skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just turn autocorrect off. I also find that if you turn off slide to type the keyboard works better, could just be my imagination though.

There is a bit of a break-in period when I first turn off autocorrect, as I find I adapt to leaning on it pretty heavily when its on. Pretty quickly I get more accurate, and its a lot less annoying fixing my mistakes than autocorrects. YMMV.
Yup. These are exactly the sort of exec speak that I expect up-and-coming managers read. They aren't exactly fads but nor are they longstanding respected works. Most will probably still be read in a couple years, but very few will survive twenty. Where are the great works that will improve a person's written language? Where are the seminal works on market theory? Where are the histories? My kingdom for an executive who can string together a cohesive paragraph.
> There's no reason for consumers to care about the business dispute developers have with Apple any more than they care about the carriage disputes between media and cable companies.

What about the ability to run whatever I want on the device I own? And before you say that, no, the fact that you can purchase a competing alternative doesn't mean the current situation with iOS is not problematic. Having the same level of control over your device as the company that originally manufactured it and sold it to you is a consumer rights issue, not a "x has that feature and y doesn't" issue.
Work on fixing SF's beleaguered Millennium Tower will not resume any time soon
Damn, I have this exact same problem and never suspected it was NVIDIA related :/
Why would you worry about low level details for a high level language, optimization is an implementation detail. Javascript in my opinion lends itself functional style programming
I've started using this... its not bad. I just need to improve my habits around it.

I wish I could TAG things in it to give me a quick way to group things...
A lot of people complaining this is a stupid law, but if you substitute dealership with startup, manufacturer with Amazon, and cars with managed service running on AWS, then maybe it’s more relatable?

In general though, I’m always elated to see sovereignty of native nations.
Makes sense,

I see ads on TV/internet for cheap Wireless deals, i just assume it mean a longer contract/forcing you to buy a pricier phone
Appreciate your honesty from my personal question. I worked with a woman a few years ago who said she was interested in reducing her meat consumption but reasoned that her dad was from Texas and loved to grill so, because of that, she could never stop eating it. I’m puzzled by her thought process but it seems to explain some kind of internal need to maintain identity- and, I guess, culture.
Which financial crimes have you been a victim of?
> Here's an idea – instead of passing the "visual page structure" to the client as JSON, use a markup language specifically designed for that purpose – HTML.

Why didn't you just come out and say "Use Hotwire!" or "Use LiveView!" ;)
Advertisements are already photo-shopped and completely fake. Knowing that the models are AI generated doesn't change much about that. It could actually have a beneficial effect. If young people (especially girls) know that the images they see on-screen are 100% computer generated, maybe it will reduce their effectiveness at convincing them that the ad is an object worthy of emulation.

I'm sure the advertisers will scientifically test for this effect and use whatever strategy keeps them buying though...
Doing some changes in about:config like enable GPU and increasing memory processes will make your browsing liquid in firefox. Also, have fpeg installed beforehand.
This whole conversation has been very insightful.

From the noalias = no panacea

To the Fortran repl

Thank you. This was inspiring.

Maybe it’s time I learn me some llvm too. Cheers.
Fobo's point wasn't about which parts of the plant get destroyed, it was just about how much food you have to put into a cow in order to get different food out of a cow.

It's a lossy conversion.
I am not very familiar with GraphQL, but on first look it seems more suited to a public API. For an internal app, when we know EXACTLY what data is needed for each page, this seems like wasted effort. Any thing in particular you suggest checking out?
Compute vs. Hardware
VMWare doesn't make chickens.
It’s everybody. Politicians lobby for breaks for their constituency, as well as increasing taxes to raise revenue. Companies lobby for breaks for their industry. Issue groups lobby for breaks (or taxes) to encourage behaviours they want to see. Even the poor do this, albeit typically via unions or other collective means.
Yeah. Had a Passport.

Miss the keyboard with touchpad gestures, keyboard shortcuts, the Blackberry Hub and how pleasant reading text on the screen was.
To be fair, much of what you describe is just part of becoming a mature company. At some point, flat can't work anymore. At some point, the impact of individuals is diluted and the number of people needed is so high, that outsize rewards become impossible or risk being sure signs of inequality.

As much as I appreciate equality goals (what role, level, value ranges are there for), and believe their benefits outweigh their costs, they function by lowering ceilings and lifting floors. The only way to earn outsize bonuses these days is to be directly tied to outsize earnings (e.g. commissions), and that's hard to do with engineers.

The engineers route to that kind of risk/reward dynamic is by founding / joining something early (that actually grants options) and trying to make it huge.
Yeah— that's one of those tomes that takes a superhuman amount of will for most people to push through if they're not being compelled by university course work. Very well-written but it's just a lot of information to absorb.

