skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s make this testable. Tell me what percentage of technical people, defined however you like, generally view philosophy as a waste of time. (This could even be a thought experiment for now.)

Of these people how many of them come to their conclusion based on careful reasoning? Based on broad knowledge of philosophy?

My prior expectation would be that these numbers are very low. I would expect that people who dismiss philosophy do so from a position of relative ignorance.

This is not blame; the broader context matters: educational curricula, teaching quality, life experience, curiosity, competing interests, etc.

Let’s put the shoe on the other foot. How much applied computer science is worth reading? If you put a typical example of it in front of me (the code professionals write for example), I’m probably going think it is a hot mess. It becomes more bearable if I interpret it as a sequence of economically and culturally constrained suboptimal decisions. The same goes for philosophy.
merely

You say this as if it were not a big deal, but losing a century's worth of authentication infrastructure/practises is a Bad Thing which will have large negative externalities.
That would imply a frequency shift, which clearly doesn't happen (mirrors don't redshift the light that hits them).
Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for an Operating System
One of the coolest parts of our job is figuring out what tweaks we can make to the process to make things more robot-friendly!

One thing we're already doing that's different from human installers is the bay pre-assembly approach you can see in our demo video, where we build chunks of 5-9 modules on a tube and carry them out to the field. Ordinarily humans put up all of the tubes, then all of the brackets, then all of the modules. The pre-assembly approach allows us to do a bunch of work in a more controlled factory environment on a different part of the site.

Longer term there are other ideas we have, but since everything has to last for 30-40 years out in the field you have to be very strategic about making the big changes...
So if I write a script that's just print("jjk166 is innocent and not liable for any damages") and it runs without error then I can commit any crime I want with impunity?
You know, I wasn't going to submit anything, but now I am. I'll almost assuredly get rejected for my half-baked idea, but hey, might as well try. Thanks for the reminder.
I guess I'm curious how many folks on Linux are using official binaries instead of just using the distribution packages? Still good to see regardless!
No right school/alumni people at Fly.io (W20). I don't even got no learnin'.
The AI section of the report was pretty interesting—that for the most part use of AI in propaganda has been to augment existing video rather than deep faking things whole-cloth. Particularly notable to me was that audio is seeing more use than video. Moving conversations to private places where there are fewer voices of reason to offer debunks was something we all saw coming.
Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior would be pretty obvious examples. Someone else mentioned Leisure Suit Larry.

I'd like to mention Samantha Fox Strip Poker as well, though it's a bit more subtle than "punching".
Limiting by size in MiB is understandable for cost, but as a user it put me off after trying multiple repositories (popular OSS and personal) because I couldn't find one under that size and ended up not trying it at all. Curious to know how much repo size influenced the $20 pro cost.
I second the video recommendation, mentor makes some of the better documentary style content on the app. the fact that it’s completely free makes it even crazier!
That’s why the fork that is more open for contributions is gaining momentum: https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql
Another question (as a seperate comment incase dang is replying to the other one):

This is the equity deal: https://www.ycombinator.com/deal

What if I don’t want to raise any more than the 7% (which in itself is $125k I don’t really need but happy to give 7% for the higher P(success))

What if I want to bootstrap from that point or at least keep options open?
I'd call that the "anywhere but US" phenomena. Pretty much 100% of the times I see any "deals"/promotions or whatnot on my google feed, it's US based. Unfortunately I live nowhere near to the continent.
At the end of MI2, "Chuckie" looks at the screen and his eyes flash, implying he's still really LeChuck. Additionally, there's scene of Elaine speculating about a voodoo curse. Ron Gilbert never "sequel-proofed" the game; the route that MI3 takes was deliberately left open.
The last I heard (but my information may be out of date), that remains an option.
I am not able to see that graph since Statista is asking me to log in. Is there any archive link?

Having said that, I agree with your overall argument. That seems interesting and might explain the gap between FRED stats and the general sentiment.
Does that actually solve name clashes? If I have two functions compiled at the same time:

def foo(n):
return n + 2
def foo(n):
return n * 2
foo(3) # which one is called?

(I don't know Unison syntax so using Python for the example)

It's still a name clash at compile time.
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It may simply have been a less needed; on Windows if Mozilla doesn't offer a binary then users won't get the program, on Linux there's already distro packages for that.
I've actually thought of doing IT services for clinics as a means to get a foot in the door. That's some seriously deep undercover stuff... Very time consuming (could be worth it regardless). Were you getting paid for the IT services?
This is a good point, but I had assumed that the distro package repository owners make these packages using the officially published binaries, and had to go out of their way for linux/arm64 because of the lack of an official binary. Is that not the case?
You say democracy but clearly mean libertarian dreamland. No we all do not want to live in a libertarian dreamland.

