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> Focus is about saying “no”.

Always loved this advice from Steve Jobs, but it can be hard to put into practice in a startup.

From my own experience, I’ve found there is a strong temptation (and also external advice) to try many different things in trying to get traction.
Okay. Are humans different than this?

Thoughts -> Action -> Thoughts

Thoughts are generated by brain. You don't control how the neurons are fired in the brain. As far as you are concerened you experience the thoughts, the sounds, images etc which.

So what exactly is the point of this article?
Then I'm not sure why that would refute the intermediate goal to "enable JIT codegen without sacrificing too much performance" as stated in my initial comment, since the proposed copy-and-patch JIT compiler can't make the impact by itself.
I think the only reason why there was a temporary "language bottleneck" in the late 90s and early 2000s was that CPUs got too complex around that time to deal with the resulting code generation complexities in a "homebrew compiler". LLVM and later projects like Cranelift changed that, and now it's possible again for individuals and small teams to create new languages which have competitive performance. In my book that's great, competition and experimentation is always a good thing for progress (even when it means there's also many more hobby projects that won't move the needle).
> Schools and teachers have ways to make sure improvements don't happen. These include - same pay regardless of performance, not hiring or firing based on performance, and teachers don't want to learn or do anything differently, especially if it's even slightly harder than what they already do

You can just say unions, no need to beat around the bush. Anyway, I don't really agree. Of course some teachers are stuck in the mud, but other teachers are eager to try new things and improve outcomes. If unfettered by standardization they would be eagerly experimenting with new approaches to teaching their subjects. And if school funding weren't reliant on teachers "teaching the test", then schools would find ways to reward these teachers because it makes the administration look good to have passionate and proactive teachers.
The extra 8kb wasn't even usable.
If you are interested in writing down more of what problems you have with scripting languages, feel free to shout me an email. Should be in profile.

I have been slowly working on a model of what problems i see in this domain and my own ideas to "fix" (or more like try to) them. So would love to see other perspectives.
Problem: a proprietary service

Solution: another proprietary service
are they really that poorly made?
The page summarizing the considered new names and their pros/cons is interesting: https://github.com/coq/coq/wiki/Alternative-names

Naming is hard...
i bet we're already there behind closed doors.
> in the Vietnam era there were widespread (probably heavily exaggerated if not fabricated) reports of soldiers being spat on

So you recognize this is a myth, but nevertheless use it as an example? Vietnam soldiers were drafted, and a lot of anti-war voices were soldiers and veterans. The resentment were towards politicians (remember the “LBJ, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” chant.) in contrast, the “support our troops” slogan were an attempt to equate supporting the soldiers with supporting the war.
i wouldn't think so. we just launched our app using react native on ios and android.
who's saying that??
Unfortunately Apple and MS seem like they’re going strong into 2024.
It results in a nonzero strike price, yes.
with all due respect, this sort of response and tone is exactly why that kind of throttling exists:

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

I commented in response because a comment downstream from what you linked felt much more caustic and may have been a bigger suspect than the first one. But by the nature of threaded comments, you will see less participation in a deeper comment. And I'm sure HN accounts for that. (-10 on a top level comment that was the first comment on the page may not be as bad as -1 on a deep comment).

If the repo is correct, these features are made to throttle comments that can cause flame wars. So, food for thought. A lot of times it's less about what you say and how you say it.
Could you elaborate? Moving away, that is.
I am “tech literate” (I’m on this forum, after all) and it took me some good years until I learned that iMessage is not SMS, i.e. when WhatsApp stopped working on my non-updated iOS version and I had to switch to sending photos via “SMS” (which is in fact not SMS).

Very recently I’ve also discovered that if I ignore the “log in to iTunes/iCloud” messages for long enough then I won’t be able to send “SMS”-eses anymore, which, when you think of it, technically makes sense but which I found puzzling nonetheless and it took a few hours of head-scratching to figure out (it’s not very intuitive to think that you need to log in to a different platform in order to send messages through the same interface that I had used for more than 20 years before without ever having to do that).
LinkedIn, as I discovered earlier this year.

(I'd emailed mods after noting that my submission seemed to have been autokilled. They revived it, though the submission didn't see much action.)
Prior to Synergy going to closed source, it was forked into Barrier[0], which then was forked into input-leap[1]. Both open source.

