skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
normal people don't care about web apps or app stores. they care that they can tap-to-pay securely and effortlessly, and that there are pretty background photos for contacts. they care about mostly first party apps and tiktok and web browsing, and no they don't care about chrome or firefox or safari.

developers need to realise most of the world just wants a phone that works, and outside of nerds, they don't give a crap about who pays what to whom.

personally, as an engineer, i don't want any third party doing OS-level tampering or opening up secure areas of the hardware, nor do i want random power-hungry runtimes and code being ran. i want my phone to work the way it was sold to me, and i don't want meta or some leet haxxor's apps or app stores
Stunningly beautiful write up, Lars. You have an amazing gift.

God bless you and your family.
> now jobless in in slow economy

It really doesn't look like a slow economy!

See https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth
The "weird u-boat thing" further supports the Swedish hypothesis - "ubåt" or "undervattensbåt" are the standard terms for a submarine in Swedish (https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub%C3%A5t). The word "U-boat" is also used in English, however with the meaning "German submarine during WW1/2" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-boat) - but I don't think it's widespread enough (or appropriate) to be eligible for a toy.
Databricks popularised the concept and explain it very well - https://youtu.be/g11y-kJHr3I?si=j8FAkFsIjScHv24f

It’s a technology independent pattern though.
Funny name, assuming it refers to the magician who does not speak
Careful, you’re saying the quiet part out loud.
Fair enough, yes. If you're contracting with a third-party company that takes up the risk of hiring the employee, that does circumvent these issues.

Re: the lawsuits—yes, the barrier to initiate litigation is low (in most countries); but in my experience, most folks only start litigation when they feel significantly wronged.

Problem is, given the difference in cultures (something you pointed out earlier), an act by the company that is perfectly standard in the U.S. might be interpreted very differently by someone from another country.
I meant the production system of Boeing. How can you say it was the right choice if they proved incapable of delivering it? Someone making strategic choices ought to know what the realities on the ground are. Otherwise it is meaningless to talk about correctness of strategy.
Nope, my phones are like my computers nowadays, they only get replaced when they break down.

Even in terms of OS features, hardly anything that makes me feel like updating to the latest Android version, other than Google finally acknowledging Java isn't going anywhere and started following up on language updates (Android 12 onwards).

Naturally something that OEMs aren't that happy about.
> And maybe someday, when the money is gone, and the pensions are one fire, they will take care of me.

That's looking less and less likely. Children are more likely to move away, around the world or further from home these days. And unless you move close to them, most likely you will not see them. Statistically, anyways.
It is, and devs fall for it, as usual
A little off topic, but there’s a nice example of making a game with your kid in “Doom Guy” by John Romero. I enjoyed the book and it’s also a good accompaniment to “Masters of Doom.”
I have working hardware from every decade, oldest is from 1982, but my daily driver and what I'm typing on now is a 2019 iMac 5K and Apple still doesn't have anything all-in-one to replace it. My keyboard is from 2002 (the USB version of the Kinesis I bought in ~ 1993).

My oldest computer still in 24/7 use is my 2014 FreeNAS, but it's using a monitor that's so old I don't even know.

Old hardware is great, but I do appreciate just how much better LCD panels have gotten over time.
Not a saint, just a former tax lawyer. There are more elaborate strategies that allow people to move larger sums, particularly if they have stock in pre-IPO companies. If you find yourself in need of that kind of advice, find a 'private client' lawyer to help you understand and navigate the complex rules.
How is productivity measured in the kinds of jobs that can be done from home?

For manufacturing it's easy - just measure the output per day and number of working hours spent.
But how is it done for finance, marketing, software development, creative work and such where the output is either limited (you don't need more financial reporting than last month) or is entirely different in scope and complexity every time?

