skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole thread has a bunch of answers which are confusing the topic.

The issue is why would Taiwanese businesses care about the China market? Aside from the fact that the China market is massive, there is a simple answer: Taiwan and China have the same business language, and that is Standard Chinese aka Mandarin.

Yes, lots of Taiwanese people also speak other Sinitic languages that are not Mandarin, and are not mutually intelligible with it. And lots of Chinese people also speak other Sinitic languages that are not Mandarin and are not mutually intelligible with it. And even some variants of Mandarin itself are not mutually intelligible. But - outside of Cantonese in HK and Macau - none of those languages are used as the primary business language anywhere in either China or Taiwan, so it's an interesting side note but doesn't change the point.

All that said, aside from the Chinese market being massive, and the common language being convenient, there is a much bigger elephant in the room that explains why Taiwanese companies might not have a fun time doing business in China: politics.

It doesn't matter how much money Taiwanese companies might want to make if the CCP can threaten to turn off the spigot any time they want to influence Taiwanese politics, which unfortunately nowadays appears to be all the time. Sure, it's leaving a lot of money on the table, but doing business with Japan or the US or other countries that aren't run as a single party dictatorship whose leadership has a stated platform of dismantling your own government might be a less risky option.
> or because intelligence actually has a hard time surviving in nature.

Alas, I can't find it now... there was a book that I read (Bear / Brin / Benford as the author I believe... maybe Baxter... one of the great Bs I'm sure of) about the matrilineal line from a small shrew like animal in the time of the dinosaurs through neanderthals to modern times... and beyond.

Part of the "and beyond" was the theme that intelligence and our brain is an extremely expensive organ to maintain (our brain consumes about 20% of the calories that we consume a day https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC124895/ ). After some catastrophe that reduces the energy budget that animals can use... well, intelligence is one of the things to go.

(Late edit: It was Baxter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_(Baxter_novel) )
I mostly agree, except if you only learn this way, you’ll end up missing a lot of non-obvious features of the language. E.g. writing your own function to do something you could do in a single standard library call, if only you knew it existed.
All, or almost all EV brands in the US are selling less this year than last. Except Tesla, which has about 65% market share.
When alternatives are Windows laptops that barely work - it doesn’t seem so expensive.

Case in point. Back in 2018, me and my gf bought new laptops. I’ve opted for MBP and she bought Asus Rog Strix. Both were over 2k euro.

Two years after her laptop has constant issues with Windows updating all the time, WiFi modem dies until you power cycle whole machine, it randomly turns on at night or doesn’t go to sleep at all, fans that sound like jet engines even on lowest of speeds.

My MBP 2018 is still a champ after all these years, I had literally zero issues with it and the only reason why I’m contemplating upgrading is how amazing M processors are.

And seriously? More expensive? MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM and M processor starts at 1500 euro. It has far superior build quality, software and battery life than any Linux/Windows machine in any category. And on top of that it runs completely silently. Apple=expensive meme needs to die.
At -6.75, the impact of the shrinkage caused by eyeglasses would very likely exceed any slight visual imperfections caused by contacts (glare, halos, instability, rotation misalignment for astigmatism, etc.) I'm at -4 and prefer contacts for computer use, but it's right on the point of almost indifference for me.
it was when I had to move php5 to php7 5-6 years back, and if I remember correctly a few OS libs didn't support php7 so that was really hard. Was faster to build a new VPS, since no big DB or storage was easier.

You might have had a smooth experience, and happy for you. But PHP didn't have, maybe it does now, such a good version manager as NVM.

But yeah we also had once where all the way back where we didn't do it with NVM and that was a pain in the ass.
There's a similar project from Google: https://github.com/flutter/packages/tree/main/packages/rfw

rfw is used by Google's Gemini LLM to generate UI.

rfw runs on the web/android/ios/macos/linux/windows, anywhere where Flutter runs.
> and the article has data

How does that data prove anything? The ideal PR size is 50 lines because that’s the median size on Github. Seem like a pretty worthless claim.
Yeah man, I get REALLY PISSED when I see a woman trash collector. How DARE they!
Have to remember that this was a "give away the razor, sell the blades" scheme. If you're the proprietor of such a scheme, you really, really don't want the razor to break.

