skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, just look into any investment thread on HN to see how shareholders thinks, nobody recommend investing in unconventional things. Shareholders are your everyday guy who decides where to put his pension, and that guy picks the safe bet with good returns.
> and fairly keyboard-unfriendly

Numpad (or numpad-like key arrangement) disagrees (8 directions + center to go back)

Other input modes where it can shine+ are eye-only control (accessibility / hands-free) and hand/arm control (like Kinect)

+ with a properly designed implementation for this type of interaction.
> The Luddites, Brian shows, weren’t anti-technology. In fact, they embraced new machines that helped them do their jobs better. They were against machines that destroyed workers’ livelihoods and rendered their skills useless. The Luddites rejected technology when it was used to enrich capitalists at the expense of laborers.

I find this argument stupid and disingenuous. Technology exists to reduce or eliminate labor. If you're pro technology only until it makes you, the human, redundant, you're anti-technology.

It's a weak attempt to reframe people upset about losing job market relevancy as some noble human rights advocates.
On the contrary, most places enforce this kind of 'deferral' (the accruals concept) to stop cheating. Imagine i took all of the cost first and the revenue later. I could offset the loss from this against my other income (which is taxed at source) and get a refund out of the tax authorities! It would be like an interest free loan!
They are, and they do get criticism. As they should, and as Tan should. No excuses for that kind of comment or judgement.
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I did a little programming in dart. There are many things to like. And I believe, at the time of writing, that Dart really is great for both java and js devs. Every object that is used has to be an instance of a class, and the event-driven style for reactive programming is pretty much 1:1 to how js does it. So it truly could become the sweet spot for UI development that is appealing to both types of devs.

I just wished it would have native tuples.
As Kahneman wrote, rationality is logical coherence, a rational person can believe in ghosts if the rest of their beliefs are consistent with ghosts. A rational person can prefer to be hated instead of loved, if it’s consistent.

Most of the book is about economics and rational behavior in terms of utility, but that part seems to apply here as well.

Logical coherence is always internal, it can only be complete within itself and will inevitably conflict with external reality and other internally coherent beliefs. It’s possible for a Nazi to be extremely rational in this way, whereas a reasonable person cannot be entirely rational by definition.
This info is from December 2022, so by now I will assume something is already finished or in the final stages and possibly more plans have been made.

Ehr ... no. A fab takes about 3-5 years to build before you get "first silicon". The tail of that estimate depends on how easy you find skilled people.[1]

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/18966/tsmc-delays-arizona-fab...
Didn't know that !

But I think that point of view underestimates EU a bit. I know it's a running joke that EU is becoming an open air museum etc, while the US companies are pushing forward all the innovation.

Well, if I look at biggest EU companies I see global healthcare leaders, ASML, chemical industry leaders, luxury brands etc. When I look at biggest US companies, I see quite a bit of, let's say, irrational exuberance that exist mostly in the virtual world.
over the next coming years.
Personally, I don’t think @aryehof is wrong, it’s just that governments do really well at pushing the ball down four more years, until they can’t. It’s like that with all Empires.
I agree that 150usd might be too cheap for pro market but like i mentioned maybe they found out they need to first go for amateurs. Who knows maybe they will make it more expensive in future or offer some kind of pro option.

I also have to mention maybe your expectations are a bit skewed? Software dev got cheaper and not everything has to be breakneck hype venture capital squeeze. There is type design software Glyphs (https://glyphsapp.com/) used by basically every typedesigner now. It costs 300usd and it is very complex. But they seem to be doing OK. Its so niche compared to Affinity that there is maybe 5% of potential customers?
Both Affinity and Glyphs are small private companies from europe where devs cost less. Maybe they are fine with smaller teams, slower pace and just OK profits.
> I have several ex-RAF friends, and their joke back then was that von der Leyen had more children than her ministry had working fast jets.

What a dumb joke, besides the RAF being British, I wonder if your friends had made the same joke if she had been a man.
Only slightly more reliable method: unplug the printer and throw the computer out the window.
Agreed they don't have a choice, I'm just not so sure about the positive outcome. Xi has built a house of cards and has too much of a cult of personality to create a stable environment.
Thanks! It's always great to have feedback on paper-published content :).
Yes, all of them, though not to the same extent. Microsoft and Amazon are probably the worst.

Consider all the layoffs recently.

Microsoft is hellbent on destroying windows if it means growth in the ads market.

Amazon has let its store become a total cesspit, and look at the bullshit they pulled with prime.

Youtube has 30 ads in a 3 minute video these days.
was? More like is. They're overlooking one right now, because of the last one they did.
i'll vote for trump if he stops h1b
I'm writing a game in Flutter. The game has ads, shaders, custom gesture detectors, ... . I can tell you, it is absolutely butter smooth on iOS.

