skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> betting on the wrong horse (OS/2)

Ahhhh, your hindsight is well developed. I would be interested to know the background on the reasons why Lotus made that bet. We can't know the counterfactual, but Lotus delivering on a platform owned by their deadly competitor Microsoft would seem to me to be a clearly worrysome idea to Lotus at the time. Turned out it was an existentially bad idea. Did Lotus fear Microsoft? "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run" is a myth[1] for a reason. Edit: DRDOS errors[2] were one reason Lotus might fear Microsoft. We can just imagine a narritive of a different timeline where Lotus delivered on Windows but did some things differently to beat Excel. I agree, Lotus made other mistakes and Microsoft made some great decisions, but the point remains.

We can also suspect that AMD have a similar choice now where they are forked. Depending on Nvidea/CUDA may be a similar choice for AMD - fail if they do and fail if they don't.

[1] http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done...

[2] https://www.theregister.com/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_inc...
It's very common on Youtube physics education videos. My take away from was exactly what the article states. That the ultraviolet catastrophe was observed and that the study of it lead to Quantum physics because it was noted that it could only be explained if things existed in discrete energy levels.
that's not the definition of the word civilly. words have meanings. Generally speaking, when you find yourself redefining the meaning of words it's a strong indicator that your argument is poor.
Most people haven't even heard of binary.
I define functions as often in let/letfn blocks than I do as separate functions, so they are local and in context. Makes it easy to read.
Macabre though it may be, I've often thought about submitting a YC proposal for a startup that provides professional executor services for those who are facing death alone. Demand is only going to increase as time goes by and, as many internet articles show, it can be difficult to find an executor that one trusts if they have a small social circle.
FWIW, to bystanders without context for this area of study, the parent is basically the orthodox take on the role of the state in modern economies and “free markets”: in short, you can’t have one (certainly not a highly-productive one that makes life not-suck) that lasts for any length of time without a state, and the “shape” it takes and whom it serves and to what degree is meaningfully determined by same state.
Just DO let me have my k_P, k_I, k_D please! See also:

* r,g,b,a

* h,s,l

* x,y,z
They will fake usage. Software parents should not exist
Am I the only one that associates the term "accelerationism" mostly with right-wing extremism and terrorism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism#Far-right_acce...

If you are a techno-optimist, you should ask your AI to come up with something less associated with race war and neo-nazi ideology
It's a bit funny, a bit annoying, and a bit scary how these e/acc people don't seem to understand the slightest thing about Nick Land's philosophy, which is ultimately where the term accelerationism came from. Probably because it's extremely dense, filled with "Deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis", and because Land himself is hard to follow or understand. He gets described as a neoreactionary, which is pretty accurate to my reading, but...it definitely has little to do with, quoting from the article: “Do something hard. Do it for everyone who comes next. That’s it. Existence will take care of the rest.”

I am by no means an expert or huge fan of Land, but he's definitely more along the lines of, "the machines are going to eat everything and there's basically nothing you can do about it."

So, in some sense, this is just another round of "economic elites co-opting someone else's culture."

Edit: I did some searching on Twitter and found this great quote, which really does sum it up:

> E/ACC is a fitting end to Accelerationism. After having been passed around by dissident intellectuals and online deviants it can finally settle into retirement as another kitschy pastel MS Powerpoint Californian grindset aesthetic stripped of all its substantial insights.

https://twitter.com/augureust/status/1691893969678913692
Every single married man reading this knows very well that when you marry sex activity decreases!
Excuse my ignorance about stocks. Do you get some dividends or would you sell at the event of getting replaced by AI and live off that / reinvest?
Absolutely? Consumption of experiences is still consumption.
This is my criticism of the position that AI and the coming labor automation revolution will yield an "age of abundance" where goods are so insanely cheap that anyone can have anything:

Have you ever known a company to reverse shrinkflation, or return profits to consumers, rather than to shareholders?

I worry that this is another bit of feel-good garbage like "wealth will trickle down when we cut taxes for the wealthy." It's completely contrary to human behavior.
Could you give examples of such companies (I am really curious)?
Nango (YC W23, product integrations) is hiring a back end engineer
Again, we are not talking about "late checks" here. Say youre renting an apartment. It costs 3000 a month but you only pay 2500 a month. Is that ok? Should you be allowed to live in that apartment?
PTX is not a hardware ISA though, it's still software and can change more rapidly.
The troll can price their licenses slightly less than the presumed legal costs. Then most victims won't fight.

Presumption of validity is what makes patent trolling more lucrative than other forms of predatory litigation. You're guilty until proven innocent, because the law assumes that the patent office is generally doing the right thing.
I find coding in Lisp to be very comfortable. If I ever decided to pull the trigger and swap [] for (), it would remove a large portion of the "chording" that happens with coding. And I by "chording" I refer to the shift key.

