skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is certainly plenty of talent in Hollywood sitting around most of the time. Downtime is a well established phenomena of the business as you wait for another gig. Beyond that, there are plenty of people looking to break into showbiz. If you throw around money, more shows get made. Quality can thin as top talent is spread across more shows but we're nowhere near the maximum throughput given infinite dollars.

It's not cost effective though. It's more a matter of fixed viewership.
At least don't rewrite history. Fighting was mostly against ISIL.
Unless you enjoy getting hacked, all strings received from outside sources are bytes.
That will be interesting because the Cybertruck is said to be 800v (a Tesla employee said this to Jay Leno during a tour of the Semi)
The problem is you don't always know it's doomed. A company I co-founded got to within 5 days of insolvency before we secured the next $5m round. The company never got a big exit, but it did sell a few years later, and the product still exists 22 years after.

I think the big question is how well communicated the risks are. In our case I believe everyone knew, and there'd have been no hard feelings if people had chosen to look for new jobs once funds got tight.
Are you serious? It "just went away?" CFCs were identified as the driving force, and the Montreal Protocol was ratified by nearly all nations in 1987, banning nearly all uses of CFC. And nations actually put it into effect; it wasn't just a paper agreement. It took decades but natural processes went back closer to its old equilibrium.
It got flagged, but there was a fair bit of discussion and comments:

[flagged] The ozone hole above Antarctica has grown to three times the size of Brazil https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793941
Minimize your expenses. Find and work any job, it does not have to be tech related. You can quit once you find a tech one you care about.

Put all gains towards a safety fund (enough to support your expenses for 3 months) first, and after that fully towards paying debt back, until you have paid it in full.

A pain, but that's life. Sometimes, you just have to grind. In the future, you'll be glad you got rid of debt and your struggles are behind you.
> automates checking your errors

It automates checking but not handling the errors. It's the Go equivalent of an empty catch{} block. It allows a programmer to not care about errors, which works out to the same thing as ignoring them.
In my experience there are usually only a few places in an application that actually care about errors. You typically have something near the top level that reports errors to the user or client, whether that is printing to stderr, showing a dialog, or returning an error response over the network. You might have something that logs errors. That might be in the same place you report to the user, or it might happen where errors originate. At some boundaries, especially between a library and the calling application it might wrap the original error in a different error. If you have retries, that is probably handled by a framework that in turn returns errors if the retries fail. And maybe in some rare cases you can gracefully degrade or try an alternative in the case of an error. Everywhere else, you probably just want to propagate it up the top level error reporting facility.

I don't think you should blindly pass up all errors, but IME propagating upwards is usually the right thing to do in your middle layers.
In a round about way: Protecting trade routes during the most prosperous epoch in human history.
Imo the worst part about this noreplit thing is that everyone who uses their product does, or at least should, know how difficult creating something like it is. These aren't the outside the tech bubble people, they're just confoundingly entitled.
Wow yes. I just found this out recently, it's funny because Sql seems easier than most of the complicated shit a dev needs to deal with.
This link is totally wrong. At least 50 ms counted is unnecessary. For instance, one frame usually takes 16 ms in a 60 fps game, but the link somehow stretched this out to 48 ms.

This is trivially easy to verify. Open up a profiler and measure the time between the start of a game loop and the end of a draw call for that loop.

Even in a browser it’s way faster. You can use the profiler to verify that the time between the start of input handling and render is less than 8 ms in Chrome. Sure, there is some time for the input to be handled, but nowhere near the level this link is suggesting.
Pretty good for a beta! I uploaded an SVG of my company logo, played around with the colours of the shapes, and exported as a large PNG file - it worked perfectly.
Strangely, corporations never want to increase wages in response to labor shortage.

And they of course suppress wages by cartels, lobby for increased immigration (bonus: h1bs are captive labor), etc.

Spare me the microecon 101 fantasy.
On the positive side, they haven't factored 17 and 19.
Don't forget bananas, exit signs etc.
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-radioactive-products-we...
In the VB6 era, you could write JScript ASP Classic pages and have JS in the browser (provided you weren't doing the more proper DCOM stuff behind the ASP pages). I worked somewhere doing that on NT4, but IIS 5 in W2K broke it somehow.

Or for really perverse IE only stuff, VBScript in ASP and VBScript in the browser.
(and still pay the actor of course)
Open sourcing the process is what's interesting to me.

I wonder how long it will be for this to go from the equivalent of Linus posting on a newsgroup to it displacing TSMC's lead?
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37637812

Link to audiobooks: https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-pu...

