skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a notable exception but it is a complicated one; not what it seems.

For one thing, Trump will talk to 60 Minutes when it suits him, I suspect. There is no journalist who has criticised him who he hasn't called terrible names and then spoken to again -- it's a pattern. He invites his critics back in. And they will always come back.

He hasn't locked out 60 Minutes the way that simply refusing to talk to journalists, or booting them out of the room, does. The way he responded to 60 Minutes was responding to the media. He responded in the media. He levelled accusations, they responded to his accusations. On his terms.

Like a violin.

And then when he does a 60 Minutes interview again -- which he will -- he will humiliate them for coming back, at least once, in that interview.

I am not saying this as a fan of the man; I believe all his other talents to be malevolent. But I am saying he is unbelievably, astonishingly good at what he does to the media for his benefit.

To. Not with. Not for. To.

For example, he rails against leaks but he is the biggest leaker. He rails against anonymous sources but he speaks off the record through proxies all the time. It's dark arts genius.

"Don't speak to journalists" is comically inept on the Trump scale. Anyone who thinks they are comparable strategies is not paying attention.
Related:

Canadian mega landlord using AI 'pricing scheme' as it hikes rents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41452781
Imagine that you created a function GetPixel that reads an RGB pixel at a memory address, and which has a NULL check as a precondition.

If the compiler can "prove" that the pointer is not NULL it can (after inlining the call) remove 20 million checks for a 20 megapixel image.

The silly issue is the compiler using "you accessed it before" (aka "undefined behaviour") to "prove" that the pointer is not NULL.

But I can attest that avoiding 20 million such checks does indeed make a huge difference.
> I really believe people will go far if they focus on this kind of stuff, and way less on structured self-improvement, productivity hacking, finding "secrets", shortcuts via programs, seminars, coaches, and tools, and all that shallow, nutritionless baloney.

This is exactly the state of mind I am trying to guide myself towards. I know the things you listed are superficial and ineffective, but they also lead to the shiny object syndrome and the 'quest for productivity' that I mentioned in the post. When I reduce the frequency of falling into these traps and eventually let them go completely, I will have come a long way.
Thanks for the insight.
> you need a lot more than 2 bidders for the theory to hold

Wrong. Vickrey auctions are well studied in single-item auctions even with two bidders [1]. (They perform between 4/3 and 2 compared to an optimal omniscient auction. Not solved. But not unstudied.)

> claimants to receive 100% of the equity of the business

This is Chapter 7. The bankruptcy estate already legally owns the asset, not Jones.

[1] https://www.timroughgarden.org/papers/bk.pdf Examples 4.6 and 5.2
It’s an interesting debate: are things less democratic now than at other points in American history? Or have the wealthy always been able to buy influence in this way?

My opinion is that institutional “norms” are not being followed lately, any maybe that makes this sort of corruption more blatant, but that this relationship between business and government is a feature of American government from the start.

See the hundreds of anecdotes from “Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class” (1984, Kies van der Pijl) or “A People’s History of the United States” (1980, Howard Zinn).

In capitalism, democracy is window dressing, the tool for settling disputes among the upper class.
It's not really "money" to them in the same way it is to us: it's their high score in the great game of Business.
grok/: write an introduction text similar to the Star Wars intro, where it's talking about how Hacker News forum has turned into Facebook's low level quality comments

Answer:

In a galaxy not so far away, where once thrived a beacon of intellectual discourse, the revered forum known as Hacker News has fallen to the dark side.

Long ago, in an era of enlightenment, this platform was a sanctuary for the tech-savvy, a place where ideas soared and innovations were born. But now, the force of mediocrity has swept through its ranks.

The once-lucid threads, filled with insightful comments and thoughtful debate, have been overshadowed by the shadow of banality. Like the sprawling empire of social media, the quality of discussion has plummeted, mirroring the low-level, superficial chatter found on the likes of a certain blue and white social network.

