skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think software engineering is inherently a management job. When you write code, you write company policy, but that policy isn't followed by human employees, it's followed by electronic employees - computers.

These electronic employees are very good at following very simple instructions. They enable the business to handle enormous numbers of customers concurrently, but those customers can only be handled in the way that the software engineers planned for.

The author complains about businesses that operate two-sided markets, which is an economic function traditionally handled by governments. Governments imposed lots of regulations, but Uber, DoorDash and their ilk decided to do away with all that. This resulted in litanies of scandals, and the businesses rapidly putting these poorly-implemented policies in place. It turns out that all those regulations, accumulated over centuries, were actually necessary to ensure that the markets functioned properly. The wunderkind founders made their billions by burning Chesterton's fences.

Generation Z, I understand, is increasingly abandoning dating apps, because the apps aren't optimised for connecting their users with compatible partners. If all the cool kids are finding their relationships offline, then eventually it'll just be the uncool looking for love on the internet (just like in the dial-up days).

In a similar way, if it's too much of a pain in the arse to deal with a delivery app, then some restaurants will stop dealing with them, and rely on word of mouth. If every other restaurant is on the delivery apps, then the restaurant that isn't on the apps suddenly becomes the 'hidden gem', the place you hear about from that colleague who likes to drop names to show everyone that they're cool.

(On the other hand, if you're running the slightly-below-average pizza place that people call when they can't be bothered to cook, then you should probably be on the apps. This is a matter of market positioning.)
"If -fexceptions is enabled, then cleanup_function is run during the stack unwinding that happens during the processing of the exception. Note that the cleanup attribute does not allow the exception to be caught, only to perform an action. It is undefined what happens if cleanup_function does not return normally."[1]

While it's true that it -fexceptions is disabled for C by default, some C libraries need to enable it anyway if they want to interact with C++ exceptions this way. For example C++ requires that qsort and bsearch propagate the exception thrown by the comparison callback normally, so libc implementations that are also used from C++ do enable it.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attribute...
When you write software is the thing you are writing something you would ever want to pay for out of pocket even with inside knowledge? The answer to that question determines the degree of bullshit you are peddling.

As a JavaScript developer the answer about 90% of the time is I would rather just write it myself. Exceptions include JellyFin, PiHole, Node.js, Mealie, Libre Office, and some other things. Those things are free, but I would buy I license if they weren't. These things are exceptions not because they are big, but because I am happy with the quality of product. They have not given me cause to find a replacement. There is so much software that I cannot say this for.
Soviet bread lines were first come first serve too and I don't know any former Soviet state residents gushing about how great those times were. Those 3 MRI machines that I mentioned had to service 1/3 of the population of Canada at the time -- about 10 million people.

Saying "oh that's just first come first serve" is totally missing the fact that the service level can be woefully inadequate.

What's really crazy is that I live in a small city of about 100k people and there are about a dozen hospitals that I can choose from, first-class trauma centers, multiple renowned research centers (affiliated with three different universities). None of that is counting all of the urgent care and other facilities in the area.
I have an order of magnitude more options for treatment than I did when living in New York City...

The only way I could open myself up to more/better care options would be to move to Texas.
So all you need is a politician to declare the opposition party to be terrorist and you can do whatever you want?
Looks like heavily pixellated 24-bit art to me.
Yeah, defer within scope is the most ideal form in my opinion.
That’s hilarious, I just happened to watch Demolition Man yesterday.
wow, thanks for the feedback. Really cool to see your response here after seeing you had such a successful Show HN. I did come across your website at some point before when looking to see if this existed. I think the main difference is you were doing UGC.

-Definitely. IMO a 'lifetime warranty' isn't required for a BIFL product, it's nice to have though. However; some products absolutely depend on a lifetime warranty to make it BIFL, for example Husky Tools. I mostly included warranty info to help buyers be informed.

-I agree. Affiliate links have a bad wrap IMO. I made sure that I only used affiliate links to Amazon so there is no bias with specific brands paying out higher percentages. I have a lot of products where I don't use any affiliate links (Patagonia for example).

-I agree. User generated content would be nice but it's not realistic (at least not yet) I plan to continue to buy and test products myself before including them on my list. Eventually I'd like to have a team and would love to have a UGC component but all of that depends on how successful the site is.

-Astrotrufing is one of the main reasons I made the website! Reddit has become a cesspool of bots and you cannot trust much on there anymore.

Again it's super cool to see your feedback!
This is a fun clicker game whose point seems cynical and self-defeating on multiple levels.

Despite the HN comments complaining about it being overwhelming and a dark reflection of how awful and distracting the internet is, clearly enough people enjoyed it to get to the front page. The stimulation torture wasn't really torture, but another level to the game.