The ballsy thing about Juicero was that they didn't give away the razor. It was priced at something like $400. They were awfully high on their own supply.
Yeah, the interbreeding must have been uncommon as otherwise over 10,000 years there wouldn't be any meaningful distinction (I assume).
MXene-coated devices can guide microwaves in space and lighten the payload
> they have a more nimble economy that can turn around quicker

That's not evident in the persistent high youth unemployment rate. There is also something called middle income trap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_income_trap

> they become the dominant world super power.

There's no sign that that is guaranteed. No sign in culture power. No sign in economic power. No sign in demographics power. No sign in innovation power. No sign in technology power. No sign in military power.
> I don’t understand how you can be so fundamentally against crypto.

There are a lot of different reasons people can be fundamentally against crypto, and those reasons have been talked about in great depth over the last few years. Even if you don't agree with them, the various "anti" positions aren't that difficult to understand.
Some things are hard.
Just the sound makes me noxious
I think that any forecasts are probably reading too much into a limited data set.

Intelligence does have an incredibly hard time surviving in nature. Humans are hyper-optimized for it. We are far weaker than chimps, and burn 30% more calories. We are slow reproducing k-strategists, with infants that are helpless for years.

That said, Humans are planet level apex predators, and universal omnivores that consume everything whales to yeast and synthetic foods made from elemental materials.

Over the course of our existence, our capability for growth has vastly overshadowed any downside from intra-species hostility. We are also the most cooperative and social animal that has ever existed.

This is a pretty strong position to be in, and certainly better than just about any other animal sharing the plant.
That assumes that investors would have given the same amount of money to someone who didn't do the barefoot leather jacket Jesus act.
You want to keep heavy stuff close to the centre of mass. Heavy stuff flailing around isn't that good to keep balance and do precise movements.
No idea. Maybe a driver issue. Have you played around with drivers? From Dell's website versus Intel's website.

Have you tried a fresh install of Windows 11 and not an upgrade from 10?

Ask on the Dell forums or subreddits. Maybe there's others out there with this issue.
He didn’t buy it for that specifically, he bought it because he wanted to see what it was like. This is like one sentence of many discussions we’ve had about it. Lots of pros, lots of cons.
I am getting images of Steve Jobs frustratingly jumping around yelling "You are holding it wrong!!!"
If that’s what you call quality products, then I’d rather be a part of cult.
> Stanley can't dismiss this as just frivolous UI polish for limp wristed homosexuals.

… ???
The Inscrutable Systems of the British Post Office [audio]
Part one of a two part series discussing the Fujitsu Horizon scandal,
and its technical, cultural and legal dimension.
> Seems like a bad strategy if people are conditioned to distrust it.

Most people live where they grew up. Those people aren't conditioned to distrust it. They're also probably underrepresented on HN.
> Yet he chooses to get hella views with noob topics like editor wars, programming language wars etc.

I fixed that. Those topics almost certainly perform better because they're automatically controversial.
Counterclaim: the ideal PR is the one that's never opened. Instead, have high test coverage and do trunk based development.
Seems silly, but why Genocide specifically? What does that word mean to you and what do you think that would look like?
There's a difference into trying to understand what makes everyone tick, and going into deep personal details.

It might make sense from employer perspective, but why i should put myself at risk? It is similar to prisoners dilemma.
I put together a simple gif to roughly demonstrate the effect:
https://giphy.com/gifs/JImONk8V5YK6iGBFkH/tile

While it still can't fully resolve shapes smaller than a pixel, it definitely helps with identifying forms.
I don't browse HN on my phone anymore, but I used to zoom in on the arrows every time I wanted to click them. You're right, it's quite a difficult target.
The thing about IE, one thing anyway, is that it's CSS support, box model, etc, was broken and non standard. So you would need to exploit CSS parser bugs to give IE a separate CSS, use DXImageTransformFilter to make png transparency work, etc.

