skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides the other ideas in this subthread, the first thing that springs to mind for me is scanning a bunch of random objects, converting the models to as many 3D formats as you reasonably can, and dumping everything on GitHub along with reference photos of the objects.

I'm personally idly curious, but have no experience with reverse engineering or 3D or file formats... so the emphasis on my end is idle curiosity :). But it's possible that many such people poking around may still generate interesting leads.

Depending on how effectively intraoral scanners can scan things other than teeth, offering to scan random objects people send/bring in, on a best-effort/no-warranty basis, may also generate practical interest.

(Also, wow, looks like these things are in the $25k range?)
Subway being better food than McDonald's is debatable (considering Subway bread is pure sugar and you can get a fresh chicken salad at McDonald's).
How can I start working on this dataset? Are there any Python GPT libraries?
Poland is a weird example since it doesn’t seem like they fit in the EU either, almost like an outcast.

But let’s look at other ex-Soviet countries. Territorial quarrels and dumb nationalism were unthinkable back then. Look at Azerbaijani and Armenians, ethnic Ukrainians and Russians in Ukraine, Georgia...
Yeah but they get their tentacles into government as well where it impacts all of us.
This is like envisioning a world where everyone is building their own chairs and doing their own pottery. People who can do carpentry, or pottery, or programming are not in any way better or smarter than the average Joe. They have a different specialized set of skills than many other people, and they have the time to actually use those skills. Even if everyone knew carpentry and pottery and programming, they would not be using these skills in their day-to-day lives, because they have their own job to do. An accountant will not start programming their own accounting software, or even their own plugins - they will use some purpose-built software written by someone else, because it is a far more efficient use of their time.

It's also important that programming is a fundamentally tedious endeavor. Even with the most high-level imaginable PL, where there would be no machine details to think about, you need to exhaustively define every detail of your business goal, much further than you would ever think about it in regular work. I am a programmer and I personally enjoy this kind of deep dive, but I have been in many meetings where I was trying to extract those details from domain experts and getting increasingly frustrating for them with all the probing. Even worse, you often hit points where you just can't get past some hand-waving, and now it's your job as a programmer to evaluate the trade-offs between different strict implementations of what is a fundamentally fuzzy requirement.

And getting out of the fantasy of the perfect PL, you also then have to work with a real computer with real limitations that someone needs to know how to work in while representing the problem domain (e.g. replacing real arithmetic with floating point arithmetic and dealing with the new problems that stem from that). You also have to spend large amounts of time researching what others have built and re-using it when and where it is possible, and working withing the trade-offs those others have made - since there's no chance of writing every program from scratch, and there is no such thing as a general purpose domain specific library.
Those aren't integrated in watches, jewelry or clothing, as
Kurzweil suggested. In fact the whole trend around wearable
devices never really seemed to reach a sophistication necessary
for the mass market, just like 3D printed clothing. So far we've
got Google Glass which disappeared as quickly as it arrived,
smartwatches that were mostly a question of time, and some
fitness products like those running shoes with Bluetooth. But
the actually challenging, futuristic part is still more a topic
for blog articles in the maker community than a serious product
category.

Even with those insulin devices the biggest innovations were
made by some of its users themselves as far as I'm aware(see
"looping").
The wording that "'static means different things" is a bit misleading. It means the same thing, but the meaning different because of the context:

Lifetime: lifetime means that the first lifetime outlives (is as long or longer) the second

Type: lifetime means that the type is constrained by the lifetime. Because 'static means "the lifetime of the whole process". That means that the type is not constrained.
There's also a tool called debos which can automate that.
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And paper coffee cups can be straight up recycled here as well, with a rinse.
> That's my memory too - at least in terms of public messaging, there was a lot of "wash your hands for 20 seconds" and "it takes two weeks for the virus to die on surfaces" and so forth, which is largely irrelevant given what we know now about transmission.

It's not so much now but that actual infectious disease specialists aren't being completely drowned out by people who should have known to keep their mouth shut. Seriously John Cochrane has an excuse, he's from the grifter school of economics and a dummy. Doctors, biologists, etc without specific training in infectious disease should have known better.
Growth hacks are never about sustainably growing a business, they're just there to fatten it up before parading it in front of the VCs.

Of course by growth hacking, we're talking about the act of using unethical practices against users to boost certain metrics.
"Automated license plate reader cameras, which are commonly mounted next to roads or on police cars, also use machine intelligence and are widespread. The technology has definitely reduced violent crime, as it has allowed police to track down stolen vehicles and cars belonging to violent criminals faster than would have otherwise been possible."

