skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point, although from what I've heard they are experiencing great numbers in China, including achieving that important "status symbol" or "luxury brand" status that has helped make them so formidable in the US.

I also think the US and EU markets are so big that they've got time (and plenty of money) to figure out Asia and Africa.
I got a new job recently and came into the office for the first few weeks for the novelty of it as I hadn't worked in an office for years. There are few people who swear by the office and complain that they can't work without it, no kids either, I think they like having a chinwag every day. Now we're moving offices so they are going to a coffee shop so they can work together, sounds like hell, I won't go back.
Easy intro-to-equities case:

- historical long-term PE ratio is 15

- lets bump it to 20

- lets bump it again to 25

- Apple is at 33

- either it grows gross profits (33/25) 32%, or its worth 32% less than it is now.

- revenue has been flat since late 2021

- gross profits have been flat since late 2021 and approximate ceiling of 27% achieved in 2012

- if we skip just one unprincipled bump, we're looking at 65% increase required in gross profits.

- "long term investor" is handwaving, not a virtue, thesis, or principle. it doesn't mean anything here other than "I strongly believe Apple can double sales while maintaining or growing profit margin" or "can the timeline be longer please? because on a long enough timeline I'll be right"
Followed up with
"but it was pretty simple, like under 30 lines"

So simple in fact, that it wasn't quickly rewritten and added to GitHub...
The decision makers are bureaucrats but "the people who pay" is the government, through grants and as underwriters of student loans, and parents through tuition.

And then, the product "sold" in return to students/parents is not mainly education ("learning things") but instead something like a "trademark of eligibility" for employment into jobs where competence doesn't measurably affect performance anyway.
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> Easy solution: Pivot your entire business to high speed rail so we can continue to live on this planet.

> Air travel should be for medical emergencies only.

Some nuance would be nice here. Although high-speed rail from Hawaii to Australia would be a blast.
Why do you think the western world is in a stable decline?
You mean in terms of population? The Chinese population is also declining. So i'm curious why you think the ratio is skewed, my impression is China is going to shrink more, faster, based on their current demographic trajectories.

It's actually India, Brazil and many African countries that are growing hard.
I said this is common in bad textbooks, not necessarily that this is one of these.
The game looks neat and I would have been entranced by it back in the day, but I don’t think the writer knows the meaning of “flight simulator”, “first person shooter”, or “open world.”
Also fair point. Berkshire has such a significant impact on the market that they have to take a long-term approach just to changing their stake, lest they sway the market. I've never been involved with a big firm like this, but I would also imagine there's some regulation involved around what/how they're able to operate, so that could also be a non-trivial factor in their decisions and current positions.
What a lovely false dichotomy. I pick the third option, No, and fuck you.
Is that the stuff you get in lots of US restaurants? If so, think it is quite bland. Subjective obviously.
I am an employee of a subsidiary of a publicly traded company. We have team members who were purposefully moving further AWAY from the office so that they didn't have to comply with the policy. I simply have ignored the policy altogether. My manager and his manager both agree that it's silly (both of them live outside the range as well).

My day is full of too many impromptu meetings that require me to be on zoom, and the environment at the office is utterly counterproductive to having those conversations or getting real work done. If I had to stop what I was doing and find a conference room every time I needed to communicate with a remote co-worker, I'd spend half my day walking to and from a room.
It wasn't about them not being in the house - it was about not eating them, and particularly not feeding them to her 2 year old sister. We didn't throw them away - we just didn't buy any as we weren't going to be eating it for a while.
> Feel like I keep seeing news/articles about 6 day work weeks. Seems like a coordinated effort.

At the same time that article's title gives it too on their immigration coordinated effort: "6-day workweeks or more immigration".

You can read it any way you like, it's obvious they're putting both 6-days workweek and more immigration as something people do not want.
Thats not so weird before Christianity became big in Europe it was big in west and east Asia. At least from what i can remember from Peter Frankopan's book The Silkroads mentioned this. Also Dan carlins mongol series also talked about a big Christian king/savior in the far east.
> What should I focus on to become stronger in my field and make the best choices for my career?

Getting the work done. If there is extra go between and difficulty due to understandings, etc. eat that extra effort yourself.

Have milestones with visible increments whenever possible. Don't get lost in a black hole. Don't become vague and unaccountable. Don't assume others know what they want or expect of you, get them to say it and stick to that.

Do this, and no matter your niche or skill level you will be appreciated professionally.
>I go to the office and I'm still remote!

Management doesn't care you come to the office just to do your work remotely anyway since your other coders are not in the same geographical location as you, they just want you in the office because they are also in the office because the CEO also wants them in the office.
San Francisco Moves to Ban Anti-Competitive Rent Software
It's unclear to me if that would help them expand and grow or if it'd be deadweight and overhead.

