skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyway, this 'Rather, they just shallowly applied the same failings to different groups' is nonsensical when talking about postmodernism.

In practice, postmodernists failed in precisely the way that I quoted in my post.

You say you’re “having trouble not being harsh”, but your criticism would be more sound if you didn’t seem to have trouble reading — to the point you didn’t read my comment.

> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'failings',

Eg, here you seem not to comprehend that my comment is replying to the quoted text, and hence means the failings of modernism that were highlighted by the post I replied to (and quoted).

My usage of the word “failings” is to mirror the usage in that post — and you’re ignoring what’s happening in the discussion to feign ignorance for a cheap rhetorical flourish.

> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'failings', but the idea of using 'groups' to describe anything is quite ant-postmodernist.

My exact point was that postmodernists claim this — and yet, fall into precisely the same group-based policy that the post I replied to said they were opposing.

Ie, that they’re hypocrites.

> I would like that people giving their opinion about postmodernism read a bit before

You’re living down to my criticism: you’re proclaiming some virtue you clearly don’t practice yourself — since you didn’t even read my comment, as evidenced by your failure to reply on the substance.

So your comment has only reinforced my conclusion:

> Postmodernism was nothing but phonies.
Mine was due to medical issues; not all pitfalls are avoidable.
Why does getting GitHub stars matter at all? Are there more useful things to focus on in this career?
You can also watch the video before sending the link…
What could those investors see that they think the market in SF is "on the brink of recovery"?

Must be some strong stuff they are smoking.
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They can! I transferred my .dev domain to Cloudflare a few months ago.
I think this post is well intentioned but misses the point entirely.

GOOS=darwin GOARCH=arm64 go build -ldflags="-X 'main.Version=v1.2.3'"

Executing this with variables for os/arch/version is not straightforward in a makefile. You might argue that it's a flaw with the `go build` command, but replace go with cargo/dotnet/maven and you have the same problem.

What makes that hard? I think the following works correctly:

$ cat Makefile
goos := FOO
goarch := BAR
mainversion := BAZ

.PHONY: build
build: ; @GOOS=$(goos) GOARCH=$(goarch) go build -ldflags="-X 'main.Version=v$(mainversion)'"*

$ make -n
GOOS=FOO GOARCH=BAR go build -ldflags="-X 'main.Version=vBAZ'"
Yes, I'm sure those archeological findings can confirm all those virgin births and guys living in whales.
Thanks for sharing those insights!

I found this in a RIPE document on IPv6 best practices [0], and it's indeed worded quite strongly (emphasis theirs):

"Assigning a /64 or longer prefix does not conform to IPv6 standards and will break functionality in customer LANs. With a single /64, the end customer CPE will have just one possible network on the LAN side and it will not be possible to subnet, assign VLANs, alternative SSIDs, or have several chained routers in the same customer network, etc."

[0] https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690/#4-2-3--pref...
> The second, if done well, can be incredibly powerful, however. If the family is strong enough and trusted enough, you can get outsized economic benefits from it.

That is also how you cultivate nepotism. It feels powerful if your family does it and others don't, but once everyone starts doing it, it's a caste system and everyone's worse off.
It's not a crime. You just have to declare it.

Of course, this information is going to be interesting to the police. So if they are the proceeds of crime, it will probably help get you caught.

It's not really any different from banks reporting every deposit of $10K or over. The government wants to track all large transfers of money both in bank accounts and across borders, so that it can identify money flows that are not being reported to the IRS and/or are the proceeds of criminal activity.
In other words, it's a great time to build the next Squarespace.
non-computer nerds cannot remember any account credentials and if they use any hardware key their chances of recovery are way worse than restoring any failed archaic system. This is to get people into the MS ecosystem. It isn't about growth or providing a service.
Remember that shareholders are in the stock because they expect some type of risk adjusted return. 5% is out because that's the risk free return. 7-10% can be gotten with lower risk by index investing. 15-20-30 we're starting to get into a range where the investor is willing to part with their stock given the risk they took on. 30% tends to be enough to get everyone to sell. If it was a hot, fast growing company, it would be higher - if it was possible to get everyone to sell at all.
The Vue Ecosystem in 2024
That's a good point. I guess they shot themselves in the foot big time.

It might run on ARM. IIRC, Ampere has some large ones with lots of memory bandwidth. Maybe CXL memory can also help mitigating any disk IO.
> Frankly, I do not see a justification for this technology at this point.

