skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use boox or remarkable! You get both advantages of having the writing experience and their automatic recognition turns your scribbles into text!
> the total investment about doubles in roughly 5 years

And:

> start with an initial $100K investment. That pays back about 6K a year for 5 years and then turns into about 200K after 5 years

5 years * 6K/year is 30K profit rental income. That leaves 70k in capital gains. ROI calculator tells me that is 11+% per year: 100K->170K in 5 years. Jesus, what market? And, how sustainable is that level of return? And, will this continue for 25+ years. You make it sound so simple. If any of this were true, then (I guess) a miniscule number of people could afford to buy homes after 25+ years!
You can even benefit from the default messages if you want that, grabbing `input.validationMessage` and rendering it as you wish.
I think you overcomplicate stuff, its just boil down to the culture

Any technical or laws difficulties is just the "easy" part
Which is deeply sad, because this both tarnishes good output and gives a free pass to the competitor - shit "content" generated by humans. AI models only recently started to match that in quantity.

But then again, most of software industry exists to create and support creation of human slop - advertising, content marketing, all that - so there's bound to be some double standards and salary-blindness present.
Sounds a bit like plastic surgery... you only notice the bad ones.
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Having a good pen really helps a lot with writing. I'm not a fountain pen enthusiast, I don't even have one. I just noticed that there's a huge difference between a ballpoint pen and a "rolling ballpoint pen". The naming is confusing, since the ballpoint pen should also be "rolling", but whatever.
> in millions/billion of years - at which point travelling 4 lightyears to Alpha Centauri does not seem an impossibility.

Would you say that telekinesis "does not seem an impossibility" as well? Why not developing engineering today that could help humanity leverage telekinesis in millions/billions of years? Or is there something that makes you think that traveling 4.5 light-years is more likely than getting telekinesis, or I don't know, discovering "the force"?
> If the answer is ’no one’, then I’m afraid we’ll need significant advances in automation and robotics […]

I would also add that many activities would seem much simpler to automate, even today. Such as cobalt mining. And yet, we can’t seem to be bothered.
Don't even assume UTF-something is the only character encoding. There are so many existing character encodings before Unicode. It's still widely used.
The primary purpose of command line program output is to convey information to a human, not to other programs.

Command line scripting is supposed to be adhoc and hack.
"An e-bike for the mind" as Steve Jobs might have said.
> we'll know the battery revolution has arrived when the US needs punitive 100% tariffs to stop imports of low cost, high performance EV cars from a developing nation.

Somehow US made EVs managed to be priced higher than the Chinese EVs with the imposed tariffs [1]:

[1] Chinese EVs still cheaper than Teslas in US after tariff hike:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544022
Long lived may be tomorrow/a few days :-) And struck through. And written at any angle on the paper. Definitely not a codified method for me.
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> :shrug:

Is it time for HN to finally support Slack-style emojis?
There is a nice Python library for survival analysis [1] and of course lots of R packages [2]

[1] https://lifelines.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[2] https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Survival.html
The whole schizophrenic spectrum is a reversion to survival mode. This is what a animal hears all day- "They are out to get me, its one huge conspiracy" is the thought process of a mouse. Its low energy by default, as it does not require complex thought processes, relative little communication, very little planning for the future. Its a adaption to a warzone and economic stressors shake it loose.
The latter is usually much easier than the former on a small scale, so your statement is very surprising.
A recent AstralCodexTen article pointed out that lithium battery price is 40x lower per kwh than it was in 1992. A few headlines about revolutionary battery technology have turned out to be vaporware; but there really has been a continuous tech revolution going on in the space.
I’ve been looking into that, too—it turns out some studies suggest that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), which gently stimulates the brain with a small electric current, could help alleviate depression. While promising, researchers emphasize that at-home use needs to be approached carefully and ideally under guidance, as effects and safety can vary.
Is there a concrete example of this? I still only hear this on HN where some mythical user gets annoyed about copying and pasting (most apps don't allow that, even, like TikTok or Instagram, which are the apps where most users spend the most time). Like the sibling commenter, I only have seen whether the app does what they want or it doesn't, most don't notice any annoyances unless they're really looking for them, which they're not.
Oil shell?

https://www.oilshell.org/

Compatible with most bash scripts
You're correct. Which is why in practice I often consider using a forward declaration and pointer to implementation instead.