What? How does this follow?
I don't think the example had any practical use, really. I understood it more as an illustration of how weird Chrome's scripting support is: On the one hand, it lets you put programs as complex as a working C compiler in there - but on the other hand, interaction with the outside world is limited to putting stuff into text fields...

> also, is the "input" and "output" of this compiler just code and executables?

Mostly yes. I'm not sure how much of a typical build chain he was trying to convert to JS here, but the compiler itself typically takes a bunch of files with C code and outputs a number of "object files", which are really chunks of machine code. In an actual build process, you'd then use a linker to glue those object files together in the right way and make an executable.

I guess, what you could do if you wanted was to include the whole build chain (including linker) into the PDF, encode the executable as Base64 and fill some form field of the PDF with it. Then your workflow would be as follows:

1) Write some C code

2) Copy the C code into form field #1 if the PDF.

3) Hit a "compile" button or something. Form field #2 fills with what looks like an enormous amount of random gibberish (really the Base64-encoded binary)

5) Copy all the text from form field #2, use a program of your choice to decode the Base64 and save the decoded binary on your hard drive.

6) Run the binary on your hard drive and watch your C code execute. Hooray!
What I don’t get about “modern” development is lack of complexity management.

It feels like 8 degrees of work to write HCL that any component developer can do.

What maddened me was the lack of support for the count parameter for modules. Made me rage. But not enough to switch to tools like this or troposphere.

Not to mention the supply chain implications and security risk that comes with it.
> just develop the computer to interpret commands in common native language syntax directly?

We have that: e.g. Google Assistant. (If you don't mind needing an internet connection, and sending your voice to the cloud.)

> I shouldn't have to remember that ls is list directory contents.

Nobody's had to do that in 35+ years, except those of us who prefer that sort of thing. The rest click on some folder icon or something.
>Git for non-developers

I was once amazed to learn that ClearCase was designed with the objective to be sold to lawyers, not developers.
Chrome extension to view your Segment data
I built this chrome extension to improve my productivity as a Segment user. It makes it very easy to view your Segment events.
I mean, despite all the weirdness, it's all still run by Chrome's V8 in the end, so it might work...
> These are totally different things with the same name.

Another way to think about it is that “T: ‘static” restricts all references in T to be static, in the same way that “‘a: ‘static” restricts ‘a to ‘static. The case when T doesn’t contain any references is then just a boring base case.
I think Kalanick (the Uber cofounder) trademarked that.
The test and validation datasets are under half a gig; I agree it'd be nice if there were a few example items and perhaps a JSON Schema [0] for it, though.

I'll reproduce a line here:

{"text": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Tambacounda\n\nThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Tambacounda () is a diocese located in the city of Tambacounda in the Ecclesiastical province of Dakar in Senegal.\n\nHistory\n August 13, 1970: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Tambacounda from the Diocese of Kaolack and Diocese of Saint-Louis du S\u00e9n\u00e9gal\n April 17, 1989: Promoted as Diocese of Tambacounda\n\nSpecial churches\n The cathedral is Cath\u00e9drale Marie Reine de l\u2019Univers in Tambacounda, which is located in the Medina Coura neighborhood of the town.\n\nLeadership\n Bishops of Tambacounda (Roman rite)\n Bishop Jean-No\u00ebl Diouf (since 1989.04.17)\n Prefects Apostolic of Tambacounda (Roman rite) \n Fr. Cl\u00e9ment Cailleau, C.S.Sp. (1970.08.13 \u2013 1986.04.24)\n\nSee also\nRoman Catholicism in Senegal\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n GCatholic.org\n Catholic Hierarchy \n\nCategory:Roman Catholic dioceses in Senegal\nCategory:Tambacounda\nCategory:Christian organizations established in 1970\nCategory:Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century", "meta": {"pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)"}}

[0]: https://json-schema.org/
> Anecdotally, I know several families who gathered indoors with friends (...)

Why? I mean, they certainly were aware that there's an epidemic ravaging the world which spreads like wildfire by gathering indoors.

Why should they try to pin the blame on a government official when this mess is self-inflicted and due to intentionally ignoring, either completely or selectively, basic safety guidelines.
This is an interesting idea and would work for something like Math or maybe theoretical physics, but once you get to messier fields like Biology it would be mired in hopeless confusion. Every experiment has so many varied parameters and restrictions due to things like ethics committees that standardizing it is nigh impossible. This is not even going down to fields like psychology.
The long term good news is that the endian wars are drawing to a close. Little Endian won. I believe all the most recent CPU's support little endian at least as an option.

We will still have to deal with the legacy network protocols that have big endian encoding.

