skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's legitimate crypto stuff…it's just not interesting

I know what you meant when you wrote that, but the second meaning (not interesting => no added value) is significant as well. After 15 (!!) years nobody seems to have found an application that causes people to say “hey, I’ll switch to that [despite the early adopter limitations true of any new tech] because the benefits are so huge for what I do”. Well, except crimeing of course.

The only “success” of your list was a wallet. Enabling tech is pretty thin gruel. I mean, compilers were/are successful, but the real story is the programs people run through them not the compilers themselves.

I agree that Buterin is probably not a criminal.

Thanks!
Jesus.

Well momentum can be your friend or your enemy.

It looks like not only did he pull his foot out, he also clipped his chain or front derailleur with his foot and popped himself down into the small chainring.
I mean they might literally do that with satellite imagery. How do you think they do it?
Ok, ok I understand theoretically what this means in terms of programming languages. But what does it mean practically? What features are removed? How does this work out when you're implementing a program?
Yeah, there's a non-obvious qualifier there. There's definitely things that Musk can do that those people can't. But the number of things that richer person A can do that poorer person B can't do exponentially decreases based on B's net worth, not on A's.

So yeah, Pierre Chen is gonna have a hard time buying Twitter but he's still not going to have a hard time buying a mega yacht, multiple million dollar homes, and could start a space company if he wanted to. We're quibbling over some pretty fine nuances here but from technical correctness I agree that you're correct. Just not in the "practical" (for lack of better words) sense. They're approximately equal. Much more equal than, say, between you/me and John Bogle (created Vanguard: net worth ~80m). I'd say there's even a bigger gap between Bogle and Chen than Chen and Musk. However you define value (things, capital, good life, whatever) is not linearly or exponentially tied to monetary wealth, but that's a sublinear function that looks exponential near the origin.
He does, document level scrolling is the default behavior? Link looks like someone put it in a non-default view mode and doesn't like the specifics of how that mode works.
https://us.openinfra.com/ seems available in various parts of Texas. I wonder if they'll expand to other states?

Edit: it looks like there are other "open access fiber" deployments, e.g. Utopia, SiFi, and Gigapower.
Which of the comments in that thread are by the author?
They right clicked and pressed view source. I’m just surprised they let them out after committing such an heinous act…
It's not that far above what some people were claiming when they were new. There were people claiming 1mph improvement. I was... skeptical. Placebo effect? Who knows.

I don't think I ever got around to trying one. I was the youngest regular member of our club. Power output was not my primary problem.
Former head of Zynga? Any crossover between Zynga and human relationships should be a person's worst nightmare!
That's the argumentum ad populum ("popular = good") fallacy[0] which is probably most of the most common logical fallacies. You can tell quite a bit about a person, not just as a developer but in general, by whether they always go with whatever's popular, they always go with something obscure or they go with a mixture of popular and obscure.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
Everyone here is using a Google made browser, but apparently thinks turning on this feature will suddenly give Google access to their data.
Some industries are just more scamful than others, especially ones that bend over backwards to avoid anti-scam protections.

But is it an industry? Where’s the legit killer app where some people just have to have it? For legal purposes I mean?
Thanks. That guy seems well-read: lots of interesting cross-references. I was getting fascist vibes from Andreesen for example and it was helpful to see the historical connections.

Technological Pragmatism is an ethos I can probably get behind [1]. It ties in well with the book [2] that's had the most impact on me, which basically says that the best path to increasing self-esteem is to honestly appreciate your good side and honestly reckon with your bad side. I also like this approach because it acknowledges that good / bad / ugly all contain information. Andreesen, with his refusal to look at bad / ugly, is basically blocking himself off from two sources of information. The same goes for toxic positivity people who block out painful emotions. My best chance of success in general is to stay open to all the info available to me.

[1] If there was a way to also work in the idea that I believe I'm better off leaning optimist rather than pessimist then it would be perfect for me. But that's probably too complicated / nuanced.

