skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about the "Compress contents to save disk space" option in the Advanced Attributes. It makes the file blue. I enable it on all .txt log files because it is so effective and completely transparent. It compresses a 25MB Google Drive log file to 8MB
Agree - this is why I believe the notion of “UX being a discipline” is nonsense. A good designer should be informing all of their decisions with the goal of crafting the best possible user experience. Otherwise, a designer is just being relegated to “make this look pretty,” just like a developer or engineer might be told to “code monkey this solution that I have dreamed up.”
Personal experiences cannot disprove a large scale statistical observation like this.
My recollection is that Adobe was slow to migrate from 32-bit to 64-bit x86 because they were still dependent on many of the Carbon APIs (Mac OS 9 compatibility) and those APIs weren't carried over to 64-bit. They dragged their heels about transitioning to Cocoa (NeXT derived) APIs for their UI, and it showed.
Genuinely impressed at this bespoke approach.
I (OP) said above that "Unicode codepoints that expand or contract when case is changed in UTF-8" would have worked fine, I've changed the Gist title to that in any case. I'm curious if it would've affected the attention it received on HN.
The price of a high end gaming pc (7800x3d and 4080) is around 2k USD. That's comparable to the MacBook Pro.

Yeah sure, if you start buying unnecessary luxury cases, fans and custom water loops it can jump up high, but that's more for clueless rich kids or enthusiasts. So I wouldn't place pc gaming as an expensive hobby today, especially considering Nvidia money grubbing practices that won't stay forever.
On the internet it seems antitrust law can just be used to explain every. Antitrust actually has a pretty strict legal definition. And not a lot of thing fall into that. And if it Antitrust did apply, it would apply far more to the IPhone.

It would take an outright legal revolution in the definition of antitrust for this to be even a remote possibility, and frankly that is not happening.
I'm a zombie if I have less than 8 hours, that's the absolute minimum. I drank a lot of coffee for years even though that had diminishing returns, until I realized it just concealed my exhaustion instead of helping, so I stopped.

Of course, spending 12-14 hours a day facing brights screens do not help.
This is a short and fascinating peek into that world: https://youtu.be/qr26jxPIDm0
You missed the important step after parboiling - you toss the potatoes in the pan used for parboiling, so that the outside gets slightly mashed around the edges; basically just give them all a single smack against the inside of the drained pan.
What about spending all day tweeting conspiracies instead of working?
> The media wants to not go bankrupt.

I’d say that depends. Many media organizations operate without profits — or even incurring losses — in order to serve the public good, promote an ideology, engage in activism, spread misinformation, etc.
> Nobody cares about CEO salaries

Pretend that "salary" means "total compensation". The article covers stock too:

"freeze CEO pay and stock options and prevent stock sales for a year following any layoffs that exceed 5% of the workforce"

> mostly stock grants and other stuff that is taxed at lower rates than wage income

False. Income is income and it's taxed like income.

Now if you were to say that companies do funny stuff like hiring a company owned by the CEO for "consulting" services in order to funnel some of the CEO's compensation there, I'd believe you. But otherwise, no. Options, grants, perks - it's all W2 income and taxed that way.
By physical I meant primarily the body. As I mentioned the cofnitive fuctions did start to suffer somewhat. Though they had quite short naps.
Congratulations Taimur! I started following you from your pod with your brother and was super interested in your foray into tech with a math background. It's great to see Causal take off over the years.

These damn math folks are out here trying to make everything multi- dimensional
Came here to say this: BBC news as a source ... hmmm, no thanks.
I usually get 6 hours dead on. Rarely 7 or more. I'm asleep less than a minute after going to bed, and have such a regular sleep duration that I never have to set an alarm. In fact, I haven't used an alarm clock at all in 20+ years. Well perhaps, less than a dozen times.

I am fully awake and ready to go a few minutes after waking up, too. No coffee needed.

I do occasionally take an hour nap here and there, but that is also rare.
Discussion (42 points, 1 day ago, 101 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42008775
I think that was intended to be read as "how all wars must end" rather than "because all wars must end".
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Yes, it is entirely symbolic and has been for decades. The only purpose it really serves is differentiating those who know a little bit about stock markets and those who don't. It's annoying that serious media outlets continue to publish it, alongside valid indexes, implying that it has anywhere near the same level of legitimacy. Also, I don't like it.
Many years ago, at college, I stayed in town for a summer rather than going back home or elsewhere. I had a coding job with no fixed hours (and working in a windowless basement), and no friends in town. So I tried the “sleep when I want” experiment. IIRC I settled into about a 26-hour cycle.
I understand that these polemics express frustration with the status quo, but isn’t it the CEO’s job to run their company as effectively (and efficiently) as possible? To that end, just as it is up to any employee to look out for their own interests when negotiating their salary, it is up to the CEO (and other managers) to look for savings where they can. Just as an employee who leaves for a higher-paying position is doing right by their family, the CEO who reduces payrolls is doing right by the shareholders.
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I seldom use vim/neovim these days (except for commit messages as it's $EDITOR) but use vim bindings via plugins everywhere I can (Intellij, VSCode)