Drunks and the drowsy. Sure, they should have called an Uber or chosen not to drive at all. But the road is safer for having that multi-thousand pound hunk of steel steered by a more competent and attentive driver (FSD)
The charger network is the largest question. And who will give you 1% financing also helps. And which car has 320 miles range for $32,000 after EV tax credit and gas savings.
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I think they just load up on debt, so they aren't really buying it with their money. But what I don't understand is how they get people to loan them money when they know that they are just going to strip mine the company for all valuable assets and leave a shell of a company for the lenders to fight over.
Related from a few months ago:

How Doom didn't kill the Amiga

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246825
> Nope, this suggestion sucks. Meaning I have to come up w/ table structure that caters to front-end API.

Yes custom schemas are preferable, but I think you're missing the point. If the only real cost of not having to write the font-end manually at all is massaging the db schema a little bit to partition access by role, that's still a pretty great tradeoff for a lot of scenarios. The system is simple to understand/audit and fast to create, the only apparent downside is that it rubs our sense of aesthetics the wrong way.

> we have like a 1k migration files already, what I want instead is `my-function.sql` that always has the current code and will automatically generate necessary migrations and shenanigans, so I don't have to worry about it.

I use entity framework a lot which does this sort of schema migration based on class definitions. It works well like 80% of the time, but when it doesn't it's annoying.

In any case, what I was suggesting to address the specific program from your original post is that if you have lots of conflicting schema updates, then your table schema should be versioned and any migration should specify what schema version it depends on, eg. have a TableVersions table that names all of your tables and associates a version number with it. Your migration scripts then specify what version they were written against and fail if the number differs. It's the same basic optimistic concurrency control we use elsewhere in databases, just applied to schemas.
Yup.

They usually do high usage volume pricing at high rates that are proportional to the size of the company and make you sign a yearly agreement so they can get a huge payment upfront.

How about building some trust? What if the service sucks? It will be hard to get your money back and you paid a year in advance.

They make you work to get a quote and the quote usually doesn’t work for your needs.

I too will not look at services with this pricing structure anymore unless word of mouth is favorable.
On the other hand, mediocre success with no VC investment is a solid recipe for a lifestyle business. It's a very important qualification!
Funny to see the FreddyV nick again, he made (according to my musician friend) the most accurate (at the time) XM-replayer for small demoscene productions.

There was many replayers back in those days but tracking what FastTracker2 did bug-for-bug with regards to effects like arpeggios and volume slides made it quite tricky to get things to sound correctly in the third party players.
Quick PSA: If you want to do a facecam-overlayed screen recording on a Mac, all you need is QuickTime.

1. QuickTime -> New Movie Recording

2. View -> Float on Top

3. Position face view where you want it to be.

4. Hit Cmd+Shift+5 to record the entire screen.

Voilà!
$16k humanoid robot: Unitree G1
1/7 is double 1/14 since 1/7 == 2/14.

Half of 1/14 is 1/28 since 2(1/28) == 1/14.
My guess would be that their phone was taken from them, unlocked, and their messages were accessed that way.

I know several large IT orgs that have done this when Legal got involved. Literally using a 2nd phone to take pictures of Signal chats on the phone in question.
Yes but animals don't speak or care about English, so the term couldn't bother them, it's just you.
Not an expert here, what is alpha ?
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> Focus on myth #3.

If you don’t like the word “proof” then replace it with the phrase “conclusive evidence”.

> Yes, it was [1]. Still is, as this work is on-going [2].

Sorry, how does any of that show that “minds arise from chemistry”?

> Yes. Have you heard of the Turing test?

Yes, and a Chinese room would pass the Turing test by its very definition.

> The person inside the room would be dead long before it emitted its first symbol.

Replace the person with a powerful CPU.

> And philosophical zombies are IPUs [3].

In this context a philosophical zombie is an instance of a Chinese room, which are fairly real things. Take a sufficiently advanced LLM, or an emulation of human brain, and you get one. (Showing that it is not a philosophical zombie would call for some conclusive evidence showing that the phenomenon of consciousness is caused by whatever entities feature in models from today’s natural sciences—so that manipulating them in a particular way is enough to cause consciousness to magically arise.)

> Perhaps you are unaware that I am the author of TFA [5]? Did you read it?

