skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting aside the other controversial things that Graham says in this post, I think we could find common ground and have some fun technical discussion by focusing on this angle:

> What can you say in this language that would be impossibly inconvenient to say in others?

The first experience that comes to mind for me was XSLT. Early on in my technical writing career, I needed to convert the Doxygen output of a C library to a more barebones HTML output (so that the reference docs would have the same branding as the rest of our site). I used XSLT to extract only the bits of HTML that I needed and I transformed them into nice, straightforward, semantic HTML. It took me a while to wrap my head around XSLT's flow but I was amazed to find that a task that would have taken probably 50-100 lines of looping and condition checking could be accomplished in literally 1-3 lines of XSLT.

Would love to hear other's experiences along these lines (i.e. concrete examples).
> It may seem like older tech employees eventually leave the industry as their engineering or coding skills wane

> Wickre, who worked at the time as a senior media liaison for Google's global communications and left in 2011

Is this person really a tech worker, I would consider them PR

The whole article is based around an "older" person who worked at google in a non technical role feeling left out
But without a central authority how would everyone agree on what's the truth? How would you avoid double-spends, protect against Sybil attacks and basically prevent people from creating money out of nothing? If someone could solve that it would be truly revolutionary. /s
We still die because of heatwaves and water and food shortages. It doesn't happen so much in the colonial empires of Europe and the USA, but it is still happening in most other places on Earth. Any attempt to export the lifestyle of average US and European citizens to the billions of other people would accelerate the problem even more, requiring an ever-increased rate of energy use to maintain livable conditions. The solution is precisely the opposite: dial down energy use (from all sources - industry, consumerism, travel etc) in the parts that consume too much.

Increased CO2 is creating higher temperatures, which in turn is disrupting temperature-regulation mechanisms everywhere on earth - leading not only to higher temperatures, but to more temperature variability throughout the year, more than has been seen in 10,000 years. It's also leading to more water remaining trapped as vapor, creating longer and more devastating droughts.

> Was increased CO2 bad for life on ancient earth? No, it was the opposite -- earth used to be an endless jungle teeming with life.

This only happens if forests and jungles are allowed to grow to use up the extra CO2. The opposite is happening today: everywhere in the world, jungles and forests are being actively cut down and the land cleared for agricultural use - capturing significantly less CO2 than an entire forest ecosystem.

> because they insist that the warming is the fault of humans, despite the fact that the climate seemed due to warm up anyway

They insist on this because we can actually quantify almost precisely how this is the fault of human activity. The rate of global warming is almost perfectly matched to greenhouse gas emissions. Historical ice age / warm age models entirely fail to account for this miraculous coincidence, and are in fact propaganda held up by massive industrial and financial interests that have an institutional lack of care for the long-term viability of current societies.
wait until Joe Coomer finds out there's a $17 network fee to send $10 worth of btc to a performer.
I recently watched an interesting talk about a new language and the author quite well described that the best memory management strategy varies by use case.

So web servers benefit from arena allocation

GUIs benefit from ARC

Short running programs can benefit a lot from just leaking memory.
South Park saw it coming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5F_AhciUy4
I believe it. For a smaller company, it will take one analyst stumbling over something problematic that may trigger an investigation ( think SAR ). If the issue is bad enough and customer does not have clout to back it, bank might derisk.

The problem is.. it is not exactly standardized as each bank does their own thing thanks to BSA rules.
>>As long as "crypto" traffic is identifiable in any way, the state can ban it, encrypted or not.

No, with encryption, it's possible to make crypto traffic completely indistinguishable from all other encrypted traffic.

>>1. VPN traffic can be fingerprinted, which is one of the methods the GFW uses to block them.

The state would indeed need to block both VPNs and TOR to make a dent in crypto traffic. The former would have huge negative economic repercussions. The latter, while not directly impactful on any significant economic sectors, would face major challenges from civil liberties advocates.

>>A state can setup nodes in a cypto network and then go after anyone in their jurisdiction who connects to them.

Crypto nodes that transmit their data through VPNs or TOR cannot be detected like this. In any case, I think it's highly unlikely that the people in any country with a strong democratic tradition would put up with their government doing what you describe. The government is not the master of society. It is the representative of the collective will, and the collective will be very unlikely to support such nakedly authoritarian measures.
Every Web Browser Sucks
So this is version 1 of the research. It reads to me like they are covering for social media. No regulations please:

>In sum, these analyses suggest that people do not engage in online political hostility by accident. Online political hostility reflects deliberate intentions to be hostile, formed by individuals who are hostile whether they engage with others online or offline and who seek out the possibility of being hostile in both online and offline contexts. In the large discussion networks formed online, people are much more likely to observe the actions of such individuals, whereas their actions are more private in offline settings. One potential implication of this argument is that the online contexts have provided people with a more accurate – and not more biased – understanding of just how contentious political topics are for some.

