skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have already been planting tress for a long time. In Sweden it is the law that after a forest is cut down it must either be replanted or have enough viable trees remaining for natural regrowth. For managed forests it is often a revenue increase to replant trees since it increase the efficiency of the land. The amount of tree planting that goes into environmental purposes are tiny compared to the amount of trees planted as part of the natural cycle of tree harvesting and regrowth.

However, cutting down tress and then replanting it do not capture a lot of carbon. Much of it either get burned or decompose into methane. Planting trees without protecting it from being cut down is not going to do much to compensate excess greenhouse gases that get created from burning fossil fuels.
Maybe better to use something like magic wormhole? https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
IF you spent a bit of time analyzing your statement you'd realize that the Government doesn't just take money but also give it out.

And not just to employees and benefit receivers but also entrepreneurs and companies.

It's by far the largest single economic actor and statistically speaking given the size of such a large actor it is more likely than not you ended up breaking even as far as quality of life (QOL) when considering all your transactions (in money and services) with the Government.

Given the economic growth measured by GDP in the period 2000-2024 even more likely is that you ended up ahead.
Another reason is that the internet has become a lot better since way back then.

As a non-US based player, back then we were still using modem and/or ISDN connections that would both drop quite frequently and had terrible latency.
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Another completely viable solution (other than adding extra starch) I’ve found is to sprinkle a bit of sodium citrate (the sodium salt of citric acid, a common food additive and cheap on Amazon) over the cheese before adding to the pan. This improves the melting qualities of the cheese and avoids the starch issue altogether. You’re basically using pecorino velveeta.
> beautiful landing page

I disagree. Any page that sports a big "buy now" button without even scrolling but has at that point not even shown me a single screenshot will have a hard time catching my attention. I didn't look further.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. I hope you're okay.
You're a few years behind the times if you consider Google to be a standard of quality and reliability. Search is all but dead now, killed by an ocean of AI slop and ads because Google wanted search queries to be a moneymaker.

I think the only viable solutions going forward in a post-AI world will be decentralized, small scale and non-general, curated by human beings based on a reputation system rather than algorithms, possibly even torrent-based and not touching the web at all.
> the majority of humans do not have flagship smartphones.

I always wonder if aliens are interacting with us through the anonymity of the internet. Things like this give me a (facetious) hope that they are. We can take from this that all aliens have flagship smartphones, but the majority of humans don’t.
No, it's percents plus a fixed cent amount. Something like 30c is normal.

Customer support: When you are charging money for something, you need to give support to customers regarding their billing etc.
It looks good from a distance but as soon as you go near anything it devolves into a pixelated mess.
Why would anyone want to demonstrate that?
Why would any small player feel the need to grow to FANG level at all?

They run a profitable company that is supported by fees paid by clients. Just this alone is the proof it works. And is far, far away from the speculative nature of stock market and FANG.
Let me linkbot those books and authors:

Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman, 2010, ISBN 978-1416571728 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ratio/Michael-Ruhlman... . There's also a mixed-drinks companion book from 2023, The Book of Cocktail Ratios:
The Surprising Simplicity of Classic Cocktails with ISBN 978-1668003398: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Book-of-Cocktail-...

https://ruhlman.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ruhlman

Lateral Cooking: One Dish Leads to Another by Niki Segnit, 2019, ISBN 978-1635572643 (978-1635572643 US ed.) https://www.nikisegnit.com/lateral-cooking . Seems to lean on Segnit's prevous book, 2010's The Flavour Thesaurus, ISBN 978-0747599777 (978-1608198740 2012 US ed.): https://www.nikisegnit.com/the-flavour-thesaurus .
In his last lecture he mentions that the best part of teaching is when a student sends them a photo of a rainbow 10 years after graduating, saying that they remember the whole physics behind it.

Same for me. I think of the cones of light being formed when I see the rainbow and that amazing lecture.
It seems bit odd to call it most accurate pendelum clock if the accuracy stems from being disciplined by atomic clock. To me the interesting question would be how far can you push the freestanding accuracy of a pendelum clock.

That is not to say this isn't a neat project in it's own right, it is, but just picking on the terminology.
> My understanding is that saffron grows almost anywhere

As in it grows in a farm, outside, under the sun, in Norway?

Otherwise, Banana, coffee and Mango can also be cultivated anywhere in a controlled/enclosed environment.
What is more, many people expect that software that they are trying will be open source and free. It makes really hard to create a new desktop app that is paid as a solo founder. Congratulations!
> but at this point there is just as much self-reported evidence that prayer works.

