skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really amazing, is the end result here that they are ultimately opting out of webpack in favor of SWC? It also compiles modules and such. Will have to take a look at the underlying infrastructure here!

Interestingly I think that’s the major win of SWC over esbuild: you get a Babel like plug-in ecosystem for AST transformations and such. Downside: there currently isn’t a way to run asynchronous transforms, much like you can’t with Babel (easily anyway without some subprocess hacks)

I love Vue, but it’s forever married to the Babel parser unless Evan moves over to using SWC for compiling SFCs, which would be awesome but he has signaled multiple times he doesn’t see the Vue
Compiler ever being rust based, so it would be reliant on the Vue core team (though I think this is mainly his work) porting the SFC compiler to using SWC underneath.

JSX frameworks won’t have this limitation and can get this massive speed gains and energy without such work. I could see Stencil and SolidJS adapting easily here

Maybe JSX tools just needs some re thinking to get the same SFC experience
Some cigarette butt's biodegrade, most don't. I'd be in favor of a law to make them all have to be biodegradable.

Still should just throw the damn things away, but changing human behaviour is difficult.
Tesla needs to execute, and I’m not sure that’s their strong suit. Sure they identified that it was finally time for the electric car, and made an electric car that wasn’t ugly as sin (gdiaf CitiCar and EV-1), but theiyre plagued with manufacturing delays and poor workmanship. The other manufacturers simply are better at putting quality cars out the door.

Sure they were late to the game, and but it’s not a foregone conclusion that Tesla (or any startup) is going to dominate this market.

As for AI and FSD, I’ll put my flag in the sand. We will not have production fully autonomous self driving cars (ie cars without controls) on uncontrolled surface streets in 20 years. From what I understand, the technology has hit a plateau, and there’s just way too many edge cases. If this wasn’t the case, you wouldn’t have people like Andrew Ng going around telling people to redesign cities to make it easier for robot drivers.

If it does happen, it’s not going to be Tesla. I don’t think they’re the technology leader here. Last time I read something, Cruise and Waymo were leading, and Elon’s insistence on not having lidars was holding Tesla back.
Surely smokers die sooner, not quicker. Lung cancer and associated issues vs dying of natural causes are for sure a bigger healthcare burden.
That would be a really cool approach. Start the project by listing, in plain text, test criteria. Build out the app and tie it back to the test criteria in some meaningful way.
There is no societal cost to high rates of alcoholism/smoking/obesity?

I'd argue that we already all pay for one another's bad habits in a very roundabout way.
This wasn’t a critique to Pharo. Don’t get me wrong I worked using Smalltalk professionally for 3 years, and I contributed a small library to Squeak and Pharo.

My comment was about how difficult is to innovate in areas like the file system.

Pharo had to use git because is popular, not because is the best way to handle object versioning (eg Envy was much better at handling the history of your classes)
FB branded Onavo as a free VPN to protect your privacy. Instead, it routed all of your traffic through FB-owned machines so that they could profile your connections and get an idea of how much you were using other apps.
I've read studies that show human population peaking around 2100 and slowly lessening until it finds a happy medium. This is due to increased access to birth control in developing nations as well as people simply having less children because automation on the farm replaces the need to have several workers (the kids) around to help with the harvest, etc.

Link to article: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-popu...
Highlights

• Cigarette smoking contributed to 11.7% (more than $225 billion) of annual healthcare spending in the U.S. in 2014.

...

Conclusions

Cigarette smoking exacts a substantial economic burden in the U.S. Continuing efforts to implement proven population-based interventions have been shown to reduce the health and economic burden of cigarette smoking nationally.

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00917...
I have to ask why ingredients with spaces are

@salt and pepper{}

Instead of

@{salt and pepper}

The latter seems far easier to parse.
What post convinced you to get the ReMarkable?
They are denying the claims in the patent... that there is a need for blah blah blah.

Source: I litigate patents
I basically already have. I don't answer calls I don't recognize. 9 times out of 10 they would be spam - usually multiple times a day from different numbers, but the same 2 or 3 spam campaigns. Sometimes their recordings end up in my voice mail, which I only check once a week now since it is nearly always just spam.

Important people rarely call out of the blue, and they never hide their numbers. They also subsequently leave messages, email, or text.

That hiker probably has the same problem.
The article is about the estate tax, not an annual wealth tax, and loopholes to work around it ultimately taking advantage of lower tax rates on capital gains than on estates (not to mention wages) and deductions for "charitable" donation. You don't need new taxes on the wealthy to close these loopholes, you just need to eliminate them: charity is a nice thing you can do with your after-tax income, and all income should be taxed on the same progressive schedule.
Fast-Paced Multiplayer (Part I): Client-Server Game Architecture
Stories like this[1] are not uncommon:

> One of our users upgraded from Next.js 2.0-beta to 11 in 5 minutes.