And this is the latest version, version 4. It reads like they want a professional class of trained social media moderators:

>These results imply that policies against hostility should seek to reduce the connectivity of hostile individuals, for example,by decreasing the visibility of the content they produce or increasing the possibility of enforcing legal actions against illegal behavior(Haidt and Rose-Stockwell 2019). Of course, these policies need to be finely balanced in order to not curtail the freedom of expression.

>Furthermore, our findings show that norms of civility are somewhat weaker online than offline, and continued exposure to hostile messages may increase this gap, potentially propelling more hostility through a vicious cycle(Brady et al. 2021).

>Consequently, our research is consistent with prior findings that interventions strengthening norms or highlighting norm-violations can reduce hostility(Matias 2019; Siegel and Badaan 2020). At the same time, it is relevant to highlight the danger in encouraging users to set and to police norms of civility, as this may ignite novel forms of hostility about appropriateness and could undermine goals of improving the general tone of online discussions. From this perspective, public discourse should inform the setting of norms, but third-party referees –such as platform policies or trained moderators–would be mainly responsible for promoting and enforcing them in specific discussion networks.

Are you allowed to do that? Same exact results, but completely different outcome and instructions on what to do next.
It's worth remembering that one reasons for Concorde's limited success was regulatory manipulation by companies like Pan-AM, TWA and Boeing to initially block the most profitable transatlantic flights to the US.

That limited initial orders and almost killed the project until it was slightly relaxed enough to allow some flights to New York.
The word you're looking for is progressivism, not liberalism. American liberalism is just progressivism wearing liberalism as a skinsuit.
If cycling is abnormal, then by definition 'normal' people will never cycle.

>Most people are never going to risk their lives to ride bicycles on roads where cars, driven by people on their phone, are travelling at speeds exceeding 30 mph

From my admittedly biased or perhaps experienced perspective it really isn't as dangerous as people imagine.

What is clear to me is that no matter what happens, there will always be a contingent of individuals who will never ride a bicycle. Whether that is because of imagined safety reasons or because of infrastructure fantasies, I can't say. I can say with certainty that if you eliminated both of these objections, another excuse would be raised. That's fine. People should choose the lifestyle that suits them and brings them happiness.
I wonder how many homeless are unseen.

My experience with those living on the streets is that substance abuse and mental health is the main symptom of them living that lifestyle. They will be the first ones to tell you if you're willing to have a conversation with them.
The DoorDash UI prevented you from giving a "really big" tip. It topped off right at the point that drivers would actually start getting tipped in your math.
Who would've thought no one wants to be recorded or be monitored while driving
If you want to fix it, you put in legal protections for people to do business, rather than this informal and/or ad hoc regulation through the shifting influence and agendas of arbitrary special interest groups.

The answer to regulation gone wild is not more regulation, it is to remove regulatory power. You can’t dig your way out of a hole.
My spouse and I did these tests and the results have changed a fair amount over the years. Where initially there were some surprising, albeit trace, amounts of DNA detected from certain ethnic groups, the results have now normalized down to what I would expect given my family history. If I had not checked in since my initial results I very well may have considered my ancestry to be something it's not.

However, I increasingly question why I should care about my ancestry and what it says about me. I'm generations removed from those who arrived from foreign countries. I know less about what it means to be some of the ethnicities in my blood than those those that I'm not. I feel greater fellowship with others based on common interests than I do race.

Next census I'll probably write in "American" or "Human", since these stats just seem to be used to advantage or disadvantage people based on group identity, regardless of their actual individual situation.
I honestly haven't seen any evidence of this whole "think things you couldn't previously think" idea. The only interesting thing I've seen people be able to do by switching languages, is significantly improving static analysis, in order to save debugging cycles and improve production reliability. But everything else that is "interesting" is just different ways to generate code in order to reduce lines of code written manually, which is convenient, and is certainly fun for nerds like most of us here, but I really don't see it as this superpower that folks like pg seem to believe it to be.

A better analogy for new materials is new techniques, like machine learning and higher order abstractions over it, or new algorithms. But those are independent of languages.
The other problem is the "productive-only" trap. You begin to hate art, essays and everything related with free time because you are not doing anything productive doing those.

This can expand to your tastes or everyday life by not wanting to learn X "just for the fun".
Vegans must eat some foods enriched with b vitamins to survive so they are not really on a plants only diet either. An entirely raw food, plant only diet leads to a horrible death due to b12 deficiency.
Density is partly a function of the type of circuit. Memory is denser than random logic, for instance. Interconnect eats a lot of area and reduces density.

