skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I talk to the Wind is amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing. Thanks for reminding this exists. It has been years since I listened to their music
Argument:

1) Intelligence requires being spatiotemproally acting-on and being acted-on by a spatiotemporally dynamic environment.

2) Dynamical spa'temp properties of the body enable (1)

3) These properties are continuous features of the bodily (eg., organic plasticity)

4) continuous properties are irreducible to measurably discrete ones

5) computers are systems which we build that have measurably discrete systems

therefore,

C) computers cannot be intelligent
I would at least throw Azure into the serious players category. You have companies like Digital Ocean trying to compete as well, definitely not as many products though.
Identical twins carry a epigenetic signature of early genome programming
> "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco

Apple is very good at maximizing "consumer satisfaction". This means giving consumer the best deal for their money considering as many of the consumer needs as feasible. Other brands ignore a lot of these needs and then they wonder why people don't buy their products when, on some details, they are much better than Apple at a lower price.
I went with Ikea for a some small amount of smarts that can be completely offline, at least for their lights. It has not always just worked but what does always will no cloud needed.
I understand this thread is about dumping on ES... However, I must notice in your case it was an audit log. An ES system wouldn't work at all without access to events.
AWS could announce something that counters only this, perhaps making egress for S3 alone cheaper. But they won’t make egress itself free or close to free because egress is what keeps you checked in to Hotel California.

Removing egress feed is not just about taking a massive hit to revenue. If it was, they might bite the bullet and hope that the lower prices would attract more customers in the long term. But bandwidth pricing is the moat around their castle. If it didn’t exist, Snowflake and others would leave. But more than that, new AWS services benefit from the captive audience choosing them by default. Without the moat, each service has to compete on its merits. AWS Lambda, for example would need to be better than CloudFlare Workers or fly.io containers. It won’t win customers like it does today just because it’s “free” bandwidth.

They won’t rush to announce anything that might affect the foundation of their multi billion dollar money printing machine. They’ll take their time and see how customers react. If any large customer threatens to leave, they’ll be offered credits to stay. But that information about what customers want and what they’re likely to do will help them come up with a strategy.
I can definitely appreciate the conundrum - you write a great piece and you want people to see it. My 2c would just be: trust your reader. People tend to have a good sense for whether a particular piece of content is going to have an effective “use-by” date or not.
Military DVA Claims
Slater and Gordon Lawyers specialise in DVA Claims for Australian Military veterans. Like DVA Advocates, RSL Advocates and ex-service organisations they provide
The Problem with Vim (2014)
you can use shamir secret sharing or other similar stuff (like multisignature wallets), so that you need m of n keys.

Thus someone accessing some of your keys would not help them at all (and other things can be helpful lile time locks in combination with other features)
If the sockets are right next to each other, couldn’t the interlock be entirely mechanical? Pushing a connector into one socket disconnects the DC from the other socket.
Meet has caught up. It used to suck a ton (back when it was Hangouts), but these days I'd say it's better than Zoom.
Hardware accelerated terminals have been around for a while.
Those are not entirely new vaccines, though. They're just slightly modified from before
Technically not a "one off comment" - their comment history ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pigeonhole123 ) trots out this "fact" over and over. Despite being rubbished repeatedly.

And it's utter BS in the real world - did they even stop to think that some countries have given out millions of doses of Pfizer over the last 8 months, and if "all cause mortality was unaffected" compared to the pandemic situation in 2020, it would be obvious as hell. It's therefor a very extra-ordinary claim, no proof whatsoever.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699864

Why are they pushing this disinformation?
Yes but caffeine is socially accepted while psilocybin and marijuana is not. Further, caffeine makes you more productive as a worker whereas the latter two could even make you want to leave the work system entirely.
In my ~9 years of experience, most engineering jobs I've stayed have been because the manager was an enabler who trusted my experience and would help remove blockers to getting things done.

I know we like to shit on engineering managers a lot here at HN but having worked with great managers, terrible managers and playing the role for a short stint myself (a humbling experience, where I was not happy with my own performance), I realise the critical role a good manager can play to bring out the best in the team, and conversely how a bad one can bring out the worst.
Man I love Haskell, but this shows how... I'd say immature the language is when it comes to creating software for a specific use.

Business logic is already separated into other parts of the code, and now I have one concept I need to implement: "loop until exit". I would expect a mature programming language to assist me in mapping this to code as directly as possible, but this is not the case here.

