skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on the first implementation of this at Netscape many years ago. The intent was to move away from URL as the primary location specifiers and more towards a semantic web interface. Obviously this didn’t evolve beyond that first step of directing to search, and the semantic web effectively never happened. But the original syntax was if it was a single contiguous string without whitepace it was always resolved as a URL, unless prefixed with a ?. (Thus no need to struggle with hosts being searched etch.

The intent was there would be other operators and ways of specifying some sort of resolving agent. It was a pretty interesting idea but Microsoft destroyed internet technology competition for the next 10 years and the rest was lost as the next time someone picked up basic web technology it was a search engine.
The CFA franc is used by 14 countries. Until 2020, those countries were required to deposit half of their foreign exchange reserves with the French Treasury. France also maintains a military presence in several of its former colonies.

Colonialism may have ended, but France continues to exert influence in Africa.
From https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/filing-a-complaint/complaint-proce...:

Under HIPAA an entity cannot retaliate against you for filing a complaint. You should notify OCR [Office for Civil Rights] immediately in the event of any retaliatory action.
It's only 1% on average. Instead you name a product that has 50%-90% market share among certain demographics, a narrow sliver of the general audience. You solve their particular problem well enough. It's just not everyone's problem.

For selling the search preference it works even better because it instantly adds a bit of targeting information.
That's how it's done in most of the world. But the US and "at-will" employment tends to benefit the company much more often than the employee. These kinds of layoffs elsewhere would mean you need to throw out a gigantic severance to compensate. 2-3 months is generous for the US tech sector, but we're easily talking 6+ months severance if this happened in most of Asia. You'd need to prove multiple quarters of loss or such a drastic loss that you are physically unable to pay labor for layoffs to go through this way.
That's not how this works. Those "experts" making extraordinary claims haven't provided any evidence. Thus, the rest of us should categorically discard their claims.
In addition to avoiding undefined behavior, MISRA discourages language features that are "dangerous" like I/O and dynamic memory routines. It also defines some (controversial) styling rules, such as requiring functions to have exactly one exit point.
Ya, but so what? It's zero engineering effort to build the wheels for all the compatible versions. You don't win anything with the limited API.
This video from real life lore just came out yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpWb3MTV9bg

This is not about Africa but rather Haiti
but I think the point stands.

Why can't France give Haiti USD 21B?
Or even USD 100B.
It doesn't have to be in one lump sum.
Would that bankrupt France?
When I look up France GDP,
I see 2.958 trillion USD (2021).

Actually do some good in the world for once.
(And make some money for French companies doing so).
Build some physical infrastructure in Haiti.
Clean drinking water, reforestation, etc...

a hundred billion dollars will go a long way in a country like Haiti...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_Independence_Debt#Aristi...
So cancel dollars? Or is that debt ok because it's an "IOU nothing"?

Everything comes back to flows, and debt is simply a symptom of a political system unwilling or unable to balance their books. If you start "cancelling" debt, first of all you just cancelled the Federal Reserve so you cancelled yourself. Second of all, you just stole a bunch of money from a bunch of people some of whom may have a standing army ready to ask for it back. Third, you just required yourself to do the budget-balancing you refused or were unwilling to do that got you in this mess in the first place-- because no one will lend to you ever again. Fourth, where does the cancelling end? Social Security? Medicare? Government pensions? No, "just cancel the debts" is not a solution.
I really enjoyed every article served up to me.
Is there any real benefit to taking ~$160k and 1% as a “founding” engineer? We’re not even close to series C yet but it’s starting to feel like I need to be more aggressive about compensation or a role change.

If you don’t become a +$100mm company (and have the ability to cash out at that position) it seems to be a pretty rough deal honestly.
I did. It’s great for the landowners and producers, who in turn are kind to the legislators.
I flirted briefly with the thought of taking up paragliding. I was put off by the statistics. It's significantly more dangerous than flying in a small aircraft. I wonder, though, how much of the risk profile is due to experts pushing the envelope, or combining paragliding with skiing and doing aerobatics close to the ground. The so-called beginner wings are designed to be collapse resistant and recover easily, but they are slow and not very maneuverable compared to the more advanced models.
I mean, we lost all our manufacturing in that time period. We have far more service jobs (e.g. not inherently dangerous) in the economy now compared to 1970.
Just regular fuzzy finding is the most common. For example, to attach a file instead of faffing around clicking in the open dialog, I type into fluent search(a frontend to everything) and it enters it in the current context i.e the open dialog.

It has a few other qualifiers, like big: huge: etc to search large files. Same way with time etc.

Rarely when you need it you prefix with regex: and you get everything you need.

