skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for reaching out. I have done some word games for my own amusement and surprised myself how quickly I can try and reject permutations even in JavaScript. It has felt like the opportunity for a clever algorithm has been robbed!
It does however do so using an automated HTML to text conversion that you could also just do in your client so it's not really all that helpful.
Which distribution can you suggest?

I used KDE (24.04) for a while now. Also used Linux 2000-2008-ish. Have read APUE.

When I win-left/right a window and then resize it, then close it, now win-left/right always resizes it as previous one. There’s no way to reset it to 50:50 (unless logout).

Notification center is obnoxious. Regular “Program stopped working” with zero details. Why do I need this information. Copying a folder in dolphin pops up a progress notification that doesn’t go away when finished. You did something, expect a notification to pop up. You did nothing, still expect it.

Windows either steal focus or fail to steal it when needed, depending on your settings and astrology. Software update nags you to click update, then you click it, then it downloads something for a few minutes (you go doing your things), then a sudo password popup fails to get focus, and it all crashes after a timeout. Or things will pop up right in your face. VNC connection closed? Yes, bring that white empty window to front asap and tell “Connection closed” with an OK button.

Start menu was designed by an idiot, a wrong mousemove and you are in a wrong section. Sections reside exactly on the 80% of bezier paths from start menu to the section content and have zero activation timeout. So you have to maze your mouse around to avoid surprises. Logout, restart, shutdown, sleep buttons in the start menu all show the same fullscreen “dialog” that requires you to choose an action again. What’s the point of separate buttons even.

I could go on about non-working automatic vpn connections, mangled fonts/dpi/geometry if you vnc into a turned off physical display, console that loves printing ~[[A half of the times when you press an arrow. And so on and so forth, the list is so big I just can’t remember it.

Idk how Linux users are using Linux so that they do not meet any issues.
Certainly it means the government should stay out of the market, but the large majority of laissez-faire capitalists still want a government.

The following quotes are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire#Capitalism and elsewhere in that page:

"Advocates of laissez-faire capitalism argue that it relies on a constitutionally limited government that unconditionally bans the initiation of force and coercion, including fraud."

with an example:

"A more recent advocate of total laissez-faire has been Objectivist Ayn Rand, ... Rand believed that natural rights should be enforced by a constitutionally limited government."

More historically:

"The Physiocrats proclaimed laissez-faire in 18th-century France ... they advised the state to restrict itself to upholding the rights of private property and individual liberty, ..."

"Gournay held that government should allow the laws of nature to govern economic activity, with the state only intervening to protect life, liberty and property. ..."

"To the vast majority of American classical liberals, however, laissez-faire did not mean "no government intervention" at all. On the contrary, they were more than willing to see government provide tariffs, railroad subsidies, and internal improvements, all of which benefited producers". ..."

Getting rid of government but keeping capitalism would be more like anarcho-capitalism, not laissez-faire capitalism.

My observation is that DRM is essentially independent of copyright or intellectual property, so bringing up the existence of that dividing point really doesn't matter.
> what's keeping you from moving to the US, at least for a couple of years?

Visas. US has a very very weird visa system that really hates skilled workers.
Berners-Lee was brought up as a rejoinder to various decision makers who originally agreed to implement it, being that the www is more original than twitter, and fwiw he's not an American.

It's quite exasperating to find someone arguing that there is some benefit to regression towards applications which don't link into other applications. Why be on the web at all?
Back when he was still considered quotable, Dominic Cummings often mused about the UK's future post-Brexit. I seem to remember his blog mentioning data science and drug research as possible areas where UK could build a global advantage.

I can't be bothered to wade through it all but if you're interested his (old) stuff is here: https://dominiccummings.com
top 5% nationally is £81k
PostgreSQL – Deep dive on composite indexes
Insights on how the composite/compound indexes works on PostgreSQL tables.
I wonder if Google can sue them for downloading the YouTube videos plus automatically generated transcripts in order to train their models.

And if Google could enforce removal of this content from their training set and enforce a "rebuild" of a model which does not contain this data.

Billion-dollar lawsuits.
This...but a twisted, bloated, incompetent, and malevolently self-serving version of it.

Actual efficiency would dictate that there be only a relative handful of finance jobs, let alone very well-paid finance jobs. And that the vast majority of the money go to actually productive industries. And that the financial markets understand the principles and timescales of other industries, so they don't screw everything up with decisions equivalent to "Fiscal quarter ends in June, and Farmer Jones says he can harvest zero corn by then. Shut him down."
> Though admittedly today, the larger beneficiaries are increasingly monpolies, and so on. But this isnt a side effect of the finance industry, but of the state.

