skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is something missing: regular stats don't differentiate between doing things and observing things and these two are not at all the same. If I have a digital thermometer and I observe it to show a high temperature, then I will note an association between that and feeling warm. But if I merely set the thermometer gauge to a high value artificially, it's not going to make me feel any warmer.

This ambiguity is resolved by something called do calculus - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.5506.pdf
SpaceX slams FAA report on falling space debris danger
I am not sure of your point. What is the significance of that statement if not to say that increases in "unlicensed consumption" don't decrease box office revenue? The fact that they have a positive correlation is kinda the default; one doesn't affect the other and there's likely instead some other cause for the statistically significant correlation, such as popularity.
Selling is harder than building. At least for a builder. Go out and sell, even before you build.
Interesting how they say that compiled templates are ~21% faster to update, I wonder why. In theory pretty much anything that they could be doing at compile time could just be done at runtime, since they are building on top of tagged template literals, which enable this, so I guess there were some optimizations missing for that in v2? I'd be interesting if anybody knows what was missing.
One does not roll coal from e.g. an EGR bypass or delete, though! The only way to get thick clouds of black smoke are too much fuel (turn up the pump) or not oxygen (bag over the air filter in the simplest case).

Many states and localities have "visible emissions" rules, where even if your vehicle doesn't have to pass emissions tests, you can still get pulled and cited for actual smoke. I've never been pulled for it (smoke means you're wasting fuel) so I don't know if it's an inconsequential fine or just not enforced generally.
This is sort of an aside based on something I read in the article but does anyone know why the RFC guidelines say that you should first send an informational GOAWAY that does not prevent opening new streams when gracefully closing a connection?

They point out in the article that it's a better practice to immediately limit stream creation when you detect abuse - not wait for a round trip to complete first. I'm sure there's a good reason for the original guidelines; I'm just trying to get it and haven't found anything clarifying through Google. Was it specified before the rise of modern attacks?
Microsoft invested into DirecX. Valve invested in Steam Deck.

Apple told game devs on Macs to GTFO, and this is the result.

Did anyone else expect any other outcome?
I think you are missing my point.

Israel can't eliminate Hamas because their goals and plans are already detached from reality.

No amounts of defeat can make them give up, because the real chance of "victory" doesnt even come into the calculation.

Any goal or plan for victory over Israel is just a delusional pretext for revenge - it doesnt have to withstand the scrutiny of reality.

As long as there are angry Palestinians seeking revenge above all else, Hamas will continue to exist. There is no possibility of militarily destroying Hamas, because they intentionally embed themselves in the civilian population; and by doing so, the collateral damage from every fighter killed creates new ones to fill their place.
HTTP/2.0 – The IETF is Phoning It In (2015)
The design of K8s is ridiculous. The fact that you're forced to upgrade every 9 months is even more absurd. It's "opinionated", but the "opinions" are those of one of the largest companies in the world, who hire the most engineers in the world, and everyone else is supposed to operate like that now.

K8s is a great example of a "tech jobs program": technology that is absurdly complicated to the point that you have to pay someone lots of money to make it keep working, but you can't afford not to pay for this, because everyone has decided to be stuck on it and now there's no alternative (and probably never will be)
I disagree. Eg: there are plenty of SEO apps that need interactivity like ecommerce, docs, etc.
Totally agree. That's why I like the notion of "innovation tokens", also mentioned in the seminal post "Choose Boring Technologies" [1]. You choose boring technologies for everything, except for a few topics that will differentiate your solution, where you get to spend your "innovation tokens".

[1] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
The donoteat video on this is really informative if (like me) you haven't been taught most of this history - Black Wall Street and whatnot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfVzbM3l7RQ
The IC card system and how it became what it is today is a _fascinating_ topic, tied deeply with the superb automated gates at Japanese train stations in. I wonder if people would be interested in reading a longform-ish piece on these..
Don't waste your time. I've tried, my PD told me that I need to get used to the noise.
WSJs hard right editorial bent has been slowly drifting into its news coverage. Not very surprising considering Lachlan doesn’t have as strong a sentimental attachment as his father to the old days when WSJ has a stronger business reporting rep.

