skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first visited the US in 1981, I was pretty convinced (as a young, naive and somewhat ignorant Brit) that the differences between someone from New Orleans and someone from Portland, Maine were far greater than anything you could find between any two parts of Europe.

Decades later, that's clearly an exaggeration or just plain wrong, but it is certainly true that people do underestimate cultural differences within the US, and overestimate them within Europe.
Mexico City has 2 (soon to be 3) Cablebús gondola lines that integrate with other public transport types, all using a single smartcard for payment.
Mind you being nice is not the same thing as being genuine.

The problem is not with advertising ( or over advertising ) that youre happy when your are indeed happy.

The problem is with not doing so when the situation is inversed - that is advertising youre unhappy when you are indeed unhappy - and couching it in good cheer for outward appearances.

People in most cultures value genuineness over fake cheer although no one really is fully immune to fake cheerfulness and often find themselves falling for it - even when they want to fight it. Because in the end after all the cake and watermelon, its a form of deceitful presentation of the self - whether the person intended it or not. It trips you up in your read of the other person and thus leads to a maladjusted state of affairs where you are forever adjusting and hedging your reactions to the others person true emotions. Its a tax on your mental faculties.
You see something similar with CL and Clojure (but the latter to a lesser extent): these abstractions are so powerful that those that grok them are able to construct things that others have little chance of understanding without a significant investment in time (if at all). Go does more or less the opposite: it tries to avoid any kind of cleverness.
Speaking of fossilized, OpenBSD still uses cvs for version control supposedly because it works well enough.

Cvs "works", but then again I haven't yet seen a worse version control system.
I block ads, don’t really mind when a site doesn’t feel like serving me as a result. I’m intentionally not accepting their ads-for-content trade and asking what they’ll send for nothing. If that’s nothing, fair enough.

I am surprised nowadays, given how bad the trade has gotten, that people are interested in discussing their content.
Unfortunately "The C Programming Language" has enough typographical errors in it to seriously undermine it's utility as a book with which to learn programming.
One of the hills on which I am prepared to die on is that "The C Programming Language" is the best programming language book I've ever read. Every developer should read it and learn C at least once, even if they promptly forgot it all.
Edge browser has built-in TTS
Pockets are for the help, this is a nice dress so a secret pocket is probably the only type of pocket they'd want.
Okay, let's ditch the wires and put a battery pack in each trailer skate. If that limits range too much, we can figure out some kind of clever charging or fast battery swap solution. (None of the reasons for the failure of battery swap in passenger cars apply to trucking, AFAIK.)
Starship: Minimal, fast, infinitely customizable prompt for any shell
What about Fortnite?
Multifactor Authentication – Cognitive Overload?
Nowhere in American is asking “how are you today” to a cashier abnormal. But the article suggests that it is indeed abnormal from a a Dutch perspective.

There are distinctly American customs and cultures that Europeans would look as stereotypically American.
> “too big to fail” required the public to think the banks were doing a good job in 2008

The analogy to the banking crisis doesn't quite work. For years the banks didn't have any major snafus, banking in general was working great for most people and making many (and crucially, all the right people) rich. Also, the previous problems had been papered over pretty effectively and 2008 was a particularly bad crash. Boeing on the other hand has had a string of major crises for a few years in a row. It'd be comparable to the banks if savings and loan, the dot com crash, and 2008 all occurred within 5 years. By that third one very few politicians would have the political capital left to spend on bailouts.
I guess paying outside normal working hours it's extra money that adds up?
The fact there is a need of a guide means it is not effortless.
my email is in my bio. Would you mind sending me a quick note?
Immediate mode GUI is fine for quick and dirty things, but once you start dealing with multiple application views that conditionally show/hide, with branching flows of any kind, you'll find yourself on a hardline track to reinvent retained mode GUI from scratch just so you can handle the event loop in a sane way.

Object oriented, event driven widgets composed into more colored views are really, really good for developing UI. There's a reason every major OS GUI toolkit is this design. If you componentize like you are supposed to--instead of just smashing everything into one form--they work and can be reasoned over with few surprises.

The trouble comes from not componentizing things that you should when your current platform doesn't provide the full menagerie of widgets that you'll need. Basically, it you have any kind of input that results in a value that is not just a raw string, you should be building a component for that input: URLs, paths to files, numbers, dates, selectors for picking a set list of structured objects, etc.
I didn't downvote the comment myself, but I do think it's glib and reductionist in a way that purely economic arguments often are. In general I find explanations of this kind of behaviors are often facile rationalizations of things that are mostly non-rational and that are absorbed from one's social environment and then imitated.
But you can still have trackers? You can still link to a unique URL on your own domain, and you can still pass query params to your spyware of choice?
leave it to Action Retro to lie and mislead viewers...
While I understand the meaning of this comment and see its value, I wonder how you would know to which extend it weakens the initial thesis, though.