For markets to exist, monopolies must be avoided. As you can't expect large companies to police themselves, this was generally the role of the state. The states must strike a balance between keeping large companies happy (that want monopolies and have cash today) and true markets (which are efficient on the long run).

The finance industry is probably just a side effect of everybody focusing on short term (both public traded companies and politicians/states)
It gets interesting with batteries, panels, and spot prices. You can eg. offset (some of) your winter costs in summer. And it does depend on your latitude and local market. It's an interesting optimization problem.
Being PnP doesn't imply any hot-plugging capability.

DDC allows digital means of changing data and letting the OS know what the monitor can do. It doesn't allow/enable hot-plugging.

Since the interface doesn't support hot plugging by design, there's no standard way to detect a new VGA peripheral. However, manufacturers flexed the standard to try to enable hot-plug, but it doesn't work reliably, as we seen for years.

Similarly, PS2, SATA, PCI are not hot-plug by default, even if they're PnP. PS2 required standards bending, SATA had to wait AHCI, and PCI had to wait PCIe to gain hot-plugging support. To add to the list, IDE drives required special hardware, and RAM requires chipset and board support to be hot-pluggable. RAM has myriad of ways of identifying itself, making it truly PnP out of the box.

So, being PnP doesn't mean anything, from a hot-plug perspective. They're very different things.
Come on, now.

> maybe in the future JS runtimes might be able to strip away types for you without a build-step.

You can't backpedal from that to "speaking about the specification". It's not future JS runtimes. It's a thing you can take advantage of right now.
> Firstly I would not go back to London unless I had the protection level of a government Minister. My life is not worth any amount of money and violence is out of control.

I feel like there's heavy observation bias here. Maybe you had a bad experience or two, but I've been living in London for the past 4 years and haven't had any such encounter(s) so far. You make it sound like London's some third world warzone; I personally felt that New York, SF, and LA were far more unsafe when I was living there with the amount of homeless people and fentanyl addicts walking around.
the same apply to Vietnam and Cambodia. yet those countries are far more functional than DPRK. the extreme and dynastic cult of personality seems unique to the Kim family.
I think this is pretty shitty. Not being able to print directly from the slicer is a big pain.

Imagine if this limitation existed with Bambu's first-party slicer. It would obviously be considered a pretty big downside.
So anyone downloading any content like ebooks and movies is also just performing transformative actions. Forming memories, nothing else. Fair use.
> many linguists internationally have concluded that

That's some weaselly wording conflating "opinion" and "proof".
74% of students ages 13-17 are lying, I find.
I tried to install Element messenger and even asked several of my family members to install it for communication. With default server, it turned out to be extremely slow - like hours to send a small video. Looked into installing my own server, but the complexity scared me away, and I have 40 years of coding experience behind my belt. So we are back to whatsapp now.
Objectivists, followers of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, do not support MAGA. Have you listed to the Yaron Brook podcast?

To suggest meritocracy and individualism only work in fictional, fabricated conditions is bizarre. Have you noticed the success of the United States? Hang Kong? There is strong historical case to be made that a country’s prosperity is directly linked to its rule of law and political freedom, conditions which in turn lead to meritocracy.
I don’t think it’s just a UK thing, or that it’s much easier to start a hardware startup in the USA.

I think it’s more that the bar for getting a hardware startup off the ground is much higher than a software startup - everywhere in the world.

Personally I’ve been trying to self-fund and bootstrap a hardware startup (based in Australia but I’m reasonably well connected in Silicon Valley as I’m a YC alum). I’ve had plenty of early success and validation of all my market theses, but it’s super hard to get any investors interested. Plenty say “exciting” and want to chat. All lose interest when you start talking funding needs and path to market.

In a world in which investors and other startup industry contacts are accustomed to seeing a bootstrapped SaaS app showing signs of growth and revenue just a few months in, with a hardware startup it’s just impossible to avoid looking like a failure by comparison - due to all the costs, delays and complications involved with getting an MVP to market. And because successful hardware startups are so scarce relative to software ones, it’s hard even to get any good advice; there’s just barely anyone around with good, relevant experience to share (and I already know many of the people who have built companies in this vertical in past decades, none of whom are in SV).

I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way to make it work is to start by achieving success as a software startup, then transition into hardware to later - but even then you’d have to convince investors that it’s worth the risk.

In short, the whole tech industry has been spoiled by easy SaaS wins over the past decade, and that’s all that most investors are willing to even consider.

The exceptions are “start-big and-get-huge-fast” plays like Groq - but the founders of that company were already highly credentialed and connected when they started, and even then vanishingly few investors are willing/able to fund new companies like that. That’s not the kind of thing young, unproven founders can pull off, anywhere.
> it gets terrifying when the action interacts with the world (e.g. creating and deploying packages to a registry).

