skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some times the second chance succeeds because you rely on the expertise of someone else rather than your own.

When Durian became available locally, I purchased the smallest fruit available. I used it as part of my smoothie. Yes, it was pungent while at the same time a very light and pleasing fragrant aroma.

I didn't purchase it again as I needed more understanding of flavor melding. However, I enjoyed the puff pastry filled with Durian a few years later while visiting China and only tasted the fragrant aroma.
Since it's for a code editor and using trees, I wonder if directly using an AST would be a good idea. You don't need to store strings for keywords like "function" or "while", and you get syntax highlight and formatting basically for free.
> and the cost can’t be that prohibitive since I don’t remember the last time I ended up with an unsigned binary on my Mac, even for free software like TeX and friends or Aquamacs.

Ok, so your app tastes aren't that varied then (or maybe it's the memory), plenty of devs of various little utilities don't bother paying
I live in Japan and get paid in a different currency. Changing jobs feels out of the question now.
What vested interest is that?
Do we know what news prompted this?
Understanding How to Use Cryptography in Java
Simon Winchester has a good take on the development of absurd precision --
https://www.simonwinchester.com/precision-praise
It's a shifting of the goalposts, to make "just" meeting the expectations of your job seem like you're being lazy and unengaged from the work.
> banks and other institutions continue to send legitimate messages that look like phishing.

The Canada Revenue Agency (tax collectors) once called me up about something. They literally said "To verify your identity, please give me your social insurance number". It's hard to blame people when actual government agencies are training people to be phished.
Primal does not mean valuable.

You personally can value the bakery next door higher than Microsoft, because "Hey, I can eat bread but I can't eat software". But the market will not agree with you.
Seeing all this discussion reinforces the idea that no new programming language should have this "every type implicitly contains null" thing
Can you please stop posting ideological/nationalistic/etc. flamewar comments to HN? Your account has been doing a lot of this, and it's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, more people used to have ambition to "move up", get raises, bonuses, and promotions.
MLX and TensorRT would be really nice!
This attitude is why the web won, IMO.

When it comes to native apps, in the 2000s, this was the common attitude of users. But it's much harder to implement from a business perspective! Both in terms of business models, and in terms of dev time - having a bunch of possibly-incompatible versions lying around is a lot of overhead.

On the web, where most technical users understood this is technically impossible, they were willing to allow businesses to act differently, keep the software always-updated, and charge per usage. And since that's much easier and more lucrative for companies, they all switched to that.

(Now everyone kind of accepts that model, which is why today's Photoshop works via subscription, but the "damage" was done and the web won.)
On the right side of the page, below the game capabilities (Singleplayer, Achievements, etc) is a link to the EULA

https://store.steampowered.com//eula/882140_eula_0
That's not true at all. (Excluding the factor of location), the compensation of a SWE depends not only the level, but also on tenure, on performance rating (and the history of rating), and on stock market fluctuations (whether the stock price was low or high when the stocks were granted).

One of the rumors is that the better compensated you are on your level, the more likely you are to be targeted for layoff, because it saves the eng cost the most.
It is the exorbitant privilege. It is a bit hard to find good discussions of the mechanism because it gets political very quickly. But in essence if the US prints the whole world absorbs it, if Japan prints it stays in Japan.
I already agreed that writing kanji without years of practice would be very hard to make look native. But they said they did it and it worked. Maybe it was obviously not native and it didn't matter. I don't know. But I'm not going to say they lied about making the sign.

Can we agree that it seems improbable that they fooled anybody about who drew the sign and also agree that they got to keep their workshop and their tools and have an amazing (and true) story?
That's incredible!

I was not prepared to hear him say the UPS was "only outputting 3.74 kilowatts because not a lot of stuff is running".

What struck me as slightly ironic were the two converted desktop systems in the "applications" rack appeared to have Noctua fans.
No shortages of lawyers who think the same - way before they hit 50 :-)
There are plenty of customers using Google Cloud. It made $9.6B last quarter, that’s 28% increase from the prior year, and operating margin of 9.4%. In contrast, AWS made $24.2B, with 13% growth, and operating margin of 30%.

The point is that Google is buying the growth, which eventually runs out. While that’s a reasonable business strategy — it’s not the same as innovating a new business.
> Enforcement of judgments issued by foreign courts in the United States is governed by the laws of the states. Enforcement cannot be accomplished by means of letters rogatory in the United States. Under U.S. law, an individual seeking to enforce a foreign judgment, decree or order in this country must file suit before a competent court. The court will determine whether to recognize and enforce the foreign judgment.

Obviously, its not a good idea to bet your business on the courts not enforcing an EU fine when you can just add the VAT and cost of the handling hassle to the price for EU customers.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
If you put 200,000 miles on a $50,000 40 mpg car over 10 years, that's $50,000 for the car, $15,000 for insurance, $25,000 for gas, and almost certainly more than $10,000 for tires, maintenance and repairs.