This chip is largely memory and multipliers, both of which are pretty dense.

Fab processes improve over time to have higher density and lower defect rate (which allows bigger chips while getting acceptable yield). So it's not surprising to see a chip on the same node but shipping a year or 2 later (than Ampere) having more transistors.
Yes, I know that. But the point I was responding to was that the banks and cc companies are worried about liability, but Fb is a larger hub for child exploitation and general social instability than all of the tube sites combined.
Reddit hasn't been a neutral forum for at least a decade. It's explicitly a commercial astroturfing zone.
Buran/Energia was in many ways more capable, and powerful than the Space Shuttle. Buran was certainly inspired. However, Soviets knew how to get into space. They improved the design considerably.

Buran doesn't use integrated reusable engines with the external tank, so there's no awkward mix of solid boosters. Plus, Buran has a fully functional emergency ejection seats for all crew members. More so, the Buran had automated flight from the outset and meant that Buran could be lauched without anyone and be landed fully automatic.

Energia could be launched by itself, and carry about 100 tons which is about 3 times the shuttle's capacity, and being a seperate system makes so much more sense than the booster + fuel tank mix of the Space Shuttle system.

In general, Buran, from an engineering point of view, was a fantastic piece of work and although might have been inspired by the Shuttle initially, it definitely improved on the Shuttle design.

It's truly sad that the Buran was discontinued only after one flight. It deserved more time in the sun to shine.
Oh well.

It would be an “issue” without the awareness.

Having awareness does not mean humans can/must stop being human.

At least a permaculture garden is an attempt at self providing utilitarian effort.

A bird feeder is just a low effort spectator sport with one outcome.
If your hypothesis was true everyone in the industry would already be billing for it

Crypto will have to overcome these hurdles first:

- Slower and more difficult to use (especially compared to saved CC auto-complete)

- No rebills (the biggest problem)

- No credit

- No payment protection
The article did explicitly reference Wikileaks being blockaded by financial services.

>One salient example occurred in 2014 when WePay – a payment service provider that had gained traction with sex workers and activists after its CEO described the company as the “anti-PayPal” after the latter’s denial of service to WikiLeaks...
The whole tidyverse set of packages for R. Its a DSL for data analysis that makes heavy use of R macros. The vocabulary and mental model that it has about data transformation is superior to any other analysis package I've used.

Pandas/Numpy is close but R's macro/custom operators make everything much more seamless.
For the right price I am sure they would be bought, especially if someone (probably an investment group) is trying to profit long term assuming the building is "fixable" whatever that may mean.
We still have plenty of COBOL developers maintaining and upgrading legacy applications. Framework, and all the apps running on it, are officially legacy now. Legacy development has entirely different challenges and limitations to modern development.
Article says this: 10% loss budget in Front side power delivery with a 7x improvement in the future => <2% of heat on bottom.
In elementary school we had something like this - we had to read a book from a different genre every month in order to earn a food item for the end of year picnic. I was constantly reading just science fiction, and ended up with only pickle relish, despite reading more than most of the other students. I don’t think the exercise convinced anyone who wasn’t already into it that reading is good and fun.
For the non-lisp programmer, can someone explain how the Macro differs from a library call, or other function? If you're building the language, vs building your code, is this really that different?

Having read about this, the best analogy I can think of is that macros are like engineered wood. If you're building a structure, you can build bigger ones with engineered wood, than with run of the mill (literally) stuff.
This. In the conferences I attend, I can see a regular push towards very invasive review of every transaction. Last time I heard it I think I can paraphrase it as 'we can see SKUs, why are we not stopping transaction there and then?'.
How about you don't make assumptions about who you're talking to?
I've never understood why working the most entry level job should afford you a midrange 2br. Why not link minimum wage to 3x rent for an entry level apartment?
Given how much time and energy our prestige institutions spend denigrating whites, of course fewer people would adopt the label for themselves.
Is it really not clear that this article is a satire of smart devices?
"A position (or statement of position) is a cold-hearted, no-nonsense statement of how you are perceived in the minds of prospects. It is your position."
Emacs did speed-up on M1? When/How? :D

Which Emacs distribution are you using?
Declarativeness targeting a specific problem is definitely good, but it is implementable in any language.
Ooops, yes, thank you for pointing it out....
Oh great! Definitely let me know if you run into any trouble or could use some help - I'd be happy to jump on a zoom call if that might be of benefit.
Paulo Freire plagiarized the Laubach method, created by the protestant missionary Frank Charles Laubach. The method was copied by marxists ideologists in Brazil's Pernambuco, emphasizing the class struggle. The author of these other primers was Paulo Freire, who lent his name to the "new methodology" as if it were his own.
Chernobyl: How It Happened (2016)
Gutfeld is king of late night as his Fox News show beats Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon
> The first programming languages are disproportionately java, c#, PHP these days.

