skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is wrong. China can’t defy gravity and the laws of economics especially in a global economy. It boils down to the fact that Chinese govt continues to abuse the labor without meaningfully increasing their standard of living. This can’t continue. What they’re doing is akin to engineering growth for the sake of showing growth.
It would be wonderful if anyone commenting on HN with “studies have found...” would accompany their comment with links to said studies :)
It's years since I was in a library, the one where I lived was getting worse for a while. The stock of books was decreasing and the staff were resorting to displaying them in a manner that made this less obvious such as some books being displayed face out to take up more space.
Where I live now, I'm twenty miles from the nearest, not very good library, and never go there.
We just had a thread the other day about how AMP is an anachronistic, proprietary platform that breaks functionality that is otherwise completely fine for nearly all devices.
It has worked that way for several decades, but as you say, an authoritarian state can change direction quickly. There are some indications that Xi's ideology is very similar to Mao's: total domination of everything by the guy at the top. Will it be a surprise when everyone starts carrying around a little red smartphone?
You have completely wrong image in your mind. We are not talking about fully centralized command economy.

Just like I said in other comment, Look at the post war economies in Europe, Japan, Korea etc. Wage controls, price controls, rationing etc. still a market economy and not a command economy.
> I notice this pattern a lot, in myself and others. When there's a choice between a solution that solves no problems, and a solution that tries to solve the problems but only manages half of them, the latter solution tends to get criticised for the half of the problems it doesn't solve, and the first solution doesn't get criticised at all.

It's called "Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics", and it's a problem.

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...

TL;DR: "The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more. Even if you don’t make the problem worse, even if you make it slightly better, the ethical burden of the problem falls on you as soon as you observe it. In particular, if you interact with a problem and benefit from it, you are a complete monster."
Yes, you’re right. The Go team was originally targeting use in C++-like applications, but was surprised to see Go catching on more among Python programmers than C++ programmers.

I would also suggest trying Python itself (why not go all the way?). Personally I write quick hacks in Python and real code in C++, and find Go to be an interesting middle ground. Python will do more to stretch your idea of programming. Maybe someday Go will get numpy and tensorflow.
I’m not sure about better performance. Once it’s cached it doesn’t matter.

Using unbound won’t survive an EdgeOS upgrade will it? Maybe a script under /config/scripts could ensure unbound is installed and configured though.
I agree. The thing that most conversations on how to get people to pay for news miss out on the most important element: the news has to be worth paying for.

When I was in grad school a few years ago the college had a program to encourage newspaper readership that gave out "free" copies of the New York Times and USA Today (which we probably paid for in our tuition fees). I would pick them both up on most days and there was rarely anything in either of them worth reading past the headline. I can't imagine ever subscribing to a newspaper now.

There was so much in a newspaper that I have zero interest in or even if I did I would look somewhere else than dead trees (sports, stocks, fashion, travel, horoscopes, advice columns).

I grew up in a rural area and even in the local paper most of what was original, non-syndicated content was simply stating facts: the high school basketball team won/lost, there was a wreck, obituaries, births, weddings.
Yes. I've used it lightly in the past and have never been impressed by its speed or memory usage. But there could have been user errors. I am not an R expert. :)

In any case, I think R implements all or most of its data table transformations in C, so I don't think it applies well here.
For a truly sparsely populated landscape, you could do worse than getting a copy of the Michelin 741 (Sahara) or (a personal favourite) the Norwegian Polar Institute 1:250k maps of Dronning Maud Land in Antarctica.
can you link the studies? I'm genuinely interested
Except nobody actually writes Java code like this. Nobody implements the Map interface. It's just stupid code. The myth of Java bloat only serves people writing silly blog entries and others hung up on "best practices" from 15 years ago. It doesn't seem to have any practical basis.
From where I am standing, with exception of UCSD Pascal, all those platforms support at least 4 languages and Web Assembly still has a bit to catch up with them regarding its architecture design.

So how many languages do they need to be to be considered large?

Don't take me wrong, I love those bytecode environments, including Web Assembly.

I just don't think Web Assembly is that much different from other ones, other than politics.
Suggested for me this morning, and again just now.
I think the Parrot Disco is a commercial drone modeled on the same concept. unlike other fixed wing drones, they appear to be very easy to fly.
RIP. This world was not your fit. Hope you find one that brings you piece this time.
No matter how clever you are with an algorithm, somebody wrote a paper on it in the 70s.
I used to like the local newspaper's terrible site. On the rare times I went to it looking for news, they would put up a div to blur out the article if you weren't a subscriber. It was easy to just open the inspector and delete the div to read the article. Now they update their site to actually not load the article unless you subscribe. Progress...
>SSE fits our needs better than WebSocket would (it is cheaper and converges faster, because it’s not duplex). We’ve seen multiple chat apps trying using WebSocket for push notifications and it didn’t seem power efficient.

