skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't compare Zed with Vscode and it's cousins. I've used Zed myself and it is still very lacking, limited extensions.

Zed only has syntax highlighting and an ai assistant, but that's it. Even though Vscode (and the rest) is still also considered a text editor and not a IDE, they have by far way more features.

Sure, you get super duper high speed, but at what cost?
I don't have special information but there is general stuff in the headlines like

Putin growing concerned by Russia’s economy, as Trump pushes for Ukraine deal https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-growing-concerned...

Also basically the whole western world are progressively sanctioning them eg. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-imposes-new-wave-of-sa... and https://kyivindependent.com/us-likely-to-sanction-russia-if-...

Plus the war is expensive. Plus Ukraine's main strategy at the moment seems to be to take out their oil and related industries using drones https://www.newsweek.com/russia-map-shows-critical-infrastru...

I'm not sure it's going to change unless there is some sort of deal or Putin goes.
CMA to investigate Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems in the UK
Yeah, let me drop one example: JIRA.
They can have copy on write of course.
Presumably this could be quantified through a call to something like the Google maps api for a specific lat/long starting point, for driving, walking or biking time in minutes, as an SLP (sheep latency protocol)
And, logically - if we're worried about spying - it actually makes the most sense for average Chinese people to use US software and vice versa. The biggest threat to a person is always the police & military of their own country.

For example, China killed a lot of people. They were all Chinese.
Can you email me (jgc@cloudflare.com) with the problem you are seeing?
> In a 2020 sale for what Silicon Valley Disposition called a “Major Bay Area Wind Energy Kite Company,” the auction site listed a 2016 Magni crane.

I assume this must have been Makani: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makani_(company)
Anyone else wondering what was the full query starting with "Human beings who are al[most?ways?]..."?
"Hi everyone. I want to inconvenience hundreds of people because of my minority political beliefs."
Since at least web2.0 I've been burned many times. So my default position on VC backed projects without clear monetization plan is that it is probably bait-and-switch.
Query Engines: Gatekeepers of the Parquet File Format
Sizing up MI300A's GPU
The outside view of VR workouts is usually the "play a game, workout by accident" appeal.

Although I believe it's usually the other way around. People play games where they are moving quite a lot and afterwards realize that they are actual getting exhausted.
And then they realize that they didn't really notice that exhaustion while doing the actual movement ( focus on the game, outside world mostly blocked off ) so the thinking is "wow I can do workouts without having to dread them and without being pulled away by other distractions, and all that from my living room"

There are already studies that show people feel less exhaustion while doing a VR Workout compared to a classic workout when done at the same intensity
It's derived from LIDAR scans.

https://www.usgs.gov/ngp-standards-and-specifications/elevat...

I'm not sure it's their best product for elevation anymore, but USGS also publishes 3dep, which is a unified layer of the best available elevation data for the US.
That's a relief, thank you.
There are many non-political subreddits that ban anyone participating in any mainstream conservative subreddit. I’ve been banned by Reddit for ‘hate speech’ for writing “Hamas must be destroyed”. Ultimately, people enjoy the control and they’ll use any excuse to shape the conversation how they wish.
When will it be released to homebrew?
Your first 3 options are mostly “be born to the right parents”. So I couldn’t tell if your remark of “it’s more possible than you’d think!” Was serious or not.

Hell I went to a really selective school. But even then, within that the top students, whom I was not one, got to do some extra stuff that would have greatly interested me and I would have been able to do. But my grades in humanities weren’t good enough to be one of the best.
The British Micro Behemoth
Now I wonder if the LLMs described in it are self-aware too, and whether by the time I reach the end of this book, I will become self-aware as well.
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It's free. Cursor costs after 50 requests, even Windsurf is cheaper.
> Plus fewer silly discussions with REST-ish purists: “if an HTTP endpoint is idempotent should deleting the same resource twice give a 404 twice?” - dude, how’s that helping the company to make money?

It helps by trying to map standard metaphors to your company's concepts instead of inventing bespoke return types for your company's concepts. You still need to decide whether or not to indicate that the resource is either not there, or was never there.
Again?

Seeing HTC do this makes me sad. They will get burnt by Google again.

HTC was an amazing technological frontrunner for Android phones.

The team got absorbed by Google.

They had people working on VR/XR.

That team got absorbed by Google too.

Now, the VR team is getting absorbed again.

Google tried this already - and failed. And as someone who held multiple workshops educating people to use Google's AR/VR tech, I see nothing but a barely-useful Android fork coming out of this that will be used for cheap VR/AR headsets.

