skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>no bargaining power

Your bargaining power is that there are a dozen other food suppliers and tens of thousands of other common food items you could sell instead. No store is going to cry and go bankrupt because they can't sell Ding Dongs. Also, there are chains of hardware stores, chains of coffee shops, chains of everything which have additional bargaining power. And if the selling price is so high then everyone is going to be eager to push as much through the pipe as possible while the getting is good.

>the brands may also not be happy

Too bad. There is no shortage of food brands. This is not North Korea we're talking about.

>why aren't the existing german chains in austria undercutting others?

Probably because to do so would mean giving up all profit. That may in fact be illegal predatory pricing--using their position in the market to squeeze out less solvent competitors.
some information can be viable for longer than that, there are some extreme cases where 2~3 minutes would not suffice
Author here. My goal with the article was to write about an use of LiteFS that I found to be useful and show the benefits and trade-offs. I don't think it's a general purpose technique for everyone but I think it has its place in some cases. What was it about the post that oozed arrogance?
This is essentially the Boots Theory, coined my Terry Pratchett. The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. Men at Arms. p. 32.
According to the text under the first image:

"... a blog feature where we let members of our development team walk through some of the challenges, bugfixes, and occasional happy accidents we encounter while working on a game as unique as Dota, and an event as unique as The International."

It appears to be from their team's experiences with setting up 'The International' up till now
I was told never to eat fish and brewis at my desk again.
I don’t really get esports or regular sports for that matter, but this seems like overkill? How much of an advantage could they really get from someone yelling at them in the audience? With a decent audience they are rarely going to hear anything other than a din anyway.

Doesn’t seem like much more of an advantage than people yelling things at baseball players?

Seems like it could just be part of the calculation of the competition rather than working so hard to avoid it.
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37540768
I never see Dart talked about in these contexts but just to highlight a few things.

1. Compiles to native code with a single and very reasonable sized binary on pretty much any platform.

2. Compile to WASM (coming this year) if that’s your thing.

3. Excellent concurrency support with lightweight and simple mental models

4. Variables are not nullable by default thus simplifying tedious checking in your codebase.

5. Syntactically it’s the best parts of Java and JavaScript combined without all the foot guns and verbosity.

6. Full support for both OOP and functional code styles

7. Existing interop support with C, C++, Rust, Java and JavaScript and in the future WASI.

8. Fully static / compile time metaprogramming capabilities coming this year.

9. Also have maybe one of the best teams working on it that I’ve ever seen in an open source project anywhere. They put in a stupid amount of detail and care to try and keep everything pointing in the right direction at a macro level and have really strong levels of transparency around how the language is developed https://github.com/dart-lang/language

Honestly I think it’s critically under-rated and under-used. Most of its common criticisms I see about it are many years out of date.
Talk about sated, I lost 80 pounds eating fatty meats and kimchi every day for six months. I literally couldn’t eat more than 1200 calories or so.

People who haven’t updated their nutritional information priors live in this weird world where anything that tastes good is either too sugary or too fatty. Like, if that’s true, what are we supposed to eat? Baked Boneless skinless Chicken breast with no salt?

In fact, I worked with a lady whose job it was to put the “helpful nutrition grab and go” labels at the food company I worked for, and she had a lot of power over recommendations and her basic beliefs were humans should eat the blandest, least flavorful carbs and proteins, and anything that tastes good is bad for you.

Hard boiled eggs were a “red” item but a Cliff Bar was green. Her and I were friends and went on walks together every day, but we constantly got in arguments about what was healthy and what wasn’t.
Twitter/X gets hate but it can be a useful way to interact sometimes. Sort of like a firewall to prevent the need of giving out your email address.
We can probably predict the results. Having someone tell you what to do and when to do it describes some environments we all probably have experience with: Parents, school, jobs.

A single person working from home has none of those factors. They are left to manage their own time and priorities. Some people handle that better than others, and some people get anxious, upset, overwhelmed when they can't manage themselves. Hiring someone to essentially babysit and keep you on track may work, but it works in the sense that paying someone to feed you means you don't have to shop, cook, and feed yourself. The anxiety and the underlying problems don't go away by outsourcing them.

People who have too many details to manage and too many things to do (not just things they imagine they should do or want to do) hire assistants to handle some of the tasks. They don't hire someone to stand behind them and tell them to get to work.
While I'm a Unity user and rather unhappy with the changes, maybe the outrage would be better directed at App Stores, Steam, and Console platforms all with their near-monopolies and taking a much larger cut of revenue.
That sounds really interesting and a reflection of the BBCs generally worsening journalism. Do you have the script and repo available publicly? It would be interesting.
Just to clarify, are you saying this is the excuse shops can use in front of a judge? or that OPs conclusion is actually wrong, and there is no collusion among shops to start with, just fair and square supply and demand ?
See the following: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/game-development-post-unit...

