skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an evolutionary biologist? Read up on it.

Humans have evolved more in the last 50K years than in the 1M preceeding that.
I'm talking about biological adaptation, though you bring up a reasonable point that cultural adaptation is another tool to help bring success.
1. America contains many countries other than the USA.

2. Regardless, one might rather say that the "America is going woke!" fashion among media pundits is being replaced by "America is rejecting wokeness!" fashion.
Taking my metaverse/game to alpha and crowdfunding.
This sounds a lot like programming, from 10k feet.
I see this take on the internet a lot usually combined with some statement of how Schizophrenics are secret geniuses and were the prophets of olden times. It just doesn't square off with my own observations of schizophrenics in real life. How is the condition subjective when you see the same types of symptoms across people? I've seen it with men and women afflicted by the condition - always the persecutory delusions, belief that they are some king or prophet/chosen one, disorganized thinking, and word salads. Why is it always the same symptoms? You're telling me that's not rooted in any common condition?
Just put it in Figma. Its not that much different. This is going to kill software margins, any piece of saas can be quickly copied
I just picked up an old Sheldon Lathe. I got it for $200 and hauled it myself with a drop trailer. Its going to need a lot of work but its a beautiful old machine.
The Julian Assange Show Episode 1: Nasrallah (2012) [video]
it's in C but this was the first result for "ascii doom": https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-ascii

There's also Doom in Notepad: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/how-to-get-doom-runni...
Just tried the demo https://turbo-native-demo.glitch.me

it’s cool indeed, but there is something off with the interaction. Can’t really explain it.
Much as some aspects of the Alpha were great its weak memory model would have resulted in even more concurrency issues than we have now, and way more explicit fences.
But is there a chain of trust going all the way back to the manufacturer? Or is that simply metadata which could be spoofed?
Whenever one reads articles like this, it's a bit of a consolation to remember that the same factors are shaking up the journalists' world much more and much sooner. This article, like many of its kind, could've easily been written by AI or by a contractor in a cheap country; in fact, this time it just may have been.

My friend dubbed this effect "AIrony"
Usually tended to be moderate but from a free-trade perspective and usually making points blindly obvious to everyone.

They’re still late past the post but now they’ve gone weirdly Neo-con.
Perhaps worried that draconian restriction on new technology is not gonna help bring Silicon Valley back to preeminence.
Scoop: GavinNewsom just vetoed SB 1047
In the short run yes, but i have no idea what happens in the long run
Good luck! How is it going? How long did it take for them to accept you? Asking because a friend applied in July and still not heard back from them.
I had way more conversations with random people on internet forums, IRC, etc. than my parents while growing up, and learned orders of magnitude more from those interactions... but they didn't feed, clothe, or house me so I would never claim I was raised by the 'net.
Look. Even here people are engaging with this.

That's what happened.
Rough seas ahead, thats for sure
I'm talking about behavior. What motivates that behavior isn't relevant.

A nosy question is nosy because it demands an answer to which the querent is not entitled. Whether that undue desire is motivated by curiosity, prurience, arrogance, pity, or simple fascination - and I have seen all of these, sometimes in combination - has no bearing on the effect of the question on the one so asked. The vice inheres in the asking, because that forces the choice between refusing to answer and arousing the ire of jilted entitlement, and giving you an answer you have already done much to suggest you are not prepared to understand.

Within acceptable error, everyone who ever tries to have this conversation from your side proceeds from here to umbrage at the idea their behavior within it is in any way either predictable or discreditable, owing to the purity of their intentions.
No, being permissive of nonsense is what caused the US to arrive at where it is today. The tea party patriots nonsense should have been the end of it.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/californias-gavin-newsom-vetoes-...
Open-Source 2048: Play, Customize, and Learn from the Classic Puzzle Game
To be clear, I like the idea of making something really useful and being rewarded from bettering other people's lives. I don't doubt that if you make something really useful for the world, you can gain a lot from it.

But when people talk about fairness, (I assume) they're usually thinking about the successful scammers, predatory practices, people not contributing to the world yet profiting a lot from it. They may also think about "essential workers" who, in contrast, may live paycheck to paycheck.

It becomes blurrier to me when I think about who "deserves" what.
a beautiful post. it's really nice when we get posts like this here, just personally i find it very meaningful.

> But sometimes the employees there would give me the employee discount, I guess they realized I needed it.

that is such a heart-warming thing.

i would maybe argue the following point in the article:

> People whose work was not aimed at me in the slightest.

idk. i think that part of the point of being open is being open to possibilities. obviously no one can see the far-reaching consequences of their work when they set out to do it. but sometimes, people have hopes, i think, that their openness will create possibilities just like this article is describing.