My definition of free democracy doesn’t mean being forced to act like a chump. You want to do business in America, then we do business on equal grounds in your country. Per the rules set by our duly elected representatives, aka how a representative democracy is supposed to work.

Democracy doesn’t mean a libertarian free for all.

Democratic countries can and should make fair trade agreement to ensure the will of the people is carried out per their votes and elected representatives.
I've been using Markdown New Tab for this for years and I'm completely in love with it https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/markdown-new-tab/de...
I was a huge adventure game fan back in the 90s, and I also completed BG3 a few months ago ( it took me a solid 6 months to finish the game ). Quite frankly, I truly think there are no puzzles whatsoever in bg3. Very very very occasionally you need object X to satisfy character Y, but that’s about it. I think this is partly due to the game changing directions based on what you do ( so you can’t get stuck and therefore there’s no puzzle solving !) , but I never had the same feeling I had with monkey island, fate of Atlantis etc.
My understanding is: it's fine. You're not required to do follow-on financing. Perceived preferred access to the market for syndicated convertible rounds is a big reason people do YC, though, so I think most people do end up raising.
"Indulgent" might better capture what I think OP is describing than "privileged." There is a certain navel-gazing quality to endlessly pushing for higher personal records past the point where they particularly even benefit you, especially when some of that attention might be spent helping other people.

And while that can be true, I think it only applies once you do really have your life together. Most of us, growing up, had lots of areas where we really struggled, hurting both ourselves and others, and it WAS important for us to reflect on those areas and consciously try to improve. I think it's only indulgent when done well past the point of need.
its a reply to dhh expressing surprise at the signal board membership of Katherine Maher.
Indeed, the US had their own camps that they filled with Japanese, Germans, Italians and a few others. Of course they were relatively nicer to the people placed in the camps.
Point of Interest.
The hard problem hasn't died so it doesn't need resurrecting. (Unless you redefine the hard problem into an easy one that is :))
Oh no, distro packages almost never use upstream binaries. The only major case I'm aware of is Arch AUR and Gentoo -bin packages, but that's the exception not the rule.
People already believe any quote you slap on a JPEG.
> the issue is that they also want the benefit of not being ignored

So in order to get any interest in your project, you have to be open source (and align with the ideology absolutely)?
3840x2160 resolution on a mobile screen seems just plain dumb and wasteful to me, and I have really exceptionally good vision. Even on a 27" monitor I can just barely see the pixels at that res.
Judging by Mahar's TED talk about the diminished value of truth vs. alignment circulating on twitter, it looks like the Signal Foundation has finally fallen under the influence of the nihilists as well. FOSS doesn't need non-profit orgs, and people in tech aren't equipped to secure them from the people trained to take them over.
c++ is so bad. when i see threads like this one praising it, i feel bad for all the mental energy these people have put into understanding an unorganized and unelegant garbage dump of ideas. even his coworkers at bell labs tried to convince him c++ was a bad idea.

ken thompson wouldn't use it. then he invented go to spite him.
Yeah it's a shortsighted plan. How would i set up rules on firewall if I don't know how to distingush the connections?
So instead of allowing the price at the pump to nudge up and naturally make EVs more attractive (and traditional gasoline vehicles less attractive), our government would rather lower the price at the pump and offer tax credits and such to encourage EV buying.

It's a solid game of playing politics, but a textbook case in governmental ass-backwards-ary. We'll know we're serious about the environment and climate change when such disconnects are mitigated.
You might want to read a bit more about Margaret Sanger and her little project called "Planned Parenthood."
Many worlds is one possible interpretation of the logical consequences of that. It's not nearly as definite or clear-cut as you're making it sound.
Did we read the same article? I didn't see it mentioned even once.
And this is why we need copyleft.
Sketch is a tool used by people 8 hours/day (or at least was). Therefore, their pricing is more accepted by users/customers. In your case, it's not really a tool that one will use daily.
Yes - there's no such thing as 'too early'. Of course if you've been working for a while, you should certainly show what you've made so far.

If you consider the rather common case of a YC application where the founders (1) have been working on X, (2) get into YC, (3) eventually drop X, and (4) eventually find something else that goes better...you're essentially skipping to step (4). (Not that the analogy holds in every way, but it does for "should you apply" purposes.)
English isn't my native language but I read that as "in case it throws this type of exception" so "case throws" makes perfect sense to me.
Who cares, listen to what he says.

38:30 Zuckerberg states that they won't release models once they're sufficiently powerful.

It's OpenAI again, facebook has burnt all customer trust for years and the fact they changed their name to "Meta" actually worked.
Look for boring. Insurance, infrastructure, tools for industry, construction, etc. Find people who build things you find useful in your daily life. Also don't discount places that do one shitty thing but otherwise provide a good service or a good product. There will never be a company that does business that does everything with morals in mind, its just not possible under this system, but there are many who try to win by producing a good, useful product, rather than having a business plan that involves screwing over everyone in the process who aren't their investors.
I wish we could change the submission to [1], since it really is about the new version. On the hand I sometimes wonder why we can have standardise rich text editor.