If productivity could be objectively measured it seems to me it would be easy to determine objectively whether WFH is better or worse, but the discussion seems to be mostly based on personal opinions. Some feel that workers must be slacking off at home, some feel that they get much more done from home.
Yeah it's fairly disheartening that it often comes down to leetcode. We're really failing our entire profession with that trash. There are crafts that have been around for hundreds of years that don't have to put up with the nonsense we do. We build things, not solve logic puzzles. I stare at that crap for 10 seconds and go back to working on projects. I wonder how many capable developers just throw in the towel for this very reason?

Personally if I get meds and it helps I'll spend my time finishing and releasing projects, that'll be what will make me stand out. For now I will keep following my therapist's advice and working on being a stable and happy person.
Difference in timezone is also something that immediately brings attention to "who's going to be managing that?".
I almost pulled the trigger on a new MacBook Pro but then I read they made such trade offs with the display that the response time is really, really slow and has ghosting even when scrolling around.

I can’t spend £3,000 on a device that does that, no matter how great the rest of the machine is, as I don’t do graphics work. Guess I’m not their target customer.

So, my “obsolete” MacBook Pro 2015 continues to be my web surfing machine and my AMD desktop for real work. Thanks Apple!
Have you ever looked into the world of retail space leasing? It’s quite common for retailers to be charged a percentage of gross sales per month.

(Not defending anything here)
In general iPhones have less RAM than roughly corresponding Android device. This is because iOS apps on average take less RAM to run because iOS manages memory more tightly and Android uses Java which is very memory hungry.

A web app though should be a situation where the memory usage will be roughly equivalent between the two platforms, so that seems reasonable.
Vulkan is too hard and metal is only for mac.
apple designed and built the OS, hardware, APIs, servers for building and hosting your app, payment systems, subscription APIs, developer support etc.

i'd be fine with apple saying "we take 0%, but then you have to do literally everything yourself, have fun" and then you can see how it will work.

i don't understand the entitlement. don't develop for iOS then, or make your own phone. it's not easy and costs a lot of money. 12% doesn't seem like a bad deal to reach billions of people and make money enough to be a mobile developer fulltime.
> Is the idea that you're not choosing specific song and it'll instead cycle through predesignated ones?

At random. That's why it's background.

> Does anyone know if there's more docs on the intention behind this?

I would assume what it's just what is on the box - a player for when you want some background noise.

Though it gave me an idea and I added a batch file to my global scripts:

start C:\Shares\personal\justsomehnguy\progs\Winamp563\winamp.exe "%CD%"
Nowadays it seems like every other comment on Stack Exchange is full of forced and phony politeness. That's in their rules too.
Samsung A5 2017 has 3GB ram vs 6GB in iPhone 14
I mean, do they even have to do more than run "make image" after rebasing to a new (minor) kernel update ?
I was referring more generally to meeting other people (not only online and not only other incels), without the intention of finding a partner - sort of learning to swim first before jumping in at the deep end.
If we’re talking about model distillation[0] I don’t think the student can ever be better than the teacher as optimising for speed and smaller model sizes inherently means that there will be precision loss. Even if the student is as big as the teacher, there is still data loss.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.17332.pdf
oh yeah, yet another thing to consider is there are plenty of garbage vendors in the ecommerce space
The quality difference between Eleven and OpenAI is IMO pretty small, but the price difference is enormous: for 50,000 characters (approx 1hr of audio, by Eleven's estimates), you'd pay Eleven Labs $9 assuming you're in their highest $330/month payment commitment tier; for OpenAI there's no minimum commitment and the same number of characters would cost $0.75.

If you're generating speech once and replaying it many times (e.g. making podcasts), the difference is negligible and you might as well go with Eleven Labs, since it's more customizable and possibly slightly higher quality. If you're doing interactive speech with customers, $9/hr is incredibly expensive (higher than hiring a minimum-wage worker in the U.S.!), and OpenAI's TTS is a very close second best and much more reasonably priced. If you're trying to integrate speech into an AI product, Eleven makes your hourly costs pretty unfeasible since you have to at minimum charge your customers more than it costs to hire a human being to do a task.

