skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They failed to evolve their product while the competition was rapidly improving. The orginal amiga was leaps in front of anything thing else you could get at remotely the same price point, for many features that mattered to games.

But then they only made the smallest incremental improvements to the hardware until they launched the AGA chipset with the A1200 and A4000 which was too little too late. Had the amiga improved at the same rate as consoles or dos PC's they might have had a chance.

The OS (mostly workbench) also did not see any big improvements over its lifetime.
That's true for CPUs. Does it really apply to GPUs and other accelerators for embarrassingly parallel problems where going slower but wider is always a valid option?
The people that don’t get this are the people that want their startup to turn a profit by next Tuesday.

You mean to tell me the best thing you can do with that revenue is put it in your pocket? There’s no way to spend it on your business to make more money? Sounds like you don’t have much of a startup then.
Some people complain about taxation on tea or the lack thereof instead of appreciating how privileged they are to have access to Oriental tea.
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> this is where I think AI for coding is now. It gets things wrong enough that I have to manually check everything

The good way to do this is to write good unit tests for the code.

Which we should be doing anyway!
Caves evolve, perhaps there was a landslide that covered old entrance, and that is the only reason why paintings survived. I do not believe paintings would survive in open easily accessible cave. Just the urine from bats...

As for spirituality, people 30k years ago very quite sophisticated. They had paintings, music, maps, religion, porn... But entire population of Europe was like 100k people. And there was no need to crawl into one way death trap, when they had 1000km^2 to explore!
> Hacker news predictions (and sentiments) about new technology always fall flat on its face.

Frankly, most new tech falls flat on it's face.

Take a look at Wikpedia's list of programming languages created in the past 14 years. There's some winners, true, but there's plenty of cruft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_langua...

You this optimistic about Carbon as well?
Why does adding your face in a screen bubble add value to a screen recording tutorial?
A better phrasing could be 'unclear outcomes are the worst outcomes', which when stated like that seems self defining. If its not clear its a success or failure, or its marginally a success or failure, then it can be hard (or dangerous) to draw firm conclusions.
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Define it in a way that doesn't mean it is just an illusion, and that actually explains something then.

I've yet to meet anyone able to do so coherently.
> Historically every time the state gets involved it inevitably leads to substantial amounts of neglect and abuse.

Not inevitable. Only when O&M and oversight are reduced by corruption, graft, or ineptitude.
A large-scale study on research code quality and execution (2022)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/07/tucker-ca...
I feel the same way about my parents, but many people don't have such a good relationship with their own parents. If you (ubiquitous) want your children to take care of you in old age, then you'd better not treat them like crap. I can't say I would blame my best friend if he left his dad to die alone in some hospice or for another friend's mother to fend for herself in some way. Some parents are truly unpleasant or full-blown despicable, and I'm glad there's no cultural duty in America to take care of them despite this.

Those were extreme examples, though. For a lot of people, taking care of their parents is signing up for a never ending stream of criticism. I don't know of many individuals past the age of maybe 40 who have negative personality traits and come to the conclusion that "maybe the problem is with me." I can only think of one in my life. Just about as bad is when one's parents are conservative and cannot get with the times, or they pretend to be with the times only for you to discover that they actually aren't when the rubber meets the road. I don't believe in abandoning one's parents if they have more "benign" personality traits, but the financially intelligent decision of "you can live with us" probably isn't a sound one from an interpersonal level, and hopefully healthy distance can still be had.

Oh, but if parents make no effort to survive retirement, forced or otherwise, then I don't think anyone should be obligated to help them. People have varying amounts of luck, but if one doesn't save anything then they've chosen to be screwed.

Personally, if I end up with one option being my children sacrificing their financial independence and youth, and the other signing up for the Smith & Wesson retirement plan, I'll take the latter.
I assume that emails are pulled from every method available.
> What's true is determined by the scientific method.

Not quite. This is how what is said to be True is determined...within some subset of the (culturally dominant) population, at this particular era in our semi-self-aware species' ongoing development.

Science practices watered down epistemology even in the lab, and the further you get away from the lab and toward public discussions, it gets watered down even further. And by the time it gets to the point of public discussion (science's fan base), epistemology is pretty much gone from consideration, it's regurgitation of memorization, if not worse (LLM level hallucination).

> You can make as many theories as you want but if you can't make predictions based on that theory and devise experiments to verify those predictions...

So far so good....

> ...and perhaps most importantly, be open to abandoning your theory when even a single one of those experiments doesn't pan out...

Ah crap. Crash and burn.

> all you have done is shot an arrow in the dark and claimed it could have hit the target.

