skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is just not a true statement - and that was the point of the original thread - the original paper on futures had them implemented transparently and able to be passed down into library code not expecting futures. It's also how Haskell's par works today. So it demonstrably can be implemented.

Okay, technically you are right - however it changes the semantics of the program. I admit that I didn't mention this constraint though.

> Great... but you've rewritten the library code with 'two separate functions instead of one.' My original point was 'because it means existing code that expects a T cannot accept a Future<T>' and you're proving that back to me so hard that you've accepted you need to completely rewrite the code to do it!

> Yes this is a problem with transparent futures, as is the ordering issue you raised. But I wasn't arguing they didn't have their own issues.

I don't disagree with any of that. However, what you originally said:

> > Are you saying that generics on futures are bad?

> Yes - because it means existing code that expects a T cannot accept a Future<T>, which is the colouring problem being discussed.

And you imply that transparent futures are better than the ones with generics. So where we disagree is on what is worse. I am convinced that the problems (and there are certainly a lot of unknowns) you introduce with transparent futures is much worse than the performance you might gain in certain cases and the easier syntax in many cases.
Because violence against men is acceptable, violence against women is a big no-no. Have you seen a movie where a woman is kicked in crotch? Countless movies teach us that men kicked in crotch are funny.

Compare reactions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QFvEzIzQwg
that 'median salary' is likely having to support housing/rent which the hypothetical person in this scenario wouldn't have to account for. might not be 35k after housing, but might be (or housing/taxes).
GHC 9.0, supporting linear types
PCSX is a PlayStation emulator with BIOS emulation (doesn’t require a BIOS bin dump) but you might as well just download SCPH1001.BIN and play games
> duck typing hacky language

It may be possible to keep duck typing for objects while introducing fast unambiguous primitives like int64_t ?

> Why not something like Go?

Because JS syntax is very nice - that's my premise. Moreover, client side has to be JS, no other choice yet.
Yes – I can't recall precisely who it was who knew him (or was friends of friends) but it was one of the Mind Candy team. We were obviously worried that people might figure out who he was through these social connections but it didn't happen that way in the end!

Edit: The puzzle card was designed by Jey Biddulph so possibly it was him who knew Satoshi!
> As a result of Amazon's action, the top-ranking drone, which previously had more than 6,000 reviews, now has only about 50 reviews and its star rating has dropped to three and a half stars. But the other two listings I mentioned above—both of which I also mentioned in a Monday email to Amazon—still have thousands of positive reviews, including a bunch of obviously bogus ones.

The result of blatant fraud and manipulation is simply removing the fraud? Why is Amazon continuing business with this shady company as if nothing happened?

I consider their "corrective" action far worse and damming than their inaction on other pages. Inaction could be from an inability to police everything. But merely covering up fraud when it happens is nearly as bad as taking no action.
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I've learned the best way to get ideas going in a corporate settings are:

- pitch the idea to as many folks as possible. Not just to the ones who are going to okay it. Even if only a small portion of each idea resonates with each person, you now have them all slightly on board, which is all you need to get a foot in the door. The more people on board, the more you can back yourself up with to get the okay

- do proof of concepts yourself. I always carve out some time to implement a MVP of my ideas, and then use that to hook people.

- make a design doc. I hate doing this personally, but a lot of people respond well to the idea of one, even if most won't read it. It's just the idea that it's well thought out, even if the design doc is mostly fluff and will change dramatically. People love procedural work.
Recent studies seem to indicate that tetanus vaccines are actually effective for at least 30 years. The UK and other countries don't recommend any booster shots for tetanus. Makes you wonder why we do in the US.

https://watermark.silverchair.com/ciw066.pdf?token=AQECAHi20...
I have been the victim of multiple instances of fraudulent product, sold directly by Amazon. One was a salt grinder that had a plastic replacement where it should have been metal and was lacking the lettering but was sold on Amazon from the official page. Somewhere in their system Amazon is accepting product that isn't official and happily selling it under than companies brand. If it was a one off I might agree it was a mistake but that has happened three times this year and while Amazon replaces them it is clearly happening commonly now.

Amazon has lost my trust this year, when my prime runs out I wont be renewing.
Since you asked ... do you know anything about Graham Greene's contact with Esperanto and perhaps some other constructed language?

