skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to offer the viewpoint that seeking status is a way to unfortunately waste one's life and brain cycles. Not sure how economists model for the certain amount of people that "don't play the game" simply because there's more interesting things to do than compare themselves to others? There's a tradition amongst some Christians (and probably other religions too), that "we're all equal in the sight of God". Therefore, everyone is a somebody, and simultaneously, a nobody. People that contribute a lot, sure, in some sense they're more "valuable" to the rest of us. They've got a status worth having, but ironically, that's not what those people are seeking, usually its those who seek to help others and are fairly ego-less, that have the best status in other's eyes. I think what everyone should be doing is forget about status, feel happy in yourself, and try to do good for others. ;). Just my 2p.
have you thought that those luxury condo are limiting the housing cost instead of amplifying it? I mean that maybe without them the costs would increase even more
Just publish the script to a secret URL like:

https://example.com/aeluaeualeraciuwefaljwefnalsduhgsdgasu.s...

Rotate the URL from time to time.
Whilst I agree that these hack days should be considered a learning experience this sentiment has annoyed me:

> you don't pay me enough for my good ideas. If I had an idea that could make the business $5M, I'm better off going into business for myself.

In a knowledge based role, your good ideas are exactly what the company is paying you for. If you have an idea that could make the company $5M it is very unlikely that it would do so sustainably and profitably in isolation as a new company. This is why companies exist, to pool efforts. I work for a company that has billions in turnover and I'm directly involved in decisions that affect our profit or market share and making decisions to save or create millions is a normal part of my job.

You are paid to create value for your company that far exceeds your salary. Maybe this doesn't apply to you but this attitude annoys me because I've had experience of working with colleagues who are unmotivated and coast along doing the bare minimum then complain that they are bored or never promoted. Often their colleagues end up picking up the slack. I understand that many people don't want to exert any energy in return for their paycheck but personally I spend about 6 hours a day working and prefer to put some effort in so that I enjoy it more. If you are unmotivated & unrewarded financially or intellectually then perhaps find a new job.
Not necessarily, but most likely. If there is a way to make more profit, any company would try to do it.

The moment service stops growing, aggressive monetisation kicks in.

Otherwise, investors/shareholders would blame CEO for incompetence.
I agree. It's a historical document of how 2000's-era game developers were grappling with making much, much larger codebases than before, and, because everyone in undergraduate CS was learning from a "Java school", it addresses them specifically.

The concepts in it that I still find useful aren't really OO at all, they are just data structures and algorithms: stacks, buffers, formalized ways of handling state.

The engines are useful, but mostly on the front of getting a lot of I/O problems out of the way and doing some stuff to bundle and automate common assets and rendering methods. If you deeply care about any specific part of your game you end up writing your own thing that works around the engine instead. In that respect I dispute the parent's idea that adding some compiler tech is useless - it's one of the essential methods of tools development. It just does not have to be very sophisticated to get the job done - Cave Story, for example, just has a little token reader for the "T-Script" cutscene scripts. That is the right size of tooling for a lot of games.

The basic rule of thumb to apply is that in-house tech only needs to be good enough to express what you already designed in a paper document, or to parse some spreadsheet data. The external documents will be more flexible for revisions than any slick UI you could build, and the type time of coding it is a minor detail relative to the design time. That assumption only changes on some relatively vast scales.
Kagi employee here. The search business is sustainable, we don't need a push in AI things to make it work. We're looking at these features/ideas because we think they complement search well, not because we need them from a cashflow perspective :)
Those updates don't need to be heavy if nothing is happening.

And as I related elsewhere, with a Ruby-based game engine it took 1000+ objects being updated every frame alongside other heavy stuff (multi-voice waveform based on-the-fly sound-synthesis, in Ruby) and actually passing each of them to the renderer, before I needed to bother to add any filtering.

And then when I did need to it was a trivial change to filter the list of objects to update. To the point where I literally just currently naively every frame does a map over every object in the level and check if they're within the viewport before doing the update.

Yes, you will sooner or later hit limits, but 1) you're likely to hit them later than you think, 2) it doesn't matter because when you do hit them you're likely to have a good idea of what characteristics to filter them by. E.g. for some games you want to update, but not render, objects outside the viewport in many situations based on other measures - e.g. Minecraft-style simulation of mobs within a certain distance of the player; for other games once an object is off-screen it can cease to exist instantly. But it takes consideration, and you might as well defer that consideration until you need to, because it's orthogonal to the actual update.
You are right, of course. If I had the money I would absolutely build a bunker, even if it was just as an entertaining project.

