skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Wayland is a protocol" is exactly the problem. Protocols suck; they just mean multiplying the possibility of bugs. A standard implementation is far more valuable any day.

With X11, it was simple: everybody used Xfree86 (or eventually the Xorg fork, but forks are not reimplementations) and libX11 (later libxcb was shimmed underneath with careful planning). The WM was bespoke, but it was small, nonintrusive, and out of the critical path, so bugs in it were neither numerous nor disastrous.

But today, with Wayland, there is no plan. And there is no limit to the bugs, which must get patched time and time again every time they are implemented.
Any startup investment that doesn't return, I don't know, like 5-10x "sucks" in the sense that it's not making the portfolio successful, but that's most investments in the portfolio. Beyond that: what sucks about this outcome? If your business has just 5 employees, chances are your investor doesn't have a board seat; it's not costing them much, they can just hang around on the off chance that you turn the knobs right and find a breakout success down the line.

It's true that investors aren't going to invest in your startup if you tell them that your likely outcome is a healthy, stable 3MM/year. And it would be unethical to tell an investor you were swinging for the fences when your true intention was to bank the money and bunt. But if you really do take a big swing, and end up settling in a comfortable spot, how pissed do you think investors are really? You swung, you missed, that's life in the National Football League.
> What's the point of being concerned?

So you don't turn into Russia: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/how-has-state-owned-media-in-russ...

Authoritarian regimes rely on disengagement and nihilism to remain in power.
They getting absolutely hammered. We gave it a day; the email eventually came and managed to get in.
How would you "watch a pixel on the screen" in pure software. You need a camera and an input device in the loop.
> That's Uber's business problem to solve, though, not ours.

The solution is going to be dictated by economics, not magic. There is no option where they convert all of the part-time drivers to full-time without any increase in the demand for rides.

What they're trying to do is avoid cutting off the part-time drivers entirely. But stop trying to force them to do that, it doesn't actually help people.
The internet never forgets as they say. I'm not sure why this person and their lawyers even thought it was a good idea to bring this into court and drag it out long enough for even more news outlets to pick it up and links to be indexed by search engines. This is never getting erased. I'd be shocked if the plaintiff somehow wins, doesn't make any sense to me.
One of my rules: don't send NULL over the wire, but of course always check for NULL on the server if you're using db functions.
Good summary.

Also worth noting that Denver is experiencing something similar. Not the same context, but also an increase of new supply leading to lowered prices: https://www.denverpost.com/2025/01/24/metro-denver-apartment...

Ignore the "plunge" in the title. I think it mentions it's only something like a 3% drop. But will be interesting to see if that 3% increases over time.
> The interviewers tried to tell him to approach it like an industrial-grade solution, not a weird academic exercise.

Wrong. They put in silly rules like "Max of 30 lines" and "Mutating array operations are forbidden". These do not describe industrial-grade rules. They describe an academic, esoteric challenge. And then when he provides them with it, they punish him for his creativity by adding in bullshit rules retroactively e.g. "Hardcoding matrices is forbidden."

You just sound upset that he's able to walk the walk but you WANT him to be just a bullshitter.
You can not have a lawful and fruitful society if the inhabitants of that society don't want it.

There is no law that you can pass to make the billionaire asshole not be an asshole. You can make him not a billionaire, but the inhabitants of the American society will not allow that.