It's very useful that both everything and fluent search integrate into explorer in that if you right click on the search result you get the same context menu as you would in explorer. Drag drop works, etc,. The issue with every other tool in every other OS is the lack of this feature. You basically have a virtual fully featured directory for every search result, simply cannot beat that.
Sad but very true. When careers have been crafted on the current architecture of a company, it's hard to shake.
yep seems to be the prompt in itself: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/18kl8zs/the_gpt_45_...
> I agree that NYT is far more fact based and substantive, but the core problem people seem to have with the TikTokers is almost just as bad in traditional journalism.

The core problem people have with TikTok spectacle is it is less factual and not substantive.
Radix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix

- "Golden ratio base is a non-integer positional numeral system" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37969716

Number systems > Classification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number#Classification ; N natural numbers, Z[±] integers, Q rational/s, R Reals, C complex numbers (with complex conjugate exponents), Infinity or Infinities, ; C ⊆ R ⊆ Q ⊆ Z ⊆ N

***

i^4x ~= e^iπx

Also, perhaps this is a better representation for a continuum of reals:

e^(x*yi*zπ)

But then there's no zero; only quantities approaching zero.

e^(x*yi*zπ) * e^(a*bi*cπ)

But then there are still no negative numbers, so:

sign * e^(x*yi*zπ) * e^(a*bi*cπ)

Where `sign` is in {-1,0,1}, or maybe just this would be the ultimate radix:

sign * e^(x*yi*zπ)

But then represent infinity, or infinity_expr1 (because e.g. 1/x != 2/x except at x=0)
wonder how they would feel squashing your business in the same industry
-> went to stanford or harvard -> funded (no questions asked)

-> held director level at faang -> funded

It's the chain of trust. It means that the investor is already 2-3 handshakes away from the founder, and hence can discuss certain things that require utmost discretion, and have reasonable grounds to believe they won't get double-crossed on that (because it would erode away the trust along the handshake path).
> . In France however there is often less tolerance for varying pronunciations and accents,

Yes this was covered in my original message. Miss pronouncing a word in French can make it extremely hard to understand for a native speaker. And yes people from Quebec are an excellent example. They will often struggle when their accent is too strong when visiting France. And people are not ill meaning, Quebecois are very popular in France, it's just genuinely hard.

People often don't know that the French language was literally a political weapon to create France. France is political construct, not cultural like most countries. It is an aggregation of different cultures, including different languages. It was vital for France to succeed as a construct to force the idea of "correct French". A French language that would be the same everywhere, without local variations. So yeah, the French ear is not used to dealing with mistakes or strong accents.
PTFE pans are definitely not overrated. Yes, they do eventually wear out, but more modern NS cookware is much more resistant to scratching than old school Teflon pans. If not abused -- no scraping with metal, dishwasher, scrubbing pad, etc -- I've gotten a decade+ out of even cheap NS stuff.

Stainless, and even coated stainless like Zwilling Clad sticks with many meals, unless you're using massive amount of oil or never stop moving it in the pan. Even a dollar store PTFE pan is better if you dislike using a scouring pad and effort to clean it.

My time is worth more than replacing a $30 PTFE pan every 10 years if I can pretty much wipe it clean with a damp cloth. Compared to seeing a burned-on mess that I know will require 10 minutes of scrubbing.
Calling "wrong" things from these 'hallucinations" strikes me as one of these deceptively weird technical falsehoods (that perhaps end up having a slightly different meaning?) I'm reminded of e.g. "deleting" tweets.
Sure but it was a disorganized mob rather than a real coup attempt.

Of course the Pentagon's reluctance to send in the National Guard until there was an > 0% chance that the governor of Virginia would order an "invasion" (with the consent of the city mayor) was pretty concerning but incompetence rather than some conspiracy seems like more likely explanation.
And yet the BLM “peaceful protests” that burned and looted parts of well over a dozen major cities is considered perfectly acceptable.

Both of them were ultimately political protests and yet everyone seems to have forgotten about the actually violent one.
I played the VC game. We were attending every opportunity to give 10% of our business for $200K. No one would bite. Gradually, it felt it was easier to land customers than VCs. Then there came a moment that I wish for every founder. Our revenues started not only paying the bills, but also fueling growth. It felt as if a veil was lifted from my eyes. Now, it feels like all those pitches were a waste of time.
I've never used fsearch, but I use a CLI tool that replaces locate (https://plocate.sesse.net/). Do you have an idea of how the performance and index format compares with fsearch?
and I bet this video is about to be watched MILLIONS of times more compared if Qatar didn't get involved in this obnoxious way.
French has a few Germanic loan words, but is most certainly not a Germanic language.
They license most of their data and surely those license terms would be far more expensive if they allowed for this kind of export and offline use. Or they just couldn't license it at all.
>Timing was pretty bang on if you consider Jan 6th as a turning point

of all the things happening around that same time-frame, the Jan 6th events seem to have been some of the least impactful, aside from just being a huge talking point in these type of "world is decaying" conversations

the media decided to report on that event in such a way as to draw more outrage than the other stuff -- but looking back the other stuff seems to have created a larger last impact; BLM/lock-down/pandemic/WFH/disaster-recession/George Floyd/Rittenhouse/social-distancing, just about any affect of that time period seems to have created deeper scars than the Jan 6th stuff.

now, Jan 6th stuff drew a lot of public outrage -- the sanctity of the office and so on and so fourth -- but real social and physical trauma that has lasted into today? There were more important events during that time-frame in that regard, personal opinion.