Maybe by WebKit you mean Blink and by Blink you mean V8, because when somebody does a "Show HN: something that doesn't work in Safari or FireFox" it's usually a javascript problem not a CSS or rendering problem. And every 6 months someone complains that Safari is literally worse than IE 5 because it doesn't support some non-standard privacy nightmare API that Google added last week.
> Flowers appeared ~130 mya while mammals appeared ~225 mya, so this cannot be coded in our "reptilian brain."

Why not?
How many times are we going to reinvent bootstrap?
That just shifts the incentive up thee governance hierarchy a little bit. The only way to remove it would be to prevent the government from both benefitting from it in any way, or controlling who else benefits from it. Something like donating the proceeds to randomly chosen 501c3s. The same perverse incentive exists for all other government issued financial penalties as well, they're just seen as less unjust.
The worst part of it is that it could happen.

Great video :-)
NIF fusion breakeven claims peer reviewed and verified by multiple teams
I think you missed the rest of the sentence:

> He's a big fan of pattern matching, and enums, and discriminated unions, which allow correctness to be verified at compile time.

And the forest for the trees:

> [Stanley] hates any source of uncertainty or ambiguity

> [the author argues] this view of software is not just wrong, but fundamentally incompatible with the real world.

The author paints a picture of someone who chooses these tools not because they are nice tools or because the tools are helpful but because of desires that stem from misguided, dogmatic, unhelpful beliefs that make the subject a worse engineer.

By contrast, you are probably a lovely person who loves writing nice code. This article has nothing to say about you.
We are going to hit a point soon where even creators won't be able to spot all the borrowed animation elements due to the black-box nature of generative AI models. I imagine it's going to be like the Akira bike slide but for everything.

Things lifted wholesale from training data but plastered together to create new works will leave us in an uncanny state of semi-permanent déjà vu where our little pattern matching blobs constantly chirp out subtle connections.
anecdotal means your personal experience.
I used to just Google stackoverflow, but, I mean, we have ChatGPT now.

https://chat.openai.com/share/10801cef-37a5-41cf-a0d3-52cf38...

I don't see why you'd try to memorize a language. We have the Internet. /shrug
If you're trying to compare the caloric content of two forms of energy, knowing what you can get out of the energy by itself is helpful.

In the end, the HP will be up to 30% more efficient than strip heat (in my case the crossover point is under 10f where strip heat is cheaper to operate).

I built a breakdown chart showing cost per kWh for both heat pump and strip heat, then added gas to it as a comparison.
Yes, but that's not important.

The primary way politicians get reelected is by demonstrating to their constituents they've done things.

And because politics is comprised overwhelmingly by unimpressive and unimaginative sociopaths interested in enslaving their fellow man, the path to reelection and doing things is by passing laws, even if the laws make no sense.
Or may be because we lived together for so long that individual differences disappeared and averaged out as people intermarried and had a lot of mixed babies.

I'm not saying that this necessarily happened, only that the burden of proof for your theory should be higher.
Love it.

One comment: I wish it didn't zoom in when I click a map pin. I prefer the map to stay in the same position.
You can't point to that in a vacuum. For boomers and Xs, it was literally less important to be rich, because you could still do quite well for yourself. Since about 2008 if you're not rich you are much more likely to be existentially struggling. So yea millennials think it's important to be rich because those are the only people who can afford houses.
The rule is "Aviate, Navigate, Communicate".

