skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coinbase was a ycombinator startup and they made a Superbowl ad that successfully converted enough users from TV to phone that it crashed their app. There's a couple interesting points there:

- Bitcoin is popular enough with Superbowl fans to incur an app crash

- Coinbase ignored advice from an experienced ad agency for a Superbowl ad

- The entire production was under $100k and had the desired effect

It makes sense this is on HN.
And the 5G version for this year is expected to have an updated SoC. So basically a completely modern iPhone in the old iPhone 8 shell.
Yes it is fully typed because of TypedDicts, https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.TypedDi...

SQLAlchemy on the other hand provides very little (if any) type hints for their query API.
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And it's all MIDI, running on a 24-voice synthesiser with a 470-kilobyte sample bank.

Whenever I'm composing, and I'm tempted to be perfectionist about instrument fidelity or mixing quality, I listen to some Uematsu tracks then go back to my piano roll.
Should an individual still bother learning Swift now in 2022? Is it a bad investment of time?
It's less useful to focus on this single example, and more on the industry. Once these types of ideas gain momentum, they just become to be accepted as truth.

"If everybody else pushes users to their app over web, there must be good reasons to do it, we should too."

Expecting companies to rationally analyzed whether that is actually the case, is, well, expecting too much of companies.
I believe he truly sees the Wolfram language as an extension of himself, from the very beginning it was designed only based on his needs and desires. That others find it useful is just a happy accident.

Maybe it is just ego, or maybe it's something a bit more profound.
FaceID works off of infrared light, so if your lenses don't block those wavelengths, it works.
You have as a point of pride many problematic friends (which I think is great), but you shit on their memory online the day after they die?

I'm very much with you that just because someone has died doesn't mean we should whitewash their flaws and pretend they don't exist, but you've really caused me to face the full force of that opinion today :-)
As someone who got their start in “real” software development with Obj-C, I’m not sure if I could go back to writing it full time after the past several years of writing Swift. Swift is far from perfect and could use a good refocusing, but all of the built in functionality that I’d have to pull in a third party pod for with Obj-C and no need to maintain header files are huge for me personally. Its strict typing has also saved me from idiot moments that frequently occurred when writing Obj-C many times and made sweeping refactors a lot more feasible.
As @Apocryphon comments in a subthread, there's a commodification of app developers.

With iOS, Apple has crossed the threshold of who needs who. Now app developers need Apple way more than Apple needs them.

In many cases, one app to do thing X is mostly as good as another app for the same X. There's no bargaining power to be had unless you're a huge name.

As a developer, you're not leaving the App Store unless you're leaving mobile app development entirely. It'd be commercial suicide (for most) to do that.
I think declarative rendering has definite value. When you aren’t using it, you end up having to track your own dirty flags, and often that means you will neglect to update them properly, leading to inconsistent UI. CPUs are fast now, there is no reason to not be doing a few extra tree comparisons if it eliminates bugs and speeds up the development process.

The criticisms I’ve heard of SwiftUI come from a guy who absolutely loved React. I think the problems are unrelated to the overall idea of declarative rendering being flawed.
Yikes

https://twitter.com/twena/status/1495537875651371012
Exactly. One of the scam email I received had domain

microsoft.com-online.top/review
It still amazes me how the PDP-11 has the NUXI [1] problem at nibble level and how the PDP-11 was bytesexual [2].

[1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/NUXI-problem.html

[2] http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/bytesexual.html
Google Tag Manager is the new anti-adblock weapon
F*ck cancer.
> I don't see "developer love" making a lick of difference for how successful the App Store has been

Business history is replete with those whose products were once at the top and / or dominated the industry and yet are now irrelevant.
That's fine, but I think that if you don't understand someone's point then your best bet is to ask, not to extrapolate.

I'm not dodging anything here, it's just that it makes responding much harder because now instead of clarification we're off on some wild goose chase.

It's ok with me if you don't believe that people got by just fine before marketing became a weapon in the armory of companies that all compete for the same market because traditionally the reach of companies was fairly limited due to the cost of transportation. But (mass) marketing as a profession is a relatively recent invention, as are companies with global consumer reach.

The availability of 30 brands for the same niche is what drives one form of marketing ('we're better than them', when in fact the products are most likely at best at parity). The other is that plenty of 'need' is merely marketeers pushing jealousy buttons, something that you don't need to do if there is a genuine need for a product.

All that marketing and advertising is in the end an arms race and a big contributor to overproduction and overconsumption. The thing that needs marketing the most is probably the thing that you need the least.
Ugh. long-form twitter threads that require you to log in after scrolling..
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I've been using it for 20 years and really like the ability to quickly analyze data. Mostly, I'm just used to the style and with a bit more practice could probably do these things in Python. I've occasionally also used it for difficult integrals. I really do like their documentation compared to what is most often available for Python packages.
Note: "weird machines" here has nothing to do with the well-known security concept, just referring to unusual or obscure computers.
Common Lisp is like this. There is a standard, but no changes have been done since then.