When I was a teenager, just before I started more seriously getting into programming on the school computers, a Russian friend asked his dad— a soviet university trained software engineer— how he could learn to code. His dad handed him a his stack of Knuth and said "read that and then get back to me."

Of course, the kid read 10 pages of Fundamental Algorithms, put the book down, and never tried to learn how to code ever again. Why would he have? As far as he was concerned, the very first steps were a big pile of confusing theory that wasn't bringing him closer to his goal of doing some fun projects with a computer at any point in the near future. He had to absorb all that just to start? Forget it.

Looking back, I think his dad probably thought it was funny and probably even joked with his coworkers about it... but I wonder how different my friend's path would have been if his dad handed him a copy of Learning Perl (it was the mid 90s) and helped him get ActivePerl installed on his machine. If your nerd machismo is so intense that you're alienating your own teen kid with it, you really need to reconsider your life strategy.
I found it quite funny too, but the main character has a bit of a 17th century Adam Sandler quality, straddling a line that some readers find more annoying than humorous.
> In 2020, the cost of the programs I mentioned above was approximately 2.3 trillion dollars. Payroll tax revenue was 1.3 trillion, income tax revenue was about 1.6, everything else is half a trillion.

Sure but the programs ran surpluses for many years, all of that money being lent to the government. You can’t double count paying that debt down as new debt if you counted it as debt when it was lent to the general fund (if debt was used to pay down debt, then it just remains). Likewise, interest payments on that debt also go back into the programs (since they were debtees), so if you get to only count that interest once even if it is being transferred inside what you are taking as the budget (so interest the government pays to SS shouldn’t be counted as additional debt either). The point where previous surpluses no longer cover current outlays (2035 for social security, 2026 for Medicare) is when we can start counting extra money put in as new debt.
Why was recycling label present on non-recyclables ?
Someone can correct me on this, but I've never seen this distinction you're making anywhere else. And, it doesn't make sense to me either. The wikipedia page[0] for FP says that FP is a "declarative programming paradigm". Can you give me an examplel of a "functional" piece of code that is "not declarative"?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
It is a analogy for alot of things (idealist dreamers in combat with analogy) but mostly it is barely veiled critique on society of an older era. I honestly do not see the point of having youth study that..

Every cultural transient work is distilled down into me es by word of mouth eg Gullivers journeys etc. These stay relevant and reused, the rest perishes.
I quite like Moby Dick. Good book. Shakespeare too.

My problem is with artificial, curated reading lists, rather than something organic that arises out of interest.
This, like the rest of crypto, enables the world's worst humans.

Also, the founder (who loves telling people to stay poor online) is in jail for fraud. I'm shocked.

I really hope Gensler and co sack up and shut down these wannabe pirate losers.
Great question. Every cell carrier processes images before delivering to the recipient. Like, if you send 3 or more photos almost every cell carrier will downsize the images. While this isn't an extensive test, I just tried renaming a PDF to a GIF and it failed to send on Google Voice and T-Mobile.
I doubt those are set to the same quality. 1080p should use about twice the bandwidth for the video at most, but it's often less because there's less fine detail the higher you go, and also the audio data won't change in size.

I just did a quick test with x264 at quality 20 on two different clips. On a very high motion animated sequence, it came out at 2GB/3.4GB per hour. A live-action clip of people walking and talking came out at .65GB/1.3GB per hour. So that's 40% less and 50% less, respectively.

And with h.265 you can get something like h.264 720p size with h.264 1080p quality, everything else held equal.
Clearly they are not questioning the ingenuity of the authors of the source code, that seems like an attempt to misrepresent their position. In fact, they are directly calling out the "transaction privacy" component as a net negative for modern civilization, since it effectively facilitates transactions among criminal enterprises.
They're communist just on label. For all practical purposes they're just another Indian political party.
OpenAI Codex is pretty good at translating code between languages. It's far from perfect - but it can get simple cases perfectly. It knows languages like Rust, Haskell, Erlang, and more.

I found that I could translate Python to Haskell using Codex and get more real working Haskell code far, far quicker than I could manually.

I think Codex will be a simply incredible tool for learning new programming languages, could definitely make FP easier. It may not be super "smart", but it's smart enough, it knows a ton, and it's got superhuman recall.

Another idea is that you could filter Codex suggestions for those that pass the type-checker, and keep regenerating until it passes.

It's so incredibly fun. It made me want to never stop coding.
Show HN: A Minimal Traceroute Implementation
I wanted to share a very small traceroute implementation I wrote using Python. It is asynchronous and it supports probing over UDP or ICMP. It was a good networking exercise.
Nailed. It. Yes. I work with GCP (google console) for work ALL DAY. It is a layered gross mess of SPA. Example, I need to list the servers. It will take 10-20 seconds to load the list of 30 servers. I don't care about the cool glitching transitions or boxes with fades. I want to list the servers. Hit the back button? OH WELL! All your session data is now lost. Anytime I type in GCP the computer hangs while it processes thousands of lines of javascript to see if I will autocomplete. When I click "create" my browser tab hangs while my macbook pro fan cranks up.

