skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have what the article says to go on, and the article contradicts you. But I know a bit more about the music industry, and it is absolutely the case that midlist music acts don't --- and never did --- generate enough record sales to cover their nut. There's a famous Steve Albini zine article that indicts the recording industry for never recouping an advance, and a less famous David Lowery article that explains why nobody could reasonably expect any of these titles to recoup.

It may be that we don't disagree at all, and are just talking past each other? At any rate: my only point here is, like startup investing and the music industry, we're talking about a hits business. And they aren't hits businesses because a cabal of cigar-chomping executives wants them to be that; they're that way because the median investment never recoups, and so the winners have to pay for the losers.
The Internet Archive has a pretty big lending library.
I don't know Zuckerberg, so I don't know his motivation, nor the executives of Meta. I haven't really read any of their work.

Profit and control fit the data points, but I suppose I could "put it past them" if a better model explained everything.
True. I tend to shove stuff in to cgroups and adjust niceness to compensate, so e.g. slack and email client are both lower priority and cpu restricted.
>frawk is a small programming language for writing short programs processing textual data

AWK can do far more than that. With netcat you can write an IRC/Gopher client in days.
There are solitaries written in awk, even tetris and maybe, sokobans.
Anyone have some insight into the motivation of spam bot behavior? It doesn't make sense to me that they'd intentionally re-post the same link on a story 100+ times. Perhaps repeating the same link is good for SEO farming? Or somehow there's a belief that 100+ identical comments is more effective than just a few?

Also the comments all seem to end with a 15 character random string, which I assume is just there to add entropy and avoid identical comment detection.
the docs might be misleading - New-MailboxImportRequest is "only supported on-prem", but it's used by the PST import UI and works just fine with EXO
The demo at the very least appears to assume a lot about font sizes or shapes. It is very broken on my setup with everything escaping the bounds that it is presumably supposed to live in:

https://pasteboard.co/6Z1nLEWhPHRg.png

However I do like the dark theme. It manages to separate different areas without too much noise which can be hard to do without shadows.
I bought a couple of M5Stack Cardputers to build my daughter a pair of wireless texting machines (over LORA). I have to say, for about $50 a pop, they are amazing little computers.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bx4Mef6K23o
Modal is a matrioshka language based on pattern-matching to rewrite trees
Not sure how this is "dishing it out and not taking it". They intend to "take it"; they will force Bytedance not to sell, and thereby lose its US business with no compensation.
I really dislike when one problematic neighbor feeds crows. She has ended up attracting a massive group of them regularly, and it ends up causing a nuisance for everyone else who has to put up with constant noise from the crows and also trash (since they like to retrieve random things and leave them all over). Folks who decide to feed wildlife - please be considerate of others around you. Wild animals are wild, and they can figure out how to survive on their own.
It does give an answer, yes. But those are the kinds of questions that I often get where the answers are badly wrong. If it's programming, that's probably fine, it's generally pretty easy to verify. If you're asking for a statistic that seems like it ought be easily available knowledge but which you couldn't find within 1 minute of checking Wikipedia, it will probably confidently tell you something badly wrong. Make sure you double check.
I buy books. I might buy more if more publishers offered titles with lay-flat binding. Computer/technical books especially.
The problem is not writing code. The problem is writing the right code and supporting it as the product evolves. AI tools result in programmers that know less about their code and therefore less able to support and less able to contribute to the direction of the product. Notice that almost all of the Joel test is about how to support code over time, not which editor to use.
Concern grows as bird flu spreads further in US cows: 32 herds in 8 states
I too have been a fan of M5Stack's clever product designs. The Core2 module and their extensive line of snap-on peripherals for it are an ideal hobbyist or student starter platform. And you're correct that the documentation and software support have been the weak part.

Edit to add: I just visited their site and saw they released a new version of the Core series a few months ago : the CoreS3 (which upgrades and replaces the Core2). Obviously, more, faster and better but I was curious about the specific differences. After some searching I found this article covering the changes and upgrades in detail: https://shop.m5stack.com/blogs/news/m5stack-cores3-the-third...