If some people live in an island where some place are around 10 degrees and other around 15 degrees, they may say "our island is very diverse, look, yesterday I went to the south, and it was freezing! 10 degrees! it's 5 degrees less than here!"

I understand you see the differences in people you meet in your same culture. But how do you even see the similarities, if you have no experience of other cultures?
Haha, this is a cluster of things.

- Americans do reduce social distance with phatic conversation. "how are you?" "Good, how about yourself?"

- Americans do have expected formal acknowledgements. There are a few cultures where formality is a sign of adding social distance, but in America it's definitely an acknowledgement. In another culture the emphasis will be on how much you liked the thing, but in the US, it is important to say "thank you"

- There is a lot of fake positivity in the US for sure. For instance, you'll see this online with "I don't know who needs to hear this but YOU ARE LOVED". That's a strange sentiment to express. How could you know?

But ultimately it's mostly just words. The sentiments expressed are the same and the language is just different. It might just be a thing among Anglophones since the British are somehow worse about the word / intention mismatch though without the enthusiasm.

This does remind me of that Reddit thread where an Eastern European asks "Guys, what is a chamicha? My American colleagues always compliment me on it and I thank them and we go on." where it was discovered that it was "Nice to meet you".
And another thing > no AI is going to replace your Daniel Day Lewises. Your Tilda Swintons. These people are real human beings who are perfect on screen without AI adjustment.

I’m a good actor too btw.
Bootstrap or Raise VC Funding?
For me it was "Visual Basic Professional 3.0 Programming by Thomas W. Torgerson" from Barnes and Nobles in 1997. I had downloaded Visual Basic 3.0 from 100 different email attachments on AOL and wanted to learn how to make punters/progs.

I remember transcribing code from the book to attempt to play a sound file when my program opened. I remember being stunned when it actually worked!

What an honor it has been to make a career in software development since.
tipping in my opinion is rather rude.

as a bussiness, you are basically asking for a handout to make the lives of your waiting staff bearable. In my opinion this mean you should not run a business.

Why would i tip someone when they do their job? Should we do this for all jobs? (the same goes for the military in my opinion).
Just because they don't sell consumer products doesn't mean that their products aren't marketable.

In the case of research and semiconductor technology, typically IBM isn't out to deliver a finished product, they work with other companies who bring the end result to market. E.g., there's a joint venture between Intel and IBM to advance Intel's fabrication capabilities.

When you think of IBM as more of an R&D consulting company or custom enterprise application company it starts to make more sense. To some extent they also have an off-the-shelf product lineup, but most of the reasons to choose them involve custom solutions.

Example of a $700 million contract with Disney: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2555832/ibm-signs--730...
It's only a question of time when the AI extras seem real enough that most people won't notice (especially in fast-paced scenes etc).

The only hope is that people aggressively vote with their wallets against this, but I don't think this would last long.
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Sheet. Thank YOU for that comment!

It connected me back to some of that magic.

The same magic at "computer fairs (faires)". That same magic when you happened across that other nerd in the college/school lab doing something cool and subversive.
> This is a classic case of Ask Culture meets Guess Culture.

From the classic https://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-bet... referenced elsewhere like in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37176703
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The argument is that from a purchasing power perspective the price of cars in Europe has been more-or-less constant over the years. I think that they've gone up a bit, actually, but you get a lot more car for your money now than you did in the 60's and the 70's. Those cars were death traps, high maintenance and roadside breakdowns were very common.
If I recall correctly, for up to 5 "ticks" you could make it up at the end of your shift, for anything more you got reported. It was a union job and so there were a lot of little "parsimonious" rules like this.

To answer the other question at the same time, in the 90s, was most shops that used an analog time clock would only advance the stamped time every 5 minutes. So, if you clocked in at 8:04, it would still punch 8:00 on your card. So, it was notable to me at the time that they had clocks with a finer grain of accuracy that fed into their computers immediately, and they actually cared about the "slop" involved in time keeping.
I remember hearing about Haiku about a decade ago, and I played with it in a virtual machine, and it seemed neat, but I'm not 100% sure why it buys you over anything else. This could just have been the virtual machine, but it didn't feel any faster than any other OS really, and the UI was fine, but kind of unremarkable to me.

I'm not saying all this to crap on the project; is there actually an advantage to using Haiku in 2024 over, say, Linux?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M4sTSIYzDIk
A bit curious about your take on this

In your advice your optimising for a single listening position.

