skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article reads more like a manifesto against tech, and somewhat specifically against certain kinds of tech (face-strapped computers vs. hand-held ones) rather than a careful analysis of what happened with Vision Pro and why. It pretty much has nothing to do with Vision Pro other than it serving as a piñata for the author.

I feel clickbaited.
DoorDash, GrubHub, Uber Eats, they’re taking blame almost like they’re Ticketmaster or something. McDonald’s jacks up their prices, then they charge even more via food delivery, and then both DoorDash and McDonald’s make more money and we’re just focused on DoorDash.

I think the “driver” aspect of it and wages there are probably a big part of the visceral reaction people continue to have. Though I personally don’t get it. Nobody was filing lawsuits on behalf of pizza delivery kids.

Truth be told outside of Uber (questionable) I don’t think any of them are good investment opportunities. Neither was Blue Apron.

Also just stop ordering takeout from subpar restaurants or food chains. Go out to eat with friends or cook at home. High prices for mediocre convenience services isn’t worth it.

Corporate GrubHub isn’t going to take a pay cut and they don’t run a non-profit. If Seattle wants to create legislation like they did here there is no sense in being surprised that prices have gone up.
Very enjoyable read, and this single supervisor is similar to how I set up an application at a previous startup, where we unwrapped everything. This reminds me of one of my favorite posts https://medium.com/@mattklein123/crash-early-and-crash-often...
I'm one of them, so please just believe me instead of trying to correct me ;)…

No you aren’t. Or rather, there’s absolutely no reason for me to believe you are.

It's an ongoing problem the project talks about that there aren't enough newcomers ready to write more SIMD code with good enough quality.

Good programmers are in short supply across the entire industry. Like anything else it’s just a matter of practice.

The top reply is "just do this other thing that the article said was unworkable", so not doing that would be a start.

A) Get a thicker skin. It’s not the end of the world when people leave comments related to the topic at hand.

B) x86inc.asm isn’t a particularly interesting approach to programming assembly.

Other people mostly only target one CPU architecture as they're less important,…

If hardware portability is a goal then handwritten assembly is even more wasteful.

It's similar to how x264 was better than every commercial competitor while working for free, simply because they took more time to think about what they were doing.

A lot of it simply comes down to sheer man hours and the quantity/quality of bug reports. No 4d chess, no great geniuses, just “good enough” persistence.

Anyway, the problem with handwriting assembly is that such programs are trivial in their complexity and/or given unusually strong guarantees.
When you go to an urgent care it is a total crapshoot. I've seen some of the worst doctors ever there. One literally looked at my throat for 5 seconds, said I had strep, and went back to playing on his phone, they weren't busy I was the only person in there.

I've had other misread tests for my kids, saying they had strep when they had RSV. But some urgent care doctors have been really good. I think the ratio is changing in the wrong direction though.
I was thinking about something related yesterday.
It is amazing how "big social silos
"Google", "Facebook"
No one “depends” on IP addresses. Wikipedia could very easily (and likely does) use browser fingerprints for some things. They don’t serialize to something human-readable, though, so I wouldn’t expect them to appear anywhere but debug interfaces.

IPs havent been a viable way to ban or identify people since the early 00’s. For sure with the launch AWS, and the ease of swapping IPs there. It’s been laughably easy to swap source IPs on requests for at least a couple of decades.

I think the only people you’re getting privacy from is people who didn’t really care enough to invade it in the first place.
Go is great
Is there some sort of barrier preventing those Asian competitors from entering Western markets? If it's as simple as you make it out to be, they should be swooping in and eating the incumbents' lunch with their lower overall costs.
The last application of the death penalty in Canada was in 1962, it's been outlawed even in cases of treason since 1999. I'm very confident that no Canadian politician with any level of influence is looking to change that.
Starting a productized code-fixing service
My brother and I are seasoned builders, and we're considering launching an unlimited 48-hour code troubleshooting service tailored for SaaS startups in exchange of a flat monthly fee, ranging from 6-10k USD (cancel/pause anytime).

I personally believe it'll be useful for keeping the momentum high and the glitches low.

But I'm not entirely sure if actual SaaS startups are interested in this kind of solution. Any tech founders that could give us a bit of lucidity on this idea?
Yea that’s what I figured. The one that pulls data from the web with every click. It just bugs me when a view will sometimes render absolutely nothing, sometimes while checking subscriptions, other times in the middle of a flow like adding hardware keys. UI’s that fail to produce feedback need to disappear.
> Who is out there telling McDonalds to keep their prices down because the gross margin on post mix soda is 98%?