That is a population problem. Not a political one.
> It has no reason to care if its drivers make minimum wage or not

Is the question "are we breaking any laws" not a reason to care?
The article mentions "San Antonio, Dallas and Plano" as also having seen declines in rent, and that the job market in Austin has slowed compared to during Covid. There is likely a shared post-Covid-migration dip as the market no longer has a huge influx of relatively-desparate new money.
Amsterdam Compiler Kit for Cray X-MP
Two wrongs does not a right make
Nope. It minimizes the terminal by default, at least on macOS. These keybinds leave the terminal / lower bar open and just shift focus back to the editor.
By allowing you to use the features of the host language to complement the features of miniKanren. Having good support for multiple programming paradigms is better than trying to make one paradigm fit all needs.
Poplog[1] was an earlier attempt to provide such synergies but it failed to gain market share. It's now free software so take a look!
The Racket ecosystem is another approach where each module can choose a language with some of them being Prolog-like[2].
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplog
[2] https://racket-lang.org/languages.html
ETH's supply growth without the burn maxes out at about 2% annually, in the case of almost the entire supply being staked. That's still less than major fiat currencies. Its current growth rate is less than Bitcoin's.

For the burn to be so extreme, the demand for transaction space would have to be much greater than the space available. Since they're also making large improvements to scaling, with the roadmap going to millions of transactions per second and the hardest parts already done, that also seems unlikely.

As for the infamous fork, that happened in Ethereum's first year and it didn't change the ETH supply. Nothing like it has happened in the nine years since. Bitcoin forked when it was eighteen months old, and that actually did change the Bitcoin supply.
Not attainable to working class though. can is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Seems like after a brief period where technology was essentially class agnostic, now only the wealthy can enjoy being part of development and everyone else can just be a consumer.
I agree with you on how many different objects, such as seashells or even certain types of stones have been used as money by some cultures. However, the point of this article is about real returns, and the real return of Gold over centuries - for example - has been zero, and this is with it having aesthetic and intrinsic values. Hence, Gold is not an investment class that Vanguard supports. So, why would Bitcoin give a postive real return, whether as a wealth preserving asset or currency?
I think people are overly fixated on the fact that a successful small business isn't a workable VC investment target (the winners have to pay for the losers, and even with a conservative portfolio of startups, most are going to lose) and they're working everything back from that.
This identity (with the minus) would be true if the only things you could do with Bitcoins were create them (at some cost) and then later destroy them for some kind of reward.

Since they can be transferred, it's analogous to saying that the amount of value produced by Visa is equal to negative one times Visa's revenue.
> Blaming uber for having those drivers seems like a stretch.

It seems perfectly predictable that a loophole you actively exploit will be closed off. Don't build your business model around loopholes, or be prepared to face the consequences.
If we are looking what we could do better next time, then we should look to the studies that showed what worked and what was most effective. The most effective initial method against the virus was neither masking, shutdowns/distancing (vaccines are not applicable since they didn't exist initially). It was to close down mass transportation. Shared recycled air is a highly suitable transportation mechanism for this kind of virus, with airplanes, trains and busses being mobile centers for outbreaks. We should try to look towards this kind of research next time something like this hit and be more focused on what actually work, rather than what either the governing party or opposing party want to promote. Airborne diseases travel by air and if you want to prevent that you need to make sure that people who are non-infected do not share the same air as people who are. If that is impossible, shutdowns/distancing helps to reduce the risks until a vaccine is developed.
Wayland has just been a disaster for the open source desktop. It's absorbed all of the effort into something horrifically subpar while breaking compatibility with the past.

Accessibly is far worse to the point of embarrassment. Latency is worse. Compatibility is gone. Everyone in the ecosystem needs to do more work to end up with fewer features for end users.

This is the opposite of systemd in every way. Systemd upset a lot of people because it was entirely user focused and didn't care about the beauty of the architecture. Wayland is only obsessed with how nice their apis are, not what the end user experience is.

Let's end this disaster. It's been 16 years. It's almost old enough to vote. When will we accept it has failed?
Those sorts of latencies actually are noticeable! As an example, 6.5ms latency between a virtual instrument and its UI is definitely noticeable.

I didn’t think it was. But it is. I promise!

It’s not necessarily a reaction-time game-winning thing. It’s a feel.

