skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A part of me thinks think we're further away today then we were 10 years ago.

I am more optimist than this, mainly because of Valve. They contributed a lot to Linux gaming and are now in a position where they can pounce and steal Microsoft's cake.

Microsoft simply cannot allow themselves to slip up on this anymore and I feel like we are at a point where one more major blunder or a scandal from Microsoft could irreversibly sway the tide towards Valve and Linux gaming in general.
I mean, it's certainly above my pay grade, but why wouldn't they either take Grad results into account, or at least wait until they could. Another two weeks is not going to make or break someone's yearly budget, and it certainly seems like a good idea to maybe not lay off the person who was about to get "top tier" or whatever it is at google.

Second, why take the PR hit and not just crank the PiP quota or something?
mostly driven by housing which has a 12 month lag and has dropped significantly in the last 6 months.
The premise that needs to be scrutinized is whether what we are deeming a “disability” is actually that. Thinking in systems, a component’s calibration (whether it is able or not) to a system can change due to the system as a whole changing (political, economic, cultural pressure).

One example is how the change from hunter/gatherer to agricultural lifestyles may have rendered the strengths of the hunter’s brain a weakness in an agricultural society.
Unclear from the article what automerge has to do with, "empowers businesses to access private resources without being in the middle of the process".
I only mean this half sarcastically - enough people watch Nebula to justify a filter?
Why would they give you 50 or 60% of SF salary when they could hire someone in a real low cost area then?
"Nazis! I hate [some of] these guys."
Cannabis is an emotive topic around here.
RIP, The Poodle BBS
Results of Google Summer of Code with Kotlin
IIRC the original Battlenet (Starcraft etc) also used it.
Ah, that makes sense now. The value of the code itself as an asset would be really subjective, but what you pay someone to write it isn't. Thanks :)
The rich man points at the destitute man's donation cup, and tells the poor man, "Look! That guy's stealing your money!"
I can feel it when reviewing my stock portfolio. I pet it the best I can but it's a feeble miserable creature.
Aargh... the "YouTube face"! On YouTube I use the "Don't recommend channel" feature for anyone who shows up in my feed with those faces.

Still amazes me how widespread this is - I recently looked up some lawn care videos on Youtube and then I started to see these "YouTube face" thumbnails from gardeners show up in my feed. It's like all aspiring YouTubers are reading the same advice for getting views, regardless of age, demographic, or subject?
obviously that means 90% of American households aren't about that hustle & grind life and need to work harder.
Cost figures are very hard to come by as:

* Financing and returns are spread over 60 years for nuclear, which makes it hugely dependent on the interest rate. Which we don't know in advance, and also is at risk of irrational public perception (Leading in democracies to early closure of perfectly fine plants. That affects ROI hugely).

* Nuclear too profits from scale: you have to maintain an army of competent engineers. But once done, you can copy-paste plants cheaply. And raw fuel is less than 10 of the operating cost.

* LCOEs (financially Levelized Costs) are all over the place and highly dependent on plugging holes in production

* Chinese solar panels are state-sponsored to an unspecified amount

* Chinese solar panels are produced using coal electricity, and with lots fossil heat in the process. Models for pricing it in a CO2-free (or levelized with nuclear) are inexistent.

* Even calculating the EROEI (Energy Return Over Energy Invested) is difficult as you need to define an envelope. For example: do you need to account for producing gasoline from solar energy to power the mining truck necessary for your materials. How about powering it with batteries? Which you would need more mining.

* Battery storage needs are of humongous size. What's marginally fine now will probably be humongously expensive at scale. If done on lithium, we need about 180 years of mining for 28 days storage. And that's without accounting for other uses of lithium.

* Having cheap or expensive energy from one source may help you get more of another.

TLDR: At scale, it's a system with 150 variables dependent on each other, including geopolitical game theory hidden variables; and of course the climate crisis affecting the whole thing. But maybe we can trust physics: nuclear forces >> electric forces.
US pay is higher because there is a bottomless pool of VC money in California, not because of onerous hiring regulations.

Discord is wildly unprofitable, it is held up entirely through investor largesse.
Mandrake - my third or fourth distro. Rather old school these days 8)
Depends on your political values. Many people think it is mandatory for governments to directly tax products with large negative externalities enough to price in those externalities. If a fossil fuel extraction system poisons a river, that needs to be priced in. If the government fails to tax what is mandatorily society's due, then it is a subsidy. Because we have to pay for the poisoned river in other ways.

> fossil fuels are under-subsidized by trillions of dollars because they are used to power hospitals

Nope. Governments/patients pay hospitals for their services, then hospitals pay power companies the market price for their services.
Discord lays off 170 people, blames growing too quickly
> I can understand needing an army of SRE

As an SRE I can assure you, you don't need an army of SREs for a singular product.
My jurisdiction went all-in on residential smart meters for all to do time of use billing.