This isn't true, and there's also no way for you to know these things (what individual scientists are doing, saying, thinking).

> Yes, but that information is nearly useless...

There's no way for you to know this.

> ...and definitely can't be put on the same pedestal as someone providing actual evidence that the arrow missed the target.

Yes it can. You can literally say and do pretty much whatever you want in this simulation. There are almost no constraints whatsoever, other than sheer lack of imagination (which is an extremely big problem imho)....I mean, just take your comments, and the vast majority of other comments in this thread. There's (almost) no need for anything anyone says to be true....in fact, even venturing a little outside of the Overton Window (to the positive side, on certain topics) of acceptable levels of epistemology here will certainly get you downvoted, if not warned by moderators. We have a culture here, and cultures have beliefs, and those beliefs are to be respected, regardless of the actual truth of the matter.

The truth of the matter, very often (on certain topics), is off limits for discussion. And even more interestingly: it seems like all social media platforms have somehow adopted the same set of rules for That Which Cannot Be Discussed. I often wonder if this is sheer coincidence.
And a whole aisle full of splinter-free toiler paper![1]

[1] https://www.historydefined.net/splinter-free-toilet-paper-di...
Oh wow, did they actually do this as a registrar transfer (rather than by Squarespace stepping in as Google Domains' sucessor)?
No but the bubble of YouTube tech doomsayers is as large as ever.
I owned an Amiga 4k/040 (after an A500, later with a Retina Z3) at the time and was blown away by Wolfenstein that I played on the 386 (?) of the dad of a friend.
Considering that it's staggeringly expensive and there's not much to see there, it seems like the right decision to hold off once we'd established it could be done.
Also the model of squarspace is that they have your site and you can’t port it to another provider. So usually a customers options are “pay the new price or rebuild your site.”

And there’s lots of small businesses who could probably afford to pay $2k/year instead of $100.

I expect that prices will really go up. I always avoided squarespace because I didn’t like the idea of paying a monthly fee “just” to host content. I mean, Wordpress has flaws but at least you design once and then host on one of the billion Wordpress servers. And if one gets uppity or sells to PE, you can just switch.
I think the vast majority of plastic use happens before the consumer sees the product.

I remember seeing my first pallet wrapper. It’s very cool but there’s a lot of plastic there. (Check out this vid starting at 43s: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TzqSEKCj0Po)

Out of curiosity, how did a large garden involve lots of plastic?
Thank you for this— I was equally frustrated I couldn't look up Canada too!
As a proud commodore Amiga 500 owner starting in 1990 I agree.

When it was released in 1985, the Amiga was at least 5 years ahead of its time when it came to the graphics and sound technology. I don't care about angering Apple bots, but the capabilities of the Mac paled in comparison.

The mismanagement at Commodore that led to the fall of the company is well documented.

For me personally, as a tech professional, the lesson of the episode is clear: superior technology alone is not a guarantee of business success.

The technology companies are high performing in both technology and business. The most clear example of what I mean is NVIDIA that was launched when Commodore was still alive.
If the price starts dropping, the fearful start dumping, and volume jumps.

Sellers pushing the price down beget more sellers pushing the price down.

Hedge funds will try to ride it up and down.
A friend of mine is an absolute wizard and has been building essentially “responsive images” as SVGs with JS inside. They adapt to their size programmatically. It’s… interesting.

The fact that SVGs can even have JS embedded feels both untapped and kind of dangerous.
Threatened with jail time, he was offered a second chance...

When she arrived, she realized her parents had been told to lie, and she was forced to meet with intelligence officers who questioned her...

Secret police then organised a job interview for Rebel Pepper in Cambodia, but his wife suspected it was a trap and dissuaded him from going...

Pretty despicable tactics, but I doubt the Chinese are alone in using them. I'm quite sure Western governments would utilize such too, and worse, if they thought it would serve their ends, whatever they were, mistaken or not hahaha! :)
Doesn't look like there's an Awk included, which is a real shame.
Based on communications I've gotten in the past, I think this is how GCP will refer to VMWare Engine
WOW Thank for your advice!I am new here in this communal. I will notice them next time!About AI translate part. Next version we will put in GPT 3.5 API into the translate engine.(I was hope it can be put into this version,but programmer dont have time and i cant wait to online my tool, so that Neonlingo dont have AI function yet)And i will let GPT 3.5 translate one whole sentence to make sure the meaning is right.
I'm truly scared of the future we're building, most kids I meet already have permanently damaged spine from looking at their phones/tablet 24/7 (quasimodo style). Their attention span if absolutely fucked, a lot (most) of them are already fat, now apparently they're losing eye sight. And on top of that they apparently suck at computers.