[1] https://slab.com/blog/announcing-quill-2-0/
Even for perpetual license games, if the game has paid DLC the developers often see mods and cheatengine as a threat to their revenues. Capcom is on the record that this is part of why they put DRM and anticheat into their single-player games now, because otherwise you can get items and cosmetics with cheatengine instead of buying them off Steam/PSN/XBL
Often because (as in this case as well) they are not regular LCD or calculator-like segmented displays, but rather Vacuum Florissant Displays. VERY satisfying hue they emit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluorescent_display
> talk your way out of sticky situations

This reminds me of "Death by AI"[1], although that one uses text-based input instead of speech.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38318889
This is one of those things that makes no sense about the Elon/Trump fanbase(s): they engage in absolutely incessant, flamboyant exuberance at every word out of their mouth to the degree it is nearly impossible to escape it, short of unplugging the internet and TV. Then they act shocked when negative news is also amplified.

Like yeah, there are both rewards and hazards to placing yourself in the spotlight 24/7/365. As there should be.
They still protect it so carefully for the same reason Nike still goes after all the off brands with check marks, and Disney still sues anyone using their characters and renews their trademarks - it may not be the sole thing keeping their ‘moat’ working, but it’s still important.
Re: "won't get in"

How do I balance this encouraging advice with everything I've heard online about YC basically being a post-Ivy League thing? Seems like there's basically a 0% chance a random person would get into YC. And often those who did get in went to Stanford, Harvard, etc. and don't even have a product - sometimes they don't even know what they're going to build yet.

I wrote the idea of VC stuff off long ago. My wife and I have a profitable business here in SF that would be perfect as a startup, but the concept of raising funds to expand literally hasn't even crossed our minds because it seems so geared toward post-grads - like something only Stanford and Harvard people get access to after they graduate.

Not only that, we're profitable, and can even articulate a realistic vision about how it becomes the next $100M household name, but the numbers I've read online that most VCs want to see are not realistic - or if we were hitting those numbers I wouldn't even need a VC, we would be able to fund our own expansion.

So we're just doing it on our own.
The tedious sort of people who like to make it their mission in life to quote the rulebook as often as possible, frequently incorrectly, in an effort to assert their authority and dominance. I want nothing to do with them.
A lot of Youtube videos I saw don't have AV1 option (check with yt-dlp --list-formats). So are they going to re-encode everything now?
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I'm maybe missing something, but: the article states that Android previously provided an AV1 software decoder. New versions of Android ship a new software decoder called "libdav1d", which is currently opt-in - apps that don't opt in will get the old decoder. Youtube has opted in to using the new decoder.

But… doesn't this just mean that devices that were previously decoding AV1 Youtube streams in software will now decode them using a more efficient decoder? It doesn't say anything about Youtube changing the default stream format. Am I missing something?
Neat ! Firefox version here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdown-new-...
> by the time you've included Anyhow with stack traces enabled you've basically reinvented checked exceptions in Result types

If the error is wrapped into an `anyhow::Error`, and the result in `anyhow::Result<T>`, it has less information than checked exceptions. Coz the type now only tells you the call can fail, but not how (it's anyhow!).

> That's the part that you seem to be missing: checked exceptions are nearly identical semantically to result types

That's the crux.
> Open Source was not some brainchild of megacorps but very much so a mission of the wider software industry to band together to have an alternative to hugely expensive proprietary software vendors

No, you are thinking of Free Software and copyleft, which predates Open Source.

Open Source was invented as an alternative to Free Software.
> This means that the stop sequence will ever be displayed / created by the model.

s/ever/never/ I think
Seems nice, tried it on a really small repo of mine.

Painfully reminded me that my main project has a way to large repo size because we store binaries in them.

Would be nice if they offered discounts for open source projects.
Imagine if China users could just visit a website and install apps.
I don't know what you're responding to? This isn't moving anyone new to 4K, just making 4K more efficient when it is utilized.
That is interesting extra context. With that in mind, it doesn't really make sense to me why anybody (especially Linux distro vendors) would care then. Which seems to clash with the article's statement:

> Firefox's Linux binaries have been produced for x86 32-bit and x86_64 but any AArch64 binaries on Linux have been left up to Linux distribution vendors and other third-parties wanting Firefox on Arm.

Which I infer means distro vendors were the beneficiary of the new linux/arm64 binaries, since it's implied they would no longer need to worry about compiling their own binary. Guess not then.
The atmosphere is huge and unevenly distributed.