On the other hand, it also shows some of the disadvantages - for example, there is no multi-threading support of any kind in the Common Lisp standard, because this was not a common feature at the time the standard was created; neither is there Unicode support. Of course there are libraries that implement these things, even portably (and this being CL, the difference between library and core langauge is minimal), but it's still a point some hold against it.
Any way to get an early diagnosis and potentially be eligible for surgery? Any warning signs to look for?

I imagine it depends on which cells are impacted. Glial cells not giving much option.
Russian law enforcement identifies Facebook and Telegram users
and by 7:15 you’re looking at your watch and one of you comments “I wonder how the kids are doing?”
And if a car is zooming down said hill, you're dead. That's the difference.
I find the back of phone placement for touch ID unlock which is on most android phones far more convenient. It's a more natural location and feels much faster to access most of the time.
I dunno, this feels pretty West-centric. There are literally billions of people in the global south scrapping (a generous and vague term) for a living, to whom labor laws simply don't apply at the level of vacation days.
I recognize that I did not read the article. Nor I will. Elon was funny for a while, but to give attention to all his tantrums makes the web a worse place.

- https://news.bitcoin.com/elon-musk-dogecoin-accepted-teslas-...
I loved the Touchbar from day one. I ultimately had about 60 custom buttons spread across a dozen apps. Now I’m back to wondering if F4 is mapped to “toggle responsive design mode” or “clear cache and refresh”.
It's the same in the UK, I've always had good service from HMRC.

Mind you I suspect people who fiddle their taxes have a different opinion of them.
No mention of how the ad crucially depended on viewers being able to access the site[1], and yet that site crashed under the anticipated load? SRE probably should have been part of the “tiny” $100k budget.[2]

I also completely forgot that it had music, which also feels like a waste.

[1] It communicated no information about the advertiser other than via that QR code.

[2] Edit: and if the $100k budget excludes the website costs, are they really bragging about being able to get a bouncing QR code in the screen and music rights for only $100k?
Rodauth: The most advanced authentication framework for Ruby and Rails
+1 for expressing the need for a “50% of the size of the MacBook Air“ machine. Oh, and with e-paper display, please.
Key takeaway for me was the note that it “definitely isn’t a community designed language”. This is telling, I’ve watched a lot of neat languages over the years and absolutely none of the ones without community involvement have grown beyond the sphere of influence of their primary companies.

I like swift enough I’m learning it to build my own personal tech nerd ideal podcast client because I own apple devices and want an app that works between macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS,and watchOS. but I doubt I’ll ever use it for anything beyond this one personally motivated project. Even if i release it as an app on the store for download or purchase I don’t know if I will ever be motivated enough to build anything else using it. Because the scope is too narrow. Business work is converging on open stacks like react, and angular, and the dark horse of C# with its latest release supporting WASM web components backed by GRPC-web and a C# function driven stack from front to back, even without SQL Server costs this is a compelling ecosystem backed by PostgreSQL and other completely open source tools.

But Swift remains Apple’s language for apple stuff and… while a profitable niche, it’s still a niche.

Edit: typo fix.
For an interesting cross section of technology and important moment(s) in history, I'd recommend A Mind at Play about Claude Shannon and his work: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32919530-a-mind-at-play
Yes. And MC personally replies to each email I send, which is refreshing since most services offload support to a separate paid-for service.
My completely naive reply to the Chinese room is that as stated doesn't learn from the inputs and outputs.

Let's modify it slightly to include a second stream of responses to the room's answers. Then make a guidebook that adds new rules based on the growing history of interaction.

Now the rulebook doesn't just compute a 1-1 map of input to output: each interaction updates not only its experience, but all present and future answers. An input to the system invokes memory, taps into experience, evaluates nuance.

Given lots of time and interaction and a good broad set of questions and responses, does the system understand Chinese? If it does not, then what is missing between it's understanding and ours?
It's definitely odd. I find, though, that the average European overestimates their knowledge and understanding of America. There are so many misconceptions I hear whenever I talk to a European about the US that it's literally impossible to correct them all; most of them seem to be stereotypes from TV or news. It leads to a lot of unnecessary confusion, and the particularly frustrating part is that they are often unwilling to accept that their preconceptions about America are wrong when corrected on them.
This post was perfectly on point.

I think it can be argued that Apple has never been developer friendly, but these days it is painfully difficult to ignore.

And I think this is a huge mistake, I would not be surprised if Microsoft end-up eating their lunch again.
Right, the Ennis house. Recently sold for US$18 million.[1]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2019-10-2...
It would be having community that helps ease the burden of child rearing. Grandparents, neighbor friends with kids, etc
Thats pretty common. I also have a spreadsheet of that exact since 2015. I started when I learned about don't break the streak method. Its month/year on column 1, & days 1 to 31 on first row.
Classic pitfall with any type of text based pre processor. All variables inside need excessive amount of parenthesis.

