skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I will continue to recommend those phones for most people (pending what they’re going to do with trying to incriminate you), but it’s not for me.

Why? Despite what Apple would have you believe, Pixel phones aren't "more complicated" than iPhones. They're just a little different. For example, I recently had to use an iPhone and the interface was difficult to use, coming from Android. Not because it was inherently confusing, but because I simply wasn't used to it. But I'm sure it would have only taken a few days to adjust.
I don't think its circular, just really informal. The two usages of the word "number" are refering to two different meanings of the word.

If your original objection was a lack of formality, i'd say its a matter of taste, audience and author intent, but ultimately a fair objection. But this seems very far afield from your original complaint.
They do seem more prominent.

It's not clear to me that's a cooling win, though? Unless there are actually some kind of vents on the bottom?
I would hazard they are planning to target the BTC Futures ETF that opened this morning.
Hahaha, I'm not at all surprised. Naturalnews is one of the most ridiculous sites on the web, on par with Infowars.
> the damage to retail US investors should be quite well contained, as I do not feel they have significant Tether holdings

This is my understanding. The U.S. regulatory apparatus appears to have deterred Tether from getting too involved here. China, too, seems to have taken the hint.
As I'm (slowly, begrudgingly) learning about IPv6 I can't help but agree. Astounding that backwards compatibility was abandoned in favor of ... Being able to hand out a /64 or /48 to anyone with a pulse? No residential customer needs that many addresses, yet I can call my ISP today and block that off for eternity. To what end?

IPv6 should just have been a superset and 0..1.xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt should have been the legacy IPv4 space. I really don't get the point of all the bizarre block assignments, hexadecimal fetish, and general "why is this seemingly purposefully such a pain in the ass" feeling I get whenever I look at it.
> IIRC ~2 decades ago
Think of it as an opportunity for you to publish the measurements you make!

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Yeah, I probably lost a few years of productivity myself, before I got it diagnosed.
Everyone should try to build their own pluggable framework at least once, to realize how difficult it is, and to realize how small design decisions can cause massive headaches. I think a lot of frameworks are the result of someone shipping something, it gets popular, and then its stuck like that and they can't rethink it.

Having done this helps you to see things in new frameworks that will inevitably lead to pain.

As often as people deride it, the Node.js many-small-package philosophy (inspired by Unix) is what I keep coming back to. If one package doesn't provide the right abstraction to do something, if it's built on top of two smaller packages, I can assemble a new package with these smaller packages to achieve what I want. The smaller the package the better.

From the day the first line of code in a project is written, a desire to rewrite from scratch starts to grow - to return to the productivity of having an empty slate. If you compose your app from small single-purpose packages, rewriting becomes trivial.
Single sign-on: What we learned during our identity alpha
But they can print more tether, buy bitcoin with that tether, and give you bitcoin as redemptions. This could go on for a very long time.
Haven't read the paper thoroughly yet, looking forward to it. The idea here seems to be very type driven and I think there is something to it.

The general goal reminds me of Unison[0], which takes a different approach. It sees code as kind of a database where the functions are immutable entries. So it is less granular, but likely more semantic.

What I immediately thought of reading your comment is paredit. I know of the Emacs mode[1] and the Calva VSCode plugin[2]. One could work from there, see code evolution as collection of structured editing units.

And then, some languages are extremely terse like APL or Forth. Haven't yet found time to study them, but maybe their representation and semantics are more suitable for this type of thing?

But yeah, just text might just not be the right medium for code in the first place. Not when we start thinking about what code actually is.

We're manipulating structures indirectly by manipulating text. Something is not right here... I know there have been many attempts to move away from it, some are successful but only for specific use-cases and I don't think anything succeeded in the general purpose space. Maybe someone will succeed though. There is no reason to believe otherwise. I feel like it would have to be a very cross disciplinary collaboration. People who make games, databases, art, science. Different perspectives to break out of what we think programming is or should be.

I watched this talk[3] some months ago. One of the cool things is the discussion near the end of the video at around 1h11m: look what Sussman does, when he talks about stratification and code structure - he closes his eyes. What is he seeing there? He explains it sure, but he _sees_ something. That's what the program _is_, not the text, not the bits and bytes. It's a deeply connected, complex, flowing structure - I think they talk about forests in there.

When we program, we manipulate this structure and the text we write is kind of far away from the actual mental model we have. Yes, I see code in my inner eye too, but that is when I think about implementing it, or when I navigate actually written code from memory. But it's not _the thing_.

