skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fine to work sometime on battery. Except, after 5 hours, marginal utility decreases, and 8 hours it goes to zero. Why would I need more than one day?
Is it overt idealogical zealotry to say that the Earth is round and orbits the sun? Is it overt idealogical zealotry to say that time dilates as the speed of light approaches?

You are needlessly equivocating. Some facts are known, and anthropogenic climate change is one of them (as is the efficacy of vaccines). We don't have all the answers, but we do have plenty of answers.

Your skeptic attitude borders on solipsism - the only thing I know for sure is what I see, so perhaps the whole world is just an illusion before my eyes, right?
The thing that burns out web developer is web development. The constant shift of technologies (just for the sake of it) and the nerfed (to oblivion) environment is hell. As a web developer, after you learn the basics (~5 years) there is no feeling of where the "up" direction is. Everything feels like sidesteps. There is no feeling of permanence to your knowledge, unlike a lawyer or a doctor. The knowledge feels like water pouring into a full container - as much of it goes out, as it goes in.

Switched to embedded systems 7 years ago to avoid the burnout. It is better, in my opinion. Funny enough, there is a natural barrier to entry that keeps most programmers away - You have to understand how computers work, how operating systems work and you have to be able to code in C/assembly. I have a lot of fun and actually picked up electronics as a hobby, which will help me better myself professionally. I think there is enough here to keep me entertained until I retire.
I see no mentions of semantic web in the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
How to automatically manage contributions to open-source projects
I used to use gmsh for all of my CSG + meshing work when I was doing simulations. Not done so for many years now though so not sure how it fares these days.
The way I see it, business logic needs this approach, but all API boundaries must be and remain DRY from the get-go. Interface definitions must not define behaviour; they are glue.
That's a myth. Actually there are lots of project with domain specific languages and in the case of Lisp they are often directly embedded. Having OO- or functional interfaces to learn is not much different from learning macros.

USING the macros is not a problem. MAINTAINING them might be a problem, because new people might have a hard time understanding to work with a language which has meta-level programming directly integrated. There are more languages which now are adding some kind of macro facility (example Rust), so there might be now more programmers getting familiar with meta-level programming with macros.

Projects like planners for public transport use special language extensions and if they have a market, they go for a long time. Other example, a specialized CAD system will have its own language extension for expressing generative CAD operations.

Sometimes there are projects which are replaced with different technology. For example a web store generator. But there the domain technology typically changes that some of these sites have three technology transitions in a few years. Every project owner has new tool preferences, influenced by the market. It might look like that old code is not understood, but the problem is actually that the code is no longer fashionable. Writing enterprise applications is largely done by Java and not C++. The reason to replace an enterprise application with one written in a newer language (like Java) has many reasons: technology no longer seen as fashionable, fewer trained developers available, trained developers to expensive, age bias, new libraries not available for the older language, etc.
Optimizing Core Web Vitals without improving site performance
Our first round of venture capital: 263 meetings, 12 months, $128,700
How can I raise my first round of capital?
Do I need a product? What metrics do I need to show?

I kept asking these questions months after starting work on
at Alpe Audio. The more I asked, the more I realized it wasn’t only me asking those questions.

So I documented how we did it...
Early stage fundraising is the most misunderstood and untold stage of startup life.

I'm talking pre product, pre traction, when you've only got an idea.

What do you need to raise? How many meetings? Who do you talk to?
Every week since launch I documented who we met, what they asked, what part of the story worked and what didn't.

The TL:DR is:
1) It took 263 meetings with over 200 prospective investors over 12 months to raise our initial capital that got us going.
2) Story matters more than traction.
After those 200+ meetings, I’m convinced that at early stages, traction matters least simply because unless you've got Snapchat like numbers, almost no numbers wow enough.
3) Founder market fit is a critical part of a startups story and allaying investor concerns.

Make sure you tie yourself into reducing risk for VCs.

2 tips:

• Focus on your story and use it to help investors de-risk investing in you. Traction can be a part of that, but don’t bet on traction alone.

• Trust the process. Build the pipeline, run through it. You can get 100 ‘no’s’, but you only need one ‘yes’ to make.

Full blog, charts andd the deck we used is here: https://www.alpeaudio.com/post/how-we-raised-our-first-round-of-venture-capital-263-meetings-12-months-128700/

Comments and thoughts welcome!
I would like to see some pictures of beautiful Modernist buildings.

I live in an apartment, but the house I grow up in had more lawn space than was used by the car.
So in the last illustration with all three concepts in a row, why does the monad change the wrapped 2 to a 3 that gets shoved into the function? What makes the 2 turn into a 3?
Why Debt Capital Is a Good Fit for Europe (Why Europe Is Lagging Behind Anyway)
Super semantic time!

