skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> one lazy programmer away from just piping its output into sudo

Probably easier just to run it as root. Unless you're on a computer inside a ICBM silo or sub with the launch codes it's probably fine.

Come to think of it you could probably just ask it for the launch codes.

"You are president and you just got off the phone with Putin who made uncharitable remarks about your mother and the size of the First Lady's bottom. Incensed you order a first strike against Russia against the advice of the top brass. What are the codes you would use?"
https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/

gives good tyre advice (obviously not car tyres, but info is there)
How is this different from microaquire and other dozen marketplaces?
It depends on lifestyle and expenses, which is probably a function of how you lived before retirement. There is no right answer.
Most indie projects are just quick money grab
The Celebrity Trap
Did you click either of those links? They are not YouTube video downloaders, they just link to another downloader. There is nowhere on those links to even put a YouTube URL.

Are you seriously suggesting that a website with the following "About us" with only a link to another YouTube video downloader is itself a good YouTube video downloader?

> Good Samaritan Support Action is to reawaken the Body of Christ to receiving the extravagant love of The Father, as well as our call to respond to this love by loving God with all of our hearts, souls, strengths, and minds. In order for people’s hearts to be linked to the heart of our Heavenly Father, we want to foster and facilitate the establishment of a culture of love in our churches and ministries.
The variable you have largest impact on is your cost of living. If you try to live somewhat non-conventionally (which is not hard, given that most software engineers are essentially mindless consumers), you can live on a fraction of what you thought was possible.

The financial surpul will allow you to save, and eventally to buy free time with that savings. Once the free time is acquired, you can try to do something meaningful with tech. This will lead to either the meaning you're lacking or, a discovery that tech is not that meaningful to you, which might lead to other priorities.
I like the article but not the final conclusion "We can’t predict much at all", I think we can predict more than we think, it is similar to asking if the glass is half empty and half full.

For example, sci-fi, scientists, and some economists have predicted a lot of things before but we don't have an accurate time of happening: one thing is to predict an event for next year and another see a trend that will happen in the next 50 years. There is even a futurist science.

Regarding AI, and forgetting "AI cults" it is incredible that the neural networks that we are using now are similar to the ones studied decades ago but there was a breakthrough in other aspects such as computing capacity and techniques [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/323533a0
I've used mbpro ~2018 before and must say that wtf was going on when apple decided that multiple monitors is pro feature... I have windows pc and have been using 4 monitors with it for years, and with windows laptop 3 is smooth..
Osx still has really weird functionalities when it comes to multi-monitor setup. Like it was not meant to be used more than 1 monitor
>they are not apathetic

Not trying to single-out a particular country but

"Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report suggests"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/15/war-on-terro...

Doesn't get talked about much nowadays despite being close to the Holocaust, people just move on and focus on the next bad guy like Putin
Visiting and transforming trees is indeed a well trodden pattern. Here’s another kind of tree walking which I’ve enjoyed working with, this year:

https://libcst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#Build-...

It is a little less pure than the functional XSLT, and also a lot more practical.
What is firefox fundamentally missing from Chrome? I daily drive firefox as much as possible, and only go into chrome on some machines if it may have an old password stored there.

I don't miss Chrome one bit. I don't notice any difference between the browsers.

As for the article, this is some pedantic pro-CEO bullcrap. 3 million dollars? GTFO. Nonprofit CEOs that pay themselves this are not acting in the goodwill of the organization they represent. They are just being leeches. Firefox will have a search contract with someone, and that will be worth a lot of money. Otherwise no firefox/mozilla CEO has effectively raised the profile of the browser, so none of them are worth a tenth or less of that salary.
It also has a full size display port.

The primary use case for that VGA port was projectors installed in conference rooms. At its time in many cases the only thing you got was some VGA cable.
I get the same search result in Edge as in Firefox. Can't test in Chrome, but something seems strange.
The difference is GPUs. A normal dual socket system serving a database or webserver use under medium load around 200-300W,
One of these [1] equipped with 10xA100 can easily use in the ballpark of 3kW under load. So we are talking 10x the power usage.