In an emergency, caring about ATC is literally your lowest priority, in every case. It is ATC's job to notice a plane no longer under their control and route other aircraft safely around it. Your entire job is to do everything you can to prevent the death of anyone onboard, and playing ham radio is rarely the best way to do that.
Yes, the gist is that in a fusion device, you've got a chain reaction where the splitting uranium or plutonium is making neutrons, and those neutrons strike other uranium or plutonium, which makes more neutrons, etc. But you have a very short period of time to take advantage of this chain reaction, because before long, your device has blown apart, so a large percentage of the fuel in a conventional fission device never undergoes fission (the device has blown up before it has a chance). The job of the fusion reaction in a fission-fusion-fission device (how "modern" thermonuclear weapons work) is, in addition to producing energy of its own, to rapidly produce lots of lots of neutrons, which can very quickly fission a second quantity of fissile material.
Michelangelo had the same chisel and tools as every other artist of his time.

Why didn't they just make art with the same quality?

It's not just what tools you have, but how you use them.

You don't just go plug in one of these machines and it starts pumping out working chips.

Increasing density means better controls and processes, better knowledge of running and calibrating the machines.

Tons of processes before and after the ASML machines.
Brain Resting-State Connectivity Significantly Correlates with ADHD Symptoms
There are good things about dotnet (I'm more of a Scala person these days, but I have plenty of respect for F#), but there's nothing in there that lets you get up and running remotely as quickly as Python. (I mean, you don't even get a REPL without doing some messing around)
> with non-Chromium users of Blink needing to bring their own multiprocess.

Isn't that what happened anyway? The non-Chromium dists of Blink like Electron and WebView2 both employ the same multi-process approach as Chrome.exe (and my RAM availability is suffering for it...)
A major missing piece of the picture here is the introduction of Road User Charges (RUC) for EVs. RUC are a tax levied on diesel vehicles in NZ. The idea being that the cost of maintaining roads is built into petrol taxes, but many (most?) diesel vehicles don't use the roads. Think farm tractors, construction equipment, etc. So the road tax is levied on diesel vehicles based on the distance they travel. You need to buy RUC credits to pay for your use of the roads.

Until recently EVs were exempt from RUC and so were extra cheap to operate. Now there is the double whammy of the removal of the subsidy and the extra cost of having to pay RUC.

You can argue that this is fair and expected, EV owners should pay for the roads they use, same as every one else. But the question remains as to whether the trade off of more ICEs vs EVs in the NZ vehicle fleet is worth it.
thanks! The design has been carefully chosen, I was looking for something minimalistic. I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Solo band, not the double loop.
IMO it's not that there 'were' multiple species and only we survived; we are still multiple species, but we don't point that out for cultural correctness. Yes, the extent of our differences has narrowed as we passed through survival bottlenecks, but we never became a single species.
I like that Microsoft innovates alot but I'm wary of the long trail of UI technologies that have fallen by the wayside.
cf. Jason Barnes and his prosthesis designed for playing drums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyHHxIYOs1g
What is the main advantage of this over the classic big cloud function offerings?

Sounds like developer experience possibly?
> The entire podcast ecosystem rests upon the shoulders of Apple's podcast directory

Check out:

https://www.listennotes.com

Listen Notes is an indie run service by a single person.

Not only does it host its own podcast directory, it has advanced search and many other nice capabilities.

The blog also talk about its tech stack.

https://www.listennotes.com/blog/how-i-accidentally-built-a-...

And you can even buy their Podcast Database

https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-datasets/solutions/
> Which you think it is depends on what you value.

Sure, but more so - what software you use. AFAICT most complaining is about Windows software and web.

Windows is getting crappier and crappier because it ceased to be an important part of Microsoft's empire, and web... is web, went full stupid on JS and attracts most newcomers.

On the Linux and especially CLI side everything seems to be flourishing.
> The researcher's note that the LLM is not really "reasoning,"

But are the humans?
* TypeScript is eating JS

* StackOverflow ranked VSCode is as #1 popular IDE.

* And #2 is Visual Studio.

* GitHub maintains absolute dominance.

* Azure ended Q4 as the fastest growing cloud

* ChatGPT owns AI

Microsoft is clearly going nowhere /s
In the 50s, it was thought that we were smarter than them and killed them all off (the author of Lord of the Flies even wrote a book on this).