Sometimes there's issues with these, but they're generally quite good for daily use (although slower)
Current rumor is that the 9950x3d will be released early next year. Personally I'll take less tdp, but I'm only using this system for gaming.
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I definitely respect them for everything they're doing, and I really want to like this project, but my very first exposure to this project was when someone linked to it on HN, I clicked the link, and the website told me that since it detected that I was from HN I am not welcomed and it refused to show me the article... it just left a really weird taste in my mouth.

I don't know if they still do that but that's the first thing I think of every time I see Asahi mentioned or I think about giving it a try.
It's probably worth mentioning that this representation of numbers is neither the only possible in computers nor the optimal for all imaginable applications.
>Trump is merely wearing the cloak of nationalism in order to get elected which I guess is why it gets confusing - Zionism is a wedge issue in the culture war and an ability for the right wing to take part in grievance politics.

I will not be hoodwinked again!

-t. Bamboozled 2016 Trump Voter
On HN downvotes are usually because of disagreement. OP's experience doesn't match mine: I have used Asahi for quite a bit longer than OP and I have experienced no serious bugs.

But then again I only use those software that's available in the distribution or those that can be compiled by me. So naturally I don't deal with incompatible third party software.
Just curious, what kind of action would the pro-vaccine constituency need to take to demonstrate their sincerity in your view?
Keep in mind, this is what happened to The Great Suspender lol
There are a whole set of problems, IMHO. The code-of-conduct working-group (CoC WG) members are self selected. There is no effective oversight mechanism. No matter if you think they are currently doing a good job or not, it's not a proper way to organize such a group. The steering council (SC) did a poor job in communicating and their tendency towards secretiveness does not inspire confidence that the machinery regarding these things is working correctly. Part of the justification for secrecy is that they are protecting the banned person. That is hard to believe since it's trivial to figure out who they are talking about given their initial ban announce posting (X number of posts in a certain topic points to exactly one person). So it looks more like the secrecy is to avoid answering uncomfortable questions about the decision making and the process and not about actually protecting the accused.

Someone made a great analogy about what is happening here. You have a machine that is supposed to make toy dolls. One day you notice the dolls coming out the machine are deformed and weird looking. So, you say to the doll factory manager:

> I think something is wrong with the doll making machine.

They say

> No, this is a very high quality doll making machine, look at the specifications on the great looking dolls it will make. Don't you trust that this machine will make proper dolls? The manufacturer and people running the machine are all very trustworthy

You say:

> That might be true but I see the dolls coming out are deformed, something must be wrong.

Tim does not get a free pass to behave badly just because he is a long-time Python contributor. However, given his literal decades of civil behavior in many public forums, it is hard to believe he did something that was justifying a ban. Based on looking at what the CoC WG shared and what Tim shared, I don't see anything that justifies it. So, I don't think the "machine" is working correctly.
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Business as a whole is becoming much more unfriendly to labor. They're realizing that perceived external threats like temporary recessions, AI labor, a threatened US dollar, etc, can give them continuous leverage in any labor discussions and they're pressing the advantage for all that they can.

If the US sets a debt ceiling and inevitably hits it (based on past performance), the ensuing devaluation of the dollar may lead to an even stronger form of corporatism that makes such power plays about wages, hours worked, and work conditions look relatively tame.
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I am guessing that many of these residents are locked into cable TV + internet packages, and believe that switching either is too difficult. Also, they're constantly sold faster and faster internet speeds despite little need for it.
It’s not quite a fair comparison, given Intel has their own fab, while Apple uses TSMC—and pays them a lot to get exclusive access to new nodes before anyone else.
> the CEO who reduces payrolls is doing right by the shareholders.

If the company is really struggling so much, the CEO can do even more right by the shareholders by cutting their own pay. After all they're more responsible than anyone else for the company being in that situation.

The article isn't arguing layoffs shouldn't happen. It's stating that they should be a shared sacrifice. If the CEO personally benefits in the short-term by laying people off their interests are in conflict with long-term shareholders' interests. So align those interests better - make it so the CEO doesn't personally benefit from layoffs. Only the other shareholders do. Specifically:

"freeze CEO pay and stock options and prevent stock sales for a year following any layoffs that exceed 5% of the workforce."

If they still "do right by the shareholders" when it doesn't line their own pockets, then fair enough. It was really necessary.
Great advice! The other thing I'd add is to get at least 4-5 YC alum to review your application in a Google doc and do practice interviews with them if you make it to the next round. Also, if you have friends who've done YC before, get them to recommend you!
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These people break the new rule today. I contacted them more than once, they have no interest in hiring even through I surpassed what they asked for. Last month posting they were downvoted a bunch.
Experiments where people aren't told what time it is end up with them gravitating towards a 25-26 hour day. So you're totally normal.