> As @timneutkens said in the Q&A, Next.js incrementally improving without breaking changes is worth the investment.

If this is not the case, please let us know. We try to be very careful around this, and always leave breadcrumbs for easy upgrades in the DX if we absolutely must change something to move the project forward.

[1] https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1405241003653484546
Most Frequent 600 Problems on Leetcode
More like they have shakedown and protection racket model they call "business". Just highlights how messed up the legal system is, if someone has to do so much work to disrupt racketeers.
Tesla price to revenue is 20x - a pretty normal for a tech company.
I think, in general, this is a good counterpoint. But the things mentioned really do suck. Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact you can just use Google or Facebook to log into everything more people would complain.

The obsession with modern software has with mining every single bit of data they can is a huge step in the wrong direction. The silly "features"--like the 'what you do' or 'what your friends' do reports--are more annoying than interesting.

I don't mind, or might even enjoy, that kind of thing when I sign up for it, but it really doesn't need to be in every piece of software I use.
Our team is working to build out support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5 to support WebGPU, so game developers and real-time 3D developers can export their creations to the web at near native performance and access features like computer shaders.

Long term goal is to disrupt Steam and the App Stores.

We're also working on WebXR support to enable UE VR apps on the web. If anyone is interested and wants to learn more, you can join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/zUSZ3T8
Current company's infrastructure is currently all on AWS, so using Step Functions. However I really _really_ like temporal.io's code-first solution (just didn't want to self-host).

Perhaps the dust on best practices / tech for workflows or sagas just hasn't settled yet to include in a framework like the one I am envisioning.

In general I think Supabase is fantastic in terms of the interoperability of all of the features they introduce. Just waiting on functions (and perhaps events / queues for async communication).
On the contrary, I read / listen to news constantly.

The issue I take, is that there's actually very very little legitimate news being promoted. Blogs and detailed substack's have way WAY more interesting content than the New York Times on most topics.

The problem is group think, their articles / investigations tend to be just an opinion piece masked in "research". That's not to say it's all that way, but it often is.

Collaborations are occurring because they quite literally have to share the story to keep the narrative(s) the same. There's only so many stories there allowed to comment on and only so many views they can get for their content. Collaborations are necessary to ensure revenue sharing.
>If you don't have population growth you still need economic growth to provide upward mobility to people at the bottom. Without growth you have a zero-sum game which again can lead to war.

OR you reset wealth upon death. You don't necessarily need unlimited growth if you prevent wealth from pooling at the top.
I feel the same way as you. In high-school I had a chance to do a "co-op" program (like being an intern for the American's) for a company. I did web development work there. I got offered a job there over the summer and continued to work there for 6 more summers while I went through University for software engineering.

The thing that is funny is that University didn't help me in that job at all. The vast majority of skills I used at the job were self-taught. A good chunk of those were self-taught before I even went to University.

University teaches a lot of theoretical and basically makes you teach yourself the practical. I started to realize that unless I planned to go the academia route and get more into the theoretical, then the degree was pretty useless to me. I ended up not completing the degree because it was just way too hard to stay motivated. It felt like I had to teach myself the important skills anyway, and then listen to stuff I could self-teach myself when I needed to know it.

When I had group projects a good chunk of classmates I worked with sucked at programming. Like they didn't know how to use git, sucked at object orientated program, etc... They would produce code that was just in one big massive single file. It was frustrating because the degree really just made a lot of people book smart, but they weren't actually that hirable.

I actually got to help with co-op hiring while I was in school for multiple years at the company I was with. When we would look at resumes the biggest thing I realized is that the degree wasn't really relevant. When almost every applicant has the identical degree it's not meaningful. What mattered was what kinds of things they did outside of school. What personal projects they had, what their github looked like, did they have their own website, were they involved in groups or starting their own sidegig websites, etc...

Our best candidates were the ones that did a lot of stuff outside of school. And the funny thing is that the majority of those candidates had bad grades. We got the transcripts with every co-op applicant.
That's like one bottle of wine? I really don't think that's enough to qualify someone as an alcoholic? I drink once or twice per week and probably go through more than that.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C. S. Lewis
Comic with a similar twist: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
>that's lacking empathy, not realising that soooo many people wouldn't be able to afford a system like that, or if they did they would have to give up a bunch of other things instead.

I think this is a valid criticism, but I would like to note that there's a massive gap between what sites make off of me from ads vs. what they are requesting I pay to get rid of ads. So if there was truly a drop-in replacement for ads that came at the same cost as what the advertisers would otherwise be paying for my eyeballs, that'd be great. That's not the choice consumers are being given though.
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> A new developer is inspecting a method they're tasked with refactoring. It accepts an argument named "input". What the hell is an input?

