skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bloomberg said:

"Twilio Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Lawson is stepping down from leading the software company he co-founded amid slowing sales growth and pressure from activist investors."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-08/twilio-ce...
Light is not the same thing as anthropomorphically generated electromagnetic radiation. We evolved with sunlight we did not live with these anthropomorphic created electromagnetic polarized frequencies until very recently.

And yes, I’m aware of the radio waves around me constantly and that’s a problem as well. So I was adding any more of it going to do anything to help us?

http://pe.org.pl/articles/2020/9/35.pdf
Being orphaned because floppies are not common enough any more for developers to continue to "support" them.

But why should floppy code need to be updated when the hardware itself has been stable for decades?
During the first iPhone release nay-sayers also brought up that the Blackberries already did what the iPhone did, it didn't stop it. The iPad was just "a big iPhone" that no one was going to buy, the Apple Watch was just another smartwatch, the iPod was just another MP3 player, etc.

Apple historically has been able to improve on current existing technology to deliver an experience that the rest of the industry had to catch up to, they aren't in the business of releasing completely new unseen product types since the 80s...
iOS PWA notifications are a pain in the ass to set up without using something like firebase, but they are so nice to have finally.
fatih, thanks for vim-go; it's amazing. i use it daily.
The softness/hardness of the pencil determines the contrast. Have you tried the 3B or 4B? I'd imagine the contrast approaches the contrast of ink.
https://pencils.com/pages/hb-graphite-grading-scale
> Otherwise, this thing looks like an expensive maintenance nightmare.

Indeed. Our house has an electric stove from, probably, the 1960s. Complete with screw-in fuses. That's ~60 years of operation now. This thing will last 10 years tops. Their marketing talks a lot about "a sustainable future", but that doesn't jive with a future where major appliances have to be scrapped and replaced every 10 years or less.
Even if mainstream news fixed this "no evidence" problem, their headlines and articles are already playing too many games to be a good source of scientific knowledge.
assuming it is because apple did focus groups and knows that everyone associates "3D" with the 2003-2010 "3D movie" hype/gimmick.
The one thing to keep in mind when reading this article is that the malloc/free API was built when many of the issues that are identified in this article (alignment, sizing, etc.) were not issues. Until the early 80's computer memory was the limiting cost factor for most machines, and the memory models were fairly simple. Alignment to something like a page boundary was something that was completely unreasonable/unfathomable, since wasting that much RAM would have been extraordinarily wasteful.

Modern CPUs have more memory built in to L1, L2, and L3 caches than most computers had in total working memory until memory started getting cheap.

I agree with the author that has lead to some "sharp edges" for the API, but that is a normal growth pattern. I'm not saying that the API doesn't have to change, but I did want to make sure that people understand that the creators of the old APIs were not stupid, they just faced different constraints than we do now. And that led to API "shapes" that may be surprising and frustrating to use now, but made perfectly good sense at the time.
Frenemies to friends: Developers and security tools
> what the hell did the 24% of the studies do wrong? Why aren't the people who made them expunged from the community for doing questionable research?

I think 'expunging people from the community' is a pretty risky path to go down. Perhaps they're looking for a small effect and doing a single study with high enough power is tricky? The real world is a messy place, there's loads of (perfectly innocent, as well as nefarious) ways those 24% of studies could have come to a different conclusion.
This is my first time on HN. I'm learning a lot from the feedback here. And I learned that I should have shared more details beforehand.

I'm not trying to sell anything. I basically wanted to see if people would be interested, then share more information and tips later.

Appreciate your feedback. I am a work in progress.
How does interesting and original work compare to AI-generated and most human-generated material? Maybe we could say rather than being merely plausible that it is surprising in plausible ways.
All of this looks awesome! I can't wait until the tech cheapens to make a consumer-class version of this available. Always nice to have some luxury items that are actually worth aspiring towards!
Maybe try changing over to management? You might have a shot at a non-tech centric company.