[0] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier

[1] https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap
This really brings back memories of programming RPG for the AS/400 in school, almost 30 years ago. Since we did not actually have access to an AS/400, all programming was done on printed pieces of paper.
The paper was formatted in numbered rows/columns, where for example a loop was created by putting the letter R in exactly column 5 and nowhere else (something like that, thankfully I've forgotten the details).
It all felt like one step above punched cards.
Our "programs" were never actually executed, our professor also did not have access to an AS/400.
Anyway, just saying, column and row based programs are a welcome trip down memory lane, let's keep it there.
What a wonderful calling to have had in life.
> Experts are great at common problems but not great at rarer ones, non-standard problems depend more on natural ability than experience.

This is quite contrary to the very definition of "expert" in the study of expertise. Experts are recognised, among other things, because they are the people others come to when they are facing unusual and tough problems.

You may well have a point, but "expert" is not an appropriate word for what you are talking about.
> Also I feel like I've been waiting a decade and I still can't do fractional scaling on wayland last I checked.

Same on Windows.
I have a feeling, that for some reason, the fonts and the widgets are scaled separately and then stiched together.
Hospital Price Gaps Show Just How Broken the $4.5T US Health Market Is
there are many problems less than mediocre experts fails to solve that a smart junior can manage to solve

That just means the experts aren't quite as expert as you think they are. If someone's 'expertise' is actively preventing them solving a problem they're applying things they believe or assume, not what they know.
Last numbers I know (12/2022) are 4% wild, 96% humans and livestock. Not trying to pedantic but if you have another source than this one can you share it ? Those numbers are so close that they seems to consolidate each others.

https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass
Well, I guess not many will agree with your statement, but I respect your opinion
You’re not using QubesOS and you’re watching ccc videos?

Weird :/
> American Spies Confront a New, Formidable China

I thoght they were busy changing the regime in Belgrade. /s
> with well supported workflows

Regardless of what you think about the general topic, xorg is not well supported anymore. People who maintained it largely work on Wayland. There aren't people available to do new releases. The workflows are still there... for now.
I bought 4 USB hubs just to switch the keyboard and mouse, it's just so annoying how most devices are so terrible. Randomly you have to physically detach the hub several times a day. If you plug webcams and/or USB mics, it only gets even worse.

I'm using Synergy software and it works well, but I still want a proper KVM that can allow for webcams, mics, audio, etc. Features like moving only a group of plugged devices via keyboard shortcuts.

KVM users are underserved for sure.
Slight correction: Portuguese Man-o-wars are actually considered multicellular organisms.

They’re weird organisms composed of multiple distinct animals that cannot survive independently and that originate from the same fertilized egg. But they are unambiguously multicellular.
Synergy is open core, these portions are licensed as GPL: https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/#License-1-ov-file

There is an open source fork that branches off version 1.9: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier#what-is-it
The binary was compiled with Cosmopolitan Libc [0], and therefore the binary will execute natively on Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and bare metal (BIOS boot).

I would call that portable.

[0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
Love warren buffett’s quote on this topic. "The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything." But totally agree it’s v difficult to decide what to say no to especially if you’re still honing PMF at a startup.
Microsoft BASIC for Atari 400 and Atari 800 (which is distinct from the Atari BASIC that shipped with those computers) had a `RENUM` command that would renumber lines. New line numbers would start at 10 and increment by 10. Those defaults could be overridden.

https://archive.org/details/a8b_Atari_800_Basic_v1.0_1981_Mi...
NB: One characteristic of "/context" is that where a comment has been flagged or killed, then the comment for which context has been requested isn't visible. The more so if "showdead" isn't enabled or when viewing from an unauthenticated session.

I run across this fairly frequently when checking on dang's comments, particularly when I'm not logged in, as moderator comments are often made following moderator actions or where members have downvoted or flagged a comment.

I'm not sure that a fix is needed, but the behaviour is slightly unexpected and confusing.
Teardown of FGM 148 Javelin Missile Guidance Computer
It was a typo for 464 - you can tell by the video it links to.
“women can't do basic math" being an antiquated notion is even weirder. As GP pointed out, companies used to employ lots of predominantly female computers. As a consequence, the first programmers and operators of digital computers were also predominantly women, even if the engineers building them were mostly men.

Women being bad at advanced math would make sense as an antiquated notion, but those in charge of hiring decisions until about 50 years ago evidently thought women were great at basic math.

The study you linked showing that women lag behind men in math to a degree proportional to some gender disparity metric is also interesting, but doesn't really tell us how we got here.
I'm looking forward to the talk about the "DRM" in polish trains

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/breaking_dr...
There is a whole book dedicated to the game boy by Florent Gorges but sadly I don’t think its translated into english. I got them in Spanish. Unique interviews of the creators.

https://www.amazon.es/Historia-Nintendo-Vol-4-1989-1999-INCR...
> with all due respect, this sort of response and tone is exactly why that kind of throttling exists:

> > don't cross-examine

Something about a mirror. Or: do you think you deserve aggressive throttling now?