I love kebab-case-its-so-easy-to-type. May as well be spaces. You can pretty much do everything with 26 lower case characters, the -, space bar, and (). What's that, 30 characters? I have 46 unshifted keys I can use, plus the spacebar. So thats 16 more keys for the more common symbols. Just gotta remap the keyboard a bit.

Recall early Lisp actually used things like (plus ...) and (minus ...).

Not have to chord is a real benefit, to me, when it comes to typing. Lisp just flows that way. For me my-class I find a lot easier than either MyClass, or my_class.
No.

Your error is in assuming that all extensions to villages are built as just to villages.

There are trains between cities, which presumably have non-zero traffic, or some mix of commercial/pedestrian traffic. That's where you garner the savings - you were already spending millions on intercity traffic.

If you have your blinders on with this false-choice of city or city + villages, then you'd have a point, but this is not the case for rail between two cities. In Europe/US there are more than enough cities to make this feasible.

A rail system doesn't solve the problem of truly remote regions where there are no nearby cities, but it does allow for intercity transport with stops at minor villages along the way.

As for "providing the numbers", I'd encourage you to inspect the numbers for city rail systems, they operate on the same principle, albeit at a lower scale - trains operate on loops or lines through many neighborhoods, instead of a hub and spoke system that would require an exorbitantly expensive central hub and N lines, they can operate at a fraction of that cost with usually ~10 lines per city, servicing usually hundreds of stops (an order of magnitude savings).

Compare that with the cost of vehicles with the same city (parking, fuel, licensing, insurance, road upkeep), its fairly obvious that the one system (line with many stops) is far superior to the other (individualized transport).
There are so many real life projects that have been abandoned part-way-through. One of the biggest that still irritates me is the Superconducting Super Collider they were building in Texas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider
I'm sure not exclusively, and I don't know what a typical daycare schedule is like because my wife stays at home, but e.g. my 2 year old gets up around 7am, and usually takes an hour to eat her breakfast. Then I guess to drop her off somewhere and get to work by 9, we'd have to leave close to 8. Then we might get home around 6, and it's time to eat dinner (again this takes her an hour), take a bath, and bed time.

So 5/7 days, she'd only get her parents telling her to hurry up and eat followed by putting her to bed. That's almost exclusively being raised by a stranger.

I might not put it as aggressively as the other commenter, but I do wonder why it seems common for my peers to use daycare (if they have kids at all). I know they have the means not to. We'll see what happens when the time comes, but I quite like the idea of home schooling or hybrid schooling depending on what everyone wants. The time you get is so limited; to me at least I don't see what could take priority over spending time with them while we can (again, this applies more to people in my social class who have the means). And when people talk about "sacrificing their career"... my work is the means, not the end. To speak of "sacrificing" career for family is just... baffling. Unless you are a trauma surgeon saving lives every day or an amazing scientist inventing cancer cures, I can't believe anyone would say it. Something like principal engineer or director at a fortune 500? It's just a way to make money.

We lost my dad very suddenly when I was a teenager, so I've always had to consider that no matter how much money I make, I'll never be able to buy more time with him, but I can focus my resources on my family having more time together, and hopefully I can pass my kids that lesson without them having to learn it so directly (or at least so young. At some point we all need to learn that lesson directly). Having a stay-at-home-parent means we're buying 10,400 hours of her and her mom together before age 5. Good deal at almost any price, and it only becomes a better deal when you have more kids. Likewise with remote work, if I get an extra 1.5 hours per workday (commute + seeing them when I take a break), that's almost 400 extra hours together per year. Sometimes my daughter comes and sits on my lap while I'm working on the computer, and I'll put Curious George on for her on another monitor. How lucky I am!

When people in my social strata talk about daycare, I just want to shout at them. Not angry like the other commenter, but in a more pleading tone: don't you realize! Life is fleeting! Didn't anyone tell you! Oh well.
Agreed, but remember that we’re talking about a public park. It’s not that one guy’s personal property.
Agreed. Apple has a full right to collect as much money as it can from users of the platform they've built and maintain.

I wish the cut was more like 50%, to benefit my stocks, while I'm using exclusively FOSS and pay nothing.

These devices are so shiny and great status symbol. I recommend everyone should be in Apple ecosystem and develop applications for it.
The "Product Engineer"
To each their own. Some people enjoy giving parties, and then it's just another reason to throw a big party.
The notch gives me a larger screen combined with a camera and a smaller body. I personally value these and the decision to use that real estate for the hardware camera is imo quite creative.

I paid a few dollars for the bartender app which solves for the hidden apps. Haven’t thought about it since.
Why are you making this so complicated? The simplest solution is just a button with text on it. But sure, maybe you want a symbol instead, they do look nice and take less space.

