skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There haven’t been any as successful, but there have been competitors. OpenCL, DirectX come to mind.
3.2% yield which likely is real yield as it grows with inflation in the long term. And the underlying property price also growth with inflation (with incomes, really, so higher than inflation).

So 3.2% real yield - which is not much lower than the earnings yield on stocks, but with the ability to go heavily leveraged without being exposed to the rapid margin calls in equities. (It's no surprise that many multi-millionaires got their start by developing/renting out property.)
Who is pushing anything on the public? The tech industry wouldn't exist in the form that it does now except that it gives people something they want, not the other way around.

Disruption from tech advancement is caused by tech changes displacing existing industries and it hurts the people currently making money from those industries. But to be against that disruption you would have to believe that those people have some sort of right to make that money and continue doing the things that make them those profits when the public wants the more efficient tech. So really it's the anti tech people who are pushing things on the public.

E.g. people often complain about Amazon displacing small retailers, but really it's just that given the choice, most people choose Amazon.
Queer.af will close on 2024-04-12
Also many people, who have actually used Lisps prefer the notation for its ease of editing code.
Don't forget to tip your waitress, folks.
Apple's actions are anti-competitive. Spotify is a very good example. Instead of making a better product, Apple is acting to appropriate other businesses. Although the object of Apple's action is companies that try to make money that Apple wants, it is the users, the customers who pay. Apple is an anti-user platform. They are not alone in this of course.

How do we change this? I, as a user, am aggrieved that Apple sells (not lends) me a product and then takes actions that make product less useful and more costly. Maybe Spotify and companies should simply set up a website so it is easy for me to take Apple to small claims court? The facts of Apple's anti-competitive practices are certainly clearly laid out in the EU's action, so that should not be hard.

I would sign up.
You would think that by now AMD realizes that poor software is what left them behind in the dust, and would have changed that mindset.
This is true in general (for all feature sets anyone might want, there must exist a car with those features) but doesn't have to be true in particular (for a given feature set, there may exist a car with those features).

I suspect you have no idea if OP's feature set is available on the market. I certainly do not.
"For reasons unknown to me, AMD decided this year to discontinue funding the effort and not release it as any software product."

Managers at AMD never heard of AI?
Tim Apple is paid to love money.
For comparison, electricity was sold to the U.S. grid at about $48/MWh in 2023. This is less than any of the cost projections mentioned in the article.

Howabout materials? It says this weighs 28 tons and makes 1.2 MW. That's 21g/W assuming a 100% capacity factor, no balance of plant, and assuming those are short tons. Compare to an iPhone 15, which consumes about 1W per 150g in use. That's a materials intensity multiple (EROI estimate) of ~ 7. An average automobile on an average commute dissipates about 67kW, or 27g/W for a multiple of ~ 1.
What made you choose Deep Springs? How are the career prospects? What are the pros and cons of studying there for you?
>I think they made the correct choice.

Do you understand how much harder layout is when its not on a rectangle?
Benn Jordan, a musician critical of Spotify, gets his music catalog removed
I've followed Benn for years, and his critique of modern revenue models for musicians. It's stunning to me that a duopoly can punish musicians for speaking out like this.
Why Does My Coffee with Milk Taste Sour?
That's been around for a long time. In ancient Rome, hired mourners were basically expected of anyone of any real social status.

The professional mourners included actors who wore masks of the deceased and any prominent ancestors, and imitated their mannerisms and speech to the best of their ability.
Those of us who were active back then did see the software. It was not kept off servers. It's just that I don't think archive.org was active at the time so we have no way of showing it to you, I believe.

Edit: As for Napster and DMCA, the Napster story happened in 1999 and the DMCA in 1998. The limitations on crypto were loosened in 1998 and 1999 and removed in 2000. In other words, Napster and DMCA isn't really relevant here - the encryption story mostly unfolded before that time.
There's a server room right down the hallway with racks of SCSI and SAS drives, some even running 2007 Opterons. I have no clue who's using them, but there's a ton of spares in the room leading into it, so there's definitely demand for these things.

As with all technologies though, the cost first starts out high as it's introduced, is reduced as it becomes popular, and climbs back up as it's obsoleted and nobody makes them anymore but some people are stuck using them.
Most of our users are leveraging Postcard to stay connected with their closest friends and family. This is not a public social tool by any means but more of a hybrid create tool that allows users to save and send while bundling different media types. Hope y'all enjoy and we welcome all feedback :)
It is "disc" related, the discs in question are the brake discs.
Have we tried it yet? SF has been run by and for old money for decades.
Actually, the e/acc community has stated it rejects Nick Land's more recent work.