If you remove the assumption that a deity answers the prayer; what they're doing is focusing on gratitude and if asking for things they are identifying goals. This is a healthy mindset so unsurprising that they report it "working".
You don't need a lift, you just need some ramps or to use the jack that probably comes with your car with some jack stands. I can't imagine almost any DIYer uses a lift, unless they're moved into the Very Serious Car Person With Project Cars stage of DIY.
I just don't think the old model of "one shot" software works. Firstly, security updates. Next, dependencies change over time and you want the software to still work. Third, adding new features and keeping it integrated with the OS / UI kits etc. requires ongoing work.

In theory you could have a single binary that never changes, ever, but it's just unrealistic.

Subscription models are fine, Jetbrains is the fallback if you're going to be super adamant about refusing to fund ongoing development, but software is not like other products. Maybe in the past when it was very simple within a simple ecosystem it was different.

There's something to be said for reducing the pricing to something more sustainable and more explicity upstream donations, but "pay once, have the developer continue to work for me for free if I keep it long enough" isn't realistic.
Being able to emotional connect to a therapist can be far more important than methodology.

If it’s all about methodology then a) we’re robots and b) there would be no need for therapists.
I don't think that is weird at all. Nobody is born knowing about UI threads and junior devs today are not significantly different in knowledge from junior devs a decade ago. It's not surprising that things which were confusing in 2015 are still confusing now.
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And you might be underestimating the work that went into those libraries.

We are talking decades of work, dealing with platform issues, performance, loads of security considerations and then there is the whole licensing+patent topic.

Sure UI work is hard, but of the whole package, it's only the visible part of the iceberg and now I'm expected to give $30 to the person who only contributed that last piece? Of course it's work too but if not at least half that money is being donated to the underlying FOSS projects then I'm out.

Another suggestion: open source your app. Those who don't know how to compile/build it, or are too lazy, which will be most, they can pay for the convenience, and you'll have the income you expect, but at least you are giving back to the community on whose work you are basing yours.

> self-taught full-stack developer who wrote the first line of code in the 2020 Corona lockdown.

You my friend are standing on the shoulders of giants. Time to ack them.
It doesn't if you use it as a bundled binary.

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4008/can-i-us...

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/5188/software...
How does it differ from what banks already offer?
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Google isn't an ISP (except I guess in Mountain View)
Kanji and the Computer: A Brief History of Japanese Character Set Standards [pdf]
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> Test if the number is < min or > max _before_ doing the digit sum. It's a free 5.5x speedup that renders some of the other optimizations, like trying to memoize digit sums, unnecessary.

How exactly did you arrive at this conclusion? The input is a million numbers in the range from 1 to 100000, chosen with a uniform random distribution; the minimum and maximum values are therefore very likely to be close to 1 and 100000 respectively - on average there won't be that much range to include. (There should only be something like a 1 in 11000 chance of excluding any numbers!)

On the other hand, we only need to consider numbers congruent to 3 modulo 9.

And memoizing digit sums is going to be helpful regardless because on average each value in the input appears 10 times.

And as others point out, by the same reasoning, the minimum and maximum values with the required digit sum are overwhelmingly likely to be present.

And if they aren't, we could just step through 9 at a time until we find the values that are in the input (and have the required digit sum; since it could differ from 30 by a multiple of 9) - building a `set` from the input values.
I bet this doesn't come from the kindness of car manufacturers, but through laws and regulations requiring that.

We probably don't have any of that with software, yet.
This is good! Price of saffron got really high there for a while and it really impacted specific dishes. I noticed this about 12 years ago, popular rice brands removed the word Saffron from the front of the packaging. It was replaced by "saffron seasoning" which was a blend of things. The taste changed because I felt it had less saffron, which I thought was due to higher prices.
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In 1995 I had no money, was rejected from studying arts, but had my Amiga 1200
I think this blog post conveniently ignored the part where drivers do not provide their services directly to customers and instead go through a middle man that decides how much they get paid via an arbitrary algorithm.

I've noticed a general pattern in mainstream economics where the assumptions and scenarios are always carefully chosen to be equivalent to some communist utopia.

If every worker at a company owned equal amounts of shares in the company, they wouldn't give a crap if their salary is lowered to pay out more dividends to shareholders, because they are the shareholders, but the moment the two diverge the analysis doesn't seem to have much relation to the real world, since now the company can stiff the workers.

Everyone knows that companies don't exist to provide equilibrium price vectors, they exist to make profit and profit can only exist out of equilibrium.
"Is this fast-following competitive or is it collaborative? So far it’s been feeling mostly collaborative. The pie is so freaking large — there are millions and maybe billions who are jumping at the chance to code — that we’re all happy to help each other scramble to keep up with the demand."

The pie for whom? For drug dealers who give power users their LLM fix so they feel smart and can fake it?