The fact that we hear about Zuck and Altmann being the ones prepping or building bunkers could reflect that they are the "bad" elite, not invested in the future of the planet in the same way that Gates and his ilk are. Or alternatively, it could just be that old people don't find the idea of a survival shelter nearly as interesting as the younger generation.
You are intentionally ignoring my point about how the symbolic nature itself is evil. It is unconscionable to have a monarchy as a symbol of a country! A monarchy is an affront to human decency; it's absurd.

And I do not agree with your assessment that the king has no real power. A gentleman's agreement not to be a tyrant is not even close to good enough. I don't dispute it would cause lots of drama if the king tried to defy government, but he can do it. The guy is allowed to murder anyone he wants, he has full immunity from criminal prosecution! Is that a symbol worth protecting? No. It should be torn down and cast out.

Any respectable modern system of governance would not want even a whiff of an impression that it was led by a bloodline of kings. Yet, the UK and Commonwealth countries lean into it. A crown is a symbol of oppression. It's disgusting.
Sounds like arguments from Apple fans: You trust Apple and do everything Apple way or go away.
imo most us gentrification is caused by car infra expansion(parking reqs+highways), zoning and slow growth of housing stock
I didnt deny that addiction exists or that opioids are addictive. That being said, I think the fentanyl crisis and addiction in general is typically a symptom of other complex issues. We are sprinting into a horrific dystopia with intense cost of living pressures. People who can't adapt to that are medicating themselves because there is no other way to cope available to them.
Where are the 8% annual returns for old people’s pensions going to come from? Because the fertility rates of the last few decades surely is not going to result in growth like it did for previous generations.
It's been out much longer than the Lichee Console 4A. They started taking orders for the Roma in around October 2022, and delivered them in October 2023 I think.

If a tablet with a keyboard/touchpad dock counts (i.e. CPU in the screen, not in the keyboard part) then the Pine64 PineTab-V has been shipping since July 2023, several months before the Roma. It has exactly the same CPU as the Roma, but is $210 with 8 GB RAM and 128 GB eMMC (or $160 with half the storage).

https://pine64.com/product-category/pinetab/
I have the exact same watch model as the poster and I’ve recently had it die within hours on random days when it usually lasts more than a day. Hopefully it’s the same thing and not some unrelated obscure issue…
Related:

TCP Puzzlers (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20839902 - Aug 2019 (7 comments)

TCP Puzzlers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12315814 - Aug 2016 (70 comments)
It's always weird that this example includes the idea that all current products have an un-removeable IoT integration of some sort.

Most of my appliances were bought recently, none has anything like this.
It’s telling that comments like these hit all the same points. “Plagiarism machine”, “convincing bullshit”, with the millions of people making productive use of ChatGPT belittled as “hype”, all based purely on one person’s hypothesis.

The proof is in the puddling. I am far from being alone in my use of LLMs, namely ChatGPT and Copilot, day-to-day in my work. So how does this reconcile with your worldview? Do I have a do-nothing job? Am I not capable of determining whether or not I’m being productive? It’s really hard for me to take posts like these seriously when they all basically say “anyone that perceives any emergent abilities of this tech is an idiot”.
That's one way to put it. Another would be to say that an appliance is (or should be) designed to last for approximately the amount of time it is likely to be in use, as people often upgrade old machines that haven't failed because the new ones are more energy efficient, faster, quieter, more convenient or clean better. There is no point in designing a washing machine to last 50 years, it only adds to the cost and nobody will use it for that long.
In how many countries do people not exchange phone numbers as the primary means of contact?
How to write unit tests in C++ relying on non-code files?
> Two approaches which immediately spring to mind are passing desired items as query parameters or passing a template item as a query parameter or request body.

I've implemented this twice, you quickly end up at something resembling GraphQL after a couple of rounds of "iOS needs the the profile picture in two different sizes, dependent on native screen size, and with version 2 of the blurhash"

Might as well use GraphQL and get schemas, libraries for clients and servers and IDE support out of the box at that point. It's no panacea - many of the backend libraries were somewhat low quality last time I checked - but I wouldn't hesitate to use it if I had a somewhat complex main product served by multiple frontends following different UI guidelines.
Can you please pick a different username that we can rename your account to? Some users are complaining that your current username is misleading (e.g. here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39447421)

Edit: since I didn't hear back from you, I've consed a 'not' onto the username 'httparchive'. If you prefer a different name, feel free to contact us at hn@ycombinator.com.
Architecture is a kind of traditional professional that inherited its practices and methods from a time where there was a respect for the craftmanship that the activity requires.