[2] The Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem. I'm aware the author has some dubious historical connections himself (he was "Ayn Rand's lover", his own words) but nonetheless I still stand firm in saying that this book had the most positive impact on my life of any book I've read.
Preview also supports reloading the PDF on changes so you can have a similar workflow to Sumatra:

open - edit - reload - edit - reload - edit - Preview crashes - reopen - edit - reloads - edit - Preview crashes etc.
Big.Little is a good architectural innovation, although I don't think MacOS and Android have been making good use of it. It is tricky hw feature to manage in software overall. Virtualization adds even more complexity.
Didn't the DMCA bury the first sale doctrine and de facto replace it with the "You own nothing" doctrine?
They just need to estimate my taxes for completeness.
the current mayor of Nashville, TN is a software architect (took a sabbatical to run for office, was a 2 term city council member).
No. When you buy something it's yours. Full stop.

The law cant even stop you from reverse engineering it or making a copy. It only stops you from distributing a copy.

IP law is only meant to setup an artificial monopoly and then only for a set amount of time.
I thought I was misreading this. It seems onerous to keep track of every nonce, even scoped to a given session. Maybe I’m missing something.
I look forward to it then. I actually bought mine through a best buy program where after, I think it was 24 months I basically have the option of making either a balloon payment and keeping the machine I have, or turning it in but applying at least a substantial percentage of payments so far (might even be 100%) towards the latest generation. So, I'll probably do that and get whatever M2/M3 Studio is available, and hopefully spring for the Ultra double the everything version instead of the base.

Even still, my basest of base 32GB M1 Studio actually games pretty well in the few games that are really properly optimized for it (e.g. arm native, vulkan)
If you’re okay with software companies charging different prices for users from different regions, how is this any different?

Also your phone don’t just drop dead once you enter Mexico, you’d have to activate the phone with a non-native samsung account for the block to kick in. My Germany created Samsung account still works on my German Samsung phone despite having living in Asia.
Hey there! I don’t know what you’ve done to treat it so far, but I am somebody who went through a year and a half of very painful plantar fasciitis after a few years of moderate pain. I tried every single solution under the sun and am actually “cured”! Some unsolicited input, if you want:

1) Kuru tennis shoes with an insert for PF are excellent.
2) Oofos slippers by my bedside even today. They provide such good relief
3) aleve > other pain meds
4) the PF splint which stretches out your foot cN work wonders

I ultimately had to get my plantar fascia released, my inflammation had just become so severe there was no other option. I’m really glad I did it though, it’s been completely gone ever since. My foot feels fantastic now, though the recovery was a little long. I was walking around after a few weeks but I didn’t feel 100% until probably eight or 10 months out. I still use all of the above and it has yet to return. But they were also incredibly effective at managing my pain/inflammation. I just had them recommended too late in the process.
> particularly in the most expensive housing markets.

any indications that is outpacing demand?

if supply is less than demand, prices of additional units stay the same or go higher

if supply equals demand, prices of additional units stay the same

if supply is more than demand, prices should go lower or something else is broken like poor transparency and collusion
Is that just the intro? Where's the other kind of techno-optimism? There needs to be about a thousand lines more for the author to make his case.

The main problem with the "techno-optimism" manifesto is the "free market" section. That's faith-based economics. The big problems we face today as a society come from the fact that we have no clue how to run either the economic system or the political system well.
Oh man all the smart meter conspiracy theorists were right! Er, half right. Maybe a quarter right. But some amount of right!
I use it in anacrolix/btlink. There's support in anacrolix/dht.
Take this with a bag of salt, but I've heard people get notable improvements in joint, feet, leg health from switching to barefoot shoes. They also tend to be extremely comfortable. I've been using them exclusively ~5 years and ran a half-marathon in them. For what it's worth, a physical therapist told me my feet are remarkably muscular. I like the UK manufacturer Freet, btw.
Sure, but performance isn't the primary (or at least only) consideration for many users. M1/M2 was never top at performance, just balancing it for perf/watt.
What if there were no billionaires and we did this with publicly funded research instead.
This is not medical advice but two of my friends fixed that problem with these:
https://www.hoka.com/en/us/
Well you were right, it took not even 5 minutes to get it working. Even with having to register it as a development device. Unfortunately as it turns out I don't have any devices that can act as a matter hub for google home, so after finding and adding the device, it ends up not being able to talk to it anyway :-(