I found, in my home, optimising for a coach with three listening positions, and a hard glass surface wall close to one speaker, that aiming the speakers away from the sidewalls and towards
the corner position at the
opposite end made for an ok result.

Theory being that this configuration would even out the drop in high frequency response at the corner listening positions, (closest speaker off-axis response matching farthest speaker on-axis response)

At the same time minimising first reflection from side walls.
Remember nft is a 4 trillion dollar market cap industry.

Don't believe the doom and gloom same with the metaverse and VR it's already a huge thing and only growing...
What sources do you have to cite on development costs and regular maintenance? Autonomous trucking is an add-on to existing trucks which are already being built regularly. We already perform road maintenance and account for it in local, state, and federal budgets as it services more vehicle's and destinations than just "autonomous trucks."
HN should allow comments on job posts. Even if you don't want those comments to be publicly visible, they should go in the database somewhere so that admins can see them. You will see people's many complaints if you look at the monthly "Who is hiring?" threads. One company in particular has been drawing scads of complaints the past few months.
XP never claimed to invent any of those practices. But they were unevenly distributed. I note that 1998 was ~25 years ago, so I'm not sure we disagree here. You just described CI as a new-ish practice you adopted from another team.

I'm happy you had your experience. But I will testify I've seen lots of places that would slap your hand if you touched code to "clean it up". When "testing" was two people running a week-long manual script, narrowing the scope of changes was a required practice!

As for developer testing: a core idea of XP is that we developers should take responsibility for the quality of the code we ship. Test-first was a practice to support that goal. Automated testing wasn't completely unknown, but many shops had zero automated tests. Or if they had automated tests, they were clicky-clicky tests run by a ui-automation tool, and were written by the testing team. Developer written tests were rare back then. I remember interning at MS in the 90s and how proud they were that their target tester:developer ratio was >1! The creation of JUnit was an important historical event for us.

As for the lack of communication and wasted work: I completely agree. Turning a story/use-case problem statement into a concrete design has to happen sometime. We used to do a whole-team tasking meeting for each story we opened, and group estimate of our tasks on the whiteboard. Combined with pairing, whole team rotation, and continuous integration, there was very little opportunity for someone to get lost.
> Huh, why is this downvoted?

Because tying it to salary seems pseudo-scentific and rather snobbish (but happy to be corrected if there is solid science backing it). Are rich people generally more direct than poor people within a culture? Not in my experience.

The distinction between urban and rural is valid in my experience. But the urban poor tend to be on the same side of this divide as the urban rich.

(edit: Just to be clear, I didn't downvote it)
The author is a cultural psychologist, and trying to explain that people's emotions should be seen in the context of (and I would say are "relative to") the culture they're from. Someone is only fake if they're more fake than their cultural norms, and someone is only rude if they're more rude than their cultural norms. I would argue this also means people aren't objectively fake or rude, it's all relative, and so neither is objectively better or worse.
I don't think startup founders dream of those metrics. But IBM has a healthy profit as well. Still it is an empty shell of its former self, selling (among many venerated B2B products) snake oil like Watson and design thinking. Beyond the husk of its brand, it is a generic, irrelevant, boring IT company.
Way before that there was SCSI.

The low cost is price. Asus for example with their ASUS ThunderboltEX 4 allows you to have TB4 via PCIe card.

The neat thing about USB4 was same as PATA and later SATA: widely and relatively cheap available in consumer hardware. SCSI and FireWire were technically superior but were neither cheap nor widely available.

Oh and I don't know about SCSI but FireWire was actually a security risk.
Inhalable point-of-care urinary diagnostic platform
> If anything we should let high emissions cars access to low congestion lanes so they spend less time polluting.

That's excellent thinking. I do wonder though if the number of high emissions cars isn't such that those 'low congestion lanes' would immediately become congested.

Personally I don't think any kind of vehicle once approved for road-worthiness should get an advantage over other road-worthy vehicles. Especially not if it ends up being a wealth inequality thing in disguise.
A nice Indian lady I used to work with was horrified when I pointed out that her use of the "eye rolling" emoji is seen as rude and dismissive by lots of people.

It's always worth being aware of these differences if you can be and also giving people the benefit of the doubt too.
asking someone how they are in the netherlands is considered a genuine question about someone's wellbeing, and is considered very out of place if you don't know the person. (a cashier for instance).

Also, when asking this, expect a real response back.
Yeah that was probably poorly articulated. Put it this way - everyone used to be a farmer. Capitalism happened, now the number of farmers in capitalist economies rounds to 0. There was no need for intelligent robots to do that. AI is likely to have a similar effect on some knowledge workers.

