skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I see Build123D being referenced a lot here. I'll give it a try, though I suspect I'll probably stick with Bowler Studio because I actually use the physics and robo simulation stuff a lot.
Being fired after building a 1 billion dollar/100 million mau product — for no given reason and given minimal severance.

The best I can understand is the executives said “yea we aren’t paying this guys waypoint bonus we can just fire him and take it from here”

I learned no matter what you achieve if you lack table stakes you are worthless.
The royalties they pay to labels are a percentage of revenue, so price increases will scale accordingly. That's actually been the profitability hurdle since the beginning.
There was no demand, at the absurd travel costs you get when you throw away an expensive rocket with every launch. Now that we're on the verge of mass-produced rockets that are completely and rapidly reusable, the economics are about to change and we might find plenty of demand. (And it's not just SpaceX; Stoke Space for example looks really interesting.)
> And to disregard their previous experience with high-functioning alcoholics who deny everything when they mess up. I’d bet there’s a lot more hidden day-drinkers out there than patients like this.

I'd rather them disregard their bias than disregard their patients. If someone insists they don't drink when challenged with the BAC data (especially with corroboration like in this case), do a test to determine if they're lying or not. Don't just assume they're lying.

But doctors often are arrogant and unwilling to admit error, even to other doctors. The best you can sometimes do in those situations is to get bossy and try to take control of the situation (e.g. I know you're assuming I'm a lying alcoholic, but I don't drink, so explain to me how I could be intoxicated without drinking...what tests would you need to prove that...), but not everyone has the confidence to do that or to do it only when it's needed.
> It's a mistake to compare the US and China's decisions like-for-like, because they're two countries with very different strategic situations and thus opportunities

China is making a huge push into EVs because they don't want to be subject to the whims of Middle Eastern instability (and do not produce any significant amount of oil on their own). America, in contrast, has much more interest in oil since they produce a lot of it on their own, and their EV uptake is slower, with lots of resistance from conservatives (who want to see oil persevere as a strategic commodity due to financial self interest).

China could really be in a much better place a decade or two from now given their constraints. We still have a lot of advantages, but they are quickly eroding due to pigheaded politics.
IMO you should place your salary range on these posts.
Its kind of baffling how good at driving and thinking of other things at the same time we are. Henry Ford really lucked out that we’d so readily adapt having never seen something like a car in our evolutionary history before.
Do you have an example? My impression of the Go standard library is that they picked a pretty decent compromise of abstraction levels over the various OS facilities they use under the hood.
Looks like he goofed twice...
Though even Aeron chairs, I had one fixed under warranty after 12 or so years. Then it pretty much fell apart after another 12 or so years. It might have been fixable again but it didn't seem worthwhile to faff around especially mid-COVID and I'm glad I just got a new one which was rock solid. (At the time I wished I could try a couple other models but I ended up being very happy just getting a direct replacement.)
You can harness the power of 'Transformational Breath'
The swear words in Quebec originate from old religious principles, yes. You can differentiate between "good" and "bad" (swear) use of it purely from written context or verbal cues. The verbal cues are a lot easier to pick up on. Sarcasm, angry face, crass conversation amongst friends, etc.
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I think what triggers most of us to complain is the fact that the price goes up while the value goes down.

Spotify is actually a great value, but they keep making it worse and worse. If they had announced a price increase along side of an announcement of "we're doing this to compensate for the expected loss of income that will occur when we remove podcasts from the UI as we refocus on our core competency of delivering you amazing music and helping you discover amazing new music" we'd be cheering the price increase.

But no, the price will go up, and they'll F-up the UI even further to make it even harder to actually find music in it, and they still won't offer high quality streams.

"Get what you pay for" is fine, but what they're giving me is getting closer and closer to what I'd expect to get for free.
> I don't care about your innovation. I haven't cared about a single new feature that's come out from Spotify in the last 5-7 years.

I agree, and I'd personally extend it to say the same about almost every other subscription-supported software product I've rented in the last 10 years.

From my perspective as a user, "innovation" broadly means changing my product to chase some other users who were previously reluctant to buy in when I did. Sometimes I'll get something beneficial myself, but the more likely outcome is that I'll be paying to see my interface cluttered with countless things I was content not having around and the specific UX details or features I did like massaged out through A/B tests focused on these later adopters.

A content subscription model generally makes sense for catalog-streaming products like Spotify, but the software subscription model is often ruinous to user experience for long-term subscribers.
I'd like to shine a light on the electoral processes, everywhere. If there is a problem with power somewhere, you can often find First-Past-The-Post is being used for voting.

The mechanisms applied to creating power are often flawed, and will exaggerate problems. Implementing voting systems like Single-Transferable-Vote, can work for forming governance condo-boards, committees, municipal to national governments. These electoral reforms, can limit consolidation of power, open the field to new challengers, and reduce voter apathy.