By the way, if you are designing a new network binary protocol, please do not pick big endian, it just makes stuff more complicated on the majority of current cpus.
Yet another case of documentation saying “JS” when they mean “React, specifically”. Every single example I can see here uses React, but if this deserves the CSS-in-JS moniker, please give at least one example of usage with vanilla JS. It’s like peak jQuery all over again.
It's fine to ask questions, but the whole 5G thing is missing a fundamental understanding of the physical world that's difficult to put into words. I'll give it a go:

Individual ignorance doesn't counter a century of established science. It's not a matter of authority, or lack of evidence, or insufficient testing. There's a real weight to certain fields now, where literally thousands of textbooks have been written on surprisingly narrow topics, because of an intense interest both theoretically and practically for industrial purposes.

It's not even a matter of laboratory experiments. Sure, we haven't done a zillion tests specifically with 5G. That simply doesn't matter. Some things are effectively field tested millions of times over through simple everyday activity. We know gravity doesn't turn on and off randomly because we would notice!

Even for subjects that our ordinary everyday experience doesn't cover, vast industrial experience does. Literally millions of workers do their work every day with chemicals, machines, and electronics. They know how they work! They depend on that knowledge being accurate!

There simply cannot be such a thing as our knowledge of electromagnetic waves being this fundamentally flawed in the same manner as we cannot possibly have misunderstood chemistry to the point that we missed an element in between oxygen and nitrogen.

I just did some random Googling and found stacks of complaints sent to governments demanding a lower maximum 5G power level. Here's one quote from a paper: "The extraordinary sensitivity of the VGCC voltage sensor to the forces of the EMFs tells us that the current safety guidelines allow us to be exposed to EMF levels that are something like 27.2 million times too high." [1]

According to that guy's theory we're all already screwed, because the background radiation in all frequency bands has been waaaaaay higher than that since the 1950s! [2]

All of that just doesn't matter though, because simple and well-established physics shows that for both 26 GHz and 60 GHz, the penetration depth is less than 0.5 mm into the skin[3], which means that at most the new 5G frequency bands could cause skin cancer.

That hasn't stopped bloggers breathlessly repeating bad science where researchers take samples of cells from internal tissues and nuke them with high power RF sourcers for weeks on end in order to "demonstrate" the potential harm from radiofrequency radiation.

PS: Sabine has an axe to grind and seems to be grandstanding an awful lot. Her videos are mostly pop-science and full of ads. She's not an authority on anything other than an extremely narrow field related to quantum gravity, and even there most physicists do not agree with her stance.

[1] https://www.radiationresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06...

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanplh/PIIS2542-5196...

[3] https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1503/1503.05944.pdf
> - HTML/React inspired UI library that works on all platforms, so we can do electron without wasting 99% of my CPU cycles.

Unfortunately this won't ever happen, at least not something production ready that will be usable on all 5 major platforms (Android, Windows, iOS, MacOS and I'm generously including Linux desktop here :-) ).

It's a very costly super long term investment and the incentives are not there as every platform (including desktop Linux!) is fighting against it.

React Native is the closest thing we have and the development experience is awful, from what friends that are using it are telling me, plus I don't think it's well supported on desktops. I, for one, don't think I've ever seen a Windows React Native app, for example.

So the best we'll ever get is modified browser engines, ergo Electron.
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That might be a corporate form of moral self licensing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing
> This book contains three basic ideas. The first is an output-oriented approach to management. That is to say, we apply some of the principles and the discipline of the most output-oriented of endeavors—manufacturing—to other forms of business enterprise, including most emphatically the work of managers. Consider Intel, which is a true manufacturing and production company, making highly complex silicon chips as well as computer-like products built from them. Our company now has over thirty thousand employees. Of these, about 25 percent actually work to make the products. Another 25 percent help them as they supervise the personnel, maintain the machines, and engineer and improve the manufacturing process. Another 25 percent work in administration, where they schedule production, keep personnel records, send bills to our customers, and pay our suppliers. Finally, the remaining 25 percent design new products, take them to the marketplace, sell them, and service them after the sale.

Andy Grove, High Output Management, about Intel (at the time when they were successful)

I think there are many, many (not directly) productive functions that successful business needs to have and engineers often underestimate those (I certainly know I often do).
Covid-19 from Wuhan and The Spanish flu from.... Kansas. Shows how pointing fingers ("Wuhan flu") is a bad thing.
CDK from AWS usurps cloud formation
If money isn't part of the equation, this may actually be the best approach.
During the 2007 financial crisis I worked at a bank that had to develop risk software really fast to comply with regulations and prevent disaster. They had two teams work on the same project and once a winning team emerged, they killed of the other. But the result was used for only a year or two, and replaced by a long term solution which was developed by yet another team in parallel.

