skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) for the productivity gain. KL hits a sweet spot of safe, good amenities, affordable, and 'boring' (so as to avoid distractions). Good accommodation is affordable on a moderate budget inc. 3x/week housekeeping, reducing what I have to do outside of work/startup. Food, groceries, and transport are high-quality, cheapish and available via apps. Good co-working facilities are available. (internet speeds are horrendous but some places will have good speeds, just have to shop around a little).

On top of a full time remote job, I'm getting 4-6+ hours of quality time on my startup per day. I haven't quite hit this level of productivity anywhere else in the world, for a variety of reasons including distractions, transport friction, and even accommodation frictions like poor sleep due to noise or temperature or other reasons.

My days are literally: work dayjob, work on start up, exercise, sleep. Probably a 1.5-3x productivity improvement compared to my (large, Western) home city. I notice I'm improving much faster (productivity seems to have an exponential impact on mastery). It also feels pretty easy to do 12+ hour days, which, for me, underscores the value in fiercely reducing unnecessary distractions. Seemingly small distractions can add up.
So AI does stifle adoption of new tech then?
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> I think that complex solutions CAN be grasped by the large majority of voters

Not sure I agree. Not because the large majority aren't intellectually capable, but because there isn't the interest/attention span in most people to understand the nuances of the complex problem that is demanding the complex solution. I feel this in myself increasingly and opt to just not have an opinion on proposed solutions when I believe the problem is much more complex and multifaceted than I'm even aware.
What part of Spain and how’s the tax situation?
nix and direnv might be worth a look.
As someone that started using MS-DOS, when MS-DOS 3.3 was current, I rather have the GUIs world, thanks.

I really can't grasp the TUI hype that is going on nowadays.
Show HN: I created the first 24/7 AI Livestream
Hey All - I'm excited to launch the World’s First 24/7 AI Podcast Stream

After some serious server headaches, the world’s first 24/7 AI podcast stream is live! It generates 5-10 minute segments with different AI hosts and even responds to viewer comments (eventually) by turning them into podcast episodes.

The idea is to create a space like Lofi Girl where people can hang out or actively chat. I see this as the start of new community experiences around AI—more of a “movie theater” vibe compared to Character AI’s “Netflix” feel.

It’s still early days, but I’m excited to see where this goes. Check it out and let me know what you think!
An llm itself is a large codebase that no human has laid eyes on, instead you validate it through testing.

Regarding testing, I’ve had an interaction with windsurf where I told it there was a bug in the application it generated. It replied “I’ve added some log statements, can you run it and tell me what you see, then I’ll know what to fix”… The llm was instructing me…
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There is a big pain point about Lisbon: it takes 2-3 years to get your first residence permit. Before then, you live legally in the country, but if you try to cross the border (even as there is no border!), you are now an illegal alien. That situation is simply not present in Spain because they issue residence permits very quickly, before your 90-days visa free stay expires.

Otherwise, i agree with you. Portugal is a better place to live than Spain. I actually recommend people - and several has followed my recommendation - to firstly get a residence permit in Spain, then go to Portugal and apply there, and live in either country until Portuguese one comes out.
Or one could not do that and focus on quality instead.
and even 100 years ago was so much better than 200 years ago https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-al...

Let's hope the impact of RFK Jr on US health and vaccination of children won't be too big.
Four paragraphs about the logistics of these cups was too much for me…
Yes, in the early days, as many others have replied.

What most have missed is that those libraries usually required root access, or setuid, unless you want to go clever with group permissions, which no one did.
People used to live in villages and places that were not connected by roads. Now since we have roads, any place that is not connected by a road will be seen a rough place. The difficulty is caused by usage of roads and vehicles, because it was not perceived or felt back in those days. So technology and assistance create new perceived problems.
I dunno man, Australia is equal parts desert, heatwaves, floods, and whatever the hell this is https://youtu.be/H7MU39th9Ng?si=pNkLogRdwdBY3lll

Accurate though.

Caution, coarse language.
Bookshop.org just launched, US-only initially, with 3 million titles; they pay affiliates 30% commission, whereas Amazon apparently pays Kindle affiliates 5-10% commission (+ bounties for SM campaigns, which is getting annoyingly overdone).

One way we can boost Bookshop.org is anytime we cite a book to use their URL instead of Amazon's URL. So here's "Nineteen Eighty Four" https://bookshop.org/p/books/nineteen-eighty-four-george-orw...

Yes they should add a filter for DRM-free, or allow setting it as your default.

From TheVerge article: *"The app... has a unique social feature: “We’ll allow anybody to share any quote from any ebook to social media, and then people who are on social can click through, buy the ebook, and start reading it on their phone immediately.”"
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> Oh yes? What glee you appear to exhibit at the thought of 150 odd million people being thrown in to turmoil.

Please specify exactly where this glee is supposed to be apparent.