I tried something similar a few years ago and I would have said you're absolutely right. But with the one I'm writing now, it is quite the different experience.
Oh yeah! That part of his research, especially, just screamed out of touch with reality.
Yeah I've worked in a couple of startups in the UK now that I was surprised to discover got most of their funding from the EU. E.g. Ultrahaptics (which was an obviously flawed idea) got most money from Horizon 2020, not customers.

Kind of weird that these wastes of money are never in the news, not even during Brexit.
I didn't know a Software movie had been planned. I can't decide if I'm happy or sad it never got made. :)
> I know it's a running joke that EU is becoming an open air museum etc, while the US companies are pushing forward all the innovation.

This is mostly the anti-regulation crowd led on by the FT who are a bit stuck in their own US centric viewpoints. I'm fine with that, the amount of innovation done in the EU isn't anything less for that. The big difference is the ready availability of massive amounts of capital and that's mostly a SV thing, which Seattle excepted (MSFT) the US also hasn't been able to replicate. If you take that one outlier out the rest of the world is not too dissimilar.
Giant water batteries could make green power reliable
Truth. AI researchers need to work with actual scientists or they ended up with the same brain-in-a-jar problems that their models have...
Cool beans :-)
Did they renamed AR/VR to spatial computing?
I'll respectfully disagree and explain why.

> But that doesn't mean anything is made better by mysticism and
appealing to some vague idea of transcendence.

Actually it does. Let's talk about "better". Better for what, for
who?

Some of the most powerful forces for positive change are stories.
Stories are made-up, vague, hand-waving. metaphorical and allegorical.
They occupy a different, parallel communicative realm to science,
maths and equations. But they are no less true, particularly with
regard to their utility if you want to communicate important ideas to
lots of people.

Certainly, mysticism is not an analytical or investigative tool. But
it is a powerful communicative, and - since you raise Wittgenstein - a
powerful symbolic tool for word-concepts that "stand in for"
formalisms.

To be honest I think that the way the younger generations relate to
smartphones, the Internet and AI is very much mysticism. The words
have changed, but I don't see concepts like "The Cloud" having any
more substance than "Ectoplasm" and "ethereal spirits".

Again, that new generation mysticism isn't a bad thing, it's just a
way of dealing with unfathomable complexity through stories that we
can all share.
Tree + water = canoe
The amount of autistic people there are each year has changed every year autism has been diagnosed. Every year it has been observed that when you controlled for SES autism wasn't diagnosed more often in any racial group, but when you diagnosed in the real world you would see diagnosis being socioeconomically stratified (And consequently racially stratified). Psychiatrists also charge THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS for a diagnosis, and of course, the incentive is to not piss off the customer. Since things are so expensive, re-diagnosis is not very common, except when somebody gets told they AREN'T autistic. Psychiatrists regularly say batshit things about what they believe autism diagnosis means and it gets posted on the internet.

All of this has made me a self-diagnosis accelerationist because I don't actually like loose labels like autism conceptually.

TikTok Autism somewhat transcends normal self-diagnosis politics this because the medium is the message, and in the case of TikTok autism, autism often means wearing headphones and "stimming". There is a lot of performative autism which I have never seen millennial autistics do my entire life.
Are there scratch n sniff book smell stickers for ebook readers?
It's anecdotal, but most of the Rust projects I see posted to Hacker News are new projects. Relatively few are existing C or C++ projects that are trying to port gradually to a new language but those exist too.

That said, there is definitely a class of projects that are aiming to replace popular command-line tools with Rust replacements. In many cases, these offer much of the same functionality, but use Rust to increase parallelization or take advantage of the high performance library ecosystem.
I'd be hard pressed to find anyone who isn't anti-technology per your definition.

Are you sure you're not an AI advocating for a world ruled by AI capitalists where us primitive humans have no role whatsoever? :P
Shit, I was paying 80.-/mo for Swisscom DSL @100Mb in Schwerzenbach because it was the only wireline option available. Eventually just switched to Yallo 4G at 15.-/mo, which was mostly fine.
> besides the RAF being British

Umm, my ex-RAF friends worked all over the world, including being stationed in Germany, and participated in NATO exercises.

"Der Spiegel reported that there are only enough missiles to make only four [of 128!] Eurofigher jets ready for combat" and VDL has seven kids.

https://www.dw.com/en/only-4-of-germanys-128-eurofighter-jet...

https://www.dw.com/en/german-troops-wait-8-years-for-new-com...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/15/german-foreign...

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-baerbock-abu-dhabi-p...

https://www.dw.com/en/german-government-flight-woes-continue...
The very best metric is what % of the budget is spent servicing debt, for the US it is around 15%.