If you read older posts, you'll find the earlier e/acc members got started with Fanged Noumena.
The point of interest for HN:

> Since the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in 2021, that fate of that domain has fallen into question; until late last year, the .af registry had effectively ceased to exist, leaving everything in a state of limbo. The (CoCCA), who were contracted to operate the TLD, continued to operate things as-is, although eventually turned off all operations but automatic renewals.

> More recently, however, the registry has begun to operate again. Unfortunately, this is not really good news: this means it is now under the control of the Taliban government of Afghanistan.
Should be a text label in present tense not (or not only) an "LED". I like radio buttons but something equally unambiguous could also work.

Microphone Status
[ ] Muted
[x] Unmuted
I’m absolutely being sarcastic.

The context is that the OP complained about one business colluding with others by way of informal no-hire lists for employees that don’t tolerate this wage theft. The response to that is to focus on how other businesses that don’t collude will get out-competed…

And yeah I’m pretty sick of this framing. It’s an anecdote where employees are direct victims, and then the focus gets shifted to hypothetical and indirect victims (businesses). Even in my own social democratic place of residence there seems to be dominant narrative of “job creators” and how we need to “create jobs”, the outcome of which is to sacrifice things in order to directly benefit businesses in order to (ostensibly, in rhetoric) benefit workers. This was concretely demonstrated when, during the pandemic, the right-wing government was very insistent on giving handouts to failing businesses that obviously were going to have a hard time (like the travel industry) under the guise of “protecting jobs”. Meanwhile, the government proposed that we should temporarily make it easier for employers to put employees on temporary leave (whatever the English/American term is) in order for them to not just die. Which is fine in itself… except they wanted tax payers and workers to dis-proportionally pay for this temporary measure. What’s the only thing that made them “change their minds”? Labor groups and other such organizations.

And then there was inflation, a predictable outcome of the spending-spree during the pandemic. So the central bank raised the rent. And again. And again. And the acknowledged consequence of that was that the poorest among us would struggle to make ends meet. But that’s not a problem at all—that a predictable outcome of a previous spending spree on businesses would impact regular people and make some people have to choose between mortgage/rent or food; not a problem. That’s just Economics.

What’s the problem with corrupt politicians? On one hand you can simply say that the problem is that corrupt politicians corrupt the political system. On the other hand you can frame it as the outing of corrupt politicians causes “political distrust” and a “crisis of legitimacy” among the (stupid) voters. So you re-frame the issue as a few bad apples (politicians) which causes the real problem of voters/regular people becoming (justifiably) cynical and distrustful of the whole system. That’s the power of framing.

And that’s why I don’t buy into the framing of helping businesses in order to (pinky swear) really helping workers. Yeah, those hand-out to businesses? Oh would you look at that—a “profit party” half a year later for the shareholders. Who woulda thunk it. But too bad about that inflation, though. Guess you should rethink owning a car or having hobbies other than taking walks in the park.
Anecdotally, I've been through ~10 employers in my ~30 years and about half were "cold applies" and the other half I was recruited in by former contacts. By far, the better experiences have been with the cold apply companies than the "already had a foot in the door" companies.
> They would always be at the mercy of NVIDIA's API.

They only need to support PyTorch. Not CUDA
This is a rather misleading headline. The vast majority of developers are not in “open revolt” – just a handful of developers are making a lot of noise about it, while continuing to ship software (ie, not in revolt at all).

Further, those developers making great noise are often close to “platform” designation themselves, making their appeal less righteous than a superficial reading might have you believe. It’s a struggle over power – not a struggle over quality nor safety nor human liberty.

Most developers are pleased with the current paradigm. I am.
i wouldn’t consider a quarter century of work by the field a crisis
I'm not even entirely sure the article establishes that it was false. The wrong equations really had a problem with an ultraviolet catastrophe. If the physicists of the time don't seem to be running around panicking about that, it's because equations not being entirely correct as they are in the process of being refined was even by then a relatively mundane thing, obviously part of the process.

We (hopefully) historically stand in a similar position with regard to General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. We know they don't go together. We don't know what the correct answer is. It's an understood problem. But it's not like physicists spend their days running around and shrieking and breaking down into tears about it, and in the meantime, we get on with using GR & QM to predict things.

It may be too strong to say "Physicists observed this issue with the equations and their freakout about them directly led to quantization." But it was a real problem with the equations, and it's certainly related to what led to quantization, and if the story glosses over yet another instance of what a physicists perceived as a mathematical convenience that turned out to be quite physically real, I'm not sure that's a vital detail for every high school student.
> Look how many clicks those pesky do good gov regulators have a cost the world with those annoying "Yes I accept your damn cookies and privacy policy" on every website I visit.

That is a form of malicious compliance that the websites do in order to make you angry at the regulators rather than at them.
That's exactly what climate change predicts.