Azure's "Neural" line of TTS is the best of the big cloud offerings, but it's pretty mediocre compared to either OpenAI or Eleven Labs IMO. And it's actually more expensive than using OpenAI: it's $0.80 for 50,000 characters (~1hr), unless you're willing to commit to over $1k monthly spend, at which point it's barely cheaper than OpenAI at $0.64 per 50k characters.

OpenAI's TTS is IMO the best option for anything interactive, since it's so much higher quality than Azure's Neural TTS and so much cheaper (with very little quality difference) as compared to Eleven Labs.
holy shit what. how?
Because historically people listen to podcasts mostly offline not in websites or apps.
We could have had that already in WebGL if it wasn't for Chrome team botching Intel's work on OpenGL ES compute shaders being available in WebGL.

https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/2.0-compute/

https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader/issues...
Make bash_history changes immediately, rather than on shell exit
Well done for completing God's own work.
They do mention voice cloning in the README ("We’ve also added an example of voice cloning based on a reference audio file."), do you have something different in mind?
Maybe less than we think for the rich and privileged. They still make money. THe rest of us? Human-level AI will probably put a lot of people out of white-collar jobs and into manual labor.
This is just the fallacy of the Protestant work ethic with different words. Things don’t need to be difficult to be good. You can’t tell how hard an artist worked just by looking at the piece. There’s a lot of truly terrible art that has had a ton of work put into it.

It’s very easy to make bad art quickly with powerful tools. It’s also possible to carefully craft prompts which generate amazing results that win awards. Source: I’ve done this. You should see the reactions when people have heaped flowery accords on a drawing and then find out it’s Dall-e. The irony of the transition from “art is rebellion” to pearl-clutching is almost the best part.

That critique says more about your understanding than it does about the work.
Google photos was spawned from Picasa, which they bought https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109121493116979168
but it seems dead, is it stable enough to use?
This is a C compiler. You might be thinking of Cygwin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin
Your work network can tell which phones got security patches? And that's a requirement for being in the network?
Samsung devices aren't locked? You are just going to lose Knox in the process but it's not like it has much value, I don't use it even when I can.
Unique etags can help with this though
> 5 to 6 hours of standing meetings each week

Wow that is a lot. That is (almost) a WHOLE DAY of meetings each week just for syncs.

I can only provide my own anecdotes, but I'm at 0.5-1hr for standup status-report type meetings.
This is a deal-breaker. If I'm going to shell out 3500 for Vision Pro, I simply demand to have the Netflix, Prime and Disney+ apps included.

/s
It is interesting that this opinion is getting high marks in HN. Useful information for employers.
You forget that the same 'investors' that own the companies, also own the buildings and all the companies that finance, build and service the buildings as well as the whole 'economy' fueled by employees commuting and lunching etc.
If there are miracles, I wish you one
They arent dismissing the users of tailwind's intellectual capacity.

They're attributing a cult like / social influence phenomenon to the popularity of it. That others use it because others use it; not on any perceived by them actual merit of tailwinds design.
If I hadn't seen this sort of "leadership" up close and personal, I would probably think this post was wildly exaggerated if not mostly made up.
PDFs are doing a pretty good job of bridging the gap between the real world (paper formats) and the digital world.

The whole point is that they are not dynamic.
I had similar feeling about Samsung in the past but I think it is quite better nowadays. But there definitely is some AOSP/Samsung duality you cannot escape. My current gripes with existing s23+ is usually one of following:

1. Some of their features are being offloaded to unknown 3rd party vendors (e.g call spam detection).
2. They really want you to install some sort of McAfee AV on your phone to get the "secure" tick.
3. They are usually about a month behind when it comes to Android security patches.
4. Phone comes pre-installed with crap.
Makes me miss old school tools like Dev-C++ and MSVC 6.0

Courier was so readable.
Some language learning resources From "Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38317345 :

> ENH: Generate Anki decks with {IPA symbols, Greek letters w/ LaTeX for math and science,
The example with the pig is because they are famous for eating basically anything without a hitch.

