skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Donation usually implies that it's given to a cause or to a charity. That just isn't what Patreon is. It's people marketing and selling content on the internet.

But saying "donation" brings up feels for people. That's exactly why you see people in here adamant that they've been "donating" to their fave indie artists! It makes them feel philanthropic.

Those same feels are why Tim Sweeney used the word "donation". It makes you think a 30% cut is being taken from non-profit pediatric hospitals for the poor - Sheriff of Nottingham style. It's hyperbole.

Patreon doesn't say the word "donate" anywhere on their website. The closest they come is saying how to "pledge support" for your favorite creators by subscribing for a month and canceling.
“Why would God do that?”

“STOP TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE WILL OF GOD,” said Uriel. “IT NEVER HELPS.” --the archangel Uriel
Damn, that's really disappointing. I publish a Windows-only open source software, I don't care about the iOS app. Why should this have any impact on my project?

I'm fine with my page not being available from the iOS app at all. Why do they have to remove this payment model from every other platforms? It makes no sense.

OK I read this in their FAQ about this:

> You will maintain control over how frequently your members are billed. By default, members are billed monthly, but creators will also be able to offer less frequent billing options, like annual billing, to reduce the pressure to produce something new for fans on a monthly basis. We’re also committed to maintaining the ability to pause billing when you need to take a break.

Yearly billing seems better for me I think.
Agreed! Markup-as-content-backbone is one of many things HTML/CSS do extremely well, and I agree not building around something like this was a major weakness of Flash.

Silverlight sought to do this with XAML, but it had other problems (required a plugin right as plugins were on their way out; CLR was a huge dependency; too locked down and proprietary under Ballmer leadership)

Can you imagine a text-first content representation, which is visually editable with the UX of a vector design tool? This is the rabbit hole that drives our work on Pax.
That's actually not a bad idea
https://x.com/d0rkph0enix/status/1822814018643374260

The protocol for non-DefCon rooms:

* Housekeeping services the room.

* If housekeeping was unable to service the room, security will come take a look.

The protocol for DefCon rooms:

* Security comes and takes a look no matter what, and is, from reports, particularly invasive. E.g. asked to look for USB sticks as evidence of "hacking tools": https://x.com/d0rkph0enix/status/1822879409126162779
Nope. You could put it on a beefy machine with a beefy database and it would still crawl a lot of the time. It just had some combination of terrible database querying and general slowness. The whole generic inner-platform effect way it's constructed (e.g. having its own ticket query language that they presumably translate generically into SQL) was probably a big factor.
The problem with this is that people again get way to clever with it. it's not just stream -> filter -> collection, there will be a bunch of groupbys in there etc. If you have to debug or extend the functionality it's a nightmare to understand what all the intermediate representations are
> Turns out they're just a giant company

That should die. This is what happens when you allow monopolies, you can’t even let them die because you’ll be left with nothing.

They face no competition , and have no reason to improve
FTR, I drive a 2016 Dodge Challenger RT 392 Hemi Scat Pack Shaker... No the MPG isn't my top concern... that said I don't actually drive it that much as I WFH.

Is a 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 really something to compare an x600 class CPU to all the same? Even then, a gamer is more likely to get 6000/6400 memory, properly balance the fclk and run with PBO. I still wouldn't suggest the 9600X, given the current pricing compared to other options... Just like I wouldn't recommend people pay $20k markup on a Ford Bronco.
Randomly picking out of everyone that finished in the same millisecond is plenty fair.
IMO, it can also be a philosophical thing.

"What do I want out of my one short life? To spend it toiling away unhappy 90% of the time and spend money trying to be happy the remaining 10% or find something I enjoy doing the majority of the time that can also pay some bills?"

A lot of people are asking themselves these questions, and if you're not -- why not?
To continue the analogy, each building plays its own music to the city, and the 'destroy art I don't like' here is akin to saying "no, don't play THAT genre to the entire city, only play THIS genre of music to the entire city"

Does liking THIS genre of music somehow make one more sophisticated when playing it to the entire city?
I'm a big guy, 6'5", 255 (aiming for 240), plenty of muscle, and when I was a young kid and teen I cycled a _lot_. I kept cycling through my 20s, and did a tremendous amount of walking too for enjoyment. At my peak I could run a mile in just under 7 minutes. I did the 50 and 100m sprints freshman year of high school for track and won a fair amount. I was on the swim team. And despite all of that, yes, the cross country kids had more stamina than me, although I could beat them in sprints.