McDonalds generally has "employees" in the jurisdictions they operate in and thus should be following all the local laws that come with that term. The gig economy companies have a long public history of skirting labour laws.

So when they say "DoorDash has claimed that the new fees they’re charging are a necessary result of raising pay for workers" (according to this page anyway) they invite this type of analysis.
compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
Show HN: tRPC for Go
> C/C++

is not something that exists in the real world.
How is this validated?
Yeah but if the older releases still got security updates, it'd be more acceptable I feel.
WTF is "Proverence"? I'd call it a typo except it is consistently misspelled.

I think the author means "provenance".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provenance
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Is this kind of like US pharmaceuticals where the prices are very high in the US because they can be and that “subsidizes” the development of these apps so the fees can be cheaper in other regions.
I'm guessing that having a tick for longer than 24 to 48 hours was a clear enough reason. I assume people who get hundreds of ticks will be checking more thoroughly and remove them within two days.

I agree antibiotics shouldn't be prescribed without a clear reason. People are being prescribed antibiotics all over for things like the common cold and for some insane reason we're still putting antibiotics in farm animal feed.

But it seems unethical to then take a gamble on whether someone contracted Lyme disease or not just to give the antibiotics we save from that gamble to someone with a runny nose. If we want to save antibiotics then we should test the removed tick for Lyme disease, not wait for symptoms to appear.
Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS: Noble Numbat
heds and articles have been written by different people for my entire lifetime, and I remember literal cut-and-paste layout.
What's New in Windows Server 2025 – Microsoft Docs
Clearly, effect systems, as we know them today, are very heavyweight,
and not worth the effort in the small. That's not controversial. But we have to present the ideas
to beginners somehow. Those complex types come into their own in (some) large-scale programs, and especially as large-scale programs
evolve, as they are being changed by programmers other than the original authors. (Not all programming tasks may be suitable, see the article on Rust for games programming that's on the front page RN.)
All that said, the whole point of the article, and the research on
direct style effects is to make effect typing much more lightweight.
Effect types as we do them today metastasise along the call graph, and that is a big problem (this is also why Java-style exception specifications are considered a mistake). Direct-style effects essentially use
implicit arguments, as popularised by Haskell and Scala, to hide much of this complexity. Whether this experiment will succeed, or
direct style effects suffer from other problems is unclear and we have to wait until we have enough experience with them. And that can only start, once there is
a language that implements support for first class direct style effects.

The article suggests that this is coming to Scala, and I'm looking forward to being a guinea pig.
This is correct. I wonder how Rust models SoA wirh borrowing. Is it doable or becomes very messy?

I usually have some kind of object that apparently looks like OOP but points all its features to the SoA. All that would be borrowing and pointing somewhere else in slices or similar in Rust I assume?
Which is why they make it so hard to avoid doing this.
"Frontal Plane Struck Vehicle / Object / Person in travel path: 143"
Call to Action: Investigating Interaction Delay in Smartphone Notifications
Brutalist architecture can be done with good acoustics in mind, it just takes the same sort of planning & design that a non-brutalist building also needs.

The Barbican Centre in the UK is a very famous example of a music (and arts) venue with brutalist architecture, and while its acoustics are considered good but not amazing (or "serviceable", to use the description of conductor Sir Simon Raffle), it could have been much better but its problems weren't caused by being brutalist.

This person's blog is worth a quick read (ctrl+F for the section about the Barbican): http://trevorcox.me/what-is-wrong-with-londons-concert-halls

And I really love the Barbican, including how it looks from outside and including how it feels to sing on its biggest stage. An exterior photo: https://www.ansador.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Barbica... And interior example: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/93/1f/52/931f52e58c9b1a2f9330d050a...
Thank you so much for such a detailed response, I'll go read more on the German system.
Honestly i don’t really now what it does, how it looks. I think your landing page needs to provide a bit more feedback.
This reminds me of the shells in Demolition Man.
To be fair, many (non-game dev) Rust projects I have seen/used do provide great user experience precisely because they are laser-focused on performance and have blown existing alternatives out of the water. (Think ripgrep, fzf, etc.)

Prototyping is certainly necessary but it shouldn't be at the cost of runtime performance – at least not too much –, because it will typically be very difficult to improve performance after the fact, which web development frameworks, and in particular shitty "web" applications like MS Teams are a testament to.