This is just not true unless there is some serious fuckery going on with the websocket implementation. Both require full duplex communications on the transport layer.
For that particular example I think economists usually see savings as bad because it means that there is unproductive capital (and eventually leads to deflation?) and therefore reduced savings means that capital that would typically be in savings would now be productive (an asset on someones balance sheet that can now be tallied for GDP instead of liability on a banks).

Well I put "stability" in quotes because in reality, every economic actor will have their own perspective of what the goal is and how effective any solution will be in achieving such goal. Some people thought zero lower bound and real negative interest rates solved things, and others thought it was just kicking the can down the road…

My issue with the first four bullet points is that the government now can point to instances where they say that they have been doing all of those things (because all these bullet points address things at such a high level), and all this is telling them to do is just do more of the same and expect different results.
And you have fallen into a different statistics trap. The number that matters isn't the cost of treating the patient. What matters is the increased lifetime costs of a paticular disease over the average. We all have to die of something. Diseases like lung cancer are cheap. The patients are either cured or dead relatively quickly. Demential is slow. Costs pile on for decades, starting often with forced early retirement long before formal medical costs are noticed. But we still have to normalize for the fact that, be it cancer, heart disease or dementia, most all of us will eventually need expensive care for some number of years.
I've worked with Java for over a decade professionally. Most of the verbosity in it is just noise, and does not provide any meaningful information.

Clojure code is far easier to maintain for a number of reasons. The code is declarative, so it separates what's being done from the implementation details. The first step of code maintenance is to understand the intent, and it's much easier to do that with declarative code. Immutability means that the code is largely referentially transparent, so the cognitive load of understanding a particular piece of code remains constant as the project size grows. This is not the case for imperative languages where you pass references to shared mutable state all over the place. The syntax is much smaller and more consistent, meaning that you have to learn less rules and quirks to understand the code. There are less chances of code being misinterpreted. Finally, you have the REPL, so you're able to run any code you're not clear about right from the editor in the context of your application.

My team moved from Java to Clojure about 8 years ago, and we find that it's much easier to maintain Clojure projects than it was for similar scope Java projects. We deliver faster, we have far less defects, and we're able to make changes much more reliably than we ever could with Java.
So, Google is making people stupider? Thank goodness we have you here to warn us with insightful analysis such as Google is "super creepy"!
The variational representations used in image processing are much more complicated than you suggest. In many cases, they are developed with semantic models that inform grammars of what the image can be composed of, and directly model things like occlusion, cusps, edges, blur, etc., when postulating a joint functional space that can describe the “energy” of an image, which then minimizing gives not only pixel values but also parametric curves for boundaries and sometimes also labels.

It’s essentially a way to encode semantics as prior distributions over possible images, then variational methods “optimize” for the posterior parameters given some data.

I’m trying to say that that whole exercise listed above, conceptually, is basically a failed idea compared with solving the same problems using deep learning to automatically discover what that manifold looks like in parameter space and transform it directly to the output space of practical interest (segmentation boundaries, etc.).
I absolutely love it when someone makes a tool that "Just works".
There are many fields where a formal education is quite important (e.g. Legal, Medical, etc.)

But there's many more where the requirement to have a degree seems counter intuitive. Universities were about expanding and democratising learning and seeking new knowledge and understanding. I never understood why people leave university expecting a job out of it - it may have worked for the previous generation because few had degrees but I doubt it works now.

Hopefully, in the near future, students will be enrolling in universities because they want to learn - not because they feel its their only ticket to a decent job.
Slight aside: Django came out of a local newspaper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(web_framework)#History
FB and similar drive numbers by using shady tactics is what I call it. They have influenced instagram to do similar things as well right? Not giving users what they want, instead spreading it out and making them scroll extra before getting the posts from from friends or other likes. Abusing notifications to get additional usage and other tactics.

I do not consider lack of competing with fbooks numbers as not successful. Unless you are strictly speaking about wall street monetization desires, success of mastodon or other systems to me is whether or not they provide a service that is valuable to those who use it.

Firechat, signal and others may never match the numbers posted by fbook, yet those people who have been able to communicate and share in places without worrying about their messages being stopped by different groups of censors, or worse - these tools are immensely successful, even if they have only helped hundreds or thousands of people and not billions served.

Just because many people are addicted to fbook with thier centralized how to keep them hooked / addiction specialists does not mean it is providing a better product.

Specialization of labor and network effects can be backed into other open source things. The growth of one click installs at places like Digital Ocean is the beginning of this trend imho.