> resources like w3schools,

i remember a long time back - maybe 15 years ago - i would occasionally read w3schools, and i had a coworker who would kind of turn up their nose at that site, they were kind of a snob about it. i knew enough then to realize it wasn't the best site for everything but out of insecurity after that person said that, i stopped reading it too. but it helped me, too. and i'm glad it helped you. i am starting to re-revise my opinion of that site.
Can't read the article, but I think this became obvious with the sharp decline in corporate DEI officer job listings.
Capital gains tax is lower to offset the risk of taking a capital risk, which labor does not do in receiving a wage.

Much of “labor” participates in capital risk through retirement accounts and homes, blurring this 19th century distinction.

The “capitalists” are likely to sidestep taxation through politicians, lawyers and accountants (See the often quoted 1960s era “tax rate”) which is a phenomenon of power, that exists pre-capitalism.
My experience with this tech is you’re not nearly as able to solve problems because you didn’t actually write the code. So now you need to be better at reading code you didn’t write. The models can’t do a number of common programming tasks, but they are indeed super useful.

This tech currently just makes each engineer more efficient. There’s an infinite space of problems to solve. I guess we’ll must be digging through that space faster and wider from now on.
"Chruch of less-than-7th-day adventists if you wear your mask"?
A good thing. "woke" is a marketing term used by people who can make a buck from it. For it or against it.
To travel and spend time with their family and just not work a job knowing that their stake/share is likely worth millions and maybe one day billions.
The term dates to the 1930s in its current social awareness usage:

<https://scientificorigin.com/origin-of-the-word-woke>

<https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188543449/what-does-the-word...>
Why are honest poor people still starving?

As long as we're asking questions that are embarrassing to modern society, we should ask the ones that matter the most.
The collective backlog of every software company probably stretches into centuries.

This gives us the tooling to
A.) burn through those faster.
B.) solve more complex problems.

If your entire job as an engineer is “take tickets with very clear acceptance criteria and turn into component / basic business logic”, I’d be worried for sure. I was initially worried myself when all this landed two years ago, but using it daily and now building enterprise scale apps with it, I know we’ve got at least another decade or two before it’s able to tackle the full breadth of an engineers role.
See also "The rise and fall of the DEI movement" on NPR.[1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/09/06/1198913319/consider-this-from...
The part about why it happened seemed plenty dark.
Try silent quitting HN, or living with your eyes closed! Worked for me, for 5 mins.
I wonder why Silicon Valley companies had to collude on salaries...

https://equitablegrowth.org/aftermath-wage-collusion-silicon...
Well yeah? That’s obviously easier, more convenient and more readily accessible. But people are curious about his life apparently.

How did the Mongolian Horde manage to travel and live in the horseback? No, please don’t do that. There are hundreds of peaceful horse riders out there you could learn from. Those other guys killed people.
I think Cursor is great, it's really boosted what I can do.

I think it's made me 3 -> 5x more valuable.

Now, maybe it's done the same for other people as well, but I think my co-efficient was high, and I continue to insist that I've never worked anywhere that had enough resource focused on software development. The demand has always massively exceeded the organisations ability to fund supply.

And, as many have noted lower costs can also boost demand.

Finally, off shore devs are on a longer cycle time for many reasons. If cost onshore are reduced then that cycle time will crush offshore competitive advantage. I don't see any prospect of me getting work from India or Indonesia, but I do see AI as a driver that will reduce work leaving the UK for other places.
A big part of tools is hiding complexity from you - how does this workflow handle that?
> If management believes it can source labor at a lower cost, they have a legal fiduciary duty to do so.

Only if that's the only variable, which it never is.
He really was a genius. I think its inspiring how much high quality work he created all by himself. A true hacker IMO.
Every chart shows a trend down from peak but still way up from 2019. Seems like what I’ll call a tee-up article - very fact-light with a provocative title so people can vent their preexisting frustrations after skimming it.
> Hi-ho, the derry-o!
The cheese stands alone.
YouTube forced to block videos from various artists in dispute with SESAC
> they should be prioritized according to their benefit to society

The fact that they have the capability to pay for and consume this power is the strongest signal that they are indeed providing value to society. The money comes from somewhere. If that turns out not to be the case, they have the strongest incentive to stop.

But this sort of rationing at the hands of some regulatory body has historically proven to be a far more deadly cure than whatever the presumptive disease was.
Yes, all the time! The built-in net/http has great TLS support

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/go-https-servers-with-tls...
> You are a commodity.