If you're just counting physical violence/death/injury then there are more severe events to consider unless we're weighing stuff like "a politician's life is more valuable than a bystander" type rationalization.

and to be clear : i'm not even debating the whole fall-of-Rome premise, i'm just saying that as an individual that witnessed this whole history it feels as if there was greater chinks in the armor than the Jan 6th events.
What you need to do is launder your “app/concept/vision” through “high profile individuals”.

Ideally, get someone with a high level of influence to invest or just get them on your board. Having their name in the decks increases future investment by vulture capitalists by at least 420%. Once VCs see those names, their typical DD process goes out the window. All they see is the name and gamble millions/billions just because of this.

Some notable examples of this are “theranos”, “ftx”, “frank”. Shit it even stretches back to the 1990s with infamous con artists like Jordan Belfort or Bernie Madoff.

Remember those college frat bros that cheated off you? Those frat bros and sorority sisters are often connected to high wealth individuals. Higher chance of this at “Ivy League” universities.

Remember. It’s not what you know. It’s WHO you know ;)
Humans have been testing this hypothesis for milennia. There jury is very much in.
That isn’t efficient in cases where the caller cannot know the size to allocate up front. For example:

To use sprintf, you’d have to guess at the buffer size to pass in, or suffer a buffer overflow.

snprintf is a bit better in that you can recover from passing a buffer that’s too small, but still either requires you to be generous in sizing the buffer, or accept that you often call snprintf twice, doing double work.

The way around that is to pass a pointer to an allocation routine, but that’s a simple form of the allocator interface that this article favors.
If you know marketing, you don't need VCs (unless you are in a capital-intensive business like rocket building). The problem is that most people who get funded are technical and do not know marketing and growing organically. However, there are lots of businesses that grow extremely well simply due to the cofounders having previous experience with marketing, often in a professional capacity.

My go-to example is Lemlist (and their "Lempire" of related products). The founders built their own cold email agency, grew that to millions just through sheer labor, then built software to automate that process and now they're at a 200 million dollar valuation from more than 10 to 15 million dollars in annual recurring revenue. They have lots of marketing channels: organic SEO via content marketing, Facebook group with frequent events like interviews with other agency owners and salespeople, YouTube videos that are then recut and repurposed to TikTok/Instagram/Facebook videos, partnering with influencers, paid advertising, and of course, cold messaging other salespeople and agencies via LinkedIn and email. Most technical founders do not know or have the patience to do any of this. If they do, though, they could similarly grow to such an ARR in a few short years, as Lemlist started only in 2018. Similar examples include GoHighLevel and ClickFunnels which are almost at or over a 1 billion dollar valuation each, both bootstrapped. The ClickFunnels founder for example sold his software via live demos (both webinars and in person events) where you got X% off but only if you booked right at the end of the demo, which apparently drove quite a high percentage of their initial sales.

I'd highly advise founders to start a marketing agency if only to understand marketing in a real capacity and how to deliver results to paying clients. I have done so via a cold email and paid ads agency for various niches before and I believe it's helped me immensely with future products. Best of all, you learn to be truly aligned with your customers and providing them direct value because they are paying you every month. If you make a mistake, you must fix it, you have no backup fund of venture capital previously raised in order to skate BY, especially now that ZIRP (zero-interest-rate phenomenon) is over.
As for any other language, textbook French isn't exactly what French people speak, and different social classes have their own slang, but the language isn't changing that much.

I'd argue that it's becoming simpler as younger generations have a more limited vocabulary. They also tend to integrate more and more English words (pronounced as French words), as it's something perceived as cool. Interestingly, this is true in all layers of society, including business and politics.
Broken anything is hard to understand without practice, and easy (or, easier) to understand with practice. My experience in urban US is you hear a lot of broken English, so you get pretty good at understanding it.

My experience living in Paris is that a lot of the older folks have very little practice or desire to practice speaking with broken French speakers.