Also, don't be above lying about your age.
Wouldn't that mean that the people who disagree can make their own prediction on the platform? I don't see a problem with this.
If you cannot create an LLM without copyrighted material, then your duty as an SV-based tech company sitting on billions of USD is to hire an army of lawyers and license that material. Go on, do things that don’t scale.
When I was a computer technician for a very large company in the mid 90s, you would not believe how much porn I saw on peoples work computers and they were always complaining about needing a bigger hard drive.
"Warren Buffett: Why Diversification Is Bullsh*t" - https://youtu.be/gKH5sQXpVCk
>He did lay of 90% of the staff and although people have claimed Twitter will die any minute, it hasn't.

It lost 3/4 of its value, partially because it's losing advertisers, partially because they fired everyone outside of engineering.

I'm an avid Twitter user to this day; do you think it's thriving, just because the website is still up? It has more spam, bots and porn than ever.
The front end framework mess is just a symptom of the actual problem, which is that the building blocks provided by browsers are too crude/limited to allow for consistent quality, and so Rube Goldberg machine frameworks arise to try to paper it all over.

I think browsers can be a good platform but for that to happen they need to be a bit more batteries-included, with built in APIs for UI and other essentials that rival those of desktop platforms so crazy frameworks are rendered unnecessary.
I've been knee deep in APL for the past year, working on a YAML parser: https://github.com/xelxebar/dayaml. It's still very prototypy, but for ~30 lines of code it's surprisingly complete.

The process of getting that project to where it is now really revolutionized how I think of software development in general and how I manage my dev teams at work. Our best practices and wisdom around software dev really are much more strongly tied to historical habits and tooling whims than we'd like to believe. I believe we as a community have a lot of unpicked fruits laying around if we shift focus onto the human side of Human-Computer Interfacing for a while.

About K, though, Arthur Whitney sounds like such a beast, and I would love to mingle with the K community. Within the array programming circles, APL/J/BQN form one cluster and K looks like it's off on its own a bit with different ideas and a laser focus on high performance. Extremely enticing.
XState – Event-driven programming using state machines and the actor model
Forget trusting the state, do you trust the endless parade of crappy companies that will demand your national ID verification to but everything from house insurance to fortnight skins to prevent fraud, and then promptly lose it in a data breech without ever receiving meaningful punishment? Because that is the state of things.
I'm in the same boat.

I don't even care about the ads from SoundCloud, even if they are repetitive, there's a lot of genres of music I enjoy that seem to have an epicenter on SoundCloud that I have not been able to find elsewhere, that's as easy to listen to + discover.
The salary issue (along with the working conditions) are because game dev is an "art" field which meant, like other creative jobs, companies can life in young, naive people and exploit their passion to get them to accept terrible conditions because "wow I get to make a game". I suspect this is why triple A games are so terrible nowadays, most of the talented people realised that corporate game devs suck and going indie is the best path. Web design is also creative obviously but mostly going to consist of making corporate pages, not something most people can be passionate about.
IT is one of the easiest to off-shore; how would a union help?
Brendan Gregg wrote about it alot

https://www.brendangregg.com/ebpf.html

Ime it was hard to set up, idk if anything has changed recently. Looks like it's just packages now.
UniswapX orders are not straightforward to decode or encode. With this codec, you can very easily get, decode, verify and encode UniswapX orders.
> asked a prompt engineer — an expert at directing AI chatbots — to create college essays using ChatGPT

Looks like a no, even in the best case scenario where an expert (not a high schooler) is crafting the prompt.
> he offered me money to come to his place and sort it out myself

This reminds me of a personal experience I had.

Many years ago I was a graduate student at a US university (I'm not from the US).

There's this study room that I used to study from. There was this much older (??) woman who sometimes studied from there. One day out of the blue she asked me if I was good with statistics. I was, and clarified a couple of quick questions that she had.

