skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why was this flagged? Oh wait. HN has an extreme hatred against crypto despite the article being about speculation in general.

This is no different to trading SPACs and doing options trading with stocks or crowdfunding with private companies that VCs are attempting to dump on retail either via secondary share sales in crowdfunding sites or on the public markets and they will never disclose their ownership until they have unloaded their shares on retail.
And also: I need a job. My job/workplace has these tools. They are usable for my job and if I were to question the tools that would come on top of my workload, so I use them even if I know that cheaper tools were used at my last job.

Do I care if they pay my salary and the tools are usable?
Ah, I was wondering why Google would develop a profiler with Wine/Proton support.
I’ve used multiple rss readers over the years. I would read them for a few months and then stop because news reading would become a habit. I’ve ended up using bookmark folders in Firefox and visiting the sites I like once every few months when I can focus on them.

Where rss still gets the most use from me is podcasting. It’s open and human readable and it’s great to dump an opml file into a new player or catcher and have episodes download and start listening instantly.
Superluminal is windows (and xbox/playstation) only too, so it's off the board immediately.
Because you haven’t made it a thing yet ;) But you absolutely should.
The largest, most resource-rich, nuclear-protected country in the world with the decent education cannot advance without raping its neighbors, because checks notes neighbors wanted to trade fossils with it?
It's not so simple. Some cities have too much housing. So much so the value of land goes down because of the house built on it.

Sure building more housing, pushing prices down might induce more demand, but there are a dozen other factors (not in the control of the city) that also influence demand - job vacancies, crime levels, quality of schools, etc, etc.
Is there an annotated version breaking down each part of this for us lesser mortals?
To an extent, I agree, but it depends on what you're doing.

A CNC can get accuracies and scale that's hard to reproduce by hand. Also, a lot of hand tools can be very hard on your joints.

Once that slippery layer on your bones between the joints is rubbed down, it never comes back and then you have painful arthritis for the rest of your life, so anything you can do to avoid grinding your hands down, you should do.
I actually preferred the XML config, and I hate XML. Why? It was all in one spot, not spread out among the source files. It could be "deployed" alongside the code and not have to recompile/build. This was a bigger deal back then when "config" was often outside the official "installation" procedures that required 5 layers of OK's to put a new "compiled version" of an application in a production system. Not saying that was the right way to do it, but it existed.
I wish I could delete whole sites like GIPHY - WHY DO YOU EVEN EXIST‽
> one monitor is the fastest and most productive environment

Okay, but ... how big of a monitor? Consider that a 50" 4K monitor is a bit like four 25" 2K monitors. Except that space is undivided.

I agree that it's better to whip around virtual desktops with a hot key than to twist your neck between two monitors. But we have to agree on the monitor size first.

Is it better to have a 24" 2K monitor with a 4x4 virtual desktop, or a 50" monitor with no virtual desktop?

There is one special application that benefits from multiple monitor: when you have to monitor numerous real-time events and respond to them.

If an alarm starts blinking on an object on one of your screens, you notice, even if that screen is in your peripheral vision.

For things that your attention is riveted on, switching virtual desktops is fine.
There’s an Usborne book about electronics intended for kids that even as an adult I find myself checking out the odd time, especially when helping friends grasp the basics of how a resistor or transistor works - the pictures honestly explain it better than I could.

I now have to go get the rest of the books from them. They seem to be absolute gems that I’d like to have in dead tree format.
The value is in the land, not the house. If you own a plot of land with a single family house on it, and suddenly someone is able to build an apartment building on that piece of land, it will actually become much more valuable because an apartment building generates much more revenue than a SFH. They could easily sell the land to a developer and retire somewhere else.
Sure helps with the organic reach
Sounds like this was an unusually noteworthy work, and culturally relevant.

Of course, the publisher, 2K, is not in the business of cultural preservation.

But 2K did remaster the Mafia series, for later consoles.