[0] https://www.unisonweb.org/

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit

[2] https://calva.io/paredit/

[3] "Stratified Design: A Lisp Tradition" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoGb56k2txk
> Shorting Tether is a great play

Why do you think there will be a functioning market to pay you out if and when it collapses?
it's a very small group of people with pretty well-known dubious banking connections. I won't rehash it but the CEO of their main bank is some rando with pretty poor spelling.

I doubt anyone beyond the inner circle (I guess maybe the exec assistant of the aforementioned rando might know something interesting) would know anything interesting.
Try https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app
Why do some "white" immigrants who came to the US recently have to pay for something people in the US hundred years ago did?
No, I don't think that's it. Only in 40s movies do women travel with great piles of trunks, hat boxes, and odd-shaped luggage.

Most people had regular hard-shell suitcases with handles, and brought just one or two with them, just like now.
Thank you!

I've never understood why they don't sell them in the Netherlands. The way they just pretend it doesn't exist in the store by redirecting you is extra annoying.
Is anybody actually getting in trouble for shipping binary kernel modules?
This is a terrible idea. It fixes the cost for speeding or not signaling to something that a well off person can easily afford. Even I would consider just paying a $5 fine in order to speed to get to an important meeting, etc. A $500 fine for 10 minutes of speeding would make me think twice
back to the money store (https://vimeo.com/215534945)
> to better capture non-white skin tones

The copy on the page itself seems to disagree with you

> Portraits on Pixel represent the nuances of different skin tones for *all people* beautifully and authentically.

(Emphasis mine)

There does seem to be a discrepancy between the copy saying "all people" and the photos above that paragraph only including individuals with darker skin.

Edit: I'm acknowledging that there are photos of white males elsewhere on the page, but I think my comment's parent is specifically talking about that one section?
What is the timeframe that you are thinking of...

-- When we're talking of a system, "stability" is roughly the property that a small perturbation in the system causes it to return to the position that it was previously in. The pandemic was significant shock but the notable thing we see is that the system.

...where our goods delivery network broke down due to individual rule breaking (as opposed to, say, a global pandemic)?

The individual rule-breaking (working more hours than a person could stand) still allowed day functioning of the system but it created situation it was easy for a lot of people to just quit driving and hard to find more drivers to replace them. Hence, the system was fragile to shock.
This honestly doesn't sound very empathetic toward patients. Many of these people had fine hearing and then lost it. They've already "learned" how to hear and they reasonably expect the hearing aid to help restore it.

In your analogy, it would be like if my vision got worse and I got eyeglasses which partially restored it, but mirrored everything upside down with tons of static. Now I've got to learn to read upside down and tune out the static, but don't worry because I get 10 free lessons with a reading instructor. Oh and none of this was clearly explained to me or part of my expectation when buying glasses.
Surely I would be amenable to such an argument if the frontier was still open, the safety net nonexistent, and retirement age death. We must face facts, the conditions of the past are not the conditions of today nor can our policies reflect an alien society. Call it what you will, I call it the will of the electorate.
Yeah, I'm kind of in that inconvenient spot as well. I use my laptop docked 99.99% of the time.

That other 0.01% of the time is the killer.
Node.js 17 Is Here
> There is a significant theoretical difference.

I agree, but I don't understand the value of the difference.

> CUE aims to be turing-incomplete, so no programming

You could satisfy this property with an imperative language that lacks recursion, unbounded loops, etc; however, I'm not convinced this property is very useful in practice. I've never worked anywhere where this was a real problem.

> Think about building a query tool that can find everything in your config using a particular label.

In an imperative configuration language, I would just `jq` the generated JSON. At least I think that's analogous to your suggestion?
Sure, if you live in California. (I think IANAL is a given because I don't think any lawyer is giving out legal advice on HN)
> Symptoms are - can hear just fine in a nice, uncluttered audio environment, say a test centre, but has issues if there is any significant background noise.

Also a problem if you're not a native speaker. I am fluent in English and have been able to watch movies without subtitles for 20 years at least, probably more.

But put me in a noisy bar and my error correction suffers a lot. Suddenly it's hard to follow a conversation that in my native language would be effortless.

The worst situation is listening to a loud video on bad speakers. Doesn't matter how much you crank the volume, people are hard to understand because the brain's error correction isn't good enough. Use a good speaker and turn down the volume, suddenly it's perfect.
How do you even do serious linear algebra or probability without set theory?
And each MacBook comes with a small vial of authentic Apple Executive Team tears. That’s how you know it’s a real apology.
It’s an incredibly perverse tactic: reclassify crime, disincentive people from reporting it, disempower police from dealing with it… and then tout this as a reduction in crime levels and a win. Pathetic.
Similar here, but my point is that many won't do the hassle of extracting a screwed-in battery from an electronic device rather than throwing it straight into the opaque trash-bag. A fee-and-rebate program would provide a cash incentive to properly sort your batteries out of trash. It works for refillable liquor bottles.
You might enjoy Hiromi Uehara playing I’ve got rhythm. Granted, she’s not a comedian, but boy can she play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY5dTBhRxOA
An H1B is only "valid" for 3 years. It can be extended once for an additional 3 years.

