skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10% is the total return, but you see 6-7% because that's the real growth after inflation, which assumes average inflation of around 2-4%.

So you're getting 10%, but in terms of actual, real, concrete gains it's more like 7%. Also remember that's the average so it's possible to see years of 5% and then a few of 14%.

The 7% number also looms large because at 7% a year you double your money in ~10.3 years; makes it easy to plan for 30+ year investment horizons.
That solves the OS differences but not the differences in installation methods, ie compiled from source, system package manager, Windows installer, KERL, Homebrew, etc.
The goalpost shifting and strawman is yours.

You made this a Linux only discussion, not me. I'm perfectly happy if Wine proves to be reliable enough for my games.

In fact my original post was an anecdote (me). For some reason you chose an anecdote to make a series of personal attacks and unwarranted generalizations, but I'm happy to debate and bite because it's a fun topic for me personal attacks notwithstanding.
Local governments aren't businesses–so why are they force-fed business software?
X updates its terms to ban crawling and scraping
So it's been a week, and I haven't had to mute a random sub in all that time. Seriously, thank you—maybe it would be better for me to stop using Reddit, but if I'm going to be using it, at least it's not constantly throwing crap I don't care about in my face.
We wouldn't have had to cut oil cold turkey if only we'd started to dramatically reduce our dependency on oil 30 years ago. We did some, but it's marginal, while oil and even coal use has gone up. We should at the very least agreed on a moratorium on building new oil and coal power plants. And tax fossil fuels instead of subsidising them.
We're back to "how is it different from Siri".

You had to provide two pages of text and do manual mapping between human-readable names and some weird identifiers to provide the simplest functionality.

Funnily, this functionality is also completely unpredictable.

I ran your prompt and first request, and got "Identify the area with the lowest observed request volume and increase the brightness of the light in that area to improve the lighting." ChatGPT then proceeded to increase brightness in the garage.

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It's also funny how in the discussion about context the context of the app is forgotten.
No I mean more end-consumer oriented ones. You're probably right, though I still think it'd be nice to see more competition (plus, more competition tends to make companies behave better, because they know users have compelling alternatives).
Interesting. Are there technical challenges with ground water or is it a legal challenge?
He was dealing with the naive and idealistic bullshit that Americans are actually willing to fight in the wars that they vote for.

The Pentagon immediately scrapped the draft following Vietnam and started recruiting from the trailer parks.
I'm only speaking from impression, but I think early Unix's userland is probably comparable with busybox in terms of code size and features.
you must not have young kids. Food gets everywhere for a while when they are learning to eat.
You need to re-read the article. The author does not extoll the benefits of the tracking Google is doing. It’s actually a pro-privacy article. At least read the final paragraph:

> Lastly, it’s good to remember nothing truly comes for free. Software costs money to develop. If you’re not paying towards that, then it’s likely you – or your data – are the product. We need to revolutionise how we think about our own data and what value it truly holds.

You made some edits. It’s strange to me that you seem to be interpreting my position as somehow ok with what Google is doing. I am not ok with that. I don’t think the author of TFA is either.
It's a reflexive guilt-by-association instinct that many people have. Some people have used crypto in the past unethically, therefore everyone using crypto is unethical. I usually like to illustrate the problem with this fallacy by using it in a way that nearly everybody can quickly see: "do you have a dog? Hitler had a dog."
"Usable" is a strong word for Outlook. "Bearable" would be a better fit. Of course, it's mandated as well, so there is very little option.
A quick googling says Firefox makes most of its money by making Google the default search. While I'm not suggesting they are doing the same, it does make me feel they are aligned as a business.

Apple is the only tech company I know that's primarily funded by customers paying for a product directly. That's why I use Safari.
It's not that anything drains me, I just can't get myself to pretend to care about strangers.
The one true source of man pages on Linux:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/maintaining.html
Absolutely.

Plus I think I've gained a significant chunk of my understanding-a-new-system and debugging skills from growing up fiddling with Gentoo, Linux From Scratch and what not. Now I make my money from these skills. In this day and age I'd argue a major Linux distribution is generally less hassle to get started and work with than macOS or Windows, but it's still good to know that if anything _really_ bothers me, I _can_ change it to be any way I like.
Flight 93
I was going to mention ElevenLabs, too. Their samples are very impressive in how the intonation and word stress are varied based on the text’s meaning. Their pricing is a bit high for personal use, though.

(The link you posted seems to have been truncated. Can you try posting it again?)
Dishwashing powder 100% has surfactants in it.
Grayjay – Follow Creators, Not Platforms
The grid has a "duck curve", which means there is a lot of spare capacity outside of peak hours. And moving EV charging out of the peak hours is doable.

Many charging stations already have batteries on site, because it lets them use cheaper electricity and/or provide charging speeds faster than their grid connection.