That slipped my mind after a while, but I don’t think it invalidates the discussion. I skimmed it back when it was posted and generally I have been familiar with the illusionist takes on consciousness for a while. As monistic materialism (as well as cartesian dualism) in general, they always strike me as inelegant and needlessly contrived. (When competing hypotheses cannot be falsified due to limitations of scientific method, beauty and elegance remain as qualities we can judge them on, and I find that beauty inversely correlates with the number of entities a given hypothesis must magically conjure into existence.)
Same here, I've had my email plainly visible on my website in mailto links and on Github, and I don't get any spam that breaks through Fastmail's spam filters.
In the USA if you cannot afford long term care insurance (and it can be expensive depending on how much it is, etc) your best bet is to work out how to be "Medicaid bankrupt" when the time comes.
I would hope that this results in a reduction of companies seeking to go public in the first place. We've seen many cycles of: innovation -> growth -> IPO -> happy customers + employees -> not enough growth -> PE -> layoffs -> product/user decline.

The demand for ever-increasing a growth demanded by the markets is not sustainable for a majority of businesses. IMO the employees, customers, and general public would benefit from companies growing to a healthy size and then maintaining that plateau.

SquareSpace has ~44% of the self-hosted website market. Shouldn't that be enough?
But ayan rand told me markets would fix this, oh well at least we can ditch the moocheers and losers and go live in space.

Im so happy libertarianism became the defacto standard in this scene.
Ben Chestnut Bootstrapped Mailchimp to a $12B Exit [video]
I did this for about a decade (ending about a decade ago), and eventually gave up and went to gmail. I agree that it is a really easy thing to do and maintain, BUT when it did (rarely) break it was always at the worst possible time. The day a client was sending an important document. While I was on vacation. Etc. I probably only had to drop everything to fix my email server a handful of times, but that handful of times was painful enough to make me just let google worry about it.
The mind would be perhaps be not quite as blown but the modern large urban area supermarket would be pretty mindblowing to someone from the 1960s. You could probably get a lot of the stuff the random gourmet-ish cook might want but it would probably involve some combination of Saturday farmer's markets--which might have other things like beef--(which my mother did with some regularity), maybe a separate fish market (ditto), a specialty gourmet store, ethnic market, etc.

And, as you say, things like out of season fruits and vegetables or the variety of things like spices and teas would be largely unavailable outside of maybe specialty stores in the largest cities.
SVGs are responsive out of the box? I'm confused about what the Javascript would be doing to help that situation within the svg.
Can you give us some names of software that offer this feature?
> And what is the plus side of having a code-first DB really? You can fairly easily store those “alter table” changes as you go along and have full availability of history in a very readable way that anyone, including people not using C#, Java, Python.

The benefits should be obvious if you've used ORMs. They are an object that represents your database data in code rather than in a table where you can't touch it. If you have code that brings data from a database into code, congratulations, you've implemented part of an ORM. Having the data model defined "in code" treats the code as first-class instead of the SQL, which makes sense from an ergonomics perspective, you will spend much more time with the code objects than you will the SQL schemas. Either way, you will have two versions: a SQL version and a code version. You might as well get both from writing one.

If you can read alter table in SQL, you can probably read migrations.AddField in Python, and whatever the equivalent is in the other languages. I still am waiting with bated breath for the problems with much maligned (by some) ORMs to arrive.
> why this number is so prevalent

It comes from a 2004 Delaware court case, which found “recent appraisal cases that correct the valuation for a minority discount by adding back a premium ‘that spreads the value of control over all shares equally’ consistently use a 30% adjustment” for the control premium [1]. (Under Delaware law, shareholders are entitled to the pro rata share of a company’s fair value. The courts can and do revise merger prices to reflect this.)

Also, this one is a 15% premium [2].

[1] https://casetext.com/case/doft-co-v-travelocitycom-inc-2

[2] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/squarespace-to-go-p...
For me it was Comanche ('92) that spelt out the demise of my beloved Amiga. I had a floppy disk demo that I played on my father's crappy, crappy PC at work and it completely destroyed anything you could achieve on the Amiga.
Literally literally, or metaphorically literally?
I work in a FAANG on stuff that is definitely "enterprise software", a major part of what we develop is written in TypeScript.

I admit PHP will not be as good of a candidate but for smaller companies it is still extremely attractive, and it's probably easier to develop since you can write PHP extension in C.
That Commodore didn't understand that software sells hardware was obvious back in the early 80's before they bought Commodore. The VIC-20 was incompatible with the PET, The CBM-II line was incompatible with the PET, the C64 was incompatible with the VIC-20, the Plus/4 was incompatible with the C64, the C128 was incompatible with the C64, although it had a compatibility mode. All the C64 compatibility mode did was ensure the C128 mode was rarely used.

The only reasons Commodore was successful is that their hardware engineering was great and their products were inexpensive. Apple had weak hardware and high prices, Atari had great hardware and high prices.

