skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all people on Earth exist in the present, either. At any given time in the past there were fewer of them, and at any given time in the near future at least there probably will be more of them. Does that mean that the number of people on Earth is infinite?

While you're thinking about that, think about this. You and I live in the present. Of what use is it to us in the present if there's more total wealth in some future long after we're gone?
A typo in this case, but appreciated nonetheless

The warlords gathering with deserts in their eyes may never get their just deserts even if their habit of eating just desserts leaves them obese

For while we may get told every other day we live like kings, I am more of a mind to suffer no kings at all in the first place
I called out that Veeam would be the winner in this but got flamed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40031058#40031622
> He gave me a mind shift: instead of thinking how it’s important or exciting to you, try to imagine why the author of it thought it was so exciting, to where they spent their career learning about that subject. That allowed me to completely change how I read and that too has helped me more in the past years than I could imagine.

Yeah. I studied psychology and it was the most prominent mind shift for me too. Watching what people do you need to see what is going on in their heads, not the outside things. Looking at a product of someone's work you should see the person who did it.

It completely changed my attitude to discussions. I was a math guy, any statement either true or false, and you need to decide on each one before going further. But now people say things, and I do not see them as things by themselves, I see them as things said by persons. Oftentimes it is completely irrelevant are these things true or false.
Also how to make an apple pie from scratch.
Ask HN: What are the biggest challenges you face with Back end development?
I've been working on a new project and I'm curious to hear from the community about the common challenges and pain points with backend development. Whether it's related to scalability, performance, security, or something else entirely, I'd love to hear your experiences and thoughts.
You really have to commend Ursula von der Leyen. She failed in Germany and moved up the ladder just to push this bs through and it looks like it could work this time
It's been pretty common in the travel industry for quite a long time. There's pushback every now and then, but generally the "free market" isn't doing much in that regard.
I'm curious to know to what extent these sorts of data-rich stories are templatized. My guess is that they're to the point where the components used in this piece were pulled from an existing widget library. Otherwise, that'd be a lot of effort for ... such an opinion piece.

Also, the native reading experience on Android is surprisingly bad. The content was scrolling out from under me unexpectedly and other times -- reminiscent of the old FOUC on the web. I also felt "stuck" while trying to navigate through some of the dataviz components.
> Like -- I don't know, but is it actually important that the solar day is tied to "wall clock day" so snugly? So what if it's a couple minutes off...?

Even when you're assigned a correct hour-aligned time zone, you'll be off by an average of 15 minutes! Wall clock time just fundamentally has never been precise enough for leap seconds to solve a problem, by two orders of magnitude.
Unless you have positive evidence, I'm gonna guess that the "powerful people" aren't that organized or that on top of things. But, sure, they'd like to be.
Wild 'superpigs' from Canada could soon invade some U.S. states
Peer review paper: https://www.cell.com/device/fulltext/S2666-9986(24)00235-7

Executive Summary: Solar heater that can work at temperatures close to 1000C by using semi-opaque materials to absorb solar energy and minimise radiative losses. Not even a proof of concept of an improved smelter.

Article text in PopMech is exaggeration of paper and headline is a further exaggeration on top of that.
On Tinder you get invited to pay $500/mo for some "super secret exclusive" version. I got prompted by the app with a free month - it is wall to wall high end escorts.

At some point you gotta accept that this is dystopia.
For the next CEO
Great to see that BI tools are advancing from basic WYSIWYG to being actually useful tools for business people. At least they don't need to hire freelancers anymore to render some basic data like 10 years ago.

2.: There is nothing wrong with using an LLM to assist you in writing, just make sure to prompt right and give hints to make the result more concise. If it saves you time and the outcome is good enough go for it.
Would you finally consider publishing nightly binaries?

With SerenjtyOS you always had the "build it yourself" approach which was probably meant to only attract technical users.
What's the plan for Jakt, the programming language? Does it fall under the SerenityOS umbrella? Will LadyBird continue to use C++? The blog post doesn't mention it.

https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt
A thousand people constantly mentioning online how they hate you would ruin most of your chances at establishing new relationships as well, people just have to make a single google search to see everyone hating you and that will put them off getting to know you deeper.

You would be unable to get a job, unable to get investors, unable to find a nice girlfriend etc, you could find a gold digger though. Note that unlike Trump and Musk etc you wouldn't have thousands of people that spouts praise about you in addition to all those haters, just the haters.
> I guess the webkit vendor prefix explains why I'm not seeing this on Firefox

Yes, Firefox has `-moz-osx-font-smoothing`. Which's name at least makes it clear that it -- like `-webkit-font-smoothing` -- only works on OSX (AFAIK).
> Although your point is much stronger than your opponents - wealth is infinite

LOL on at least two separate occasions my "opponent" has said that wealth is finite. Sounds like they might be your opponent!