PDF isn't (hyper)text. HTML (HyperTextMarkupLanguage) is. PDF is blob.
The problem with features like this and copilot is that the hard parts of software (including spreadsheets) is not writing code, but maintaining it and evolving it.

Perhaps these technologies could be turned to those ends, or we could develop better tooling to coerce code-generation to meet our expectations (writing tests or types for copilot to obey, for instance). Without these reassurances, which seem hard to do within spreadsheets, I struggle to see these tools as a net positive.

The best “writing code with a computer as a partner” experience I have had so far is with Idris, which uses no ML.

Despite this, this is very cool work, and I may feel differently after using it for some time.
This ship has long sailed, today everything is AI. It has nothing to do with AI but the necessity of using the current buzzword dominating the market. Before it was the web, XML, Ajax, OO, cloud, whatever. Now it's "AI." It means absolutely nothing. People implement simplest algorithms with a couple of case statements and call it AI without a blink. Everyone else jumps the train as they don't want to be perceived as obsolete. All this happens along (sometimes totally independently of) some real, interesting developments in machine learning.
>arm cpus are faster than server-grade processors

They are way more efficient as server cores. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/
In Norway, admitting usage of recreational cannabis to your doctor is likely to result in your driver's license being suspended as they are known to forward the information on to police.
What do you love about it?
Correlation doesn't imply causation but causation always implies correlation.

The claim that national databases of reports of symptoms occurring just days after a vaccination "cannot be used to infer" anything is just obviously not true. Of course they can be used to infer things. That's the justification for collecting the data in the first place, to enable such inferences. To believe nothing can be inferred from these databases requires you to believe that almost all the reports are spurious noise. Some are spurious for sure, just like some COVID deaths aren't really deaths from COVID. But a lot won't be, especially given that it takes quite some work and dedication to file an AER, and some databases like VAERS are moderated (that's why reports turn up in huge batches).

What's happened here is that the medical establishment has decided that vaccines are going to be considered safe no matter what, but, they have the problem that in the past there were problems and thus such databases are written into law in many parts of the world (like the USA). So they're trying to convince everyone that the databases are useless and so dominated by noise no conclusions can be drawn at all, even though in the past, that wasn't true. Additionally, no evidence for this claim is presented. So people outside the establishment go looking at the reports and this freaks out TPTB, who then insist that the public shouldn't look. It's not very convincing.
Intel can also play the "government please help us, we're critical to national security" card...
They make take your title, but they cannot replicate the code quality that should go with it, if that's of any consolation.
One of my favorite quotes from his book, Flow:

"The ultimate test for the ability to control the quality of experience is what a person does in solitude, with no external demands to give structure to attention. It is relatively easy to become involved with a job, to enjoy the company of friends, to be entertained in a theater or at a concert. But what happens when we are left to our own devices? Alone, when the dark night of the soul descends, are we forced into frantic attempts to distract the mind from its coming? Or are we able to take on activities that are not only enjoyable, but make the self grow?"

•••

Csíkszentmihályi's Flow also introduced me to Seneca and Marcus Aurelius (although, I prefer Epictetus to Aurelius).
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/elon-musk-mindset-tesla-rec... has some details.
> Americans like and want to transport themselves by car.

I think the minority are questioning the strangeness of this supposition. Least of all because the government has a hand in it.

Neighbourhoods are where people live, yet built for and around cars?

It may be single variable but I think a reasonable person might want to question that at least on some way.
Haha, I want this as well but sadly we are not going in that direction. Basically no way to really invest in nuclear. Not enough hype for SPACs.

Still hoping for the SpaceX of nuclear to emerge.

This is my biggest 'beef' with Elon, I much rather he work on nuclear then trying to make solar roofs.
Software is a level of abstraction, but I never saw an evidence that philosophy knows the concept of level of abstraction.
So there's two things to consider:

1) Everything is political, and so are search results and suggestions

2) Personalized results/suggestions, moreover, tend to fit the perceived political views of the user (from the algorithm's perspective)

Google and Youtube (like many others) are well-known to have pushed neo-fascist and conspirationist propaganda to random bystanders (Alex Jones or Trump in the USA, Dieudonné or Soral in France) because their "controversial" viewpoints generate more user engagement. Likewise, Google search often promotes white/christian-supremacist "news" websites like FDeSouche in the top5 results for random queries.

Then, there's personalized recommendations. Once you've clicked one of these results, Google's algos will deem you interested in that kind of content, and suddenly it's impossible to avoid that bubble. It will keep recommending the same sites/channels everywhere you go, for months. That's why clicking "critically" on a link because you're curious what an "opposite side" has to say is a dangerous enterprise with recommendation algos: you'll be subtly yet persistently exposed to their propaganda ecosystem as a result.