You inject more energy into a system and the system gets more energetic.

More energy in the atmosphere, more extreme weather.
I've seen rumours from self-claimed ex-Lotus employees that IBM made a deal with Lotus to prioritise OS/2
Now you can add cloud resiliency to YOUR resume.

Win-win.
> In cases of say fortnight, there are real server costs involved. Not to mention dev costs.

In Fortnite, anyone can develop their own maps ("islands") and sell them, while Epic will pay them 40% of the revenue. Now could you please explain how the platform charging 60% platform fee are the good guys in their fight against the greedy platform charging 30% platform fee?
Swift isn't trying anything, Apple only cares about their platforms.

Open source Swift is as relevant as Objective-C was, never expect any big uptake if none of the key frameworks is open source.

Outside Apple platforms it only fulfills two goals, being good enough for Apple and iOS developers to deploy their server code on GNU/Linux, a bit of goodwill marketing, and that is about it.
Yeah, it makes no sense. It's like naming a TV remote 'OpenMicrocontroller'.
I kind of disagree with this take. I mean sure, you do lose almost all your free time and you definitely have to reevaluate your priorities, but I don't think you need to give up on your life goals / things outside of work. IE. I have a ~3 year old and recently completed a master's degree while being (by my own evaluation) a good dad/husband. It was definitely a struggle and had to really challenge myself as to whether I thought it was worth doing, but I found the time to get it done after my wife and child were asleep or before they were awake. I think it gets a little easier to carve out free time after the first year.

I have my second on the way so we'll see if I'm still singing this tune in the fall.

Definitely agree with the remote thing though. I'm in a fully in-office role now and believe my life would be vastly improved if I found a remote role. I'm committed where I'm at for another 18 months and then plan to try my hardest to get into something remote.
It should go beyond invalidating patents. Patent abusers should be persecuted for racketeering. Because it's exactly what they are doing.
A more likely interpretation is that this is a feint to make pressure to increase the price of oil. We can assume that capacity expansion will resume once the price is right.
I agree with some of what you are saying but:

> In cases of say fortnight, there are real server costs involved.

They are selling digital coins, there is zero cost to "minting" these. It's not up to Apple to make your margins work. F2P works because some people pay and others don't, the ones who pay cover server costs for those who don't. I can promise you Fortnight was bringing in a ton of _profit_ even with Apple's 30% cut. Also "think of the people running digital casinos for kids" (re: lootboxes and the like) isn't a winning argument. In fact I think hosting all that crap is a blacker stain on Apple than taking 30%.

> In cases of say music, there's licensing you pay.

Totally fair, see also: ebooks/audiobooks/tv/movies.

> If you order food, you are already working in the margins.

Apple doesn't take a 30% cut here.

> 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.

Valid when it comes to Google who seem to have struck a number of deals with places like Spotify (see EPIC vs Google suit, and why Google lost) and while there were some backroom deals with Apple I believe it was only for the 15% which Apple eventually rolled out for all subscriptions in the second year.
We're discussing a marginal rail extension to a village, versus no marginal rail extension to the village. That means we can choose to have all the benefits of the city linkages without any downsides of village linkages, unless there's a good reason to add the village linkages to the city linkages.

We can have a train going between cities, which is good. But as soon as you want to branch off and have another line going tens or hundreds of miles in a different direction, to reach that village in the middle of nowhere (maybe 'it's just off a straight line by a little bit' - ok, that will be several million), and make sure to reinforce and grade the land first, and of course the village needs a station, etc.

It adds up. The city nearest me has paid billions over 20 years to lay 75 miles of track. They're trying to do exactly what we're discussing: adding smaller towns into the commuter rail network which already serves larger cities fine. Billions with a "B". And you better believe the funding prospects involve more than 4 tickets per hour. Compare this to the cost of 1 or 2 self driving cars which serve the entire village (currently 1 car serves their needs, but they might grow).

The people in the two cities will happily go back and forth between, whether the branch-to-nowhere is built or not. So whoever wants the branch-to-nowhere, has to justify the marginal cost of building it, which, yes, costs millions. Even if the village was literally on existing inter-city commuter rail steel, which it likely isn't, the station and required changes alone would likely cost millions. Can fewer than 4 tickets per hour at least pay for the ongoing operational cost of a station and regular stops there? Maybe.

Also, please be nicer.
You can only lower the bottomo bracket so much. At some point you start having pedal clearance issues. I've put the end of the crank on my Brompton into the ground pedaling around a corner, and it wasn't like I was deeply leaned into it.
I have never had the urge to have children. And whether consciously or not, I've never dated people who wanted kids.