The age of wisdom has given way to the reign of memes, where upvotes are traded not for substance, but for the fleeting thrill of viral content. In this new era, the Hacker News we once knew is but a distant memory, lost in a sea of triviality.

And thus, the saga continues...

EDIT TO ADD: And that wasn't even in "fun" mode!
If I had the choice in ISPs that I do in restaurants then I would accept their argument because nearly every community has a buffet. Also I don't know any restaurant where I can sit down at the table and food just starts landing at my table and I have to push it off. But every ISP works this way. You connect and trash starts suddenly flooding to you until you block it but if they're measuring your Data on their side and not on your side as far as their concerned you ate it.

Additionally I've never seen a compelling defensible argument for their data caps either. If they made the argument that the data cap only affects the top 1-2% highest usage users they should have independent data that can confirm this and also be audited. Once they start doing that they'll simply start excluding that user base from their metrics because they've "moved them to another tier". So that metric will constantly be lowered, which would also be inappropriate as it's manipulating the user base to suit their needs.

ISPs do have a legitimate concern they are a business that needs to make a profit in order to continue to provide service but the way they've acted especially the way most cable providers have acted is extremely hostile to their customers. So why would anyone give them sympathy when they are actively hostile to their customer base and that customer base remains because largely they have very little choice.
That’s a lot?

Can the median HN reader even hold 25 different ideas in their head at the same time without confusing them?
This is a daft statement though.

I almost certainly have more wealth than the bottom 10% in my country because a lot of people either have 10 quid or are in debt.

It makes more sense to compare to the median.
Are they? Or the real mafia took over US healthcare long time ago? How about Visa/MC monopoly taking three pennies from every damn transaction for three decades now? I detest most of the original Paypal crew but there are far worse offenders in corporate America. Hate him or not, Musk made EVs a reality. Thiel backed some of the biggest startups in modern history. Same for Reid Hoffman. These guys are your typical American businessmen.
Stronger: The Economist is used to having to operate under UK libel laws, which are far stronger than US laws. Truth is an absolute defense against a claim of libel in the US; in the UK it isn't.

So accusing them of slander is not particularly believable. I'd need to see a specific claim, evidence that the claim was false, and evidence that the falsehood rose to the legal standard of slander. A bare claim, with no evidence, just looks like overheated rhetoric by someone who doesn't like The Economist's position, but who can't actually do the work of refuting it.
It was a little meta-joke, but I think the world could use a lot more expressions of doubt. Very few things are certain or universally true, and those that do tend to have Greek letters in them. I find highly confident people highly suspicious, and a culture that rewards overconfidence and punishes doubt both exhausting and dangerous.
Well, those three people have billions of dollars between them. So they count for something.
His choice but that was still the earlier post and where the discussion started.
Features I don't want on DVD and much prefer streaming

* Adverts (especially the anti piracy "you wouldn't steel a car" ones)

* Logos

* Menus

It can take nearly a minute to go from the disk going in to the film starting.
https://github.com/docker-library/wordpress/blob/master/Dock...

Wordpress's dockerfile pulls PHP.
I would imagine your quality of life is not significantly different with a net worth of 10 billion vs 100 billion, but at that point it's probably more about things like ego.
The Business Plot finally worked
The other day, I finally decided to kick the tires on Coolify. I had a few small projects lined up and thought it’d be a good fit. So, I mindlessly installed it and was pretty impressed at first. But then I discovered it was written in PHP, and I could feel myself starting to sour on it. That’s when it hit me — I was ashamed of my own bias against PHP.
Any reason India locations don't have remote opportunities?
We pay for the flexibility of not wearing seatbelts for increasing the consequences of crashes.
The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is the Apotheosis of Bag Culture
And nodejs is 9M a week, python is 8M a week, tensorflow 50M etc. Pull count doesn't mean anything if you can't group it in some meaningful way. I'm a 15+ year PHP veteran and I can safely say I will never use that language again. There are too many other far better choices out there especially when running in a containerized environment. No apache, nginx, FPM, php.ini custom health check scripts, loosing requests when the container starts or stops etc.
So the game is to add something controversial but not stupid enough to be obvious satire right?