Honestly, some of my comments might jive less with HN’s echo chamber, but that doesn’t mean they’re not based in fact, and it doesn’t make them inciting.

Edit:
I’m trying to practice taking complaints as actionable feedback, so

> So, food for thought. A lot of times it's less about what you say and how you say it.

Thanks for this. I’ll keep it it in mind!
Good teachers unfettered by standardized course plans, when dealing with brilliant students, keep pace with and support those students. If this attracts even more brilliant students, all the better! Then the brilliant students will also support and motivate each other leading to even better outcomes. This is an ideal situation unless you're one of those Harrison Bergeron people who wants to cap high achievers so they don't leave the dummies in the dust.

We really should be prioritizing the brightest students, because their brilliance has the best payoff for all of society. Better to have 100 students who are genuine math wizards and are prepared to continue building on what they know than to have 10000 students who sort of learn basic calculus then forget all of it, with those previous 100 lost in the noise and never given the resources to reach their potential.
Could you explain "above arithmetic in the hierarchy" in a few words, TIA, never heard of this
My favorite example of this is how much of Apple's old HQ that is taken up by parking:

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&q=loc:37.332+-122.02964

Compare size of parking to the size of office buildings, which even includes a nice green area that most business buildings don't have.
I think...

Each time you make a purchase on a credit card, you automatically add an amount for that purchase into the ClearCred 'savings' account. Then, when you need to pay the credit card amount before it's due (and incurs interest), you pay it from the ClearCred account.

It seems to be a third-party instant savings account, with an app that keeps track of all the amounts and due-dates, in return for your information and likely a cut of the interest as others have alluded to.

You could probably do the same with any other instant savings account and manually keeping track of purchase, without giving your information away.

Equally, you could just not use a credit card.
But I sometimes use Hacker News from remote machines, and it would be a pain to configure all of them with custom extensions!
You and parent might enjoy checking my profile for customised HN CSS.

(I apply those using the Stylus CSS manager browser extension.)
There's a sample for Kindle on Amazon.
Using nocode tools to create an LLM blog recommender agent
Career Advice for Beginners
A few thoughts that I wish I had known when I got started on the job market
Also rjit is yet-another-jit in Ruby. There's mjit, yjit, rjit, and many external ones. We're getting at least two a year recently, so why not mir as well.
> Experts are recognised, among other things, because they are the people others come to when they are facing unusual and tough problems.

When a person want to make a website, they go to an expert on making websites. That expert doesn't have to be a genius, they just need to be good at making standard websites.

Or if that is hard for you to understand, consider what you see as an expert in other fields. When people say "go see an expert", they mean go see a doctor or a psychologist or similar, they don't mean go see the best doctor or the best psychologist, just someone who is trained and experienced in the field.

Or if they say "hire an expert" they mean hire someone who has worked on this kind of problem before, not someone who is particularly smart.
It has a higher frame rate and resolution, but it doesn’t necessarily play “better”, depending on how you view the importance of the native controllers etc.

That said, it speaks more to the point of designing for something other than reality simulation. If other games focused less on looking “real” they’d likely see vastly better performance on normal hardware.
Or an evaluation of the teacher. In my experience, a great teacher produces better students.
CGI's performance may have been fine for Perl, which has very low startup overhead, but those who wanted to write apps in most other languages needed something else. And even then there was mod_perl, as you mentioned, which eliminated this overhead for Perl as well, suggesting that perhaps CGI performance was often not fine.
I am not a biologist but I've known a few in my time;

It is highly unlikely there will ever be a singular "cure for cancer" as cancer is a bit of a blanket term given to multiple diseases, however this is a seemingly reasonably good breakthrough in treatment - being able to destroy cancerous cells without exposing the patient to further harm via targeted radiation or harsh chemo drugs (basically targeted poisoning) feels like a win.

If we can break the cells down and let the body's immune system take care of the remnants instead of having to slice someone open, huge win!
Bun JavaScript Macros via import attribute syntax
Except that infinite precision requires infinite settling time. (Which I guess is the analogue computing version of arithmetic not being O(1) even though it is usually modelled that way.)
> so shops close and they buy them. Rinse and repeat.

So do they reopen then as shops again or as repurposed housing? I suppose the nightlife is pretty dull too?
with the way our education structure is setup, yes. you fall behind your peers, you are assumed to be dumb or even unteachable, if you're a rising senior, a bad grade (be it sue to external or internal factors) can rescind future prospect.s And after a certain point you have to be kicked out of a school for legal reasons so now you need to work around some other way to earn a GED.