If fbook was the perfect vessel for sharing then phub, whatevertorrent, vpns, and similar would not exist much less be popular.

Has anyone started a MAU chart showing how many users communiques have been shared with govts around the world? Anyone have a tally on the number of arrests in the phillipines (and others) and kills in malaysia (and others) that have been enabled by fbook?

I've people promote fbook as free and state as "fact" that users won't pay for self hosted or moderated solutions.

Fbook is not free, it has many costs.

As some of these alternatives mature, I believe we will see more and more people using them more often. Some paying with cash, some paying with drive space / cycles donated, some paying by giving thanks to friends of family who are allowing them to use slices of their systems.

Mastodon is not better for Kim K, and likely will never be, what is better or not is relative to many factors and that is going to be different for different people / groups.
They have been linked many times here on HN over the last 2 years.
Congratulations

https://nano-editor.org/who.php
Body of Knowledge – Assuring Autonomy International Programme
Which of the two available rust books would you recommend for someone who knows c/c++?
I can absolutely say that all of this is true. Any set of cables let to stay behind my TV set (say blue ray player, tv, audio system, raspberry and network cables) will spontaneously get entangled in a period of 2 to 3 years. I have repeated that experiments several times with 100% predictable results for years. It also mysteriously attracts tons of dust and not-to-be-seen again small toys. Unbelievable.
Ah, makes more sense. Of course, 'captain knows about FTL' is not necessarily a given, much like 'driver knows about internal combustion engine' for cars - he may just be pressing buttons randomly (cf. the Heechee series by Frederick Pohl[0]) for instance.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heechee
Can Facebook Really Drive Violence?
I got it to lag really badly a couple of days ago where I was just sitting waiting for it to complete words. Had to restart, but other than that one time it has felt fine.
It's almost certainly not infectious in that kind of way or you'd notice the nurses in the old folks homes getting it.
A Father is Charged With Murder for Accidental Drowning of His Daughter
I don't think anybody believes their growth figures any more.
Least active? What are you talking about. There's a steady stream of posts. New stuff every day.

If there's a more active generative art forum I'd love to hear about it.
I'm curious as to what has impressed you with regard to speed or memory usage (at least over this scale). I realize there's a lot I don't know.
I agree with you, because people care about these things when they shouldn't, but given that fact that they do anyway, continuing to do them is unhelpful.

What I'm asking is, why do people care? It can't just be because other people do. It takes a significant number of people to care for no good reason before it makes sense to care just because other people do.

It's simultaneously possible to be against Musk continuing to do things like that and be against the media continuing to cover it as though it should matter.
Misskey, a decentralized microblogging platform with ActivityPub support
That’s fair point for giving intent if there’s a human facing name for the DNS entry. I was referring to the security implications of having a public endpoint exposed, or more accurately not being exposed because there’s no way to route traffic to it.
Dapp Capitulation
The claims regarding JVM bloat are largely exaggerated, especially now that the JVM introduced modules. However, if it's not your thing it's worth noting that ClojureScript happily runs on Node. Here's an example of how easy it is to get up and running with https://github.com/yogthos/mastodon-bot
I'm wondering, after the recent finding that herpes anti virals can reduce the chance of getting alzhemiers by up to 10x whether its worth trying them on my dad who's got some kind of dementia. Not sure if it's got a chance of working. The drugs are fairly cheap widely available and low side effects - the same stuff you take for cold sores. I guess the idea would be if you could control viral stuff the bodies normal repair mechanisms could help.
It's a fun tool though! There needs to be a place for fun coding in this world, and I'll bet that some fun has been had digging those rabbit holes.
> I never understood why people leave university expecting a job out of it

Maybe because universities have relentlessly touted alumni employee numbers and advertised themselves as an avenue to secure a job for decades now
Every few weeks I see a Clojure post on HN, and almost always there's a battle going on in the comments over whether the language is too clever, impractical, a toy, poorly designed, etc. My experience with clojure (a ~1500 loc library) has been quite good. I won't say it's intuitive for those coming from imperative/OO backgrounds, but when it clicked it really clicked. If a team decides to invest the time to learn clojure(script) for part of their stack I'd say it's a phenomenal tool. Please don't knock a language because of a team management failure.
To further lurker456’s point, phone carriers are currently one of the weakest point if you care about security.