There is a rule of thumb that the purchase price of the car is 1/3 of the cost over its lifetime. That's pretty generous in 2024 since cars now have better mileage, better reliability and cost more, but it's almost certainly more than half the cost.

That's over $10,000 a year
People want to eat to excess because they're psychologically/emotionally rewarded for doing so, because eating whatever and whenever you could was pretty fucking important for tens of thousands of years before we had infinite McDonald's and microwave dinners.

Eating less and exercising more does work. Talk to dedicated lifters about their cutting/bulking, where they want to be, and talk to them about it again in six months if you want to see how effective it is. It doesn't work for a lot of people because in the short, medium, and arguably even long term, it doesn't make you feel good.

There are a handful of people that can struggle to gain or lose weight on a diet appropriate for the amount of exercise they do. You may be one of them. If you are one of those people, asking why other people struggle with it is like being a 6'6" basketball player and wondering why somebody who is 5'9" struggles to dunk like you can.
Good catch! I didn’t realize the original link still worked. Also didn’t know about the “why” notes on WB index. Thanks!
The technology to make a broadly appealing product is a lot further away than 2 years. With the Vision Pro, they made the VR equivalent of the Apple Newton. The "iPhone moment" is a long way away (assuming VR will ever even have mainstream appeal, which is definitely not guaranteed).

The current tech available is just too clunky, slow, power-hungry, and expensive. And it just plain needs to look cooler than a weird pair of ski goggles.
Other currencies devalue more and the USD devalues less, because of the function of the USD as a reserve currency.
What's the performance against for example qdrant?
I mean, this is a very HN-bubble thought. Even if people here actually think that, just look at Google's revenue or usage numbers. Clearly a "few" people are still using it!

People here might say that Google has gotten terrible, but I would bet 99% of HNers still user Google dozens of times a day, just like everybody else in the world.
A massive revenue that is dwarfed by massive expenses isn't "profit"
And you'd thinking would reverse again to the common sense baseline when you realize that alternative providers outside of locked systems don't charge 30%
What you say is that there is more demand for the Dollar. That does not change the fact that the price halves when the supply doubles.

Price = demand/supply.
In 2014 I wrote a "History of Web Programming" that's a good accompaniment to this article since it goes into some more detail on some of the older technologies:

https://www.observationalhazard.com/2018/06/history-of-web-p...
How does bazel work with cmake builds?
Amateur juggle here

It's very hard, and doesn't cut as a metaphor for making your life easier
Only the market in a relatively stable world.
I got the passport for free with the offshore company.
Ok, that's proof evolution isn't real. lol
Hah, role management for us is "create a role for migrations, and a role to do db things, and enforce auth entirely in the web app"

I suspect we aren't alone
Its not just in US, it happens in every country. SMS is the main way these links are distributed. So much so that in Sri Lanka, gov planned to add a centralized SMS firewall.

https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-to-study-infobip-centraliz...

Google messages have a good spam filter than can filter in real time them, but I have seen some get though for a small period of time.
Fundamentally the core problem is that no one wants to spend the money to get real traction on these issues, which would require create affordable housing, and even more expensive than that treatment beds for persons enduring drug addiction. The additional problem of course being that there’s a shortage of doctors and nurses to work at hypothetical treatment centers that don’t exist.

So because no one wants to spend any money the only option left is harm reduction measures because they’re more affordable.

Problem being of course is that harm reduction is no solution in its self, and the point is merely to prevent death while people await the aid of actual solutions.

There is now a voter backlash against harm reduction because no one sees anything improving and they’ve been convinced by disingenuous media that it was harm reduction itself that was the problem, not the complete disinterest in building affordable housing and treatment beds.

Voters need to wake up and recognize that they need to pay for solutions. I don’t expect this will happen however. Opposition parties will slag the status quo and say they’ll do other things, but then immediately do nothing once in power when they realize the cost. Been seeing it my whole life living here.
Text in Postscript files is excellent in general. This was either scanned and then OCR'd to allow copying text, or converted from PS to PDF badly.

Here's a better version: https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~cormac/papers/pldi93.pdf

There's still pixellation if you zoom the font. That could be due to the type of font that was originally used, and/or due to the conversion.

Note that the article is over 30 years old. Technology has improved a lot since then. A typical screen resolution in 1993 was 800x600.
Yeah, I'm totally with you on the units, too. For me it's even more frustrating, because it's such an obvious and ubiquitous problem, and still relatively unacknowledged. There are third-party solutions (like Pint in Python), but in my experience by default scientific software projects tend to begin with just NumPy basically, and introducing more advanced (IMO) tools like Xarray and Pint is an uphill battle against ingrained habits.
That's not true at all. Most state schools don't have that kind of money to hand out, and even if they did, tuition is less than half of the total annual cost.
In this world. The world we live in.
What's the best software for remapping keys on a Mac these days?