With virtual instruments, my experience is that when you get down to ~3ms you don’t notice the latency anymore… but!, when you go below 3ms, it starts feeling more physically real.
Shares have a value beyond that, though; they are a share in an actual company, which has assets and generates revenue (hopefully; granted if you’re buying shares in some SPAC merger that might one day produce a flying car or something, that’s not a million miles away from bitcoin). There is a price floor. One might reasonably argue that nvidia is not worth $3.4 trillion (its current market cap), say, but it is clearly worth _something_, even valued purely on assets and yield. Bitcoin has no floor; you are entirely dependent on other people buying it from you for more than you bought it for, because they believe that someone will one day buy it from _them_ for more than _they_ bought it for.
You can do whatever you want if you control a distribution. Use something else if you don't like it.
Were they Russian or Ukrainian? My casual understanding is that the draft is much more significant in Ukraine, although it's hard to find details of it and the penalties for dodgers.
Sorry what?! It’s a decentralised social network. You and your friends could spin up an instance. What are you even talking about?!
I've definitely heard the horror stories about condo builders who halfass the work in a way that will last just long enough for it to get into the hands of ownwers and the owners' HOA. My own building had a lawsuit (before my time) that resulted in the original builders paying for a replacement of the entire building's plumbing.
As a long time heroku user, I'll never go back to heroku. They've been working on wild card ssl for years and can't get it done. I finally hacked it into our app with about 100 lines of ruby. They are literally doing nothing but keeping the lights on until the last customer drops off.
> Poulson described the fight as “an immense time sink.”

I'll bet that he turns out getting a big rep bump from this, though.

If it were Texas or Oklahoma, there's a good chance that he'd be thrown in jail, or get a wood shampoo, at his next traffic stop, but in San Francisco, this will not be buried.
> I’ve lived paycheck to paycheck and I definitely still had a few dollars to get the ball rolling after each paycheck. Claiming that you can’t is exactly the defeatist attitude that will keep you financially disabled.

2010s were a decade of paycheck to paycheck years for me+kids. We frequently ate plain white rice (only) because there wasn't enough money for a can of beans. Or 1 onion. Sometimes I couldn't swing a bag of rice. The kids had a couple of regular meals when school was in session.

I suggest your circumstances aren't as universal as they may seem to you.
Why are the live statistics so different than the conclusions in the paper?

Here you can see that CA power is more than double the cost of PJM, Southwest, and Midcontinent power. Whenever I look at it, CA is still be burning a huge amount of natural gas, especially overnight.

https://www.gridstatus.io/live/caiso
lol while your at it could you please also buy https://rendernetwork.com/ just becuase the name conflict gets confusing :)
A lot of people program for a hobby, especially before their career starts.
Yes, all Tandem full-time employees got paid sabbaticals. And stock options.

My partner joined Tandem 2 years after me, so our eligibility for sabbaticals was out of sync. One of us would have to defer our next sabbatical for 2 years to get us in sync. Instead, we both took off together for 6 weeks every two years, using time off without pay when it wasn't our turn for a paid vacation. We took a lot of overseas trips.
It should be easy to create something better than X11. And if not pour more resources into X11 developement. Wayland on the other hand is a complete failure on all fronts. It should be abandoned ASAP.
See Also: the openbsd pc speaker driver

http://man.openbsd.org/speaker

I use it for fun alarms on my apu-2 based firewall

echo "L8F#F#C#F#DF#C#F#BAG#ABAG#E" > /dev/speaker
or maybe Salesforce will buy them as they have an appetite for breaking nice things
And this is why I'm glad I mostly invest with Vanguard
That does happen, but not for taxes. They do it to close out the fund which has (usually) a ten year life.
Streisand effect is clear here but also worth pointing out that this is a clear downside of citizen journalism, or even small newsrooms: even if they’re in the wrong the rich can sue news providers into oblivion via lawyers fees alone.
Had a go at booting this in a VM. The ISOs apparently have some issues, meaning you can't just boot in a VM and have a poke around...
Guess you think all speakers are the same.
Yeah, in SC2 I could not micro units at all.