I'd say it depends on what we're defining "first programming languages" as - first PL learnt in intro-level university lecture, or first PL learnt individually?
But my impression is that the most popular PL for beginners seems to be Python. And while I'm not really a fan of Python, I understand where that's coming from: Python is relatively simple to learn, has a huge library ecosystem and comes with relatively few footguns.
You might like this one
https://www.amazon.com/Million-Dollar-One-Person-Business-Gr...

I listened to the audio version, it is interesting
Exactly. Might even spawn some good debates
The difference is that now, the discrimination against non white people is mostly unwritten (biases that have measurable effects, but are never outright stated as policies).

Conversely all the discrimination against white people is formal (companies say they want to hire more non white people for diversity, government programs for minority owned businesses, etc).

So from a game theory perspective, the best possible position is one where you are informally perceived as white (so you don't face any of the unwritten biases) but are formally listed as a marginalized group (so you benefit from formal policies intended to help those groups).

Not surprising people who can, would use a DNA test as an excuse to put themselves in that group.
It's often mentioned how the US covertly imported titanium, I think, from the Soviet Union for use on advanced aerospace projects.
Metamine - it seems to have been pulled from the internet by its creator, after having given some really cool demos.

What's weird: it allows a mix of declarative and imperative syntax in a style that seems like normal procedural programming. You have a "magical equals" that is actually reactive programming... if any of the terms change, ever, the result gets updated.

Here's a previous thread about it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27555940
Big Numbers are good for headline. But it doesn't put anything in context.

Die Size is 645mm^2 on a 7nm. This is important because we know the reticle limit which is around ~800mm^2.

The Nvidia AI Chip has 54 billion transistors with a die size of 826 mm2 on 7nm.

I recently saw a Ted Talk, If Content is King, then Context is God. I think it capture everything that is wrong in today's society.
How does the wages increase with help wanted signs compare to the rent increase in the last decade or two in your annecdotes? Food? Health insurance? Student debt repayments?

I don't know i just want to see real data before condemning anyone at all.
I always tought a credit score was an American ism, maybe including UK and Ireland for the EU. Does anyone know if there exists something like credit scores in Belgium, and how you find out what yours is?
Why exactly? Current mainstream programming languages have just started to move away from the “fancy C” paradigm (only named functions, classes, imperative control flow constructs) to “prototype ML” paradigm (lambda functions, records, user-defined operators). These features make languages way more expressive (enabling things like SwiftUI), so understanding language nuances will become even more important as more advanced language features find their way into popular languages. Obviously you do not need to be a an expert on compilers, but most powerful languages need some time investment in order to be used at their fullest potential.
You couldn't pay me to live in, visit, or even walk by that building, but apparently there is a market for the units:

- at least 6 units have sold within the past 6 months: https://www.sanfranciscocondomania.com/soldCondos/MILLENNIUM...

- at least 8 units are currently on the market:
https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/millennium-tower_att...
Lewis came _after_ the East India Trading Company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company) - he's talking about corporations that resemble the fever dreams of _Neuromancer_ and _Snow Crash_, not the (relatively) puny things we have today. He didn't lack imagination at all - he's saying that the moral busybody is _worse_ because their impetus is a better one, so they have more focus and energy to pursue their goals than the hedonist / greed-driven individual.
I thought the same initially, and do think the analogy is bad, but a few seconds later I wondered if the point that they were making was that the interconnects carry the same amperage: the required gauge for a connector (i.e. wire) is determined by amps, not watts. As a result you can send more power down smaller cables at higher voltages.
...they could always store the files on one of the FedGov S3 regions...brilliant sabotage!
I love this. I have used Eleventy, Hugo, Gatsby, and Jekyll. All of them feel like overkill. I want to write my own HTML. I want to write posts (and maybe some simple pages) in markdown. And I want to be able to render a list of posts/individuals posts. This hits all of those in a really simple package. Nice work!
Linux - not feeling there are things beyond my control.
>... hateful ... like-unminded ...

Do you see these folks you're talking about as fully human? I see this kind of classification a lot, as though 'they' are just a swarm of zombie NPCs following some simplistic algorithm.
NetBSD Booting on the Apple M1
Unless you have a better study to point to than the hairdressers and the navy ship studies that I looked at (both pretty sloppy in their own way), I'd say that you don't have proof.

I'm not saying that you are provably incorrect. You pointed out that the studies I referenced were for personal protection, not to deter spread. However seeing how poorly cloth masks performed in those studies doesn't impart much confidence for their ability to stop spread, either.