If we're talking college, you now need to either spend more time and especially money to repeat a course, or drop out and give up entirely. it can also disqualify you from scholarships and grants, so it is a direct financial consequence in two ways. Unlike the workforce, you are not given adequate opportunity in academia to fall behind, let alone fail.

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I agree in theory that there should be no shame in needing to redo classes and reinforce your learnings, but current societal expectations in traditinal education does no support such a mindset. Another reason I wish there was more awareness and accessibilities in paths outside of grade school -> university to figure out what you enjoy and how to learn it.
His business seems to run on AWS Lambda, which is about as far away from running on cheap (unreliable) hardware as possible? The laptop he mentions is just for working.
I feel the same way, it's good you are presented with one option and can process it in depth. Let's. Slow. Down.
> latest Zelda games are IMHO the most beautiful open worlds created

I’ve only played BoTW (and I enjoyed it a lot), but tbh I can’t really remember any distinct environments except maybe the volcanic region, Kakariko village and the Korok forest. IMO the minimalism of the game world simply doesn’t give the designers enough “tools” to create impressive environments, at least compared to games like Horizon Zero Dawn or Red Dead Redemption 2, or even Skyrim.
I've been using GPT4 extensively lately and I'm 60% convinced as well.

I think OpenAI must have a newer model that has no safety guardrails, is allowed to use as much hardware as it wants, and must be highly competitive with the top experts in each field.

After spending some time with the GPT4 API, I'm quite convinced that the thing holding LLMs from being ubiquitous right now is just inferencing cost and safety guardrails.
It’s a test bed for the latest unreal engine, but it still performs very well on a lot of different hardware.

The switch port likely struggles because it needs to be compatible with the other versions for cross-platform play, so it has to support the same resources (map layout/assets etc) that higher end machines do. There’s a limit to how much you can optimise something when you can’t fundamentally alter it and still keep your other customers happy.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/
This shallow dismissal sounds "sus". It's just off.
4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman – my notes (tldr an unconvincing feel-good book)
To your first point, that is a system of imposed value, as opposed to subjective value theory; taken again to the logical conclusion, we meet in the desert, you're thirsty and I have water, if you cant afford the carbon offset for the water should you die of thirst? Should I sell you a smaller quantity of water at the higher price? Or should I sell you the most amount of water you want at the lowest price I can offer?

What of other types of pollution? Why wouldnt we be taxing the environmental damage of mercury or lead? These items are in fact heavily regulated today, and yet it was with the help of the local government and their power over utilities that flint michigan was poisoned with lead; this is something a private company could be more easily sued for, as opposed to the government with sovereign immunity. Why would we expect this system of weights and measures to not be captured like other systems of political power? Try to imagine the negative consequences of the corporate capture of power over the prices of all goods in the market, what effect that could have over relatively powerless people just trying to eat.

To the second part, scarcity is not something that can be changed; no matter how much you produce of something it is still ultimately limited in its supply.

This is a debt based system though, and it doesn't have to be; all dollars are created when a debt is issued, like a home loan or government debt, and these debts are issued at an interest rate, it is systemically guarenteed that there will always be more debt than dollars to pay it off. Taken this to its logical conclusion, you get the repo-men/corpus style society of everyone being a slave to bankers, its not markets that do this, its exogenous debt that can never be repaid without entering more debt. With a commodity money or a money with commodity backing, this is not possible; the banks cannot issue debt for a bar of gold they never had, and when their debts turn out to be malinvestments they cant be bailed out by a central authority, meaning they will only issue debts that they can reasonably expect to be paid off, rather than the predatory practices of today.
Define boot.

Booting doesn't require loading an os.

And if we include dos as an os, I'm not even sure of the conceptual difference between booting basic and booting dos.

The only major thing is device discovery and setup etc.

But even the 8 bits had to start up the screen output routines, so I would still classify that as 'booting'
I wonder how would that compare to the HD520 in laptops.

I have several laptops running that GPU, and AFAIK the HD620 was a small revision of the HD520, so all in all, not much of a change.
The name is... confusing, given that ImageMagick is an extremely popular tool already.
This is kinda misleading though. If you say no to everything then you literally won’t do anything. That can’t make you money unless you’re a trust fund kid. So obviously you have to say yes to some thing (s). The true essence of the message is that you have to say no to most things but still say yes to that one thing. Good luck with that!
Imo that depends. If you don't encounter any major issues in your life, then I'd skip the meds. Not only they're really expensive, they're also really difficult to get ( especially recently, for some reason they rarely appear in the pharmacies ). They also don't always work - this is most likely different for each person, but I feel that they provide only a slight boost in my concentration and motivation ( in my case though, this is does make a difference ).