In similar vein there is also the “do {} while 0” trick to allow macros to be appear like normal functions and end with semicolon.

Don’t even want to imagine how many more hacks would be needed to transform into another syntax using macros only.
Agreed, I have a small 3 node cluster at home and I use all of those things you listed. I had to dive very deep in the details and learn a ton of new things to get it right, and I had all the time I wanted because it was just for fun and learning. It's almost like having my open source self-hosted AWS (in terms of abstraction from infra, not in reliability)

Would I host any of my critical side projects on my cluster? Probably not. Kubernetes was made with large organizations (google made it after all) in mind. As a solo developer, it's better for me to host my apps on a VM and move to AWS/Azure/GCP if I need to scale.
Can you share a translation for the first two - auf Englisch?
If it can't see your eyes because you have lenses that block infrared light, then it can't tell if you're looking at the screen.

You can turn off "Required Attention for Face ID" in the Settings as a workaround.
This guy is like the character in Superbad that can only ever draw dicks but in his case every time he tries to write he writes “I’m a dick”
This is great for the ad itself, but I want hear what happened directly after they ran it. The site went down for maybe 10-15 minutes and then came right back up. Probably a great war story from the depths of cloud engineering and devops.
The two people that died recently near me: one a bad headache, the other a sight problem in only one eye. In both cases they went to a neurologist, the cancers were both the most aggressive kind and in both cases the time between initial diagnosis and the funeral was less than three months. Very harsh stuff.
The developers who implemented cgroups worked at Google and upstreamed them.
The backdrops and environment were gorgeous. The in-battle 3d models were realistic for their time.

The controllable characters in the overworld were strangely blocky and angular. https://www.google.com/search?q=cloud+ff7+original

When I first saw the game as a kid, I was baffled by how thin the character's elbows were. It's almost doll-like, and you get the feeling you're a puppet master witnessing an epic and sometimes tragic performance.
In order to keep everything simple and not locked down to a platform or application I have all my documents (legal or not) organized using Johnny decimals numbering (https://johnnydecimal.com/). They are then stored in Seafile for easy access and sharing.
You can create Python types at runtime, and Python’s runtime type checking features predate it's static analyzers. Unfortunately, the additional kinds of objects used for typechecking in the static analyzers (beyond those which are also runtime types) don’t work with runtime type checking, nor do static type declarations (even using types that are also runtime types.) (And, obviously, AOT static analyzers can’t make use of types that don’t exist when they run.)
It does if miners persistently aim at their maximum power allotment and keep investing in an equal amount of new hardware and extra hashrate. The pivot point where operational costs outweigh the revenue seems to sit just beyond the power allotment for most operations, at least until something radical happens with the power efficiency and costs of mining equipment.
The 'Badlands Guardian': A Geomorphic Feature or an Ancient Geoglyph?
I’m sure I’m not the only one that was raised in such an environment. I spent most of my 20s really strongly convinced that I should stay in relationships that were not healthy and just “slog it out” because that’s what I had as a template. Somehow the maintenance of the relationship takes priority over the fulfillment of either person, like a failed business contract where both parties are losing money but feel contractually obligated to continue.

I might go even one step further though and say that your first priority has to be to yourself. Of course if you have children you have to take care of them at whatever cost, but if you aren’t taking care of yourself you’ll never be able to take care of them. And if you’re never true to yourself then you won’t be able to make an authentic relationship. Really the entire nuclear family requires such a high level of emotional intelligence that I’m surprised it works out as often as it does.
A timekeeping mechanism of sufficient quality shared among the locations is also necessary right? Also the civilization would need to have their latitudinal territory in alignment with the specific time of the transit.

In 1663 Scottish mathematician James Gregory had suggested in his Optica Promota that observations of a transit of the planet Mercury, at widely spaced points on the surface of the Earth, could be used to calculate the solar parallax and hence the astronomical unit using triangulation. Aware of this, a young Edmond Halley made observations of such a transit on 28 October O.S. 1677

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus#1761_and_1769
More science fiction than just fiction:

* Spider series by W. Michael Gear

* Forbidden Borders series by W. Michael Gear

* The Change series (aka Emberverse) by S.M. Stirling (first 6)

* The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey

* Dream Park by Larry Niven and Stephen Barnes

* In The Country of the Blind by Michael Flynn

* Me by Thomas T. Thomas

* A State of Disobedience by Tom Kratman

* Merchant Princess series by Charles Stross

* Daughter of the Empire series by Raymond E. Fiest and Janny Wurts

* Ecolitan series by L.E. Modesitt Jr

* Freehold by Michael Z. Williamson

* The Game is Life series by Terry Schott

* The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jum Butcher
Seems to solve the same problem as SQLModel.