If AI generated stuff is so bad you cannot train AI with it why would humans use it to train themselves (aka learn stuff)?
If bear is alive and not oiled, then yes.
> One is a news discussion podcast. Every episode is 1hour they post 7 days a week.

There isn't enough happening to fit 7 hours of news every week.
Every Costco I’ve been to has actual cashiers. The self checkout is there if you really want to use it but I never do.

Costco is also technically a private membership club, not a store. That’s why they can check your receipt.
I discovered this the hard way with my home server. The boot drive whilst still working wouldn’t come up on boot. It apparently worked in Linux still but it was no longer bootable.

Having to scramble after a power outage to get a bootable Linux image to fix it wasn’t ideal.

No way to have discovered this without a hard power cycle, a soft reset didn’t repro it.
I'm really sorry if I hurt your feelings, that was not my intent. I don't think activism means what you think, I'm not involved in any of this and I'm not hating anyone.

I'm not hating Apple for this, they play the game the way it's supposed to be. Let's not be delusional about their intents, that could hurt you.
ContrAlto – Xerox Alto emulator source code
I think there are a few 'fringe' modern-ish physics projects that actually do suggest that space could be made from something, and can flow (which can provide an explanation for gravity and relativity) Reg Cahill's "Process Physics" (from a while back) had a good crack at this I reckon and more recently Wolfram's work around graph-rewriting operations as a model for fundamental-space.. which sounded like it went pretty well!
> Your or my opinion on that whether it "should be" is irrelevant.

No it isn't, because many folks live in democracies, and this is a decision that should actually be made and implemented into new law, instead of leaving it to courts to try to apply some outdated laws to a situation they could not possibly have been written for.
God bless you and your family!
Saying seriously asking and then asking an unserious question is like saying no offense before telling someone to fuck off.
You have it half correct. It's more like Chinese cannot afford to have more kids. There's a reason, as China got poorer the last 3 years, the birthrate dropped sharply

China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty

In his article for the business outlet Yicai, Li cited data from a 2021 research paper by the China Institute of Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University, which placed the number of people living on less than 2,000 yuan ($300) a month at 964 million, or nearly 70 percent of the population.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-article-censorship-1-billion-...
It looks nothing at all like a paint tube though. And why is the paint coming out the side of it?

Also. This clipart image comes up for a google image search of the Chinese characters for "Axe" https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lvi0V.jpg
Elegant trolling... for a more civilized age.
Good thing it’s not up to them then. They don’t get to say that something isn’t art.
Disagreement is not malice. People taking issue with your suggested solution doesn’t mean they’re trying to stop people from helping themselves or enabling self-destructive behaviors (at least not intentionally).

I intend to leave this conversation here, though I will read and consider any response you might have even if I’m not responding to it.
Many people in the Android ecosystem, me including, prefer OEM customization than whatever Material something gets thought out at the Googleplex.

And I have owned several S generation phones.
Well what you doing to stop climate change at a level that makes a difference?

Whatever I personally do, as long as Norway/US continue producing as much
fossile fuel as possible (and they are not alone, but they are (I think)
by far the worst in saying one thing and doing the other. <

And yes every bit helps, but not enough to make a huge difference.
Whatever is predicted will happen now.

A realistic new temperature goal is probably 2.0 - 2.5 with the way
things are progressing at this very moment.
>We can observe and duplicate or avoid.

If you're the US, you can't. The US never learns from others' example: there's many examples of things other developed nations do far better than the US, but the US refuses to learn from their example. The US only makes big changes when it's their own idea, not because they saw it working well someplace else. Some examples: healthcare, the metric system, high-speed or even regular passenger rail, walkable cities, good zoning laws, etc.
That's certainly a hypothesis. Definitely not guaranteed. The counterargument would likely be that renewables will be cheaper as a result of technological advancements, so other countries _will_ prefer them.