On top of that the US government debt is mostly owned by US organizations and citizens; it is assets owned by US taxpayers.

A very different situation from the typical debt/inflationary crisis in developed countries where you have a foreign-owned debt and limited tax base; these cause serious credibility issues for governments, which in turn further push up rates.
Yes, that acquisition jumpstarted ASML's present day lead in that domain. But they were the only party in the whole world at the time that could take advantage of that tech. So it was good for everybody but that did mean that some strings got attached.

But within NATO ASML is strategic, there is zero doubt about that.
They definitely do though - all big brands like Avis, Europcar, Hertz will refuse a Visa Debit card, it has to be a Credit card - I always have to use smaller local rental companies which are willing to take a risk on a debit card. At least that has been my experience renting around Europe.
> Engineer: 40k and up [...] I'm sure Google or FB would pay more

There's body shops in Eastern Europe that pay more for junior frontend developers...
In my current setting it doesn’t work like that.

We have a small team of developers and you cannot hack metrics. You build and deliver what is in requirements or not.

If you don’t deliver we don’t even have to have a discussion because team reviews code, tests features and gives feedback quickly if someone is slacking.
the world I live in has people with two testicles or two ovaries, generally, and not one of each. if you want to make it a math problem and average it out then it's just numbers and the math says it's a non-integer value.

if you experience a large personality shift when you hit 40 that results in you needing medication to function as you were before, yeah, I'd call that neurodivergence. that implies that for that person there was a state before where things were typical for them. schizophrenia is something that often manifests before hitting 30, and that's definitely a neurodivergent condition. before it manifests the person could be considered neurotypical for the most part.

if you're able to get to a place approximating a neurotypical person with a heroic amount of effort, you don't stop being neurodivergent because you've lived that whole past life where you had those struggles to be neurotypical so even in this neurotypical state, you can't forget your past.
That doesn't make the joke less dumb.
I "preserved" a (probably somewhat lost) sokoban-like game (from the makers of Sokoban in fact) from the early 1980s as a JavaScript game about a year ago.

https://blog.qiqitori.com/tnt_bomb_bomb/ Check it out if you're interested.

* "probably somewhat lost" as in, not available as a ROM/image anywhere on the internet AFAICT, but some mentions, and even gameplay videos on YouTube
That combined with a noisy signals from inferred controls with eye and hand tracking will frustrate a lot of people. Our current interfaces are extremely precise in comparison.

I quickly narrowed down on VR experiences that provide a decent feeling of facsimile to real life being the most interesting and engaging. Beat Saber is a case in point here but for me it was combat flight sims using stick, throttle and pedals. Moving to gestures and eye tracking wrecks all of that.

I also don’t know why the original article calls using a mouse indirect as if we aren’t masters at that as well. As well as a spatially aware species we are also a tooling using species. We are experts at leveraging our spatial reasoning to manipulate tools in the world to do things we otherwise couldn’t. A mouse movement in the world translating to moving a cursor on screen is a perfect fit.
Well yes, but (at least in my experience) there is no fee for just going into an unarranfed overdraft, as long as you've paid it off within 24 hours.
You can smell another person while caressing your significant other, but it probably won't be a satisfying experience in the round.
Overall I agree: yes, with fexprs you lose some code introspection ability compared to macros. I haven't found it to be a big deal in my fexpr-based hobby Lisp so far.

Re your two points:

You could have "symbol fexprs", analogous to symbol macros, I guess.

For places I think the first-class solution as employed by T and others is better, and would work fine with fexprs:
(set (name-of person-1) "sam") simply stands for ((setter name-of) person-1 "sam").

IOW, name-of is expected to be a reader function. Every reader function has a writer function attached to it, that we extract with (setter name-of). Then we call that writer function with the rest of the original arguments.
But email does not have an UI, only mail reader application do have a UI. And many modern default mail reader applications have an awful UI, but that is not a sign of email being somehow bad.
> What it is about the OOP paradigm that you find does not fit this client->relational database application?

It's not me who finds that OOP is a mismatch with relational systems. It's me and many other people. Ted Neward talked about this 20 years ago. Jeff Atwood talked about it 18 years ago. Martin Fowler defended OOP from this criticism but at least he also talked about it, 12 years ago. There's a Wikipedia page on the subject and many related articles over the years. This is well-trod ground.