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03926
Yes, and I know that it's far more difficult than you might initially expect. I wasn't trying to portray the process as easy or trivial in terms of the effort required, my point was more about the fact that the barriers to entry are sufficiently low that you don't need millions (or hundreds of millions) of dollars, an entire team (or dozens of teams) of workers to handle different tasks, or even decades of work to make a top-tier book happen. You only really need the author themself [0], so there's little risk of there not being a wide variety of literature to choose from even if megacorporations decide to lock their offerings behind DRM-infested ecosystems.

[0]: Editors are very useful, but you could feasibly avoid utilizing them, and they're also not so expensive as to be out of the range of what an individual person could afford to hire, so my point stands even if you take them into consideration.
Being HN someone needed to make that comment. All tech companies can be reduced to “serving some bits and bytes”
I believe the filter is incredibly fine because it can generate very high suction. I think they claim its dust proof.
You're totally correct. I adjusted my comment
Or 10x that if you get to choose another country :-)
Eco activists are too alarmed. DO your own research.
Hey! Came across your videos randomly a few months ago and just wanted to say great content. Funny running into you here.
IPFS? Torrents? Maybe an IPFS bridge could be a FTW
Sourcing Dilemma: Beyond Printful for Niche, Quality Cat Lover Gifts?
I'm in the midst of developing an e-commerce platform dedicated to high-quality, original gifts tailored for cat aficionados. Currently, I've been sourcing products from Printful, but I'm encountering a challenge: the costs are somewhat prohibitive for my target demographic.

Given the collective wisdom and diverse experience within this community, I'm reaching out for some guidance:

Are there alternative platforms or communities, perhaps more cost-effective than Printful, that you'd recommend for discovering artisanal or tech-inspired cat-centric products?
How do you approach vetting and establishing collaborations with suppliers, ensuring a balance between cost, quality, and uniqueness?
For those who've tread the waters of niche e-commerce, especially with a tech-leaning edge, could you share potential pitfalls or best practices?
I'm optimistic that with the right sourcing approach, our platform can genuinely resonate with and delight the cat lover community. Your insights, experiences, and recommendations will be invaluable.

Many thanks for considering my query and for any advice you might share.
That some bullshit digital chat channel company should give itself the right to morally judge when and how people should or shouldn't change is itself an idiotic idea to take seriously. I really do hope more people reject this nonsense over time and actively work to punish companies that assume themselves arbiters of correct behavior. Sure, community standards and moderation are necessary, but MANY digital companies today take that basic concept and stretch it into all kinds of puritanical parochialism. It's almost ironic how much we regress to village shaming standards as we move forward into a global communications future.
Security Audits of Home Assistant
[Article] Summary: Home Assistant had two security audits done as part of our regular security assessments. You are safe. No authentication bypasses have been found. We did fix issues related to attackers potentially tricking users to take over their instance. All fixes are included in Home Assistant 2023.9 (released on September 6, 2023) and the latest Home Assistant apps for iOS and Android. Please make sure you’re up-to-date.
Yikes, posting like this will get you banned here, no matter how wrong another comment is or you feel it is. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: it looks like we've had to warn you about this kind of thing many times in the past:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29545379 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901052 (July 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21104010 (Sept 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17008730 (May 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867757 (March 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11724575 (May 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11320181 (March 2016)

Unfortunately, it also looks like you've been continuing to post flamebait-and-snark-style comments quite a bit. We need that to stop if you want to keep posting here.
adjusted my comment, apparently you've all pointed out a bug with my meat cpu
as an arch user; i gotta say `aur/rip` is already in use; and i can only say good luck if you keep to a 3char name
On a macro scale it is solid state. Ultimately everything is vibrating when you look close enough.
Why is the weight important here?
If 3 different companies showed up to put out the fire, you'd get a fair deal for the cost of putting out the fire, because they'd have to bid against one-another, but I take your point otherwise.
Netflix has caching boxes at every major ISP and has been randomly knocking over their own services for several years to ensure they can recover without significant manual intervention. Even if the customer experience isn't that much better, their content delivery is almost certainly much cheaper per stream.

Beyond that, you don't have to _rebuild Netflix_. Even if you do a good job, that's very expensive. It's folly to think you're going to make more money doing that than you will striking very favorable licensing terms with a fairly desperate tech company. Keep the "we could just build Disney+" in your back pocket as a threat.
Apple has changed the game in so many ways. This is definitely one of them.
The fundamentals of accounting (in particular double-entry bookkeeping) are simple, but they're often presented or understood as a series of unconnected facts that must be memorized.

It doesn't have to be this way!

Start with this identity:

Equity = Assets - Liabilities

This is self-evident: the owners of the company have a claim on the company's assets, but only after any liabilities (like debts to other companies) have been subtracted.

That identity can be rearranged:

Assets = Equity + Liabilities

This tells us that for everything the company owns, it also owes something. It has debts to some other entity (liabilities) and anything left over is owed to shareholders (equity).