Also, your hypothesis largely hangs on the fact that oil will become cheaper. But: oil becoming cheaper means _it's making less money_. So oil producing countries would start to lose interest in it. Unless they make countries dependent on it, and then they can start increasing prices/profit! But: then the other countries will start looking for other sources, like renewables.

Furthermore: although the act of oil production itself _does_ cause co2 emissions, the resulting oil isn't all converted to co2. Some go to producing materials like plastics. Vs like fuel in a plane, which will get "directly" converted to co 2. So even if countries reduce their dependence on oil for fuel, there is still a potential market in things like plastics.

In short: the problem is complicated and murky. I am very much not an expert, but there are a ton of variables at play. It's easy to say "everyone sucks no one is doing anything" or "it's hopeless the only way forward is to take immediate drastic action to optimise for one isolated variable ignoring all the others". But I just don't think that's the reality or the best approach. But again: I am not an expert!
Unpaid 'work' is usually referred to as a 'hobby'.
To say I'm speechless is a mild understatement.

Thanks so much for sharing upset given the context of my question!

Their explication of Venn diagrams is exemplary and compelling, particularly the banana and the way the Venn is elucidated and visualized through the accompanying meta-detail, for lack of a better phrase.

I cannot thank you enough. This will literally propel much of my work on data going forward.
Some canal locks pump water back,

- "The hydraulic cylinders enable the water used by the locks to be pumped back. Up to 48,000 cubic metres of water are displaced in a single lockage operation. In periods of low discharge on the Meuse, the screws can pump back the water lost due to the passage of a ship through the lock to the upper canal reach."

https://www.inlandnavigation.eu/power-of-water-and-wind/
I don't think the edge teams at cloudflare could run their docker-compose tests very well on a machine like this when it was new. Maybe Docker on mac has gotten a lot leaner in the meantime or maybe jgc doesn't have to do this sort of thing.
There is the occasional tech talk on YouTube where some kind of migration from React to HTMX in a large project is discussed. You will have to search though as I do not have any links at the ready.

However I have not seen anything really substantial either that confirms that HTMX works in large projects just as well as in smaller ones. I plan to use HTMX in another larger, upcoming project though as I want to gain some insights on the side too.

That being said I am aware that it might turn out to be a mess. But I would be content with the fact that HTMX is generally very useful for smaller projects and just put it in my respective imaginary toolbox to keep in mind for those kinds of projects.
In many places on Earth one would need to pay a substantially higher rent/price to get an extra room to use as an office. And in a family situation one would ideally need two extra rooms...
Sure, but the publishers could change this and require apps.
Which might be a good thing, nae, laddie?
This is an amazing writeup. I have lived the past 10 years in a situation with many parallels to yours, and at the same time unimaginably different.

When you say "It's not hard" you hit on one of the things I've always found difficulty to tell people. It's not hard, because it's the only thing to do. That certainty means it's painful, tiring, and many other things; but not hard.

My experience is that it only becomes really hard when you contemplate alternatives, imagine things being different, or daydream of a different life.
Interviewing Engineers as a Startup Founder
The Linux kernel network stack in 2023
Thank you for providing such an excellent example of how easy it is to dismiss things without understanding them.
I hadn’t really thought about that! I guess LiveView kind of does the same because often I’ll look at the network requests of a page to understand/debug stuff and you can’t really do that with LiveView because you just get the HTML updates over the socket.
In theory it seems like it should scale like a variation on a pretty standard full stack application that does the HTML work on the backend -- as opposed to a SPA -- but instead sends fragments instead of entire pages. I'm also be curious to see how it plays out in practice, since it's been pretty neat for my small projects and I'm intrigued by it, generally.