This is more of a general criticism of dynamic typing than anything specific about Ruby, but If it's unclear from the code why is it so hard to put a binding.pry in there and inspect the object if you need to? You'd usually wanna put a breakpoint in there anyway when refactoring to see what the hell is going on. And on a normal codebase there will usually be an accompanying test.

I'm not 100% denying that in Java you'll have a type like FactoryBeanXmlConfig which you can go ahead and read the documentation to (which is often insanely verbose due to everything being a type in Java. So lots of reading).

To each his own I guess; I think we all get used to whatever stack we use and become very productive if we stick to it. I acknowledge I would've been productive in Java eventually to the same degree as I am with Ruby, I just wouldn't have enjoyed it as much.

The Shopify example is a bit extreme: you are talking about one of the biggest monoliths in the world; not strictly for Ruby, in any language. So yes you're gonna have to build some tools to accomodate that and yes, probably Java would have worked out better at that size. But how many companies become Shopify - 0.1%? It's either a "scrappy MVC" or Shopify? I disagree:
Up to that size of millions of LOC and thousands of full time devs there's a whole spectrum of companies size where Ruby/Rails works out well. I can't see why a 50-100 man team can't work with Ruby successfully; if the monolith becomes a pain you break it into a few smaller monoliths/citadel/microservice. This essentially allows you to scale to any size, but I think the monolith will take you far; look at Gitlab. I'd say around 100 devs work on it full time (my guesstimate, could be wrong) and their feature development speed is brilliant imo.
There are so many successful Ruby/Rails companies at those sizes it would feel silly to start naming them.
All search providers that I am aware of rank search results should we hold them accountable as well? They have paid results which are ranked even higher.

This site accepts user votes for promotion of content are they a publisher?
I hear constant sirens. Some police but many are ambulances. Zero disclosure in my local news headlines in my local section in google news. If you haven't figured it out by now, google news is entirely AI curated and it will show you whatever it is programmed to. In fact I'd say for the vast majority of HN I'd say everything you think is true comes from AI now. What if that AI is not friendly to our numbers, that is the human beings?
So it’s a linguistic issue. You’re lumping integrity as “do people abuse our system” with “does person A follow the same morals as me”.

Specifically, looks like your morals are that products that are free in exchange for anonymously analyzing your data are immoral. (Remember: Onavo gave free VPN to users)

It’s a reasonable position to take, but it’s unclear it’s necessarily true and that everyone who doesn’t agree with you has no integrity, more so, it definitely doesn’t imply they can’t achieve results.

There’s plenty of criticism to give on Facebook’s integrity efforts. I just don’t think yours is helping the discussion.

And as an example, I think the linked article is a great idea and hope the founders succeed.
What is your definition of drugs and why are drugs immoral?
(New) Compressor stations now must now be electrically powered to get permitted by the federal forces that be. (With very few exceptions.)

Even replacing compressors that were self powered now need to be electric.

It doesn't make any sense, except that it's another regulatory expense resulting in both higher cost and less reliability.
I mean it may not be explicitly required by law but if you can't identify which customers broke other laws then aren't you opening yourself up to liability?
Here is a complete simplified Kahan summation test and indeed it works with -O3 but fails with -Ofast. There must have been something else going on in my real program at -O3. However the original point that 'volatile' can be a workaround for some optimization problems is still valid (you may want the rest of your program to benefit from -Ofast without breaking certain parts).

Changing the three kahan_* variables to volatile makes this work (slowly) with -Ofast.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int i;
double sample, sum;
double kahan_y, kahan_t, kahan_c;

// initial values
sum=0.0;
sample=1.0; // start with "large" value

for (i=0; i <= 1000000000; i++) { // add 1 large value plus 1 billion small values
// Kahan summation algorithm
kahan_y=sample - kahan_c;
kahan_t=sum + kahan_y;
kahan_c=(kahan_t - sum) - kahan_y;
sum=kahan_t;

// pre-load next small value
sample=1.0E-20;
}
printf("sum: %.15f\n", sum);
}
what about when cisco or "someone" helped india government impose censorship on aroun 8 million people so that they cannot use a vpn or access only whitelisted websites?
https://theprint.in/india/us-firm-helps-jk-build-firewall-to...
https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/this-us-firm-is-re...

there is a news by arstechnica that updates by cisco who deny the same but these curbs were imposed and i personally suffered so i am not sure if "have their computers taken without it causing a huge problem for everyone from your mom to heads of state is a bit naive"... even a big company like cisco must bow down and bend rules to a dictatorial country like india.
For the most part, the places you can legally smoke outdoors should prevent any meaningful amount of second hand and sidestream smoke. Sure, you may smell it, but I honestly don't care if people have to smell scents they don't like occasionally. The littering thing is an odd exemption, but the mass transition from cigarettes to vapes seems to have reduced that problem, significantly.
They die younger but then on the other end of the scale that's one fewer member of society who may have been working. Now their job needs to be filled.
There are a lot of casual users that the business model doesn't address. If you're a pro artist then CC is just a business expense and your clients pay for it. If you're not it's really hard to justify spending that amount of money for software you use once or twice a year. Don't forget the piracy to pro pipeline either.
Where is the evidence that smoking has been reduced through taxes?
Journey's End
I had a stable, white collar job approximately midway through college. Some of the best engineers I've worked with in my career don't have a degree. This wasn't that long ago either.