> since wealth doesn't have to be physical.

Living in the physical world as I do, I require that my needs for physical wealth be met first: goods and services like food, shelter, safety, furnishings, entertainment, and the political power to maintain them. Non-physical wealth--love, feelings of accomplishment, etc.--are important, but they come later.

What about you? Are you satisfied with non-physical wealth alone?
Probably RxJava https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava (with Kotlin?)
Tax and accounting? Sounds dangerous, given LLMs have a penchant for making up citations (when having been asked to write research papers) with plausible sounding (but made up) information, titles, authors, etc. (or some combination of those - e.g. fake paper title but real author names).

How do you know it’s actually referenced things from real tax codes that are actually applicable to you, without extremely careful fact checking (which would take at least as much time as an expert would take to give real advice?)? Seems it could very easily do things like fabricate plausible sounding answers based on tax laws that are, for example, a mix of different laws from jurisdictions you aren’t in…
Friendly reminder that USB is not free.

You must pay a one-time fee of $6,000 in exchange Vendor ID [0].

[0] https://www.usb.org/getting-vendor-id
The problem with memory safety bugs is that the capacity for unwanted behavior is much higher. This is why they are useful as security vulnerabilities when crafting exploits. They can turn your program into an unbounded one that can compute anything. It also means "uh, we just stored garbage data where there should be a key and now the entire encrypted blob is irrecoverable."
That's kotlin
Yes, I agree my post was unkind. I had an emotional reaction to a charged subject, and I'm sorry for that.
> In order to do that I not only need to follow your sources but the original sources that NYT etc define to ensure they are the same.

To put an even finer point in it, they're asking us to believe their blog posts over numerous large media outlets, and even above (presumably) peer reviewed research.

Anyone capable of understanding the issue of misinformation should see why that's a terrible idea, and why we shouldn't be encouraging that kind of behavior.
Not for the people living in those conditions, it isn't.
This is so bleak, and the reason these bromides against CEOs appear is because this system of global capitalism is intent on commoditizing everything; even a CEO’s skill set.

Some people (either CEOs themselves or temporarily embarrassed wage workers) will bristle at this because it’s written from the perspective of warning/mocking CEOs who so readily automate-away workforces.

But an honest accounting would recognize that these automation processes have been happening for many decades, now. And maybe the CEO is diminished, but that’s besides the point that all of this just serves to accumulate wealth to the capital class, who’ve almost become sovereign (when Bezos, Musk, Andreeson et al can conduct independent foreign diplomacy or get a dedicated seat in the UNSC, I will be happy to revise this).

Everything is up for grabs, and if a board of ancient mummies can enslave a populace with an AI as well as with a flesh-and-blood C-suite, then they will. Because of the pressures to optimize and deliver more value that undergird our current society!

On the upside: an LLM probably lies less than a human CEO.
This is so true.

I remember one of my interviews that went well in the end. In the middle of the interview, they mentioned using Java and building web apps. At the time, I was a C++ developer with no web development experience.

I said: "I never did web development," and their response was, "You do know how to write source code, don't you?"

I said: "Of course I do, but..."

They cut me off with: "You will pick it up, don't worry about it."
I think they'll be surprised and frightened when treated as if their lives lack meaning.

What do you mean, "working for you"? Do you consider a meaningful life instrumental in relation to something else, which we have to conclude is meaningless or it would be the meaning of that life?

I get the impression that you manifest the risk I was alluding to in my initial comment. There's a huge distance between the person Augustine described in his confessions, notably book 2, about the pear tree, and the kind of 'choosy' personality you describe here. Are you really, really sure about which kind is preferable to you?
Lua is a just perfect for application scripting. It fills a real market gap. It's astoundingly simple compared to any other language. In my mental map of programming languages, it's C but garbage collected, it's Python but simple, it's for the express purpose of application scripting.

You can have and mutate global variables in Lua. I'd never voluntarily write in any language with global mutable shared state. But after using Lua in my job for several months I've realized that using mutable global shared state is really the right tool for the job scripting.
The general issue is isolation, for sure: you need to be able to cleanup the operation regardless of what state it is in when you abort it, and that means that anything you share with it needs to be designed for this. Threads in most OSs simply don't provide enough isolation to do this, two threads share enough resources that you can't effectively do this (in part because many other parts of the system assume that that threads are not an isolation barrier), wheras processes and the means of sharing things between processes are specifically designed so that this is possible.
J. R. "Bob" Dobbs?
After thought:

Tech Debt is NOT a badge of honour, it's the opposite, it says "we made an engineering decision so bad that we now have to spend time and effort fixing/changing things which adds ZERO business value".
Use-after-return is a subset of use-after-free bugs. Allocate a temporary on the stack, pass it by reference to somewhere that outlives that function, and then watch your program explode. No dynamic memory allocation at all.
> I am really into astronomy. But dealing with this, just so stars pass local meridian exactly at 00:00:00.000 is simply not worth it!