I'm currently using Ukelele, but it's not ideal. And I would really really like to remap Right Alt different to Left Alt, to get a proper ISO layout!
> An experienced pilot can feel the stall coming on with a bit of a "burble" in the stick

Stall recovery has also been an essential part of my flight training.
In several countries you can't file your taxes or access your bank without a google/apple smartphone. People need to live too.
> Exercise helps people to lose weight.

Exercise has been extensively studied in relation to weight loss, and has been found to be of limited effectiveness. Many studies found no effect, and meta-analyses found modest effect sizes.

Your anecdotes don't change my mind. The problem seems to be, exercise uses up willpower and makes you want to eat more, and only in very indirect ways (improving BMR, etc) really helps.

Of course, exercise improves a bazillion other things: cardiovascular health, blood pressure, insulin resistance, etc, etc, etc.
1) convince gnomes having no underwear is shameful, if caught by pixies.
2) steal underpants
3) offer replacement underpants at a low price, based on washing and dying the stolen underpants
4) profit.
Is detecting phishing all that straightforward? As banks, travel agents, and even governments, are all terrible at avoiding the signalling of phishing.

Equifax had its entire response to its breach on a different domain, the kind of thing we tell people to watch out for.

https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/

This looks like phishing. But it is legitimate.
Depending on the trajectory of both P&L it could still be worthwhile
That's a pretty strong claim to make completely unsupported by evidence. In fact, I think you'll find more people than ever before are settling down in their 30s and starting families, etc.
extraordinary amounts of hours buys less and less. it feels like the ambition dissolved when the rewards dwindled -- which is (maybe sadly) a behavior that I find hard to find fault in.
It's not going to be pretty fast. It will be gradual. 0.5% employment loss this year. 1% loss the next year. 1.2% the year after.

Ten years later the middle class is almost non-existent. Unemployment is 25% and pundits are calling it "the new normal". You and your wife and your two kids now live with her parents. You share a three bedroom in the suburbs.

Every morning you both leave early to stand amongst fifty others outside the local Amazon Mechanical Turk offices. Once a software developer with a thriving career, you're now just another face in the crowd, hoping for a day's work training AI — your deep knowledge reduced to manual inputs for algorithms you once could have designed.

The daily scramble for work, even with your computer science degree, has become a grim routine. The young woman with the tablet doesn’t even meet your eyes as she checks you in. "You're training AI for advanced behavioral prediction in smart home systems."

Your wife misses out. Her PHD in physics is no help.

There's still some good jobs out there, but the supply vastly outstrips demand. Your kids witness the daily tension and uncertainty that you and your wife face, the scramble for sporadic employment, the diminishing returns on your education and experience. This environment is their new normal; they adapt, but at a cost. The stress and instability shape their expectations from life, narrowing their dreams to mere thoughts of making it through each day. They have no idea how great the 90s truly were.

This generational shift means that the skills, values, and aspirations that once propelled the middle class are forgotten or dismissed as irrelevant.

As the middle class dissolved under the relentless march of AI and automation, the notion of Universal Basic Income (UBI) was quickly dismissed as "unrealistic" and "impossible" by policymakers. Tax rates for the capital-rich continued to plummet, entrenching wealth in the hands of a few. This stark contradiction highlighted a society deeply invested in maintaining the status quo, prioritizing wealth accumulation at the top while the concept of a basic, stabilizing income for the displaced masses easily cast aside as an unfeasible dream.

This grim future is not merely possible but an impending reality on our current trajectory, where technological advancements are harnessed to consolidate wealth at the top, and equitable solutions like UBI are dismissed as fantasies. The future promises a deepening divide and escalating societal strife.

The idea of a sudden, dramatic loss of jobs sparking immediate and widespread unrest underestimates the more insidious nature of technological displacement. This process is neither swift nor explosive; rather, it unfolds gradually, almost imperceptibly, eroding job security and living standards slowly over years. By the time the consequences fully manifest (soaring unemployment and entrenched wealth inequality) it feels too late to act.
> When the US doubles the supply of the Dollar, its value halves

This linear model isn't predictive of purchasing power. (The missing variable is velocity, which is itself a multi-dimensional beast.)
This is also not dissimilar to the "replacement light bulb" scam where you go around the street with a box of one houses lightbulbs, replacing the neighbours with your boxes contents, and then rinse and repeat for every house for one low low fee..
I think that Silver’s view of state schools is a bit rosy due to growing up as a child of a Big Ten university professor.