Seeing things through an electoral reform lens, a lot of solutions seem clear. The big challenge is making progress when power doesn't want reform. (eg. Federal electoral reform in Canada)
Timing is very important. The market was not ready. Doh.
Tangential: the cover of Allen's book uses the exact same painting as Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization?? I'm reading too much into this but that seems a bit suspect and lazy... And yes I judge books by their covers; it is actually a fairly reliable heuristic for me (edit: but in this case the heuristic would fail me because this book sounds excellent)

https://mit-press-us.imgix.net/covers/9780262536165.jpg?auto...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41gNLyXI-BL.jpg

Also check out MIT Press using imgix for their image server!)
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Just incase anyone thinks there is supposed to be some sort of universal answer, there isn’t one. Suppose some higher being comes and tells everyone what it supposed to be, I’m not sure if it will change your day to day activities because you are always bound to your physical needs.
Just a heads up, nothing loads on the website with WebGL disabled, instead of just the 3d globe thing being missing.
Thank you for the feedback. I'll review my notes and see if I can clarify this section - my key point there was simply to show that the magnetic field isn't really necessary - I wanted to show that it's all part of relativistic contractions made by the electric field. If I made any errors I give you my sincere apologies. Btw if you want to make edits to my work directly - you can find it as it's fully open source: https://github.com/photonlines/Intuitive-Guide-to-Maxwells-E...
They certainly pay the labels plenty though.
That has definitely not been my experience. The Made For Your section shows me tons of artists I've never heard from. I suppose it could be limited if you listen to a very specific niche where they don't have a large dataset on. I love finding new artists and then suddenly diving into a rabbit hole of discovering their older stuff.
So you say that it's built on top of D1, but are claiming that you are working around its limitations. What does it actually look like in practice? From everything that I can see, the whole offering looks very identical to Cloudflare D1 + a SQL editor UI (which is a really negligable value add). The copy that mentions the "free global replication" reads like that is a unique feature, while that's already a builtin feature of D1.

This feels like the Vercel serverless fiasko from a month ago where they tried to boast better serverless performance characteristics than AWS Lambda, while building on top of that.
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It's someone poetic that the last generation saw companies crumble from failing to innovate and now a new generation of companies is heading towards ruin from over innovating.
It's a big pain when decoding XML. That's not the only impedance mismatch. The fact that XML is just a soup of objects is not how programming language objects work either.

https://docs.rs/serde-xml-rs/0.6.0/serde_xml_rs/#caveats

Look at how much more complex this is than the equivalent JSON code, which requires none of these annotations:

https://docs.rs/strong-xml/latest/strong_xml/
I like that idea.

I also think there is always an element of chance. Sometimes looking back it's easy to think there was some special sauce - Britain was special etc, but sometimes it is a large part random chance.

This is particularly the case for something like the Industrial revolution where there is a snowball effect - as you optimise the process at one point the shifting economics cascade ( something that was expensive is now cheap, that cheap thing can now be used in places it couldn't before ).
DNS seems broken for your website.

https://boxento.com/ Works. I suspect you’re missing the www record.
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This is a weird comment. The fact that users expect changes to be saved is not a problem, they will see a "how you sure you want to leave" if they don't. Even browsers support this now, if you were to try and close the whole tab/window.

The "ok" button can be labelled "save" if that makes sense. I don't think that takes anything away from the article's point.

"Just get another theme" is not a solution. The point is that most themes are this way, whether default themes or others. Most apps also don't have theming options, other than light/dark. Or do you mean that end users should make their own theme?

> low-effort article that completely fails to understand
There were several trades in BRK.A that happened at the $185 price before the halt. I wonder if, now that trading resumed at $631k, whoever purchased at $185 and sold for an immediate $631k gain (multiplied by however many shares) would be able to keep their profits...
I would suggest removing the line about Algolia's toxic workplace from your CV; does not send a good signal.
OpenSCAD is great for things which one knows how to describe mathematically, but that puts a sharp bound on the possibilities for most folks.

My latest query in to the OpenSCAD mailing list is:

>How does one represent a 3 dimensional Bézier curve in OpenSCAD? How would that be extended so as to create an entire surface/object?

and my current project is wending its way down to doing wood joinery which seems to require conic sections (suggestions for texts to read for formulae which will calculate more quickly than the chained trigonometric calculations which only got me half-way or so?)
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An ad for Windows on Arm taking shots at Macs for app compatibility warnings? Really?
How do you get past the d1 storage limits[0]?

Maximum database size 10 GB (Workers Paid)
Maximum storage per account 250 GB (Workers Paid)

- [0] https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits/
I tend to get a vibration notification in my pocket from the phantom when my phone is elsewhere.
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> No, goods and services are not finite

Yes, they are.

> Humanity is increasing the pool of goods and services in absolute terms all the time.

The ever-increasing amount is still finite, at any given time and even aggregated over the entire history from the evolution of humanity to its inevitable extinction.
That something is called exposure, not money.

Oregon Trail says you can die from too much of it.
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> So I built Dzero on top of D1 as a fully managed service that automatically scales globally with over 320 edge locations at no additional cost and can easily be integrated into any platform or framework without getting locked into any ecosystem!

A managed service layer on top of a managed service layer

Sounds expensive?