As the saying goes, in software development, we can control speed, cost and quality, but only two at the same time.
Breaking out of the sandbox easily. Check the OS, do syscalls to read and write to the filesystem, install a reverse shell and CC.
Their customers want easy delivery options that's definitely true. But if you could ask them if they think restaurants deserve a chance at fair negotiations they would probably also say yes.

All the bill is asking for is cooperation up front, not afterwards if at all. It's not criminalizing the business model of DoorDash and friends, it's just forcing them to treat their business partners like business partners.

I think it's fair to say I have some bias here though. I am a little bit too cynical toward these companies to believe they're just out here trying to better the world. They're doing their best to spin a buck before going public and peacing out. Case in point, DoorDash just IPOd with no profit and no projection for profitability, even in it's best case scenario (massive increase in online ordering).

So obviously the service is extremely useful, people find it useful while it's subsidized but no one has yet bared the full cost of these platforms.

In my opinion we need to protect existing businesses who are profitable and thus have a proven place in the economy, while these disruptive companies flail about free from the shackles of actually fitting into the economy, just in case it turns out they wouldn't.
Can't take anyone that uses

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Notation seriously.
Commodore 64 overtakes Windows in demoscene platform popularity
Why? and what alternative are you picking up?
Well of course it's true that once a field gets to a moderate size, someone's been everywhere before. This comment section is littered with "ah but X looked at this in the 1980s".

What seems to have happened since the 90s is we have a lot of ergonomic improvements, which are still valuable. Want to run something in a cloud in 1995? Yes, you can do it, but it's vastly simpler and cheaper to do in 2020.

In the end the major things that have changed are that computing power got much cheaper, and computing has become part of a vast number of businesses. That's why a fashion retailer can now click some buttons and make a website. Or why there's an AI that can beat everyone at StarCraft II.
Point number 7 is one that I am still learning. I'm at my girlfriend's parent's for lunch and here I am, casually browsing HN with a termux session in the background.
I tried that, it refused to execute armel binaries however arm64 worked fine.

I’m not sure if it’s a bug or something I was doing wrong but I gave up and just finished the install on the device.
I think the op is arguing against having immortal 200 year old cyborgs running the world, not putting 40 year olds out to pasture.
Fiction my dude
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Can I ask a very naive question? Isn't it viable to use solar energy to make the water evaporate and use the vapor as the desalined water?
I'm sure there should be some big issue, otherwise someone would use it. But I'm curious to understand what is wrong with such an approach.
Floating Point Leviathan: a game based on floating point precision errors
That's because every new hip protein drink and organic chocolate brand that comes on the market wants its own webshop and app for branding, marketing, sales and payment which creates huge demand for web and app devs and the barrier to entry is relatively low, just buy a Macbook and sink a few months into following tutorials and building projects.

Not that many people need robotics experts and the industries that do, already buy from established players like Fanuc, Kuka, ABB, Siemens and the barrier of entry is very high, often a MSc being the lowest bar to clear with many workers in that industry having PhDs or postdocs so it's a lot of money and years of your life you have to dedicate before you can even enter and once you do the work may not be as exciting as one would expect, often times just updating simulink or labview models or days of just shoveling through ISO and regulatory specs.

I'm not saying there are no self taught robotics devs who earn well and play with cool stuff for a living but that's the exception in this industry, not the norm.
And what was the alternative? The German’s objective was to literally clear the land out for German settlers. By killing everyone inhabiting those lands. For soviets it was a matter of giving at least some chance of survival to women and children they were trying to protect. Imagine all those soldiers who knew they had to sacrifice their lives.
And you try to reduce their bravery to being “Stalin’s targets”.
The point is that Progressive web app takes it’s first word from Progressive enhancement. For that to be possible the chronology must be that PE predates PWA. The terms are not synonymous.
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> What the EU should do is earmark some of that money to be directly paid as engineering salaries.

I mean, that's exactly what they do. Any company with good finances can apply for support for R&D to develop new features or tech that they would otherwise not develop or invest in. This comes in the form of direct contributions to employees' salaries listed in the grant application.

I've written and defended these grants for multiple companies and I have been on the receiving end of them, too.

This isn't even specific to this deal, this is just something you can always do, along with literally hundreds of EU and state level support programs.
It’s in the article. 4.15 compiled specifically for the onboard SOC. It’s not a Debian kernel.
It's AST based, and automatically generates f-strings if needed
Do you really have a problem of obtaining good devs? Seems to me you can get good personnel in a bargain price in NL. It's also super easy to bring people from outside the EU. That's the main reason I think software devs are so cheap in the EU.