skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone gets their hands on one and wants to build Deno with `cargo build --release`, I'd love to get myself release-optimized executables without waiting ten minutes for my M2 to fully compile and link the project.....

Seriously. Hit me up via email.
lol bro, I can’t imagine thinking that Wittgenstein is obfuscation. If anything that guy’s entire life was dedicated to de-obfuscation through logical analysis. Probably you don’t understand cause you casually picked up the Tractatus or Investigations without doing any background reading on what they were about
Someone could just as easily say "Everything is money"

Everything that we have, do, eat, wear has monetary value. People learn to live within their means, but still, it takes a certain privilege to say "life is more than just money".

I think the author is defining a bare, to-the-metal viewpoint. It's not the prettiest way of looking at the world, but it's hard to argue that it's incorrect.
I'm definitely on the side of everyone who hates the video thing but all you have to do is talk for a minute about what you're working on. You're not being evaluated on any of the things that "video" normally implies—quite the opposite. For example coming across as an "influencer" would be a bad idea, and coming across as an awkward introvert probably helps you and certainly won't hurt. But don't try to "come across" in any way at all—just talk about what you're working on or interested in.

For people who feel the way that you and I both do, whoever watches your video as part of reviewing your YC application is probably going to see you an order of magnitude more positively than you see yourself. Self-evaluation of video is painful.
I can think far quicker than I can speak. Like how most people can read much more quickly in their head than out loud.
If C++ was JavaScript you would do:

import {vector} from 'std';

Which I think is a reasonable compromise, you're only bringing vector into scope rather than all of the standard library.
I have whitelisted stack overflow. It does not have distracting ads which sometimes I find even useful.
I also try to work effectively but quietly, but an epiphany I had after working on a couple of technically interesting problems I thought were a big deal but were met with "k, thanks, bye" after being finished was the question: "if you don't talk to people about what you're working on, how do you even know it is desired by the org?"
Ok I’ll spell it out.

A) China is not infiltrating US infrastructure to prevent the US from “agitating” a war on China, they’re doing it to deter the US from coming to the defense of Taiwan or other allies or partners in case a war breaks out in the Pacific, a war overwhelmingly likely to be started by China.

B) They don’t want to directly, but they definitely want to with their neighbors to expand their borders, legitimize the ruling party, and project naval power into the pacific and South China Sea. They hope their large navy and cyber capabilities will deter a US response
I for one read it as paraphrasing and not a literal quote.
Now there's also Enigmail, which supports SeaMonkey again.
I spent weeks back in 2020 fighting with PM trying to customize behaviors such as bullet points etc. At the time the documentation was sparse and for me progress was extremely hard.

I ended up abandoning the project but wrote a short introduction here which might help you get started.

https://github.com/PierBover/prosemirror-cookbook
> Empiricism cannot be justified without a reason-based framework

Yes, it can. Empiricism can be justified empirically: it just works better than anything else humans have yet come up with.
Here's some additional insights regarding Redis and Valkey

https://devboard.gitsense.com/redis?id=f66d8a46ef

If you ignore comments and just look at people raising issues and pull requests, Valkey has more contributors

https://devboard.gitsense.com/redis?id=f66d8a46ef&comments=i...

Full disclosure: This is my tool
But what value have those 8 vs 41 authors added to the project with those changes? I think that's the primary concern here.
I think your premise is flawed:
> The trouble with your frame is that you can’t know what people actually want until you try to get them to use what you’ve built.

I would argue that if you’re building something in a vacuum, you’re wasting your time. You should find your customers first. Find their pain points in their industry. See how those could be fixed.
It can also be how you think. I think like that (speaking to myself) and I'm not a slow thinker, at least I don't think so... The thing is, when speaking doesn't involve muscle movements, and just a stream of word/concept objects it can be much faster, and also doesn't have to be single-threaded (so to say). But from my subjective experience it feels like I'm talking to myself, one word after the other.
I'm surprised you find us weird. I always thought of muteminds as psychos. For example, if you spend a day alone, do you just wallow in silent nothingness? Or do you talk to yourself aloud because you can't do so silently?
Naturalization is neither cheap or simple either.
Yet, if you're living anywhere north of Mexico City, it's almost certain that 12 weeks from now it will be much hotter than 12 weeks ago. In fact, it is such a basic knowledge that our ancestors with stone tools figured it out.

What's impressive is that some people are so invested in not understanding climate that they reject the notion that larger trends can be bloody obvious before anyone can predict day-to-day variances. (Again, a basic principle that our stone tools ancestors figured out.)
Every time I see news of a robotics company reportedly disrupting an industry, all I can see is the very large amount of prep work using conventional techniques (read: humans in excavators) to prepare the terrain for the (usually very strict) constraints of the robot being publicized.