If I am, then so are the execs. They aren't special. They just rewrite their institutional rules so it is heads they win, tails you lose.
Oh shit: AI works The story of my "AI wake-up" moment
"Double down" has a similar chart, another annoying phrase.
He's targeting a particular audience in this essay. Doesn't mean he hates everyone else. In fact, in other essays he says that being an older founder can actually be an advantage in some ways.
Building a tool to aggregate customer insights across hundreds of customer calls. Looking for early design partners. Offering the following:

- Track all customer interactions in one dashboard
- Build QA format transcripts of meeting calls
- Gain advice on whether certain information is biased
- Get critiqued your call (turns out there's skill involved with customer discovery)
- Track repeat calls and see if sentiment has been improving over time
- Provide aggregate analysis and chat interface to explore customer insights
You're arguing against something different, though: I agree you shouldn't do components with CSS/jQuery, components should be self-contained. I'm arguing against SPAs, where the state of the user's browsing is replicated on the frontend as well, with all the complexity this entails.

Isn't there a good component framework we can use, and that's it? I want to be able to say <carousel></carousel> and have it work, without having to have a whole SPA attached to my components library, with routing, state, and all the rest. Doesn't that exist?
One important thing to remember is the cost right now is not being passed to you. I wonder how this all changes when companies are forced to charge you the actual costs vs being heavily subsidized.
You don't understand people being worried their lives and families are going to be destroyed?
I know this to be true in the macro ... Strangely, I've noticed in my own life a small trend of the most unlikely of people giving religion a try. They talk about it almost as if it's a new "cool" thing. This is in New York City of all places.
At least woke had a real meaning when it started, now the right just uses it as “anything the the other guys do that I don’t like”
Discussion (27 points, 18 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41684645
FYI the "left" has introduced woke 90+ years ago in the 1930s. It merely increased in popularity.
It never was, however the mainstream media wanted you to think so
Banks have an obvious solution as do grids. Build their reserves and infrastructure and scale to their biggest customers. A stressed scale out system just requires more scaling. It feels weird to say any other solution, especially when the customer is a paying customer.
One way that worked for me in trying to quit Reddit was to edit /etc/hosts, and redirect it to localhost.

127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com

Limiting my Reddit intake this way actually worked, but I don't feel the need for HN yet.
All relative I guess. “Out the gate” for fairly conservative industrial controllers can probably be measured in months to years.

You never catch them using anything near latest in an application.
I looked up how the Eurocolor card encodes PAL. It takes the raw 14MHz bit stream from the motherboard video encoder and samples groups of 4 bits every 3.58MHz, essentially double-hires pixels at half standard hires resolution. Those are then encoded to PAL R-Y and B-Y color difference signals through resistor networks. In parallel, the luminance goes through a 3.58MHz notch filter to remove alternating pixel patterns. As others have said, it essentially decodes NTSC color and re-encodes PAL, but it doesn't have enough resolution to encode color fringing artifacts as seen on NTSC outputs.

The IIgs has a more sophisticated color encoder for its RGB output that uses a sliding 4-bit window with a fringing detector, which is able to produce higher color resolution.
I am busy rebuilding my music studio with only gear from the late 90s/2000. It's much more fun to relive my youth and with patience less expensive than I thought.
When friends say they are "going to start a business", I ask them "Why? Do you know why, do you know what your goal is?".

In most cases people can't really explain exactly why, and that's fine and normal. Only after years of being in business did certain things come clear to me. Are you there to make money, to follow your passion, to succeed with something, anything, to own your own time and life? The naive might say "all of the above", but they are not compatible.

You may find that you care more about owning your own time than working on stuff you are passionate about.

I've seen quite a few people start a business to work on something they are passionate about and then go out of business, when they COULD have stayed in business if they had been prepared to make money doing stuff they didn't love. What is more important in this case, being in business or doing stuff you love?
Executive isn't a "job", its a status, its not a skill, its just a position in the hierarchy, so no they will not have commoditized themselves
https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-years-later-real-time-linux...

This article explains well why PREEMPT_RT is a big deal and why it was so much work to get in into the kernel.
3 to 5 times more valuable is a huge leap. How do you measure this? Are you a software engineer?
Thanks a bunch for this comment. It clarifies and it helps, especially with the samatman types obsessed with caches... and proving me wrong for reasons I'm quite content never knowing.

I think some folks see the apparent simplicity of HN and assume it's primitive and clean, with nothing too sophisticated running in the background.
It’s not as old as this cheese but there’s bog butter: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0911/1469409-ireland-bog-...

It’s common enough of an archaeological find that some people have tasted thousand year old butter!
You keep reading me as if I mean to nitpick word by word and line by line. Please don't. I'm addressing the same questions the article does, and participating in the conversation to that end. Inventing minutiae over which to quibble does no one any good.
The Economist originates and has primary readership, in the USA. In that country, the term "America" is used to refer to "United States of America." When referring to the American continents, the common terms are "Americas" (note the plural form) or the explicit forms North, Central, and South America. Most people in the United States are aware that the United States does not span the entirety of any or all of the American continents. As a simple example, most Americans are aware of the country north of the USA border called Canada, which is also in North America.