Wikipedia [0] criticises these experiments and says they didn't account for electric light, which apparently lengthens the cycle. So to rephrase, people with any access whatsoever to electric light favour a 25-26 hour day. You're still totally normal, but it explains you may have better outcomes with annoying interventions like "no artificial light in the last few hours of the evening".

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm
Shouldn't "portable" in the context of a document format mean "comfortably viewable on most systems" rather than "yeah you can view it but it's gonna suck and you'll get eye strain"?
After having a kid Ive wondered how all these sleep disruption means you'll die studies could actually be true. You'd think evolution would have taken care of it at some point
I can see a lot of that but I wonder what the solution is for many who have it who said their anxiety was actually caused by untreated ADHD.
YouTube is flooded with AI narrated shorts content. Are you experiencing a different reality? It seems like when I try to venture out of my bubble I'm getting AI videos (not about the topic but zero effort prompt daisy chaining) now even outside of shorts (that I wish I could disable completely, I never mean to hit the button).
<< The Bcrypt algorithm was used to generate the cache key where we hash a combined string of userId + username + password. During specific conditions, this could allow users to authenticate by only providing the username with the stored cache key of a previous successful authentication. >>

https://man.openbsd.org/crypt

<< The maximum password length is 72. >>

So if the userid is 18 digits, the username is 52 characters, and the delimiters are 1 character each, then the total length of the non-secret prefix is 72, and bcrypt will drop the secret suffix.

You aren’t supposed to put more than the salt and the password into trad unix password hashes.
Is this really about the architecture itself, or about the licensing of it? AMD and Intel are, afaik, the only ones legally allowed to use x86, and likely have no plans to allow anyone else.
Playing Chuck Yeager’s air combat or Glider Pro on the SE/30 was great.
> The ship was in harbor, at anchor.

you mean the Bayesian?
This may be the best summary: https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestr...
Or your lap gets hot. Or the fans drive you mad. Good luck with the available ports. Oh, it’s slow AF too, but if you get the right model you can use that stupid Touch Bar.
That's the old kind.

It's useful, but if they updated it it could get significantly better ratios and have less impact on performance.
Thank you! I built this so my friends and I could use LLMs in our Discord server.
The + is doing some heavy lifting there. I’m on a 2019 XPS running Fedora with niri. It doesn’t feel like it’s kicking the bucket any time soon.
Can't you just zip the current PixelmatorPro.app and use it in case you won't like where things are going?
Key problem with all the wifi standards is the bandwidth upgrades are real, but they mostly give you more headroom for dealing with interference.

Which is good, but it's why we always have this delta. It does feel like at some point we might end up with apartment building standards requiring 2.4ghz/5ghz mesh in the walls to attenuate cross-talk signals between apartments or something (and then maybe phone-tower micro antennas to provide signal for 5G).
That wasn't at The Rising Sun by any chance?
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You’re assuming the layoffs are a reaction to poor strategy and/or decrease revenue potential, but that’s not always true. It could be that the market is shifting away from that company for some external reason, or that those employees were truly redundant.
amazing!

the very basic undervalued, as with the subject
I made an app to: display web sites and files, highlight and drag noteworthy text or images into an item in a note outline, associate a comment with each note, drag a group of relevant notes into an item in a report outline, associate each group of notes with a word processor draft, and combine these drafts into a report draft. I couldn't sell a single copy so, I let the app die. Potential buyers already have a suite of apps to do this, and they are comfortable with it.
it's shocking how low-quality these issues are in a client that is otherwise 1000x more performant than the other options listed in the article
Can't wait to pull out Manifest Destiny again! :DDD

Going to be training my nephews on raid techniques and Sun Tzu...
its a blessing. i think i survive well on 4-5hrs (incl wake up naturally) but def feel suboptimal compared to 7-8hrs.
One reason I'm always skeptical of the IP moralists. IP is not property. If it was it wouldnt need the classifier. It's really just a rent seeking mechanism
For those who didn't get my joke, she commonly dresses up as a witch at XDC :)

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Do you know that there were times when there were elevator operators? Based on your line of argument, if a hotel really could not afford to keep the elevator operators employed, the CEO should have taken a pay cut.
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I still use this on my work computer. The second Zed releases their Windows port though, its as good as gone.
What would you be running on it?

I’d like a few VMs for a media server and the associated apps. Pihole too ideally, but I keep that separate as that VM going bad is never good.
What about Paradox games? genuinely curious about that.
Exactly, or spending all day arguing why master shouldn't be renamed to main so they can pay themselves on the back for fighting against "Woko Haram"!