All the content creators whose inclusion at first seems like an indictment of the kinds of internet videos that lead to addiction or overstimulation also all get a pleasant shout-out which seems silly. Are these supposed to represent what's awful about the internet?

EDIT: To hammer the dissonance home, at the end of the game we are met with a calming ocean scene that I'm guessing the average player appreciated for about thirty seconds before clicking away.

To me, this whole exercise doesn't reflect how distorted humanity has become because of technology, but of how humans refuse to look themselves in the mirror.

We want to be the kind of people who buck the mold and escape systems of control, so that we can properly enjoy things like waves of the ocean, but at any point during this game we could just open a new tab and watch the ocean on a YouTube livestream. Instead we spend an hour clicking and advancing this manic stream of chaos.

What's more human, then: calmly watching the waves crash against the beach, or clicking buttons trying to win and discover what's at the end of a silly game?
Hi, actual WordStar-in-practice, wrote several hundred thousand words on it in both CP/M and DOS, user here (related: I am old). I think you're confusing WordStar's preview display with its editing display here. Later versions of WordStar for DOS (I think it started with version 5.0, but I wouldn't swear to it) could generate a surprisingly good for the day print preview using PostScript fonts, as described above in the text you're quoting. But that was a specific read-only mode. When editing, WordStar ran in DOS text modes and was limited to what DOS text modes were able to display: monospaced fonts, usually with the ability to display boldface text with "bright" text and sometimes -- not always -- with the ability to display underlined text with actual underlines. (This depended on your video hardware; IIRC, XyWrite seemed to be able to do that pretty reliably in DOS, but WordStar didn't). But you couldn't display proportional type in editing, or italics, or different typefaces.

Now, you could argue that WordStar anticipated WYSIWYG editors, because it did its best to faithfully reproduce margins, indents, line spacing, justification, etc. in its text editing mode -- but that attempt came from the era when printers could only output monospaced type, usually just one typeface, no italics, etc. Once printers got better, WordStar really wasn't WYSIWYG anymore, just "best effort within limitations". IIRC, the only major DOS-based word processor to actually attempt a WYSIWYG editing display was WordPerfect 6.2 in the late 1990s.
Mecha Comet
Why do you think that stock and crypto plugins will be very profitable? There are no tools to combine finance data in easy way?
Windows 12 sneak preview
On branding it seems like everyone starts to copy Apple at this point or makes branding as complex as Intel.
It'll be ironic if AI solves climate change by just existing, i.e. by giving the world a compelling reason to stop hiding behind austerity and anti-growth bullshit rhetoric, and to double down on energy production instead, thus forcing us to tackle the "how do we do it without cooking ourselves" problem up front, since it cannot be deferred.
> I'd bet if you asked people if they enjoyed their homework when they were in elementary / middle school most would say no.

Yup, and that's the environment I speak of. Modern elementary school is not a place for curious people.
Even if you did give a shit about those things, all that can be achieved with jQuery. IMO the real downside of jQuery is not being as opinionated as other mentioned "technologies", which leaves too much room for thinking
> For my next projects, I will still use Django but with React/Vue for pieces that need interactivity

What's your plan for "plugging" these into your HTML? Web components?

Does Django have some kind of integration with Vite for hot reload during dev?
This will totally (have to) happen in Amsterdam within the century.
To be fair Camacho was setting up Not Sure to be the fall guy. I don't think he really thought Not Sure could fix things.

That being said, it is a society who elected the smartest guy in the world president, and then when a smarter guy came along elected him as the successor.
Ah man - this is one of the cooler things i've ever heard of. I first heard of it in PBS doco "Chicago: City of the Century". That documentary - is one of the finest chronicles of modern society i've ever seen. The insights into psychology, civil engineering, and history are second to none. Most profound to me were the "design" of suburbs with the trappings we dont think very much of these days - libraries, pools, shopping centres and so on - were created to push "ideal lives" which were basically the dangled carrots of real estate empires. Brilliant stuff.
95dB air-horn for 16 to 20 hours per day is not non-violent.
Nice, if this is reliable across gcc versions and optimization levels, I might consider it for future stuff. Though making it such that treesitter and other tools dont barf on it would still need investigation.
Was it ever a competition for you? I’m French and don’t remember that kind of thing.
Thank you! You just convinced me to get one.
Did statickit function as more than just a form backend? I do feel like a form backend alone is hard to run as a viable business, but I find it to be an interesting enough problem to maintain an open source solution for.
> Trudeau has also been friendly - and perhaps even submissive - to Xi Jinping

Gonna need to see a source on that. Canada even arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on behalf of the US on some made-up sanctions charges so that America could pressure the Chinese government in their trade war. The other part about Khalistan is a talking point from Modi's India, which has been busted for conducting assassinations against Khalistani activists in Canada and the US.
Wonderful comment on our noisy world. Highly recommend some sort of warning for users, particularly the subway surfer wormhole. I'm not light sensitive but even I now have a headache.
Biosphere was an attempt at a sealed ecosystem. It's not at all comparable to a building designed as living quarters for people who come and go as they please.
Antimatter Dimensions is another conerstone in the genre.