Ironically I have 4 chromecasts, but they are connected to real amplifiers and speakers, so I never felt the need to get one of the smart speakers which can act as a hub.
Some of the Nvidia Jetson kits seemed to be pretty good little PC's. They run Linux fine, but Windows seems to be lagging for ARM at the moment.
And yet, before women entered the workforce it was possible to sustain a middle class household on one salary. Now it requires 2.

Capitalism always finds a way.
Sure, it's a fairly useless right wing technology mostly in the service of the ideologies of Von Mises and Austrian Economics but we're all adults here.

Good things can come from anywhere. Stanford, for instance, was founded after a dream where a ghost of a guy's dead teenager appeared (who bears the namesake of the institution[1]) and was initially run by his wife who made her executive decisions by talking to spirits over oujia boards but it'd be foolish to hang that around the instution's neck today and dismiss its contributions.

In the same way, crypto work might have indirect long lasting positive impacts in things such as CPU efficiency, chip design, algorithm research, parallel computing, and machine learning with specific focus on time-series. We should be able to look past the Do Kwon fiasco for that.

[1] it's officially "Leland Stanford Junior University" - who was the ghost - read "Who Killed Jane Stanford?" for more info https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324004332
> Google could have made an offer to Homebrew's Max Howell but chose not to, which speaks volumes.

Programming is divided into a multitude of various cultures with their own (often incompatible) rules. Not without reason, you tend to talk of a "Java shop", "C# shop", "Python shop", ...

So, when looking for a good programmer, you either look for a beginner who is still "malleable" into your desired culture, or has the same right pedigree as your company.

In this sense, I a priori have no doubt that Max Howell is a decent programmer, but I do believe that he comes from and is attached to a very different programming culture than Google's; thus he would likely not be a good fit.
TIL filename extensions .ogv, .ogg = Theora
When the only American who won the Tour de France without drugs tells people to do something, a lot of people are going to do it.

Anyway, I can't find any of these so-called studies that admits to knowing what a sprinter is let alone a green jersey, so I'm going to keep my eye out for less flawed studies.

In fact, get me one by a team medic or physiologist, and then we can talk. Until then it's nerds in coats coatsplaining things to people actually doing the work.
> Ultimately it is free market capitalism in reverse.

Where exactly does the "reverse" come in?
Author of chDB here. For those who are interested, there is a blog post that explains how we created chDB. https://clickhouse.com/blog/chdb-embedded-clickhouse-rocket-....
Torque3D: a C++ game engine
What about career switchers? I'd definitely want to do some sort of challenges to prove that I'm OK for a different career path...ah nvm I'm actually not ready for those.
I bought an MPx200 from eBay when I was a freshman in college (2005). I remember _running_ after a FedEx truck after they missed our house hoping that they'd still have it. They, fortunately, did. I was so happy.

That phone was buggy as shit, but was so badass.

It had real speakers (for listening to MP3s with), Internet Explorer (for surfing the WAP internet...slowly) and Windows Phone 2003 (which is based on CE). Battery life was awful. I didn't care. Loved every minute of it until I bricked it trying to flash a hacked WP ROM.

Thanks for great memories, Windows CE. I'll now go back to the modern Internet with ads and accidental subscriptions on every corner!
Probably the same reason we buy modern cars.
On Firefox with uBlock Origin it doesn't work.