The scale and pace of the transformation is insane
One nitpick - I don’t think it will look dated, looking dated comes from something becoming a common place design seen everywhere. The Delorean doesn’t look dated 40 years later. Cybertruck could end up a delorean.
Which programming language has the highest meaning density?
Hello,

Recently I was thinking about Mandarin and I noticed that it has about 3 to 4 times the meaning density. Meaning that if a child studies in Mandarin for 15 years of her life, she could have learned as much as 75 years worth of knowledge (assuming that the teachers created a good curriculum).

I wonder if the same is true for any artificial language. Is there a programming language with much higher meaning density than C or Python?

Thanks
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Same. Blueberries, which require a certain number of chill hours, are perhaps the most affected
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For example, you could automatically increase the volume when you have ambient noise and even increase only certain frequencies when those frequencies are already present in the ambient sound.
Maybe I'm missing something basic but that still doesn't explain why it's 30% and not 50%.

I don't think purely qualitative arguments work here.
Is the Raspberry Pi flotation going to happen?
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When I read the comment you are responding to, I just chuckled and thought of Amazon, which famously did not turn a profit for decades and nevertheless, proved to be one of the best run companies during that period (for investors - obviously their treatment of employees is miserable).
Climate change is rough here in Austin TX because it's getting hotter, but we're also getting more extreme spikes in freezing temperatures. There's a whole slew of plants and trees that can't survive here because of how cold it gets for only a couple days a year. It's not uncommon to lose something like a Palm tree due to one cold day out of the entire year.
The key in this case is that this is not a problem for me even if someone implements such a protection.

The rest is mice and traps.
The thoughts in this article apply equally well to launching products inside a corporate as well.

Sometimes a product team will "buy the business", eg offer credits or funding to a prospect in order to get their logo. This muddies up the entire experiment. Is the product worth X, or not? Does it solve a problem for customers that is worth X, or not?

For b2b sales, selling 1 or 2 can also be exceptionally costly because you are on the hook for long term support: and if you bought the business, you are now underwater from day 1 with a customer who has you over a barrel. Worse, your sales force now think that every deal can be won on cost, and will start to show signs of deal fever.
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Re: Moon landing -

It had very little to do with people losing interest. In 1972 Nixon defacto completely cancelled the human space program, which he had been rapidly stripping away since Apollo 13. He was paranoid that a catastrophic failure was imminent and would negatively affect his 1972 election campaign. Interestingly when he signed off on the final stripping down in 1972, he remarked that we may never set foot on the Moon again this century. That would've sounded quite absurd at the time, but was ultimately completely correct.

It's kind of ironic that the stereotypical context of the space race was it supposedly having been a proxy for an ideological battle between capitalism and communism. Yet the US space program existed solely and exclusively due to a large and heavily centralized governmental effort. It's only in very modern times that private companies can take to the stars, completely independent of governments, which is why we've been able to make vastly made more progress in the past 10 years than we did in the 40 prior.

A good starting point off for going down this rabbit hole would probably be here. [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canceled_Apollo_missions
Why Do So Many Parents Think Kids Need Their Own Bedroom?
Try edge: https://edgejs.dev/

It is mature and feature rich. I like that the expressions can be plain js and it is not coupled with html.
K? APL?
Much worse than before. Downvotes used to be about offtopic comments, uninteresting comments, unthoughtful comments. Now they're primarily about "I don't like that", "I disagree", "I can't allow your voice to be heard"

Interesting comments and comments that might spark more discussion often get a lot less upvotes than ones that strike an ideological nerve.

Thoughtful voices are less and less heard, and less and less present.
I think a lot of tech companies are getting lost in a situation where Venture Capitalists ideally want to invest in companies that will eventually fit in the large capitalization growth stock category. But many tech companies will never fit that model.

Squarespace is an example of a company that was never going to fit that model, for a host of reasons.

Furthermore, if a company is highly unlikely or never going to become a large cap growth stock, providing extra working capital, acquiring ancillary services, funding additional advertising and marketing, will not change those prospects. Only revolutionary increases in functionality will.
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I'm really curious about the taxonomy of these zones. Why are there 13 zones with an 'a' and 'b' zone for each number? Why not just 26 zones?
Depending on forum software and type of instant messenger, end users couldn't include their own emoticons.
My made-up imaginary scenarios are usually about scientists of the past that had to do everything by hand, and today's Desmos Graphing Calculator[1].