Then she started trying to set up an appointment with me for a specific day, for two hours, and asked me how much she would have to pay me to teach her statistics.

Wtf?! I was so taken aback I didn't even know what to say. I declined, and just left.

It was weird to me for several reasons: this was the first time somebody straight up offered me money to teach them something. The way she asked me was uncomfortably formal, and if my statistics tutoring doesn't satisfy her then who knows she might sue me. And I'm not even sure if it would have been legal for me to accept money in exchange for this ad hoc service, as I'm not a US citizen.

In my home country (relatively big country in south Asia), if a fellow student has difficulties with certain topics, people (well, friends or friend of a friend) who have a better idea with the subject try to help them out, for free. There is not even a question, or even a thought about monetary reward, from any of the parties involved.

Maybe that's why there's a lot of entrepreneurship in America? If so, then this particular exchange just felt so odd.

I don't know what to conclude from all this.
> On a purely technical level the main thing stopping PWA adoption is the JS front end universe being addicted to front end frameworks which destroy the UX of websites and PWAs

I would hesitate to conflate PWA adoption with JS framework popularity olympics. On a purely technical level, the only thing stopping you from using a PWA is you.

Perhaps you should reconsider your product and business model if it doesn't work without App Store presence. The App Store cannot sell your product for you. At some point you will need to interact with your actual customers if you want to succeed.

Having an app "in the store" does not equate to trust for me.
I guess it's the same as when the Suez canal was blocked [1] . It will result in about 2 weeks longer transportation time. Don't know about costs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction
I don't know much about what happened here, but I did meet the early Twilio team (not Jeff, unfortunately) back in 2009 and knew they were something special.

Jeff (and team) deserve a ton of credit for two massive things:

First, changing how people think about devtools. I know Stripe gets a lot of credit, but Twilio was 3 years earlier and really defined how we look at building, marketing and monetizing tools meant for devs. They were early (if not first) to the devrel space, and Jeff's live coding (paired with a phone literally vibrating) was something I had never seen before.

Second, I know a lot of people have lots of opinions about San Francisco, but I have a lot of respect to Jeff for always standing up and fighting for the city that enabled him to build his company. He seems to be a really good person, and is one of the few CEOs I find myself eager to emulate.

Good luck to Jeff, Twilio, and everyone else involved. Jeff built something really special in the early years. And jeffiel, now that you have a bit more time on your hands, hopefully we can finally cross paths!
All of that is true, but it was true before Elon took over, now they just have fewer employees to pay, so if they can turn the advertising back around, they'll be in a better cashflow situation.
Just use the FaceID camera on users’ iPhones.
The Mac Pro & Mac Studio made up 10% of Mac sales, which are in turn only 10% of the business. What percentage of those users bought the Pro Display? And what percentage of those bought the pro stand? It's an overpriced peripheral for an already incredibly niche $5,000 monitor.

It's already established that smartphones are a huge market, and people are willing to pay a lot for what for most people is their main computer. Android manufacturers like Samsung are also selling $1,000 flagship smartphones.

No one's claimed that no one is going to buy the vision-pro. But there's no demonstrated huge existing demand for an extremely high-end VR headset. It's unlikely that a product nobody asked for costing $3,500 is going to give the technology mass market appeal or kick off widespread adoption.
Did you ever consider becoming a software library when you grow up?

`from tasuki import random`
I would assume many of the comments are anecdotes based on their situation.
If we judge ChatGPT by the same standards we judge humans, it would still be in a lot of trouble for copyright violations and plagarism.