Accounting transactions are made when something happens in the business. Each transaction changes the balance sheet. The balance sheet is made up of the three items in the identity, but there's more granularity. For example Assets might have a 'cash/bank' account and also an 'inventory' account

Any accounting transaction touches one or more than one of these three accounts.

Got some new equity funding? It increases Assets (cash in the bank) but also increases Equity (paid up share capital) by the same amount. So the identity is preserved.

Sold a product and collected some cash? Assets go up: yes, inventory decreased $10, but cash went up $15. So now Equity (retained earnings) goes up by $5 and the identity still holds.

The P&L (aka Income Statement) shows how the balance sheet changed between two points in time. Profit is the change in Equity between those two points (after removing any increase decreased from share issuance or buybacks).

If you've read this far and want some intuition about debits and credits, I wrote a brief post here: https://www.encona.com/posts/debits-and-credits
The collapse of the electoral grid in South Africa is a perfect example where decline becomes a self reinforcing. They are facing regular blackouts not because the expertise to generate electric was suddenly lost but because of a failure of the underlying social systems. Society is surprisingly fragile in unexpected ways when people don’t understand the underlying inertia that keeps things operating.

Mass surveillance is corrosive in ways that’s don’t directly destroy infrastructure but can both indirectly do so and prevent the investment in it. Someone acting alone can cause hundreds of millions in damage fairly easily. Society can’t survive even a small fraction of people going down that route.

You build resilience not through law enforcement but by reducing the need for it.
Thanks, didn't notice earlier
TeX was definitely groundbreaking, but I consider it a product of its time. Far too much cleverness in macro expansions and weaving tricks to keep memory usage in check for what are now laughable limits.

Missing far too many niceties in comparison to modern languages with more guardrails to protect yourself from silly mistakes. The only way I can write Latex is to heavily rely upon \input{} segments to keep isolated blocks in case I break something through a missed escape.

I keep yearning for a modern take, but it feels like we are stuck in a local optimum from which there is no escape. New platform has to fight with the decades of accumulated inertia and packages which exist in Tex.
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> but students are particularly impacted

That's a failure of the product/marketing planners then - there's a great deal of positive value that comes from offering free (or heavily discounted) plans for verified students, for example. There's a reason why Adobe and Autodesk tolerate, to a certain extent, unlicensed/piracy of their tools, especially in markets where even their educational-discounts are still too expensive for many to afford.
That's only true for CSA stuff, which was a new approach. Mostly, if you leave Australia you are no longer bound by Australian law, citizen or not, especially true for things like drug use overseas.
Kleppmann knocks it out of the park here.

Most accounting is actually insane. What should be an immutable ledger is actually the farthest thing from.

A few years ago I had a gig writing some custom reporting for a business that was struggling to get reproducible reports (i.e. I ran this report yesterday and now I can never produce the same report again) and it turned out their accounting practices were the root of the problem.

Closing books and reconciliation have to be the two practices which are most commonly done in the absolute dumbest way possible in electronic bookkeeping. Don't mutate your historical records!
Anyone know how their plans differ from the Virtual Memory plans that antirez had about 13 years ago, implemented in Redis 2.6, and then (wisely) abandoned?

https://redis.io/docs/reference/internals/internals-vm/
Depends: food can dupe people into working extra hours for free.
They think they are having a lunch break as they talk shop while chewing on their ciabatta.
If Paul Ginsparg has any say there is zero chance this happens.
Tesla is the only EV in US that can do roadtrip in practice. Both of my family cars are Tesla because of that reason. Maybe things will change when more and more other EVs can also use Tesla superchargers.
Yes, Tesla's next gen chargers (V4) will support 800V. The NACS port specification allows up to 1000V.
There was a time when US unions striked despite being met by a risk of people getting outright murdered. Without hyperbole, the 8 hour working day was won with blood. The question needs to be whether you think a strike is right and morally justified, and worth the potential consequences, not whether it is legal.
In Ravaged Star, the miniatures are crafted from durable and meticulously detailed PVC plastic, elevating the game's aesthetics to new heights. PVC miniatures offer exceptional quality and intricate details at a lower price compared to sprue minis. Additionally, the absence of assembly reduces the risk of incompatibility issues, ensuring a flawless final product. PVC is primarily used for the body parts, while ABS is utilized for the base, creating a harmonious combination of materials.
AI Copilot for QA
If supporting paid model costs more than what they make from paid users, why would a company implement it? Me, you, and most of engineers are in extreme minority for our willingness to pay for stuff to avoid ads. So you’ll get a very tiny percentage of people paying for a service where you hope you’ll recoup your investments after some years. Maybe never.
Lack of pinch and zoom is bonkers. Also it doesn't connect reliably and you can't use Maps on your phone while simultaneously being used for navigation.