To be fair, testing actions with side effects on the wider world is terrifying even if you’re running it locally, maybe more so because your nonstandard local environment may have surprises (e.g. an env var you set then forgot) while the remote environment mostly only has stuff you set/installed explicitly, and you can be sloppier (e.g. accidentally running ./deploy when you wanted to run ./test). That part isn’t a GH Actions problem.
100% of the students I have been teaching (roughly 5 to 15 years old) are using chatgpt for almost everything. It's sometimes a struggle to get them to think for themselves!
EXIST is very narrowly tailored to technology start-ups founded by graduates based on their research.

Out of curiosity I was spot-checking the the founders of the latest YC 24 Winter batch at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=W24 , and the requirements would exclude at least 90% of them from EXIST if they lived in Germany.
> The worst part is, the forces that push us to this direction are shielded in plausible deniability and good intentions, as DRM and cybersecurity are, in the limit, the same thing, so the unhindered capitalism control freaks get to hide behind fear of cyber criminals, while secretly using tools of protection against us.

Neither in politics nor in corporate announcements was there ever a shortage of "good reasons". People are creative when it is about power and/or money.
Thanks for your reply. I think I agree with at least some of it, but it is still solely talking about race.

The worries people have, especially in somewhere like Britain, is it's a country with a relatively small population compared to the level of immigration, and housing is an enormous problem. One outcome that I think can be to a considerable extent[0] attributed to high net immigration is that housing has become smaller (many houses divided into flats), and housing has become much more expensive. So anyone who already owned a house is sitting fairly pretty, as they get bouyed up by the housing market, but anyone looking to buy for the first time, or buy into a new market for the first time (e.g. moving to near schools for kids) is going to have a massive problem, as the competitive pressure has up-bidded housing and made it worthwhile to subdivide and sell/rent smaller dwellings.

This could be all white people doing it (somewhere like Cornwall in the UK is mostly annoyed because other Brits buy holiday homes there, driving up prices for locals and their kids who are coming up) - it doesn't matter. The housing costs are what matter. And they, a bit like fuel, drive up everything else: NHS workers need higher salaries to just be able to live in many places, which drives up taxes.

This isn't to avoid actual race/ethnicity-related tensions. But there's a giant clump of people who are just fed up with their money going far less far than their parents' and grandparents' money did when it comes to one of the fundamentals of life: housing yourself and your family. And their parents and grandparents are equally upset that their kids/grandkids have in a major sense a harder life than they did.

[0] definitely not fully; there are multiple factors. But if you net import the equivalent of the population of Liverpool each year, and you aren't building a Liverpool each your to house them, it's obvious that prices will start shooting up.
The pound is slightly heavier than the dollar and overall UK wages are lower. But truth is in most of the world being a doctor is a good career but not something you can build outstanding wealth on. Hence Europeans are often puzzled with "I want my kid become a doctor" cliche from American media.
The part that is especially annoying there is that it's not just about speed, but about AI tools being closely tied to a specific architecture. Lots of them only work on Nvidia cards, but not on AMD. A fallback to CPU is often not provided either. If you don't have enough VRAM a lot of them won't work at all, not just run slower.
>>A doctor is also a kid who got full A grades as a high school graduate.

Yes, because the number of med school places in the UK is limited by the government (because they have to fund the extra cost of the course over what students pay in tuition fees). You don't really need to be that smart to be a doctor.
> not an ally like the UK

Let's see how long that lasts.
You're not thinking like an economist :) Here's something I saw on Twitter (no source):

The bicycle is the slow death of the planet.
General Director of Euro Exim Bank Ltd. got economists thinking when he said:
"A cyclist is a disaster for the country's economy: he does not buy cars and does not borrow money to buy. He does not pay for insurance policies. He does not buy fuel, does not pay for the necessary maintenance and repairs. He does not use paid parking. He does not cause serious accidents. He does not require multi-lane highways. He does not get fat. Healthy people are neither needed nor useful for the economy. They don't buy medicine. They do not go to hospitals or doctors. Nothing is added to the country's GDP (gross domestic product). On the contrary, every new McDonald's restaurant creates at least 30 jobs: 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 dietary experts and nutritionists, and obviously, people who work at the restaurant itself." Choose carefully: cyclist or McDonald's? It is worth considering.
P.S. Walking is even worse. Pedestrians don't even buy bicycles.
The main reasons for micro services (that I didn't see covered) is that it reduces cross team overhead. 10 people working on a service is fine, 100 people working on a service requires processes which slow development down (as no one can keep what is changing in their head)
Decision of where to allocate money creates value. Imagine you have 500k to allocate. You can choose to invest in A or B, after analysis you realize A is a failing business, but B with 500k invested will create enormous value by producing product C. If you didn't allocate in B this company wouldn't have had enough money to produce C and succeed.
> Anybody who moves from engineering to finance doesn't have their heart in engineering - which is fine, but its not like they had no choice.