So to recap:

- There was the AR (https://developers.google.com/ar)

- There was the VR (https://developers.google.com/vr)

- There was Google cardboard

- There was Google Glass.

All of these projects were:

- Early to the market

- Had a huge advantage over competition

- Were (relatively) simple to build on/use

All of these projects ended up abandoned as the responsible person probably got promoted and moved on, leaving them to die. Now, when the competition stepped up their game and is gaining some serious ground in the field (META) it's someone else's turn to get their big promotion by releasing a half-assed product that they will forget about in a year.

In the end, all that this signals to me is to be bullish on Meta, as their VR play seems to be sticky enough to draw out the competitors.
> You want to let yourself think about things that you enjoy and motivate you INTRINSICALLY, not someone else because then you just keep needed to rely on their enthusiasm.

Legitimate question for debate: how does this differ for social media vs other media? Apart from social media being more addictive, all media is pushing someone else's thoughts on you, in some way. I can imagine old folks would've made similar arguments against TV and books.

(I ask this but still 100% agree social media sucks)
there's also a measure of the minimum appropriate "time to sheep" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_meas...
Isn’t there a recurring publicity stunt with sheep on Savile Row? =)
How many do we have now? 3? Cursor, Windsurf and now Trae.
> strap a weird looking bulky machine on your face.

i think the hardware people should go all in, a develop a full body suit, may be even encase it in a shell which could suspend you (for free walking, turning etc), and make VR truly immersive. Could even use sonic/air pressure to produce haptic feedback on the body to simulate touch.
Yes I game in it all the time. Also it's great for VR porn. And for reading books in bed. Not having to hold up a device. And I like doing teams meetings in VR even though Microsoft Mesh is still very lacking compared to competing products like Arthur.
For 1 & 2, the issue wasn't that the author was looking at the wrong logs/coredumps. It's that coredumps from inside containers typically don't match the symbols available outside the container - you either have to run gdb inside a matching container, or rebuild the contents of the container in the host environment (as they did here).

3. There's nothing wrong with the level of abstraction here. If you have a crash that occurs on ARM but not on amd64, the differences in how those architectures operate is a very reasonable initial assumption.

4. The value in x20 is the same value in the local variable in question. Even though there may not be a general one-to-one mapping between variables and registers, at this particular instant in time that variable does correspond to this register.

5 is irrelevant, as the article isn't discussing forking. It's discussing the (somewhat questionable) practice of a program using getenv/setenv as mutable state.

For 6, the article doesn't say that env stores its own array length. It says that setenv called something like free() on the old env array, and free() overwrote env with the length of the memory allocation (which is a quite reasonable way for malloc to do book keeping).
Then you know nothing of how China operates its military or its intelligence gathering apparatus. Ask any of the parts of the world that disagree with China about their sovereignty…
A poison is not going to harm you unless it makes no contact with your body; what GP is saying is, regardless of which one is more potent, it's safer to pick the one you're least likely to ever find yourself near.
If nation states in central Europe would disappear, what would "German industry" even mean?
Buggy/incomplete Openapi codegen for rust was a huge disappointment for me. At least with grpc some languages are first class citizens. Of course generated code has some uglyness. Kinda sad http2 traffic can be flaky due to bugs in network hardware.
It's Charing Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross#:~:text=Since%20....
Looking at the satellite view of some grassy rooftops in the city of London (the square mile), it seems to me that a sufficiently motivated wealthy person could keep several sheep in a more central location. Some of those roofs look like they have more habitat space than the most central sheep lives in.
0) Yes, an evenly lit workspace is essential for any work.

0.1) Buy more lamps -- nothing fancy, ideally second hand, always with the common affordable household light socket.
By the time you have the lighting arranged how you want, you may have too many lamps. At that point you can use your army of lamps to inform bigger (& more permanent) spending decisions.

1) If you have a regular occurrence of eyestrain or itchy or sore eyes -- particularly if you don't already wear glasses and don't think you're just spending too much time working (not sleeping) -- go to an optometrist and get your eyes/vision checked. Your eye muscles "expect" your eyes to be within spec and will work harder and harder to focus even if your eyes are wobbly and largely unfocusable like mine.

2) If your monitor's backlight flickers at a low enough frequency[0] that it's a problem -- get a new monitor[1]. If you spend enough time using your monitor that the eyestrain is real, upgrading your monitor is a no-brainer.

2.1) Spend time calibrating and adjusting your display/s, whatever it is.

3) Pay attention to how text is being rendered, be picky about it and change settings and fonts. Using all the anti-aliasing and hinting features is not always better.

3.1) Prefer light backgrounds with dark text. Your eyes have an easier time focusing with this configuration. If a light background is too bright to look at, you need to add light to the room. Understand that I put this point last because it is less significant than the others.