So, anecdotally, yeah, me vs a runner and the runner takes off? If I don't catch them within a couple of hundred yards, they're gone. I can walk or cycle at a medium pace all day, but distance runners will beat me in marathons every single time. In caveman times I'd have been the closer, the guy who catches up to the runners and finishes off the bear or tiger or elephant when it's exhausted.
There is that too. So much disrespect in the interview process vs. 2 years ago. It'd be unheard of for me to not at least get a polite "we were looking for X/Y/Z" if I got in contact with a human at some point in the process. Now it's a fortnightly occurance that some recruiter reaches out to me, talks for 15 minutes, and then is never heard from again. Sometimes they schedule a call and proceed to never make the call (and ofc never respond on LinkedIn to re-schedule).

It just all sucks. The process was already pretty bad IMO, but now you're being treated as random quota fodder, with no interest to even pretend the position exists.
> in the sense that you never see a snippet of Go code and think "wtf, you can do that?" or "hang on, why does that work?"

I am extremely doubtful that this is true and would like evidence.
I can get behind that idea, but come on, it's not a capitalism problem.
6km/h is a brisk walk. You need to concentrate on the walking aspect if you want to maintain that pace.

Slow down a bit to 4-5km/h and you can last much longer, not to mention multitask more effectively (listen to an audiobook, be on a phone call, just brainstorm, etc.) so you don't actually need to set aside hours a day specifically for walking.
There is a similar technique in astronomy, though much slower, called drift-scan imaging. Typically when you take a long exposure astronomical image the telescope has to rotate to track the star as it moves across the sky. So in traditional imaging you track the object, make your exposure, and then when the exposure is done you read out the image. The downside is that while you're reading out the image you can't do anything else and for an astronomical CCD it can take on the order of a minute or so. So you lose ~5% of your observing time just to reading out images. (It's more if you have to slew to different locations on the sky.)

In drift-scan imaging you keep the telescope pointed at a fixed location and you continuously read out the image at a rate that matches the motion of the stars across the field of view. This allows you to continuously collect imaging from a strip across the sky.
I don't think anyone in this comment thread is saying we can simply swap wind and solar, as a very reductionist take.

But just throwing up the drawbacks of a particular solution, doesn't mean that solution should be entirely thrown out. No solution is perfect in the beginning, but through iterative innovation and a need to switch to renewable energy sources, those drawbacks will become less of a drawback.
I'm also super excited to see more on this, it's been living rent free in my head for a long time. I played around with keypress extraction from sound recordings a couple decades ago in college, and it was remarkably straightforward to extract keypresses based on sound signals, even with zero training - based on the time between keypresses and the unique signature of space/return/backspace you can build a predictor pretty quickly. We never made it to the "bounce a pair of lasers off two window panes a known distance apart and triangulate everyone's keyboard", but it was one of those things that's definitely doable with enough time and brains.
Having lock picks in your possession coupled with the circumstances that suggest you intend to use them IN THE COMMISSION OF A CRIME would be a crime.

Having them with the intent of drumming up sales, or teaching use, is not a crime (based on the wording of the law you supplied).
FN button to open menu

select "ABOUT" and press "A" to enter about screen

Press "SELECT" button there despite that not being listed as a valid input.
The per-creation model isn't even offered to new Patreon accounts, or those that have switched away from it. I'm not sure why
How much time do we have till Apple blocks addresses of services that provide web apps instead of iOS apps or just crippling web apps altogether even more than they are now?
Nah, bog standard goto
Where are all the "modern bombs" you're talking about?
I have had good luck telling it to use simplified technical English.
What are non "object-level" economy predictions?
I always wish more metaphors were built using conveyor belts in these discussions. It helps me mentally underscore that you have to pay attention to what queue/belt you load and why you need to give that a lot of thought.

Granted, I'm probably mostly afraid of diving into factorio again. :D
This is true to some extent. The observation that all 8 runners were within 120ms of each other suggests this sort of hyper-optimization will only continue without really making us better informed. Lyles himself was under the impression that he had come in second, per his on-track interview.
Good examples. The same comparison can be made in other western countries. When I point out there issues, people act like they were always there - but they weren’t. We used to build! Or they say it’s an inherent feature of democracy. Or they get angry.
I can empathize with the article. Earlier in my career, I would interview with any company that offered a significant pay increase. "Why would anyone turn down a 30% pay raise" was my mentality. Then I had a couple of jobs that didn't go well because of personality mismatches and politics. Which made me realize that even if I'm confident about my technical skills, that's no guarantee that I'll land on my feet at a new gig. Fast forward another few years, and the recession made me realize that I can't just snap my fingers and land a new better-paying job anytime I want.