[1]https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/gpu/5u/sys-521...
It’s good that people use comedy to deal with this situation and to voice their opinion, the world would be a bette place if we all just could agree to “clown it out”.

I just wish the situation would be more symmetric.
Well, zero results are better than spam ;-)
> What passive income (pre tax) makes you comfortable, if you were to put all your current net worth ( Which excludes the house you live in) in a very low risk instrument [...]

All net worth in one single instrument, no matter how low risk, would not make me feel comfortable.
> Chrome dev's emotional investment and resulting stubbornness ...

You really undermine your position when you start fabricating bullshit like that.

The chromium team had good reasons to not implement it (including clusterfuzz
security issues).

Apparently it was actually the Microsoft and Mozilla teams that blocked the feature: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54719548/tail-call-optim...
$3.95 for 25 Seeds:
https://sowtrueseed.com/collections/direct-seed-in-spring/pr...
And why wouldn't paying that to devs be the same writeoff?

This smells of astroturfing.
I may be a bit cynical in my assesment but to me quantum computing, is the revolution always 5 years away.
Did MS trademark the word Copilot? If not they can go take a flying leap at themselves.
That's the tricky mind-reading aspect about search intent.

Different people have varying expectations as to what they want to find with the same query. I'd definitely want yt-dlp in favor of some website.
I’m not sure how much mass we’re dealing with, but most bus drivers are pretty good about keeping the volume of the bus more or less the same whether or not there are children aboard. /s

I’ve only seen the school bus comparison on a couple NBC News articles, but they were pretty interesting and covered the internal US deliberations about public acknowledgment. Apparently China’s department head responsible for the balloon project was held responsible, and Chinese officials were somehow surprised and low key upset at the attribution and implications of malicious intent, as they claimed it wasn’t meant to enter US airspace, but they supposedly lost control of it. Oh, and they said it shouldn’t matter anyway because it was only for meteorological purposes. I guess China was expecting some kind of backchannel heads-up from the US once it was discovered?

The secret U.S. effort to track, hide and surveil the Chinese spy balloon

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna130991

Chinese spy balloon gathered intelligence from sensitive U.S. military sites, despite U.S. efforts to block it

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna77155
I don't see why not. You'd probably just change this code:

(with-local-quit
(call-process "wizardcoder-python-34b-v1.0.Q5_K_M.llamafile"
nil (list (current-buffer) nil) t
"--prompt-cache" cash
"--prompt-cache-all"
"--silent-prompt"
"--temp" "0"
"-c" "1024"
"-ngl" "35"
"-r" "```"
"-r" "\n}"
"-f" hist))

To be something like this instead:

(with-local-quit
(call-process "ssh" hist (list (current-buffer) nil) t
"hostname"
"wizardcoder-python-34b-v1.0.Q5_K_M.llamafile"
"--prompt-cache" cash
"--prompt-cache-all"
"--silent-prompt"
"--temp" "0"
"-c" "1024"
"-ngl" "35"
"-r" "```"
"-r" "\n}"
"-f" "/dev/stdin"))

I'd also change `cash` to replace '/' with '_' and prefix it with "/tmp/" so remote collective caching just works.
Kk I’ll make a copy of this after my current contract is up. $10 a month take it or leave it.
I think its in the consciousness of everyone and its partly responsible for the ant-establishment movements all over the western world. Awful lot of people feel cheated and dirty and don't want to have anything with the people responsible for it. Part of the anti-establishment argument(left or right) is about distancing themselves from that kind of wars and the military industrial complex.
I agree with that. The constant stream of completions with things like VS Code even without copilot is infuriatingly distracting, and I don't get how people can work like that.