[0] flicker, PWM: would love to see some research on that, by the way. Does the switching frequency matter? (it certainly does for my hearing)

[1] FWIW, my general recommendation for serious, but not too serious, quality-cost sweet spot monitors is: IPS, 2560x1440, 27", high refresh rate (i.e. ~120 Hz) -- this comes with some risk of gamer-knife gun mount greeblies, of course.
I built an app (https://usedigest.com) for this exact reason, I couldn't stop with the doom scrolling. I wasn't particularly looking for anything either, just swiping and swiping... constantly reaching for my phone even when I'd just stop to pee for 30 seconds I'd find myself taking out my phone and swiping. The app I built aggregates content from all the sources I was looking at and just sends me a daily summary. I've been able cut way down on this addiction.
I kind of agree but the same problem exists. If you add text-xl to a div and have nested divs and spans, they'll all be inheriting text-xl so for these nested elements, you also have to look up the element's lineage to find what's causing the text-xl.

But overall it's a bit easier yes.
My metric for when you've left the city is "have I passed a field of potatoes"
Thanks for trying! I was thinking of creating a set of digits for base 26 using emoji or other Unicode characters. Then the numbers would at least look like palindromes. But I don't know how interesting palindromes in an ad hoc character set would be.
Yes, our company [1] is profitable providing a B2B XR meeting platform used by various heavy industries for different internal and external use cases including product design, high-impact sales and training.

We're in Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Higher Ed amongst others and currently support Quest, HoloLens and Magic Leap.

We (and loads of competitors) are growing at a steady pace, the numbers probably wouldn't excite a VC associate, but there's more to life and business than that.

[1] https://fracturereality.io/
It sounds natural to me only if you're expecting exactly one star. For example:

The Three Wise Men are back. But this time, there's no star in the sky to guide them.
+1 on the "horrible idea" part.

Thing is, the (history of the) UNIX APIs - call'em "libc" if you like - is littered with the undead corpses of horrible ideas. Who thought that having global file write offsets are great ? Append-only writes ? Global working directories ? The ability to write the password db via putpwent() ? Modifying your own envp or argv ? Why have a horribly-scaling hack like fcntl-based file locking even in the standard ?

"Today", were one to start from scratch, the userspace API of even unix-ish operating systems would be done much differently. After all, systems designers and implementors are intelligent people and learn, and there's 50y+ of history to learn from. But the warts are there, and sometimes, there to "program around" them.
>(young) men shouldn’t be cared about, and aren’t socially beneficial to discuss?

They already aren't in any other issue discussion (violence, suicide, homelessness, jobless, legal, sickness, education) so at least it would be consistent.
I think that world exists already. I've been paying for JetBrains licences for years because their value is greater than their cost.

You can do it without IDEs, nothing is stopping you. I don't think this is a new phenomenon though.
Almost all of that is fixable by government. It doesn't have to be captured. It's paid out of taxes to not be captured. Monopoly prevention, same. Fake innovations - the way to protect against them is to make sure there's an environment in which competitors can arise.
> every city is a social network operator that has to police the server

the "policing" problem (I think moderation is a better word) needs to be solved one way or another, there is no doubt about that. The question is what is the most democratic and economically viable way to do that. You need to find an organizational unit that embodies decentralization, has a stake in the matter and could realistically execute. Can't think of anything better that the city.

Plus, we don't really need a utopic perfect solution that works for everybody all the time. What the open source fediverse really needs at this point is a sustainable source of funding to reach more mass-market usability. People would always be free to fork and build their own quirky communities.
Those packages exist already though. Pretty sure the bun maintainers (or Ciro Spaciari in this case) asked the question "how fast could it be if written in zig?".
I see that's how you've inferred it, however it was not my intention. Even to say that some people call it a religious goal is not humble.
As a non British person I would think the center of the city would be some point equidistant centrally between the boundaries of the original roman city wall, in the square mile, but the actual center of the city seems to have migrated since then.
The US is largely talk, vs. the substantial action China takes and has taken against territories it considers its own.

The US importantly has a robust and independent judiciary where a fair trial is infinitely more likely than in China. Even for foreigners, the US legal system is accessible, understandable, and weildable for protection. It’s far from perfect, but 100x what you’d get in China.
I signed up, typed "c++" in the search bar, and the results were... gay porn.