As always, it's about balance.
Attacking the authority of people who start their article with an appeal to said authority isn't really far-fetched.
Our kid was lucky enough to have the bullseye mark on her skin when she came down with a massive fever. Had not thrown out my medical microbiology college texts from the late 80's and sure enough - the picture matched up. She ended up getting some pretty serious antibiotics.

I really, really wish there was a human vaccination available for lymes. We treat our jacket and pant legs with permethrin when we are in heavy wood. That makes a huge difference for the normal wood ticks, so has become part of the normal routine.
Ah the binary secure/unsecure straw man.
In theory I'm also for decriminalization, but in practice it doesn't work. Some drugs are so intense, can't compare to your Friday night beer. See the heroin epidemic in Amsterdam during the 70s, some neighborhoods became completely uninhabitable and an emergency status was declared. It just doesn't work.

"The Dutch Hard Drug Epidemic, 1972–Present" https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep42912.9

"Heroïne-epidemie in Nederland" https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%C3%AFne-epidemie_in_Ned...
Interesting, i didn't know about the "Bundesländer" having their own security services. Maybe that is why Germany has a reputation for poor security services as whole, as it is harder to direct resources. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing and makes sense given the history.

The UK started electing the head of the police service for each county, and it just becomes a politicized popularity contest with anaemic voter turnout, rather than having a competent person take the position.

At least we don't elect judges, which has an even worse effect of politicizing those tasked with interpreting and enforcing the laws concocted by politicians.
I suddenly had alopecia areata. If you don't want to Google it, there were coin-sized areas of my head spontaneously losing hair, starting with my beard.

My GP said "this is not a health problem, if you want a fuller beard use rogain". I was embarrassed enough to go home and try to tough it out.

Within 6 months the whole left side of my head was completely bare, except for splotchy outlines here and there. My right side had hair but it was spreading fast. I looked like a hyena. It was not a great experience.

Went to a dermatologist, got steroid shots, and my hair grew back in a month.

You get quotes for housework, apply to multiple jobs, test drive cars, but when it comes to health, we trust the first asshole with availability? Never again.
The article should be titled " What can LLM never do, yet". By definition, Large Language Models would keep growing larger and larger, to be trained on faster and more advanced hardware, and certain points like "completing complex chains of logical reasoning" tasks, would be just a time hurdle. Only time will tell.
Eh even if you secure the X11 API itself, your isolated app (browsers absolutely sandbox and isolate themselves from the rest of the system) will still share memory and have a socket open to an 33 year old c codebase (XOrg).
This is one one of those things that sounds nice in theory, but falls down in practice, because in reality the overlap between "spammy junk" and "contributions done purely to boost resume" is very close to 1:1. I'm sure there's the odd exception, but it's rare.

So in practice "judging the contribution" and "judging the contributor" are identical.
I would go farther: we should be concerned if there aren't flops like this, as that would indicate big tech isn't pushing the boundaries nearly hard enough.
Wayland works well on the Steam Deck because Valve controls the whole system. Because they have their own Wayland compositor (Gamescope), they're able to implement protocols to work around issues in Wayland without being delayed by the bureaucratic process of getting them approved. Here's an SDL pull request where a graphics developer at Valve discusses how two protocols necessary for good GPU performance haven't been added to Wayland yet so Valve added equivalent protocols to Gamescope as a workaround: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/9345

One thing to note is that the Steam Deck only uses Wayland for its fullscreen gaming mode. When you exit to its desktop mode (meant for running non-Steam software), it switches to X11.
Interesting, nearly all the photos in the article did for me.
> No other business is subject to this scrutiny.

Why on Earth would it be a bad thing to subject any multi-billion dollar business to as much scrutiny as we please? Companies aren't our friends, they're sociopathic runaway AIs that would blend you and I into a fine blood-slurry if it made an extra buck for its executives.

By all means, subject McDonalds to as much scrutiny as you want, you won't hear me crying about it.
how it started, how it's going.

billions of ppl access the internet thru nat everyday, i'm glad it exists and also happy for alternatives
Thanks for clarifying. Surprised my comment was so controversial!