Could it possibly make business sense for 2K to remaster "Spec Ops: The Line" for current-gen consoles and PC (and resolve the issues with music licensing, or whatever, as part of that effort)?
There's some truth in what you write. China, unlike say the middle east, constitutes larger risk for the US. Their preoccupation with taiwan is more focused and narrow then the diffuse albeit incremental territory expansion by the grunt warfare of Russia.

Nonetheless we must ask if only America would back Taiwan in war. I have tried to suss out Taiwanese preference. While it ebbs and flows I don't think they want the Chinese there. Like the Ukrainians, theirs is a fight of soul not of ideological conquest.

China hasn't had their nose bloodied recently; the US has. Thats something.

Who'd else would be in? And would it matter?

I'm also not sure the Chinese are prepared for the isolation that'd result. Would it really be worth it? The Taiwanese would leave the island or be a permanent "domestic terrorist" force if China wins.

But to rejoin the article, AI is but a tool for a goal they already made their mind up about.
Porting Zig to NetBSD – a fun, speedy port
You make a good point, but I have seen humans stick to what they know and ignore incredibly obvious contradictions. And there are similar trick questions designed to fool humans. This, though, is one that most humans would not be fooled by, as you point out.
Wrap up that speed-run up in an automation and refer to it as “fuzzing” and you can sell it for millions these days.
I love that the Star Wars Holiday Special was probably written before this, making it even more canon than what The Empire Strikes Back eventually became.
List it for 24 more hrs please, I want to buy it, it was on my wishlist
So you agree scalpers provide value? The industry cares more about optics than providing limited goods and services to those who value them the most (i.e. are willing to pay the most). Scalpers correct the market (or act as a front for the industry to set prices correctly while blaming a bad guy that totally isn't just them under another name), and ensure that someone who really wants to see Taylor Swift and is willing to pay $10k for a ticket can do so.

Taylor can always do more shows to increase supply and lower prices. Or do an auction and give all sales above $x to charity so it's clear that it's not about greed and is about stopping the evil scalpers.
Also interesting to note that Alan Dean Foster wrote Splinter of the Mind's Eye, which was written as a sort of backup plan for The Empire Strikes Back. If Star Wars flopped at the box office, Lucas would adapt Splinter into a low-budget sequel to Star Wars.
I think the constant stream of dopamine affects the retention of sitting and reading a book before allowing your mind to wonder. You have an interesting observation.
No, that’s a GitHub thing — it just downloads the Git repo at that release tag, which doesn’t include the source code in this case
> I was surprised because we've often been told so many different ways that Europe is ahead of the US in matters of discrimination

Maybe it's possible to have profile photos in resumes and to be "ahead of the US in matters of discrimination"
I'd love to know the difference if you get a chance to compare these two.
Same for me, but I grew up and mostly learned my earliest programming on 8-bit machines so the monocraft style is way more in my burned synapses.
I agree. My employer disproportionately lays off US citizens and preferentially hires in Latin America. I spent part of today looking at my employer’s main competitors. One has a bunch of programming jobs available in Mexico. Another is hiring primarily in India.

It isn’t ChatGPT that will take US engineering jobs. It is cheaper devs in other countries. And plenty of them have reasonable English and programming skills, as much as I wish it were otherwise. I know because I have worked with them.
I got stifling, overly-regimented from the parent comment if not the bullying (at least from the teachers); I suspect you're right about that part.
> Your thesis is incorrect.

How much Disney content is now on Netflix? Gotten smaller.

How much Paramount content is now on Netflix? Gotten smaller.

How much WB/HBO content is now on Netflix? Gotten smaller.

please, show me where my thesis is incorrect.

Netflix was the only streaming site which meant ever studio used them for streaming, plus they also had their shiny round disc service. Now, Netflix is claiming they want to get to 100% only their content which is just PR spin because nobody else will license them content. If you think they have more content now than they have in the past, you are sorely mistaken. Arguing the point just shows your lack of honesty.