EVs used for commuting are very flexible with their charging times. They can automatically delay/schedule charge times. Median US commute (35mi) requires charging about once a week. People who can't charge at home could charge at work (such low-speed chargers are relatively cheap and easy to install).
If you think banning behavioral advertising, reselling demographic data, or whatever, is an easier lift than adapting accounting practices to accommodate every human's right to privacy -- sign me up!

But I'd like to think we can walk and chew gum at the same time. Fundamental shifts in the social contract (caused by disruptive technologies) impact all sorts of stuff. We shouldn't limit ourselves to quick fixes.
This is a great post. I’d just add that I assume VCs are successful now because they’ve been successful in the past.

I don’t have data on this, but I’d guess the top tier VCs attract and have deal access to top tier startups, which are more likely to perform well. Then, when those perform well, the next top tier startups will come to them again.

Perhaps someone else would be able to confirm my assumption on this positive reinforcement loop.

Also, these days you can get a reasonably good comp and still be at a startup. Sure, it will not be as much as FAANG, but it’s still good, and you get to work on an environment that’s more stimulating and allows you to try things out.
My house has cost significantly less than that over the time I've owned it.

Last year I spent 4000$(CAD) on maintenance, this year I'm at just under 1000$. It's about 60 years old and it really doesn't take much to keep it in decent condition, but I'm also happy to and skilled enough to do a lot of work myself.

If I owned a giant American style McMansion I could see it costing that much, but it's a very modest house.

When it comes to maintenance costs it's hard to estimate when talking online because every location, house, and person is very different.
I wish I had grown up with it. I recently started trying to watch it for the first time and it's, well, difficult. Things seem to drag a lot and Mulder and Scully seem to really not think about the implications of a lot of the details they're exposed to.
There isn't technically a limit on the storage side but it's generally better if you keep documentation to a manageable length.

You call vn.train(sql=...) on each individual SQL statement that you have.

What'll happen under the hood is the package will use the 10 most relevant SQL statement examples, 10 most relevant pieces of documentation, and 10 most relevant DDL statements.

If using 10 examples exceeds the (approximate) token limit for the model, it'll pare down to a smaller number that'll fit into the context limit.
The only time I've felt Edge was forced on my was MS Teams has its own browser binding and defaulted to Edge. Otherwise? The system-level "firefox is my browser" seems to be working fine.
Yes of course a society in demographic collapse will fundamentally not work. I'm talking about providing for your own generation financially here. Society must manage the task of supplying enough hands to do the work, which could mean e.g. maintaining a reasonably stable fertility rate of at least 1.8 over time for example (Or a corresponding immigration to ensure the same thing). Otherwise yes of course eventually you have a country that is a retirement home with no staff...
'Compiling'

https://xkcd.com/303/
Utah man describes experience living through Morocco earthquake [video]
That is such a hardcore burn. Yikes haha
How long would it take to count to a billion out loud?
How long would it take to count to a billion out loud?
Please don't use GA / GA4 or any analytics tools if you respect your customer's privacy, if you must do tracking then use backend server logs (nginx logs) which are good enough for most use cases.
Word.
I just tried to log in Godaddy to change some DNS records and it asked me to disable adblock/tracking protection, and I pay for the domain
I tried to listen to The Call of the Wild and it was impossible to follow since accents and emphasis on words are all wrong. I could barely understand the story. I guess AI has more work to do.
No, I expect people to stop pretending that LLMs somehow know context unlike the stupid Siri.

There's considerably more in that prompt besides just "you need to act like a home assistant"
Also, the linked article above didn’t mention anything about plasticity.
> Why not? are they somehow special? more important than power or water?

They are less important than power or water and, which is one of the reasons why they are able to make more profit.
> A unit test is a discrete, runnable program that asserts some state about your program to be true

I would say "Observe the state of an execution stack". Tomato tomato.

> which has a very specific meaning

Unit testing is a methodology, not a specific thing.

How you observe it, be it through a pass fail indicator or a "This looks right", is immaterial. Splitting hairs on the output methodology does not change the utility.
I have profile specific extensions for work and personal. Containers is a half solution.
Lit2Go is also good: https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

The sibling poster is right, the quality varies. But the upper end of the quality range is really quite good. One of the best-read audiobooks I've ever heard was a Lit2Go edition of Pygmalion. And, for that matter, one of the worst-read audiobooks I've ever heard was an edition of an extremely famous and commercially successful book that I bought on Audible.
Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack in 2023?
Hello dear HNers.
Each year for the last few years (except last year, when it was asked by amitprasad) I have asked companies of one, meaning companies that consists of only one person of what tech stacks you use. Feel free to link to your site or project for show case if you want.

What is your tech stack?

Why did you choose it?

Do you think your choices had any impact on your success?