And of course it still doesn't actually happen, because almost all locations (i.e. with measure 1!) are not aligned to their time zones.
Here I entirely blame Apple for opening this Pandora’s box. Politicians never attempt what they don’t know to be possible.
It does not deter crimes, and it makes life harder for those who were effectively jailed for being poor (eg, jailed because unable to afford a traffic fine), those who have turned their life around, and more.

We know that rich people aren't effectively ostracized despite a widely published legal history, as convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein demonstrated.
Some Chinese brand Lightning headphones require Bluetooth, for a wild reason
Isn't this entire article attempting to explain why that strategy isn't working in this instance?
The answer is not to consider clickbait more deeply before devouring it, or take a future historical perspective on the nourishment value of every click you take. That's all priced in, and nostalgia won't help you. You need to break the cycle by training yourself to eschew all mystery, that is, be ready to change activities despite the titillating promise of information resolution to come. So watch half a good movie, read half an enticing article or status update and discard the rest on purpose, practice dragging yourself away at the most inopportune time to test your resolve - publishers can not derive benefit from you increasing your resolve without them.
Yes, or Waterfox [1].

[1] https://www.waterfox.net/
Well.. no I was wondering if that many people are actually paying for OnlyFans for it to be profitable for that many creators.

Parent comment got it right, I feel like it would be reasonable to expect the OnlyFans creators to keep their almost shameful self-promotion of platforms like Twitch or YouTube. I don't care what kind of content they produce, as long as it's consensual they can do whatever they want, and it's not the nature of the content that irritates me, it's the insane level of self-whoring, it's pretty cringe.

I can see it from the point of view of Twitch, it's content, it sells, it makes money so leave it.
"Too expensive, too slow and too risky."

That's their conclusion. The costs were very high on the initial projects. But they were still an order of magnitude cheaper than big nuclear projects.

It took many times the expected schedule to complete. But that's not all on the reactor construction - legal and regulatory obstructions are responsible for (much?) of that.

Too risky? They gave no evidence whatsoever. Just guessing there. They admitted that.

Not sure this is anything but a slam piece.
You can try turning on hardened libc++ and see what performance hit you get. It isn't really too bad. And a considerable portion of that is waste caused by other design choices in C++ making it difficult for the compiler to remove redundant bounds checks.
> The only Defense against manipulation like that is having read different view points on complex societal concerns, shaping your own opinion. I don’t see how that would be possible without reading the news

I see this meme repeated all the time, but I have my doubts. First of all, approximately no one does it anyway - one would have to take effort finding out sources from opposite ends of political spectrum (vs. "opposite" but really just the same), and then force themselves to read all of them (vs. just the most enjoyable one or two). It's possible as a form of study It's definitely not what's happening when you see people reading the news with their coffee or on the bus.

Secondly, opinions aren't like waves that cancel out. You read a thing in source A and then the opposite of it in source B, it's not like you're left with enlightened lack of opinion. You just expended twice the energy to read twice the amount of lies. Lies which will stay with you and pop into your consciousness when thinking or talking about the topic they pertain to. Human mind has no problem remembering mutually exclusive thoughts, or believing them individually.

This recommendation feels like saying, you need to consume a balanced variety of poisoned foods, so the poisons cancel each other out. How about not touching any of that in the first place?
That's making the wrong assumption that those 25% of customers will just sit idly by. Their migration away won't be easy, but you can bet that all of them have been at least thinking if not acting on contingencies since the acquisition was first announced. They might do the initial renewals, but within a year or two most of them will start moving away and making their VMware estates smaller, for reduced costs and also vastly improved quality for everyone involved. Once the cat is out of the bag (Broadcom forcing them to rethink their strategy), very few will remain - there are so many better options than VMware out there.
Yeah. I also never had problems getting a job or similar because of my non-CS degree.
It is the thing I love about emacs, it autoindents everything, so if you got brackets/braces/parenthesis wrong you see something you don't expect. But obligatory braces work too.
I'm throwing money at the screen and nothing is happening!!

Please make a book of this and other associated topics. You write very well.
Ryzen doesn't even lead in MT on laptops.

With M4, they're likely to fall even farther behind. M4 Pro/Max is likely to arrive in Fall. AMD's Strix Point doesn't seem to have a release date.
Beer CSS – Translates a modern UI into HTML semantic standard
> If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push it? How would it change their expected happiness?

Bring that button over here and let me press it 10 times. I know I haven't hurt anyone physically (i.e. don't give me 10m but 100 people get cancer - I don't want that!).

$10m will buy be a nice small house somewhere remotely (200k-300k), I will stop working, I will spend my life reading books.. let's say $2k-$3k per year (I will also buy a couple expensive ones each year)(hey after all my name IS Henry Bemis!! look it up!).