Overall, asides from Siri, CarPlay is behind Tesla.
Really? I found Chrome being much faster than Adobe Acrobat.

Either way, the speed of rendering never bothered me.
Do you teach your kids that borrowing from libraries is not OK?
Start with the accounting equation. That's critical foundation.
The article doesn't say much of anything at all, other than that the author really doesn't like Marc Andreesen, it makes that much really clear.

It doesn't actually demonstrate how Marc is wrong about anything, it's sort off thought as a given I suppose.

All it does it just amplifies my general distaste for so called "journalists".
Or we live in a demand starved economy and the fastest way to stimulate Gdp is getting dollars into the hands of people that will spend it.

If all the money is owned by the rich, that is only a fixed number of brain cycles to buy things

In addition, advancement in technology really comes from mass markets, and the masses having money funds those economies of scale that delivers life enhancing or saving technology to everyone.

But I'll admit I don't have numbers.
One thing to note about the data is that the way the author counts a "Swift" binary and an "Objective-C" binary is a bit misleading, as it dual-counts binaries that feature both, and most new binaries feature both languages. That's why the slopes of the two languages look essentially the same: because they're the same binaries.

By my rough count [0], the number of strictly Objective-C binaries increased by exactly 4 between iOS 16 and 17. The number of strictly Swift binaries increased by 9 [1], and the vast majority of binaries added use both languages. It's not clear from the data if there are substantial amounts of ObjC code in these binaries or if there are just one or two functions in each.

EDIT: The percentage tallies are calculated weirdly too—because they double- and triple-counted binaries that have multiple languages, they calculated all the percentages out of a total of 8723 binaries (for iOS 17) even though there are only 6030 in their data set. The correct percentages should be:

SwiftUI: 6%

Swift: 25%

C: 7%

C++: 17%

Objective-C: 89%

This is less satisfying because it doesn't add up to 100%, but the metric they used doesn't have any useful meaning.

[0] Using the following regex on the raw data files: / \|Objective-C\n/
[0] Using the following regex on the raw data files: / \|Swift(\|SwiftUI)?\n/ and
AFAIK Tesla only had 1 major UI update during past decade
When he's one of the biggest backers of the surveillance state and is advocating for even more of that.. yep. I do.

I'll raise a strawman of my own: pretty indicative to see one of the co-authors of the Fascist Manifesto listed in Andreessen's list of "patron saints".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto
EEL ShorePower basically did the same thing for boats. Before they were screwed in connectors but now they have clamps which can fall out under any kind of storm (even at the dock), so you need some arm to hold it perpendicular to the hall (I tie rope sling).
A straw man is a distorted or mischaracterized recapitulation of another person's argument. This distorted argument can then more easily be attacked. It's a very common way for politicians, ideologues, and other dumb people to argue.
Sometimes, fair or unfair, a straw man argument can even be effective at winning over a crowd.

In this case the writer is distorting what Andreesson wrote in order to attack it. Here's an example:

"...it’s part of a broader movement that seeks to take all the guardrails off of technological development and push forward with “progress,” whatever the cost may be."

One thing I can say with almost 100% certainty - even though I have not read the manifesto -- is that Andreesson would never make such a stupid argument. Only an idiot would make such a dumb and absolutist argument, and only a politician or other dishonest person would try to assign such a dumb argument to her ideological opponent.

I've no doubt that readers of gizmodo, big government socialists, and many of their fellow travelers found this piece and it's writer to be a fresh new voice for the deep state and managerial classes. But I'm underwhelmed.
From America? No, the CFAA prohibits this.
Correct. Not in natural language. These are natural language systems, not logic systems.

"The sky is blue" does not imply "blue is the sky".
Linking xkcd is fun but what would uniting these physical plugs even mean? Very rarely can plugs be combined.
The trouble with js used then becomes whether the browser has implemented whatever function that nota expects, in the same way as other browsers, or implemented at all. Even in modern web development there are situations where things don't work in Firefox or let's say KDE browser. This leads to the usual notice put up be lazy or incompetent developers about viewing in Chrome/Safari only.
Astronomers detect radio wave burst 8 billion years old over half universe age
You.com X LangChain
> Toyota is lagging badly in EVs, which made up only 2% of its sales last year

Given how badly development of the charging infrastructure is lagging, and given Toyota is already making cars as fast as it can sell them, their slow rollout of EVs is probably a good thing for everyone.
humans daydream about romance, why can't computers?
> that vibrate at ultrasonic frequency
> the active cooling modules can only be heard if the user places an ear against the Zbox's housing.

Tangential question, but is this going to annoy dogs?
Any new language that shows me the code right away gets extra points
Given the existence of torrents, it really wasn't. Ever.
Related:

Nota: A Document Language for the Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31348316 - May 2022 (55 comments)
Thanks for the assist, amigo