If the new robot can install panels very quickly, but you need 3 weeks to flatten the field to unreasonable tolerances or install tons of dedicated framing and supports for it to function, your efficiency gains or cost saving numbers will take a hit.

Those considerations are unsexy and boring, they put a shade to the press release, yet are very important to assess the value of the innovation. I'll trust a company when they start being transparent about these aspects.
The problem is that an open source project you contribute to can become non-free from under you at any point. This pattern is becoming more and more common now.
I made it so close to finishing without a guide, but I never thought to Close the Door, and wasted hours trying to find the next thing before finally giving up.
How do you write without an internal monologue? Is each sentence a surprise as you write it? It wasn’t in your head before you write it down? If it was, isn’t that an internal monologue?
Got rejected twice. And twice ended up creating great businesses, not billion dollars but profitable enough to have a full team.
It's so much better than VC money!
No stress, you can really follow your ideas, move at your own pace, have a healthy life/work balance.
If you can avoid VCs do it!
Very cool! I'd use it, but my current NAS hardware (full ATX mobo, 12x HDDs) certainly wouldn't fit. I've printed a few trays to hold all my HDDs in the normal desktop PC case I use, but they keep warping if I let the HDDs get a little hotter than normal, since they're just PLA. Maybe it's finally time for me to start working with PETG too.
That seems unbelievable to be honest. You mean if the car wash breaks a wiper the dealer just replaced it?

I had a hard time getting my dealer to replace what was clearly warranty work (engine issues) due to them pretending the factory warranty extension didn't apply.

And here you have dealers replacing things that are explicitly excluded? Weird.
a post which will spawn many bad takes on philosophy in the comments section by tech workers who barely know the subject but believe they are experts
> However, Photino Birds carry with them one unassailable advantage the Xeelee could not overcome; they are not bound by time. They can freely exist in and travel to any point in time. The creatures do not age nor die naturally, not even by the end of the universe; they just travel back to the beginning of time, including to points so soon after the Big Bang that baryonic matter (including the Xeelee) could not yet exist.

Where is this described in the books? I don't remember the Photino Birds having this ability.
Is there any way to enforce that in a way that can't be worked around with a shim? Demanding source code? Looking for signs of other languages in the binary and not allowing them in the appstore if detected?
Waterfront home price down by 75% as erosion concern washes value away
Well you have to pick one. Either people will pay ~$400K for the units and then the builder's incentive to build there is obvious -- because there is enough demand to sell them for $400K, which is profitable.

Or people wouldn't pay quite as much as the existing single-family homes, but they'd still pay more than the builder's costs to construct the building, so it's still profitable. It only becomes not profitable when the price of a housing unit drops below the builder's costs. Which is why they'd want to keep building until that happens.

> If you feel I'm wrong, please point me at a few cities in the US where housing became cheaper as density increased.

I keep saying this. The causation goes the other way. Density increases where demand is higher. Higher demand increases prices, then density blunts the increase so that it's smaller than it would be if no additional construction occurred. That doesn't mean it would become cheaper in the higher demand area than the lower demand area -- particularly if the area is still growing, in which case construction lags the increase in demand and has to catch up. And if construction is inhibited, it can't, so you get as much density as the zoning allows and then prices skyrocket because supply can no longer respond to increases in demand. Which can happen even if the area already has above-average density.

What you'd need to see a price decrease is an area where zoning was relaxed after being strict, allowing density to increase after it had previously been suppressed, so that density increases because of the legal change rather than a new increase in demand. But the lack of this happening in areas of high demand is exactly the problem. Maybe we should try it and see what happens?
The atomic family of 2 adults and children is a very recent invention. The historical family is a bunch of people living under the same roof, working and doing for the whole family, from each according to their ability, for each according to their needs.

The democracy is not simply everyone in a country deciding on everything down to the minutiae of individual lives. Some political lessons are missing here. Democracy is about the people who are subject of a situation being also actors of the decisions on this specific matter. Nobody is saying how you should behave in your bedroom.
Make it legal to develop high density housing on land you already own… no need to force anyone to do anything.

I don’t live in SF or know anything about it.
OK, thanks for clarifying. In that case, I suspect you must be a mathematician.
>That's what the law says.

Which law says there is a landlord cartel and building apartments is illegal? We both know there is no such law.

>You own a piece of property, you want to get into the market by building more housing on it than currently exists, you can't.

Is this also in some law? Which one, please be specific. How come people get in and out leasing market all the time? An apartment building near where I live changed ownership recently, I would appreciate the exact law you are referring to, this could be a crime in progress.
Wow. Now that's nice. Someone thought outside our box for that story.