So when sound is playing, the button should have a symbol that conveys "mute", like a speaker in a stop symbol. If you hover over it, the tool tip should say "Mute" or something to that effect.

If the button is clicked, then the sound is muted. Now you could change to a symbol that conveys "unmute" like just a speaker symbol. Or you could let go of the whole button concept here because it's pretty clumsy and ambiguous, and just use a toggle switch instead. Could just have the text "Sound on" - "Sound off" on either side, or symbols if you prefer that.

You should never assume that the user knows anything. The UI should convey everything the user needs to know, trying to use some sort of convention doesn't work because there is no convention. Avoid using signal colors because as you alluded to that also gets complicated.
Dirty hands clean money.

What you're saying about the devaluing of human labor is becoming the central challenge of our lives. Because our human value doesn't actually change, but a measure of our productivity is assigned to us by the status quo. We work harder and harder but food and rent go up faster than we can keep up with. If a government can't provide its population the means to sustain itself, then the people democratically overthrow it, sometimes violently as history shows.

Meaning that the poor and working class now perceive GDP growth as violence against them perpetrated by a corrupt elite of moneyed interests, since wages started diverging from productivity in the 1970s as we transitioned to trickle-down economics. AKA the battle of main street vs wall street. At some point, working to survive becomes so arduous that it's easier to just go off-grid or remove the bosses French revolution-style.

So AI/automation becomes an actuarial problem. How high can wealth inequality become before millions of people come after the uber-rich with torches and pitchforks?

Meaning that UBI is no longer a question of if, but when. The wealthy will push for it in coming decades for their own survival.
I guess but its similar how diplomqcy and international agreements need to be perfect forever to prevent nuclear war but so far it has worked and its worth it to keep trying.
I think I respectfully disagree almost entirely.

Maths requires a huge amount of creative effort and there often is no logical next step. There was a reason that it took three hundred years to go from an idea that a^x + b^x = c^x has no integer solutions when x is greater than two, to a proof of that, and it involved some crazy twists and turns of thinking.

However, while a pyramid may have a definite endpoint, cathedrals have historically been in a near constant state of flux - a bishop wants to show his influence and rebuilds a tower higher, a burgher of the town want to show his power by adding a side chapel. New windows are installed, a porch is demolished and replaced with something more beautiful. For the cathedrals which took five hundred years to complete, it wasn't that they were abandoned building sites during that time - they just took that long to reach the state that we see as final today. Maybe in-between there was a wooden roof instead of a stone roof, or a tower was capped at thirty meters tall rather than fifty!
It does have "hq4x" feel.
I've started using these switches: https://assets.lutron.com/a/documents/369987_eng.pdf as they work fine with the network off.

Amusingly enough the failed Best Buy product line still work great with Apple HomeKit (and manually) - even though they discontinued the cloud service and refunded all purchases as gift cards.
Water heater for bath/showers
> That said, I really don't understand the issue with their cut, or insisting on handling payments. In the vast majority of cases, these are not your customers. These are apple's customers they have given you access to.

This is not true at all. Netflix customers are Netflix customers, not Apple; the same goes for Amazon Kindle, Spotify, etc. Netflix literally cannot include a link to netflix.com in their app, otherwise Apple would pull the app from the store.

The smaller the app, the more those users are Apple's customers. But obviously we don't want a world where we penalise small developers more than large ones, so that's not a solution either.
Use an adjective?

[ ] Muted
[x] Muted
Like much statistical analysis there are some details that might not be well captured. Much of the opposition to wind power based on bird deaths is caused by the Altamont Pass facility which is placed in a golden eagle breeding area and has significantly disrupted that species. There could be similar risks here if generating equipment like this were to be used in sensitive marine habitats such as the Monterey Bay. It will probably be worth ongoing study to avoid potentially serious problems that broad statistical analysis may not catch.
I wish they would have explained what the original Accelerationism actually means instead of just giving it a quick nod:

>“Accelerationism is unfortunately now just a buzzword,” sighed political scientist Samo Burja, referring to a related concept popularized around 2017.

Accelerationism is a political reaction that basically works like this: when faced with any kind of dilemma, choose the option that is the most progressively destructive. The idea is that society & institutions are so tainted, that the only way to fix it is to continue knocking down all those boundaries and Chesterton's Fence's in order to effect some kind of institutional collapse that's being headed toward anyway.

Why slowly implement policies that spell our doom when we can implement them fast - accelerate!

That's the idea. And they should have mentioned that in the article, because the contrast with the Globo Tech notion of "Effective Accelerationism" is just good irony.
The cut is too universal and not neuanced. If it was a 30% cut on profits, that would make sense, and everyone would grin but deal with it.

But if you sell something for a 10% markup, having to give that + 20% to apple is bad. And now people ask "why do I have to pay more for your service on apple vs android". And now you're in a fun PR battle.