(Not that his father is against the rightward drift either)
More to the point, there's nothing that can be done about thread adapters for oil filters. There are any number of legitimate uses for a 13/16"-16 to 1/2"-28 adapter.
The Forrest Gump of Data Mining Saw It All
It used to be straightforward when Google Cloud just offered everyone the same version of GKE essentially everywhere. It was one of not-too-many services that are vanilla and identical in pretty much every region. But, newer offerings have fractured things a bit (sovereign cloud, Google Distributed Cloud, FedRAMP, Tencent, etc) and I can see why it would become problematic to adequately test and keep everything in sync while also not breaking interfaces and/or downstream services. Also, Google used to allow customers essentially 0 say in when upgrades to services were applied. Now, as part of many vendor security audit processes, it's a hard stop requirement that customers are able to test new revs before applying to prod ... and GKE, like GCE, is one of those critical services.
https://archive.ph/dn55o
Semiconductor market is PARTIALLY finished good, if we consider creators market (gigs economy), where sell microcontrollers (RPI2040), and some other semiconductors.

It is market of small series custom devices, prototypes (like Oculus Rift), aftermarket upgrades, like cars tuning.

Yes, creators market is not too large, total number of sells just around million, but it exists.

BTW it is interest question, how large part of steel market also belong to creators market, if it is larger than semiconductor creators market.
so it's malware.
A Crypto Exchange in compilance with the Islamic Laws
Vulkan is probably the least used API across any games. Most switch games don’t use it either.

Honestly, this is the biggest division between gamers who obsess over API and people who develop gamers. API divergence is really not that big of a deal as long as you can do similar things.
The first link complains about databinding a bit. Not a lit expert, but this seems to help with that:

> Lit’s expressive, declarative templates (utilizing JavaScript tagged template literals) make it easy to describe how a component should be rendered.

> Reactive properties represent a component’s public API and/or internal state; your component automatically re-renders whenever a reactive property changes.

Also, good question, I would like to see more discussion here vs. downvote without comment.
Luvly – Light Urban Vehicles
That's an atrocious Wikipedia article. They don't even pull a quote, they just reference a 30 minute YouTube video directly?

From what I can tell, the only relevant bit in that video is that he concedes he didn't know that tractor racing (tractor pulls) was a thing.

And thinking any environmental regulations should exist certainly doesn't place you on the left. Do you think Richard Nixon was a leftist?

Rossman spends about the same amount of time railing against regulation as he does supporting right to repair.

Right to repair is largely about protecting individual liberties and property rights.
That's false. I'm extremely (machine guns are a human right, the government got too big in 1777) libertarian-right, and right-to-repair is a sensible regulation that empowers individual agency and adds massive value to the economy.
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None of that is related to calling it “chilling”. It’s still not chilling even if you don’t have good techniques.
* on their mobile devices

But having proprietary APIs on Macs isn't going to get other desktop games to Apple, when Macs aren't nearly as numerous as people would like to believe.
The right to repair isn't leftist for those who don't believe intellectual property is property. For those people, the laws prohibiting people from cracking lockouts on hardware they own and modifying the code running on their own equipment are the governmental regulation they're fighting against.
I feel a lot of big YouTube channels do the same thing. The terrible thumbnails, the editing out of any pause, thought, or breath, the quips and the half-smirks. It just seems kind of juvenile or a dumbing down of things.

I don't get it, but I'm also not the audience so I try not to judge too harshly.
If you are on Apple ecosystem, iCloud can sync. Other password managers like 1Password can also be used to store your passkeys. If none of the above, you can always set up a physical security key and leave it at home.

IMO if you're reading hacker news, you're fully capable of setting one up and leaving it in a safe locale for recovery.
> ...there is a corresponding treaty governing the straits...

So I've heard. I've also heard of a treaty guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity, and signed by Russia.
> I am a big Microsoft guy

Could you elaborate on this more? What do you mean? What makes you a big Microsoft guy? I mainly ask because everything else you said seems contradictory of that so I'm curious your definition
HTTP/2 is pretty small.
I know Apple and Linux are two very different things, but this complete abandonment of macOS by Valve should be concerning to anyone who champions Valve for their support of Linux. It's a bad look for their commitment to Linux.
Lit seems very lightweight before. Has it got a bit more 'frameworky'?
I'm a backend developer, so pardon my ignorance. I'm reading here that this basically a thin wrapper on top of the Web Components standards, which I've been reading about for nearly 15 years now. So this makes me wonder... why does basically no one ever write directly to the Web Components standard?

There are really only two major web browser engines left in existence (three if you are extremely generous and still include Firefox). Are there really enough differences in Chrome and Safari's implementation of Web Components to still require a polyfill after all these years?