Part of the reason that I initially posted on this thread was to ponder the question about a world where mirrors have a memory function. A mirror with a memory would have perfect fidelity though the image would be a mirror image of reality, like looking into a replay from a mirror image universe. I wrote a poem on that subject a couple years ago and the whole question about photons and their potential infinite existence triggered the memory.
"Speaking to whether reptiles or fish experience pain"...

So vertabrates definitely have pain receptors. It stands to reason they experience pain, at the very least.

I wonder if there are still people who doubt this.
would this help with your problem with modules, it's referenced on the book's page:
https://www.stroustrup.com/module_use.html ?
> people won't want AWS/GCP/Azure to slap a UI on top of their free open-source product and resell it, making tens of millions of dollars per day in the process

Then build that UI yourself and sell it and make millions of dollars per day yourself, noone is stopping them.

Ah but you see there are 2 problems: 1/ "UIs" are harder than people think, especially by those that use that term derisively like you did. There are PLENTY of popular products that are basically just UI on existing data.

2/ AWS/GCP/Azure aren't slapping UIs. They're offering "managed operations" for these products. What is it? And sure, Hackernews is likely to scoff at that - we know how this site feels about dropbox -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

But if it didn't offer value, people wouldn't pay for it. Redis engineers are good at building a key value storage. AWS/GCP/Azure engineers are good at building managed operations. Combine them together and you've got the best of both worlds.

AWS/GCP/Azure aren't making money off Redis, they're making money off their experience in operating cloud infrastructure. And the free market wants to pay them to do so.
It makes humans deeply uncomfortable to face the fact that the animals we eat and use might be more like us than we want to imagine. It’s clear to me watching my parents chickens play that there’s lights on in there. It might not be like my experience but they are conscious. I can’t and won’t eat animals.
IME, "thinking in language" doesn't mean "thinking exclusively in language". Like, I do think in a linguistic monologue when trying to string together some ideas, or reading some text, or planning what I'm about to say. But there's a simultaneous undercurrent of feelings, reactions, and recollections that aren't in words.

(E.g., if I'm driving behind a car acting strangely on the road, I might be very carefully observing and anticipating the driver's actions, while only muttering a vague "Whaaat...?" Or, for an experiment you can try at home, try thinking of something dumb repeatedly without pause, while at the same time reflecting on how dumb it sounds.)

I suspect that many people are the same, it's just that the monologue is the most immediately noticeable component of one's thoughts.
If I want to wash 100 dishes I'll take a dishwasher. But if I want a single dish washed followed by watering a single plant followed by taking out the trash I'll take Rosie.

Humanoid robot has much more Jack of all trades potential.
There are ways to prevent that which in retrospect we should have paid more attention to. For example, (L)GPL with no CLA cannot be changed later.
A bit of anecdata. My wife ran a restaurant for four years, a reasonably successful one: a lot of praise from customers, profitable enough to stay in business, but nothing like hockey-stick growth. If anything, she decreased the number of tables as the fame and revenue grew. She carefully focused on making her place distinct from other restaurants nearby, and in training her personnel.

Her long-time friend also ran a restaurant, for a much longer time, and more well-known in the city. After quite some years, she opened another, at a different part of the city. It struggled for some time, but eventually stabilized as a reasonably profitable place, after, say 6 or 7 years. Several years after that, she started planning to open a third one, and was saying that this would stretch her thin, and she's very reluctant, but the demand was apparently there.

This is exactly the kind of business VCs run away from: inevitable slow growth, no way to put in more money and scale the business to get more revenue. Large companies also often shy away from that. This may be a huge opportunity if you hold it right.

If you can find such a niche that pays you enough for your needs, it's really great because competition is low: few know about it, and of them, even fewer want to overtake you.
what's notable about this? has 11 upvotes at time of this comment but zero explanation for those of us who do not follow bitcoin in detail
context? is there anything inherently notable about this?
Yeah, I call it the TikTok army
Also the people that have the hardest time completing their goals tend to be people with ADD/ADHD and basically every study shows that these people are not motivated by rewards.

Also with an app like this, there are no good controls. The only motivation is not losing your money, so you just fake a victory to prevent any loss.

In fact, if there is anyone not meeting their goals and losing money .. the motivation for many people will be to buy into many challenges and collect free money by faking victories.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bitcoin-halving-cbs-news-ex...

> Bitcoin is expected to go through a "halving" within the next day or two, a preprogrammed event that could impact production of the world's largest cryptocurrency.