In BAR micro feels quite good:

* the game pace is overall a bit slower

* projectile weapons actually take time to land

* many quality of life features, in particular, ability to give a whole group of units an order to get to specific positions by 'drawing' where you want them to be

* a lot more options for static defense play

* different options - surround, ranged attacks, kiting, AoE weapons vs evasion
Hashes are a good example of a very small amount of data that is very powerful. By storing a single hash, you can notarize an infinite amount of documents.

Another very powerful type of data is transaction settlements. With a single onchain transaction, an infinite amount of second layer transactions can be settled.
first, this is amazing!

second, how does one increase the context window without requiring obscene amounts of RAM? we're really hitting the limitations of the transformer architecture's quadratic scaling...
Are we imagining only “good guys” will be the ones breaking the law?
That's not how US capital gains tax law works. It's legal to sell something at below market value, but you have to use the fair market value when calculating a loss for tax purposes. Of course some people cheat.
If we are going to talk about current versus what could be, shouldn’t we do the same with hydrogen? The economics of hydrogen could improve and make it very worthwhile, especially given the convenience of fast fill ups.
Limited resources lead to inventions.
People who depend on LLMs to polish their words will run into the same problem as people who rely on autocomplete functionality: their language skills will suffer.

There's nothing wrong with using tools to check written text, but I'm wary of blindly accepting any suggested fixes. If I see a red underline I'll consider whether the word is actually fine first (English is not a static language, and spelling dictionaries are not complete), and if it looks wrong I'll try fixing it myself before reaching for the suggested fix.
No, that article is about copying frames between gpus
A good devops engineer or team will pay for itself, so it becomes an asset rather than a liability. A certain amount of scale or complexity forms a baseline. I get consulting / contracting gigs for this very reason, granted what I do goes beyond just cloud infra & costs, devops/dx as a philosophy rather than a job title. It is valuable to an organization to have some(one|people) thinking about these problems from a global & holistic view
they are distillations of r1, and work fairly well given the modest hardware they need.
> The idea of opening another bank or broker, despite how simple it is

I would wager that there are a lot of people that have money in Vanguard because Vanguard provides their employer's 401k, and their choice was "Vanguard or no 401k", not "Vanguard or something else of your choice".
Well it's already better than X11, so task accomplished.
Nitpick: the reward doesn't go up, but the difficulty goes down.
A loan, say, _is something_. You loan money to a company, they use it to build a factory, which produces, in the long run, more economic value than the cost of building it (hopefully). They pay you back, with interest. It’s a somewhat abstract something, but it is still something-by-proxy. This is generally not the case for a cryptocurrency (it might be for a lender dealing _in_ cryptocurrency, though, well, historically those usually turn out to be scams of some sort).
Neither. They do cross-promote a company, Opendoor, that does flipping, but Zillow's main goal is trying to replace realtors (or, rather, REALTOR®s, because the term is a trademark that wormed its way into people thinking of it as a business category).
Whether he did it or not, if a record was sealed and a journalist explicitly goes around publishing the details of a case and the person loses their job, I think it’s grounds for defamation. The sealed records are sealed for a reason.
Product seems like it could be neat, and around 0:34 of the demo video I thought I understood what it was, but after that I was confused again. Does it translate a question/wish into a set of questions?

Is it just "I have a question, go find the answer(s), even if it means asking other people"?
I think they would like it a lot, but I think the title doesn’t match the content, and it takes too much reading before one realises it goes beyond the title.

Keep it up!
Also it wasn’t Kool-Aid but Flavor Aid.

Not that it matters for the overall point but it’s an example
of a brand being the generic name for a product category backfiring.
Why? Why is a random response code not good enough?

Rather we need some AI useragent, that's enforced somehow on crawlers, so they can be filtered out.