The original polyfill was Polymer, and I believe that both it and this Lit library are both Google projects. If so, then what is the delta between the two? It looks like Polymer is now in maintenance mode, so clearly Lit is the successor. But are there fundamental changes beyond a branding refresh?
Sounds like something a few tests would have caught. I've found my GPT-4 coding use to be much more satisfactory when I have it generate a few dozen test cases after finishing (either my code or its code), and then auto-repair based on any errors.
I guess I will have to read me some Shakespeare to learn more about James Bond.
Kinda? Honestly that's just how online games work.

CS:GO is over a decade old at this point, and has been free for 5 years. What should we expect?
Yeah, as far as I understand, it can act like a bridge between two ends of a severed nerve.
They also have the Google logo there claiming it's used for "many projects" - but nothing linked. Google has several in-house-built web frameworks, so this is questionable.
I second the comment by zelon88. It's never too early if you have things in place to hire and retain the talent you are looking for (i.e., budget/other form of accepted compensation, a strategy/tasks to delegate, availability in the initial phase to train & brief your new hire on what you expect from them/overall vision/key metrics you'll be evaluating their performance on, etc.).

When the best time is = when you got enough resources + when your startup is at a stage where you can no longer do everything yourself. Can't also expect an intern to have the best of CVs & experience so the job scope has to be limited in that regard. If you treat them well, they can be great brand advocates or even stay/recommend other potential hires. If not, the possible negative word-of-mouth or subpar performance could make hiring more detrimental than beneficial.
If you've ever worked at a cloud provider, then you know everything is breaking all the time. The good ones are just able to hide it most of the time/for most customers.
With respect to the farming equipment market, they are the consumers.
There's one thing that I haven't figured out about custom web components which make them completely broken for me: using them as form elements with good DX and UX.

For example custom button that should behave like native html button - submit form on click, submit form on enter if I am in one of the text inputs, correctly handling "form" attribute when the button is outside of the form itself etc.

I know about "formAssociated" and "ElementInternals" but they don't solve the problem completely.

Imho this isn't solved anywhere and makes the web components no-go for design systems.
https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/814

I also find baffling that there is _zero_ information about forms in the Lit3.0 documentation.

If someone figured this out please enlighten me.

Example:
https://lit.dev/playground/#project=W3sibmFtZSI6InNpbXBsZS1n...
My experience is that eBay screws up their filters and wayyy overfilters.

The Canadian government has some secret spat with Xiaomi cellphones and got eBay, newegg and Amazon to stop their sale. They weren’t approved for sale in Canada, but I suspect some other reasoning for targeting a Chinese manufacturer in particular and not all the other unapproved products.

However, eBay just blocked anything with “xiaomi” in the title, so their scooters, vacuums, android TV hubs and everything were no longer available for sale.

I had an old Mi Box (TV hub) listed for sale that became shadow-banned: after it didn’t sell for a while (duh, nobody could find it), I went to lower the price and it gave some vague error. I called eBay and they said it was due to gov regulation but had no further info, so I just took “xiaomi” out of the title and voila!
> The person you responded to is using a different definition of popular than you are.

No, he's conflating "popular" as he uses the term with "boring" as the article uses that term, which, as I explained, is not valid. As the GP uses "popular", I agree that tech should not be chosen because it is "popular"; see my response to tikhonj's follow-up post. But as I noted in that response, the article is not arguing for choosing tech because it is "popular" in that sense.

> The article is saying to use popular technology (definition 3 above) because of the implications of "at large".

No, the article is saying that you should not even care whether tech is "popular" in any of your senses; you should choose tech based on whether it does the job that you need done based on much prior experience. I.e., based on technical criteria, not popularity (in any sense).

The article does imply that tech that does the job you need done based on much prior experience will be "popular" in your sense 3, but that does not mean it is telling you to choose the tech based on popularity.
I don't think that confirms any "points" you've made at all.
Why? Not trying to be difficult, but what would they get out of this?
nice! anybody thats still in the waiting list phase should get their money pulled by their VCs
Suica working with the standard wallet app alone and being able to reload from a US MasterCard makes it hard to beat for convenience. Don’t even have to stop at a ticket machine or ATM to top up, just be sure to pull funds from a card that doesn’t charge foreign transaction fees.
The CNCF Gameplan [video]
> A bytceode runtime is not an “application”.

It's not hardware.

Would you be happier if I said "excluding software that competes with their own"?

Why would it be any better if they are excluding hardware that competes with their own?