FWIW, I was pointing out aspects of such an acquisition, and looking for honest thoughts. I have no idea if it's a good idea or bad idea. I'm really quite divided.
Probably indicates downward rate sentiment?
This sounds more like a threat than a prediction.
Scientists may have found a cheap, natural cure for baldness
I believe that when Grandma laments/boasts that "kids these days just know technology", it's often a confusion of confidence with competence.

The elder generation grew up with stuff where you had to be more cautious of damaging it, while the younger generation is far more confident with "randomly mess around until it works", because they grew up with products that were designed to be more forgiving.
Author here. Fair comment. I did think about mentioning that. But I didn't want to get too much into the weeds. Better to watch some videos for all the details.
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I like that this has very few advantages over sleeping outside
Actually, the do sell them. Only the low power edge versions, but still.
Do these tech CEO's just cargo cult everything?

Is that what they teach at MBA school? Just do what everyone else is doing.
i didnt even think of that but makes sense. valuable pov.

either way im sure most people are just annoyed with the gate code then they are with the tracking and would take the cookie everytime. and i feel like this is similar to many things especially with google.

but people just would rather just believe these companies are against them haha. kinda silly imo
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Doing it with generating functions is essentially the same as what is done in the post under a different name.
Really interesting watch, thanks for sharing!

So, if I understand correctly, this is roughly what he did:

1. Wrote a transpiler to convert the subset of Javascript used by CrossCode into a dialect of Haxe.

2. Selectively modified his version of Haxe in small ways to more closely match the semantics of Javascript, to make writing the transpiler easier.

3. Selectively re-wrote complicated parts of the Javascript code into Haxe directly, so that his transpiler didn't have to handle them.

4. Transpiled <canvas> and other browser API calls into calls to his own pre-existing Kha framework for Haxe, which provided similar APIs.

5. Compiled the Haxe output into C++.

6. Compiled the C++ to native code.

Damn.
Good tab expansion in a very virtual filesystem would work wonders:

$ cat /cal/nexttues<TAB>
$ cat /cal/2024/08/13/

$ cat /cal/nextweek<TAB>
$ cat /cal/2024/w32/

I seem to recall that I had lunch with somebody last July:

$ grep -ir somebody /cal/2023/07/
/cal/2023/07/12/events:13:00-14:00 Lunch with somebody
Creating Joy in the User Experience (2023)
The case of the Mongols was the example I was actually thinking of. But there’s a long history of ideologically interpreted archeology in the west as well.

I don’t understand why your comment was being voted down.
The old equipment is fascinating. Ethernet makes for a wonderful look in to how hundreds of companies can actually make interoperable hardware, with various media types and varying methods, and it can all Just Work™ (mostly).

I still use 10base2 with some old machines, and I still have machines that have and use AUI, and if I had the space, I'd probably set up a 10base5 network, in part to show the kids (and by kids, I mean anyone 40-something and younger). That these machines and devices can be connected to the same ethernet networks that're doing gigabit, 2.5 gigabit and even 10 gigabit really should be impressive to anyone that thinks about it for a minute. What other technologies have lasted so long and have gone through multiple generations and still interoperate with their predecessors?

I do think it's funny that OP can crash their Cisco Catalyst. It just goes to show that edge cases can always be handled better. Similarly, I have some ethernet-over-powerline adapters from Radio Shack from... No idea, but they're old, and they're 10 Mbps only. I can plug them in to a network, try to transfer as much data as possible across them, and give any switch or router a real workout. When those collision LEDs are brightly lit from heavy use, the fanciest of routers will exhibit all sorts of slowdowns :)
It's not debt. You issue 24B in stock, and use that to pay for Intel.

If investors think it's a good idea, market cap goes up by more than 24B. If not, by less.

I am looking for honest thoughts. I have not been spending any time on wallstreetbets, and I had hoped for a good discussion of pros and cons. I have no clue if it's a good idea or bad.

AOL / Time Warner comes to mind.
Presumably those young people forced to work their asses off 6 days/week will be even less inclined to become parents, further compounding the problem. Trying to solve lack of workers due to sub-replacement fertility by squeezing more workhours of people that already can't afford children is like ship captains trying to solve the iceberg problem by speeding through areas known to contain them.
Remember when AOL bought Time Warner?
> If you bought in ‘72 or ‘99 for instance, it was a very, very long time before you’d even be able to cash out neutral.