Jack Tramiel never used a computer until he was given an iPad. He never understood computers. He would have been just as successful selling bicycles.
I don't want file-based dependencies. I don't understand why anyone would, frankly. Just is an upgrade in that respect, not a downgrade.
Over 3 years running mailinabox. Zero problems after first month of hiccups.

Installed a second server last year. That had 0 problems since day 1.

I feel like people overblow the whole email thing. Want you to pay for tuta et al when you can build your own and manage it.

I havent updated both servers in a year. Zero problems.

Again, people maybe confuse miab and other email servers maintenance with maintaining nextcloud which is a real pita
Microsoft Places uses AI to find the best time for your next office day
Ah yes, so we did in 2022! Glad to see you're still hacking on this.
No, a major part of the article is that the scans are not performed.

And it absolutely is a crime to export huge amounts of undeclared cash. Again, a major part of the article.

Think about it -- if large amounts of undeclared cash are being exported, then they're probably both criminal proceeds and haven't had taxes paid on them. And the government wants to stop both.

It's actually the government on the import side that may be less interested. As in this very article. Governments are less likely to be complaining about money coming in.
I was a kid back then but as far as I understood the waves of computing DOS and Windows 3.0 was dominant in office settings at least a couple of years before Wolfenstein 3D was released, and such machines trickled into people's homes over those years and became part-time gaming stations and created pretty solid expectations in adults about how a computer should work and what to buy for their kids.
would be interested to see thunderkittens (great name!) tackle the flash attention backwards pass, which is an order of magnitude harder than the forward
Ribosomes. People are filled with 10^20 little printing presses whose typeface contains four letters, and whose newspapers conduct microscopic commerce. All of life is based on ribosomes.
I owned an Amiga 500 but had to switch to a PC when I saw the writing on the wall. For many years it was almost painful to think about the lost opportunity the world missed out on. If they had managed the platform better, we would probably see much better computers and operating systems sooner due to the increased competition.

I remember how primitive the PC looked compared to the Amiga. It was not until Windows 95 that I felt that the PC had caught up with Amiga. It would probably be hard to compete with the PC in the office, but I feel it could have competed with Apple to provide an affordable alternative for the home. Having 3 viable platforms would have "forced" software developers to think cross platform, like they often do today.
Interestingly MicroPython is now getting attention/requests for usage one the web. Thanks to efforts from PyScript (which are fantastic). However there is much more expectations here (compared to a micro with 1MB RAM total) that existing code will run, and having full CPython experience/compatibility. Which is very challenging.
At the same time though, there seems to be work ongoing in CPython to make it work better in frontend. Main painpoint is the package size.
> Winters almost do not exist here ... Snowfall? Getting less and less with an occasional nor'easter here and there.

That seems like a regional saying, which translates very poorly to an online global audience. I read winters almost do not exist and assumed you were being more literal than "there's less snow".

It's snowed here 2-3 times in the last couple decades, each time for maybe a minute or two. I still wouldn't say we don't have a winter. For this area, winter is when it rains. Which is different than summer because there's no rain in the summer, almost ever (maybe one day on average as freak weather).

Edit: I seem to have struck a nerve here, but I'm not sure why noting that a particular turn of phrase might be confusing to people from other areas would do so.
My experience is almost identical. I had a Vic20, C64, C128 and then an A1000 as a kid, then my parents bought a 286 AT 10MHZ with a 20MB HDD and everything changed. They were absolutely right. Had I stuck with Commodore instead of switching in 10th grade, I would have been way behind.
Intel is already there at the ultra-high-end, the Xeon Max is a hybrid with 64GB of HBM2 on-package and an external DDR5 bus supporting up to 4TB of socketed RAM. The HBM2 can be configured to work as L4 cache for the DDR5, or it can boot without any DDR5 at all and run entirely from the HBM2.

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-max-9480-deep-dive-i...
Maybe we should start calling it climate instability instead of climate change.
Anyone checked out the NPU on the new iPad? It’s supposed to be a bazillion times better according to Apple but I haven’t had a chance to dig into the reality.

I guess we can assume this is going to be what’s used in what’s being called Apple’s first AI phone, iPhone 16.
> you can't have Signal without Google Play Store

You can use Signal without the Play Store. Download the apk from Signal's website and it will use a background connection to receive calls and notifications. The downside is that it's heavier on the battery.
Commodore's bankruptcy was primarily driven by Irving Gould to enrich himself. Mehdi Ali was his henchman. They pulled funding from R&D, preventing the chipset from keeping up with the industry.