> Cybertruck is not a replacement for a regular pickup

I think that’s actually a key insight. Most f150s are bought by suburban dads, not rural farmers. Tesla has been missing a masculine element, and I think that market has been perfectly identified.
Out here in the developing world of South Africa, it's more like $1-2 as delivery cost, another $1-2 as the "platform fee", on top of the inflated platform menu prices (which they take a cut of) , and increasingly they insist that we tip drivers a percentage of the meal.
Ok, I didn’t say that either. But it’s even more misleading to say they only sold 4000. Good faith preorders are sales and nobody has evidence besides a date range
I never claimed a leftist could or would hold any of these views. To the contrary I'm pointing out that leftism is such a fringe minority belief structure in the US that you can be a wildly popular mainstream Democrat, have a change at being elected President, and have the types of beliefs above and still have most of the country be more conservative to you.

From the very first comment:

> > > > I can think of a handful of things that the moderate American left would do / agree on that the more extreme elements would not

> > > > any of [these beliefs] ... would get you ostracized from [a] leftist group.

You prove both of my points beautifully in this thread as well as my new one that leftism is a radical fringe belief system when you say even suggesting there might be any other cause than racism for #5 is itself racism.

I never said anything was "a moderate version of a leftist belief," I'm not sure where exactly you got that.
X has support issues. For years support for anything other than XRGB8888 and siblings has been bit rotting away.

A few years ago I brought up X on a Y2 display. Ended up implementing RGB888->Y2 blue noise dithering in the driver when I realized how much work native Y2 would be.
> It recognized the email and the pswd but then wanted verification from the original device!

Did you have 2fa enabled by any chance? I have 2fa via TOTP on my accounts and while they offer using a signed in phone as a verification option, using TOTP was always an option, and I was never locked out of my account.

>Despite having the original sim in the new phone.

That would only help if google had some way of tying the installed sim to your account. Given the privacy implications and the technical difficulties, I wouldn't be outraged at the fact it didn't take your sim into consideration.
It doesn't actually require another country launching first. The US system has a matter of minutes from the first automated detection of launch, to a secondary confirmation, and presenting options to the president. Its also our policy to return fire before absorbing an impact, meaning we don't wait to confirm a nuclear strike was on our soil.

Granted its still a really unlikely scenario, but we only need to detect what appears to be a nuke with a trajectory that could be pointed at a US target.

Regardless, while Trump may seem a bit crazy and I'd personally write in a vote for Empty Chair before picking him, I don't really feel comfortable with anyone having exclusive power to launch nukes.
Simple addition, among other things:

https://github.com/0xnurl/gpts-cant-count
> Do not try to self medicate or take prophylactic antibiotics unless specifically requested by a physician or you get a rash a few days after.

It was requested by my physician, I did not request them nor did I insist on being prescribed anything.

> You are likely to be absolutely fine. Living in an area where Lyme disease is common, I've had it a few times and it is treatable with antibiotics.

It is still a gamble on whether you will have clear enough symptoms in the short term to prompt an antibiotic treatment. Unfortunately unless you get the bullseye rash it's often not that clear that symptoms that appear much later are related to the tick bite.
Could you argue against what I actually wrote? Thanks.

Of course the fraction of drugs that succeed after reaching clinical trials is greater than the fraction of drugs that succeed from the very beginning. What clinical trials are is very expensive. So I would not be at all surprised if most of the cost of failed drugs is from those that fail late rather than early.
In hindsight, yes that was a bad move (especially considering that my work laptop is still locked to my banned ID…)

As an Apple noob at the time, I assumed that if my MDM-managed device prompted me to log in with my Apple ID, that it of course would be an allowed action.

With regards to data being shared, the only thing I noticed was wifi passwords and peripherals pairing (apple keyboard).
Singapore, a nation with a populace of a bit north of 5 million and extremely strict drug laws, has a few thousand registered drug offenses per year.

Finland, a nation with roughly similar population size but very lax penalties in comparison, has roughly 10x the amount.
I was thinking about something related yesterday.
It is amazing how big "Internet Silos"
Google, Facebook, etc provide close to no
customer support services and that we "users" have
accepted this.

Getting cut off from one of these places can have a
huge impact on people.
They happen without warning and often without explanation.

I think they ought to be forced to be more open around
the process and how to get help in general.

For Apple I have usually managed to get a hold of some support.
Often not helpful but at least somebody.

With Google and Facebook I have never been able to find anyone.

Sameting that is demonstrated on this site frequently
when someone will post a plea for someone who knows people
at Google who they can't contact on their behalf.
Since they can't get hold of anyone themselves.

(Yes I am sure its covered in the EULA several times that
there is close to no support)

(For Google Workplace it is usually possible to get a hold of someone.)
Yeah, GPT 4 Turbo in my experience used to get simple counting problems wrong, like adding up a long sequence of 4 digit numbers.