Combine both these factors, and I'm now ignoring recruiters who are begging me to interview for insanely well-paying openings. I have a decently well-paying job with good work-life balance, and colleagues who respect me. And I have no interest in throwing that away just to navigate a political minefield at a new job
The purpose of a system is what it does. Defense contractors extract money from the government, they are not here to enable space travel, they are here to move money from other people's pockets to their own. Any other actions are purely ancillary. And if they can get the money without delivering any result at all, why, they're fine with that.
> Nobody we interviewed in front of FBI Headquarters had positive things to say about the brutalist style of the building.

To wander a little off-topic with an excerpt from a favorite fiction book, wherein the head of a Sinister Government Agency wistfully wishes he could upgrade to a prettier building too:

> The Imperial Security Headquarters building stood windowless, foursquare against the light, a vast utilitarian concrete block with enormous gates and doors certainly designed to diminish any human supplicant fool enough to approach it. In his case, a redundant effect, Mark decided. [...]

> "Ugliest building in town," the armsman agreed cheerfully. "It dates back to Mad Emperor Yuri's Imperial architect, Lord Dono Vorrutyer. An uncle to the later vice-admiral. He managed to get up five major structures before Yuri was killed, and they stopped him. The Municipal Stadium runs this a close second, but we've never been able to afford to tear it down. Still stuck with it, sixty years later." [...]

> "What a depressing building to work in," Mark commented, as he rose in the lift tube beside the ImpSec chief.

> "Yes," sighed Illyan. "I visited the Investigatif Federale building on Escobar, once. Forty-five stories, all glass... I was never closer to emigrating. [The architect] should have been strangled at birth. But... it's mine now." Illyan glanced around with a dubious possessiveness.

--- Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
Wealth transfers are resulting in greater accumulation at the top with each pass
> I neither agree with him

I don't agree with him either! Or rather I don't have an opinon. I neither agree nor disagree with him. It's just that I can understand his argument without having to form an opinion about it.

> nor am in a position to do anything about it,

Same. The day when dancers need my help to decide anything about dance we all are in a big trouble. Hopefully it never happens. :)
If two contestants are that close they can both have a gold medal. Ties are a perfectly acceptable outcome.
Very true. First thing I thought when I read this - how much weight are we carrying? What are the water requirements?

Then again the opposite example (lets say a super hot desert with intense sun - but you can wear a shaded hat or something) might result in the opposite - your feet might still be more tired because walking is slower (and more time on them) but the environment is a huge factor.
Defined-benefit pensions stopped making sense for a variety of tax and other reasons--including that to get any benefit you typically needed to stay at a place at least 5 years with 10-20 years to get a big benefit. A benefits friend of mine tells me there are some newer programs that work differently from the traditional ones though they're still not that common as far as I can tell.
This is exactly what I was going to say... ever since I started using Copilot, verbosity bothers me a lot less. It isn't painful when I don't have to type/copy/etc most of it.
The app store is not Home Depot or a book shop or Walmart. Apps are not cars or cans of soda or real estate. Can we cut the bad analogies and talk about what is real? These analogies do nothing to clear anything up and lead to insanely stupid irrelevant discussions about entirely different things.
One approach you could try is to use the webcam input to create a deepfake that you place onto a 3D model, one you can rotate around.

It should be doable real-time, but might be stuck in the uncanny valley.

Also maybe look at what Meta and Apple's Vision Pro are doing to create their avatars.
Looks great. Though while I love me some skeuomorphism, it goes too far when it is plainly detrimental to usability, which it is here - I have to crane my neck sideways to read the titles. In a virtual world, the books could be stacked horizontally so that the titles are readable with user head upright.
Yes, it would be disastrous if a widely-used chip had a bug in its division opcode.

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

It would be disastrous if a widely-used chip had a bug in a lock prefix that allowed crafted untrusted binaries to soft-brick the whole machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug

I'm not even mentioning the weirdnesses from the eight-bit era. We all know those chips were heroic efforts to get anything done given transistor budgets, and error checking was simply not possible. The point is, even mature proprietary companies have had severe hardware bugs for longer than many here have been around, even if you discount stuff like spectre and meltdown.
Civil asset forfeiture is problematic and has been abused but it's completely separate from criminal evidence rules. The physical cash is never charged with a crime. Instead the government files a civil (not criminal) case alleging that the cash is the result of criminal activity. The burden of proof then is much lower than in a criminal trial, and often the plaintiff wins a default judgement.
> > These buildings were meant to stand the test of time, Person says. But they’re in need of significant investment if they are going to exist for another five decades.

The romans would like to have a word of two. I mean: if these things were meant to stand the test of time and now already need significant investment, they failed. Not a surprise seen the mindset that created those monstrosities.
Does this somehow disqualifies SpaceX as a contract supplier?
> in what were originally brick warehouses, factories and power stations

That sometimes happens, but how much of that is attributable to survivorship bias, market pressure from increasing density, and maybe some favorable grandfathered-in legal quirks? (As opposed to raw architectural appeal.)