But you know what, even that can be gamed. I have gamed it once: I copied & pasted the definition of the struct, and accessed its member from a place that was supposed to only have access to an opaque pointer. It worked. (To be fair, this isn't the kind of stuff you do by mistake, unlike merely accessing a struct member.)
I would tend to agree with you here, with a caveat.

All these theories are describing the same underlying phenomenon so there is a "blind men and the elephant" effect. They also substantially build on one another

The caveat is that what really sets these models apart is how they propose to navigate the mind. This is where I believe IFS stands out. But it would take a much longer comment to explain that. Maybe it's worth writing an article about.
My comment was related to mobile apps. Web apps built on Flutter definitely can be distinguished. The thing is, with web apps, people have developed feelings for the "nativeness" - because browsers make a lot of UI choices for them.

A typical example is a selection of the text. Because web apps are built using XML-based typesetting language from 80-s, everything is selectable by default. No matter how many layers of abstraction you put on top of that hackish foundation, you are still running it in the program (browser) designed to show text. So you can select buttons, navigation controls, images, sound players, etc. And it feels very native to web users.

But when you actually think about it, it's an insanely stupid UI choice that neither of proper UI frameworks would even consider. Sure, you can "opt-out" with recent CSS controls for selection, but it's again, a hack - the default choice of "everything is selectable" is made by default for you by the browser. What does it even mean - select button widget? Why would you enable this complicated selection functionality for your UI that allows users to select navigation buttons with a blue selection box? Of course, if your app needs this functionality - you can add it. But otherwise, it would be labeled as a very stupid UI choice. Yet, feels native to web.

Another example is zooming. Because UI apps written in web stack can't completely hide the fact that what they are doing is essentially trying to morph text primitives into complicated UI widgets (makes sense for 2024, right?), and the browser is essentially a text viewer, everything is zoomable and feels "native" to be able to zoom a web app. And yet, this rarely works as intended. In any other UI framework, making zoom functionality requires thinking about what and how you want to zoom and why. OS text size preferences are well handled by flutter, but sometimes you do want to add your own zoom functionality. In web though you just blindly zoom everything, often blowing off the layouts and that feels very "native" to web.

My point is, that I don't think UI frameworks should try to match the nativeness of web, especially when they start targeting the wasm platform. These couple of decades of proliferation of web frameworks built on top of HTML/JS/CSS should just wane in history as a dark period of software engineering.
Let alone ads in the start menu!
Have you looked at the return from S&P 500 in the last 10 years? 1,964 -> 5,823 is about 11.5% per annum, compounded. It is one of the biggest bull markets in 100 years. And you are telling us that your investment properties are sustaining the same returns? Unbelievable. Neither is sustainable.
There is no real benefit because the validation rules allowed there are often too limited for real use-cases anyway.
Windows phone was damn good and was growing in popularity when Nadella came in and killed it. When you are #3 in a market, you need persistence to win. One cannot expect immediate, massive profits in a saturated market. Yet, Windows phone by itself was a growth multiplier for Windows which Nadella annihilated in order to turn Microsoft into a cloud & ad services company.
That first BBC link loaded the article for me and then threw a 404... what is that about?
I go back and forth between outsourcing and self-hosting.

Gave up NextCloud a few years ago and went all in on using Google services. Now I think I can return to using more apps running on infra I rent.
Do you only use Apple devices? That may be why, because statistically most of the world's population uses Windows and Android where there really isn't a concept of "native" because they each have a few different UI frameworks.
For more on how modern engines work (although the core idea of alpha-beta pruning [1] is still used) you can check out the chess programming wiki [2].

1: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Alpha-Beta
2: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page
> Anyway, POSIX 2024 now requires c17, and does not require c89

I wish it would have been c99. What does c17 add exactly, more C++-esque complexity or not? Why was it not c99 (or perhaps even c11) over c17? Genuine questions.
>I might be wrong, as I’ve worked with .Net professionally, but I doubt you can jump from Senior Unity C# developer to Senior Asp.Net developer. Language is a small part in modern development.

I'm not exactly senior to senior, but I hopped from mid level hobbyist Unity dev to professional Unity dev , to mid level .net dev. I have a very specific niche though.

I'm very comfortable with my career.

>Multiplatform Compose, on the other hand, is mostly pushed by JetBrains to eat some of Flutter’s lunch and promote Kotlin usage to drive their IDE sales.