I want to rewrite the GCP console with HTML, using their api and not one damn line of JS.
They are not as secretive as I expected, even running a twitter account. Kind of uncanny

>We have two Canadians, two Estonians, an Israeli and a Korean
I did read the whole thing in high school in 1990. I learned to program lisp as a direct result. GEB was one of the more influential books of my late teens, up there with Doors of Perception and The Cuckoo's Egg.
I understand where you're coming from in that the technical abilities to create something (someone?) like this may seem like a low barrier to entry.

However, I disagree that this is "quick" money or just a fad. The value of this AI for sponsorships/ads comes more from a team of actual people that scan social media to search for trends, photo styles and carefully helps curate its presence. For example, look at how the first "photo" in the article is created. Notice how the AI isn't looking at the camera? Or how the perspective is somewhat tilted? Overall, the image has many subtle details also very in line with how many millienial/gen-Z Korean girls upload birthday photos from cafes on Instagram.

It feels like Rozy represents a broader movement towards abstracting out the elements that make us resonate with a brand or image more. I think brand strategists and marketers have figured out that the model is more of a vessel to store and convey those elements/emotions and for particular types of ads there is no real need for the model to actually exist in reality. Think about how many ads where you don't know the model in any other context.

Rozy probably adds more value than the nameless models in some sense because there's a persona/brand the team has built up in social media/other ads. Definitely not easy money.
A woman is suing S.F. for $50M over a parking ticket
I had some old samsung phone with a sliding keyboard and it was really nice. Much faster than typing on an iPhone that's for sure not to mention you could do it with your hands in a hoodie pocket thanks to the tactile feedback. Seems like that would be pretty great again today, you get the full face as a screen then you just slide the phone in half when you need to type.
I don't know. I don't write functional because it's hard and I'm super smart, I write functional because it's easy and I'm lazy.

I'm also not sure the example in TFA is much of an argument. From a glance looks like the programmer got entangled in their own cleverness, but the slice we are shown is too small to show if there's some external reason to do it like that.

story time: once did a compile time parser generator with c++ templates. "Zero-cost" abstraction and all that jazz. Turns out the binary was so large that a type-erased vtable system ran faster, for all its nonzero cost.

Templates are orthogonal to functional or imperative. It's a code generator. Understand what you generate!
I concur, in Haskell you have to import the pipe operator (&) before using it, kinda second class, no snark intended.
I'm following this pattern by using NestJS on the backend and it acts as the state of my frontend(no need fir redux). The API responses are already in a shape that I can easily consume. A single request gets all the data it needs(using relations). I like it!
It's an encyclopedia, you aren't supposed to read it cover to cover.
I read GEB, it only took a decade and a half.

I have only read about 80 pages of El Quijote.
Also, consider using Rails and Turbolinks if you're familiar with them. You can get pretty far with turbolinks and the responsiveness is similar to a single page app.
In order for that scenario to be an issue, I'd need to have made an agreement with Amazon to sell AWS out of a building and then Amazon decided to open up an Amazon AWS store in the strip mall 2 roads over, right?

Think what they're really protecting here is that dealerships must house, maintain, and purchase a lot of very expensive merchandise (vehicles) and if a more "official" distribution channel popped up in town, that'd hose dealerships that have invested a lot in a particular brand(s).
Arguably we've come far enough that people would be fine with the idea of a completely virtual image projected to them.

I see it two-folds:

- the image influencers are projecting is already detached from most people's reality, they know it's faked but accept it as an ideal to tend towards. Just as we all know movies are full of VFX and 1 in a million charismatic actors that are horrible people IRL, but we still aspire to the projected image.

- having no human being directly attached to the persona means no scandal, no medical issues, no miserable life lived in the shadow of the spotlight and it's beneficial to both producers and viewers. You'll never have your idol smeared by tabloids because they kicked homeless people.
It's just frustrating and I avoid doing much typing on it as much as possible. So much faster and easier with physical keys. I'm always inserting periods or something on an iphone.
> However, to lament programmers not eking out every megabyte of payload size is nonsensical - in my opinion. Why waste a scarce resource (labour hours) optimising the use of a cheap and plentiful resource (bandwidth/storage).

Bandwidth and storage are not always plentiful. I might have a lot of other things to store and not enough room for a half a gig deck of cards. And maybe my local tower is down and I've got an intermittent signal from the next one over.

> Imagine a world where fusion energy was the most commonly employed energy source and the cost of electricity in both environmental and economic terms was negligible. Should we still have energy-star rated refrigerators? Why? What purpose would it serve?