In cases of say fortnight, there are real server costs involved. Not to mention dev costs. In cases of say music, there's licensing you pay. If you order food, you are already working in the margins.

This makes competition vs big boys even harder. How can I compete vs netflix if any streaming service I make who doesn't have netflix's negotiation power has to pay 30% of every payment. I can't get close to netflix's price.

The list goes on.

The point is, it isn't just a grin and move on problem :(
A lot of intimidating math that will make all self-attention tutorials seem like a walk in the park in comparison. Luckily subsequent state space models building on S4 (DSS, S4D and newer ones like Mamba) simplified the primitives and the math used.
House on my street was just hit for the 5th time since I've moved in 4 years go
The link above is from a local reporter about this location.
They literally just fixed this very wall not just 3 months ago. The insurance company had to come out and redo their work because while they had been working on it another car hit the same wall and destroyed their prior work. That was back in December.

This was last night and I believe the 5th time its been hit, Though I've been told its been hit more times than that from before I moved in too. Thank you super bowl drunk driver.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jxWeSvLtfHiwT18p6
This is a case where I think the indicator (LED in real world) should be separate from the button, which label does not have to change.
Anything that breaks CUDA lock-in is great! This reminds how DX/D3D lock-in was broken by dxvk and vkd3d-proton.

> It apparently came down to an AMD business decision to discontinue the effort

Bad decision if that's the case. May be someone can pick it up, since it's open now.
Software R&D has mostly not been patented for many years because algorithm patents are effectively unenforceable outside of narrow contexts, so it is largely futile. Computer science R&D is almost universally treated as trade secrets now, which have proven to be effective and defensible in many more cases.

The consequence of this is that the state-of-the-art in many areas of software are not in the public literature and there is no trivial way to learn it. Ubiquitous deployment in the cloud greatly limits the ability to reverse-engineer the underlying architectures, data structures, and algorithms. This is notionally the situation patents sought to avoid, but the practical unenforceability of algorithm patents has made it the default outcome regardless of whether there are patents on software.
I didn't flag it but I don't think its news. At least not HN news. If amazon went from 170USD down to 120USD back up to 170USD it wouldnt really be news anywhere except for financial targetted news sources.
I look forward to the day where I can call a black man a monkey and it only be considered an insult instead of a racist insult.
Wholeheartedly agree with your conclusion!
Thankfully we're seeing a shift to more nuanced skeuomorphism called neuomorphism.
Show HN: A better dotenv – dotenvx
I'm the creator of node.js' dotenv. I'm making a better dotenv called dotenvx.

* run anywhere (cross-platform)
* multi-environment
* encrypted envs

What do you think?
I was in NJ during that time, and it was really bad. One meter of snow accumulation everywhere was normal, roads were unsafe for days.
> If I get as far as a phone screen I'm getting an offer

Wow, I didn't observe this myself even back when the market was "hot". I had a _lot_ of phone screens that didn't lead to offers.
Maybe when you file the patent, you have to submit an anticipated value statement and you are taxed some % / year on that anticipated value. If somebody violates the patent, you can sue them for up to the amount you anticipated, but not more.

In the future you can amend the value claim, but you can only adjust it down.
Welcome to the world of S3, Where everything is made up and nothing makes sense!
> I don't entirely understand your example, since in the first case you're talking about an accident

I was using it as an example of trauma, that's all. Traumatizing people is bad, right? Sure, you can't really make accidents against the law, but you can stop people from causing trauma intentionally.
> treat your wife well.

Sad to say, this is probably the hardest part for the majority of men who are like, "people will promote being so "free" that you don't even need to bother with marriage, kids, and whatever else"

I'll probably get downvoted for having this opinion, but that's been my anecdata of one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Phone had a camera on every corner of the front screen.
Bobby Jindal is an Indian American born to immigrant parents from Punjab, India.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal
Markets do not instantly become monopolized, but they do tend that way, and will also eagerly form cartels unless stopped by regulation.

Of course it matters what kind of regulation; it's also possible to regulate markets in a way that protects monopolies, and some governments do that. So it's important to have a government that understands the importance of a free market.

To give you some examples, the Dutch markets for health insurance and energy are entirely privatised but heavily regulated, and quite competitive. It's easy to switch from one provider to another, and so they compete hard on price. Although perhaps more so in the early days after privatisation than more recently.

On the other hand, the market for software is not very regulated, it's heavily monopolised. Sometimes the EU makes moves to increase competition, but that's only piecemeal and not always terribly effective; Microsoft still rules the desktop, except in those areas where Apple now rules it.
"Advancement" implies improvement. Just because things are changing does not mean they are improving.
Compute unified device architecture ?
Not awkward at all. I'm sure the family was touched that you still thought about him after all those years.