The pie is certainly shrinking for software engineers, as evidenced by the layoffs. Cocky startup founders may be next.
Making a good user interface is definitely not easy. Yet it's orders of magnitude easier than writing ffmpeg.

That said, there is nothing wrong with a paid wrapper around a large and complex open source library. Distributing their work more widely is not a disservice.
Once it becomes measurable, then you can implant emotions into AI agents. Once you an AI identity that is emotionally indistinguishable from us non-AI identities and which is infinitely smarter than us, what purpose would we have left to fulfil?
When political polls are split 50/50, it is a point of contention. When genz answers a yes/no question with a slight bias towards yes, it is decisively against middle management.
I'm surprised that, as the price increased, there has not been a mechanical automation found that would remove the labor requirement. Terrible for developing countries where labor is cheap and depends on that laborious task of harvesting threads.
Grows outside in people's front/back yards. People grow them for fun. Farming wouldn't make sense.
I’m of the same view as you. 15% (or higher) of post-tax total is double-taxation.

I do tip a hefty amount (50%+) on occasion if I feel the service is exceptional. I feel this is one way of incentivizing good service. Maybe the bar has shifted. Perhaps that’s one way of saying I’ll pay for service directly based on my discretion, not a pre-set amount. Bundle that in the total cost.
It's A description, specifically an inaccurate one. ISPs can and do throttle content for multiple reasons all the time. What net neutrality forbade was content providers paying the Tier 1s for their customers' traffic.
https://youtu.be/8Zd0clYzgj4?si=7T-NXAXfK0IxJ_kG

Google lens identifies it without problems.

Edit: auction link https://aukro.cz/top-stav-pragotron-preklapeci-hodiny-cpj-06...
> In fact, the video game industry is one of the few that actually care about performance, often more than safety and correctness.

If it does, then it doesn't show. It feels as though most major game engines have completely given up on performance-as-a-default in favour of simplifying (sometimes marginally) art workflows, and the frame rendering breakdown articles/videos I consume now and then entail baffling, utterly ridiculous and unnecessary drawcall counts, unoptimized geometry, poorly optimized shaders that give marginal graphical improvements, huge overdraw, etc.

It's gotten bad enough that resolution upscaling is becoming commonplace because of how ridiculous the per-fragment rendering costs are getting. That has no right to happen in games without high-fidelity subsurface scattering, volumetric effects, indirect lighting, raytraced reflections, etc. And yet it does. This is something nobody resorted to even in the 90s.

I recommend videos from the YT channel Threat Interactive, where they break down a lot of the horrifying rendering performance regressions that have become the norm in recent times.
By that measure, every company in the world except the magnificent seven is a niche curiosity.
FYI, you have a typo near the beginning of that page:

"Texts makes up 80% of your UI."

should be:

"Text makes up..."

I also found it quite ironic that the "Typography defines Your brand" header is immediately followed by "Want to transform your brand’s image?", in which the apostrophe has some very broken spacing/kerning.
This is true.

I have seen absolutely miraculous backends, totally pooched, because the library developer thought that GUI was for "wusses."
Pasta being overcooked. Also may be using lower quality pasta.
Each sum involves determining the digits to sum, which involves using % multiple times.

Also, you don't have to use % in order to decide whether to perform the sum-of-digits check for a given value. You can just iterate over values to check in steps of 9.
and apparently european 940s did come in a manual five speed, despite the fact that manual was not offered on the 940 in the us.

i stand corrected. live and learn.
Unless apple invented it, no they didn't and you're wrong...

The cult of apple kinda says everything wrong about the valley to me. This isn't magicians at work with secret spells, this is just cutting edge tech that is at the point of being commodity. Making something appealing to idiots has drawbacks, less repairability, less durability etc and now even apple is slowly reverting even this under govt changes...
inverse prion protein?

those folding hacks are awesome. we know very little about it.
This particular implementation doesn't strike me as extremely useful, but stepping away form text based files opens up quite a lot of possibilities.

For one, identifiers could be replaced by UUIDs, making some refactoring operations trivial. And as someone else points out, the system could reject syntactical errors at an early stage. Smalltalk implementations such as Squeak [1] show a lot of potential. Unfortunately, the programming ecosystem at large seems to be quite conservative.

[1] https://squeak.org/
Someone get these guys hooked up with lasagna manifolds https://web.stanford.edu/~cm5/lasagna.pdf
In Europe, statistically nearly every car older than 10 years is manual. With the recent improvements in automatics they are finally catching on in Europe.