> Apple never stopped VSCode from being on iOS. There are plenty of IDEs for the iPad built by third parties.

VSCode is an app that needs the .NET runtime, in order to run the code you write in e.g. C#. They don't allow the runtime it needs which means they don't allow the app (which competes with theirs).

> Are you making up things now? You don’t run CUDA on any non Nvidia hardware.

iPads have Thunderbolt, so you could actually plug NVIDIA hardware into them. Or someone could port CUDA to Apple's GPUs, as AMD essentially did with HIP. Except that would be this:

> But yes, you are free to port OpenCL to iOS if you want to.

Implementing such a thing efficiently requires driver support, but you can't modify the drivers nor supply your own.

> A “payment API” is not an “application”. Yes the cross platform frameworks do expose the underlying API.

A payments system is a part of an application. They prohibit broad categories of apps that use any but their own payments system.

Using Apple's payments API doesn't allow for apps that use a competing payments system, which was the whole point.

> And you can have a cross platform app that forces you to subscribe outside of the App Store - Spotify, Netflix, Microsoft, etc all do that.

I point to a category of thing they prohibit and then you point to the exception that proves the rule as if that meant they don't impose the rule.

We know they don't do it for a specific subset of subscription services anymore. They still do it in general, which is to say that they still do it.

> Are you saying that their no competitors on iOS to AppleTV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Apple Books, the iWork suite?

This is the same thing again. It's not a question of if they prohibit every app that competes with theirs, it's a question of if they prohibit any app that competes with theirs.

Which they do. You can't get real Firefox on iOS:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios

And it's not because Mozilla doesn't want to provide it.
Put this on your main, homie. I dare you.
No I didn't miss the point, not even slightly. You didn't read mine and are blinded by the insane virtues.

Do you really think it's fine blowing 400 watts because you can't be arsed to think or do not have the creative intelligence to get over the blank page syndrome and have to lean on a crutch?
Not everyone lives in California so while OEM's might produce all cars to meet California standards, it is completely legal in states with more relaxed laws to make such modifications.

At the least I think the government could argue about selling in jurisdictions where it is illegal.
GA of the new Microsoft Teams app (sans electron)
Graphql offers benefits for a few types of architecture (typically microservices or when you are supporting multiple clients such as Android/iOS clients). If you don't have these, then Graphql primarily adds complexity
Read and apply “The Mom Test” or you aren’t doing it right.
ML researchers are playing scientists: tweak a few parameters in an LLM, re-train it on a largish dataset (need access to $$$ GPUs), find metrics on which the tweaked LLM makes a barely noticeable improvement and make the other metrics where it actually gets worse look insignificant, write a paper, upload to arxiv, and update your resume.
FTX used Python code to fake its insurance fund figure
Probably just due the network effect of React coming to the scene first, and the cost of change.

I've used Web Components nearly exclusively at multiple jobs for 7 years now, so my experience is that they are out there and in use.

Had to start using React recently for a job and it feels like a mess in comparison. Too many ways to do things, big black box components that are hard to introspect, compilation is not optional, and poor documentation on some aspects due to not using standards. I'm still struggling to understand "stale closures" and the react component life cycle. It seems to have a lot of baggage.
This sounds extremely exciting. But on second thought I fear with this technology we'll be getting too lazy to actually learn a foreign language - which is also awesome.
For a SWE? Remotely anywhere, but otherwise major markets. Same with biglaw. Medicine is its own beast.
Wow kind of a wild read. Not able to comment on the science-side of all this but there's a lot to unpack - entropy, symmetry, and apocalypse.

Seems there's a rotating headline for "scientist explains universe" type stuff and they all just kind of fade into obscurity. Shrug, how can this be disproven rather than wait for the proposed doom?

> And he warned that the number of digital bits will overtake the number of atoms on Earth within 150 years, leading to 'information catastrophe'.

That quote is rich
Weight Balance: Chemistry or Choices?
Valve could have handled it better, but you can still play CS:GO. Right click > Properties > Betas. I've used it to play a mod that hasn't been updated for CS2. There's very little playercount though.
I remember him being very pro Windows. If so then this is a welcome change of spirit. I hope he is daily driving a Linux system at home and I hope everyone else here does as well.
meanwhile in reality, Ireland is still not a very rich country, cost of living vs incomes in Dublin is ridiculous to the level of London, and the DART extension to the airport remains 40 years away, as it has been for 40 years.
"Just because you are not paranoid it does not mean they are not after you"

:-)