It being FAANG doesn't change that.

Your argument appears to be against the fact that additional extensions are possible after an an individual has filed for permanent residency, but the process is delayed (often by a completely inhumane amount of time).

So your problem isn't so much with the H1B visa, but with the fact that people can apply for permanent residency and then be held in limbo for the rest of their life?

If it wasn't for the absurd delay in processing permanent residency applications, H1B's would only last for 6 years; well within the span of "temporary".
It is a terrible target to short as you can only do it through exchanges that deal in Tether. Exchanges that can manipulate your position and liquidate you if they feel like it. Exchanges that benefit from Tether existing.
While it's not good to ship outdated client libraries & software, it would be much worse to distribute an old OpenSSH release... Can anybody with a Windows 10/11 box check the version they supply? That, to me, would be a much more serious problem.
How can one profit from a crypto bubble? I’ve heard of an ETF for shorting Bitcoin but never saw any specifics. Can anyone provide a reputable brokerage for shorting crypto currencies?
Here is a picture of a trucker(Bill McElligott) of 28 years from the US:
https://i.imgur.com/cjVnT4V.png
Apple actually said “we fucked up” in a press release?
The expectation is that they will obtain large and valuable positions (either long or short) upon obtaining this information which is not (yet) known to the general public.
Why not just use UTC and be done with it? The arbitrary choice of "what country" was already made decades ago.
> Personally I’m also confused by Ruby.

Please elaborate. I've found Ruby gems to be the simplest packaging system. You make a file containing the gem specification and that's pretty much it. The most annoying part for me was bikeshedding the neatest way to glob all files in the project.

I will say that Ruby gems containing C extensions are really bad. It's cemented in mind the notion that foreign function interfaces must be built into the languages so that compiling code is never necessary.

> which languages do people feel have excellent package management?

Rust packages are really impressive. They just work. It's an isolated ecosystem like all the others, which is weird for a native language like Rust. Dependencies are mostly used at build time, many don't make it to the Linux distrubitons.
I think you want a framework that is heavy but swappable for stuff that is critical and easy to get wrong (e.g. authentication, http header parsing, input validation, routing, preventing sql injections etc) most of these things are "finalizing" concerns anyways, so you don't really need them to compose.
And light for everything else (e.g. authorization, operations, templates, etc).
Do we need everyone to be a software developer or just a few more? I'm sure we could increase the numbers if we actually tried.
It's always funny to see how the land of the "free" and free market" is not very "free market" when it comes to protecting the profits of favored industries like medical even from its own citizens.

Things like being required to go to a doctor and pay big $$$ to get a hearing aid or not being allowed to import drugs from countries where they are cheaper are absolutely not "free market".

Even during COVID the country could not deploy cheap rapid tests but only super expensive PCR tests.
HN probably still runs on a PIII chip (or did until recently) — you nailed it.
Morgan Stanley: Starship may 'transform investor expectations' about space
I doubt anyone here wants more tweets. I personally wish the twitter UI would just be entirely whitespace (or a fine chirping blue if they're feeling adventerous) for their audience to sit and enjoy; I can genuinely find no drawbacks to such a UI rework.
We might not have different tastes just different ways of achieving them. My phone is setup to be very minimalist and Samsung has a lot of features to make that possible.

One small example, I've removed all the Android indicator icons on top of the screen that are always on/same for me (alarm, network, volume state, battery, NFC, Bluetooth, etc).

Admittedly I love features but I don't feel like having more features necessarily interferes with minimalism of day to day use. I've used certain features only once or twice but I was glad they were there at time.
You can always put your money where your mouth is and support someone that is doing all of the above:

https://frame.work/
> We remark that A_\mu also contains a pure vector mode perturbation which is expected to behave similarly as in the Einstein-Æther theory [90, 91]"

Their [91] is Jacobson & Mattingly https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0007031 whose §VII (DISCUSSION) contains this, which I struggle to see as helpful for them: "With the action adopted in this paper the aether vector generically develops gradient singularities even when the metric is perfectly regular. We take this as a sign that the theory is unphysical as an effective theory". (That doesn't stop Jacobson from investigating things like (time-independent) black hole solutions https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0604088 "It is a plausible conjecture that nonsingular spherically symmetric initial data will evolve to one of the regular black holes whose existence has been demonstrated here, but this has certainly not been shown", and worse they show that the aether does not obey the Raychaudhri equation, so the relativistic MOND authors seem to need more ghosts).