I went with "a captcha where you match surveillance footage to mugshots to help solve crime"
> WordPress.org does not do business in the UK.

Wordpress.org is run by Automattic, and the owned by Matt Mullenweg personally: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24262232/matt-mullenweg-w...

Automattic does do business in the UK.
Are you new to HN?

Comments need time to "mature" like good wine. On such a controversial topic at least 1-3 hours.

I usually upvote and then check back later on the day to read the top comments.
The streets of Jakarta and Napoli wouldn't work with the Mercedes Benz system either.

> Who has the training data at this point?

Woven by Toyota has roof pods on rideshare (Lyft) cars collecting data: https://woven.toyota/en/our-latest/20220407/
I can't tell whether this comment is sarcasm or not...
Thermophotovoltaics (TPV) and Thermoelectrics.

This is also a positive development in HPC sustainability:

"New HPE fanless cooling achieves a 90% reduction in cooling power consumption" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42106715
Wealthy people have always had tremendous, disproportionate political influence. Now they're just almost all from tech, as opposed to finance/media/trusts.
What I mean is that I’ve used it and don’t like how it drives / had bad experiences, so I won’t use it now even when it’s free
"Fun" mode activated:

A long time ago, in a forum not so far away...

HACKER NEWS: THE DESCENT INTO CHAOS

It is a period of declining discourse. Hacker News, once a beacon of insightful tech discussion, has fallen into disarray.

Rebel posters, once armed with knowledge and wit, now find themselves drowned out by an onslaught of low-quality comments, reminiscent of the darkest corners of social media.

The once proud community, known for its intellectual rigor, now echoes with the vacuous banter typical of...

FACEBOOK.

In their quest for upvotes, users have traded depth for memes, substance for sensationalism.

Will the spirit of true tech conversation be restored, or will Hacker News forever be lost to the abyss of likes and shares?

The fate of meaningful dialogue hangs in the balance...
And believe as many as impossible things before breakfast!
Structure-Based Search of the Entire AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
> These guys are your typical American businessmen

Oh come on, I don't think they're that bad
Region locking was more that US videos were 60hz ntsc and most of the rest of world was 50hz pal, and multi-region hardware was fairly rare

Throw in the difficulties in buying non-local things in the first place and it simply wasn't a problem, they could market-segment to their hearts content
The point isn't to dismiss everything outright, it's simply cautioning that online commenters are a tiny minority of the overall population, and if you see a surprising opinion showing up in the top comments, you shouldn't extrapolate that everyone holds those views.

This only holds for opinions. If someone posts a link to a survey that says out of a representative sample of Americans, 70% of them support abortion or whatever, you should believe that (assuming there are no issues with the organization conducting the survey). Same with other forms of argumentation. You shouldn't distrust the top answer on stackoverflow just because it's from 1% of the population, although you probably not think the average person is some sort of expert on every programming question either.
First party data does beat the random sample – but contextual ads massively outperform even first party data. And they are much, much cheaper.

I've been saying this for years.

"Personalized" advertising is based on flawed logic and is just plain dumb --- dumb advertising for dumb people who don't actively block it.

Just because I visited an automobile web site last month doesn't mean I'm still interested in buying a car today. So why are advertisers wasting their money to show me auto ads on totally unrelated web sites?

Wouldn't it be cheaper, more logical and much more effective to only show me auto ads when I express an interest --- like when I visit a related web site or search for a related topic? This is called "context sensitive" advertising --- and privacy invasion is not required to do it.