If I was teaching a middle school or high school hands-on intro to computers, electronics and making lab, these would be where I'd start. With screen, wifi, BT, touch, RGB LEDs, buttons, camera, mics, IR and a diverse set of sensors all built in, kids could make just about anything. And that's before even getting into the hundred-plus stackable or pluggable add-ons ranging from motor controllers and physical interfaces to LoRA, PoE and encoders.
People have different experiences with any given thing. You might find your TV remote intuitive and easy to us. Your grandparents might find it overwhelmingly difficult. Which is true?
> Yes, I know *nix exists but it’s so fractured and every little variant has its own quirks making it difficult to be a general purpose OS that the masses could adopt, IMO.

Yes, but to be clear: the main hurdle for adoption is fragmentation across GUIs/installs/package management across distros, which is out of scope (for better or worse) from the POV of Linux. Linux is a technological marvel, and if “they” could sort out these issues it would be the shortest path to mainstream appeal, by far. I’m certain this is technically feasible but also extremely challenging to pull off from a leadership perspective. Unfortunately, I don’t think there is a solution the majority would embrace. There is a ton of flame wars to overcome, hills people will die on.
Golf simulation. I found myself in a unique situation where I had the space, computer and projector. So I got a mat, screen and the key piece, a launch monitor. Now I’m playing 9-36 holes of golf simulation almost every day. The tech is great, the setup is never ending. Golf simulation tech is blowing up right now too. I’m not even necessarily a golfer fwiw. But I love the simulator.
That’s not true. The problem is powerful vested interests which work against those advocating for patients at all stages: from vice lobbies including ultrapalatable food to insurance companies.

The amount of money at stake in our acute healthcare system is huge.
>Whereas for Meta, the Quest hardware has always been sold at breakeven or even as a loss leader (a few years ago they actually raised the price of the Quest 2 to cut further losses).

Indeed, and that means they'll seek a return on their investment from continued invasive surveillance, emotional manipulation, and cramming ads everywhere.
> IANAL, but Oracle's lawyers are, and they see no problem distributing GPL 2-licensed Windows drivers for VirtualBox[1], in both source and binary form, so, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, neither do I.

But did they take third party GPL code from someone else? If they are the only authors of the code or if all the contributors have directly contributed to the drivers (thus knowing full well their code would end up being linked to the windows kernel), then there can't be any issue.
The undeniable minus of a Kindle e-reader is: the illustrations suck. They're just too small. Half the time, my "library" has book covers that I can't even make out.
but then you've shut down account creation for 24 hours. The site operators get to choose how they want to play it, but it seems they don't want to do that just yet.

You're right that it's laughably crude though. Says a lot about things that this hasn't happened until now.
I thought SBCL was a compiler only implementation? CMUCL did have an interpreter though.
Dumb, probably overly broad Q: I'm looking to build a hardware project off a flutter app. Linux on Raspberry Pi is the straightforward option. But I want an excuse to build on Fuchsia.

Let's pretend Fuchsia is just as easy to deploy on (I'm 99% sure it won't be).

Does Fuchsia buy me any cool stuff long-term that isn't possible on Linux?

Like, what's my excuse for going with Fuchsia other than "(handwaves) it'll be more secure"? (to be clear, im teasing myself and my understanding of Fuchsia, not your explanation)
That season definitely was a little slow, but it left me wanting more, so I read through the comics. Based on the quality of what the show has done so far and of the source material I'm still excited for the next season whenever it finally comes
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that the population of casual workers is not infinite. The senior who accepts a split shift school bus driver job that no non-semi retired person would accept because it would crowd out their ability to earn full time. The kids who realize a summer of hard work nets them less than a scholarship obtained through a single test or essay. A working parent might barely earn enough to pay for taxes and daycare so they just work on the domestic front.
They truly speak to the soul of a new industry
TikTok has one of the lowest bars to monetization out of all the major social media networks.