I no nothing about the "poll" you link to other than they did not ask me. I don't care about exclusive content produced by the streaming platform. I care about the depth of the content available. The streaming platform fragmentation has pushed me away from caring about ANY of the platforms. Cutting the cord from cable providers was meant to be a cheaper solution than paying for the various cable packages. Now, there are so many streamers that must be paid for separately, they add up to the same as the old cable providers people were wanting to "rebel" against.

Nothing has changed for the consumer's wallet. It's just cutting out the cable middleman, and now going straight to the studios.
Subtractive work gives me job paralysis. Malleable materials are great though.
Slightly related to OSM, can anyone recommend a good and polished iOS app? I recently tried to use OSM more but the web view on mobile was impossible to use. I was not able to navigate from point A to B with it.
We literally have editors that colour bracket pairs to make this stuff easier to deal with, though.
It seems unlikely to me that the OSMF did something shady in exchange for the promise of 6,000 Euros from Cesium.

The OSM Buildings folks called themselves "OSM Buildings", using the OSM trademark. They offered a commercial service. The OSMF was OK with this. It seems the OSMF is OK with a lot of things -- including permitting Cesium to use the OSM mark in their own commercial project.

Live and let live, may a thousand flowers bloom, etc.

Rather than reflect on the fact that their name was not really theirs, but relied on the goodwill of the OSM mark, the OSM Buildings folks decided to ragequit and shut down their project, dramatically claiming that their name was "seized by a multimillion dollar company"?

The whole thing is bizarre to me.
This is precisely how I passed the lab portion of my Control Systems course in undergrad engineering.
Not if you are on macOS, the number of available profilers drops after every release.
Same with leak detectors, valgrind doesnt work, sanitizers don't work anymore (even if you compile your own clang).
Few of those empires lost territory between themselves and what they viewed as hostile powers.

For the UK, France, Spain, Portugal it was overseas empires
Folks using multiple languages, what is your workflow?

I do most DS/ML work in Python but move to R for stats, and publication-ready plots and tables (gt is really great). I often switch between them frequently, which is a hassle in the EDA and prototyping stages, especially when using notebooks. I enjoy Quarto in RStudio, but the VS Code version is not that great.

How do you make it work?

Also, after so many years using Python and R, I would love to learn a new language, even if only for just a couple of use cases. I considered Elixir for parallel processing and because it has a nice syntax, but ultimately decided against it because it can be a little slow and isn't used much in my area (sadly!). Rust seems to require too much time to get decent at it. Any recommendations? (Prolog?)
OMG. I hope the pay was excellent.
I’ve had good luck with Organic Maps [1] on iOS.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/organic-maps-offline-hike-bike...
I am sorry but Ireland, Kenya, the Malayan emergency, the Indian mutiny, the Vietnam war, Portugal’s wars, Algeria, Suez, Spain from 1820s+…

I would not call any of that quiet. And Suez was definitely an invasion.

Hell, US hegemony was challenged by Al-Qaeda and they invaded Iraq.

Russia is different in that rather than being a seaborne empire they were a land based empire. The Austro-Hungarians invaded Serbia when their Balkan ambitions were looking like being thwarted.
Stadia was such a monumental technical achievement, it was painful to see how they killed it without even seeing what it could be used for. Idiocy.
I use rss for youtube and it's been great but lately a lot of "shorts" stuff has been junking up the feeds.
I spent weeks practicing dovetails with a Japanese pull saw until they fit just right. It was very satisfying. A kind of feeling I could never achieve writing code.
You have more control on the data. Isn't that why you self hosted it in the first place?
Ha, this project does seem extremely Dutch! Whimsical yet practical(ish).
> But we rarely think about ethnic imperialism — an empire trying to gobble up neighboring polities because of linguistic and cultural similarity, so that it can be the ruler of a specific cultural sphere. (In fact, the British conquest of Ireland, the Japanese conquest of Korea and China)