The stats I've seen say that more than half of internet users are now taking active steps to block this "personalized" stupidity. I block it in the browser I normally use and I avoid anything associated with companies that promote it.
An AI summary of that channel’s Ukraine video does fall into a narrative I’ve seen in the West:

1. Eastern states joined NATO for defense

2. This redirected Russian aggression to Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine

3. Thus, the invading forces must themselves be acting with circumspection about NATO

This reasoning tends to prefer analysis rather than emphasize what invading armies do to civilians. We know what’s happening to civilians in each of those invasions. We do not know (and should not care) if each soldier has an opinion of NATO.
Atlassian's hiring is strange, at least in my country (India) where it's either competitive or they just don't seem to hire unless you have a referral. I think I applied via a referral but still didn't get through.
It’s not a matter of taste. You need an auxiliary verb to form a question, in this case the auxiliary verb “does”, e.g. “How does it work?”
I guess it is survivorship bias, but I’d never be one of the survivors if I don’t even try.

I have an Etsy product, Christmas tree ornament, has made about $600 gross last year and another $400 or so this year…

It’s not much but now I have an Etsy shop with 5 start reviews all across. Planning to make a few more non-seasonal products and see where I can take it.

But, I also have a graveyard on my GitHub!

I guess the stats are like 9/10 entrepreneurial projects fail… so if I try 20 things…
It's more like 2011 reddit when the commenters there were preoccupied with bitcoin, the age of consent, and ron paul. Reddit is too big and mainstream for a political consensus now.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42370622
Basdhjasda
I get that but does it help their point or is it just a good excuses to use the term mafia?
My impression is that we’re regulations to soften, Waymo would quickly expand to freeways - the lack of their ability to do so now constrains their usefulness
I was about to state that there is nothing here that 4o or Sonnet couldn’t do with very limited prompting, then I noticed that the hamburger menu on mobile doesn’t even work and had to retract that statement. Both wouldn’t have made such a mistake.

Thanks, this only cements where Devin lies in comparison and explains the lack of benchmarks and independent testing…
Doesn't work for logging into HN:

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
playwright = sync_playwright().start()
browser = playwright.chromium.launch()
page = browser.new_page()
page.goto('https://news.ycombinator.com/login?goto=news')
page.get_by_label('username').fill('mherrmann')
# playwright._impl._errors.TimeoutError: Locator.fill: Timeout 30000ms exceeded.

I suspect Playwright expects there to be a <label> for an <input> element.

It does work with Helium:

from helium import *
start_chrome('https://news.ycombinator.com/login?goto=news')
write('mherrmann', into='username')

The two scripts are equivalent, except Helium's works and is half as long.
Exactly. And this is an extremely important detail. It makes your development process go from using glass tubes where you see everything as it is sent/received to black boxes of binary data.

JSON is self describing, you can mostly just call the API, read the JSON response and figure it out from there.

Ignoring that detail is ignoring the elephant in the room.
> The most surprising thing about this is that PHP developers are using Docker

Did you think of us as living in a cave forced to connect to a BBS to share the latest on design patterns?
It's not very long anyway, but for you to call it a stub I assume you're just saying the beginning as they want you to subscribe (pay) for access.

Archive.today has the full version here: https://archive.ph/bat3k

(edit: corrected link)

And, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread's comments, no author's name is the policy of The Economist for all their articles.
I know this is a distinction relevant elsewhere in this thread, but I don’t think it affects the point I made.
I am looking for companies that don't have an insanely arduous hiring process involving grinding leetcode.
Why they choose to do it in school rather than providing parents with more money so they can afford to feed their kids is also a hint as to why they are instituted.

"if parents can’t afford after school minding but really need to hold down a job"

i.e. if you want to expand the workforce by providing child minding on the cheap through schools.
I really like the latest PHP release, 8.4. If anyone does any web scraping or HTML parsing, I've written a blog post about the big improvements made to the new DOM API: https://blog.keyvan.net/p/parsing-html-with-php-84
> Are you sure that this is the intent of the law?

Yes. At least, that's my reading of https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/679

If a decision has been made about me, I have the right to get information about it.