"Stamboul train" has some Esperanto expressions standing in for Hungarian, and "The confidential agent" has a constructed language called Entrenationo, which the Wikipedia article claims is "obviously modelled on Esperanto" but which sounds a look more like Interlingua to me, though there could be other candidates from around that time. It would be nice to know who the Dr Bellows character is based on. (There's almost no resemblance to Dr Zamenhof.)
I believe this argument is slightly weak. I understand that the ecosystem is very diverse but even on Windows most new games only officially support Windows 10. If you're on 7 for any reason then it's your problem if the game doesn't work. Similarly if you're willing to go down the Linux route developing and deploying only on Ubuntu, for instance, can be regarded as a "single platform". It's my prerogative to use whatever I want on my Linux box but then it's my problem to make sure I have all the required components available for my bespoke setup. I haven't used Ubuntu in years but give me a "Ubuntu executable" and I'll find a way to make it work on my desktop. And if you don't want to limit yourself on Ubuntu Valve is now rolling out their "steam runtime containers" which are reproducible environments for developers to target.

There are still issues with the drivers, I'll give you that. But at least AMD/Mesa is moving fast to adopt features. NVIDIA is going to be NVIDIA but at least they are not skimping on implementing OpenGL and Vulkan extensions.
Considering that it started with 11, or was it 26 dimensions, and had to go through some hoops to get it down to three, that statement is almost absurdly comical.
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You're right that it's distasteful, but it's not _problematic_. Certainly not because 3,000 Imperial Japanese serviceman lost their lives furthering their nation's colonial ambitions.
It's inertia rather.

People can drive tomorrow because people can drive today
Show HN: A curated, user-first search
What I like, are the companies that create a separate listing for every variant of a product, within a price range, so searches get overwhelmed.

A couple of weeks ago, I was looking for a Mag-Safe stand for my new iPhone 12 Mini. When I searched for it on Amazon, look at what the search returned[0]. Now, scroll down, until you get to the "Cheetah" pop stand.

Keep scrolling.

But don't touch that dial! It goes on for 400 pages![1]

Note they raise the price slightly, so they "sort."

I ended up giving up, and getting one straight from the manufacturer.

Oh...BTW. Those stands have this little gem in their description:

> (Not compatible with Apple MagSafe wireless charger or MagSafe wallet.)

Great that they overwhelm a search that is, explicitly:

magsafe iPhone stand

[0] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=magsafe+iPhone+stand&i=mobile&s=p...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=magsafe+iPhone+stand&i=mobile&s=p...
I think we also want someone to blame for an accident, and it’s not at all obvious who to blame when a self-driving vehicle is at fault.
The about page goes into details about why. The purpose is web search that's ad-free, prioritizes content over SEO, and loads results quickly.

It starts with the Bing API, categorizes the query, then adds results from individual (subjectively) high-quality resources. Through a mix of automatic and manual adjustments, it arranges results in a way that prioritizes content and relevance over SEO.

Overall: Google states it discourages abusing its ranking; in practice, I'm not satisfied. Bing results are too mixed with ads. Duckduckgo is nice, but I'm not always satisfied with the results, especially for technical questions, and it doesn't tackle SEO misuse directly.

This is a WIP - I'd value any suggestions, critique, visual/technical/approach problems, etc. I hope I haven't over-fit this to my own habits.
Even if it was 100% written in Java (like GraalVM and RikesVM), the JIT, AOT and GC need to be updated for Apple Silicon.
Right. The interesting part of the quote is that it could suggest that at OpenAI pure research is becoming less of a focus compared to product development.
Nethack on the other hand...
Well, good ABS is hard. Having locked differentials can make the most of a really messy situation. Thus the reason for locked differentials (for going or stopping).

There's a wide variety of software solutions as well, some work better than others. It's a non trivial problem. For instance. In normal conditions less braking when any wheel slips is best. In slippery conditions for stopping or going some slipping is best. In really messy conditions it can be best to not keep applying torque (in the positive or negative direction) without any "smarts". For emergency braking in the snow it can be best to just lock them up and have snow build up in front of the tires.

To see an example of how big a difference this makes, check out

https://www.consumerreports.org/video/view/cars/auto-test-tr...

I agree that AWD leads to overconfidence to some, I've been driving at 35 mph on the highway (with a 65 limit) in my Subaru (with good tires) in bad conditions and had giant SUV blast past me at 10-20 mph over what I was doing ... only to find them in a snow bank later.

Doesn't mean that AWD wasn't a huge help. My first AWD was a result of me spinning out in a FWD around lake tahoe in poor conditions, in heavy traffic, at 10 mph or so. My front right tire lost traction, the open front differential put all power to the front right tire, and it spun me into a snow bank (just 18" away") in a blink. I was quite impressed how much rotational acceleration could happen in a blink of an eye. The open differential meant I was basically 1 wheel drive (when slippery), the car I replaced it with (Subaru WRX) had 3 wheel drive (when slippery) and was MUCH more predictable. In fact sliding in the snow would bring a smile to my face... and I changed my weekly commute (6 7200 foot passes) to maximize the snow involved.