Now. Does this mean we critics are right? No. It doesn't mean that. It means that this is well-trod ground. It is the topic of a healthy debate that generates one line of criticism of OOP. Functional programming--which I haven't mentioned in this thread until now--is another source of OOP criticism. What's interesting to me at this particular moment is not the substance of these debates ("is the object-relation impedance mismatch real? is mutable state really bad?") or who's right. What's interesting to me is that author of Sigma's Blog doesn't address any of this. I claim that these two topics--the ostensible object-relational impedance mismatch and the mutable state bugaboo of functional programming--are of such primary importance in generating criticism of OOP that any author who sets out to defend OOP from its critics must address these topics in order to be taken seriously. And yet, all this author says is

It seems like a lot of people dislike Object Oriented Programming

They don't say who these people are, what their reasons are for disliking OOP, or why things seem this way to the author. They just accuse unnamed "people" of not understanding OOP and then dive into a bog-standard description of OOP which is well-understood by all the relevant programmers that I know.

None of that answers your questions on the topic of the object-relational mismatch, of course, but then I never promised to explain that topic to you. I might, but then again I might not. If I don't, there are plenty of resources online that you can study for yourself. If you form a killer argument that addresses all issues once and for all, perhaps you should write your own blog post. Surely such a groundbreaking achievement would be worthy of making it all the way to the front page.
The 'and up' bit is relevant. I know some people there that do large multiples of that figure.
This has been true since the earliest VR controllers of the current generation so there is plenty of evidence to check out right now!
> Building a more complicated system akin to the forges on top of emails will likely require modifications to the original email workflow, e.g. to add metadata.

Emails do have header, there is no problem storing metadata in those.
You actually want the opposite for power saving. (Sometimes) Pipewire got a change recently from Asahi Linux to ensure that relatively rare audio interrupts don't wake up the performance cores and are left on efficiency ones.
It's a bit of a weirdly worded article. I think what actually happened was the German government funded it. The EU approved of them doing it, which had to be checked under the EU state aid rules. This is very different to what you stated.

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/28084-eu-clears-state-ai...
Microsoft, Google woo India programmers to win AI leadership in the country
Wow, that is incredible. First that it wouldn't have pride of place somewhere (it's as if the gift wasn't properly appreciated), second that it would end up in storage and then that it was found again. If they need a safe place to store it give them my email ;)
There’s something that a lot of people get wrong about inflation.

What you have to keep in mind is that the debt is in US dollars. So, while printing money and causing inflation to pay the debt sucks, it won’t cause a Weimar Germany situation. that only happens when the debt is in an external currency. When you inflate your currency and the debt is in your currency, it becomes easier to pay as the currency inflates. But when it’s in a foreign currency, the exchange rate tanks, and so the more money you print, the more the debt appears to increase. So you then need to print more money faster and faster to continue to make the payments.

A government would only do this under threat of attack or if they thought someone would organize a coup against their government if they failed to pay. That was the exact situation in Venezuela, for instance, which is why they kept printing money to make the payments on their imf loans.

But for us, it might suck, but the economy won’t collapse.
https://www.google.com/search?q=enshittification
Thanks. I skimmed through it a while back, so my memory might be faulty, but I think it implemented a Lisp in a Lisp. Do they actually implement this whole machinery, or do they simply use the existing mechanisms?
Carefully stored CDs and DVDs retain their contents for far longer than hard drives.

I have several external HDs that are no longer readable. Yet DVDs burnt on a 2009 MBP still read fine with an external DVD drive.

I have some early USB keys that no longer work, so I doubt that flash sticks or even SSDs are useful for backup for more than 10 years.
Are they a waste of money? Did they stimulate the startup economy, upskill workers, etc? Were there no spin offs? Nobody learnt anything?
I'd rather they do it publicly than secretly tbh. At least you know where they stand.

As for companies, judge their actions, not their words.
He was a unique talent but also apparently really lazy. Wouldn't study his lines & insisted on them being fed to him via earplug. I liked this story though, he seemed like an interesting guy.
Except this is the exact opposite of what MMT says? Since MMT is such a boogeyman nowadays and people on the internet can't agree on a single definition, lets take the wikipedia article explaining it (2 seconds of research you didn't do before posting).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory

"Is limited in its money creation and purchases only by inflation, which accelerates once the real resources (labour, capital and natural resources) of the economy are utilized at full employment"

The whole point of MMT is simply that the painting is not the item, and money is not value, money is a representation of value and that it's inherently worthless. IE, if you suddenly taxed away 50% of everyone's dollars and cut all dollar-denominated debt by 50%, literally nothing would change except that people would need to get used to new prices being half of what they were.

What MMT says is that printing and taxing are just wealth distribution under the assumption that humans are rational and can adjust to new prices quickly. The issue and all complications are

1. Rebasing all forms of currency including weird things like dollar denominated debt, sovereign reserves, stocks etc is hard.

2. Human's aren't rational and will be mad if you suddenly halve the value of their dollar even if in real terms nothing has changed for them b/c government handouts or whatever.