Here is the previous threads:

(2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32960033

(2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299053

(2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25465582

(2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21024041

Thanks in advance!
It’s all voice and no acting
I sometimes use windows on my work laptop and usually keep it up to date, meaning I won't let the installed updates wait around for a reboot. It still ends up hot for no reason while I carry it around, and the battery half empty.

Hell, while asleep on the desk (so plugged-in, grated) it tends to be hotter than while under active use. Under Linux, the fan basically never spins as long as I don't compile stuff and the PC is cool to the touch.

I also make a point of unplugging it before I close it because, contrary to Linux on the same machine, there's a very high probably that if I unplug the dock while the PC sleeps, the screen won't wake up again in a usable state (it's typically on, but it's either blank or it displays random colors). It gets its power via said dock.

This is a run-of-the-mill, full-Intel HP Elite book, with an HP dock running Windows 11, as recommended by HP.
These numbers only matter if you plan on subsisting entirely off of social security in retirement, which even if you are maxing out your SS taxes every year and plan on living a minimum-wage level existence in retirement, is almost impossible mathematically.

If you're under 40 (maybe even 50), wrapping social security income into your retirement calculations is a fool's errand. I'm in my 30's and basically treating it as play money. If it's there I might use it to help buy a car or something in my 80s, but I'm assuming I'll get approximately $0 for everything I've paid in supporting today's retirees.
Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) forgot to renew their domain
That is hilariously optimistic. Massive crop failures on the other side of the world could alter your quality of life to a degree you might be surprised by.
An absurd number of people seem to think that the only housing options are a renovated Victorian in San Francisco or a log cabin in a forest in Idaho.
> Then there is the fact that DLSS is something that needs to be supported by games themselves: why?

DLSS requires motion vectors, depth buffer, and jitter in addition to the rendered frame. DLSS 2.0 is effectively Temporal Anti-aliasing (TAA) with deep learning replacing the heuristic approach of TAA implementations and thus needs as much integration as TAA does.

https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/fvgf7d/how_dlss_2...
A Prairie Home Companion was also a dear loss too.

I enjoyed Live from Here, its replacement - but Chris Thile was not Garrison Keillor, and the pivot from an even mix of storytelling and music to mostly storytelling, caused it to lose something.

I think had COVID not come along, it could have found its audience, but alas, COVID came and it went.
Nevertheless we live in a world where sometimes it’s people’s networking ability that allows them to be successful far more so than their skill alone would achieve.

It may not be “fair”, but if we want to succeed in what is arguably the extroverts world, we unfortunately need to play the game too (at least to an extent) or we may find ourselves overlooked.
Accounting methods/practices are private. You just get to see the income statement and balance sheet that is produced from this voodoo. Perfect example: Kroger is taking the full charge for their opioid settlement in a single year but future investors and managers will be burdened with the actual payments for decades (tax law allows this). This is the thought process baked into these accounting methods that you normally are not privy to. Bonuses for me now, pain for you later.

https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases/challenge...
I dropped a thousand dollars on a new card this generation to replace my GTX 1070 from 2016. Gotta say, I probably shouldn't have bothered. The old card was running modern games at 1080p60 just fine and I can't tell much difference between 1080p run through an mClassic hardware upscaler and native 4K. Even on my 75 inch TV it wasn't a huge leap.
You have to hire (or be) a plumber to make the change. Often getting access to the pipes can be tricky. Depends on how your house is though. Sometimes this is as simple as connecting the hose to the other valve already in place, sometimes this means opening up the wall to get access to the pipes.
Using modern, mid-range dishwashers, I barely need to touch them before loading them. It was hard to break the habit of pre-washing, but that uses up a lot more water than the dishwasher itself (and energy, if you use hot water).

When I did clean them before washing them, so to speak, the short wash cycle would be enough. (Now I use the sensor cycle.)
I had to write one for an interview many moons ago. It's a fun little exercise.
Why would the rich continue to create businesses and employ hundreds of millions of people if the end result was just to be taxed to oblivion. Yes there are rich people that have more $ that they can spend in a lifetime, many of them also provide more to the economy than they take out. Also much of their wealth is imaginary as it exists in shares that they cannot sell without losing control of their company.

Musk is the obvious example. Tesla provides ~120k well paying jobs. Its the first electric car company that makes having an electric car cool thus putting tens of thousands of people in non polluting vehicles. SpaceX has fundamentally changed space travel plus employs 12k people directly. Should we have just capped his income after he sold paypal? Think of all that would have been lost.