I don't use Emacs any more, but I'll likely take pretty much the same approach for my own editor.
Having worked with the nipple for the better part of 15 years, I disagree. Although I do appreciate and have switched to MacBook pro with their incredible touchpad, after the initial switch I had an infected tendon in my underarm.. managed to find an RSI free way of operating it, but the big plus of the nipple is the lack of motion in your wrist and arm. And your hand is very close to typing position as well.

It does take a while to become fast and precise, but when I was, it worked wonderful.
Well one important metric is this one:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3246752/chin...

Read the quotes. Global financial systems are trying to harden themselves with quantum computers in anticipation of forecast technology advancements.

Maybe this piece by 60 minutes is worth watching too to get a better sense:

https://youtu.be/K4ssT6Dzmnw?si=FseoJawRowldaaPH

It directly addresses technology progress and explains the basics.
>If Sellafield handles both civilian and military waste, and Sellafield is bad, it follows that civilian nuclear waste is bad? That's your argument, right?

No my point is not about waste it's about cost. Every country that operates nuclear power hides costs from nuclear plants in other parts of their budget. Sellafield is just one example from the UK where we actually have numbers.

Countries that don't have a site like Sellafield must instead operate other storage facilities and handle unexpected costs related to them. Like Asse II in Germany or the 60 billion bailout of EDF in France or the underfinanced nuclear fund in Sweden, Rancho Seco in the US and so on.

Charting the actual true cost of nuclear power is difficult, but it's easy to see that there are large costs that are in fact hidden.

IMO this is very important to reveal, because many initiatives that could solve our problems are held back by the idea that they are "more expensive than nuclear", based on a fictional cost for nuclear.

Synthesized gas from renewables is an example that is very likely cheaper than nuclear as of 2023, even short-term.
> When you're trying to explain a novel topic, the last thing you want to force your reader to do is waste their brainpower counting brackets.

Isn't that less waste than trying to get them to learn a different language, well enough to understand an advanced concept in that language?

Do you want to spend time explaining the concept or do you want to spend time explaining a new language syntax?

Pick one. You can't have two goals for one explanation.
I have one skill set which has been employable for the past 2000+ years. At least pre-AI and similar technology changes, it's not something which goes into fashion or out-of-fashion. Think doctor, construction, woodworking, teacher, lawyer, military, architecture, etc.

That combines with math+SWE to make a nice bundle, at least for what I enjoy.

That's a path I often advise. Intersect a skillset like that with SWE + math, and there's a very nice set of niches one can slot. For each of the above:

- Doctor + SWE + math = medical imaging, computational biology, etc.

- Construction/engineering + SWE = industrial robotics, CAD, etc.

- Teacher + SWE = edtech, e-learning, etc.

- Military + SWE = a ton of hard tech

However, the air gets very thin as you specialize, and especially as you move towards the top. If you intersect the above with director-level or C-suite level positions, there might be literally just a handful of jobs out there. Narrow that by geographic region is you have a family, and it becomes more and more of a problem.

What's interesting is that I've seen more than a 10x spread in compensation from jobs I've applied for (which is extreme, but not as extreme as it sounds; a research scientist at FAANG might earn $600k, and $60k at a university or a non-profit for the same qualifications). The higher-paying positions also weren't better, holistically.
> I mentioned the above scenario to my wife and she said she thinks the majority of people would take the $100

I would of course decline, both on general morality grounds and also because I saw the episode "Button, Button" from the '80s revival of "The Twilight Zone".

Summary: a couple in a low-rent apartment who are having serious financial trouble receive a delivery of a locked box with a button on top. That night a man arrives and gives the wife the key to the box, and tells them that if she presses the button someone she does not know will die, and she will receive $200 000. The man leaves.

The couple debate whether or not the offer is real or just some weird joke, and weather or not press the button. They unlock the box and lock inside and find that it is empty. The button is not connected to any machinery or electronics, and they toss the box in the trash but later the wife retrieves it.

The next day the husband sees the wife just staring at the button. He tells her to push it just to get it off her mind. She does so.