A more efficient fridge dumps less heat into the kitchen (or wherever), which means temperature fluctuation and more comfort, even if A/C is effectively free, it makes noise and what not. The other comment about environmental impact is also worth considering, although if energy is free and plentiful, I expect most power plants to switch and for syngas to takeover where liquid fuel still makes sense, which might make worrying about emissions obsolete (although who knows, anyway fusion seems capital intensive for the forseable future, so I'm not going to plan for free and plentiful energy)
In Civ 1/2 you definitely DID NOT kill all stack of units if you killed one. I played them both a lot (and actually prefer them to newer installments), so I know for sure.
Strawberry grower makes 25,000 jars of jam to save fruit from waste
> #Do you have data to support your claims?

> I wish. It’s pretty hard to measure these kinds of things in our industry. Who’s gonna maintain 2 architectures for the same software for 3 years, and compare productivity between them? All I got is a mixed bag of personal experiences. Feels inductively justifiable.

Oh wow this is sort of fascinating. Maybe we could crowd source experiments like this. Like maintain some random open source app with two different backend structures for X years and blog about it, share battle scars.
> fragility of floppy disk

1.44 MB “floppies” were encased in hard plastic and not fragile
Yes it's true that states want to reduce alcohol consumption; drunk driving, alcohol related illnesses and crime are all tied to alcohol use, so there is a public health aspect.

But like many things that are opined on on HN, it's a little more complex than what you wrote, in that they were also trying to prevent tied houses (1) and vertical integration wherein brewers would basically tie into every local bar, creating a local monopoly.

Washington State got rid of the common three tier (2) system in 2012, and it seems to have lead to higher prices. (3)

The options we have for alcoholic consumption might not exist without these sort of regulations.

To be clear I'm not an expert on liquor laws and their economic impacts, but my point is that it seems like there is a complex interplay wherein regulation, enforcement, and power relationships between companies can affect availability and pricing in complex and sometimes counterintuitive ways.

And that's not even getting into smaller regulatory policies that I don't know enough about to even throw out an opinion on. Unlike food, alcohol distributors aren't isn't pay for play slotting fees for shelf placement, and many states require distributors to post and hold prices for 30 days, for example.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-tier_system_(alcohol_dis...
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tied_house
3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608622/
Source Engine Scene Rendered in WebGPU
This line of questioning is pretty silly. Of course your pet cause needs to be solved through legislation immediately.
Wait, are you saying that "html-over-the-wire" is preferable even for mobile apps, or that having mobile clients makes using "html-over-the-wire" undesirable?
I think it's popular because it was a remarkable book for its time, but like Uncle Tom's Cabin or The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, I wouldn't say it's a fun literary read.

Strong cultural impact? Yes. Riveting novel? No.

You know how academics rack up citation circles to "boost the impact of their publications"?

Literature is a bit like that where you have a small group of people dictating the tastes of others, until it eventually collapses in on itself like a black hole and you're staring at an empty canvas, a banana peel, and an empty can of deodorant and calling it art.
I didn't want to comment about looks because it wouldn't add anything to the discussion but since we are talking about looks I just can't get over how ugly c++ templates are.

I will even admit that the only reason I never gave Rust a chance was because it reminded me too much of this type of angle bracket monstrosity.
> If young people (especially girls) know that the images they see on-screen are 100% computer generated, maybe it will reduce their effectiveness at convincing them that the ad is an object worthy of emulation.

You think so? Nobody ever wanted to be like Sailor Moon?
My Blackberry was BY FAR the best phone I've ever owned for texting and email. It was so superior that it barely compares. I could type without looking, which is a HUGE feature when walking or texting discretely in a meeting (or a conversation).

There are a few must-have apps on modern smart phones, but I would ALMOST be willing to give them up for the convenience of the keyboard.
Until it becomes more mainstream; every os can be exploited if lucrative
> The intent of the NM law that prevented Tesla from doing this e.g. in downtown Santa Fe was to prevent manufacturers from undercutting dealers who had done the work of proving a market by opening their own stores in direct competition. There are arguments for and against this, but it's not clearly a completely stupid idea on its face.

No, it’s pretty much a stupid idea on its face. This is one of many thousands of examples of cronyism in the country, but the political justification at least sounds nice (as they tend to do), in this case the sugar takes the form of protecting local businesses.

> and opening a new store is not undercutting any existing dealers

They wouldn’t be undercutting existing Tesla dealers because there aren’t any, but they would be going Mano-a-Mano with dealers selling other cars. There’s not a Tesla market and an automobile market separate from that.

The wording is irrelevant. The law is working as intended, although it can’t account for dealerships outside their jurisdiction (on Tribal land or out of State). It’s just a bad law.
AFAIK the idea was to label different types of plastic and let people figure out how to recycle them later. But it's now decades later and some types of plastic still can't be efficiently recycled.