Food-drink-travel.. let's say another $30k-$40k per year.

Gun & ammo & permit.. I have no idea how much they cost, but let's add 5k for all.

A Honda Accord (or similar inexpensive forever-car) $5k? $10k?

I'm not young.. so by the time I die there will be many millions to spare as well (charity, donations, inheritance, etc.)

Bring that button forward and see you never again :)
No. Not for me.
> AMD has been making SoCs forever. Why does it take a kick in the teeth from Apple for both Intel and AMD suddenly to wake up and give us performance SoCs, 5 years later

What do you mean? AMD has been the market leader in performance SoCs for specialised use cases (like consoles) for many years.
> We are talking small numbers (maybe losing 15k in total) but an amazing amount of time and energy spent doing all this which generated a lot of stress.

This was roughly my experience too. Stopping after the above trade meant my total losses were not huge (relatively speaking; maybe $2000) but I put an incredible amount of effort into it and the stress was huge. I don't fully regret it because, frankly, it was very exciting, I had a lot of fun and it was extremely interesting trying to predict the ebb and flow of the market and the psychology behind moves.
Composability.

This does not mean "it's a small component in a dedicated pipeline". It means "this is a component that's useful in many pipelines".
You may or may not enjoy reading through a full and lively debate that was well refereed with clear rules in advance with all the known and verified facts from all sides to hand in advance.

It went down like this:

Lableak truther loses $100,000 in his own debate

https://www.protagonist-science.com/p/lableak-truther-loses-...

Sure, a lableak origin is "possible" .. just very very very unlikely.
The MDN docs state this about 401[0]:

> Although the HTTP standard specifies "unauthorized", semantically this response means "unauthenticated". That is, the client must authenticate itself to get the requested response.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status#cli...
Some Geekbench 6 workloads and libraries:

- Dijkstra's algorithm: not used by vast majority of applications.

- Google Gumbo: unmaintained since 2016.

- litehtml: not used by any major browser.

- Clang: common on HN, but niche for general population.

- 3D texture encoding: very niche.

- Ray Tracer: a custom ray tracer using Intel Embree lib. That's worse than Cinebench.

- Structure from Motion: generates 3D geometry from multiple 2D images.

It also uses some more commonly used libraries, but there's enough niche stuff in Geekbench that I can't say it's a good representation of a real world workloads.

> Regardless, they are comparing desktop machines using as much as 1500 watts vs a laptop that maxes out at 80 watts and Apple is still competing well. The wins in the PC world are usually due to beefy Nvidia GPUs that are applications have historically optimized for.

They included a laptop, which is also competing rather well with Apple offerings. And it's not PC's fault you can't add a custom GPU to Apple offerings.
It’s usually more than 80% of the work. Painting something is really fast with modern sprayers but sanding off the old layer is still a lot of elbow grease, even when you have sand blasters.
I had a variant, "clean house is a sign of wasted life". I find it hard to disagree with it.
I'm dealing with this right now. New institutional leadership at the most executive level. This person believes

a) if you're not moving up you should be moved out;

b) there is zero value in the historical operations of any department; and

c) the only way to tell if someone is a good employee is whether or not his gut tells him he likes them.

These are three things I disagree with vehemently. He has no use for me.

It has been difficult, to say the least, to work with this person. If it weren't for the layers between he and I, he would've fired me by now.

This is a place I have never been. Ever. And it's massively frustrating. No amount of ability or intelligence can overcome this man's gut instinct. And he's in charge now.

I have zero idea what to do here. I have never worked with someone who so explicitly wants his employees to kiss his ass (HR literally said to kiss his ass when I went to them for guidance on how to improve myself to fix this situation).
Asked for a cat that says "snitches get stitches", and got a very appropriate image out of it: https://i.imgur.com/Ws0PHFE.png
Interesting technical details on the challenges of using long domain names and HTTPS certificates. The author seems to have found a workaround, though potential abuse is a valid concern. I wonder if there are any plans to address that.
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago
I'm not surprised, the whole language (Ruby) and ecosystem favors "ease of use" (ie the ability to write code fast) over correctness in so many places. Subtle details that other languages would require you to handle in order to robustly handle non happy path conditions are often ignored, lumped together, return just nil, etc. It seems careless, but a large group of engineers love it because it gives the illusion that the world is simple.
https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/862.22/index.html

Ch. 6?
I'm afraid there's nothing in your behaviour to be proud of
So, four countries.
I was into it in the 90s, it was really fun to build your system. You'd dream of how much better it would be with a 3-way crossover or even just that equalizer and it did make a big difference sometimes.

Tighter integration killed it mostly. Integrated amplifiers in speakers and your audio source already has an EQ and everything else you'd want all in one unit kinda takes the fun out of it.