Programming is a profession that, with the exception of a few early decades, practically started in the corporate world. Modern day development is what you can expect when companies have unchecked autonomy over a whole professional field.

That's why an abomination like scrum exists where you are guilty tripped everyday in dailys having to report what you have done even though management and your colleagues have access to your tickets with your logged hours and the code you have commited to the repository.

I love programming but the only thing that keeps me in the field today is the pay, the moment I start to earn less I leave the field and go to work in something else.
It's tiring to hear people critique communists using the same tired arguments I hear from Christians critiquing atheism. "If there is no God, why wouldn't you rape and murder everyone" and "If there is no police, why would you clean the toilet" have the same answer.

Yes, if you have a toilet and think cleaning toilets is yucky but you value having a clean toilet, you'll have to ask someone to clean it for you and they'll likely not want this to be a one-sided relationship unless you're literally phyiscally or mentally disabled to the point people want to take care of you because you can't do so yourself. That does not require capitalism.

Heck, you could even have money without having capitalism. The question is what money can buy. Under feudalism for example - not that feudalism is preferable to capitalism unless you think you'd get to be the king (and arguably not even then) - all the money in the world wouldn't have turned a peasant into a king because the lord would have just had his guards confiscate the money, kill the peasant and flay their corpse as a warning against not knowing your place in the hierarchy.

Saying "if I don't pay people to clean the toilet, it'll just be dirty forever" not only betrays your own suspect attitudes to hygiene but also a complete detachment from how 99% of human interactions operate, namely based on a shared interest of not wanting to be taken advantage of and helping when you can.

Some people genuinely like cleaning toilets. Some people don't mind cleaning their own toilets. Some people would really rather not have to clean their own toilets and are willing to do other things for other people. Some people are filthy slobs and would rather have a dirty toilet than clean it themselves or help others.

And yes, the obvious answer to "what about jobs that will literally kill you" is: then why should anyone want to do those jobs? If the jobs are vital to the survival of the group, those sound like some pretty damn prestiguous jobs that would lead to whoever does it being held in very high regard and treated as a saint. If the jobs are largely useless to the group, they simply won't be done unless we can find a way to do it that won't kill you. The difference is that under exploitative systems we either literally force people to do so at gunpoint or we treat the workers as disposable drones and only compensate them (or invest in their safety and care) as little as we can get away with.

But I understand that all of this might sound like fanciful prose if you can only ever envision systems working if they rely on exploiting some 90% of the population even though they're only held together by those 90%'s misplaced compassion.
Quite apart from Magna Carta, the outcome of the Civil War determined very effectively whether the British Monarch had divine right to rule. In the negative.
(warning: I'm going on a bit of a rant out of frustration and it's not wholly relevant to the article)

I'm getting tired of these shitty AI chatbots, and we're barely at the start of the whole thing.

Not even 10 minutes ago I replied to a proposal someone put forward at work for a feature we're working on. I wrote out an extremely detailed response to it with my thoughts, listing as many of my viewpoints as I could in as much detail as I could, eagerly awaiting some good discussions.

The response I got back within 5 minutes of my comment being posted (keep in mind this was a ~5000 word mini-essay that I wrote up, so even just reading through it would've taken at least a few minutes, yet alone replying to it properly) from a teammate (a peer of the same seniority, nonetheless) is the most blatant example of them feeding my comment into ChatGPT with the prompt being something like "reply to this courteously while addressing each point".

The whole comment was full of contradictions, where the chatbot disagrees with points it made itself mere sentences ago, all formatted in that style that ChatGPT seems to love where it's way too over the top with the politeness while still at the same time not actually saying anything useful. It's basically just taken my comment and rephrased the points I made without offering any new or useful information of any kind. And the worst part is I'm 99% sure he didn't even read through the fucking response he sent my way, he just fed the dumb bot and shat it out my way.

Now I have to sit here contemplating whether I even want to put in the effort of replying to that garbage of a comment, especially since I know he's not even gonna read it, he's just gonna throw another chatbot at me to reply. What a fucking meme of an industry this has become.
Is Your Bucket Leaky?
> Even if NSA ignores those rules, they have literally no rules about compromising foreign servers

This is not good enough. Signal server is a single point of failure: NSA (and any other attacker, e.g., China) knows that the users can't go elsewhere, so it's very easy to target them all (thanks to the Signals's politics of walled garden). In case of Matrix, there are thousands of servers around the world, which you have to find and get into. They can run completely different software. This is not very scalable or easy.
fashion victims will fall for that.
Thanks. Is that behaviour new to Windows 11? I’ve never seen it on Windows 10.
For many thing I'm trying to find out, I'll have to verify them myself anyway, so it's only an inconvenience that it's sometimes wrong. And even then, it give you a good starting point.