Also who are we to decide what people should aspire to?
I2C is basically "USB for things where USB would be overkill". It's a standardized protocol [1] that allows for one host to communicate with up to 128 different devices on a shared serial bus consisting of two wires. The specification does not define any discovery mechanism or higher-level functionality on top of basic packet sending and receiving, so I2C is meant to be used in cases where the host already knows what is connected and has the appropriate drivers set up (hence why embedded Linux devices typically use a "device tree" or similar configuration file to tell the kernel about their I2C hardware). Many of the chips used in modern electronics are either controlled entirely via I2C or use it as a configuration port in addition to a separate high-bandwidth interface for data; the accelerometer, power management chip, audio DAC, display and cameras in your phone all have I2C interfaces.

Another use case for I2C is device identification: since I2C-interfaced ROMs are so cheap, it's common to embed them in various types of peripherals and have the host read them out to retrieve information about the peripheral. This is how your PC gets to know which resolutions are supported by your monitor [2] (VGA, DVI and HDMI all have dedicated I2C pins for this purpose) and which type of RAM you have installed [3], for instance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C2%B2C

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Display_Identificatio...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_presence_detect
If anyone can wants to stop new vehicles from being produced, I hope they at least are honest enough to be a subsistence farmer who refused to use computers.
CSS Classes considered harmful (2022)
Not saying that you are wrong, just mentioning that Safari has the attribution API, which serves a similar goal:

https://searchads.apple.com/help/reporting/0028-apple-ads-at...
Pound for pound, mining and processing minerals for batteries has a much smaller environmental impact compared to extracting and processing fossil fuels for gas.

It's not nothing, but way less.
Do you have the same objection to reading transcripts?
> But nothing about upscaling, nor frame generation, sounds like something that requires game engine support to me. The graphics card should have enough info to do that by having all the pixels.

Modern upscaling solutions (eg TAA) require not just the pixel outputs but various inter-frame/metadata such as depth, normals, motion vectors, last frame, etc. DLSS is more or less just the spiritual successor to TAA with machine learning sprinkled in. Integration with the game engine is needed because the non-color metadata needs to be provided to the DLSS and how each engine computes those things is a bit different.
How would that "scratch pad" be filled?

Let me remind you of the context of the conversation: we're asking LLM to play a favorite song.
I had Edge forced on me a number of times and had to change a setting to prevent it from happening.

The most recent case in point, I updated my wife's Outlook to the latest version and it started opening all links in Edge. I had to Google it and found that Microsoft forced this change on everybody and I needed to tweak a setting.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23709297/microsoft-edge-fo...
that doesn't necessarily mean they are the same app, just that they are using the same name
Ever hear of cash flow?
'Rich, Broke, or Dead' made me realize that I was more likely to die early into retirement then I was to run out of money. In my case that made me realize that I'm not using my 30s effectively. I really like this visualization.
Yes I read your comment. My question was if you are ok with hiring stalkers.
Brilliant is a stretch, but agreed on the misery line. I'd expect it to go up exponentially once the pension runs out and you start using savings, and maybe linearly as your pension starts to decrease.
While looking into it I found this guy wanting 64 MB swiotlb who was probably doing something like that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52833714/change-the-size...

Looks like an exception to the rule, though.
The idea of terrorists flying planes into buildings was a not entirely uncommon threat scenario and the WTC was a prominent building that had been targeted by bombings before.

The difference on 9/11 was that A) they actually did that, B) they used fully loaded very large airplanes (767s), C) they used two planes for the same attack (four in total but the two hitting the towers were noteworthy by themselves) and D) the buildings actually collapsed.

Remember that at the time airplane hijackings were usually about ransom (either money or releasing political prisoners) and the usual threat scenario were attacks against the airplane itself. Also following 9/11 there was a huge hysteria around the use of "dirty bombs" (conventional bombings using radioactive material to contaminate a civilian population center) which despite its many depictions in TV shows never actually ended up happening (mostly because radioactive material is difficult to acquire and transport in the amounts necessary to perform such an attack whereas the hijackers just needed sharp objects and enough flight training to hit a large building while avoiding hitting anything else).

It'd be an overstatement that this was due to happen but in abstract the scenario wasn't unexpected. The truthers are right about one thing: the scenario was a known possibility. That doesn't mean how it played out is how it was anticipated or that anyone in a position to intervene knew exactly how it would play out once it started.
Matomo is a mature and widely used GDPR-compliant and open-source analytics platform. You can either host it yourself or use Matomo’s hosted version. https://matomo.org/

Don’t use GA if you respect your visitors.
The entire concept of career networking is rooted in expanding access to nepotism and is a poor substitute for an objective evaluation of merits.

With that being said, it obviously has value since nepotism won't be going away anytime soon.

What OP likely isn't aware of is the works published over the past 30+ years for managers/owners on how to relate to their probably-introverted programmer employees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9kHYwzXZqw
C compilers can be very fast. (See for example, https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html )

If I'm not mistaken, much of the work when compiling code these days are optimizations.
That's why I use grapheneos. The only 'feature' I've lost is the ability to use the device to pay at card terminals.