Maybe all the uglier and worse-proportioned and lower-quality warehouses and factories and power-stations tend to get demolished long before anyone could think of converting their interiors to apartments or offices--or they persist but in unfavorable locations.
Sublime Text has always been my go-to tool for larger regex find/replace for SEO related tasks, stuff like entries in a full XML sitemap or manipulating CSV's. Snappy and clean!

It was my first text editor and will always be special to me.
"This service is awful, let's switch to the better one"

You: "and give them money in exchange for services rendered?!!?"
No one but extremists say it must be brought to 0% immediately. It's that removing all but the most necessary ICE burning, bringing it from 10% emissions to 1% would do a lot! Lots of people actually want more pedestrian friendly places to live. Let's do more to make this plentiful and affordable to the people that do want them. We'll get a lot more bicycles than cars. Most people would rather live and bike around Amsterdam than drive their ICE around parking lots in a typical American suburb. America got short-sighted and into long term infra debt by prioritizing cars everywhere instead of pedestrian / public-transit cores like many places in the world. Individuals can selfishly want it to keep going longer, but it's only going to be worse for everyone and their children as it creaks under the bad infra we've set up.
And, now that there is a circuit split, this is squarely teed up for the Supreme Court, and there’s really no telling how they’ll come out.
if anything goes bad youll have the whole weekend to solve it...similar to why bank bankruptcies are announced friday
I’ve used the app Nomad on iphone a bunch of times to buy an esim for roaming mobile data on holiday.

My latest sim from O2 in the Uk is an eSim.
That's not really the same thing though - that's a choice of representation for optimization purposes. LLVM won't turn a pointer access into a value copy - it can't, because that would change program behavior.

The distinction here is that in a lot of cases, you really do want to edit data in one location and there's no good reason for it to be copied except that it makes the program easier to reason about (exceptions apply for when things like cache locality considerations come into play).
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What you're describing is a coincidence.

What I'm describing is an artifact in your data that is caused by the motion of the earth.

To give a more concrete example, suppose you measuring the brightness of a trans-neptunian object, and observe that the brightness changes slightly with a period of about 1 year. You might think it has a non-uniform albedo, and a rotational period of one year, when in reality, it is just brighter when the earth is closer to it.
This is actually how I feel about Ruby. Not full on Rails because there is a lot more to learn there which comes with the time investment (which is also worth it in many cases).

But for most scripting work especially, just raw Ruby and maybe the Sequel library for a database just makes my productivity soar.
The main countermeasure is just curtains with a bit of weight to them.
> The notion that Google and Apple are in competition with one another in this context is false, because to distribute to Android customers you need Google and to distribute to iOS customers you need Apple.

It is still competition even in this context, it just happens on a slightly slower cadence. The Apple customers, by and large, are paying good money to avoid Google's app store because they believe Apple is a better steward on net.

Every time I buy a phone I have to ask if Apple's bad software decisions outweigh the costs of signing up with Google. So far the answer has been one sided in Apple's favour. Consideration of things like this with Patreon come up at phone purchase time.
It helps for sure! I'm impressed with the 5% bar.

I understand that I, of course, should decide it based on our goals. Thank you for your advice!
No, it's really not.

http://architecture-history.org/schools/BRUTALISM.html

> the Brutalist apothegm “An ethic, not an aesthetic” acquired significance.

Explicitly held aesthetic appeal as a non-goal. From day one it has always been identified as "bold", "provocative", and "radical".

These arguments for brutalism -- since day one -- are literally describing its lack of harmony in time and place.
MiniLang: A type-safe C successor that compiles directly to C
MiniLang

Link: https://github.com/NICUP14/MiniLang

A type-safe C successor that compiles directly to various platforms.

Motivation:

The language is designed to closely match c features along with some zero-overhead quality of life improvements that you would find in a modern language, while maintaining the ease of learning the language (in about 10 minutes or less via QUICKSTART). Moreover, the type system is stricter than c, which prevents common bugs (flaws) of the c language. Memory safety is also a primary concern. As for c compatibility, the language is bidirectionally compatible with c (c can be used in ML, ML can be used in c).

Design choices:

* Modern

* Compiled

* Procedural

* Strongly typed

* Type and memory safe

* Closely match C features

* Bidirectionally compatible with C

* ML must be easy to learn and use

* ML abstractions introduce zero-overhead compared to C

Goodies:

* Builtins

* Booleans

* References

* Fixed-length integers

* Fixed-length pointers

* Type inference

* Heredocs

* Aliases

* Defers

* Imports

* Namespaces

* Hygienic macros

* Function overloading

* Uniform function call syntax (UFCS)

* Multi-line statements
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