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36798593
Whoa wow. I was kind of afraid that would be the ending. It’s too sad.
Artists need to eat. And if you make something that everyone can have, it's not art anymore really, it's the equivalent of an ikea frame in an airbnb that looks like every other airbnb.
My 2018 X1 carbon's laptop backlight, which is adjustable, does not have flicker when recorded in slow-mo, so honestly don't see the excuse really.