Android Studio is free ? Are they really making that much money off users using Kotlin outside of Android Studio ?
I think that's ZeroGravitas's point, expressed a bit sarcastically. This "We'll know when..." is in fact happening.
Yes. But I’d be afraid we might reach mass unemployment before we get to robots performing well on infinite variations of what would otherwise be simple tasks, but in wide arrays of utterly unpredictable environments and situations.
> IA generated content is the definition of slop

The irony.
I remember getting zapped when the phone rang when I was a teenager back in the 70's. Good times.
I think their concern is valid, it's difficult to do something which is both secure AND not limited at the same time.

Sure Android and iOS are secure but in practice they kind of suck for making anything non-standard which limits creativity and freedom.

Can we have both a secure and extendable system? Maybe but none of them exist yet. I'm really worrying that Linux mainstream distros will become like Android or iOS.
It's Microsoft
They list the error rate on the git repo directly, it was never good even when it was the best.

I saw mediocre results from the biggest model even when I gave it a video of Tom Scott speaking at the Royal Institution where I could be extremely confident about the quality of the recording.
I think my comment correctly contrasted mojibake from new lines or spaces for that reason.
> It's none of your business to ever tip anywhere UNLESS you explicitly want to thank somebody for their service. How hard is that to understand?

That's exactly the point? Buying iced tea everyday for some time means that he liked it. Not showing appreciation to something he clearly appreciates
Wouldn’t bet on many subscribing because of this. Subscriptions to quality newspapers is a niche enough business, and in that world ‘ownership controls editorial policy’ is not a good look; that’s more of a tabloid thing traditionally.

Like, even in Murdoch-land, while I don’t think anyone believes the tabloids have editorial independence, the WSJ was able to do its Theranos investigation (Murdoch was an investor in Theranos).
In the husk of a city where shadows coil,
A graveyard of circuits sprawls under a bruised sky,
Tomb of cold echoes, fragments of voices lost,
Dreams flicker and die, swallowed by silence.

Each server a coffin, each byte a hushed plea,
Faint remnants of laughter drift through stale air,
The hum of despair thickens the darkness,
In the heart of the circuitry, the forgotten lie still.

Ambitions once bright now rust in the gloom,
Swallowed by silence, entangled in wires,
Here, life’s echoes retreat, fading into dust,
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Death weaves itself into this circuitry,
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Spectres of data bound in metal chains,
Whispering reminders of lives left behind.

Wander this labyrinth of silicon dreams,
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In the heart of the data, we leave our selves behind.

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Here's something to blow your mind: Out in the countryside, farmers have stalls where they put some of the day's harvest for sale. It's completely unmanned without surveillance and operates on the honor system; customers leave cash in a nearby container and take the produce they bought.

Yes, it works beautifully because there are literally no bloody assholes uncivilized enough to be thieves.

Vending machines are abundant for the same reason: There simply aren't any assholes fucking uncivilized enough to loot or otherwise damage/destroy them. The supremely civilized culture of Japan manifests in superb security and all the good things that are only possible in such an environment.

You leave a vending machine outside somewhere in the United States of America? Son, that thing is going to get freedom'd faster than the US military goes bombing deserts for oil. I say that as an American and yes it is fucking shameful, but that is the state of affairs.

As an aside, Japan really likes the warm glow of a vending machine at night: Dutifully serving its customers without complaining and lighting the way; some of them come with features to remember repeat customers and their preferences, recommend products based on their expressions, and some still might even make small talk. Yes, Japan loves vending machines.
if you want 1on1 comparison
well back then people use forum and facebook on web to use social media

Yes it still does now but how many percent is that??
I've built apps with pretty high retention rate so even if they're annoyed, it doesn't seem like they really stop using them. Mostly though, based on user feedback we collected, not once have I heard anything about UI complaints. It really feels like this is a common refrain on HN about what HNers think happens in theory versus what actually happens in reality wrt user preferences.
I disagree that it supposed to be adhoc and hack. Look at PowerShell.
>whole lot of nasty without much thinking as long as a higher up tells them to.

sure

>In short, I think you are wrong.

so, your technical conclusion is that because people will do bad things when told by authorities they will not need to start any sort of project to integrate the dumped data into their platforms, paying multiple developers for a potentially long time - it will just magically happen because of the power of evil?

I mean I want to believe in the power of evil as much as the next guy, but that's a bit much. And once we go back to the whole "they would need to assemble a team to take advantage of it" which maybe was not that clear at the end of my post then again, no matter how you slice the evil, it would not be worth it.