Even apartments where hvac, hot water and laundry are central, and the builder/owner chooses the big appliances.

But it turns out people don’t care and didn’t bother with enough load shifting to cover the cost.

“Smart Metering Costs to Date Exceed Projected Costs and Benefits” says it all.

They did get/build a $249m centre to monitor all the data though.

https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/annualreports/arreports...

Even after ~15 years, most equipment still doesn’t care about time of use.

Most savings have been due to better regulations/promotions around efficiency. Subsidized LED light bulbs accomplish more than telling people to turn off the incandescent.

But you know, giving useful stuff to people for free is WeLFarE but forcing untested policies on them and making them pay for it is okay.
I think you are referring to Section 174. Seems plausible to me.
I just want to point out this entire site works and appears 100% functional WITHOUT Javascript. This is worthy of recognition - bravo!
Wedges open-source React UI components, from Lemon Squeezy
I think you are describing something similar to Perforce Versic [1]. I use this at work to diff schematic or layout. The ugly thing is: it's perforce.. I wish there was an open source alternative.

[1] https://www.perforce.com/products/versic
With those preferences stated (I almost listed Lady Bird!) I'd toss on:

- Nomadland — Lonely older woman clinging to the bottom rung of the economic ladder is pushed into van-living and finds community. Basically positive-but-bittersweet vibes by the end, and with a similar strong reliance on setting and mood to something like a Wes Anderson work (though without the precise placement of every single element in frame), but definitely not "cute" like his are, and not about comfortable rich people. Includes many real people living in vans, blurring the lines between fiction and reality (and deftly almost-entirely avoiding the usual problems that come with including non-actors in a film). Lots of great outdoor shooting and lighting work.

- Red Rocket — Struggling, middle-aged male porn star moves back to his small, blue-collar hometown in Texas. We learn about his still-evolving relationships with the people he left behind when he moved away to LA, and see him make some... choices. Probably the most into archetype and symbolism of anything I've listed except maybe The Green Knight. By the end, is very much about its protagonist as a kind of daemon, if you will, of a part of the American experience and spirit (and also a representation of one or more sorts of real person with whom one may be familiar from one's own experience). Great attention to detail for a certain kind of ordinary setting, in the way that Anderson or maybe Miyazaki pay attention to that kind of everyday detail, but employed to obtain perfectly-trashy environs that aren't at all pretty but are also entirely true-to-life, not caricature. If you've spent time in such places, the clutter, the way trash has accumulated, the way in which the miniblinds are broken just so, and the way the people exist in that space, will feel very familiar.

- Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham's only film (I think?). Akin to something like Gerwig's Lady Bird, I'd say, but less heightened and more "real".
Thanks, I was thinking of early development which I'm assuming is well before the existence of Windows. However I understand you may not have awareness of this period of development.
Large minimum monthly fee + required to buy service seems like the kind of thing that would piss off voters.
maybe the death was an implementation detail?
This is cool, tho I wonder with multi-modal LLMs we can now create full-blown Adnix http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=2223
Why Google is waiving egress fees for disgruntled customers ditching GCP
Everything is the bean counters' fault.

--An Engineer
We're in hardware and health-tech, so we require an QMS system, but we're also a team of former software engineers, so we're starting off by using Git.

I did set things up in Notion, but software is already documented in Git, so now we add in our QAS documents for each pull request.
> They don’t have screening for cholangiocarcinoma. It’s not common in the Midwest.

It isn't common for anyone under 70 which is why they don't spend a lot of effort on diagnosis and treatment of it. Friend of mine died from it when he was like 33 though. I hope you beat it.
Boomers have been exiting for the past 10+ years.
Does this entail a change to Docker Desktop on MacOS? (For the better?)
Open source just gives users access to the code.

Organizations gonna exercise control.

Witness Wikipedia, just one example…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LALR_parser

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/69622.357187
actually no, I don't think anyone should look at the wealth spread in the US and think that it's normal or good. It's objectively dangerous and undemocratic. If someone can earn millions a day from passive investment but someone who actually provides meaningful goods and services day-to-day barely makes 50k a year, I think we have totally misunderstood as a society what to value and how to distribute resources
It doesn't but can help you quickly start using a new single inbox. Over time, you can change the addresses with the senders to go direct to your private box.
I was making the point that the web server can just keep getting updated by virtue of being part of an active server. Separately, the site doesn't need any updating / maintenance.

The same person or people who run the servers aren't necessarily the same person or people who make the web sites.

People can just as easily have static sites on SDF.org. There'd be no reason for anyone to fret about whether the servers are up to date.