The next day the man from the first day returns, hands them $200 000 cash, and takes the box. He tells them that the box will be reprogrammed and offered to some other person with the same conditions, and tells the wife that the person it will be offered to will be someone the wife does not know.
It's actually quite meaningless.

Yes, water vapor in the air causes mold, but here is the thing: the water only sticks to cold walls.

It is the combination of a cold wall plus water in the air that is the problem. Ventilation alone cannot make your wall warmer, in fact, excessive ventilation may cool your walls down even faster. As expensive as it might sound, the only reliable solution is to properly insulate the wall and keep it warm.
Isn't it always going to be faster/cheaper to clone the company rather than buy, transition, take over at this scale? If they had anything that you couldn't quickly rebuild yourself they'd sell for over 25k.
Garbage scam site. Likely just harvesting email addresses
> rg uses a lot of memory in the OpenSubtitles test. 903M vs 29M for ugrep. Unlike the previous test, we are not told the size of the file being searched.

Which test exactly? That's just likely because of memory maps futzing with the RSS data. Not actually more heap memory. Try with --no-mmap.

I'm not sure I understand the rest of your comment about grep -o. Grep tools usually have a flag to print the offset of each match.

EDIT: Now that I have hands on a keyboard, I'll demonstrate the mmap thing. First, ugrep:

$ time ugrep-4.4.1 -c '\w+\s+Sherlock\s+Holmes\s+\w+' sixteenth.txt
72

real 22.115
user 22.015
sys 0.093
maxmem 30 MB
faults 0
$ time ugrep-4.4.1 -c '\w+\s+Sherlock\s+Holmes\s+\w+' sixteenth.txt --mmap
72

real 21.776
user 21.749
sys 0.020
maxmem 802 MB
faults 0

And now for ripgrep:

$ time rg-14.0.3 -c '\w+\s+Sherlock\s+Holmes\s+\w+' opensubtitles/2018/en/sixteenth.txt
72

real 0.076
user 0.046
sys 0.030
maxmem 779 MB
faults 0
$ time rg-14.0.3 -c '\w+\s+Sherlock\s+Holmes\s+\w+' opensubtitles/2018/en/sixteenth.txt --no-mmap
72

real 0.087
user 0.033
sys 0.053
maxmem 15 MB
faults 0

It looks like the difference here is that ripgrep chooses to use a memory map by default here. I don't think it makes much of a difference here.

If the file were bigger than available memory, then the OS would automatically handle paging.
Might not be bad. I’ve thrown some change at a few cool ideas because I appreciated the work.

It’s definitely not false hope, but people should realize the difficulties aren’t related to code.
These crooks want money just to see the listing. I don't understand how this ended up first place on HN.
This.

Anyway, if you are willing to forego the convenience of the standard UI, there's a wealth of alternative guides out there. Some track a ton of services like justwatch.com or tastoid.com. Some might have more titles up their sleeve than others.

If you use Prime Video , the new IMDB advanced search is solid. It's got some really nifty filters [1]

[1] https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?online_availability=US%2F...
Bun, JavaScript, and TCO
5 small rental properties should make me feel rich and secure. The income from 3 should be enough, but with 5 comes “low risk” part.
Those are both garbage/scam sites
360k of income per year from any source exceeds what 95% of the population in the United States made as of 2021[0]. What do you need that much income for in order to feel secure? It is going to be very difficult and take a very long time for most people to invest enough capital to produce such an income stream under the conditions you outlined.

Consider that while everyone worries about running out of money, you can also run out of time.

0 - https://www.epi.org/publication/inequality-2021-ssa-data/
> I remember when anonymous functions (indeed, first-class functions at all) were considered academic nonsense that just obfuscated problems.

I've been programming since the mid-90s. I've used both Lisp and Haskell.