There is a large amount of creators on the platform that live off their content and eCommerce enabled through the platform. So it disappearing overnight would severely impact people who have a majority of their livelihood through the app.

Facebook. Twitter. YouTube. They all have short form video, but TikTok has a lot of features that just don't exist on other platforms.
ATC here.

We have to hold a medical certificate that is close to a Class 2. There are lots of medical conditions that if we are diagnosed with, or drugs that if we report taking, we cannot be controllers.

We are forced to retire when we turn 56. The 31 age cutoff is to accommodate that. We can retire at any age with 25 years of ATC service. By law we also cannot work more than six consecutive days, and no more than 10 hours a day. There are some facilities that schedule everyone for that maximum.

There is no stigma with calling in sick unless there's a pattern, even if it's just because something is bothering you and you don't think you'll be able to focus that day. However just like every other federal employee, we only accrue 1 sick day a month.

On r/ATC2, there is some saying we should get more sick leave than that, which I won't disagree with, but it wouldn't be sick leave, it would have to be called something else. I believe the nature of our job necessitates that we get more "sick" leave. I know other federal jobs can acrue other types of leave.
I have xreal glasses and a Quest 3. There's so much friction in using Steam Link/Quest Link/Virtual Desktop that it's barely worth using over the xreal airs. You need to use controllers to turn them on, and if you lose tracking or exit your guardian, the display turns off and you have to grab your controllers again to make any adjustments.
Genocide is the complete elimination ion of another group... Might be a little far.
This was super cool. I guess if you want to "simulate" its a whole different world?
Let me rephrase this as what will probably happen: the TikTok ban will be barely felt and will likely add to the American Economy as competitors that aren't tied to China appear. And if TikTok can't be perfectly emulated, it will actually increase the productivity of Americans who are now being held captive by a foreign-controlled algorithm which is fine-tuned to exploit physiological weaknesses.
That's confusing the decision to work on something with the quality of the folks working on it. Brilliant engineers often work on things which are risky from a market perspective. It doesn't make them less brilliant at engineering when it turns out there isn't a market for the thing.

John Carmack appears to be brilliant. I'd guess he would admit the VR market didn't turn out as hoped.
Or it's some kind of weird-ass SEO campaign (not that it'll work, dang has implemented rel=nofollow a few months ago). Man, I've been on HN for >11 years now, literally never saw a spam campaign this intensive.
Every US publicly traded company of course has to kowtow [0] to the US national agenda. How else could it work?

The cold war with China is here to stay. Trump started it, Biden continued it, and now it's on the agenda for good. China is openly striving to supplant the US as the premier power. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowtow

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-26/xi-s-vow-...
Everything is an evolution and everyone wants to be the next form of that evolution, even if it’s not. Marketing is always going to be one step ahead and once we actually do achieve what the last generation is selling, someone new will be selling you on the next step. Today’s “VR” will look extremely different from 2050 VR. That doesn’t mean today we don’t have some form of VR though. I don’t mind it, it’s a conceptual bucket for today’s expectations. And those of us who keep up with things (like all of us on HN for example) understand one another. What would you recommend we call all these things?
> `if(x==1) elseif(x==2)...` because switch was "faster" and rejected my PR

Yeah, that's never been true. Old compilers would often compile a switch to __slower__ code because they'd tend to always go to a jump table implementation.

A better reason to use the switch is because it's better style in C-like languages. Using an if statement for that sort of thing looks like Python; it makes the code harder to maintain.
Voyager has been an inspiration for generations of engineers.

Bless you all that worked on it. Thank you.