I was originally only saying that I think there is going to be a big economic upswing in Ukraine when russia collapses.

But since you seem interested:

As for russia, that is just sad. I'm one of those who used to study russian back when the iron curtain fell.

But in the choice between:

- russia inevitably collapsing and utterly destroying other countries along with it

- and russia inevitably collapsing and only for a limited time damaging other countries in the process

I take the last one.

Edit:

As for the nuclear weapons, we can probably make a new Budapest Memorandum and russia can give the nuclear warheads to China as payments.

It worked so well with Ukraine.

Can't see any problems with that /s
The commit in question https://github.com/stong/tldw/commit/0144a4e930425d308704de0...
I am not going to allow anyone else to touch my phone, even by mistake. In fact it is zipped to my clothing, so I don't lose it by accident either. If I were to leave it in a box, if will definitely get lost one day.
> If people really cared about that above all else they would use a memory-safe language, which Rust is not, such as Java or Python or Haskell or something.

people already use languages like java or python or js in most cases! it's only in rare cases it made sense to write stuff in c or c++. now with rust, that niche becomes even smaller.

> Governments aren't "bugging" anyone about memory safety

idk this report sounds like bugging from governments (plural) to me: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-12/The-Case-fo...

no one who isn't being obtuse would say rust isn't memory safe. the linked report also deems rust a memory safe language.
> I really can't grasp the TUI hype that is going on nowadays.

We have command completion. And the GUIs have mostly become enshitified.
Edit: it’s worth expanding on the data centre costs issues - if it’s fair to say we have stalled on “free”speed ups for standard software (ie C/Linux) - that is clock speeds more or less stopped and we get more 64 bit cores but each core is more or less no faster (hand wavy), then the amount of clients that can be packed into a data centre stays the same - you are renting out CPUs in a Docker VM - that’s basically one per Core(#). And while wafer scale gives you 900,000 cores in a 1u server, normal CPUs gives you what 64? 128?

Suddenly your cost for building a new data centre is something like twice the cost of the previous one (cold gets more expensive etc) and yet you only sell same amount of space. It’s not an attractive business in first place.

This was the push for lambda architecture etc - depending on usage you could have hundreds of people buying the same core. I would have put a lot of cash into making something that spins up docker instances so fast it’s like lambda - and guess what fly.io does?

I think fly.io’s obsession with engineering led them down a path of positive capital usage while AWS focused on rolling out new products on a tougher capital process.

Anyway - AI is the only thing that dense multi core data centres can use that packs in many many users compared to docker per core.

Unless we all learn how to think and code in parallel, we are leaving a huge amount of hardware gains on the table. And those gains are going to 100x in the next ten years and my bet is my janky-ass software will still not be able to use it - there will be a bifurcation of specialist software engineers who work in domains and with tooling that is embarrassingly parallel, and the rest of us will be on fly.io :-)

(#) ok so maybe 3 or 4 docker per core, with hyper visor doling out time slots, but much more than that and performance is a dog, and so the number of “virtual CPUs” you can sell is a limited number and creeps up despite hardware leaping ahead … the point I am making
They voted for people that are working to reinstitute Jim Crow apartheid, are pushing for ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the hostile annexation of Canada, canceled federal celebrations of MLK Jr. Day, put tattooed white supremacists in charge of the US Military apparatus, think "there are good people" on both sides of a white supremacist terror attack on Americans, turned Guantanamo Bay into a concentration camp while furiously deporting immigrants of color yet opening the door to white people aggrieved by the aftermath of the fall of South African Apartheid, and constantly boost/reply/repost white supremacist propaganda including normalizing white replacement theory. Just a short list of real things off the top of my head.

It's possible that their perspective on the outgroup is not entirely "fair and balanced."

As a white American the concept of "racist against white people" is laughable. The right's obsessive persecution complex while enjoying the bounties of the greatest empire of human history is childish in the extreme. Like toddlers, but with the power to destroy all of human civilization.
Valencia. Taxes are outrageous, for sure. But all other cost of living is much cheaper. And my daughter will most likely go to a European university so when that cost savings is considered, it's a huge net gain regardless of the taxes. My wife and I both work remotely for U.S. organizations. Earning a U.S. salary with Spanish cost of living allows us to have a quality of life far beyond what we had in the U.S.
Half the time when Western people say they want to move to a different country for economic or political reasons, what they really wish for is to expand their country's borders, take the newly acquired land for themselves (for free or at best a pittance), pay token tribute / taxes to the country they're already in (because taxes are inevitable), and then have their government leave them alone. The problem, of course, is that there's other people who were already on the land that the borders were expanded onto.