For the life of me, I can't figure out the relevance of their reference [90] which I believe is https://www.jstor.org/stable/2414316

I wonder who their Reviewer 2 was.
> What does that even mean when you are trying to hire 100 people a week, and you just want to hire the 100 best people you can find every week?

That if over 100 Americans apply, “the 100 best people” needs to come from that group — not immigrants on visas which require a lack of American applicants.

> This law fundamentally has an incoherent goal.

I think you don’t like the goal.
It's hard for law to cover all edge cases. Your comment about "modern large software engineering companies" seems to apply to 5 or 6 companies with enough profit to hire as many people as they want even if they may never use them for anything as a talent hoarding strategy, in contrast to the thousands of companies out there that still mostly hire to fill specific positions.

This specific regulation was finalized in December 2004, so yes, it obviously could not have taken Facebook's specific hiring practices into consideration given Facebook hadn't even existed for a full year yet and I think had 6 employees at the time.

You can certainly argue the law needs to change, but man, good luck. There are a lot of other aspects of immigration law that need to change with higher priority than this, but it's a political minefield that candidates love to campaign on but Congress won't actually touch with a 50 foot pole. Until then, I don't think the Department of Labor has much choice but to enforce the law as it exists today. It isn't up to them to change it.
> 5 years of support

I'll wait for the iFixit report on how difficult it is to replace the battery, before believing in a phone lasting that long. Also as usual for the pixels, there is no analog headphone jack. Still I can't believe I'm at least somewhat interested in a $600 phone since I'm not that much of a mobile user. I wonder if they will do a 6A version any time soon.

The main difference between the 6 and the 6 pro is the pro adds a telephoto camera, right?

Anandtech article is up: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16939/google-announces-pixel-...

I'm still somewhat leaning towards a 5a as my next phone, as it's already more than I want to spend.
It generally hurts to die.
The thing that would hold that back is the huge stock of existing analogue/gas vehicles. For all the talk of going electric, no one is going to buy everyone a new electric car and no one is going to just prevent the gas cars from driving since the economy needs people to work. Not that I'm in favor of the CO2 pollution this implies - though I'm not in favor of your Orwellian scenario either, which would be plausible otherwise.
What's even more exciting is there is work underway to allow Fable to target Python instead:
https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/issues/2339

These things are bizarre when you think about the tech stack they lead to, but undeniably still really useful in our unfortunate real world. I think of F# as 'the pragmatist's functional programming language', and projects like this follow that mindset.
> If you induce them to violate an NDA, yes, it could be.

Is violating an NDA illegal? I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV, but I don't think violating an NDA is illegal as in you could go to prison for violating a law. Yes, it could open you up to legal jeopardy as in a lawsuit which could be expensive, but I don't think any laws are violated.

And if you're violating an NDA to expose some corrupt practices it seems like the NDA shouldn't hold any power.
I think this really just boils down to him posting copyrighted content, and the de-blurring is incidental, right?

It would be very interesting if anything hinged on the de-blurring. The GAN model is essentially imagining what the pictures look like behind the blurring, it's not somehow cheating the information loss, so from a technical perspective, it's really just making a good guess at what someone's parts (or whatever was blurred) look like. It would be interesting to understand how that would be handled legally, though like I say, I don't think the de-blurring is material here.
How to keep your workers (so you don’t have to replace them)
I'd be happy if we said "There are 24 time zones and no daylight savings or half hour zones or whatever, they are distributed evenly from GMT starting point".
Since, according to you, everyone else is wrong and you have the answer, what is it?
One of the more compelling new features looks to be Live Translate built into the keyboard for 48 languages using Private Compute Core. I'd be curious about accuracy but I'm glad things moving forward in that space.
I've only signed a CLA to contribute to emacs, even as a big supporter of the GPL and understand why they want a CLA, its a pretty huge pain in the hole to contribute with fairly little end user or even contributor benefit. It just slows down development so much, at least for new developers I guess.
Also in the US you can use real ACH dollars, not Italian plastic surgery dollars.
Facebook does not get a vote. Whether or not they can afford something is immaterial.

On a separate note America's real competitive advantage is size. America can clone tiktok if need be.
These seem to exist for quite some time, like https://www.etymotic.com/product/gun-sport-pro/