You are, of course, free to disagree.
Thank you. Wish I could correct what I said.
Let me share this—I've worked in a large recruitment company where we were hiring developers from all around the world, and our business model was pretty much the same as Crossover's.

PHP was always the most in-demand tech for backend development, and of course, this includes frameworks like Laravel and Symfony.

So yes, PHP is thriving.

It doesn’t mean that other languages are bad or something that’s ridiculous.

this is just to answer the "PHP is dead" folks

Every language has its place, and they all have their strengths in different contexts.
132 years is the waitlist now. And it will only increase, Indians will very likely be looking at a 200-year waitlist by the end of this decade.

The successful green card holders you mention are those who came in early (in the 2000s and 2010s) and got through before the situation became so crazy. Or, in some cases, O1-holders.
This is the most facebook-like (or worse, 9gag-like) of all comments I've read today to be fair.
Read the actual court documents instead of linking to a news report, which actually disagrees with your point.

Automattic are being very clear about them not operating WordPress.org. And have submitted to the court that WordPress.org is operated by Audery Captial another one of Matt's companies. A company used to help to blur lines and deal with personal matters.
> Standard makers thought that compiler devs would be more reasonable

This is a bit of a terrible take? Compiler devs never did anything "unreasonable", they didn't sit down and go "mwahahaha we can exploit the heck out of UB to break everything!!!!"

Rather, repeatedly applying a series of targeted optimizations, each one in isolation being "reasonable", results in an eventual "unreasonable" total transformation. But this is more an emergent property of modern compilers having hundreds of optimization passes.

At the time the standards were created, the idea of compilers applying so many optimization passes was just not conceivable. Compilers struggled to just do basic compilation. The assumption was a near 1:1 mapping between code & assembly, and that just didn't age well at all.
Thank you antirez for all your OSS and social contributions. I love reading both your code and your prose. Welcome back and I look forward to the next chapters.

Something stated periodically, and certainly in these comments, is how the license upset Redis OSS contributors. I understand there are many perspectives on the story, but this is generalized projection to support a viewpoint.

Speaking just for myself as an Redis OSS contributor -- a very very minor one but I've spent hundreds of hours dedicated to Redis dev over the decade -- I wasn't bothered by it with respect to my donated time or IP. Beyond that, my opinion is that license holders have the right to do as the licenses permit, including changing it.

Without a survey, we don't know about the rest of the contributors and do we somehow weight their approval by the extent of their contribution? In the end, these opinions don't matter directly and what matters is the actions individuals and organizations take, which KV store they chose to support with time or money.

Clearly some contributors and their backers didn't like the change and forked Valkey. I have since started collaborating with Valkey. But as antirez pointed out how it would go, it's because of technical grounds, not because of license angst. Valkey was open to rejiggering its Lua integration, something Redis wasn't open to previously; so I took the opportunity to advance that with Valkey.

As Redis becomes useful to me again, e.g. with this Vector API, I would collaborate there too. We can have different tools for different purposes. Either way, it will be interesting to see how these two codebases advance...
Posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42375926
> ?si=_Uf6x7nQ_HwNOlZ_

FYI: the si parameter is used for tracking purposes.
Somebody Has Already Figured It Out for You
Isn't Facebook heavily censored? No difference.
> There always is a switch that cuts enginees off and from what my pilot friend tells me using it in mid flight is more or less equal to killing everyone.

Now I'm curious about that! Is that for a situation in which there is absolutely no hope, but bringing the plane down *now* would be better than not doing so? I.e. it's a kind-of aerial trolley problem?
> the onus is not on me to go prove or disprove every bad take someone makes on the Internet

then just ignore their comment, nobody forced you to engage or reply, and not every comment is written specifically for xracy.

you could also reflect the fact that you responded to a bad take (your opinion) with bad faith and arguably made the situation worse by adding nothing of value, or no value, and instead negative value :)
Machine Learning-Driven Static Profiling for GraalVM Native Image