You may be able to find an old automatic or CVT car in Europe, but you would need to look for a while
Honey actually hides the best deals from you at the site's request. You'd be better off finding the codes yourself.
What the actual f•©k?
For farmers in regions with intense sun like colorado, I would imagine that some kind of solar netting would ultimately be the best solution for mixed agriculture. If you could hang a net like 10 feet off the ground that has tiny solar panels linked together to block out 50% of the sun, that would probably create an ideal environment for growing certain berries and vegetables.
> They help connect buyers with needs/wants to sellers with solutions.

You know what else does this but in a non-creepy, non-tracking way that doesn't try to artificially create needs/wants in people? Accurate search results.

If I want something I can search for it and find it. SEO and advertising and sponsored results are the way companies try to skew search results (usually by making them less accurate and useful for the person searching) in a way that benefits them.
> > but that isn't for me. I just like to code, play video games, and be alone in peace and quiet.

Lack of desires is the first canary in the coal mine of a decrease in mood.

As much as it sounds empty those who are able to distinguish between a 500$ TV and a 5000$ one have a very fine tuned sense of desire which doesn't collapse at the tail end.
I agree, it's not a clock if it can't keep time on its own. It's a really cool project, but the clickbait title disappoints unnecessarily. "I made an NTP pendulum clock" would have been accurate and still extremely cool.
Because I'm a self-taught web developer, not a computer scientist.

I have accumulated a lot of experience since my first website in 1999, but I would be incapable, literally, of answering "algorithmic questions" or solving fizzbuzz or any of that… which, incidentally, is mostly useless in real life.
One day, I'd love to dive into stylised 3D graphics as an R&D project. There's been decent progress recently, but I think there's a lot of low-hanging fruit left to pick.

Some open questions:

- How do you reduce the detail of a toon-rendered 3D model as the camera zooms out? How do you seamlessly transition between its more-stylised and less-stylised appearance?

- Hand-drawn 2D animations often have watercolour backgrounds. Can we convincingly render 3D scenery as a watercolour painting? How can we smoothly animate things like brush-strokes and paper texture in screen space?

- How should a stylised 3D game portray smoke, flames, trees, grass, mud, rainfall, fur, water...?

- Hand-drawn 2D animations (and some recent 3D animations) can be physically incorrect: the artist may subtly reshape the "model" to make it look better from the current camera angle. In a game with a freely-moving camera, could we automate that?

- When dealing with a stylised 3D renderer, what would the ideal "mesh editor" and "scenery editor" programs look like? Do those assets need to have a physically-correct 3D surface and 3D armature, or could they be defined in a more vague, abstract way?

- Would it be possible to render retro pixel art from a simple 3D model? If so, could we use this to make a procedurally-generated 2D game?

- Could we use stylisation to make a 3D game world feel more physically correct? For example, when two meshes accidentally intersect, could we make that intersection less obvious to the viewer?

There are probably enough questions there to fill ten careers, but I suppose that's a good thing!
I came here to basically say this. io_uring is a leap into the past. It's going to be blocked in a lot of environments since it makes system calls unmanageable. Now mmap() on the other hand is a real enlightened system call. I got probably 20,000 followers on Twitter when I popularized it for LLMs two years ago.
One of the most important papers in software engineering, which I believe everyone in this profession should read and internalize.

Every time I see another startup trying use LLMs for code generation I sigh in despair. As AI technology improves and becomes better at producing code, what looks like a win in the short term will end up creating more and more code that has been created without a human going through the necessary thought processes and problem solving steps to build the theory of the software as described in this paper.

It's also why its critically important for companies to do what they can to retain the people who built the software in the first place, or at least ensure there's enough continuity as new people join the team so they can build their mental model by working alongside the original developers.
why would you want to keep infra helper code private anyway? it's this core for your business?
Those blurbs all seem to pretty clearly indicate it's not an unbiased news reporting show? Do you legitimately feel "hear the news from our guests" after "news commentary and informed perspectives" is proof that they are trying to make you think it isn't a talk/discussion/opinion-centric show?
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Yeah, lot of cooking is up to personal preference. In my case efficient here means using less water/energy. Optionally it can also be using less time, but that depends on what the end result is supposed to be.

As for the stirring, I'd say "it depends". Personally, I prefer to use fresh egg pasta. It cooks in maybe 2-3min and does require maybe 1min of stirring (maybe 20-30s in the beginning and end and perhaps one or two quick checks in between). I'm fairly sure I'd stir it somewhat of I used more water and I'd definitely need to strain it, so there the amount of time / effort is at worst the same, at best slightly in favor of using "risotto" method.

When it comes to dry pasta, I guess it depends on volume. If You're cooking a batch for 10, the traditional method probably makes sense. Otherwise, I pay attention anyway to how much the pasta sticks and clumps together.