I might reinstall and try again when the Rust lobby chills out.
It's much worse, I doubt they created and published this IDE for profit, they want people's data.
Oh wow, I expected it to be minimized, obfuscated JS, but it's completely readable! I wish more extensions were like this...
This seems to list some components multiple times in a versioned way, did I get it right that this is rather a whole list of components you've bought while working on this project rather than the final list of the components needed to assemble the notebook you've built?
A lot of Unity and Unreal games seem to have one thing in common: unoptimized slop with garbage performance with smeary TAA and needing a 4090 GPU to get decent performance.

Game studios don't care about optimizations anymore, they care about shoveling something out the door as quickly and as cheaply as possible.
Habits are indeed different from addictions. But surely you acknowledge that these are addictive drugs we're talking about? They've been well studied and people develop both physical and mental dependencies on them far beyond mere habits.

> When sleep issues are caused by mental conditions you can generally address them. But when it's the side effect of something physical the attempts to address such things without drugs do not fare very well.

Actually, there are plenty of ways to improve sleep quality without drugs. Typically, Zolpidem is prescribed only after those methods have been tried. But again, the prevailing medical guideline is to only use drugs like that for a short term period in the neighborhood of 2 weeks. It's not recommended that you use them for years, even at a low dosage or on an irregular schedule.
IMO, cognitive load is the complexity of 'the scale of knowledge you need to build the solution (the problem space).'

However, complexity also comes from the solution itself — caching, microservice architecture, or even poorly chosen variable names.

So, complexity is irreducible, but it’s not a constant.

Certain solutions partition the problem space, thereby partitioning the complexity. This reduces the local complexity and, consequently, the cognitive load. However, the global complexity still remains and can even increase.
Very unrelated, but: I run Linux on an older Thinkpad and I appreciate fast websites. This is a very well-designed website! It loads fast and it scrolls quite quickly.

Does anybody feel the same? I feel like nobody touched upon this, but it's always very nice to feel interfaces are responsive.
I don't get it, could you explain it?
Is that as big a problem for PWAs? These apps are still running in the browser so never have access to many parts of a phone a native app would.
Not all of them. I'd have more trouble finding work if it was true. By the way, IME Eastern Europe is the best outsourcing destination if you want good quality for somewhat less money. There are not so good companies as well, but the only good "outsourcing code" I have seen was from there.

I think it's really mostly mechanical engineering companies that undervalue software. My main client is one, they actually do value software so it's a decent environment. Unfortunately still rare.
It looks like https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next and the anyon_e use the same SoC and similar parts (e.g. Cherry MX ULP switches). I wonder how much of that is they're the only parts that would be put in such laptops?
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I once worked on an application that integrated with a third party api. The way it did this was with a large and horrible client library that used a separate db to cache the data.

The data was then fetched from the main application and used to rebuild the pages (in the main db) based on this data once a day.

The library had lots of problems, and one day it stopped working. I was tasked with fixing it - we had the source code, it was purchased from someone and copied into the repo. I spent most of the week if not more trying to figure out what was wrong, but I couldn't. What I did learn was that this library was some of the worst most pointless code I'd ever seen.

So I told the team that I think I can rebuild this thing from scratch faster than I can fix this bug. The intermediate db is pointless and most of the library code is dead, the rest is garbage. I can make a simple little thing that does exactly what we need better, faster and easier.

Nope. No bueno, fix what we have. So I spent a few hours over the weekend, less than a workday, building the new solution. Come Monday I had it pretty much working, a few things needed to be done but it already supported the use case. The pages were built correctly, they had the necessary content but some things were a bit messed up, nothing difficult to fix.

Showed it to the team, said I want to use this and delete the old stuff - nope.

The only half-decent explanation I got was that the client had paid a way too high amount of money for this garbage library and I guess the team lead didn't want to tell them we wanted to throw it out or something like that.
Unless they are forced to learn things that are uninteresting to them.
I almost failed the high school entry exams because I dedicated more time to soldering electronic devices and programming computers rather than writing essays about Polish literature or memorizing dates of historical battles. Same thing with the final high school exams - it was a really close call. I felt like they gave me good scores on non-STEM subjects just because I already won some prizes in electronics / physics olympiads and brought some fame to the school, so kida got away with that but... it was stressful anyways.
> the last 80% give us something much more that isn’t quantified: The feeling of having completed something of value, and having done it properly, carries an inherent value that surpasses the last 20% output. It is unquantifiable and priceless. This is when work or products become timeless and truly valuable. Not to mention that feeling of satisfaction and completeness of taking an accomplishment to that level.

This is why software development _as a job_ sucks, and sucks deeply: how often do you get to put the icing on the cake, and put a ribbon on it, and get a final effort that matches what you were able to envision ?

"Job" satisfaction is for _hobbyist_ software development. Capitalism generates crap software.