The network reasoning for college is vastly overstated.
I'd rather use a local source in a Faraday cage, so that it's not possible for someone to influence the output at all.
Good point, and thanks for the feedback! We had this debate internally. We feel we need some more time to polish the product before launching, and had an internal discussion on whether we postpone any marketing activity till after we launch, or start engaging with the community sooner. In this case, we just wanted to share our learning.
If the settlement were 0€, it could have been paid with a zero euro bank note: https://www.banknoteworld.com/zero-euro/
dramatically off-topic
> What someone does in their own house should be up to them, and we shouldn’t attempt to use taxes to eliminate vice (but requiring taxes to cover the negative externalities from vice is fine, e.g. funding DUI checkpoints).

Heartily disagree. Pigovian taxes are fantastically persuasive.
Junior attys at BigLaw firms are billed at the $400/hr rate...
It's set in many places. Water planets, interiors, dreams. And all of that is Brown/gray/bland.
Could that be explained by improved aerodynamics of cars now compared to then? Has that been studied?
I am toying with SPARK on smaller chips. You can gradually replace parts of C code, like I think you can in Rust too, and work up to doing full-scale replacement or projects from scratch with SPARK on embedded devices, which has a lot of the benefits of Rust and then some[1][2]. I am a polyglot with certain biases/strengths in some PLs over others, so perhaps my early 80s experience with Pascal makes Ada/SPARK2014 easier for me than Rust. I understand the Ada/SPARK concepts better. I think Zig[3] will also become more popular on embedded devices for existing C programmers because its a smaller jump to make than in learning Rust, at least that has been my experience. I also enjoyed reading "Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK" which involves the , and maybe if there were a similar book for Rust, I would attempt Rust again. Because SPARK is "a formally analyzable subset of Ada 2012", it benefits from Ada's age. VTC (Vermont Technical College) launched a Cubesat into orbit on November 19, 2013 running SPARK. Rust and SPARK/Ada have been cross pollinating each other with advances in software integrity which is a win-win scenario.

[1] https://blog.adacore.com/ada-on-the-esp8266

[2] https://blog.adacore.com/how-to-prevent-drone-crashes-using-...

[3] https://ziglang.org/

Edit: I hope Amazon's involvement in Rust helps it to mature.
I mean, probably? If we had elected good officials at least. I'm not defending socialism at all, but if you accept the fact that this kind of thing happens because there's no monetary incentive for the industry to avoid it, then the logical conclusion is that under a system not motivated by profit this would be less likely to happen.

But what I'm sure you are aware of this line of thinking. What is the argument against it?
I wonder how many aviate with a big-ass “portable” lithium ion battery to power it all instead of paying $100 for a flight-certified cigarette lighter receptacle:

https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/elpages/cigrecept.php
The real solution is to just give people the choice. Everyone's workflow is different enough that there can't really be a "one-size-fits-all" program. I'd be ecstatic if we moved away from being forced to use certain software because so-and-so needs a proprietary file format that only this piece of software supports.
I use emacs and org-mode all day long, and never tweak it unless there's a really strong reason. My goal is to keep it as close to vanilla as possible.
I'm hoping somebody discovers a "That's SICK and you've been reported to the feds for even asking that!" response.
Add pet owners to the list :(. Germany seems to have a dog tax or something like that.
Yep, the education you can get for free. The networking you gain in college is likely to your detriment if you don't pass, you're basically known as the guy who flunked out.

Any ROI from college is in the credential.
> Before college can be creating well-rounded citizenry or provide "excellent life experiences" or any of the other things people want of it, it must first provide a good ROI. This is a necessary foundation.

I'd like to say _at the same time_, college can provide a good ROI and good citizens, life experiences, etc.

But besides college, what are some other choices, programs, whatever that could provide some of college's added features? Public service (in the U.S., military, Americorps, Peace Corps)? What's available in other countries?
Monetary Policy: Lessons from Medieval Europe
they only share a similar name and UI/UX

it doesn't even support 10% of what Photoshop is capable of, including performance and handling of RAW files
750ml a week is less than a glass of wine each day which is supposedly the amount that's good for heart health.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-disease...
Is it valuable or just different? What’s so magical about the numbers 18-22?