(Not that I think we should do so - ChatGPT is not AGI.)
Someone who knows their violent oppression of their own citizens is fundamentally immoral. What's wrong with you that you can't see that?
Extinguish? The web is "existinguished" by websites being able to use bluetooth, after asking for permission?
this was the first year that i didn't partake in upgrading my iPhone in many years because the iPhone 13 mini was discontinued without a replacement.

i had a mac mini and an ipad pro that i used to remote into it and do work from. i ended up combining the two by getting a macbook air m2. amazing device.
that's strange, I've been working professionally in Go for years and two things happen:

1) what are exceptions in many languages are plain errors in Go
2) a defer-recover block is usually put at the very top of a risky call

This covers 99% of sources of panics.

Now, the one that truly does mess you up is when it comes from CGO/calling out to C. That will tear your application and there is nothing you can do about it.
The weight of it will probably be an issue for long sessions.
The Misleading SAT Debate
They owned the company that did the crime. They lose the company. Seems entirely fair for funding the crime...
They have an airplane/“Travel” mode which supposedly mitigates this.
The minisforum UM790 Pro is something I've looked at too.

https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-um790-pro

It can handle many games at good settings already. It also has USB 4.0 which will allow you to connect it to an eGPU for higher end gaming.

EDIT: Today, I'm running a Lenovo P14s AMD Gen 4 which is slightly slower. For the price, the performance has been amazing.
The job market isn't uniformed across all experience level and roles.

You didn't specify, but I'm going to assume you're not new in your career. It's just fine in the US for staff engineer+ experience level also. New engineers? Mid levels? Probably less so, and probably similar in The Netherlands.
You're describing cache maintenance (and cache eviction), a practice for which there are many algorithms (FIFO, LRU, LFU, etc.), including the algorithm the article describes (SIEVE)
It’s not impossible to have sextuplets.

It’s probably impossible for a population to average that rate though.
"On a purely technical level the main thing stopping PWA adoption"

I rather think, the main thing stopping PWA are that browsers still can not decide how to treat them. In some ways you can just do anything unrestricted and in other areas your PWA gets treated and limited like a random untrusted website, with no way to get needed rights. At least that was my experience last time I messed with it.

It is of course a problem to do it right, as prompts for confirmation just gets clicked away, but there should be a way to get real user consent for a proper app, that people trust.

But Apple for example wants to keep their app store under their control, so they surely won't provide an easy way to bypass the normal app store by giving developers a way to ship full apps just through the browser.
The most prominent critical feedback has been the weight. I would like to know what straps the users used. Also if the double strap one is better for weight
You are welcome m1keil. It did come at exactly the right time. It is a bit dated but still holds strong. I also like his new book called 'The SaaS playbook' which is a bit more for the stage my SaaS is currently in.
That is a terrible use of the Mercator projection.

The extra distance around Africa looks comparatively small on the Mercator projection.
It's not all or nothing. If you curate your feed, twitter can be a good service.
> Docker, Nix OS, "serverless", etc. all exist because of Linux's complexity

Docker and NixOS exist because of userspace problems with package management and serverless exists because businesses want to pay for compute on demand.
From China to the EU it adds roughly 1/3rd to the time, which is a decent proxy for cost. There are savings in not having to pay Suez fees but these don't seem to make a huge affect to shipping costs.

It's probably worth adding that going round the cape doesn't add just more cost to fuel and time, insurance for cargo down there isn't cheap either as the weather is very changeable.
>I would have gladly accepted less money than I had made before. I don't really need it. The work is what interests me.

We need an acceptable way to express this, without desperately extolling you'll take less money. I think a lot of us "old guys" are in the same boat; I don't need 150k, I'll take 100k if the work is interesting, and I'm more likely to be loyal to boot.
Haven’t tried htmx. Have you heard of phoenix liveview? Are they similar concepts?
I think this is not as simple, because to achieve good metrics (latency, cache hit) you will need to be predicting the actual incoming query load, which is quite hard. Letting the query load itself set the values is the state of the art.

In some ways, caching can be seen a prediction problem. And the cache hit rate is the error as we lag the previous history at time T. Blending load over time is effectively what these various cache algorithms do to avoid overfitting.
I mean in their mindset, if you’re not growing you’re dying.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeslacouncil/2018/03/23/in-b...
I was a manager. That's actually a problem.