And yes I'd MUCH rather have all seasons and AWD instead of snow tires and FWD. It's not the ultimate traction as much as being predictable. Sure all seasons have less traction, but it's way more predictable and gives much better control when sliding. FWD, even with snow tires can be very unpredictable, and can easily spin a car when the traction is low. Subaru + snow tires seemed overkill for the roads I was on. Sure Subaru + all seasons might be safe in some conditions at 35 mph, snow tires might raise that to 40 or 45 mph, but FWD regardless of tires would mean much less, and Caltrans would require the pain of installing and uninstalling chains and worries about chain failures and/or damage to the car.

Even with all seasons, my main fear with a Subaru (I've had two) is hitting enough snow to life the tires off the ground.
Has this changed? My understanding is that Amazon only comingles 3rd parties and keeps their stuff completely separate. Of course my only source for that appears to be here / reddit so not sure how true it is.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FulfillmentByAmazon/comments/dmrri4...
Sure, if you breathe properly[1]

1. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/take-a-deep-b...
As long as we keep using the marketing term "AI" and we just argue about what the technical definition is, we're going to have this problem.

If Penrose wants, he can define AI using the Turing test. That's reasonable. I can say, no, that's moving the goalposts, my definition of AI is "things that looked incredibly hard in 1990. By that standard decent automatic translation is definitely AI." That's also reasonable.

As long as our definition of "AI" is fluid, discussing whether it's been met or not is pointless.
Corporate buyers always have a choice
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And another question: is there a cheap and easy way of getting access to the text of "Rumour at nightfall", particularly during a COVID lockdown when reading it in the British Library would be even less convenient than it usually would be?

UPDATE: I can answer my own question: https://archive.org/details/RumourAtNightfall1931GrahamGreen... ; I couldn't find it anywhere the last time I tried!
Hans Rosling's work is all about the reasons for long term optimism. With lots of stats.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factfulness:_Ten_Reasons_We'...
Using the term 'Dumbshit' or 'fuckhead' doesn't give your argument credibility.
This is the top way that I build up my private Plex library.

1. Buy DVD on ebay

2. Rip DVD with handbrake

3. Add rip to Plex library

4. Archive DVD in disc folder

Works great for "classics" that can't get much better than DVD quality anyway (i.e. any movie made before, say, 2005)
this is the same as before GDPR, this seems like the judge didn't know what the purpose of GDPR was?? or maybe Austria's legislative implementation of GDPR really does allow this much latitude.
An older friend of mine made the observation that really before the few large news networks and papers in the last 40-50 years objective information that everyone roughly agreed upon was not the norm. Yellow journalism, hearsay and rumors dominated common conversation.

He observed that with the internet we're returning to what was this "normal" state with anybody being able to post something and gain widespread recognition, the difference of course being the rate at which this non-objective information travels and the better ability to weaponize it.

I think, after looking into it a bit more, I agree with him and that our period of fairly objective news and political information and the general consensus that brought was the anomaly. This raises the question then how do we as society re-learn to cope with that and filter out non objective information because clearly we're not doing so well with it now.

So, I don't think so much as it will die out as much as I think we need to develop abilities to separate wheat from chaff, stronger societal bullshit filters because truth will have a weaker signal.
The most convenient graphics now is probably JavaScript and a canvas in a browser, but it is quite a lot more faff to get started than BBC BASIC was.
Im not convinced that the two spaces thing is a typesetting artifact. If you look at the declaration of independence and the constitution, which weren't typeset, there are larger spaces between sentences than words.
Too bad buying the name brand on Amazon still gets you counterfeits and headaches
That's a very broad interpretation of disappearance and I don't agree with it. NATO isn't in the business of disappearing people either - Assange and Snowden have not disappeared. But Gedhun Choekyi Nyima has disappeared. Kidnapped when he was 6 years old by agents of the CCP and nobody knows where he is now, although China officially says he's doing well.

By painting with such broad strokes, we are comparing entirely different types of actions.
This seems pretty reasonable and also very possible to achieve. It would be insane to allow a technology on the streets that makes as many mistakes as humans are making. I certainly wouldn’t use self driving cars if they killed 30000 people per year like humans are doing right now. How would you assign responsibility for crashes? Our current system is far from perfect but at least it’s something people understand and know how to navigate. And there are drivers that are better and more cautious than others. So it’s not just an illusion of control.
Diet was lower in calories and took more energy to digest.
If corporations are people, you should be able to bring criminal murder and manslaughter charges against them, with the top-level executives acting as proxies to serve the jail sentence.
In case anyone reading doesn't realize, Vim can do keyword completions. It isn't automatic, but out of the box, you can press ctrl+n to move through a list of possible completions.

Not as elegant as some IDEs I'm sure, but if typing is stopping you from using longer names, this could help.
>read: ~$150-300 for a sweater

Not arguing with you, but that piqued my curiosity. A very long time ago I worked at a high-end men's clothing store and I have a sweater that I paid about $75 for. It retailed for $200. An inflation calculator says that $200 is now worth over $400.