I gave it a quick look and it seems like Google Analytics is hijacking the `click` event in the `<a>` tag and it stops working because uBO blocked GA.
I don't believe that's the case for the orcas in the article. I used to live in Eden, and they have a legendary reputation there, going back well into pre-colonial history. Killing them would be sacrilege. That's not to say that some weren't killed, but not on that scale.
What an odd sentiment.

Surely more people die by vehicle traffic accident, cancer or respiratory issues than accidentally being infected by manure?
For what it’s worth, while these things are undoubtedly more useful than bored apes, it’s not where I’d be investing my money if I were a billionaire.

While the idea of cost-benefit analysis in philanthropy has gotten a bad reputation after going down some very weird rabbit holes recently, the idea behind it isn’t completely crazy.

Building toilets may not be as sexy as reattaching nerves but the cost-benefit ratios are pretty attractive.
I'd blame the apps/founders that sold out rather than Match Group buying them out...

I dunno that regulatory action would have any meaningful effect here. These apps come and go every few years, the users have high turnover, and there's not even an exclusive network effect like regular social media has. If you break them up into a bunch of smaller ones, they'll just re-consolidate over time.

What about a nonprofit/open-source dating app instead?
Dateville
GP suggested "Sandstorm available preloaded on a box", which I think is possible because that makes things a lot easier for the average user. As long as the box takes care of updates and backup without user intervention.
They stopped in Mexico after threats from regulators there. I think it's safe to assume they'll keep doing it (or start doing again) in other countries where they can get away with it.

But at the very least, the article doesn't say they agreed to never do it again anywhere in the world.
Isn't Tinder the dating app that seems focused on casual hookups?

On a regular dating app it is strange, but I can understand why some might want it to allow the age old mothering trope of "oh you should date my friend's child, they'd be perfect for you." On Tinder it feels worse.
Because it's a nice target to hack... you hacker you.
> What would a good application process look like?

As a data engineer I'd like to have a chat about the pain points of the current team and contribute. I think a coding test is OK too as long as it is just one round and actually test something meaningful.
> Yeah its insane to me that people are unaware of this or ignore this.

That's because it's not true. That might have been the baseline, but it's not what people were paying due to exemptions and credits, etc.

> I also don't get how the average person can defend the existence of the ultra wealthy.

Average person checking in. Who do you think is shouldering the tax burden? Gen z loudly complaining they don't have enough money for college or a house?

I find the avarice and greed masquerading as morality in the anti-wealthy movement reprehensible. If you're poor in America you have one of the best lives available in human history.

Also, what exactly is the complaint here - specifically? Anyone have a first principles argument for why "the existence of the ultra wealthy" is bad? Everything I've ever seen has been reddit-quality freshmen year drivel.
It’s generally well regarded. Here’s a recent list (4 Oct 2023) by The Hollywood Reporter that puts it in their top 50 of the 21st century so far (#17).

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-tv-shows-21st-c...

I’m really curious, if you thought the writing was pretty weak in HCF, what’s a show that you thought was particularly well written?
ControlNet model specifically the scribble ControlNet (and ComfyUI) was major gamechanger for me.

Was getting good results with just SD and occassional masking but it would take hours and hours to hone in and composite a complex scene with specific requirements & shapes (with most of the work spent currating the best outputs and then blending them into a scene with Gimp/Inkscape).

Masking is unintuitive compared to the scribble which gets similar effect; no need to paint masks (which is disruptive to the natural process of 'drawing' IMO) instead just make a general black and white outline of your scene. Simply dial up/down the conditioning strength to have it more tightly or fuzzily follow that outline.

You can also use Gimp's Threshold or Inkscape Trace Bitmap tool to get a decent black & white outline from an existing bitmap to expedite the scribble procedure.
This was a good read. When I first read Andreessen's manifesto, I came to believe that one of the following must be true:

1. Andreessen is literally unwell - it reminded me of the paranoid tendencies that reared their head in 2 of my grandparents in the early/mid stages of dementia.

2. Being a billionaire can actually be so isolating, and you constantly have people blowing sunshine up your ass, that you actually start to believe that all your ideas are infallible and that anyone not in agreement with you is a worthless peon.