Ahhh, the classic no true engineer / scotsman argument ... I couldn't possible be an Engineer because I like hard software projects with smart people, good budgets, and tight deadlines.
They have not done this currently. The apps are still unavailable. (6AM EST 1/20/25)
> transition into launching my own products

Programming is glorified building work. The building you create is the product. Work out what you want to create and then find what skills you need.

Making something you believe in is by far the best way to learn, albeit sometimes quite painful.
That must have been a very long time ago!
More like a documentary of the last eight.
Good article though the combination of the clickbait headline and the (later removed) subscription wall makes many of the comments less useful as they are reacting mostly to the headline.

It should in theory be possible to have "no regret" government support for this similar to the price collar used for renewables.

People are not rational economic actors and some kind of insurance for the worst case scenario can help make markets work better.

I think in California they have some kind of support for efficiency improvements which is funded based on evidence of lower bills afterwards so that might also help to incentivized good heat pump installs (including the physical install, the controls, being on the right tariff and promptly fixing any issues that comes up).
It's been found [0] that slightly varying Putnam problems causes a 30% drop in o1-Preview accuracy, but that hasn't put a dent in OAI's hype.

There's absolutely no comeuppance for juicing benchmarks, especially ones no one has access to. If performance of o3 doesn't meet expectations, there'll be plenty of people making excuses for it ("You're prompting it wrong!", "That's just not its domain!").

[0] https://openreview.net/forum?id=YXnwlZe0yf&noteId=yrsGpHd0Sf
Reality shows make or break in two spots: casting and editing.

Whatever is in the middle is nice and all, but those two make it interesting
> Everyone wants to imagine themselves "insanely powerful people" now. It's part of the sell.

I'm not sure this is true. Socialism does have a surprising foothold, but I think that's largely due to the larger number of people flowing through academia.
> I wouldn't be surprised if the freedom of speech nonsense is an influence campaign by the PLA.

As is "everybody is installing Red Note." The people who think this is true are the people who use tiktok.
I don’t understand all these comments. I use TS enums like I use Java enums and I literally never have issues. What are y’all doing with these?
That's a ridiculous way of thinking about it. Anyone who says they don't want illegal immigrants isn't objecting simply because of the legal status, they think the process should be upheld which prevented those people from immigrating legally.

It's the same reason we don't seek to improve crime rates by legalising theft. Sure, there'd be fewer people labelled as "criminal", but the original problem would remain (and in all probability would become worse).
Tom Holland's "Shadow of the Sword" covers this and the broader context. "Justinian's Flea" is set a century earlier, but provides some grimly fascinating background: both these empires were still suffering the economic and demographic consequences of a plague. It's an under appreciated period of history, just as interesting as the Roman civil war imho.
I'd still argue that it's a more realistic comparison (even if 2x off) than comparing to the whole of the USA (significantly more off)
Article title: "[Common thing] doesn't work very well!"

Article body: "So we use a monorepo and-"

Tale as old as time
You can create contract, but contracts require consideration, and I don’t see how you do consideration in a case like this without it being a bribery.
Depends on time and place. I know there's spot price contracts you can get that will -at times of day and year- go negative. That is to say, they'll pay you to use electricity (or alternately, they'll actually charge you if you feed in solar power). At other times of day the price is positive again.

It takes a bit of savvy -and panels, and batteries- to actually make optimal use of this, I figure. That said, prices sometimes going negative, however the circumstances, is definitely a bit of a change.
> BitTorrent is a way to handle the fact when there is no such option (and put economic pressure so that options exist).

I fully agree. I just wanted to point that it's not that black and white, and there're a small number of grays in between.
Hashtags became links around 2009, but I think it was just critical mass. Instead of yelling into the void, it became very easy to stumble upon a community or discussion around a hobby or event, and follows didn’t require approval like friending on Facebook. Because Twitter lacked structure, you didn’t have to find the right place to be or the right people to speak to, you’d just overlap due to retweets and hashtags. So it inverted in some ways the traditional structure of social networks, allowing for emergent and ephemeral events and places (and thereby main characters) to bubble up and recede. You could be part of something without ever having to be admitted. This was somewhat true of the blogosphere but the currency of trackbacks and comments there wasn’t quite as freewheeling and expansive.
Does anyone have a citation for this? Probably higher quality if it's in Chinese even if I have to machine translate it. Because that would be a clear pointer of suspicion.