Nobody really prefers to move to a country whose common language they do not speak, where they don't know anybody, and where they will forevermore be treated as second-class (due to being an outsider/immigrant) for the rest of their lives.
My heroes:
Trygve Reenskaug, MVC/DCI inventor which I learnt a lot from.
Niklaus Wirth, Pascal, my 1st programming language.
PHP needs modules. The way it solves code reuse by tooling that helps making class names longer to avoid collisions is just too cumbersome.

Python:

calc.py
-------

def sum(a, b):
return a+b

hello.py
--------

import calc
print(calc.sum(1, 2))

PHP:

LongUniqueStringToHopefullyAvoidCollisions/Calc.php
---------------------------------------------------

<?php
namespace LongUniqueStringToHopefullyAvoidCollisions;
class Calc {
public static function sum($a, $b) {
return $a + $b;
}
}

hello.php
---------

<?php
require_once 'LongUniqueStringToHopefullyAvoidCollisions/Calc.php';
use LongUniqueStringToHopefullyAvoidCollisions\Calc;
echo Calc::sum(1, 2)

For people who don't know PHP it is probably hard to grasp and hard to believe: To avoid name collisions, you have to wrap your code in classes and then use the "namespace" and "use" keywords which function like prefixing the class names with a given string, so the class names hopefully do not collide with other class names in your codebase.
Already there are stories of these AI companions encouraging people to kill themselves, sometimes to the point of actually doing it

https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-a...
Does anyone know specifically how much of this is no longer true? https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
It’s weird to immediately assume it’s a matter of age. Do you have any basis for that?
Disagree.

Most of the games still hold up and emulation is very easy to run. Probably the best handheld of its era.

Only limited by it's controls. KZ was great, they even had to patch in the last chapter, but it was an amazing game.
After seeing this happen for years, it comes down to one simple thing, at least while at the office. Is the employee getting paid enough? If they are, they will use the phone less. The more junior the employee, the worse they're getting paid, and so the more they will use their phone.
You will earn 1/3 of what you could in the U.S. in the UK. You will pay much more in taxes and have much higher fixed real estate expenses (mortgage, lease etc). Your economic opportunities will cease to exist. Your standard of living will drop and stall. You will have “free” healthcare which basically just seeks to triage you with “holistic” (I.e. free) solutions until your symptoms manifest as life-changing. You will experience some of the worst weather on the planet. Ignore the noise online. Avoid the UK and go home.
I don't want to expand the US' borders. The US might be killing me this cycle
Yeah. Basically, for most intents and purposes, any high-end MSDOS application is basically running bare-metal, as if no OS was installed in the system at all.

As close to the embedded world as possible.

I don't understand why is there so little documentation about MSDOS as a real-time operating system. I'd bet it would work beautifully for any piece of software that was developed with such use-case in mind.
FWIW: That Americans wanna expat to "anywhere else" is a semi cold take.

the world is big and i respect other countries for sure. see my other comment about my loving Aussies.

But there's something real important and real deep
about being born in USA. it's a designed shit show.

"give us your weak and poor…" . this is by design. we want the smoke. All cluster fucks of freedom of thought is the point. it's hard to get along.

ok so USA looking real brittle right now. i'm not naive.

but i was raised in this. i love other countries but Ill never shake being a brown boy upper middle class software engineer without college degree in the US of A
I would argue that inputting a loadBalance(sum(shift.duration)) function per employee is a higher level abstraction than inputting a quadratic math equation to accomplish the same thing.

Think Java/C++/Python vs Assembly.

Ironically, talking about problem reduction... most math equation based solver can't scale quadratic equations, so users "relax" the business constraints (to the point that projects fail in production).
Switzerland.

I'm from Greece and I've always dreamt of living there, but through the various turns of life I ended living for almost a decade in the UK first, so now I'm looking to make the move.

(So if anyone from Switzerland is reading this and is looking for an SRE from an EU country, feel free to reach out at cv@ my username.net)

Lately though I've been thinking about Norway as well, though I feel that transition would be much harder.
It has Composer: https://getcomposer.org/
American here. Moved to France two and a half years ago. I speak French fluently as does my partner. It was probably easier for us because of that, but it still has it’s challenges. Integrating into a completely new culture where the language isn’t your mother tongue is exhausting at times.

Given all that. I’m quite happy not being back in the US. But I do long for an English first culture from time to time.
Is it still safe even if it depends on the dependencies which are not safe?
I am afraid that is not what they learned :/ from what I can tell, they think Kamala ran too far to the right (whatever that means) and lost her base. It seems to me that these values are more important to them than we would rationally think possible.

To come back to the previous topic: n=1, but I moved out of a city to escape the bullshit and find some common-sense. I have a master's degree and my wife is an MD. We are not the only ones in our circle that deliberatly moved into a rural area :)
Yeah, I'd say many places in Asia hit the same affordable/convince as KL, but they aren't as "boring". I lived in KL for two months and had a pretty similar experience. Lived in the sunway velocity condos which was connected to Sunway velocity mall. Pool & gym in the building, grocery store was a short air conditioned walk away along with a bunch of different restaurants.