I would suggest just using Godot for 2D. With time it should be fine.

For 3D, even AAA have been going to Unreal so that may be best. It's not ideal but the business model of 5% works compared to Unity promising to avoid revenue splitting.
I did. Did Go professionally for ~5 years and went to JVM.

Go is easy, but it's surface level easy. Building and maintaining large applications in Go if you don't have a huge team is a giant pain.

JVM (especially paired with Kotlin) for me atleast has meant regaining the expressivity I was missing from Ruby and Python when I moved to Go whilst retaining (well actually usually beating) it on performance and scalability.

I lost absolutely nothing to go to JVM but gained so many things.
> The solution there is to add a method to the interface, and all your classes implement that.

What if you don't know all methods that you will need in advance?

That is the problem and this problem is solved by sealed classes. However, by doing so they introduce a new problem: what if you need more extending classes and you don't know all of them in advance? Which raises the question: is there a way to achieve both?

This problem is called expression problem. [1]

There are (statically typed) languages that are able to solve the expression problem, Java is one of them [2]. However, unfortunately the way to do that in Java is (still) very complex and unergonomic, hence rarely used. Languages like Haskell or, if you want to stay in the JVM world, Scala do much better here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
[2] https://koerbitz.me/posts/Solving-the-Expression-Problem-in-...
Except that they've made a series of moves in the last few years that have outraged the community. So "most reputable" is debatable at best.
Is Caffeine a Vasodilator or Vasoconstrictor?
I knew these were all ”I don’t know” edit: but yes, deceptive phrasing by the quiz author. If you don’t know that, then yeah, you’re probably not a great C programmer. Adjust your mental model: C is meant to be useful on a very wide variety of platforms, including ones that don’t follow the conventions (ASCII character table, size of byte, alignment requirements, etc.) of the most common platforms.

Even including knowledge of what is IB and UB, C is still simpler than most languages in common use these days.
So far most of the objections to the article are about how being wrong has consequences. That is of course the reason why you MUST not fear being wrong:

When a group of people are setting out to achieve something and succeed they must be able to do it close enough to right that it serves its purpose. This means they all need to do work that comes together into a correct and harmonious result. They cannot make something harmonious if they have different understandings of what they're doing and it cannot be correct if they have failed to foresee some important aspect of the problem/solution.

So you talk about the problem and your solution and explain your understandings and that allows the other people to correct you or possibly to see something they hadn't seen.

This is where you risk being wrong and MUST do it so that before you start taking actions you can be corrected. If you hide your misunderstandings then there will be consequences.

We peer review code and nobody likes being criticised but in the end it when it saves you from being the one to introduce a bad bug you tend to be grateful. Similarly with ideas - you put them out for review.

A work environment where you cannot safely put your ideas or code out for review is a toxic one and likely is wasting a lot of its potential.
Could be dynamic frequency scaling. To minimize the impact of it when benchmarking one can pin the process to a single core and warm it up before running the benchmark.
Was Welch a raider? I thought he worked his way up internally.

My understanding, possibly biased by my Britishness, is that Jim Goldsmith was one of the earliest raiders who took over companies and asset-stripped them.
probably https://glennfay.medium.com/the-blue-ocean-event-will-be-a-t... ?
Is this feature competitive with Samsung Dex/Android Desktop?
How is China a problem? The way of life and the energy intensity of a single individual living in the developed world is the problem. Do I have to point out the US and Europe? (I live in the UK).
I ate a diet where 80% of my calories were from fat and I struggled to eat more than 1300 calories in a day. I think unless you’re eating cheesecake every day (hyperpalatable foods where carbs + fat calories are near a 1:1 ratio) you’re not going to gain weight eating fat.
https://youtu.be/hDek2cp0dmI?t=499 the presentation with narration of the author.
other people have said that it's a different things compared to "anyone who fixes this problem in this free software, I will give them certain amount of real world monies." what happened in the article is: "anyone who implements our product in this free software, I will give them certain amount of monies. I haven't talked to the maintainer of this free software whether our product has net benefit or not to this project, though. so you have to fight your way against the maintainer to get it implemented."

so yeah, I don't like zig and don't care about its people. but to me, the bounty giver shits on zig dudes to put it bluntly.
Sounds like it was either your first experience with a big company merger, or you’re high ranking enough to only see what you want to see
I live on the east coast also and all the grocery stores near me sell at least one brand of muesli. Walmart even sells muesli.
Is there any evidence anyone is using the internet archive to bypass the Times’ soft paywall?