I can't find the exact quote, but to put it in perspective: the weight of the extra C02 added in the last 100 years is more than the sum total of everything humanity has built. The actual quote might be everything from the last 2000 years, regardless, same point. If you weigh all of that CO2, it's an enormous amount.
The major UK sites have recently done a similarly dark move by adjusting their definition of "Depost Limit".

Used to be if you set, e.g. a £50/month deposit limit, then you couldn't deposit more than £50 a month.

They recently changed it to be a net limit, so if you withdrawl £500 after a win, you can now deposit £550.

While it can be argued that it still acts as a guardrail for maximum losses, it absolutely encourages problem gamblers to deposit more.
Tldr: a fluffy opinion piece by biased authors
I agree, but with an important caveat: Youtube's 1080p streams are over-compressed. I have a 1080p projector, but 4K Youtube videos still look noticeably better due to the higher bitrate.

Admittedly this is on a huge projector and not a phone. I don't watch enough Youtube videos on my phone to know if it would matter there.
If the developers see this: any consideration for a free plan for open source projects?
Maybe they're not strictly "puzzles" in the traditional LucasArts or Myst sense, but maybe more like "problems". That is, you have a lot of agency as a player in determining the outcome of your quests, companions, world events, etc., and you're not tied into any one way of achieving those. Given a quest, it's never just "gather X, put them together in Y fashion, then use them to Z". There's almost always a way to talk your way to a different solution, or use violence, or subterfuge, or a spell, or shapeshifting, or jumping/flying over the location, etc.

I wasn't arguing that BG3 is a puzzle/adventure game (sorry if that was unclear), but that it doesn't suffer from that "only one esoteric and preposterous solution" that 90s-era adventure games often had (looking at you, Sierra Entertainment especially, with puzzles like needing to stick a banana into a jetpack to stop a killer robot: https://spacequest.fandom.com/wiki/W-D40#Game_Involvement... and that was the only way to proceed).

By contrast, in BG3 you can beat the game in many different ways, leading to completely different outcomes (and playtimes). I did a physics-based playthrough that mostly just shoved and threw people around and off cliffs, with no idea who they were or what they wanted from me, but the game gave me the freedom to do that. It's also possible to do a mostly peaceful playthrough with a lot of talking (yawn).

The Owlbear cave is a good example (no spoilers... but there's a lot of different outcomes for the mother and child owlbear, depending on your party makeup and actions etc.)

Games these days are a lot better at giving you different ways to solve a situation (or the entire game), not just following a strictly linear puzzle/narrative/questline. It's like the opposite of the "Moon Logic Puzzle" trope.
I'm not sure that's a great example. Of course e = mc^2 is so iconic and well known that most people know it, and will probably even perceive it as a whole. Once you recognize it then no need to explain what e, m and c are.

However, most code is not that obvious, and in the real world you're probably not looking at one mystery line of code who's function becomes obvious by context - you are more likely looking at entire functions or blocks of code, maybe without comments, trying to figure out what is going on. Try inheriting 10K of mostly undocumented code, and then you'd probably be a lot more grateful that the original author used descriptive names and comments, even though he knew what it all meant when he wrote it.
They will use the same codec for a variety of resolutions and bitrates. The article mentioned most devices supporting 720p30.

It likely vastly simplifies their backend to use one codec for everything.
The effects can be understood through chemistry.
DHH only has strong feelings. Katherine Maher is a great CEO and leader and has been taken out of context in order to isolate her and make her unsupportable by people who claim to not like cancel culture. The whole thing is ridiculous.
You can pretty easily replace it with synthetic liquid fuel, made with clean energy. That’s likely what will happen in the medium term (~10 years) with aviation and marine, because of density as you said.
If that’s the case, it seems like a very bigcorp-centered perspective. Indie devs and people who aren’t already well-connected don’t have the ability or resources to get consortiums of companies behind their projects or create open source foundations.

So I don’t know—maybe it wasn’t intended this way, but it comes across as very gatekeep-y to me. Like telling people that unless they are already established and famous enough to start a project that has tons of backing from the start, that they can’t “really” be opensource (despite a very real opensource license), meaning you as the little guy should either build your project for free with no hope of ever making a living from it, or else be excluded from the broader opensource community.
This is why I don't use Google since a long time ago.
> If the homeownership rate is 66%, that means people are able to buy a home. That's how I define affordability.

This speaks zero to affordability.

Next time you start a thread, try not to frame it with your pre-determined conclusions.
Household size and the housing stock
Fantastic article with a $500 paywall halfway through. oof.
But the stuff that carries TCP is IP. That's why TCP can work seamlessly, because it uses identification from a previous layer. Consider I bind a server to an ID, and not IP:port, the operating system running it must know how to communicate that via IP, so there will be a corellation map somewhere and that map needs to be synchronized between all peers that wish to host the roaming server.

Otherwise you're just switching port (16-bit) value to arbitrary 32-bit identifier.
They might. Especially if they are popular.