The single concept has to be implemented by combining multiple new concepts: monad combination, lifting, mzero as a terminator... which would be fine if any of these concepts assisted in separating logic, but they do not. They only serve to build the concept of "loop until exit".
Benefits of Mesh WiFi System

https://xunison.com/what-is-mesh-wifi/
Interesting — I wonder why my google search turned up such specific instructions. Looks like there are a number of ways to shut down. I've learned two new ones from this thread!
You've gotten rid of 78% of the bytes. That's an extremely little price to pay in quality for that kind of gain
Last time I truly turned off my phone was at a 10 day meditation retreat in 2019.
NaN as an approach to handling arithmetic errors only makes sense (weighed against checked arithmetic) if it poisons all computations involving it.

I would argue firstly that floating-point numbers should not implement float == float → boolean comparison, because downgrading NaN to a boolean loses its infectious nature, undermining the purpose of NaN as an error-handling (or at least -detection) scheme.

But if you’re going to implement float == float → boolean comparison, I would argue that NaN not equalling itself is more reasonable on this axis of poisoning all computations than the alternative, though I will admit that it’s rendered subjective by the fact that there is no inherent virtue in equality (your “normal” path could just as easily be conditional on inequality).

I’d really like to see more experimentation into languages that only support checked arithmetic (not just for floating-point numbers, but also for integer types).
Yes but I'm talking about the bottom right pop-ups
Cool!

btw, it looks like there is an error with the cert for ironbci.com ?
Edit: uh, I guess my phone just didn’t like that it was over http, nevermind
Love the use of CSS filters to add some interest to the typography without adding (much) to the page size. Fantastic! Definitely stealing this :D
https://xunison.com/
Another article where managers show how detached they are and just regurgitate empty manager speak about how emotional and empathetic they are. No single mention to promotions. For some reason companies prefer to waste money and time hiring and training replacements rather than having proper career progression internally. For most developers leaving is the new career progression.

Open your eyes. Reality is shouting in your face. The dozens of dubious management books by "experts" are just making you feel good about not tackling the problem.
What do you put on the truck bed that you couldn't in a car trunk?
This short comment thread is hilarious and predictable.
Are you saying that this finding does hold up in the real world? Despite .. the real world?

You honestly should see it coming that would be told that you're talking rubbish - you have trotted out this junk talking point repeatedly, and been told that this is not correct several times now, it was only a matter of time it is said directly.
I remember Harris saying that and remembering always makes me chuckle.
I'm glad you mentioned that because that was my first thought reading the parent comment.

Regarding the "sucker's game" comment I can see where you're coming from but wanted to offer my perspective. I'm only a conservative because I'm anti big government, anti identity politics, and pro individuality. However, we live in a two party system so I have to root for the whole team. Those core issues outweigh all other factors. Sometimes after rooting for the same team for many years you just pick up the banner and wave it.

Have you asked your parents what their core beliefs are and why they're on that team? You might find they're one or two issue voters. Not sure if that would help you find some peace with them.
This kind of articles which explain something which looks simple, but involve a few concepts beginners don't get to use very often; is something Haskell community needs more of. Article does a great job touching different topics to sufficient depth, keep good pace, and isn't introducing something too challenging. A great tea-time reading for a Haskell/FP beginner!
It is entirely about IPR. Did you read the article?

“They’re ripping off our IP, they are not playing by the rules. It’s not a level playing field. And so we need to hold their feet to the fire to make sure that they do that,” she added

and

“We have to work with our European allies to deny China the most advanced technology so that they can’t catch up in critical areas like semiconductors,” Raimondo said, adding that the Biden administration plans to deepen cooperation with Europe on export controls.

“We want to work with Europe, to write the rules of the road for technology, whether it’s TikTok or artificial intelligence or cyber,” she said.

What do you think "export control" means? Its about IP(R)
The Energy Trap
Could you elaborate how you solve transaction, double writes , deadlocks.
I mean the consumers do still process messages in parallel right? Or do you force a serial pipeline to avoid handling messages at the same time?
I thought that EV is more about creating entire separate entities/codebase which have zero dependencies.
Fortunately, waiting is easy :)
Removing nullability of a reference doesn’t mean removing null-relationships, it means properly typing them as Maybe/Option sum type to forcibly diverge code paths that work with non-existence cases. A language without an advanced compile-time type system cannot have these, not to mention untyped languages. You can’t just remove null/none/nil/undef from js, python, etc.

NaN self-inequality comes from the old FPU design decision (FCOM/FUCOM instruction group), which is probably questionable (or rational if you dig deeper) in regard of a programmer’s convenience. That carried over to all languages because it’s a fundamental hardware behavior that cannot be fixed without an overhead.
In fact, switching power supplies were used long before the transistor, they were using mechanical switches.