This seemed to inform futurists at the time thinking about what it would one day look like if there was something smarter than humans.

Hopefully we do a better job at considering this revision to our picture of the past and correcting our anchoring bias in our estimation of such a future.
You can look at the State of New Hampshire’s Dept of Energy comparisons here, updated weekly:

https://www.energy.nh.gov/energy-information/nh-fuel-prices

Actually right now #2 heating oil is now somewhat cheaper per MBTU than propane. Also Natural Gas is slightly cheaper than heat pump per MBTU (YMMV on efficiency!)

I’ve never seen propane cheaper than heating oil here!

EDIT: It’s probably worth pointing out that the North East of the US is the largest heating oil market in the world.
Burial is a blight on society. Good on crematoriums for promoting a better option.
Based on modern DNA patterns there also seems to have been at least one other major population group around the same time that we have not found any remains of, which was related to both Sapiens and Denisovans.

They probably lived mostly around southeast Asia. (Neanderthals were mostly in Europe and Denisovans are thought probably to have generally inhabited northern Asia).

I can highly recommend The World Before Us by Tom Higham, it goes into the history of the archaeology and science and also goes over a pretty up-to-date understanding of the topic of recent Hominin evolution.

(Also, it's very likely I've misconstrued some of it in my paragraphs above, apologies if so).
I broadly agree with you on your points, and as a Tesla shareholder with a slightly embarrassing amount of money tied up in them, I have nothing but self-interested desire for them to do well.

What seems to happen often with owners of the vehicles is that they are so enamored with many of the benefits of them, that they overlook some issues -- sometimes to the point where they don't or won't acknowledge them. And use this very biased point of view to extend their positive feelings and anecdotes towards the entire brand.

I also personally believe that things that were issues with traditional ICE cars simply aren't the same kind of problem with electrics, or of the same magnitude. So even similar sounding problems are more a matter of degree than equavalency. In addition, there are benefits to electrics that have no real equivalency with ICE cars.

What I do know is that if you do even the most cursory research on the overall large-scale and longterm reliability of the vehicles...which because Tesla isn't forthcoming with their data has to be accumulated voluntarily by survey...the cars don't do well.

However, it's really not that important to most owners as the vehicles as again, the benefits simply overwhelm all of that. Things that would be unacceptable to an owner of a Toyota really does just get a free pass with a Tesla.
> whereas the Blink team wanted it to be part of Chromium with non-Chromium users of Blink needing to bring their own multiprocess.

Is that why Electron basically means Chromium?
That's a talented approach, yes. But something I've observed in a couple of former coworkers is they will put together 6 PRs to the main branch where the code won't even (purposefully) build yet. By PR 6, the code functions, but is in a terrible state because PRs 1-5 were essentially pointless to review, and many of the issues you have with the code base are now firmly outside of the 6th PR's diff. I've likened this phenomena to the H.H. Holmes murder hotel, where he hired contractors to do extremely small jobs individually, and none of them realized (or at least had some plausible deniability) that they were creating a hotel made perfectly for the owner to murder residents. Except in this situation, I perceive the author was hiding the fact that they have no clue how to write code, which I don't know who they thought they fooled.
Never used this thing but as far as I understood you have to "move" your eyes in order to drag a window, or to click on something, or to do anything of the sorts, while when I'm looking on a screen I generally read stuff (which doesn't involve that "much" of an eye movement) or watch a video (which doesn't involve eye movement almost at all).
> I chose a text editor as an example because Stanley can't dismiss this as just frivolous UI polish for limp wristed homosexuals.

Well, that's... a choice of language.

Anyway, I suppose I'd better go check exactly when in the '90s this was originally written, and put a comment suggesting that the year be added to the HN title.

...

2024

Huh.

Well, I suppose we should congratulate the author for having woken from their 30-year coma. Before introducing them to all the LGB+ (don't push them too quickly!) acceptance progress that's been made in that time...
The origins of the 2 party political system.