Also, nobody ever needs to "migrate the whole stack to newer versions". That's just not a thing with a static site.
I wanted to link to this since it's the primary source but the amount of paywall forced me to pull this Axios summary instead. Thanks for posting the archive.
Companies over hired (and remotely) when money was free, and now it isn't. The end.
Sure, but the threat of losing your house, and the ability to feed, clothe, and care for your family, is also a pretty big stressor.
Yesterday I went to their website looking to hopefully rent a Cadillac LYRIQ to try out before buying and I was shocked to find that their website is stuck in the early 2000's. Unbelievable.
> > Prince had always been provocative, perplexing and often strange artist, and frequently used symbols (such as an eye for “I”) or numbers (such as 4 for “for”) in his album artwork.

I don't interpret the second clause primarily as evidence for the first. I view them as two related statements--

He was already known as provocative and strange; he'd already used symbols more than most people before.

This is important context to his strange move of changing his name to a symbol.

It's more longwinded than necessary, but it's not awful.
Nice landing page. Tip: make the speed comparison an agonizing animation, like esbuild's:

https://esbuild.github.io/

Edit: Tip 2: the screenplay looks nothing like a screenplay
SO sorry that it took me so long to respond to this, but your math felt wrong, so I looked into it.

[1]Mississippi PER CAPITA income: 29K
[2]Worst German State PER CAPITA income: 34K

I have no idea what All About Berln is, and when I looked into their dataset it was...confusing. So I went to Wikipedia. I think you were comparing Household vs Per capita?

Either way, Mississippi isn't the doing as well you're claiming. They also have a 19% poverty rate [1] compared to Germany's 11% [3].

[1]https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/MS/BZA115221
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_states_by_GRP_p...
[3]https://www.statista.com/topics/10455/poverty-in-germany
Thanks! Macroexpanded below.

Current thread counts as a [dupe] because the page had significant attention within the last year. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Reposts are fine after a year or so.

A curated list of uBlock origin filters - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36585371 - July 2023 (71 comments)

Let’s Block It - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30826234 - March 2022 (2 comments)

Show HN: Let's Block It – Custom uBlock Origin Filters Made Easy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30057442 - Jan 2022 (82 comments)
Hopefully the Chrome UI guys were in that thousand.
This is a company that makes about 18 billion dollars in profit per quarter.
because not doing so would harm people retiring in rent abuse. it's all the same problem.
Just google it,

Atlassian, Asana all did layoffs in late 22/23
The article quotes the memo saying it is 170 employees.
Is there any instructions on how to use this, or what is being asked for?
It's certainly idiosyncratic, I might go so far as provocative or strange myself, but perhaps perplexing is a bit far, because it's not like what he meant was unclear.

(Unless one finds the question "buy why mean it that way?" to be perplexing)
Bobiverse and Murderbot are both in desperate need of a movie / series.
There are a specific handful of people I genuinely hope are part of this layoff…
I think a lot of the revenue generating products for these companies are at a very stable, low-growth point.

There's just not a ton of innovation happening outside of AI and LLMs at the moment, IMO.

If a company foresees all of the future revenue being aligned in one direction -- whether it will work out that way or not -- then why not re-align and focus on that direction (AI, LLMs)?
Six lesser-known but seriously useful Linux commands
I know plenty of companies who can't afford the Aws egress fees to get their data out of Aws, and it's far cheaper to just pay storage for one more month and kick the can down the road.
> Seriously considering ignoring some of these whotf-are-you bills out of spite.

Then they will sell your debt to a collections agency who will make it their business to harass you to the maximum extent legally allowed (and sometimes more than that). This may include impacting your credit score - although I think some states at least have protections against that.
> Do you have any links to those studies? Because the ones I've seen indicate the exact opposite. You only need 2-3 days of storage or so at most.

It depends very much on where you live. Famously, California can get to 100% renewable production with 3 hours of storage, because production is very stable, load peaks match production well and there is sufficient natural hydropower resources available.

In contrast, Finland would need about 3 months worth to hit 100% renewable. Because worst load peaks happen when production from both wind and solar can be zero for a prolonged period, and natural hydro output is limited at the same time. 3 months is absolutely not actually feasible, so there will always need to be some baseload from nuclear or fossil sources.

But 2-3 days of storage is still quite a lot. The recently started OL3 power plant had a total construction cost of ~11B€, making it one of the most expensive construction projects ever. It has a nameplate capacity of 1600MWe, assuming 95% capacity factor (it goes up when it's cold and down when it's warm), if you spent it's construction cost building grid-scale batteries, assuming the lowest cost of a completed battery project anywhere in the world, you'd get something like 27 hours of storage. So even if the primary production was free, if you need more than that, you'd be better off building the world's largest and most expensive nuclear power plant instead of batteries + renewables.
0% financing and you're making losses year after year after year? Maybe it's time to return the money to the shareholders instead of playing musical chairs as the S.S. ZIRP sinks.
Over hiring aka poor planning in the last few years.