Internet Archive is slow as hell. That would be a miserable way to read the Times. There are various higher performance ways to achieve the same result (eg disabling JavaScript for nytimes.com).
The fact that billions of people believe mutually contradictory forms of religion is one of the best pieces of evidence that its made up shit. Most people believe you can talk about the location of an event unambiguously with four coordinates and wouldn't understand a superposition if they were put into one and yet these are much more reasonable ideas than anything any religion in history has asserted.

What is asinine is suggesting that because all knowledge is provisional there exists a kind of great democracy of knowledge in which we must respect anything anyone has ever believed. Some ideas hew more closely to the real way the universe is than others.
So making people poor is solituion for global warming?
Is this because so many of their articles don't look good in the light of history ?
Decriminalizing drug use is intended to solve a different problem - that being throwing people in jail for being addicts is bad in a number of ways and consequences.

Making all drugs legal and available (with quality assurance) will (at least help) solve the problem you are talking about, but will at the same time create whole new problems that more and easier access to drugs will mean more people try and use them and then an increase in lives destroyed through addiction (and related consequences). My opinion is that would be worse.
Hey, my name is Adriaan, and I grew my SaaS (Simple Analytics) to 250K ARR.

I just launched a new business and was looking for a “launch & growth template,” but I couldn’t find any.

So, I decided to write down everything that worked for me in the past.

I divided it into two sections:
- Phase 1: Traction: How to go from 0 to 1
- Phase 2: Long-term growth: How to go from 1 to 10

Hopefully, this will help you to be on your way.
Feel free to steal anything and use it however you like.

Also, if you have specific questions, just shoot a message down here.
Everyone being in different sub-cultures doesn’t mean people have nothing to talk about, it makes conversation way more interesting if you’re just willing to step out of your bubble for a bit. Some of the best pub conversations I’ve had have been chatting to someone about things I’d never even heard of until that moment, and finding out about fun niches that I’d probably still not know about otherwise.
A good example of this involves calling the Iraq invasion noble. More examples in the thread.

https://x.com/alanrmacleod/status/1702336001778278816?s=46&t...
The problem with your assertion is that those upper levels drive the company direction and if the lower levels won't comply, they'll be replaced.
For as much criticism as the food pyramid gets these days, you’d think today’s diet recommendations would be dramatically different. But they’re not. The food pyramid is still very close to the diets most dieticians in most developed countries recommend. There’s a weird conspiratorial mindset people get around diets for some reason. I don’t get it.

Most breakfast cereals have tons of sugars added. The top part of the food pyramid—the smallest area—is for foods with added sugars. The food pyramid never justified eating a few bowls of Cap’n Crunch for breakfast, though that seems to basically be what people accuse it of.
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How is Drew supposed to make wlroots better without participating in the community of wlroots' users? And improvements come from looking at all uses and generalizing across them rather than looking at a subset. If he ignores HyperLand and makes a change that impairs Hyprlands' usage of wlroots, the HyprLand community will very loudly show up in the wlroots issue trackers, etc.
I do have the keyboard enabled, but the long press translation feature is a separate thing.
I would be embarrassed to publish it in its current state if I’m honest as it was written when I was drunk, cynical and after a breakup.

Please take the idea in concept and do a better job that I did!
Enough to give pause. In StarCraft there was a trap set and a fan favorite was about to walk right into it. The audience went wild. And then he stopped all units, and retreated. When interviewed he said he'd stopped because the audience went wild when they shouldn't have. (They cleared the stadium for the next match)

Baseball isn't a game of hidden knowledge. The audience mood can give away details about the other team.

Think poker. If another player bluffed and the audience gasps, you know something notable happened.
It sounds like they re-invented Cyclone.

https://cyclone.thelanguage.org
The motivation was greed and the means were treacherous. If someone was helped along the way, great, but don’t be naive enough to think that there is any altruism. Saying that all people matter just as much as any other is an absurd platitude. In some abstract sense, maybe, but your obligations to your family, friends and community obviously supersede any obligations to some hypothetical person with whom you share no relation. Moreover every society of earth maintains this preemption and considers this attitude to be immoral.
Its an interesting approach for sure. My concern would be it sounds quite manual. How do you get 2 years of slack history indexed?

Seeing the landing page you have some impressive customers. I almost thought “this can’t be a new thing if it has so many customers!” so well done.
A tidy argument, complicated by the fact that the NYT justifies its existence at least as often in terms of public good as of selling a product.
Silicon Valley doomers are shaping Rishi Sunak’s AI plans
There shouldn't be a reason for a managed language to introduce function coloring. It's horrible.
At the center of all of this is short chain fatty acids. Higher levels of SCFAs are already known to be good for your health. With a healthy diet they can be driven up, too.
I have watched with sadness as the NYTimes has self-destructed over the past couple decades. I think it comes down to two main reasons.