Uh no. The Yamato people wanted these countries for land and resources. Japan was never interested in extending their culture, nor proactively assimilating other ethnic groups into their own, with the exception of maybe the Ryukyuan on Okinawa. If this were the case, you’d seen it in Taiwan. They didn’t want to assimilate the Koreans who already in their country for generations, either. I can only presume author is a white person, because the cultural affinity of Japan bifurcated from China a millennial ago. Speaking of which, the other motivation was to prevent and buffer Japan from being controlled and humiliated by a white colonizers, as was the case with China.
The State of Software Engineering from an Academic Perspective
From the copyright owner's perspective, the value of your work typically increases over time. ... works that lose value and decay in cultural relevance. The vast majority of cultural works decay like this.

I'm not following your argument here. If the value of the music and the game that it's used in both decay rapidly you should be able to come to a reasonable fixed fee that represents the net present value of the license.
Not an expert, however (lol) - even if the recommendations here are solid - this doesn't feel like a particularly well-reasoned comparison.

IMHO maintaining a large number of files on disk (be it 16m or 1.5b) should be a non-starter (not to mention that zipping them to slightly reduce the count removes one of the benefits of having them in the first place). A database makes sense - as does SOC between generation and distribution if it brings benefit - but immediately writing off SQLite because of write performance[1]? Similarly the arguments against pmtiles feel outdated and ignorant of the developing nature of the protocol (appreciate it's a 2yo post!).

OSM deciding on a format here has potential to significantly shape things to come. Hopefully Paul has progressed his thinking a bit since this was written.

[1] https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite
Paso Robles!
"My focus, really since graduating, is how to write software that never fails and can’t be hacked"

Lol.
This isn't factual, Spring and Boot have been 100% annotation configurable for almost a decade. The Spring documentation I read has zero XML.
Well.. care to share the name?
4MB are enough to discriminate between 2^(3.2 * 10^7) possible states. Suppose you have a decompressor that can interpret a percent of a percent of a percent of a percent of those states as functional lifeforms. There are about a trillion species on the planet[1]; let's say there are a trillion times as many potential species that don't currently exist and a trillion variations within each. And then let's multiply by another trillion for good measure. Wolfram Alpha tells me[2] we've left a margin of error of roughly* ten to the ten million.

[1]https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138446

[2]https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=Divide%5BPower...

*'roughly' in the sense that a mountain range is roughly coarse sandpaper, but too round not to round to
Related: The Great Cousin Decline --- https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/12/cousin-re...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38719249 (169 points | 52 days ago | 332 comments)
I think this is all a bit of an irrelevant academic discussion. If Russia were to cross into Poland, it would essentially pit the world against Russia.

If you're on board with the article and believe Putin is on a historically motivated crusade of sorts, and of sound mind, it's difficult to imagine he'd initiate an invasion he has no chance of winning.

The fact that Poland can't muster an armed force as sizeable as Russia's is entirely beside the point in this scenario, especially considering he would be pitting his now somewhat depleted military resources against all of NATO, and potentially even more.
Girls outperform boys from primary school to university
What's the name of the workshop?
um, what do you think is powering the CPU/GPU combo you are writing software for uses? I guess you missed the period of "releasing the magic smoke" of software. But if you are designing a project that uses enough power to start fires, you've chosen poorly for your starter projects. Most electronics are using 3.3v or 5v while sipping miliamps. Sure, you can smoke a chip that wants 3.3 from feeding it 5v, but if you're designing a project near flammable substances, you're doing it wrong.
Lower population seems like the only way to solve most environment issues since convincing people to consume less and reduce their lifestyle is pretty much impossible.
I use it almost every day, mostly to follow new content.