I don't lie; especially in my profession. It's a thing. I know that personal Integrity is considered a "quaint anachronism," in today's world, but I won't compromise on that.
aha! I already have access to LiveView so this seems redundant but this is good to know about
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I think you're in the vast majority, because one of the precedents for VR headsets is COVID masking, and people didn't like that physical experience even if they needed the sense of safety. I also think the videochat fizzle post-COVID is a negative indicator.
That is not entirely true. Whereas a company will likely bank that profit, employees are more likely to put that income back into the economy which provides a multiplier effect of the income in overall economic growth.
Why do you need 10kw? I can boost my induction stove to 3.6kw if i need to and this is more than enough, my water also boils in seconds. I am not trying to be a hater here, but some of these features do not make a lot of sense to me.
Apple's device isn't tethered, so it's usefulness isn't constrained to a few feet from your computer.
Flink also is one of those big projects.

Im not proving anything.

Im just giving examples of problems.

If scala were that good - wed see more and more people migrating to it.

But it’s not the case - more and more teams prefer good old java (with all its own problems and legacy).
I think it was a joke - The Ramones have a song with lyrics about a missing cerebellum, but it's a song about a fictional character with a lobotomy.
Benedict Evans: Annual Presentation – AI, and everything els [video]
I would still argue that a stacked horizontal bar with tick marks or a waterfall chart are often the better solutions. They also make it easier to provide a reference point for the absolute sum of all data points

I think pie charts only work in those cases where it doesn’t really matter how big individual data points are, but where one only wants to give a feel for the relative weight of 2 (max 3) data points. But then: wouldn’t a simple KPI (“55%”) suffice?
ah, thanks! This looks to satisfy a similar use-case to LiveView which I already have access to in my current stack but it's always good to know about other options
I have a high end Bosch induction cooktop which can modulate the power, and doesn't just do the on/off cycle that so many induction cooktops do to get to a certain power level. It feels more like a gas cooktop than anything else and it is fantastic.
According to the latest jobs report, average wages are up 4.1% in 2023.
There are. My parents have an induction hob that sort of does that. I think the biggest issue with these kinds of "smart" features is the UI: you don't really want a hob that has dozens of buttons etc, that you don't understand, nor many menus with options, etc.
These issues are caused by (1) the buy-out by Elon Musk involving a large amount of debt, and (2) Elon Musk annoying "woke" advertisers who have subsequently deserted the platform.

The actual engineering hasn't been as affected or rather while it has been affected it hasn't been affected to the magnitude that you might expect given the size of the lay-offs.
The stock price has been lackluster unfortunately. I’m not sure as to why.
I kind of agree with you, but to play devil's advocate, AirPods basically reset the baseline perspective around bluetooth headsets. Before AirPods, bluetooth headsets were definitely not cool, and mostly just utilitarian. I mostly associated them with either business-y people in suits, or people exercising like running.

I think if there is a company that could really kick of mainstream VR/AR headset adoption, Apple probably has the best brand to do it.

That being said I have a Quest 2 with a couple years of accumulated dust in a closet, so who knows.
It turned out that for most cases, there is no gain by using an interpreter. Most code that does make any sense on a C64/6502 is compiled into a smaller and faster native version. For some code e.g. heavy floating point or many pointer indirection the interpreter wins on the memory size - but this is not a good use of a C64.
> I'm more likely to be loyal

The funny thing, is that I've been told that "Old people are just cruising to retirement," but it's OK to establish your entire business infrastructure on the idea that your young, energetic, engineers will not remain at the company for more than 18 months.
I'm sad that this ends on a cliffhanger, I was excited to see the results for the circular array version. Hopefully I don't lose track of this story when (if) someone who knows what they're doing does that test (I am not such a person, or I'd do it myself).