http://ivark.github.io/
I just finished listening to it on audible. It is certainly thought provoking, but full of contradictions as others have mentioned. Namely that this technology cannot be contained, and yet that it must be contained is pretty doom and gloom. The prognostications about artificial intelligence are hardly as scary as the ones made around genetic sequencing — that you can buy a device for 30k that will print pathogens and viruses for you out of your garage. That’s some scary stuff.
Imgur used to be an image hosting service for reddit for many years. Without reddit, it wouldn't be. However like any image hosting service this wasn't very profitable.

So Imgur made itself a social network like Reddit and which then started removing the ability to direct-link to images. The link you clicked than redirected to their own platform of image and comment discussion.

Reddit then caught on and shunned Imgur out of Reddit and Imgur expanded to it own social media thing.

Some History: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14595212
I wish he would read 'The Israel lobby' by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. Gates has some responsibility as an elite billionaire to safegaurd our democracy.
Isn’t the housing crisis caused at the local level? City officials control the permits/zoning.

> In 2020, Canada ranked 37 out of 38 for municipal approval process timeline in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). We're 3 times slower than the United States. This is due to restrictive zoning practices, excessive red tape, and outdated processes.

https://housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/housing-logement/ho...
So we as humanity should stop all actions that are not directly solving the worlds largest problems (at least if there might be slightly negative side effects)?
And what’s up with the energy and water consumption argument. I accept this for LLMs maybe, but not for a local python script that runs on consumer hardware. Should we stop playing video games, too?
https://buymeacoffee.com/neal
Maybe. But we also have historical personal communication and journal entries to judge by, and they’re rarely, if ever, written in this style.
> Should I get the "Dell Pro Max ", the "Dell Pro Max Plus", "Dell Pro Plus", or the "Dell Premium"?

I thought you were joking, but these do seem to be options in the new, simpler branding!
Yeah, that's my next hope that they generally reduce the total SKU counts. It can be challenging to find exact replacement parts when there's a dozen different varieties for say a "Latitude 5450" or whatever.
It is clear that htmx has a growing community, but it still feels a bit too backend-minded to convince frontend developers to adopt it. I tried it in a prototype, and it was quite pleasant until I realised I needed to account for additional state management and backend wrangling to be able to provide some dynamic features. That was the moment I realised htmx is not a fully fledged product but rather a core feature that sits neatly atop a traditional server-driven setup.

That's why I think their roadmap looks right. I believe the way to broader adoption is to improve tooling, encourage standardisation, and integrate htmx more closely with well-known frameworks. That's the only way I can see dev teams buying into the paradigm change and htmx jumping into mainstream usage.
I don't know. Seems like where I live the cell network is about as reliable as power. Its why I switched to starlink as at least that stays up/comes back quickly during storms.
No. There are entire categories of employers (such as most of the prestigious financial firms for financial jobs) that only hire from the Ivy League. Twitter had its internal hiring policy leaked some time ago (before Elon) and Harvard was on the list (GPA 3.6) but BU was not at any GPA. School matters much more in the American class system than GPA (edit: or class rank) does. My understanding is that too high a GPA may in fact be disqualifying in some places; you might be uptight.

https://www.teamblind.com/post/twitters-internal-hiring-poli...
You have already failed your kid if you don't teach them to use their brain. Education is what let's people transcend the rat race of life, acquiring knowledge to use for the rat race isn't education in this sense.

Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

If you want your kids to be subservient to the king then of course they should use ChatGPT, and you should want schools to allow it otherwise we will just have more Asian and Indian students "getting ahead"
> 3. Outright fascists.

You say this like it's a given, but I'm not so sure anymore. The word fascist has lost most of its meaning by being applied to everyone from Donald Trump to J. K. Rowling. Can you explain specifically what you mean by this?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42603395
Gates wrote his 'internet tidal wave' email mid 1995 (https://wired.com/2010/05/0526bill-gates-internet-memo/) which was only two years after Berners-Lee publicly released Mosaic.

By the late 1990s, Microsoft's competition (including Netscape and Apple) were nearly dead. In fact, the browser that Apple originally shipped with OS X was M$ Internet Explorer.

Gates was several months late to the web, but it's not like he missed the boat.
The tiny spark when the contacts open slowly erode the contact surface away.
I did something similar but I took it entirely the other way, I built a full CRUD application with no javascript.