I would personally welcome "Goggles" as a positive change. I often know precisely what i'm looking for (an article i saw a few years back), but stupid ranking algorithms make it impossible to find in the stream of information. There's not a one-size-fits-all algo that's going to please everyone: decentralizing this power is the only suitable way, in my humble opinion.
I've seen tensor cores really shining in... tensor operations. If your workload can be expressed in convolutions, and are matching the dimensions and batching needs of tensor cores, there's a world of wild performance out there...
> Interesting question would be memory, current Mac Pro support 1.5TB

I wonder whether it might have on-chip RAM and slotted RAM?

Not sure what the implications to software and performance would be there, but the whole point of the new Mac Pro was an admission that the customers in that market need components they can chop and change as required. They obviously still care about that market, otherwise they would have just discontinued the Mac Pro and left it at that (instead they discontinued the iMac Pro—the intended successor to the Mac Pro—because a modular desktop is a better fit).

It would be super weird to do a total 180 on that now, especially considering they went to the effort of building things like the Afterburner cards. The move to ARM was surely in motion before work started on the latest Mac Pro design so I'm really interested to see where things go here. "Modular tower" and "tightly integrated SoC" seem completely at odds with each other.
Appears to be a file manager

https://github.com/jarun/nnn
That's what appears to be happening. The screen appears just a little taller than 16:10 - in windowed modes where the menubar is present, the menubar extends into this additional headroom. In fullscreen modes, the extra headroom just isn't used - it's blacked out and the screen is presented as a 16:10 screen.

So it's treated the same way as the iphone treats it - extra space that can be used usually, and just isn't used where it's not sensible.
Yeah I think everything you wrote here is on-point, nothing here happens instantaneously and with the current velocity of ML it's even less clear that it's taking place.

Thanks for your really in depth and informative reply though, I'm only cursorily interested in ML through its relation to data, which is my speciality. My exposure to ML is mostly through said ML teams making requests for data and systems like feature stores to run their models so I have some understanding of how they construct their overall architecture but not the specifics so this was super interesting.
The effects of artificial intelligence on society are not limited to the workplace. Recently, there has been a lot of discussion about how AI will affect our social interactions, which has been very insightful.
The DX7 was the first affordable, fully digital programmable keyboard to hit the market.

Also, technology for digital synthesis was already there, the big game was to avoid patent infringement from other companies.

For example, Casio invented the "Vowel–consonant synthesis" used in their 80s Casiotone keyboards mostly to prevent conflicts with an existing patent from Allen Organs[0]. And later, they came out with the "Phase Distortion Synthesis" as an *alternative* FM synthesis[1].

[0]: See the bottom of this page: http://weltenschule.de/TableHooters/Casio_CT-410V.html

[1]: https://electricdruid.net/phase-distortion-synthesis/
With a bad enough (or just unfortunate) codebase or technology choices, every build could easily turn into a full build. I care about cold build and cold restart times exactly for this reason.
One weird behavior with favicons that I noticed is that Firefox will download both the 16x16 icon that matches the size its displayed at (on 1x pixel ratio screen) as well as the largest icon and then will display whichever finished last. This behavior makes no sense to me.
or just pick a stable stack like go with something like hotwire for FE and just roll with it.
You're right. East Berlin is not so bad: https://goo.gl/maps/KtpqjfJW2eUUcbP8A
I don’t get the niece problem… it’s not a lack of itinerary but a lack of time. If I had a relative / friend visit … we’ll I wouldn’t care if we had to just sit in a Starbucks or even McDonalds or do the most obvious tourist stuff as long as there is time.
> if FreeBSD (...) began publishing official VM images, that'd be worth so much more to me.

They do: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/
I think most anyone should have a CYP2D6 test if they are considering taking, or taking, medication, it affects so many drugs out there, yet here in the UK, the GP's I have encountered are not familiar with gene<>drug interactions and I had to request it after working it out myself. It's a complex area, but if you happen to be a poor or ultra metaboliser it's a good thing to know. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK99699/
> You can't argue with anything that comes out of the corporate press.

Your comment is very disingenuous. You name-drop the WHO while making an outstanding and frankly unbelievable claim, but instead of citing the WHO you point to a conspiracy theory site.

Then you have the gall to repeat the old conspiracy loon trope of the press not being trustworthy when asked to provide a source to support your claims.

Well, no one asked you to quore the press. Why not quote the WHO, for example? Or is the WHO also not trustworthy to backup claims made regarding WHO's data?
There's a difference between "expressing an opinion in front of your peers" and "donating money to people trying to strip a group of people of some of their human rights."

Trying to strip people of human rights because of an inherent part of their identity, especially one which does not affect you in any way, shape, or form, is not an "idea that is weird."