Car radios used mechanical switches to generate the anode voltage for the tubes, and in trains there were voltage converters using a rotating stream of liquid mercury.
For the actual top tier of compensation in tech (out of FAANG only Netflix is a part of that band) I think it still is. This year I've seen multiple engineers get ~500k offers for 4-6 yoe with no particular specialty, just general competence.

High end of Staff appears bumping into the million dollar range once bonuses come around at some of these places.
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The current exchange rate for ¥1,000 for the UK is £6.60, or $8.93
Given the prep, ingredients and distribution I’m intrigued what the margin is.
It also makes me wonder whether this has scaled in any way. The article makes it feel like this is a singular machine - that’s a lot of work involved to only stock one location.
I wondered whether this was a way of a caterer that serviced airlines (Air France would have similar offerings in First class and potentially business class), but Kyoto is farther away from the airports than other more obvious places to put such a machine like Osaka or Tokyo.
So I figure this is ‘extra’ output from one of the French restaurants in Kyoto.
It’s fascinating and I very much would like to try it.
Textually comparing disassembled code variants can be complicated because the disassembler might/will generate different names for locals.

Because of that, a better approach might be to compare the byte codes of the variants first to find out in what classes the variants differ.

Then treat the different class files as source code until you need to change any of them (so, variant 1 has foo1.class, bar.class, and baz.class, variant 2 has foo.class, bar2.class and baz.class, etc). Don’t immediately try to clean up their code, but ‘just’ try to figure out what they are doing (for many of them, that, hopefully, can be done from function names)
Researchers find Apple Pay, Visa contactless hack
Human labor is a resource too and I fail to see how it could ever be abundant, especially qualified labor, unless we really develop a general AI. In every job, people who are actually good at it are valuable, and there must be some way of managing their priorities, so that their time isn't wasted.

Paying them is one such way, though I do not claim that the only possible way in the universe.
When you can easily drop down to low-levels and write code in C or even Assembly in Python, why bother using any other language? I'm pretty confident at this point that Python is just going to eclipse anything else, I've been programming for years now and aside from using JS in browser I find it baffling that people would use anything but Python or C.
They are actually bad at both. They usually start by telling you an imagined solution to the problem they think they have. Then you need to pick that apart to figure out what the real problem is that they have and convince them of a solution that will actually solve their issue.

Sales people, depending on their experience, are not a whole lot better. They'll happily sell solutions that don't yet exists for problems that the customer insists they have and then confront their company with requirements that don't make sense. Closes the deal but sets everyone up for failure.
Ask HN: What's your story about lost source code?
Inspired by the comments[1][2] about lost source code, what's your story? How did you or somebody else lose source code, and what were the implications?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28700830

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28701093
It seems the benefits of eventsourcing can be had from using an immutable database. Auditing, Backing up state while the db is running, previous states and diffs.
hi! I work at Temporal. ftr our founders left Uber 2 years ago and Temporal is an independent startup (that is very much hiring) now.

Short answer is yes, we do, but it's abstracted away so you get the benefits (complete observability, retry/resume from failure) without the downsides (handwriting event sourcing logic and storage).

Long answer... it depends what your definition of event sourcing is. We shared some of our internal debate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28149159

Event sourcing is an impt implementation detail for us, but it is not something we push onto our users. Still they benefit from it anyway. very much agree with your statement. happy to take followup qtns :)
Fair point! I personally only bought AMOS when I was already slowly on my way out from the Amiga, so I never really got into it.
Ahh, amazing! Thank you!
Failed Stealing from Python
I don’t think they need to be outright banned but for the duration of the non compete the employer should have to keep paying the salary. They can then keep workers from joining a competitor if it is important to them. But the cost associated will prohibit its use as a scare tactic.
One thing I've noticed with myself is that I often struggle with creativity too, unless I go do something majorly, radically different and recreational/social. Once that happens, ideas flow like a tsunami whether I want them to or not.

For example, as a kid I was stuck in a rut and routine, school, homework, repeat. Then on a long weekend my step dad and step brothers and I went canoeing in Arkansas. I absolutely hated every goddamn minute of it. We capsized half a dozen times and nearly died at one point, nearly capsizing when going over a sharp and shallow decline (thankfully adrenaline saved us). Well on drive back home (something like ~4 hours) I had a TON of creative thoughts for everything from music videos to a kickass fictional story for english class I had otherwise been struggling with. I was beyond bored with all of it before that, and that one day trip totally shattered the entire cycle and set me loose for a good while.

As an adult, I had another similar "burst" following a rut after passing my first Krav Maga test (WW). It was essentially a ~6 hour non-stop full-power, full-speed demonstration of every beginner defense technique repeatedly. We had a grand total of 15 minutes of break throughout the entire time (two breaks, total). Not everybody passed, and I was surprised that I did. After that I had a total "revelation" breakthrough idea on how to address a particularly tough technical problem I was working on at the time (very early in my career) that I'd been struggling with for a while.