The app is fully SSR and integrates with a fairly complex inline data enrichment and analysis system. I used Tailwind alongside regular CSS for the layouts and some visual enhancements. Eventually, I gave in and added a bit of JavaScript to submit a form when a dropdown is selected—usability is important to me. Other than that, everything works as needed.
My work went from Thinkpads to Latitudes. The Latitudes are pretty sturdy, and I'm told are pretty competitive on price/performance. But nothing beat the ThinkPad on durability/repairability/tactile feel/etc.

When I quit the job, I immediately bought an identical ThinkPad. It's nearly 8 years old but I still use it regularly use it as a pub trivia host as it can take a beating and have beers poured on it and still run like a trooper.
Ah fair, I do see your point on a difference between existence and understanding. Though, some of the theories I've heard basically posit that gravity doesn't really "exist" in any sense that we have of it now, but is rather just an exposed slice of some higher dimensional reality that we can't experience entirely. But, to your point, something obviously exists there because it's measurable, repeatable, etc, so from that perspective nobody is questioning it's existence.

Also what came to mind was picturing Einstein doing his thought experiment where he was in an elevator at various levels of acceleration, and his observation that there was no way to tell the difference between the force felt from gravity vs. the acceleration. That to me feels a lot like quesitoning the "existence" of gravity! But I don't think we're really disagreeing, more were just operating with different definitions in mind of "existence."

Appreciate the discussion!
Seems odd though that despite these issues being provincial that every province is seemingly struggling with these issues...

Almost like there is a larger macroeconomic force at play.
In case you are wondering this actually beats the game:

setInterval(() => Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.main-btn, .upgrade-icon, .press-collect, .press-btn, .collect')).forEach(item => item.click()), 50);

After around level 40 things get very very slow.
The creator of HTMX likes to periodically troll people on Twitter like this.
Absolutely not.

I have a 4k 34in monitor and its great. I also have a 4k 17in laptop screen. The text on that laptop screen is super tiny at 100% zoom, but its still sharp and crisp. It takes some training for your eyes to read that from 12 inches away. I also have super thick glasses for my spectacularly bad myopia, but I can read those screens where people with 20/20 vision cannot.
I'll concede you are correct that whether the key is extractable or not doesn't really matter if the GPU eventually will eventually need to store the decrypted model in memory.

However, if NVidia or similar was serious about securing these models, I'd be pretty sure they could integrate the crypto in hardware multipliers / etc such that the model doesn't need to be decrypted anywhere in memory.

But at this point there isn't much value in deploying models to the edge. Particularly the type of models they would really want to protect as they are too large.

The types of models deployed to edge devices (like the Apple ones) are generally quite small and frankly not too difficult (computationally) to reimplement.
Could be useful in this case, but

> does all their school work without any oversight at all

I would definitely expect this to be the norm for 11 year olds, not some case of parental neglect as portrayed here.
The social services are better in Canada though. The big downside is the lack of quickly available treatment for serious-but-not-life-threatening illness.
Doing the Great Divide trail is high up on my bucket list.
People can use whatever words they please. Never mistake yourself to be the arbiter of language, which is ever evolving.
What Expats Don't Tell You About Moving Abroad
Historically PC OEMs cared about price more than graphics performance so that's what they got. If you look at mobile SoCs or the eDRAM-equipped SKUs Intel made for Apple you see more emphasis on memory & graphics performance similar to consoles.
I know this experience is not universal, but I do think it is underrepresented.
> most extreme version

Well...

http://ivark.github.io/
Wouldn't that apply to any initial evidence?
I figured like thirty seconds into using the site that resizing it smaller would give me more DVD bounces per second. But then during resizing i kinda cheated myself some points accidentally, and discovered that trick where they're just bouncing on every tick.

Normally I'm a sucker for clicker games, but cheating the progress (even accidentally) always kills the point of it.
It's a low effort comment that doesn't add anything of value.
Not sharing proof of ownership because it’s super confidential should be the red flag it obviously is.
Um... why exactly am I looking for a highly homogenous society?
I once heard a repair tech say that XPS stands for “eXpensive Piece of Sh*t” and now that always comes to mind, although it never totally made sense to me as I didn’t think they were particularly expensive. I have an XPS and I did replace the battery at one point, but other than that I think it performed fairly well for my simple needs. I think I paid $499 for it around 2018.
Inspiron is their consumer line, Latitude their business line, Precision their pro line, Alienware their gaming line, so what exactly was XPS meant to be? Their fashion line?
AI research is global and of strategic value with both the US and China competing. I don't see one stopping research while the other cracks ahead. Similar problems exist with curbing co2 which hasn't gone very well to date.
Are you allowed to use bills for purchase that you cut yourself (like, from one of these sheets)?
> For the years that i was living in Ontario there were only 3 MRI machines across the entire province.

Jesus. I've got more MRI machines than that within walking distance of my house.

It does seem to have improved significantly, as in 2020 Ontario had 124 (which made it the best provisioned province at the time). When were you there?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/821422/number-of-mri-uni...