Agreed, but I would consider those different companies (particularly in '72).
When dealing with a small or medium company, the approach is very different and I would very much agree regarding risk of overpriced. However at this point Apple is very blue chip and very different than their startup or almost bankrupt earlier versions of themselves. If Apple were a startup or side-company in the tech industry, I'd have a very different opinion regarding whether they are over-priced or not, and how much risk that would carry.
> I think the bears are vastly underestimating the size and power of the moat (or garden wall) that Apple has built.

Apple's size/moat is one thing. That will last them for years to come, in no small part because the competition is dog shit (Windows is an ad ridden hellhole that constantly enshittifies itself with each generation, and Linux, well, every year has been "the year of Linux on desktop" for like two decades now?).

But there isn't much potential for true growth in their existing product categories either, and this is IMHO why Buffett is dropping such a large stake. Western markets are pretty much saturated, India/China's population parts that can afford Apple stuff just as well, and for other markets Apple is just too high a price point. Making that worse is that the Apple Vision, the first entirely new class of product in years, has utterly and miserably flopped.

> Seeing a heavy Apple user try switching to Linux on their laptop was a real eye opener for me.

Depends which part of macOS they're mostly using... if it's mostly a web browser, Terminal and IntelliJ, VSCode or whatever, switching is relatively painless. The challenge is hardware support, and a bunch of stuff isn't supported by Asahi Linux.
You have cubes? That sounds nice. I have been in an open floor plan for a decade. Now we don’t even have assigned desks.
That's what it says in my comment
I should stop writing code in files like /tmp/x.go no matter how throwaway I think the code might be. I still have the linux/armv7 binary if anyone wants it lol.
I don't think Berkshire is particularly bearish on Apple. It's just they made good money out of the investment and it's a good time to cash out and keep cash for future buys. The fact that they kept half of it tells you they still consider it a solid position but if there's a downturn ahead, having cash on hand to buy other companies makes sense.
Yeah, the if statements are definitely a little weird-looking to me. It seems like the goal is to allow for more traditional infix syntax while still defining most of the language using the macro system; it seems unfortunate if their macro system can't handle more traditional-looking "if (x} block; else block" conditional statements.
The original World of Goo game was quite a phenomenon back in 2008, I remember it being talked about a lot amongst peers in school. Cool to see a real sequel!
Cocaine, Kim Jong-un, and BlackRock: why It's good to reflect on boycotts
Sounds like a critique of distributed teams. RTO doesn’t help clear up blockers when my team members are on another continent.
Use a Local AI Assistant with Zed and Ollama
AI is not yet able to drive itself alone, it still needs human
It's a terrible idea for Nvidia.

Even if it was a good idea, there's no way that it would past antitrust review in Europe and the USA.
not sure what the issue is unless someone had fallen down the rabbit hole of anti-masonry. FOSS projects could learn a great deal about how to run sustainable organizations from fraternities, and their hierarchies and lodge structure is likely a more stable and sustainable form than 501c non-profits.

if you want to know about freemasonry, consider the quality of their enemies.
I encounter recaptcha a lot and often it violates the gdpr. I believe this to be one of the positives of the gdpr. Things usually go as follows:

- something gets abused

- a solution is needed to stop the abuse

- the 'techies' implement recaptcha and they are not aware of the regulatory implications

- it's such a small thing that it often get's overlooked in internal audits

Google fonts from their cdn is another.

Landing page Youtube videos is another but a little bit more well known.

The user should be warned so they can decide if they want to give Google everything; how else would they know?
> Depends which part of macOS they're mostly using... if it's mostly a web browser, Terminal and IntelliJ, VSCode or whatever, switching is relatively painless. The challenge is hardware support, and a bunch of stuff isn't supported by Asahi Linux.

For the person I saw, it wasn't the OS itself really that was the problem. For him it was the integration with his iPhone, watch, his magic trackpad, Home Pods, and some apps and other digital goods that he had purchased that became hard to consume. There weren't any hard deal breakers, but so many thousands of paper cuts that it became overwhelming (which as I understand it, is exactly the strategy Apple is pursuing).
the most amazing feature of the Google calendar web UI that has since been dropped was a way to schedule events with a human message - "30 meeting with Bob next Tuesday at 10", rather than clicking a bunch of buttons in a UI.
> A nationalistic history is always a mythology

For smaller nations.

Larger nations receive too much scrutiny to get away with having fake history.

Then again, they have more resources to try and tweak the history as a science...
What evidence is there that they’re “higher functioning”?

You’re the exact type of manager I now screen for in job interviews.
Package Manager for Verilog
It's sort of like pip install. Just do

vpm install <repo_name>

and it loads the whole repository's IP in the right place with proper dependencies auto-setup, etc.