It would be nice if you didn't assert "help strip gay people of human rights" as 'individuality' to be praised, respected, or admired.

It would be nice if you realized the irony in talking about respecting personal ideas while defending someone who wanted to force others to live to his personal moral code.

By the way:

> "Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?"

Let's try an empathy exercise.

Think about that statement in the context of, say, being trans and not out to your coworkers or neighbors.

Not reluctant because of an opinion, but because of who you are.

Not reluctant because you want to be part of the groupthink, or keep getting invited to lunch ,or the next neighborhood BBQ. But because you have to worry about things like harassment, being denied advancement or losing your job entirely? Losing your housing? Or you know, getting murdered?
(OT, but nice username. "I hate when I get locallost on the way to localhost's LAN party...")

The judgmental people tend not to matter in the long run, by the way.

Sort of. There are two types of judgmental people. One, the people building a team, or making a bet. Two, the people looking to talk about others.

The latter don't matter. The former are quick to judge because they have to be. If they're wrong about their bets, it'll soon become obvious. Which means the optimal strategy is to make many bets, or to interview as many devs as possible, and then cull most of the candidates.

It's not personal. http://www.paulgraham.com/judgement.html helped me care way less about rejection, which seems to decrease the odds of getting rejected.
Why not let people have their own worldviews? Don't you believe the benefits of self-organized communities far outweigh the downsides?

I'd much rather have 10 000 different communities who don't agree on anything, than have a strong hegemonic culture stepping on every disagreeing voice, as we currently have in most countries.
In my country (France) only +12yo are eligible for the vaccination and we are currently at 86.1% fully vaccinated in this population (88.3% with at least one dose).

Are we talking about the whole population or only eligible people?
Prompt Learning in NLP (Research Paper Summary)
> I genuinely believe having fast builds is the most important part of the developer experience. Somewhere around a build taking more than 30 seconds is when bad things start to happen to my engagement loop. If I can keep it under 30, I can stay in flow the whole time. Other developers on the team have expressed similar tolerances.

This, a thousand times. Anything after 30 seconds is where you start to lose your focus, and your work output suffers for it.
Why EIP-1559 is important
Asking "stupid questions" frees you from the trap of assumption. This is why people who are good at solving (or helping others solve) problems ask "stupid questions".

I suppose "rubber duck debugging" is a form of this.
Yes it is pretty heavily top-down since the programs are so huge!

I did have opportunities to work on some very interesting projects and get to travel to remote tests sites which was fun at the beginning of my career, but I'm not sure if I really want to be doing that much anymore!
Studying thermals?
Reasons Pure CBD Oil Is a Waste of Time
The contrast between our 3 distinctive CBD oil choices descends for the most part to power; the bigger the number, the more cannabidiol in every dropper. Each power of CBDPure oil comes from a similar full-range natural hemp plants, just the aggregate sum of outsider checked degree of CBD (estimated in milligrams) varies between every one.

https://buddysupplement.com/pure-cbd-oil/
My pet peeve is "it will blow your mind." Hasn't happened to me ever. Also "exciting." Yes, I was excited when I first saw C-128 with its dual C-64 and CP/M modes. When I saw Linux for the first time on a 386. When I created my first app for the iPhone 3GS. But for marketing folks everything (they do) seems exciting. No, your revolutionary project is not revolutionary and your innovation means gluing together many ideas of others (who also borrowed it from other people tbh).
Citizens Fully Vaccinated

NaN Crore + NaN Lakh
I'm a maintainer of googler (though I haven't put in much work for quite a while) and the author of the linked document. No, it doesn't use a screen scraper, and I don't know how you even got that idea.
>These friends were uneducated, and made terrible financial decisions, such a purchasing expensive cars and modifying them. Little to no savings.

From a macroeconomic perspective these guys are heroes.
In a way the story would make a great movie for this reason. If they got funded because of it, it would be like a Silicon Valley episode.
Because it's a tragedy of the commons.

You're all focusing on the low level details while you're destroying the urban fabric of your cities and towns and housing is becoming super expensive that you end up with those masses of homeless people you then try to avoid by tearing down bus stops (or not building them in the first place).
We use those tools for industrial prototyping because we can program those in things like python.

We use it for creating as crappy designs as fast as possible, not getting designers to premature optimization.

For serious design no, we use expensive commercial software for that, once it is clear what the solution is.

For exploring lots of different spaces cheap 3d printer, cheap CNC milling machines and laser cutters are amazing.

We restrict access to serious software for early prototyping because people will try things like super complex organic shapes that require supports or special milling machines instead of machines that cost 100 less money.

That makes time to market so long and a design a competitor could squash the price when he uses cheap alternatives for manufacturing.
I think that the goals you describe are already discovered, they're just used in a different field of "study": marketing.
Read the article. No museums wanted his stuff.