Recently I designed in a Voyager inspired secret Easter egg into the surgical robot I designed. I put a gold (plated) plate with everyone's signature engraved on it. Gave everyone one as a surprise Christmas gift.
Tell me more. What was your use-case for installing NixOS? I’ve been thinking about putting together a new media server and saw a recommendation to try NixOS. (I’ve previously used Unraid). That was a couple weeks ago, and it was the first time I’d heard about it
Did you watch the Nvidia 2024 GTC keynote[1]?

The CEO of NVIDIA was pretty clear: Nvidia's focus is now on selling Blackwell AI Factories. According to some napkin math, each of these Blackwell AI factories will have an annual power bill of roughly $8,000,000 USD and if you do a little apples to oranges comparison will outperform the computer that's currently #1 on the supercomputing top 500 (Frontier at Oak Ridge) by one to two orders of magnitude.

for comparison, over the past fifteen years, we've seen 3 orders of magnitude improvement in the supercomputing top 500. (from roadrunner in 2008 to frontier in 2024). Nvidia is going to do 1 to 2 orders of magnitude improvement instantaneously.

Nvidia's core market has shifted dramatically. There is no competition.

[1]: https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/keynote/
I can see the point of projecting a huge flat monitor in VR to, say, write code on it.

A mobile app, not so much.
Hmm? Both of your statements are not true.
> i.e. don't outsource things.

i.e. don't be efficient. Outsourcing always gets a bad reputation, but holistically it's the best way for the greatest number.
Sure the game is rigged so that someone will be feeding us propaganda, that much is a given in today’s society. I don’t believe however it is in any citizen’s best interests to allow a foreign nation to control that propaganda due to the invariably detrimental incentives at play.

The American government is more likely to produce propaganda that promotes an increase in GDP. The increase being won by sacrificing individual autonomy or quality of life is something that is at least in your control (emigrating, voting, lobbying, etc) which makes it the lesser of two evils.

As to burning it down and picking a third option… I agree in principle but recent history rarely supports that path; modern technology and weaponry renders any kind of organized revolution a nonstarter, while other means of subverting the status quo (economically, culturally, etc) have been set up to incentivize those capable of doing so to be completely apathetic in the face of obscene wealth tied directly to upholding said status quo.

Put simply we are in a social construct that is resilient to any significant change in course (or destruction) while still under threat from a foreign social construct that wishes to subvert our society to the benefit of its own.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40126887
I would be worried about forking over $1000 to a fly by night company for a product which could easily break.

(xreal is also in this category imo but at least its a bit cheaper)
I think the "validation" is the mods happening to notice (usually because people who create such accounts get flagged, and dang gets notified of flags) and politely telling the person such usernames aren't allowed.
Hacked Facebook accounts leave businesses out of pocket
A New Deal for Manifold
There's a difference between playing along with what the US government wants and having to have a parallel chain of command with CCP "party cells" in your company.

And there's more than enough US companies actively opposing what the US government want, most notably Google who went and encrypted all their internal traffic so that it couldn't be tapped any more.
Texas Hold'em. I know there are probably plenty of experts here but after decades avoiding it, I'm getting into it because I found a group of friends that played online.

I first discovered that there are tables (and tables and tables) of preflop card combinations that tell you whether to raise/call/fold based off of where you are in the dealing order and how many players are active.

Then I learn that's basically derived from monte carlo simulations, to calculate your chance of winning at any given moment (equity). It seems that it's probably more accurate to make your decision based off of equity and pot odds, i.e. Kelly Criterion. If I can get fast enough at estimating that in my head.

Also having fun trying to find open source libraries to do those simulations so I can create my own drilling exercises. Honestly, I'm having more fun doing that stuff than playing it.