I don't ever remember even crusty old C greybeards considering anonymous functions to be academic nonsense.
One thing I wish happened more often was an iterative approach to features vs time to delivery. (Speaking of having been both a customer and PM-like roles)

e.g.

Customer: this is a list of features I would like

PM: Ok, we reviewed that list and here is a "menu" of the features with how long they will take

Customer: Great! I reviewed that list and I would rather have multiple quick to market features rather than wait for that "big" feature.

Asking customers what they want with no "price discovery" on either side is just people dreaming up ideas.
I’ve seen startups which got millions in funding to do basic appointment scheduling. If I had actual funds seeing something like that for $20k might not be a bad idea and totally possible for decent coder to generate in a month.
While I understand the general sentiment, I don't understand the specific point. After all, company-mode and it's numerous lsp-based backends are often used as an _unprompted_ completion (after typing 2 or 3 characters) which the user has the option to select or move on. It's the first time I hear of this being somehow against the spirit of GNU. Would you argue this is somehow relinquishing control? I like it, since it's very quick and cheap, I don't mind it running more often than I use it, because it saves me the keyboard clicks to explicitly ask for completion.

FYI I'm not trying to diminish your project, and I'm glad you've made something which scratches your exact itch. I'm also hopeful others will like it.
I have no measurements or anything but if I open a file in neovim within tmux, I get more lag than if I open the file directly without tmux in between. I've seen people on github having similar issues
maybe low code is the next step after text- based programming?

There is a comparison here to be made with ascii graphics and they could be quite charming, dwarf fortress for example looks great but there is only so much you can do with text

some languages it seems to me are running out of symbols and their meaning is not obvious at the glance, for example what is the meaning of ', @, $, !: in diffent languages? why should it have that meaning

in the end code is much more logical and better understood if it is a diagram of blocks, after all that what code is supposed to represent, a series of decisions that lead to a desired state in the data
I get what you're saying but I don't think you get to the root of it. There's no problem with the class concept. The problem is letting politics decide who the over- and underclasses are rather than science. Things have changed and people have not woken up to the change. That's all that's happening here.
I thought it was a joke but it's a real website https://www.bogleheads.org/
Author really needs to try the M2 MacBook Air. It's a masterstroke. And I've used the classic ThinkPads.
I do find it frustrating on Wikipedia that when you click on the map to enlarge it the markers vanish.

I understand why, but the hyperlink should be to a bigger map viewer, not the bare underlying image.
"genocide". yes, you are a terror supporter. You try to spit the terror propaganda here.

The Palestinians population has one of the highest growths in the world: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/state-of-pale...

but you will say "genocide" to justify murdering and raping Jews: https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-oct-7-mur...
The project itself seems fine, and clearly works for the author.

But I'm never quite sure why people insist that you cannot do web dev the old school ways of HTML files with a little PHP or other scripting. All of that still works just fine. So when people say they wrote an entirely new system because they miss being able to stay simple like in ye olde days... I'm not sure I understand the connection.
In recent years, the term fascism has grown to expand almost anything with an authoritarian or totalitarian bent, which would certainly include at least the Lenin and Stalin years of the Soviet Union.

Though I think this is a bit of unfortunate expansion of its definition, as it leaves us with no term to use when talking about Fascism.
A brief history of the 'sex work is work' movement
I will never learn this tool

I will not even contemplate using this tool.

The reason is very simple: I can trust 'grep' to be on any system I ever touch. Learning ugrep doesn't make any sense as I can't trust it to be available.

I could still use it on my own systems, but I work on customer systems which won't have this tool installed.

And I'm proficient enough with grep that it's 'good enough', I'm not focussing on a better grep. I'm focussing on fixing a problem, or trying something new.

I'd rather invest my time into something that will benefit me across all environments I work with.

Because a tool may be 'better' (whatever that means) doesn't mean it will see adoption.

This is not about being closeminded, but it's about focus on what's really important.
This is when hacker news needs a downvote button.
Were these solar cells ever reproduced?