[1]: https://www.desmos.com/calculator
The internet is pretty good.
The time came for me to serve my grandfather in that way (for short moments, the interstitial generation took on most of the effort). The small effort on my part overcame large difficulties for him and I was grateful to serve the person among those who gave me myself.
> Ride sharing is letting normal people earn money by sharing their car

What startups/companies/apps that people use in the US (which I guess is where you're from?) allow people to do this without treating it as a job or a side-job?

> In e.g. Spain IIRC Uber is just a front end for the taxis.

It is not, and if you take a moment to read up on the history of Uber in Spain, you'd clearly see that that's not the case. There has literally been violent protests about just this thing.
This (along with odds of survival) was traditionally the main reason for having many children. They were help around the farm but also a form of life insurance.
It's weird: I feel like HN has great comments, but on a number of occasions when I've mentioned HN on Twitter or Mastodon I've gotten responses from people I greatly respect saying they never read HN and especially never read HN comments because of how terrible they are.

I don't get it. I often find the comments more interesting than the linked URL that generated them.
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Do you have a link to where they breakdown what inference for photos happens in realtime vs overnight/charging?
I'd also add 3DStudio to the list of assassins. It was not even close to LightWave 3D, but it did not require a Video Toaster card and it ran on commodity PC hardware. Amiga never got software package that could outcompete Apple in the graphics, DTP departments either. Add to that the dead-end that was AmigaOS as well.
I've no idea of Tesla's reputation on this front - but "expect to fight for payment, and never expect timely payment" was a long tradition for the older American car manufacturers.
Pro: also fertilizes the lawn.
Con: you have to avoid stepping in the fertilizer.
I am struggling to find that, sadly I am coming up short. It was from an essay, I believe, with a secular view of these things. But I can't seem to find the author. that was before I had zotero to organize these sources :)
The dot com was a bubble that burst spectacularly enough, yet we still use the World Wide Web, and even some of those websites.
I am in a Signal group which has an invite link discoverable on public internet (it's a local OpenStreetMap group). From time to time, a bot joins and proceeds to spam the group's members one-on-one.
> Maybe most people aren’t interested in that kind of work? It’s a long slog of working through the problems,

My SO always says she could never be an engineer because she doesn’t like failure enough.
Fidelity (and I assume other brokers) lets you import data for your accounts at other brokers. May I ask what will be the value-add of Principal?

In analyzing my own portfolio, a feature I have wanted is an analysis of after-tax asset allocation. For example, if you have $X in stocks in your 401K and anticipate that your income tax rate will be 30% in retirement, you effectively have $0.7*X in stocks. For stocks in a taxable account you can discount your holdings based on the cost basis and the capital gains tax rate.

Good luck.
> I was especially glad of Lazy Loading, where I didn't have to load data from the database into my memory structures; the system would do that automatically.

oh god, I have used Java with Hibernate a lot and once I read "Lazy Loading" I didn't even need to finish reading the post.
Really nice data visualization... PMTiles! https://apps.npr.org/plant-hardiness-garden-map/assets/synce...
Not having a representative vote in parliament was kind of annoying, but what do I know
I wonder if they boxed themselves into a corner by putting so many features into ASICs. Custom chips take forever to design and iterate even today, I can only imagine how painful that was in the 80s. Couple that with a frugal management and I can see how they would be reluctant to sink resources into a fantastically expensive development process.
I mean it'd be reasonable thing to do even outside parent-children relationship. If someone helped you, you may want to pay it back in same proportion when you have a chance and means to do so.

Now the west so rich and govt support for old/retired folks is very-very decent it does look totally out of way to support parent's household expenses.
And the 'no modification' is exact-why you lose me.
Is LPCAMM2 just a new form-factor, kinda like 2.5" drives to m.2 drives, or is there some leap in how it works? I don't quite get if the "C" in CAMM is for data compression or just it's 'physically' compressed.
I'm sorry, but if you have to resort to labeling reasonably-priced non-Apple products as "what poor people buy", I can't accept your arguments. Not everybody can afford to spend $3k+ on a top-specced MacBook even if they wanted a MacBook. I would much rather take my personal route of buying a nice $1400 Thinkpad and then upgrading the storage to 2 TB later on for $100 over Black Friday. Sure, it's still pricey, but I get great specs for less than half the price of a MacBook.
https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-hav...
My parents called this before Wolfenstein even came out, though they did it with the Commodore 64 and 128. I really wanted a 128, and they insisted on an IBM compatible instead.

I was devastated at the time, but they were 100% correct in hindsight.
The custom chipsets in the Amiga went from being its secret weapon to its biggest liability. Amiga simply could not afford to keep them competitive with commodity PC hardware, especially not while Irving Gould was busy looting Commodore of every penny it was once worth.