For a while I used social media (facebook, twitter, etc), but that stopped working well for me when algorithms started deciding what I was supposed to see. On top of this, the "drama" I was seeing and wasting my time on, ads, privacy concerns, etc, made leave social media and go back to RSS. For this use case, it's much better than social media, even when sites decide to only include a paragraph or two to force me to visit the website.
I'm speaking to your point about:

> Common wisdom might make you think that I should be having companies throwing wads of cash at me

My point is just that you're misunderstanding "common wisdom". In 2016, yes a job at any FAANG would mean that you have no trouble getting a new gig. In 2024 Amazon employees do not have a great reputation, so there's no reason to think of yourself as part of a group that "common wisdom" would show preference towards. Nobody with "wads of cash" sees Amazon on a resume and thinks it's something special and worth reaching out for. FAANG in general is not as appealing as it once was, and Amazon in particular is not a strong signal at all. Someone working at OpenAI today would likely have the response you're imagining is reserved for FAANG.

Recruiters are also playing a numbers game, especially in this tech job market. My inbox has ample recruiter message for roles that are not even relevant to my skills, I wouldn't mistake that for signal.
Sony wouldn't do innovative stuff like host Woodstock if it wasn't for decades of royalties.
Floor price of my most liquid NFTs. I paid less than $1000 for them over the past couple of years.
Russia has demographic problems. They still have fewer citizens than in 1989.

Russia’s economy was thoroughly fucked by the collapse of the USSR.

Putin’s campaigns in Ukraine have been barbaric and I don’t pretend to understand the logic but Russia’s natural resources cannot make up for their problems.
They're fun. Only got any real value over the past few months.
> My dream actually is to have one monitor. A single 65" curved 8k screen

How far from your face, and how many degrees will you turn your head?
> True, there are multiple reasons why some expenses aren't deductible, but AFAIK no such exception exists for "intentionally destroying it".

No, of course not. There isn't an enumerated list of weird cases and if your weird case doesn't match you can get a tax advantage. There are rules about what is and isn't deductible and if you're unclear, you can ask the IRS for a clarification. If you don't get that clarification you better be prepared to adequately defend your tax theory when you get audited. What I suggested is what they're doing may not be in line with the rules about what is deductible. It seems like something should be evaluated.

> There's no way that you can save taxes by doing this.

You absolutely can save taxes by doing this. They're not only not paying any tax, they're offsetting tax they would otherwise pay on a profitable film. I think what you're saying is that they couldn't get enough tax deductions to offset the money they put into the film development. That's a claim I didn't make. I do think it's possible they could get back more money than they otherwise should. It's not like tax fraud is a rare occurrence. And that situation could make this maneuver more attractive. I think it's worth an audit.
I could not be happier with my self hosted FreshRSS.

It's a major way i stay in touch without having to doom scroll
I'd argue it's more parasitic than symbiotic.
it the war moves to poland, it's likely nuclear.
No those MBAs are just servants. It is the shareholders. And it is not only Boeing that has this problem. Investors want the line to go up and everything else be damned. And humans are exceptionally bad at long term planning.
Concur, Jetty has been faster than Tomcat in my experience. Undertow seems even faster in my testing.
He took the vaccine too, fwiw
This is irrelevent, because this was clearly marked as an opinion piece in giant letters at the top of the page and at the start of the piece. There's no problem here with opinion masquerading as news. That's what the piece you cited talks about.

It is interesting to hear what a former SEC employee's opinion is, whether or not you agree with him.
Yeah it says it was inspired by the Cubli
CNCs are great if you are doing creative work like carved panels, I'd never have the skill, time, or patience to do work like that. I really love my Shapeoko
We have problems. But tiktok isn't the top one.
> now they have redneck oil idiots running the place and brainwashing the uneducated rural

that sounds like Texas politics to me
I would say cost, imagine the R&D of the part itselft, but the cost of it in maintenance to the final user. I believe citroen had electromagnetic shocks in the 90's and it didn't catch much momentum but if you see the videos of it working, its exactly like you said, smooth as heck drive throwgh bumps.
Budweiser Frogs, Apple 1984, Cat Herding, Wassup!, Puppy-Monkey-Baby, etc.