I wonder what an equivalent sweater would cost today. The brand has since gone mainstream, so I can't use them as a point of reference.
Unique? No, but it does point to the folly of trying to impose one size fits all solutions. What would work best in Los Angeles is not what would work best in Boomer, West Virginia or Atlanta, Idaho. How people live and interact are different in these places but instead of acknowledging that, we've had dictates come down from high above which demonize those who understand their communities better than someone living hundreds or thousands of miles away in very different conditions.
> And lets face it, people like me, you and most others here are the extreme minority in computing.

Yesterday one of KDE devs posted an article mentioning this sort of phenomenon and linked to an article depicting it in full[1]. And now that you mention Plan 9 it makes me think, because I always dreamt about Plan9 taking over the world and becoming big and everyone using it, but Plan9 is so great because it has never left the 'geek' circle, while others like Linux (and arguably the BSDs, to a lesser extent) already had.

[1] https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
They physically mangled the connector itself, so the tablets could no longer charge. They were 4-year-old Galaxy Tab 7" so not worth repairing.

Basically I had a usb cable where the metal of the connector bent in just the right way that it scraped off the contacts inside the tablets' female port.
Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with domestically built plane
That’s part of the communications problem about this pandemic, though: the masks aren’t all that effective at keeping you safe. They’re much more effective at keeping everyone around you safe.
Engendering trust and reducing materially regressive liability/litigiousness is a good call - and something that SHOULD be set as a standard by an external body.

IMHO this is typically a good role for government regulation - setting a standard measurement of outcome for the public good, but not dictacting HOW that should be achieved.

Now, we're just haggling over the price...

( as not-churchill infamously didn't say...)
Well, people switch all the time when it offers some real benefit. The don't stick with Google search out of lazyness, but because all alternatives suck llamas balls (Bing, DDG, etc.)

But consider how fast, and how many times, people switched browsers, first leaving behind the de-facto market leader (Netscape to IE), then leaving behind the OS-bundled one (IE to Firefox), then again leaving behind the current leader to a new faster engine (Firefox to Chrome).

With Google Maps deteriorating and the discomfort of change much smaller than changing than changing browsers, it's all too easy to switch to another map website.

Heck, that has happened in the past, Google Maps wasn't the first always. As recorded in this classic piece of folk lore:

(well let's hit up yahoo maps to find the dopest route!)
I prefer mapquest (that's a good one too)
Google maps is the best (true dat) double true!
You may have to sue the manufacturer and prove that their system is at fault. Which is pretty much impossible considering the legal resources these big corporations have versus the little guy. This would end up like tobacco or junk food where companies were able (and still are) able to deflect any kind of responsibility.
The illusion of control is a thing, but actual control is a thing as well. One possible reason to avoid self-driving cars is that there actually are safe and unsafe drivers, and fatal accidents in self-driving cars will presumably be a much flatter distribution among those drivers than the one we have now. Which means that even if they're safer overall, they could still be less safe if you're a good driver.
I loved Perplex City, and had a small pocket of friends working on the puzzles at the time!

Thank you for providing this behind the scenes, and for your initial work on the game itself. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on your blog.
That joy has subsided in recent years with performance on Mac Intel. [...] This release makes the IDE so incredibly fast! Indexing dependencies happens magnitudes faster than Intel version.

These must be macOS issues or problems with the limited thermal envelopes ofIntel Macs. I have noticed the same issue with my Intel MacBooks, it's slow and the fans spin loudly.

I never had that issue on Linux with a Ryzen CPU (3700X) though. The JetBrains IDEs are lightning-fast, including indexing. My only gripe is that they do not have native Wayland support and as a result the IDEs are blurry with GNOME fractional scaling.

There are some issues about this in their bug tracker, but the JetBrains personnel either do not seem to understand how the Linux graphics stack works (and come with non-solutions) or say that it is low on their priority list.

I have a ToolBox subscription (among other reasons because IntelliJ is still the best Java IDE). But with the progress that Visual Studio Code makes with e.g. Rust support and JetBrains' slow progress on many issues, I will probably switch to VS Code at some point.
No complaints about Stripe from me, but I have no doubt their image is very carefully orchestrated and managed. It's not a spontaneous accident, its just great PR.

the best marketing doesn't feel like marketing. of course it helps that the marketing is backed by a genuinely great product and competent team. but at one time, Google used to be that way and if Stripe ever loses customer trust, their branding will ring just as hollow as Googles "don't be evil" does today.
How the Perplex City $200k mystery ARG was solved (2007)
I'm with HTML: screw how many spaces you want to pollute your words with, I'm replacing them all with a single space.