1. Tech lag/resistance. They resisted digital transformation for too long and didn't understand what to do about that. By the time new media competitors had sucked up all their readers, it was too late and expectations around price and quality had shifted too much. The Times had plenty of opportunities BTW to partner with tech but were too arrogant/prideful.

2. Cultural irrelevance. The NYT is out of touch with the concerns and values of a significant portion of the American population. They were on their assess having completely missed the populist Trump movement in 2016, and made a putative apology as 'the newspaper of record'. They then promptly fired their public editor and said 'twitter was enough to gauge the cultural zeitgeist' lol.

It used to be I could read the NYTimes, WSJ, and FT to feel sufficiently informed about the political & cultural issues I cared about. That is no longer the case.
> I really can’t imagine someone who sitting around deciding “I have to eat more bread, the government’s pyramid drawing demands it” rather than just eating what they want to eat.

Actually, to a shocking degree, yes.

I grew up in an immigrant family, so my parents were far too busy working to do non-mainstream research on diet. I grew up eating 2+ bowls of white rice, another serving of vegetables, and a small serving of meat for most meals. This was me "trying to be healthy" given the mainstream knowledge at the time.

If your parents aren't well-off enough to do dedicated research into the optimal diet for their children (which describes most of American parents), then you'll follow the advertised government guidelines.
Ok. You eat a sugar cereal every morning, and I’ll keep eating my old fashioned old meal with no sugar. Let’s compete weight and A1C in 10 years.
Autocorrect doesn't suggest whole sentences so it is irrelevant if the remaining sentence is gibberish or not.
> The overshoot threatens our civilization with crop failures. The only realistic way out of it is immediate phase-out of fossil fuels

An "immediate phase-out of fossil fuels" would kill a billion people or more right off the bat. Do you not understand that, or do you simply not care?

https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/images/US...

See how corn yield has increased from around 20 bushels/acre to nearly 180?

That extra 160 bushels of corn per acre is due almost exclusively to fossil fuels and other modern agricultural practices.

That extra 160 bushels is also what feeds a substantial portion of the planet.

The same is true of other crops such as wheat. In the last hundred years or so, the Kansas wheat crop has gone from 12-13 bushels per acre to well over 30 (40 in a good year).

That didn't happen with a peasant poking animal manure into the ground with a digging stick. It happened with tractors, combine harvesters, and petrochemical-derived fertilizers.
Manning's Modern Java in Action is outstanding. It assumes you already know basic Java.

https://www.manning.com/books/modern-java-in-action
Internet Archive links are found in comments on HN all the time, not just for the New York Times, but for nearly any site using a paywall.
I often say things like "I'm 76% sure that this operation will work well in this mode." It started as a joke, but actually it's extremely useful. I work in spacecraft operations, where differences in opinion often need to be resolved quickly. If the other person says "I'm 98% sure you're wrong," then I'll cede the point, but if we disagree at comparable certainly levels then we'll need to make an effort (spending value time) to check, e.g. running simulations.
And? They are not obliged to adhere to your definition of a constructive response or the form of community you or anybody wants as long as they stay within the boundaries of law. It's a pity, as I said, but if that's what the existing community wants to do, let them. Who are you to say otherwise?
Performance matters. Dart isn't even in the same league.

And its null handling and checking is the worst.

I absolutely hate it.
Java over Dart any day.
I for one have done this and there are websites and extensions that do exactly that, take a url and return the archive url to bypass the paywall. As much as I love internet archive i don’t think it is debatable people use it for this purpose.
It’s always funny how many tech people on here totally devalue others work and think it should be given away for free.

Obviously they don’t want their stories archived just like most tech employers don’t want their code archived.
You only think politics is a bunch of made up shit because a bunch of powerful people have propagandized you into that opinion. They believe politics is real and it is the sad character of the 21st century that the average person thinks it is spectacle.
Right. Personally, I think those could have been better phrased as "I can't tell". As for C's simplicity, 100% what you said.
Breakfast cereal involves a lot of milk. What fraction of the decline can be assigned to the increasing percentage of people with lactose intolerance?
Also, world got a lot bigger (more people) and smaller (a lot of news instant and online) at the same time.
They shouldn't. But the Times is also notorious for changing things after-the-fact to better fit an editorial bias or to groom their own reputation. If they are indeed 'the newspaper of record' then unfortunately they need to be held to account for what I personally view as a violation of their duty to the fourth estate.
The NYTimes stock is doing fairly well.