I don't know if my life is vastly different because of this choice. But I've always loved travel and exploring, and I suppose my experiences doing so are far more possible than folks who have families -- and who consider stability something positive. (Not all families are like that, of course.)

I'm in my late 50s now, and have been fortunate to be able to experience living in many places on both the east & west coast of the US, as well as Europe and other parts of the world. I've been able to easily move to a place, and just as easily leave, when the time feels right. I've also been able to put a lot of time into many community/volunteer projects, both online and off. Some of those led to burnout, but many were quite fulfilling, I suppose in the way that some people find children to be fulfilling. I've built a large network of friends around the world, and enjoy heading out to visit them. I also enjoy my 'base' in a quiet part of a rural US state, where I can exist with only the bugs & the birds.

I'll close with saying that, in a way, I also 'can't' have children, but not because of the usual reasons. I have pretty extreme sensitivities to noise, light, chaotic social situations, and the like. In talking to every friend who's a parent who's related their parental/family life to me, I know I'd be so incredibly overwhelmed that I'd likely abandon the situation -- which would be clearly bad for everyone. Hence, I've chosen the other path -- and it's a good one!
I'm not OP, but I appreciate the earnestness of your question so I'll try to answer.

I believe the answer comes from this line:

> Custom Registry Support

This is effectively the shadcn CLI, but with the ability to add custom sources of content in the form of registries. Imagine you want to add a shadcn component, a fontawesome icon, or another custom library component. Wouldn't it be nice to have it all accessible via one unified interface.

Anything that promotes more code-owning and fewer dependencies for lower level items (components, icons, etc.) is a win in my book.

Similar prior art is sly-cli: https://sly-cli.fly.dev

@OP: I'd consider renaming your project to avoid co-opting the shadcn name, though. For your benefit and for shadcn's.
Come on! It's not scareware! You have to admit these alternative app stores are going to be massively adopted by scammers and grifters (not saying all of the companies that will use these app stores are scammers, but all the scammers and grifters will use them).

Actual real human beings are having their lives turned upside down by things like this every fucking day. Can you try to have a little bit of compassion for people totally ignorant about computers and how much we ask them to do now? The world (and apple) doesn't revolve around developers!

What actual problem for _customers_ is being solved by alternative app stores? I don't know a single non-techie apple person who even knows what this means or has a single desire to sideload an app
Question: TASP, a related summer program, has recently gone through some painful convolutions related to race and inequality[1]. How much if at all has Deep Springs been affected by currents like this?

[1] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/a-c...
Interesting. I don’t doubt that the earliest online people were familiar with it, but I am extremely doubtful that the big names dropped in the article have even heard of Land.
Since failure to operate the controls correctly can get hundreds of people killed, there are detailed regulations governing how those controls must work.

OP is entirely correct that the UI field could learn a great deal from those standards.
> https://patents.google.com/patent/US5662332A/en (Magic The Gathering)

Thank you. I concede, this one is proof that an application that's essentially board game rules can be accepted. Whether rules not tied to a particular machine should be accepted is debatable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-or-transformation_test...?
> The owner of the patent chooses the fee that they pay per year. And anyone can pay that fee * the remaining years on the patent * some multiplier (probably in the 2-10 range) to prematurely end the patent.

So basically ending patents? If you invent something fantastic, say a way for a self driving car to perfectly sense its surroundings, Ford could just come in and pay whatever amount to invalidate your patent and prevent you from bringing your invention to market?
YAEAR (Yet Another "Earth's Actually Round") article.

One would think that if the earth was really round, there wouldn't have been any need to keep writing such articles after several years, and yet here we are again.

> humans can’t immediately see curvature with a glance

No, humans absolutely can, as long as those curvatures are: a) intuitive; and b) the curvatures used aren't nauseatingly large. Round Earth start failing at the b) condition much sooner than a flat-earth model.

In short, generations are forced to effectively re-learn basic facts about the world they inhabit because new members are in fact ignorant and must be disabused of their intuitive yet incorrect assumptions.
It only has a very specific meaning in software. To consumers Apple's App store is trusted.
Anybody can build a bridge that works - it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely works.
AI frenzy puts Nvidia ahead of Amazon in market value
They control the license according to the terms of a license. But once a patent is sold the author of it no longer has any right to it.

Authors and inventors are mentioned with the same language in the clause. Since it has always been true that authors can basically only profit from their writings by selling copies or originals of their works (without selling the right to the copyrighted material itself) then some form of licensing is necessarily included in the clause for both copyright and patents.

There may have been journalists at the time who wrote works for newspapers owned by others. If so, this would be a reason to include the right of selling all of the rights to one's writings or inventions in the clause. I genuinely don't know if this was the case though.
Why do you think I mentioned that hackers are upvoting a comment calling people of a certain skin color monkeys?