The Big Ten schools and the UC system stand apart from all other state schools when it comes to research dollars spent. They give up nothing to the Ivies in terms of opportunity on campus. After graduating, though? It’s less clear to me.
No they'd rather spend weeks to reimplement scrolling.
Very true, the overly slim form factor has limited them

I remember when I bought my first alu-Macbook in 2009 and I could remove the battery and add additional memory by just flicking a latch
React is not a framework, it’s a tiny lib that renders stuff reactively. There are no guardrails, and it is not even specific to Web. You can use it to render to hardware LCD if you want.

When people switch from Angular to React, it’s not a framework-to-framework move. They may have outgrown a ready-made solution and want a fully custom one (could be some sort of home-grown framework, more aligned with their goals). React allows that, being a library.

Meanwhile, an actual framework-to-framework move can occur due to many factors like mismanagement of priorities or changes in HR situation (maybe they do not have success finding good Angular people cheaply, or they are already using Svelte somewhere and can reuse resources from another team).
Why would you need restaurant reservations in a country like Japan where there's interesting restaurant at literally every other door step?
Well, we know Oceania had buses. And no traffic laws ("In Oceania there is no law.")

You should note that the Ingsoc party opposition to private car ownership also applies to top-hats (part of the "uniform of the capitalists"):

> Big Brother figured as the leader and guardian of the Revolution since its very earliest days. His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the Forties and the Thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London in great gleaming motor cars ...

So going on that interpretation, you can tell we live in a dystopia because almost no one wears top-hats now.
Hi, you can try what's listed here to give you ideas : https://build-your-own.org/blog/20231108_1week/
With all due respect, the people on HN are _weirdly_ in favor of a group whose unstated “zeroth” tenet is basically “be born into wealth, get extremely lucky, disregard common criticism of capitalism, reframe libertarianism if you need. Then and only then can you begin your righteous mission of donating your money “effectively”.

Could you at least consider that the group’s entire premise seems like nothing more than the post hoc rationalization of a bunch of wealthy educated elites with low social and emotional intelligence? The levels of tone deaf I perceive as someone who doesn’t have, can’t have that much wealth to even begin my journey in their little club are enormous.

There’s very little that is subtle about it and it’s frankly offensive and _clearly_ used as a justification for insecure Bay Area “liberals” who find themselves with lots of money and a political identity that makes them insecure about that fact.

The answer? You’re actually saving mankind with your money! It’s just simple Bayesian logic! The same thing that got you here! (Spoiler alert: it was more to do with luck than skill).

If you’re on board, I guess it’s not as offensive? But for me and others, it’s like elites trying to brag about how great they are while the rest of us fight for scraps.

So when you see someone with an axe to grind, maybe consider that EA’s messaging is not as universally appealing as you think, and may even be outright tone deaf enough to cause one to reasonably find it disgusting.

> and he was reportedly ousted from the board by EA-aligned folk.

It seems naive to me to assume that members of EA in positions of power don’t secretly have their own motivations. Furthermore it’s not very “Bayesian” to assume that a implies b here with so many hidden variables at play.
> > The short version of what's going on is that when they put the code into GitHub, GitHub used UTF-8 for encoding, and DOS uses Code Page 437.

I don’t think that’s the actual problem. GitHub does not change the encoding of files in Git repos. Nor (generally speaking) does Git itself [0]

It appears most of the encoding issues were introduced by manually editing files, in response to a corporate policy that certain comments be censored (mainly comments that could be viewed as unprofessional). While it is possibly to do this without altering the encoding of the files, it appears the person who did it used an editor that rewrote the file encoding, and didn’t realise it was doing that

[0] Git can be configured to do automatic conversion between bare LF and CRLF newline formats. That’s generally a bad idea. It is mainly people on Windows who turn it on, although nowadays many Windows tools can handle Unix style line endings without issue, making it largely unnecessary. Also, you can install Git repository hooks that alter file contents as they are being committed, although the majority of repos don’t have any such hooks installed
All they really need to do for me to purchase one is add multiple user support. I’m sorry, I’m just not going to buy such an expensive device for each person in my family no matter how awesome it is. For Apple this is a trivial fix.
The indigenous warning isn't "trite", it's a culturally sensitive practice that most Australians are used to seeing.
I feel old when an article explains that a server can generate HTML and the browser renders the HTML and that this can be done quite efficiently for every interaction with a user.

It’s strange to me that one can be a webdev without understanding that you do not need JS for a web app, although it does improve the UI in some areas.

It feels even stranger that the term server-side rendering became a thing, since the server doesn’t render anything, but just generates HTML and sends it over the wire.

And I’m only 39.
Nope, you print more dollar we keep buying more dollar. No other currency has the backing of the US military.

Your container is in danger from Houthis? SBF is not coming for help, neither the Chinese. The US navy comes.

You wanna operate you business in a failed state? Guess what, the CIA is there for you.

So yes, the value of US dollar is infinite.