Japan I found to be similar. Fuck up the pronunciation the slightest bit and you’re just stared at blankly.
This effect on a child aggregates up too. The result is a tribe/society issue of unguided kids who don't benefit from the stability, specialization, opportunity, and generational progress provided by a nuclear family. That said, however, if we use catholic countries as an example baseline for any implied evolutionary effect of forbidding divorce - they don't do too well against protestant nations, and particularly vs. anglicanism which was founded on divorce. British colonies vs. catholic Spanish and Portuguese colonies fair much better. Maybe marriage is a net positive, and the remarriage from divorce helps humans iterate faster.
I always try and check myself - it’s possible that I’m just getting to be an angry old man, which wouldn’t be a huge transition from being an angry young man, but while I can agree that the LLMs do seem to be a genuine advance, I did not expect that the latest advance in AI would be a bullshit generator and it’s strange that few people seem to have a problem with that. It seems like yet another bandwagon that everyone wants to jump on since it’s the next big thing.
Came here to see any Rudolph jokes. :-)
I think you in this case missed the tree for the forest. Hasbro right now os doing well. A company doing well should not be able to simply fire the labor that helped them succeed like they are tools.

Layoffs wouldn't be an issue of they were respectable. Some mix of either foresight or proper severance. In reality, it's rarely either unless you're in a sector that is likely already well compensated. I think thars more in the heart of what the GP was talking about.

>And now the workers are going to suffer because they didn't organize labor when the economy was booming and they weren't feeling the pinch.

If we had good government labor laws, unions wouldn't be necessary. I don't know why everyone feels collective bargaining is the only road here. Moreover, they aren't mutually exclusive; we can vye for both unions and better government regulation of jobs and how easily you can lay someone off on a profitable quarter.
> “Every country has adopted a bankruptcy law,” said Joseph Stiglitz, a former chief economist at the World Bank, “but internationally we don’t have one.”
The United States, though, has repeatedly opposed the idea, saying it is unnecessary.

I don't know when the US said it's unnecessary, but it certainly is unfeasible. Normally, when you are not solvent, you go to a bankruptcy court. The deal is that you accept the court's rulings and the creditors accept them too, and if anyone's unhappy, they can argue within the confines of the judiciary system, and the law enforcement is always present to make sure everyone plays nice.

None of these things exist in an international setting. And the most important missing piece is the law enforcement. If we set a bankruptcy court in Hague, let's say, and one of the parties does not respect its rulings, what exactly is the consequence? You can set up such a court, but it would lose its legitimacy in no time as more an more parties will disregard what it says.
Classic access journalism dynamics. Versions of this are at play in every industry, as reviewers and journalists have enormous incentives to please the entities they cover and have equal disincentives not to rock the boat.

You might think this is an outlier, but what authority is going to hold the airline to account? How are you going to convince any YouTuber to give an Ho eat review of the airline ever again?
Have actually read a few founders now who had no connections and just treated VCs as sales targets:

3000+ investor cold emails, 100+ meetings, 3 term sheets, 1 deal.

Reading this it makes me wonder if this isn't the best strategy.
Also known as the Barbara Streisand effect.
And if you make your success public enough in the right circles? Those same VCs will be throwing their panties at you. It’s the game.
For summary views:

$ jfr view native-memory-reserved rec.jfr

and

$ jfr view native-memory-committed rec.jfr

https://x.com/ErikGahlin/status/1736530559231201484
Side note: I had tremendous fun doing a BG3 combat-only playthrough (meaning paying no attention to the story or characters, just min-maxing combat).

One of my most memorable encounters happened entirely by accident: I had just learned how to make my characters fly, and was exploring a new city by gliding from rooftop to rooftop. I ended up on top of some big castle thing by chance, and pissed off all the guards in what looked like a throne room. They chased me out onto a small patio, where I set up a perfect ambush: https://share.cleanshot.com/tPHhWk6p

A cloud of darkness blocked vision out of the only exit, with only my fighter visible at the end of the ledge. Each enemy would come stumbling out of the darkness, only to be ambushed by arrows fired from a dust cloud. Enraged, they'd run towards the ledge, engage my fighter, only to be blown into the chasm below by my warlock hiding on a tower above. Over the next couple hours, I ended up killing like 40-60 of these huge guards, a pile of bodies at the river bottom. (Apparently this was some sort of boss fight, which I had no idea lol). It was just such a perfect tactical setup to blow them off the ledge, one by one, unaware and so angry :D

One of the best moments I ever had in any video game.

My full review, with more silliness: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199138390397/recomm...
Not all human speech serves the purpose of communicating clearly. In many cases it serves the purpose of creating and cementing social bonds. It's infuriating as it sounds, but it's also very human.

Also:

> Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

-- Lionel Trilling
Show HN: Mgo: build a single Go binary optimized for all GOAMD64 variants
mgo builds the same program once for each GOAMD64 variant, and then bundles all of them with a launcher that at runtime picks the correct one for the local system. Handy if you have CPU-heavy workloads, but you can't assume which processor they run on; we use it in our kubernetes workloads to reduce CPU usage by ~3%.