Looks super well done though. I would just be concerned... what's the funnel for people who find Cloudflare? Ok, what's the funnel for people who use D1? Ok, what's the funnel for people who know about Cloudflare/D1 and use it, and then go look for an extra layer on top/competitor

I guess you could hope on people never having to go down that path (how many people already integrated against D1 would eject and switch to this versus how many just find this originally)...
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Howdy! Thanks for your benchmarking!

Your blog does a great job contrasting the two use cases. I don't think too much has changed on your main use case, however here are a few ideas to test out!

DuckDB can read SQLite files now! So if you like DuckDB syntax or query optimization, but want to use the SQLite format / indexes, that may work well.

Since DuckDB is columnar (and compressed), it frequently needs to read a big chunk of rows (~100K) just to get 1 row out and decompressed. Mind trying to store your data uncompressed? Might help in your case! (PRAGMA force_compression='uncompressed')

Links:
https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/sqlite
Mamba-2 – State Space Duality
Can I use this to e.g. benchmark two image generators against each other? Cause their output is usually kinda subjective...
I mean, I understand that you can't usually get a deep understanding of a topic through a youtube video. Sometimes when I watch math videos I'm surprised by the density of the information. Things that I studied in college that took practice, exploration, and grappling will get a 30 second explanation.

On the other hand, you'll also find lectures from professors and other content made by professionals. I bookmark them and probably never look at them ever again. It's valuable, interesting, but it's too much.
> Is it ok because the prosecutor isn’t seeking life sentences?

Okay and comparable are planets part. The prosecutor is prosecuting. They aren’t a general opening machine gun fire at the protesters. The false equivalence is beyond ridiculous.

To find an American analog to the Tiananmen massacre, you have to go back to when we were fighting Indians. (The Ludlow massacre, in 1914, comes close in kind but not scale [1].)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
Internet access using regular consumer devices (routers, smartphones, tablets, PCs etc) in P2P fashion. Using whatever physical tech available (primarily Bluetooth & Wi-Fi, but anything goes).

Think https-over-BitTorrent + mesh networking

This could do away with (some of) the centralized internet topology we have today.
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SerenityOS already has Ports directory for 3rd party software, I guess ladybirds will go there.

I'd say ladybird moving out is a big incentive to get a packaging system up and running.
Feynman Computer Science Lecture – Hardware, Software, Heuristics (1985) [video]
Absolutely not. I would hope to learn the lesson some other way.

In hindsight, it equates to kicking someone hard in the groin for laughs. It hurts my foot, them a lot, and it's just a poor way to learn how to earn "respect".
I think that other stores and social platforms are making the word "verification" gain a bad reputation, due to the bureucracy and fees, and it is not the case here.

Verifying an app on Flathub is a simple and open process that only requires to upload a file into the .well-known tree of the developer website: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/verification

At the same time, I think that the verification mark does not work as some people may expect. Flatpak has become a popular way to sandbox privative apps that are non-free Electron dumb frontends that interact with a cloud SaaS. Discord is a verified Flathub application and it probably sends information about the computer such as the list of process as part of their telemetry.

The point is that this verification process will prevent running apps that have been packaged without the knowledge of the original developer (someone packaging malicious code inside existing apps and deploying them to Flathub), but it will NOT prevent running apps that have additional surprises placed by the original developers in first place.
Every framework have worked on for the last 12 years has bugs, breaks in certain situations. Every system in fact, i have worked on in 12 years has bugs and breaks. That is just the nature of software development.

You should be using frameworks instead of trying to reinvent things. It takes away decision fatigue and makes it easier for most teams to follow conventions that are already established.
It makes it cheaper, but still very expensive. A dozen or more launches of very large rockets to ready a payload large enough to do any work in the asteroid belt and come back, and that’d be like a tiny prospector-robot aiming to return a couple kg of material. Doing much more remains locked behind the expensive (to put it mildly) and unproven notion of getting industrial-scale fuel refining working in space (or at least in a much smaller gravity well) with minimal inputs from Earth. There are… a few challenges there.
> ...you’ll notice that some key features, like HDR, headset feedback, eye tracking, adaptive triggers, and haptic feedback (other than rumble), are not available when playing on PC. However, other high-fidelity and sensory immersion features of PS VR2 are supported, including 4K visuals (2000 x 2040 per eye), 110-degree field of view, finger touch detection, and see-through view, as well as foveated rendering (without eye tracking) and 3D Audio in supported games.

Even if there are caveats, this is amazing for everyone. The fact they even advertised Half Life: Alyx in the press photo makes the announcement just that sweeter.
Even the practical work was done surprisingly early. I have a book on error correcting codes from the 1950s and it's missing very little (Most notably trellis codes and LDPC; the former being invented in the '70s and the latter in 1963).
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I have seen a C++ dev. almost brought to tears when trying to fix a CSS issue at a previous job. Then he broke into tears of laughter when I showed him `yarn build:dev` and the tailwind config. and package.json files :D.

Better to laugh about it than cry about it, eh :].