Hope that helps.
Yeah, because it is the high they are after, but not working in the brain would make opioids completely useless for depression and anxiety (for which it really does wonders).
They know what they are pushing to the speakers, so couldn’t they negate the music to make that work?
There have been a few different attempts that look like this. Samsung Nx, Samsung Galaxy Camera, Sony has tried phone add on accessories. Basically they all sort of flop in the market.

People that don’t want to think about their photos use a smartphone. People that want to think about their photos still want a camera that they can control. I use a mirrorless Nikon camera and to take a single picture I normally want physical controls that can handle exposure, focus, zoom level and shutter release independently, but simultaneously without having to remove my attention from the image. The ability to do all that with physical, not menu controls, is a tremendous asset for most people that want to spend the money on a camera. If you slapped the latest technology inside a camera that didn’t have all the physical controls, photographers wouldn’t want anything to do with it.

I wouldn’t say that camera design is stuck in the 80s, either. The form factor is necessarily constrained by needing a tubular lens projecting in front of a flat imaging plane. The photographer is going to want to view the image from the opposite side as the lens. There’s only so much you can change the form factor with those constraints. Camera companies do have a few retro models, but even stodgy old Leica is making modern designs these days.

If you take tens of thousands of photos per year, you sort of realize that all cameras have more or less the same interface and form factor as they have for a while because it is what works best.
I'm developing a scuba diving app for the Apple Watch Ultra. It's an algorithm and graphical user interface that provides critical real-time information to recreational scuba divers while scuba diving. (Nautosys.com)
I think the fact that the ship is damaged, making the fertilizer much more likely to explode, is why they’re calling it a megabomb. Circumstances have made the cargo more hazardous, and pushed the “explosive substance” part of its dual nature to the front of everyone’s minds
Exactly. Execs see the monthly spend, people actually doing the work see the long-term externalities and hidden costs. Many, many people I know would and do buy more expensive (often Made in USA but not always) products when doing so means that the products will last longer and need less maintenance. Treating labor as commodities implies that the labor is interchangeable. Everyone who's actually done the work knows that it's not. There's no shortcut to paying for good talent.
SaaS type software has been so easy to build for so long and the margins have remained strong. I think the reason for that is that the SaaS software is an artifact of defining exactly what is needed for a particular function and that remains valuable and expensive
Woke was initially a phrase coined by black Americans to express awareness to racism
Eh, I have to agree with fellow commenters the decline isn't just a lockdown thing. I think it's more about refusing to meet the moment and keeping 50+ year old culture wars the rest of society has moved on from alive. Churches seem very uninterested in solutions for society becoming more lonely, anything to help single mothers, speaking out against vanity/gluttony/greed, etc. Maybe uniformly shifting gears away from the very very very tired weekly tirades about things related to sexuality would be a healthy first step. Find more to stand for than against, right?
Looks promising. Do you have any success stories from using this took?
I like Apple Notes, but collaborative editing is completely broken. I use it for sharing things like shopping lists with my wife. If I edit something while she's also editing, it gets mangled. Whatever Notes uses for collaborative syncing, it's not OT or CRDTs.

Notes is also quite terrible at many things:

* Embedded photos cannot be resized or placed next to text

* Table support is incredibly limited, to the point of being unusable except as a rudimentary grid

* No support for multiple columns

* No table of contents view

* No linking between notes (I think?)

* No way to change the font or change out the dreary yellow background colour

* No syntax highlighting of embedded code fragment

* No support for equations

* No support for shorthands (e.g. # to get a level 1 headline)

Notion, for all its flaws, has all of the above. And its collaborative editing is solid, if maybe not as good as Google Docs.
Wait till Europe gets generics, it will cost less than $5 per month. My MS medication would cost me $8k per month in the US, costs me $2 here.
Maybe it's to get the addresses where the DLLs would be loaded? I think that information is not available until the process is created due to ASLR.
1. Install wordpress
2. Install theme

It’s over! All websites can now just be slightly tweaked templates. Go home, we no longer need any web dev whatsoever.

It’s not like the bar will raise. No, everyone will expect the exact same level of quality as of 2024 and bloated, AI diarrhea using 200x resources is fine now and will always be fine.

Nobody needs to differentiate and we will all copy each other endlessly and eventually the whole software world will be basically one single product.
A tool that makes it easier to run Docker Compose projects on NixOS. It’s essentially a Compose backend that targets a mix of NixOS + systemd + Podman/Docker.

https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix
Prototyping a reactive UI library using DataScript[1] as the db and LWJGL as the rendering layer. I just want to see what happens.

1. https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
Point to one single transformative invention that was accretive from day one. The ChatGPT moment isn't even two years old. I don't know for certain whether any of these investments are going to work out, but all of the current cash burn is forward looking. It may all come crashing down, but this is not the right analysis.