I was living in a bubble (by choice), very efficient and very boring.

I had a pretty similar setup in Busan in South Korea, but the party scene was too fun. Much worse if you're trying to be "efficient".
Yes, exactly my thought. The graveyard in my dad's hometown has a huge section just for small kids, because life in the country was tough, and that was normal.
A 'death cult' on the run: The Bay Area fringe group terrorizing America
Composer adds even more tooling around the fundamental problem that PHP does not have modules.

And it does not do away with the problem that you have to preemptively wrap everything in classes and add a LongUniqueStringToHopefullyAvoidCollisions via the "namespace" and "use" keywords to all your classes to hopefully avoid name clashes in the future.
'That situation is simply not present in Spain because they issue residence permits very quickly, before your 90-days visa free stay expires.'

This is a common misconception. For almost all residency permits, you must apply from the United States. You are not allowed to apply while in Spain. There are exceptions, but not many. Though, with the new digital nomad visa which did not exist when I moved, it is possible to apply while in Spain. But, it most likely will not be issued within 90 days. I have many friends that have done so and are forced to live illegally for a period before it gets approved. I've never seen a single residency permit get issued within 90 days (other than student visas). The Govt. is EXTREMELY slow. Much more so than the U.S. even. Even our renewals have taken much more than 90 days each time. The easiest option that some people do when in a bind is to enroll in Spanish classes and get a student visa--that one can be applied for in country and is relatively 'fast' (in Spanish terms).

'to firstly get a residence permit in Spain, then go to Portugal and apply there, and live in either country until Portuguese one comes out.'

For most residency permits (in Spain) you have to physically be in the country for more than 183 days (half of the year). So this is not possible (unless you want to switch back and forth). Your renewal would not be approved.
it's like saying "stop taking my taxes" and then later wondering why the roads are full of potholes, your tap water is no longer drinkable and your air quality sucks and your life expectancy is down.

oh, but maybe you don't care about any of that, for X reasons; those things may not be important to you, but other things are, like maybe not being swindled by your bank (CFPB) or being able to enjoy visiting a National Park. Or maybe there's nothing that you care about, but there are millions of other people who do care.
Wasn't IPv6 suppose to solve all this?

I don't understand why that stalled.

Also considering the state of iot security its probably not a great idea to have everything accessible anyway. But that's a slightly different problem to solve.
What chiefly worries me about my country is its unstable political situation, which is something most Western countries grapple with. Specifically, the precarious position of liberal democracy.

Given all that -- probably Norway, or Ireland.
German regulator charges Apple with abuse of power over app tracking tool
Marcan is Lina. It's no longer something to be questioned.

https://x.com/LunaFoxgirlVT/status/1887896920732876819

> It's the worst kept secret in history that I had to keep alive, I have no interest in keeping it alive anymore.

> I mean, Lina started as an april fools joke on Marcan's youtube channel

https://x.com/LunaFoxgirlVT/status/1887897472527458689

> So yes, Marcan is Asahi Lina, Asahi Lina is Marcan. It's not a secret, it never really was.

> Only really became one when Marcan found out he liked vtubing.

And if you don't like Twitter, Luna is also saying it on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/lunafoxgirlvt.foxgirls.gay/post/3lh...

> My abuser (asahi lina/marcan) is a Linux kernel contributor.
He was, but his corruption was clearly not the reason for his arrest. They were fine with him living like king until he went against the Nissan faction
I know you’re making a joke, but more seriously I think most yt videos have atrocious signal/noise ratios so information compression is likely very useful. Less so for many academic papers (although they have some pretty awful filler sometimes).
Sounds like they're just trying to brute force addresses. Sometimes their guesses will hit a valid address. And in those cases they can tell from the server's response, and can then harvest the address.

If the address is the probe fit certain patterns, the mail server can have rules to look for those and black hole the host.
That was actually my initial thought for what I would test with a tool like this. How much does quality matter?
Quality of course has many definitions, but in the light of this tool, the measurable quality could be "how much novel information does this video have?" I'd hope a trend that pops out is that content with more information around a focused topic would perform better. But as it is, I only have my personal preferences and my suggestions list (based on my personal preferences) to go by.
I'm not a content creator myself, but if I was, I might find this kind of analysis interesting enough to pay for.
It’s nothing new. Just monarchy with peasants and slaves.
As others have echoed, yes.

Enterprise software gets quite complex, has a ton of dependencies that need to be understood together, etc.

Just the data model can take up hundreds of thousands of tokens describing the tables and relationships in some of the code bases I've worked on.

These models degrade like crazy at those long token counts though. I have not found them useful if I need to just stuff everything in a giant context window. I'm mostly using Claude though, so slightly different context scale.
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