At this point, arguably, very few people need to work. They persist regardless, and we are better off for it, but maybe growth in robotics and AI will some day force people to stop. And that would be a good outcome. Even now, if people don't need to work that is arguably for the best. The only concern I have is government policy encouraging productive people not to exert themselves. Either way, identifying people who are highly productive but not working and making them waste their time is stupid. We should want less people to need to work.
I don't think autonomous trucking is the priority
If it works on ones computer I dont see why it couldnt be daily driven depending on your needs. It has a webkit based browser, and a native emacs port, thats pretty much all i use day to day :P
> Why should we let content creators off the hook

Of course you don't have to let them off the hook. If you don't like them, don't watch them. That's how boycotting works. You don't need to pay them any mind at all. There is plenty of room for competition against YouTube, as evident by YouTube not even being the largest service in the sector. That is still Netflix and cable TV. And they pay their content creators much more than YouTube do, but only the content creators that they choose for you to watch.
>Car drivers don't pay for the damage that 18-wheelers do to the roads in any different way than bike drivers.

When taxes are approximated as first to second order of weight and damage is fourth, the calculus is lower weight cars are shouldering unequal cost of 18 wheelers vs everyone else including cyclist consumers. Effectively part of this is shouldered of free riding cyclists consumption of 18 wheeler goods.
The story is pretty interesting, and definitely worth the click.
I am corrected. Chemistry offers a limitless supply of complications.
It depends greatly on the genre, but I do have some experience in querying. How does one DM these days on HN?
I went from being contacted 4 times a week to once a month, maybe.

There's too many devs and too few jobs imho, so it's tougher.

Market will rebalance, and we need to cope with this new reality of jobs being harder to find.
Combining Structured Data from Your Database with PDFs for Better Data Analysis
It is! I have been using it with TinyGo, it was a delight.
Sure, but right now any mid-level mangler can hire "bobs discount SEO, advertising, and snow clearing" to run some Google ads for them, and move on. If Bob has to get the manager to get approval from IT to subdesignate or add a CNAME or whatever they need, it's a huge additional friction.

I think many people think that advertising is "Kohl's goes to Google and buys an ad" - it's much more often Kohls hires an agency that hires an agency that manages a independent company that fills out the actual ads, and they all want to track their piece of the pie.
3 minute and a little over 100 yen.
Some phone providers just eat the taxes, and that's fine at some level, but also problematic if you're on a $15/month plan and your city charges a $5/month per line telecom tax and other cities don't. And I'm not a fan of hiding mandatory uniform fees.

But how does Verizon run a national advertised price and include the taxes when telephone taxes vary based on your city, county, and state, and sometimes which part of the city/county.

If they mail it to you, then sure, they should be able to calculate it assuming your main service address is the same as your mailing address. But even if they have it in the window at their shop, they could include the taxes as if you lived at the shop, but actual taxes will be based on your service address.
They’ve also managed to survive without running water or antibiotics. And if you’re really worried about overpopulation, we could go a step further and eliminate the entire practice of medicine. Large families went without modern medicine for thousands of years, plus then we wouldn’t need to worry about maintaining road infrastructure for ambulances.
The question the blog asks on election procedure is easy to get right, why does ChatGPT refuse to answer? I'd bet the answer it would otherwise produce is reasonable. Perplexity gives a fine answer. The collateral damage from fixing hallucinations seems to hurt accessibility.
Because the telegram company charges more for non words.
That’s actually a really interesting idea. Particularly if you take care to add docstrings and comments to the tests. Thanks!
Link fraud is a good thing because it undermines the advertising economy. Anything which causes consumers to mistrust and ignore advertising can only be a positive.
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Absolutely. Sorry, I meant quadratic but had a brain fart.
If there is no ecosystem -- if there is no way for creators to make money for the countless hours they put into creating content -- that's a net negative for users.

Just look around -- a lot of amazing creators talk about how YouTube is what really enables them to do what it is they do. Mark Rober, Destin Sandlin, Linus Sebastian, Marques Brownlee, etc have all made statements to that effect.

If you, as a user, don't want ads, that's okay. There's a no-ads version of YouTube, YouTube Premium.
I agree writing a variety of software will have similar base ideas, but still, having a good foundation in a topic doesn't make you an expert. I've barely used Java, but if I had to I could learn enough to write it pretty quickly, that doesn't mean I understand at all how JVM and Java's GC works, or what a factory is.
Do you mean within overview page of extension, on examples gif/images or within real flow in VS Code?
Compare Capex. That's a better indicator of long term spending.
Yeah, maybe. I guess what stood out the most was not exactly the trashing part (which we all do some way or another), but how they didn't feel the need to soften the words. Since I was the only one who seemed a bit shocked by that, I thought that was perhaps cultural.