Who are these people that go around getting random answers to questions from the internet then blindly believing them? That doesn't work on Google either, not even the special info boxes for basic facts.
Lol, "explore the open Internet" after talking about Discord, that's rich !

Currently I am a bit depressed because of realizing how much the open web communities seem to be withering right now because a lot of people seem to want to use Discord instead and exclusively. The recent threads feature especially seems to often be an excuse to abandon forums ? Despite being a way worse experience than phpBB.

EDIT : Related : Discord, or the Death of Lore [2023]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35050858
It's not; changing a == to != or a < to <= is very often enough to fully compromise something.
I've been a long time user of this extension and I recommend it https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
Azure OpenAI seemed to have temperature problems before, i.e. temp > 1 led to garbage, at 2 it was producing random words in random character encodings, at 0.01 it was producing what OpenAI's model was producing at 0.5 etc. Perhaps they took the Azure's approach ;-)
Hyperdiv uses one thread per connection and it’s true that a Python process may not be great at running a very large number of threads. Currently you can scale a Hyperdiv app horizontally by running it in multiple processes (on multiple machines) behind a load balancer.
It sounds like you’re tired of the behavior of your coworkers. I’d be equally annoyed if they, eg, landed changes without testing that constantly broke the build, but I wouldn’t blame the compiler for that.
Or they work with manufacturers like with HTC and Oculus for SteamVR, and the original Steam Machines which the only manufacturer I remember is Alienware.

Though they seem to be keeping SteamOS 3 close to their chest.
People whose only knowledge of management stopped at factory work in the 1920s.
Having more potential failure modes is not the same as being more likely to fail. In fact in a car it's not even clear that it makes the unusable.
Exactly, it's not even unique to the monarch in countries like Denmark. Government offices are rebrand, restructured and renamed far more often than the king or queen. The major difference is that the government offices rarely do a slow transition, they change everything at once, rather than just replacing the logo on things like uniforms, tools and buildings when the object needs replacing or refurbishing anyway.

Personally I feel like the rebranding of government office just because some one is "up for a ministerial post" so we need to create one, is far more wasteful.
It does depend on the approach, though. If you're SpaceX and switched on to this stuff, and testing is part of development that's one thing. If you've done your real testing already and this is more like a demonstration sort of test, that's different.
How smart do you have to be to get a degree?
Instagram Story Downloader is a one-step solution for downloading any Instagram user's story without letting them know. Download story in the original quality without watermark.
https://storiessaver.org/
How to Implement Advanced Feature Flagging Techniques in C# Applications
Install the dearrow browser extension. It's made by the same person as sponsorblock and crowdsources titles and thumbnails on videos.
Certainly I had the same ah, that's why it behaved that way moment as Vimes finding the golem's instructions when the Sydney prompt was discovered.

I wonder what Pratchett would make of today's internet full of AI-generated blogspam 'explaining' his quotes like "Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day, but set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of their life" as inspiring proverbs. Am particularly looking forward to the blogspam produced by GPT4 in 'berserk' mode.
Maybe didn't have the environment set up locally and did initial investigative work?
>MethGPT sounds terrible.

I just hope Vince Gilligan will direct Breaking RAG.
I don't agree, its like saying Victorinox/Wenger ran out of business because everybody eventually got that small pocket knife of theirs and due to its quality nobody is replacing those.

Yet reality is more like - completely new markets are opening, new rich people look for quality good brands, or father happy with his knife for 20 years will buy another one for his son. Or Miele, brand completely built on just its perceived reliability. They cost 2-3x more compared to even Bosch/Siemens, without any unique features apart from this.

The problem is, as almost everywhere in corporations - C-suite bonus incentives. Quick milking without care about long term strategies or brand name is the name of the game.
Do untagged files (like downloaded via curl) not require signing at all, or it's just lenient enough to not trigger the bugs/issues mentioned in the article (since their app is actually signed, after all)?
Correct me if Im wrong: Temperature is the rand function that prevents the whole system from being a regular deterministic program?
Wasn't the saying "perfect is the enemy of good"?

While waiting to have it perfect you don't have it good either.