Just a few days ago, an OSS project that I participate in had its wiki scraped, that looked like some random mac user agent, but suddenly from around the world, everyone looking at the wiki history, reading with crazy speed...
Ask HN: How to explain to execs why gen AI hasn't 10x'd feature dev
Our senior eng team has found that gen AI tools like GPT and Claude haven't significantly reduced the time required to develop features in our system. We're having open/good faith talks with product and exec teams about the reasons behind this and would love insights on how to effectively explain the limitations and nuances of using gen AI in engineering.
US Army Center of Military History publications list;

https://history.army.mil/Publications/Publications-Catalog-S...

In particular;

"ADVICE AND SUPPORT: THE EARLY YEARS"

https://history.army.mil/Publications/Publications-Catalog-S...

This is first book in a series of three, where the first and third have been published, the second is in fact going to be two volumes, of which the second volume is about to be published and the first is not yet out.

The book IMO is superb.

The history of it is very simple : the French rules Vietnam, extraordinarily badly, the locals wanted independence - that's all they wanted. An end to violence, exploitation and corruption. WW2 happened, the Japanese moved in, then out, the locals declared independence, the French came back, and they wanted to keep Vietnam. The French shanghaied the Americans into helping them militarily ("they're all communists!!!") and the Americans were naive/gullible and bought into it. The French eventually left, leaving the Americans carrying the can and with so much investment of time and prestige they couldn't just leave.

In all of this, the locals suffered in the most appalling and horrific ways, and ended up stuck with Communism (which none of them had any particular interest in, and which they later turned to because they needed support and that was all that was available).

Basically far as I can see it all kicked off with French colonialism. The locals simply wanted independence. The irony is the USA - the bastion of independence and freedom - ended up fighting against this and slaughtering huge numbers of people who simply wanted to run their own affairs.

USA is a good country, as countries go, but it has made mistakes, and when countries go to war, the practical consequences of the mistakes can well be enormous.

(I can compare this to say Putin's Russia, which is an appalling country and will kill you and your family if you get in their way and using violence and torture to keep people in line.)
In my city I could very much believe overall crime is down, but due to recent social events crime is far more spread out. Areas that used to experience very little crime are now seeing far more. Areas that saw crazy levels of crime leveled off some.

Crimes that were basically unheard of in my neighborhood 5 years ago (carjackings and armed muggings, for example) are now a weekly common occurrence. This will absolutely create the impression for residents in my neighborhood that crime is up. It went from something you barely thought about, to something you now plan your night around to not be walking home alone in the dark.

Reporting is also a problem. I know of two people who were violently mugged to the point of one being hospitalized who did not report it to the police since they knew it was utterly pointless to do so.
Ah thanks, for some reason the description had made me think there was some dodgy HR/payroll startup rather than the gig economy generally.
Zillow themselves were buying a lot of property that they planned to rent them or flip. They reversed course on that and ended up selling them all off.
I agree here. Render is nice now, not bloated.
The mouse and monitor don't matter here. Unless their delay completely dominates the timing (it doesn't here) they can be ignored because the setup is constant been the tests. We're interested in the difference, not the absolute numbers.
Definitely, but in this case, it may be a Streisand Effect with a $25 million payout attached.

it is unclear to me whether US law and precedent has the idea of "half-truths" being defamatory. In this case, I'd imagine that would apply if it can be applied; the plaintiff was technically arrested, but legally the arrest itself was expunged. So telling people he was arrested is a truth that definitely isn't telling the whole truth.
Sure one word is more precise than the other, but in the context of this question that's beside the point. If one makes the claim 'it's not reasoning, it's just X,' the burden of proof is that X is district from reasoning. That 'reasoning' is an ambiguous term, long makes it harder to argue that X is not compatible with. I was pointing out that, at least superficially, they seem potentially compatible.

Again I'm not at all trying to argue that LLMs do reason. I'm trying to understand how one definitively argues that they don't.
Cartel price fixing is not "market rate" by any honest definition.