From [1]: "SQLModel is a library for interacting with SQL databases from Python code, with Python objects. It is designed to be intuitive, easy to use, highly compatible, and robust.

SQLModel is based on Python type annotations, and powered by Pydantic and SQLAlchemy."

[1] https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/
I would focus more on the enabling technology for this scam (e.g., how would a victim transfer $300,000 using traditional financial system? how they might recover those funds if needed?)
In this case it was a giant open conspiracy. It wasn't secret.

> a bunch of moustache-twirling executives sat in a board room figuring out how to force cars on people is a bit much.

That's pretty much exactly what happened. I don't know that they twirled their mustaches though, I'm sure they all thought they were doing the right thing.

"The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime" (Adam Ruins Everything)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM

It was a classic case of "seemed like a good idea at the time".

> Sure, that has lead to some problems we're going to have to correct,

That's pretty facile. For one thing more people (in the USA) have died directly from cars crashes than from all the wars we've fought. For another there's the pollution: exhaust is deadly poisonous, tires wear down and shed millions of tons of tiny particles of vulcanized rubber into the environment, the fuel we burn contributes to the Greenhouse Effect, the asphalt of the roads is toxic, and there are so many roads and so much pavement that it affects planetary albedo. Then there are the unquantifiable changes to the social order: streets used to be public ways for everyone, now they are the domain of the automobile and people are confined to the sidewalks for fear of mayhem and death. I could go on and on.

I think if an alien landed here and looked around one of it's first reactions would be, "WTF is up with all these cars!?"
which sucks because apple had the chance not to repeat their mistake with Objective-C .. but history repeats itself.

No matter how much apple market share in whatever market grows, developers want to be able to switch platforms and not have to think about the language.
I ride a bicycle everywhere, and will frequently pull out the iPhone to check map directions. With the TouchID phone, I could tug it just out of the pocket at waist height, unlock, and glance down. Now I have to lift it up and give it my full attention to unlock. Sucks, hugely inferior.

I would probably still stick to FaceID for the big oled screen, but it they added the fingerprint sensor to the lock button a la iPad Air, that seems like the best of every world!
Or when you don't have central heating/air.

Or when you can't afford a retrofit of your system with a heat pump.

Or when you need to target dry a small room or a pair of wet shoes.

They have plenty of other uses, the only caveat I guess is that they aren't used as the main source of heat.
This remains true for the moment. But discontent among developers are cracks in the foundation. The building can weather that for a time because it's mighty and huge. But those cracks are the beginning of the eventual end. If not cared for, will hasten its demise.
On the other hand, it is a lot of work to build your product in one language, which you then outgrow, which forces you to switch to another language.

I've seen this happen many times, particularly with projects that started out in Python. Eventually the codebase and teams get too big, and managing a large codebase in a language with Python's type system becomes very cumbersome. Type annotations were a reaction to that, and adding them to the language has probably enabled a lot of teams to continue using Python.

Off the top of my head, other examples of good changes include NIO and better concurrency primitives/lambda syntax in Java, generics in Go, and async/await in several other languages. All of those solved pain points for developers that might have otherwise been solved by switching languages.

Why does this matter? First of all, it's a lot of work to rewrite products in different languages. Also, while it sounds attractive to pick the right language for the task every time, in practice it is difficult to run a coherent engineering organization if every product or team uses a different language -- it's hard to build good shared libraries and app frameworks for every language in use, and if someone leaves the company it can be hard to transfer their projects to other engineers. Most of the time, as an engineering org matures it eventually settles on a few "blessed" languages, invests in good frameworks for them, and requires all the teams to use them. Out of necessity, those tend to be the "kitchen sink" variety.
> It's actually very inefficient use of energy to use miners as electric heaters.

Not sure I get where are you going here. There is no mechanical output of the miners, only heat.

> A miner cannot match the heating efficiency of a heat pump

My hot water comes from the heat pump in the winter, when heating kicks in, but the boiler relies on an electric resistance in summer, when the house is mostly in equilibrium with the outside.
It's really common to find unfinished, cut content in game data. Even if that possibility was explored, a design decision was made in the game that actually shipped, so I don't think it makes any sense to talk about different intentions.
From my understanding yes, but with the caveat of being organised by a single entity (apple)
Nah, you can build a PWA that more or less acts entirely like a mobile app and get out of the app store game entirely.
Start with Metta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitr%C4%AB
Yes it is similar to SQLModel however as SQLModel is based off of SQLAlchemy, the query API is not typed. That is the difference.
I don't miss it. I still use my iPhone 8. When it dies, I'll get an iPhone SE. I will keep TouchID until they pry it out from under my cold dead thumb.