Basically the common theme that works for me is to absolutely go apeshit balls-to-the-wall on something physical outside the home and preferably very social (ill-advised during the pandemic, bear in mind) that will last at least a good 4+ hours, create some really strong life-long memories, and entirely disconnect you from your normal "world", that upon completion, you'll be in a hella good mood. For me, that tends to break the boredom and the blockage same-day if not immediately thereafter. The trick is to be so involved in whatever it is that the other stuff literally is COMPLETELY absent from your mind, not even an emotional "whiff" of it present. If you still think about it, or are still "feeling" an emotion tied to it, you're not lost in the activity enough so dial it up!

Also, just a friendly pointer, stop trying. Creativity is the most counter-intuitive notion of the human mind in that, the more you try, the worse your creativity block gets. But you can't just "let go", you have to entirely OVERWRITE your mind's activity with something else, 100%, without even the smallest hint of the problem/concern/blockage in your mind in the slightest. Only when you're totally distracted and, frankly, having some damn fun will your mind be "free" to work the problem "as a background job" so to speak. Or in another thread, if you prefer :-)
A live performance of Thela Hun Ginjeet plus a description of how it came about is included in this submitted article.
What about dropping a boat into a lake? You have to partially submerge the back end of the truck in order to off-load a boat on a ramp. Can the Rivian (or any BEV) do this?
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/leaf-blowe...
Not necessarily. And probably not to that extent.

The point is Rt. If Rt is above 1, and the disease has a degree of mortality similar to what it has now, then it means the case count will double at some rate. And ICUs will fill up, and people will start dying from things like broken legs and pneumonia from not being able to get sufficient care. Does that make sense? That's just what Rt > 1 means; case counts are doubling. If Rt is above 1, then if you don't want the disease to eat the world, something needs to happen to get Rt back below 1. If not, it will happen naturally, solely through natural immunity and unnecessary death.

So the goal simply needs to be to keep Rt below 1, or to knock it back below 1 before prevalance becomes dangerous and threatens ICUs.

But that doesn't necessarily mean lockdowns. If there's a spike but already a good level of immunity, it might just mean masks on public transportation for a couple of months, or people naturally choosing to go out to eat three fewer times a month, or whatever.

The measure of required mitigation depends entirely upon the circumstance in the moment. If Rt spikes a little, you don't need to do much. If it spikes a lot, you need to do more. But with enough vaccination, we might not ever need full lockdowns for covid again.
> siding with the anti-vaxxers out of "principle".

A large media company like Google banning content that is heavily politicized by partisan politics is a big threat.
Well, GNU date does, BSD date may or may not.

Linux box:

$ date -d 'now + 4711 days ago'
Thu Nov 6 06:57:20 UTC 2008
$ date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.30
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David MacKenzie.

Mac:

% date -d 'now + 4711 days ago'
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
[-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]

I also seem to be unable to pull a version out of the Mac's date command.
I assume it's just that the AP limit of £1000 is an order of magnitude higher than the limit for a physical card. (Maybe the Transit limit should be lower?)

I would also assume that this is why the article references Samsung Pay but not Google Wallet - the former seems to have a Transit-like option but not the latter?
> this is a weird response to a comment about the oddity of throwing a Promise

which actually has nothing to do with functional programming, it's just sloppy programming

This is because this person is one of those clowns who learnt one thing about functional programming and use that in every conversation to deflect criticism without much understanding of the criticism

> Imagine for a second that a Promise's .then is called .bind, put it in a thunk if you want to be extra precise and tell me what it is. Hint: It starts with "M"
> it was universally condemned by contemporary music critics

Reading Slonimsky's Lexicon of Musical Invective: critical assaults on composers since Beethoven's time, entirely made up of contemporary condemnation of what seems every famous composer since (and including) Beethoven, I get the impression you could say this about any of their works.

(free to borrow) ebook: https://archive.org/details/lexiconofmusical00nico/page/42/m...
It’s really good to see Cloudflare step up and compete like this. If they are successful Amazon will lower prices or throw in so much extra utility or value that the existing costs will make sense.
Well. There might be things we don't know. Things that this person who earns their living by writing clickable articles on the internet doesn't tell us, doesn't know, or doesn't care to know.

Lawsuit documents often run in the hundreds of pages. And then there's evidence to consider. Anyone who proposes to know who is right and who is wrong in a lawsuit without having digested all of this material is simply gossiping. (In some cases, this applies even to the judge.)