I assume you are giving your phone number to a lot of entities already (public administration, HR, service prodivers, delivery etc.). From there a simple phone call to your carrier will be enough to reset your contact dmail, SIM and/or have a new one activated.
Addiction is physiological. You're describing psychological dependence. You can die from drug withdrawal. Given that, medicine which aids in weaning off addictive drugs seem useful.
I just found this link https://labs.ig.com/static-typing-promise
Clojure seems to be the best followed by Go, both designed to be simple
They're all garbage collected. Wasm allows you to compile c, c++, rust, plus all those other languages to the same format.
Mingw?
You don't have control over every hop between news.ycombinator.com and whatever it is you are located. Lets stop this game.
You need a novelty budget
This is the correct answer.

It would be like an opiate manufacturer advertising "FDA approved pain management solutions" for decades, and then turning around and saying "well you never should have expected to avoid becoming addicted to opiates."
I moved to micro[0] editor a while ago. It saves me a couple of seconds every time I need to edit something in /etc/* (especially when copy-pasting some text sections in the middle of the file). But it is not adopted by all distributions yet.

[0] https://micro-editor.github.io/
Our local library has “displays”, somewhat like the endcaps at a book store. Sometimes they are seasonal or on a particular theme. Other times they say, “If you liked A, you might also like B, C, D, or ....” The librarians sometimes have good suggestions too.

Beyond that, I love walking through the stacks and looking to see what catches my eye. This is literally my favorite thing about working at a university. Paging through Amazons recommendations (new editions of a text book you bought in 2008, books 2 and 4 of some series, and a few best-sellers) is not even close.
Sometimes, in the absence of a good solution, the best thing to do is try to keep the inadequate, incomplete solutions we have intact. That might mean tolerating some annoying behavior, voting to increase funding for local libraries (if that is an option for you), etc.
Where can I find more detail on this?

> Decisions are done in small groups of 30 people at most, with several hundred people having some influence.

To all the ideological responses to nokinside: don’t underestimate China. China isn’t perfect but is an incredible story.
Constructing Efficient and Flexible Neural Network Architectures Using TDA
2-6 posts a day isn't very active. I'm active myself on it but besides one other user who posts and comments and a mod, it's practically a ghost town. I wish it was more active. It's the perfect sub for my GIF AI tool. https://gif.com.ai
Preventing Muscle Loss as We Age
If that's what you're looking for, buy an off-lease/refurb/used business class notebook that's a few years old. On the ThinkPad side, a T450 or T450s, maybe a T440s if you're going to disable the touch pad, maybe a T430s if you're willing to go back 6-7 years but then you're really going to be looking at likely battery issues and higher weight.
Nano is what I teach my kids (5 and 8) to code on the terminal in. It's fantastic!
tl;dr a couple of grayscale, 64 byte demoscene raycasting executables for DOS variants. Desire is the implementor; "Into a new era" is a particular executable.
Mishap reporting or civil service work gave me that. It was nice to know that statistically speaking, that system has ensured someone came home who wouldn't have otherwise. EHR systems could use some definite TLC for making them more Doc friendly, but insurance has so consumed that vertical it's hard to escape them in terms of them driving them business requirements.

You could look at expanding your horizons. Software CAN get you anywhere as long as you have the computer science basics so you aren't constrained to making web apps or some stuff. Embedded systems can get you neat places. Heck, logistics may even present some interesting challenges.

Though, basically gonna reaffirm an earlier poster. Go Small Biz. Dat Paycheck from the big boys may be nice, but it is the little people I've always gotten the biggest kick out of helping.

Even if it's something as innocuous as helping a grandma set up a prayer request mailing pipeline. It gives you the warm fuzzies.
But consumption of animal products have dropped since the 70s.
Which versioning scheme to use doesn't matter. What matters is how long you promise to keep a language "stable". Java and javascript have gone through many major versions, but the core of the language is largely stable. The same will be true to golang. Read their plan [1], the paragraph starting with "Go 2 must also bring along all the existing Go 1 source code". That is promised backward compatibility. There have been breaking changes in Perl5 (so it is not following semver), but most of the changes were minor and little user code was affected. Python 2=>3 is a disaster. If Julia goes through a dramatic change like that in 5 years, it will be worse.

[1] https://blog.golang.org/toward-go2
I've implemented the Map interface maybe a half a dozen times in my career in Java and many more in Clojure (using reify and friends). It's often very convient to offer a map interface to some remote service or data store as well as situations where I needed very custom caching or a specialized algorithm. The harder the thing I'm working on, the more motivated I am to present its API as something standardized if possible. This lets my users spend their complexity budget on what feature I'm offering and not on some random API I threw together.
For Perl you are forgetting the HUGE amount of code that just works 10-15 years later. I love Perl for many reasons but here is where most other languages gets killed.
Who makes the decisions and who can change the license and who can sue you for misuse of the software? I don't want to support any Oracle product if I can help it, regardless of license.
Lion jumps into open vehicle full of tourists on safari tour
Same here 6 hours ago I watched it.