Riding interest rates causing investors to demand more stock returns or they will seek returns in treasuries.

In free money era, companies created too many processes and incentive structures that are wasteful. These processes are too expensive when money is expensive. E.g. too many managers whose time is filled with calibration, stack ranking, agile processes instead of true engineering and product leadership.

Ultimately, growth cannot be endless and current crop of companies are not set up for difficult times.
Likely on UCSC's VAXen running BSD4.2.
Only if you forget to notice that the bottom 20% in the US lives better than the majority of the rest of the world.
Where have you heard about the layoff rumors?
Do you think FAANG SWEs aren't in the top 10% of Americans?

Investors aren't some distinct class, we're mainly talking about pension funds and the 401ks of similarly well-compensated professional-managerial workers.
It is still a business - not a charity.
I don't really understand the point being made.
It just seems to basically a story about a baseless rumor, the CIA could not confirm or deny, so it must be true, except an independent expert has suggested it's not even possible.

Have I missed anything?
Your startup probably shouldn't be focusing on a single go-to-market channel period. If you're a startup and you know exactly what channels work for you, you won't be a startup for very much longer. In my experience, half the battle in a startup is understanding the go-to-market channels and how to pull those levers.

As an aside, find it very odd that this blog post is written in the first person but there is no name anywhere on it.
How would you feel if I made popular a tool that has a side effect of making you invisible before people even have a chance to judge whether the thumbnail face is good enough for a click or not? Dude, cmon
> In America, even the folks we consider “white” are actually different, culturally distinct subgroups.

But that's true of other countries too. In Glasgow, they still have problems with ethnic/religious conflict (sectarianism) between Protestant Scots and the immigrant Irish Catholic minority (many of whose ancestors immigrated in the 19th century), particularly associated with the rivalry between the Rangers and Celtics football teams–yet both sides are generally perceived as "white". In Australia, most of the Germans went to Adelaide, which is why it is still the national headquarters of the Lutheran Church. The majority of Scottish immigration to New Zealand went to the southern part of the South Island (especially Dunedin and the surrounding Otago region). Over 25% of people in Saskatchewan have German ancestry, compared to less than 2% in Quebec or Newfoundland and Labrador; nobody would be surprised to learn that over 30% of Nova Scotians have Scottish ancestry (it is in the name), but in fact the percentage in Prince Edward Island is even higher. (All these Canadian figures are from 2016, don't have figures from the 2021 Canadian census handy.) In Argentina, most of the Welsh immigrants went to Patagonia, and there are still a few thousand Welsh speakers there today.

This just seems to be another one of these "America is different because it has X" explanations which completely ignores the fact that comparable countries have X too.
Rare skin fossil is oldest by 130 million years
Playing Soundfonts with the Web Audio API
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>Depression causes nearly half of all disability, it affects one in six, and explains more current unhappiness than poverty.

Really now? So it's somehow more of a problem for happiness than over 1 billion people still living in grinding poverty worldwide, or for health than the numerous endemic diseases, many treatable, that kill millions each year and the of millions of hideously dangerous jobs still done daily by hundreds of millions of people, possibly billions?

Color me dubious of what seems like a very bubbled analysis of specific causes for problems in the world. Not to take a single thing away from Aaron Schwartz or the problems he was put through, but in material ,circumstantial terms, there are literally billions of people in the world who live lives far worse than his ever was in material terms.
There are several examples. F# came from Microsoft Research and has also fed into C#. Also, Haskell.

Note that it does research and not R&D. You aren't going to get products from research but rather technology advancements that then get incorporated. That happens a lot, and they obviously publish a lot.
A lifetime ago, I worked on a large project that was never completed because Google released Wave, which addressed the same problem. Wave did it in a less useful way, but my employer (understandably) didn't want to go toe-to-toe with Google and so abandoned it.

The main part I worked on was to be able to do exactly this (not for CAD files specifically, but including those). It was a very difficult, but rewarding, problem to solve.
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There is a another way to look at it, though maybe not very positive. It tells me that though they probably have preferred stock and other types of investments I don't have access to, I should invest in whatever they invest in. People with that much wealth and power are going to fight to the end to keep it, I might as well ride along.
> My fear is that eventually you'll start seeing government services where identity and auth are handed off to private companies like Google and Apple. Imagine having your real identity tied to an attestation by one of those companies.

a general taste for dysfunctional public-private partnerships and the fact that auth is a seriously hard problem at scale, make this scenario a few percentage points more likely than anyone should feel comfortable with.