I'm working on the command

vpm install --flex <repo_name>

which understands your codebase and modifies the installed repository's .v files to suit your requirements, since a lot of "general IP" isn't useful.
In ~2009 Apple lost 50% of its value—despite previously introducing a world changing product and having billions in the bank. Macro trends affect everyone and premium stocks often get hit hardest.
It's 2024, any backup mechanism that isn't based on a delta between two snapshots is legacy from the old bad times.
The notion of labor shortage relies on the assumption that productivity is the same, but there is a opposite offsetting effect that's comparable (stronger? weaker? who knows, but IMHO of a similar magnitude) - structural unemployent caused by increased automation, as the electronics and AI systems become both more capable and cheaper. There are already many jobs which could be done better by machines, but it's simply cheaper to pay peanuts to a person instead - and as soon as the machine becomes cheaper and/or wages grow that the person is 1% more expensive than the machine, that profession will shrink in numbers.

It's counterproductive to try to grow a workforce segment that's likely not be needed soon. If there indeed is a labor shortage for some years, the society will handle the increased wage cost (which also imply increased push for automation) much better than it can handle a large segment of angry unemployed people, so while the future is unclear, it's better (at least for the society - the billionaires definitely benefit from cheap desperate potential workforce) to err on the side of doing less to solve this "problem" rather than doing too much.
These are aspiration statements, not a factual judgment of what that standard or its existing implementations actually are. At least they do not cover all implementations nor define precisely what they cover. Note the immediate next statement: "C code can be non-portable."

In my opinion, C has tried to serve two masters and they made a screw-hammer in the process.

The rest of the field has moved on significantly. We want portable behavior, not implementation-defined vomit that will leave you doubting whether porting introduces new UB paths that you haven't already fully checked against (by, e.g. varying the size of integers in such a way some promotion is changed to something leading to signed overflow; or bounds checking is ineffective).

The paragraph further down about explicitly and swiftly rejecting a validation test suite should also read as a warning. Not only would the proposal of modern software development without a test suite get you swiftly fired today, but they're explicitly acknowledging the insurmountable difficulties in producing any code with consistent cross-implementation behavior. But in the time since then, other languages have demonstrated you can reap many of the advantages of close-to-the-metal without compromising on behavior consistency in cross-target behavior, at least for many relevant real-word cases.

They really knew what they were building, a compromise. But that gets cherry-picked into absurdity such as stating C is portable in present-tense or that any inherent properties make it assembly-like. It's neither.
Another term for this is delivering vertical slices. I like the way this explains that.
I created a profile all the same, I don't have high expectations, but that's the good thing right? 15 minutes out of my day to dump my profile on your website with information that was public anyway. Maybe something comes of it maybe it doesn't. As long as I'm not getting spammed by you in my email it'll have been a good balance between risk and pay off.
It was statistically insignificant among the whole early introduction group. This includes everyone who may have been randomised into that group but then didn't follow the (quite onerous) regimen that we were given. This was a full schedule of when different foods had to be fed to the baby and how much. We'd have to record whether they had eaten the amount required and so on. Among those who did follow it, the results were significant. Most importantly, there were zero cases of peanut allergy in that group.

More details are in the paper itself: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1514210
The article describes two problems with _Generic.

There is a third: the discarded branches must typecheck. (Unlike C++ templates, where substitution failure is not an error.) Simon Tatham described the issue in more detail:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/c11-g...
Oh wow. That's nice!
Yes, if it does partial refreshes then the refresh rate might be way faster than I expected.

Awesome!
IDK we have record immigration in Canada and a housing shortage. I am not sure the solution is more immigration. We do have a productivity problem though. At some point the working population will find equilibrium when the baby boomer generation dies out.
> I think it's genuinely good for us to have human contact throughout the day.

I like to choose who I have human contact with. You have no right to put people in a room against their will just to satisfy the shortcomings in your own life. I’m an engineer, not a surrogate.

I have friends, going to the office just cuts into my personal time.

Your coworkers are not your friends and your job is not a substitute for a social life.
It's funny they mention Germany for size given that until recently there had been a push for popularizing the idea of a 4 day work week (of 8 hour shifts) and it seems only earlier this year there's been an increase in news stories pushing in the opposite direction. Simultaneously the Liberal party repurposed the brand it originally used for its own watered-down UBI proposal as a new label for the existing (means-tested, limited and conditional) social welfare. It feels like we're throwing a lot of progress out of the window with very little pushback.
IIRC RTO was an excuse to lay off workers without paying severance. If the layoffs have been completed, CEOs would be expected to not care any more.
For you two, maybe. Younger folks have zero problem mentoring online. They grew up online.
Pay somebody to badge in/out for you. If none of your team mates are in the office, who will notice?