The biggest dumbest problem is when blinds accelerate to the point that the minimum bet is greater than what Kelly would recommend. Some online poker sites are aggressive about this, to the point that you are forced to make irrational choices pretty quickly or get blinded out. A way to juice the house advantage I guess. It's almost enough to make me give up and find the next project.
Just to make sure I understand: you're saying that checking L1/L2/L3 takes around 35ns, and then the CPU accesses DRAM which takes 10ns? If that's so, how is L3 cache any faster than DRAM? Also, can you explain why the memory controller adds some latency?
Employer mandates and employee protection laws ironically worsen this problem. When employees gain access to a health plan at 30 hours a week, employers respond by cutting them off at 29 hours or even commit time tracking wage theft. Maybe we could just set pro rata taxes to pay for social insurance programs instead of having a binary distinction between full time employee or not. Imagine if instead of Social Security we had an employer mandate for pensions and nothing for part time workers.
They aren’t deleted - they’ve just been flagged by people. If you have ‘showdead’ enabled in your profile, I think you can still see them. But I am not 100% sure how this works.
I love the incremental re-visits where you, after the fact, realize that you have subconsciously progressed.
I'm partial to the John Smith in The Man in the High Castle. I'm sure you are fine too but this spammer is besmirching your family's good name.
>Madagascar .. lemurs .. fosa

Isnt the obvious solution introducing some Lions to the island?
I recently fell into the Linux from Scratch rabbithole. The extra unexpected fun came while attempting to build LFS from within NixOS (my daily driver, which I only had a basic proficiency in). I quickly realized the challenges of following the LFS project's guidance, due in large part to how the Nix store is implemented. So I fell down another rabbithole of learning derivations and the Nix language - which took me a good way though building the LFS toolchain within Nix's intended sandbox. However, achieving FHS-compliance became another issue as I attempted to build essential LFS system tools within a chroot-like environment, but sought to do so in roughly the same declarative/reproducible manner as Nix's ideal. After a few lost hairs, I discovered the wonders of Nix's FHS build environment/bubblewrap implementation. A few hoop-jumps later, handling permissions and migrating to the final build partition, the project was complete with a mostly declarative, mostly reproducible, functional, minimal, bootable LFS build.

What sticks with me most through this experience is the brilliance of the open-source community (and a special satisfaction with now being able to say "I use nix btw")
I have STRONG doubts banning TikTok would hurt the American economy.

A blow to creators, sure. A blow to businesses? Maybe but it would probably make their workforce less depressed and slack off less so I don’t think so. The economy?

How is pilfering off US dollars to China have TikTok addict them and ad-men brainwash them help the economy? This is before we even get into if the economy would be worth the sacrifice even if it did help the economy.

The only plausible negative consequence economically would be from Chinese retaliation and frankly they’ve been playing dirty for ages having long banned US social media and the US has broadly failed to go tit for tat with them due to a “free trade” doctrine that the US should simply not be provoked by or react to non-tariff trade barriers and instead act with the utmost naivety. So I don’t even think the threat of retaliation should scare anybody since it’s still game theoretically correct to retaliate.
Show HN: I've Updated My AI Trip Planner with Budget
Nice!! I had a lot of fun with a project like this with some more generalized rulesets. This video got the most views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW9Q0qMc2Xc (just running 3d Brian's Brain) but I like this one the most, with a much more general ruleset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJvS6GuM3c&t=90s

The code is here: https://github.com/heyitsguay/gol3d

I keep meaning to go back and create an automated ruleset explorer that looks for stable but non-oscillating and non-constant population counts. Maybe someday...
Adam Curry theorized on his podcast a few years ago that the TikTok ban chatter was a protectionist move to help Facebook, Twitter and other US social media companies.
I flagged several hundred and can't find anything more to flag right now. Massive.
I agree; I use Goovis G3 Max myself when I need this kind of thing (which is bulkier and not AR, but has better FOV and higher resolution). But for people who already have a Quest 3, it can still be a useful trick sometimes.
Apple and to a lesser extent Google have high trust. Nobody trusts Meta at all. So who would adopt their OS?
i mean, its an android fork and some ios derivative so thats exactly what it is :D
If you think that publishers spend almost nothing on producing ebooks, then you clearly understand nothing about the publishing industry.
Spending 30 years in a psychological study warped Susannah Breslin's life