> A halving, which occurs about every four years, was designed by bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, to effectively reduce by half the reward that miners of the digital token receive. The idea is that by cutting in half the amount bitcoin miners currently make for their efforts, fewer bitcoins will enter the market, creating more scarcity of the cryptocurrency.
ah it's orange site, you're supposed to be aware of everything and context is frowned upon

edit: this is sarcasm if not clear but it reflects how often stuff gets posted here without an indication what is interesting about the topic (and it's poor form!)
I have sound, pictures and videos, vividly. thinking etc is just having a conversation with the voice in my head.. me! Sometimes it's watching a little movie, sometimes an image pops up. If someone is talking to me and I'm thinking about what they are saying, it's typically my brain's serving me up little "videos" of things I've seen in the past. To actively listen to someone, I have to also actively prevent all that from happening, to make silence in my head, that took years to learn to do. The idea that other people don't think like that, well, I can't comprehend it because it's not how I do it.
i didn't say anything about OSI approval, or even about "should". the fact is that a lot of people (myself included) have significantly less interest in a project if it is proprietary, and especially if it looks like the proprietor is going to exert control over it as a means of extracting value. and other people are fine with it, and might even prefer a project controlled by a company they trust to do a good job. and there's nothing wrong with either one! live and let live, with nothing to ridicule either way.

what is wrong is when companies entice the people who would otherwise just have ignored them by claiming to be open, and then turn around and try to exert control once they already have mindshare. that makes people feel baited and switched and leads to a very natural amount of resentment.
Many Budapestians Remain Dubious of 'Mini-Dubai'
Yup, wanted to inject some humor into the thread if possible!

Also entertaining direct VC offers via my telephone number in my HN bio. Kind of still joking, but in the AI era I find it's the best way to cope.
once every 4 years "bitcoin mining block reward halving"
It's too dangerous to build a company around open source. You're trapped between AWS eating you or having to relicense and AWS eating you. Source-available from the beginning protects you from this. The problem with OSS stuff is that people are generally price-sensitive and you can't beat the platforms for this since they get the R&D for free.

It's sort of how I don't hire junior people. When others have trained them up, I can just hire them for more. The other guys have to pay to train them so they hope to get some reward for that, but switching costs are low. I can just take pre-trained guys.

And just like the pre-trained guys in this scenario, AWS can always offer a better deal. You need to moat your stuff in some way. Elastic License is ideal if you want to build a company around this. If you just want to make things for the good of mankind or whatever, you can use BSD/GPL/MIT/whatever, but you're doomed if you want to build a company around those licenses.

Elastic made it by being quick to the jump. Others have followed. The only really successful model that's different has got to be Kong and RHEL and they've both been around a while. Kong's adoption is troubled because once you get successful, using their OSS thing is better than the enterprise because their pricing tiers go up. But they seem to have good enterprise sales team. Don't know about RHEL.

But if I were starting a company around this stuff, I'd be very careful about having core tech be true OSS. Source-available yeah, but true OSS is too risky.
> So I'd speculate people in STEM can smell the lack of systematic thinking in some of these discussions and unfortunately throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Perhaps, but seeing poor thinking in others is a lot easier than seeing it in oneself. I don't recall encountering any STEM folks who haven't made a logical/epistemic/other error on the proposition of whether we have free will. It is one of those questions that seems to put the mind into some sort of a weird downgraded mode.

This entire comment section is...interesting.
User interface design is about designing interfaces that can be used by users.

You can prefer a style, you can customize it to your liking if themes are available (in this case, they are), but if you just replace the whole UI design field with "design is supposed to look nice", what you get might be an aberration. It might be pleasing to some people (but then still some, I really doubt you can find something that is universally pleasant?), but what good is that without being usable? Or if it makes usage much more difficult?
Consciousness can be quantified via suffering, suffering can be quantified via stimuli response.

I suspect VR/neural implants/etc. will upend Nagel's inconceivability theory. Consciousness can be defined via capability, and we'll soon have the capability of directly simulating any conceivable umvvelt via those technologies. Then we'll all know what its like to be bats.
It's almost like everyone who comes in to say "people all just use Whatsapp" are going from anecdotal evidence, while the reality is Whatsapp, Snapchat, Instagram, Telegram, iMessage, SMS and Tiktok all have a share of that messaging pie-- these people just live in message app bubbles.
Bitcoin's block reward halves every 210 000 blocks (210k * 10 minutes = 4 years), this block marks Bitcoin entering its 5th epoch with a block reward of 3.125 BTC down from its original of 50 BTC.

Interestingly there must have been a lot of people that wanted to get a transaction in the halving block, including fees and subsidy it resulted in a total reward of over 40 BTC for the pool that mined the block, ViaBTC.
The internet is just broken and only works because of lot of hacked bandaids.
you don't have to; you could seek interest among fans of proprietary software instead, using whatever marketing techniques work there. apple has had a fair amount of success with that approach e.g.
Avie Tevanian and Jon Rubenstein both have oral histories on the Computer History Museum website/YouTube.
Yeah I can't believe that either. Can you imagine pg being on LinkedIn? Never in a million years. I'm trying to find out who to talk to about this.