I mean, even if you agreed with Andreessen's point of view, presumably he wrote and posted that manifesto to persuade, as a call-to-action. Yet I don't see how anyone could read that (or write that) and not see how the blowback would be intense, and it's had the exact opposite effect of the (presumed) intent.

Of course, Andreessen could just be a collosal "rules for thee but not for me" asshole. He was crowing about free markets and "liberating" people, and about how "it's time to build", but he and his wife turned out to be the ultimate NIMBYs when it was actually their backyard: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre...
Slow but going.

https://apolloweather.com/
Strip out debug symbols if you care about size? There’s no reason either of those libraries should be that large unless you’re including them.
my primary rebuttal is that without overleveraging resulting in collateral calls (foreclosures in mortgage-speak), the personal circumstances have too low of a velocity to matter. I think there is some merit to your point that most cannot afford 8.5% mortgages at these prices for the sales from personal circumstances, but there also are some people that can afford that and when everyone is waiting to buy the dip, the dip never comes.

right now, I don't see any scenario that I could quantify to support a bearish thesis.
The conclusion:
policymakers should be prepared for several metres of sea-level rise over the coming centuries. [...] Limiting the societal and economic costs of sea-level rise will require a combination of mitigation, adaptation and luck.
Capitalism can hill climb most gradients incredibly fast.

War and existential threats can do so even faster.

Publicly funded research does a great job of finding the slopes that would ordinarily be overlooked.
Who is to say we are ok with software companies doing it?
Right, it's become a stock phrase in English. For English acronyms, we'd say them with "the" but leave it out of the acronym itself - FBI, The Federal Bureau of Investigation; NATO, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, etc.
I don't understand the "you'll be the Xth billionth person the be alive in the world" at all. How does this number go up over time? When you're born, how can you be the "first" person to be alive? How am I heading towards eventually being the 9 billionth person alive?

I guess it means "oldest person?" If so, why not just say that?

Clicking on the snake chart thing also makes the age histograms on the left move to arbitrary places. I click on the dot around 43, and the age chart shows 41. I then click on the dot around 50 and the age chart shows 8.
While Mississippi is not as developed as NYC, it is still developed overall. Almost everyone has electric service and safe drinking water. While the ecconomic numbers don't look as good, the reality of those living there is mostly good. (Even blacks who face significant issues)
> The IT team member’s credentials for all systems were rotated, switched to only using a Yubikey for MFA,

I hope this spurs them to switch all employees to use Yubikeys for 2FA. Anything less than FIDO2 is really weak.

Can someone explain why people still choose Okta? I personally feel way more comfortable using GSuite as an IDP. Okta suffered a pretty terrible breach and, candidly, I hadn't heard great things about their security practices before that.
Game consoles had different kinds of cores/processors.
I adore Sumatra. I have used it for decades. Used to run it on my Windows 95 laptop even :) Super fast. Just. Works. Rarely have any issues with it.
`Strlen` in Glibc
Growth is slower than we'd like, for sure. But since we're firm believers in pg's maxim, "don't die", we've become cockroaches who can't be killed off.
You joke, but something like that is a terrifying possibility considering where things like device-attestation is headed, combined with a lack of understanding of the technology, especially the local level (e.g. I'm sure probably most of us here on HN got into trouble in elementary-school for "breaking the computers" or similar - I don't expect a local provincial magistrate to be any more understanding-of-things than the fuming head at my school)
Just because DVDs are several GB doesn't mean it's acceptable for the decoder to be a few hundred MB.

...and in fact it doesn't need to be, as I can say so from having written an MPEG-2 (+MPEG-1) decoder myself, whose binary turned out to be less than 16KB.

When one hears about a codec being dozens of MB, the natural instinct should be "for what?" and not "who cares?" The latter attitude is responsible for why software has gotten so much more inefficient, and serves only to line the pockets of hardware manufacturers.