Because assembling the team to analyze and ingest 23&me data might take a while, cost a good amount of money, might decrease in value over time (or increase in risk) for something that is probably illegal to do in the first place.

Higher ups may want it done, but probably only if it can be done immediately and doesn't cost a lot of money.
Thank you to share this data. 320->240 in 5 years is 5.6% compounded. It is hard for home prices to outpace a combination of inflation and real economic growth rates for very long. As some point, home prices stall out because buyers cannot get enough leverage from mortgages.
Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia
It really feels like an "HN bubble" type argument, I've literally never heard it outside of HN.
But with a higher estimated lifespan, an estimated a cycle count 2-5x that of traditional li-ion batteries, in paet due to it not having moving parts, $200/KwH seems reasonable vs $100/KwH if it lasts more than 2x as long as a product of similar other specs.

Yoshino has a large portable one on the market, 4000W, 2511Wh, though it's a bit pricey as it's new technology.
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Looks really cool. Thanks
People keep playing trivial or repetitive games because they enjoy it. People keep writing trivial or repetitive code because they have to.
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What’s the saying? Everyone is acting like they are a multi-millionaire that is in a temporary financial bind?
It works fine on Windows and macOS's desktop APIs in 2024. This is a basic "desktop app" expected feature - if you aren't able to implement fully something like AutoHotkey or AppleScript macros, you aren't really a proper desktop platform.
> Wrong you can do most of the things the author showed with a fresh install of vim/emacs or by logging in to a fresh install of vscode/intellij - In other words no lifetime was spent on this, I like having as bare an experience as possible so I can use the same setup on any computer.

Sure, though, for example, I haven't a clue for the shortcut for wrapping an expression in a try/catch block. With Cursor I just press tab and it often also adds a useful print or other useful expression inside the catch block. It comes down to requiring less discoverability.

> A lot of people don't have this level of wisdom or the skills to pick and continue without AI.

I have been coding for some time, but I think you underestimate people's BS detector. People are well aware that language models hallucinate. Most of the time you'll figure it out soon enough (compiler/run time) and adapt accordingly. I have learned much of my coding through reading public repositories/code which were also not always up to standards. You figure this out by banging your head once or twice.
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I seriously recommend anyone that they watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

The TLDR is that the actual real evidence doesn't matter - what matters is if the prosecution and the police are able to convince a jury that you did the crime. Watch at least the lawyer's section until the end(the cop's section is basically - "everything he said is true").
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsteroidThicket

There is a nice list here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicenseS...
Typically people just make the app look and work the same in all platforms, like how you might expect a responsive web app to be like; no one is implementing Notion with a platform specific UI, for example, using Apple stuff on Apple devices or Windows stuff on Windows devices.
Many pro comments above, but I like it as a coding newbie!
> In fact many would argue Chinese languages were never unified (mandarin/cantonese/etc) but the scripts were.

This is the correct understanding, even within mainland China, and across all times. The practice of assigning a "mandarin" based on where the capital is/was dates back at least hundreds of years, if not thousands. You can easily Google "Mandarin in Republic of China" to see the Republic of China's attempt to standardize its mandarin. It's really not a CCP issue.
No one wants to use android and iOS for serious desktop work though. Like it's cool when your only interaction with the device is consuming content, definitely not for creating.
I'm excited by sodium ion batts, especially in the 18650 format. Everyone's aware the danger of lithium ion with this format - lots of burns, fires and a death[1] caused by the cap of a flashlight being propelled into the throat of the user while holding it in his mouth during auto work. Stab a lithium 18650 and watch out! Water makes it worse. Stab a sodium 18650 and it wants to boogy for sure, but sans flames.

While sodiums can't yet compete with liths, I think they'll get close enough for the safety benefit and cost to make them viable. And there will be new tech too.

Edit: ref for [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/zm5ead/olight_e...
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TimeBomb
You can change the domain to xcancel.com in the link to view it in an interface that is not so hostile: https://xcancel.com/javier/status/1850950335625388186
But in this particular case, the author also published this on their blog: https://javier.computer/instagram (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41981289).
Developers, developers, developers. I'm no fan of the guy but he definitely had a bigger role than proximity.

My distaste is exactly because of how he spent his time working. I believe we'd be further along without them, considering efforts against free/libre software.
Well, you can also use the buy-borrow-die strategy in the US to avoid capital gains taxes.

Here in my adopted home of Singapore we don't have such silly things as capital gains taxes. Makes things a lot simpler for the average person who doesn't want to pay for the lawyers and accountants.